Re: [silk] ANNOUNCING INK CONFERENCE 2018 I 30 Nov-2 Dec 2018, Hyderabad
On 07/09/18 6:38 AM, Ramjee Swaminathan wrote: On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:43 PM Madhu Menon wrote: On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 19:35, Ramjee Swaminathan wrote: You meant un scribe? Do you have any inkling of what you just wrote? O tempora, O mores! My message was just a sarcastic way to express displeasure over promotional spam blasted to a mailing list not meant for it. Sir, Madhu - I knew it was sarcasm. I realized you were annoyed. Of course. I am an active lurker (Peace Be Upon Me), member of sulk-list, and once in a while surface for . Gotta rush to collect my coupon for ink. __r. Sarcasm and pun as a reaction to a list abuse. Whattay drift! Even Lewis Hamilton is put to shame. Where else would you see a conversation turning so rapidly? Are the coupons still available to ink? My printer is out! -- Cheers, Venkat
Re: [silk] ANNOUNCING INK CONFERENCE 2018 I 30 Nov-2 Dec 2018, Hyderabad
All, sorry to be a wet blanket, but these mails are pointless. Also, they aren't terribly interesting. Could we all be a little considerate before making people read them? On Fri, Sep 7, 2018, 12:18 PM Venkat wrote: > > > On 07/09/18 6:38 AM, Ramjee Swaminathan wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:43 PM Madhu Menon wrote: > >> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 19:35, Ramjee Swaminathan > >> wrote: > >> > >>> You meant un scribe? Do you have any inkling of what you just wrote? O > >>> tempora, O mores! > >> My message was just a sarcastic way to express displeasure over > >> promotional spam blasted to a mailing list not meant for it. > >> > >> > > Sir, Madhu - I knew it was sarcasm. I realized you were annoyed. Of > course. > > > > I am an active lurker (Peace Be Upon Me), member of sulk-list, and > > once in a while surface for . > > > > Gotta rush to collect my coupon for ink. > > > > __r. > > > Sarcasm and pun as a reaction to a list abuse. Whattay drift! Even Lewis > Hamilton is put to shame. Where else would you see a conversation > turning so rapidly? > > Are the coupons still available to ink? My printer is out! > > -- > > Cheers, > Venkat > > >
Re: [silk] ANNOUNCING INK CONFERENCE 2018 I 30 Nov-2 Dec 2018, Hyderabad
On 07/09/18 12:30 PM, Lahar Appaiah wrote: All, sorry to be a wet blanket, but these mails are pointless. Also, they aren't terribly interesting. Could we all be a little considerate before making people read them? One can always do what Madman did if the emails are pointless. :-) -- Cheers, Venkat
Re: [silk] Hi there!
Hóla José! For all the reasons you mentioned, I continue to lurk on Silk. Something really calming about seeing real content and debate. I am one of the few nontechies here and I am mainly interested in language (acquisition, and translation). I spent 5 months in Zaragoza last year working on my Spanish and getting a more nuanced understanding (well, I hope) of the country, its conflicts and morcilla. Hope to see more from you. Cheers. Radhika On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 3:17 PM José María Mateos wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 06:25:23AM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote: > > Welcome, Jose! That was an interesting comment of yours about mailing > > lists... would like to hear a little more. > > Just something I've experienced first hand. Mailing list discussions > tend to be more nuanced and carried in more good faith that a lot of > social network dumpster fires out there, where it seems like disruption > is the way to go. I think there are several causes for that, but the > facts that mailing lists have typically small memberships and, for a lot > of people, are cumbersome to manage and require some effort to join, I > think that nudges the subscribers to take more care of them. > > Cheers, > > -- José María (Chema) Mateos > https://rinzewind.org/blog-es || https://rinzewind.org/blog-en > > -- If you swap that time for money, you don't get that time back to develop yourself." 'The way you speak to your child becomes their inner voice'
Re: [silk] Hi there!
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 06:25:23AM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote: > Welcome, Jose! That was an interesting comment of yours about mailing > lists... would like to hear a little more. Just something I've experienced first hand. Mailing list discussions tend to be more nuanced and carried in more good faith that a lot of social network dumpster fires out there, where it seems like disruption is the way to go. I think there are several causes for that, but the facts that mailing lists have typically small memberships and, for a lot of people, are cumbersome to manage and require some effort to join, I think that nudges the subscribers to take more care of them. Cheers, -- José María (Chema) Mateos https://rinzewind.org/blog-es || https://rinzewind.org/blog-en
Re: [silk] Hi there!
José María Mateos wrote: Deepa Mohan wrote: Welcome, Jose! That was an interesting comment of yours about mailing lists... would like to hear a little more. Just something I've experienced first hand. Mailing list discussions tend to be more nuanced and carried in more good faith that a lot of social network dumpster fires out there, where it seems like disruption is the way to go. I think there are several causes for that, but the facts that mailing lists have typically small memberships and, for a lot of people, are cumbersome to manage and require some effort to join, I think that nudges the subscribers to take more care of them. I have to concur, and I think there are design issues that lead to this. Social networking sites, from the notorious Facebook (which I've almost given up on) to smaller, more specialized sites, tend to provide only a small box in which to respond. While most can be made to carry long messages, the format of both the input and the display (where even modest messages are truncated) argue that the best approach is the finely crafted bon mot -- more easily done as satire or insult -- than the thoughtful essay of arbitrary length. This isn't limited to conventional, online, social media sites. The mainstream news, from cable TV to newspapers, has drifted to shorter and shorter items, repeating them over and over, as a means of cutting through the noise in the system. (And perhaps inspiring the current idiot President of the US.) But for those of us who actually *like* thinking, there is no noise, as we work hard to find ways to isolate ourselves so as to better focus. For folks like us (and yes, I'm sure I'm oversimplifying here) clarity of thought, both our own and the expressions of others, far outweighs the sheer volume of mass media, which begs us to turn off our brains and simply marinate in the opinions of others. Could one design a social media site that counters this trend? Yes, but with email list still a very serviceable tool, one fails to see much need. Could one produce news for a mass market with longer, more thoughtful pieces? Perhaps, but the question is if one could do so profitably. Even such venerable institutions as 60 Minutes, with it's 20-minute pieces, tends more toward "look at this" than "what should we think of this". One is not optimistic. I just finished a second viewing of the film "RBG" about Ruth Bader Ginsberg (an upgrade of an earlier version titled "The Notorious RBG", which I think was better, if less polished). I recommend seeing this biofilm rather than the Hollywood production that comes out later this year. The latter appears to be reasonably accurate, but glamorized account of her life, that could not be improved by such. Speaking of "coming out", when I heard the Indian Supreme Court had revoked an ancient law against homosexual behavior, it was this Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court that came immediately to mind, and her lifelong defense of "equality under the law". Something this country still needs to work on. And thus I demonstrate your point with a post that easily exceeds in length the four or five longest posts I ever made to Facebook. Cheers, / Bruce /
