Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread va
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Tea BeeDi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: va, Not so much of a gender crisis I think. This id is shared by some friends. ...But your friend (Kavita Philip) wrote to me saying that she does not remember the password and hence has not accessed tbd DOT lists AT gmail

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:04 PM, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] of Jan10 gives to the list. If that is not the case, it will be better that you send a clarification mail to IndiChix explaining how things stand, since you are still subscribed there. Why isn't this thread occurring on

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why isn't this thread occurring on IndiChix? I mean, I am all for random conversation on Silk, and especially ones that are as curious as this, but yeah, why not? I am actually curious about this particular nym

Re: [silk] Laptop recommendations

2008-04-16 Thread Valsa Williams
Most of these MNC OEMs, will not offer any Windows refunds and will not extend their warranty etc , if Windows is removed, so one must be prepared to take care of the machine . Fortunately, laptops are very robust and you may not face any problem. HCL T5550 machines are Intel Core2 duo based and

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 16-Apr-08, at 1:49 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: I am actually curious about this particular nym (Tee Beedi). Comes from the initials: T. B. Dinesh

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am actually curious about this particular nym (Tee Beedi). Comes from the initials: T. B. Dinesh I meant, the activities of this nym. Playing games with identity et al. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @

Re: [silk] Mexican Food in India

2008-04-16 Thread Aditya Kapil
Was that Gerry Machado and band with the tongue-in-cheek name Gamgamma's Pleasure? A good jazz band. Adit. On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Alok G. Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An old teacher of mine used to perform there with his band. I don't think that he ever wore a harmonica like that

Re: [silk] Mexican Food in India

2008-04-16 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 16 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was that Gerry Machado and band with the tongue-in-cheek name Gamgamma's Pleasure? I don't remember the name, but /Gangamma's Pleasure/ does ring a bell. A good jazz band. That it was (imho, at least). -- Alok Positive, adj.: Mistaken at

Re: [silk] Laptop recommendations

2008-04-16 Thread Aditya Chadha
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Sajith T S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aditya Chadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the new Lenovo made Thinkpad hardware is pretty much equal in quality to Apple hardware, if not worse. Hmm. Is this true about R series too? Just a couple of months back a

Re: [silk] Laptop recommendations

2008-04-16 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Aditya Chadha wrote: [snip] I think Lenovo went on a huge and pretty bizarre cost-reduction across the IBM laptop line, like the legendary IBM keyboard is definitely not what it used to be. But this is piece of FUD is based only on my experience with one T60p, and

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread ashok _
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Tea BeeDi wrote, [on 4/16/2008 9:12 AM]: va, Not so much of a gender crisis I think. This id is shared by some friends. Why? Udhay let me explain, because I completely understand... its like three friends sharing a toothbrush,

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:06 PM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: let me explain, because I completely understand... its like three friends sharing a toothbrush, a pillow, an ice-cream, a pillow etc I just cannot resist asking, why does the use of the pillow intersperse the use of

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Thaths
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and I am probably rushing in where angels fear to tread , but I will play my older person card here, and observe that (in my opinion) VA sounds upset, so Tea BeeDi should write (whether on-list or off-list) and

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread ashok _
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Thaths wrote: Nothing to see under this bridge, folks. Just your garden variety troll. A garden-variety troll with a pony tail mind you...! they don't always come with that (at least the ones i dig up in my garden)

Re: [silk] Reverses....

2008-04-16 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 08:53 +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote: I do like to see the Indian-integration surnames on this list...Aiyer-GhoshMenon-Sen :)) southie-bong-delhi-ites unite!!! we will defeat the tam-brams yet. are there more than us two?

[silk] Sharing

2008-04-16 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Deepa Mohan wrote: I just cannot resist asking, why does the use of the pillow intersperse the use of each item? And how is one hygenic about sharing a toothbrush? Autoclave it? Cackle, cackle. This reminds me of a conversation I had several years ago with one of the members of this list.

Re: [silk] Reverses....

2008-04-16 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
well, actually i legally changed my name when i was 15 to add my mother's maiden surname (albeit with typographically more attractive spelling) as my _middle_ name. so, spanish style, no hyphenation! On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 09:14 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just use the Spanish system. It

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 16:23 +0530, va wrote: Kavita (another woman, who was also at the LCIN BoF and is presently in USA according to her mail to the LCIN mailing-list) meanwhile used a different mail id when she sent a mail to Runa (Sankarsan's wife) and me. So could the real Kavita or is it

Re: [silk] Reverses....

2008-04-16 Thread Abhishek Hazra
were you already reading A.J Ayer then? please elaborate on typographic attraction On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, actually i legally changed my name when i was 15 to add my mother's maiden surname (albeit with typographically more attractive

Re: [silk] Reverses....

2008-04-16 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 08:53 +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote: I do like to see the Indian-integration surnames on this list...Aiyer-GhoshMenon-Sen :)) southie-bong-delhi-ites unite!!! we will defeat the

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 08:59 -0700, Thaths wrote: Barring evidence to the contrary, my reading of the situation is that Tea Beedi is trolling and basking in the attention and is busy making profound academic social observations. tea beedi sounds like an attempt to make a cool indian neoist

Re: [silk] Reverses....

2008-04-16 Thread Rishab Ghosh
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:02:08AM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: southie-bong-delhi-ites unite!!! we will defeat the tam-brams yet. are there more than us two? Sort of, Tam-bram married to a Bong with tenuous connections to Delhi. too bad, doesn't count, we're an exclusive club. but

Re: [silk] Reverses....

2008-04-16 Thread Rishab Ghosh
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:51:21AM +0530, Abhishek Hazra wrote: were you already reading A.J Ayer then? please elaborate on typographic attraction yes, but that's not the name i picked! Aiyer looks much nicer than Iyer, i think (i don't think Ayer is popular among tambrams). the upward slope

Re: [silk] Reverses....

2008-04-16 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Rishab Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:02:08AM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: southie-bong-delhi-ites unite!!! we will defeat the tam-brams yet. are there more than us two? Sort of, Tam-bram married to a Bong with

Re: [silk] Reverses....

2008-04-16 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Rishab Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:51:21AM +0530, Abhishek Hazra wrote: were you already reading A.J Ayer then? please elaborate on typographic attraction yes, but that's not the name i picked! Aiyer looks much nicer than

Re: [silk] Reverses....

2008-04-16 Thread Abhishek Hazra
and just to have a small quirky element in this ex-libris stamp, one could flip the upper case E so that the vertical becomes parallel with the vertical of the R. this will then echo the counterform between A and Y. anyway...just some trivial formal riffs On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:52 AM,