Re: [silk] musings on identity and culture.

2012-09-02 Thread Venkat Mangudi - Silk
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Shoba Narayan sh...@shobanarayan.comwrote: Michael Phelps erudite; or Yeddyurappa global. Yeddy is global. Global shame, that is. I cringe whenever he is in the news. It's never for a good reason. So yeah, he's global. --Venkat

Re: [silk] The mosquito’s reign of terror: The high price of ‘aspirational’ India

2012-09-02 Thread John Sundman
That is a very interesting observation (below). Martha's Vineyard, where I reside, is an island of about 100 squire miles, most of it either privately-owned rural land or state forest. As most of our income comes from tourism, it wouldn't do to have giant piles of garbage about (or to give

Re: [silk] musings on identity and culture.

2012-09-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 10:42:11AM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote: I thought we shot listers who mention silk to people who don't know the secret handshake. Oops.

Re: [silk] The mosquito’s reign of terror: The high price of ‘aspirational’ India

2012-09-02 Thread SS
On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 07:35 -0400, John Sundman wrote: We dutifully separate our garbage from our recyclables, but a few years ago there was a minor scandal when some citizens investigated discovered that all the at-home separating we were doing was coming to naught, because the garbage

Re: [silk] The mosquito’s reign of terror: The high price of ‘aspirational’ India

2012-09-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 03-Sep-2012, at 7:46, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: Having said that a partial solution to the rat problem would be to get a carpet and furniture problem called a dog. A cat surely? You might get a terrier or something of the sort that was used for ratting earlier, but a family dog

Re: [silk] The mosquito’s reign of terror: The high price of ‘aspirational’ India

2012-09-02 Thread John Sundman
Yes we do have a dog, which keeps the rodent problem out-of-doors. We don't let her outside off the leash, alas, because she has a very pronounced tendency to go on walkabout,, requiring me to spend half a day looking for her, cursing her and myself all the while. jrs On Sep 2, 2012, at

Re: [silk] The mosquito’s reign of terror: The high price of ‘aspirational’ India

2012-09-02 Thread SS
On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 07:49 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: A cat surely? You might get a terrier or something of the sort that was used for ratting earlier, but a family dog tends not to let its hunting instincts show. Presumably you have a lot of experience with dogs and cats when

Re: [silk] The mosquito’s reign of terror: The high price of ‘aspirational’ India

2012-09-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Oh well. There are dogs and there are dogs, obviously. --srs (iPad) On 03-Sep-2012, at 9:59, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 07:49 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: A cat surely? You might get a terrier or something of the sort that was used for ratting earlier, but