Phone mail, so pardon top post.
Formal education needn't kill the love of a subject. I formally learnt
archaeology - both the theory and the practice - and my love for the
discipline and the study has only gone up. So much so that I'm now
helping organise a world-wide collaborative arch event.
I
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
PS: Puns, pedantry, thread-drift and top posts. All we need now for
the full flavor of Silk on this thread is some Paki-trolling from Shiv
and some shameless name dropping by Udhay. ;-)
Plus a call for a silkmeet in
Hello,
Apologies for the short notice. I will be in Bangalore tomorrow for a day.
Kind of last minute trip. Anybody up for a quick meet?
I will be free for most of the morning, and from about 5 to 9 pm. We could
either do a late breakfast/early lunch or evening coffee/beer, ideally the
beer.
The
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.inwrote:
You should plan to leave by 4 for the airport.
I should also plan to cancel my bus ticket, book one for a flight to Madras
before I leave to the airport by 4.
C
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Apologies for the short notice. I will be in Bangalore tomorrow for a day.
Kind of last minute trip. Anybody up for a quick meet?
I will be free for most of the morning, and from about 5 to 9
Hello folks,
Two friends - Nilakantan R and Anand K - and I are doing a weekly podcast on
the political scene in TN and the upcoming state assembly elections. The
podcast began because the three of us have always felt that analysis was
sacrificed for opinion, and that reasonably intelligent
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote:
You better start preparing for the next Masterchef India then :)
Haven't seen the Indian version, but am a fan of the UK series. How does the
Akshay Kumar thing compare to the original?
C
--
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote:
Madhu Menon hasa very nice piece on MCI. Whenever I watched the show, my
violent tendencies were stimulated. Smashing a few heads is occasionally
good for the health.
I'd think not to the health of the smashee.
C
--
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.comwrote:
This is a good thing to try after you've accomplished the others on your
bucket list, methinks. For obvious reasons of not missing out on the
others, by accident. :-)
Ah! Let me know how long you took to get your
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
What's on *your* bucket list?
Over the last two years, I've learnt I am a fairly good cook.
Only way to validate that assumption: find out what others say. Hence one of
my not-too-many wishes on the bucket-list:
work in a
A tentative yes for Wednesday, and a positive yes for Saturday. Shall
confirm closer to time.
C
Pardon phone mail.
On 1/3/11, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
How about a meetup in central Madras for lunch on Wednesday (Jan 5)?
Anyone up for it? Alternatively, how about Saturday, Jan 8?
Thaths
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi all,
Will those in Chennai presently, or planning to be in town soon raise their
hand if interested in a meetup:
1. Cheeni
2. Thaths
3. Chandrachoodan?
Aye!
C
--
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote:
So, this week: Friday is December 31, who's interested in ringing in the
New year? If most people already have alternate plans, then I'm up for
Thursday or Wednesday evening.
I am not sure what plans are for
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.comwrote:
venkat (what else???)
have 2 left.
If you/list members still have one, I'd like it.
C
--
http://www.uk.linkedin.com/in/chandrachoodan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages
http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Neha Viswanathan nehav...@gmail.comwrote:
*wiping tears of joy* I am n...@joindiaspora.com - I've never been just
neha.
I've always been just Chandrachoodan.
Just saying.
C
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Neha Viswanathan nehav...@gmail.comwrote:
*wiping tears of joy* I am n...@joindiaspora.com - I've never been just
neha.
I am chandrachoo...@joindiaspora.com
C
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [15/12/10 19:50 +0530]:
If you/list members still have one, I'd like it.
done 2 left
Thank you, Suresh.
I've got five invites to give out, folks, though I'm going to hold one
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
I dont mind Cothas at all - their 85% coffee 15% chicory is not bad, but
I'd love it if they had a 100% coffee blend available, can't find that
in Madras at all.
Well, Coffee Day outlets let you specify what
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Aditya Kapil blue...@gmail.com wrote:
Folks,
I am not a connoisseur by any stretch of imagination. Coffee is something
I've taken a serious liking to only now, and hence the foray into machines.
What I do know is that (i) I like freshly brewed, and (ii) I
Saturday lunch plans already on. Dinner is likely at wedding. Although
that can be changed. Sunday lunch? Will drag a few of my friends
along.
C
(pardon phone mail)
On 11/24/10, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On 24-Nov-10 1:25 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote:
I
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll actually be in Bangalore on the 19th :-D. I vote for Udhay buying us
all drinks!
+1
C
--
http://www.uk.linkedin.com/in/chandrachoodan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages
http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/
I will be in Bangalore this weekend and Monday the 29th. I am there
primarily for a friend's wedding, but will have a lot of free time.
Silklisters in the city, meet sometime? Lunch/coffee on 29th will be ideal
for me, but will bow to majority opinion.
C
--
Hello folks,
What is crowd sourcing? Define/discuss/debate, please.
C
P.S. I am defining the term for my MA project, and building upon it, and I
thought I'd actually crowd source the references rather than look into
academic essays on the topic.
--
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 3:52 PM, anish.moham...@gmail.com wrote:
What is crowd sourcing? Define/discuss/debat
Are u after finger in the air excercise of after peoper academic research?
Either or and.
A few books are out there on this topic :), at least I have come across two
:)
Care to
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Getting a large (ish) group to do x. The implications are not just
(your) labour saving, but most importantly, the notion of the wisdom of
crowds comes into play.
Thank you!
``Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are
) and don't mind going
to the city centre on a weekday night, attend the show.
Details below.
C
-- Forwarded message --
From: Sharanya Manivannan sharanya.manivan...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:11 PM
Subject: Fwd: reading in Bangalore - tues Sept 7
To: Chandrachoodan
Hello Silklisters,
I am trying a new kind of academic research/essay writing. Getting people a
lot more intelligent and informed than I am to write my essays for me. The
Tom Sawyer system for academia, in a way. I began my MA dissertation idea
here on Silk, and it is only fitting I ask you all
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.comwrote:
I am happy to help you get your M.A., not to mention the fame and requisite
fortune.
But Bangalore (where I live) has little in terms of archeology. You might
want to get in touch with Arun Pai (bangalorewalks.com)
Hello hellos, all
A bit (or a bit more than a bit) of background first.
I am a masters student at the University of Bristol (UK). My programme, MA
Archaeology for Screen Media (MAASM), looks at archaeology/heritage and
media practices and explores ways in which archaeology can be presented to
an
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote:
And the mathematically inclined guy who wrote a check to Verizon (though
that
shouldn't have come into this list at all)
Isn't Randall Munroe the xkcd guy?
C
--
http://www.uk.linkedin.com/in/chandrachoodan
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey folks
Saar, hello!
A short bio:
* self-confessed geek
Isn't confession, by its definition, of the self?
* foodie
* photographer (BW film/developing/photo-chemistry/lens optics)
And awesome photos they be. Good
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com
wrote:
[off usenet]
literary criticism
inscrutable reference
obligatory pun
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:42 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday 01 Feb 2010 2:25:19 pm Deepak Misra wrote:
btw: I have a Cannon SLR EOS 1000F with a 35-50mm lens purchased in 1992
.
This was in the days when digital was not invented as yet and this took
real excellent photos.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.inwrote:
Chandrachoo*d*an, please. Or C.
Now I shall disappear back into my essays.
Please do reconsider. It is a more delicate and seemly orthography.
Perhaps to north Indian tongues? Chooran makes me think of potions and
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.comwrote:
Jugaad isn't 'chakra hai' or 'adjust maadi'
Jugaad is innovative thinking, the kind of stuff featured by Anil Gupta at
National Innovation Foundation.
I'd posted this video to my Facebook profile a bit ago.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd posted this video to my Facebook profile a bit ago. Explains innovation
and jugaad, as opposed to adjust maadi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ho7xhgWV8
I am not sure how exactly I got
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Ingrid ingrid.srin...@gmail.com wrote:
In the situation we currently find ourselves in as a species, it might be
nomadic values - the limiting of wants to match available resources and the
complete absence of asset accumulation, for instance - that are worth
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Alok G. Singh alephn...@hcoop.net wrote:
Sure. And there are numerous other examples too. But Chandrachooran
Chandrachoo*d*an, please. Or C.
Now I shall disappear back into my essays.
C
--
http://www.uk.linkedin.com/in/chandrachoodan
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:01 AM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
(I have visited quite a few government run TASMAC liquor store outlets
in chennai now. The little bottles of brandy seem to be the most
popular items. Saw a guy stop in a scooter, down a whole bottle
without removing his
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:15 PM, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote:
It is not a clique, and that's something I've tried very hard (and was
successful) to avoid while I was organising the walks. It's just that
over
the last 2 years and 20+ walks, we've all come to know each other very
well
and
,
there were two who wouldn't speak to me) ...to use Udhay's favourite
word...interesting.
The clique WAS-- somewhat-- in evidence, but I didn't bother about it;
introduced myself to a few people and enjoyed myself. Chandrachoodan
Gopalakrishnan (which of those names is you and which is your father
organizes it? I got a very formal reply from him to my email. :(
Go!
I know Vatsan. He's a good chap, and very friendly.
I heard your name mentioned, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan, and I just
visited your blog and enjoyed the 7th walk pictures, very much...
Thank you! Thank you!
however
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
http://www.nature.com/news/specials/flores/index.html
FLORES MAN
It sounds too incredible to be true, but this is not a hoax. A species
of tiny human has been discovered, which lived on the remote
Indonesian island of
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Resurrecting an old thread: I am curious whether the above sentiment is
still held by Thaths and others - and, in general, *what* alternative
careers people are planning / fantasizing about.
Quit
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Abhishek Hazra abhishek.ha...@gmail.comwrote:
currently in
Bristol, UK, to begin an M.A in Archaeology for Screen Media.
super!! sounds great - theorizing and mucking around 'dead media'?
Theorizing about dead stuff and learning how best to present it using
Hello list,
I'll be in Bangalore from the 26th through the 30th this month. Game for a
meet on the 28th?
Shiv, can I take you up on the coffee offer?
C
--
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages
http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/
+91-9884467463
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
That does it. I'm inviting myself to your place for a genuinely good cup of
coffee (discussion on right wing politics an optional extra) :)
Can I invite myself too? I will be in Bangalore, August 27-30.
C
--
Hey Gabin,
I'm proposing your name for the Satin new member nomination this month. You
might get a mail from Madhu/Me on it soon.
C
Er... folks, sorry. Ignore. My mistake - it was supposed to be offlist to
Gabin alone.
C
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Gabin,
I'm proposing your name for the Satin new member nomination this month. You
might get a mail
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Ingrid ingrid.srin...@gmail.com wrote:
There is also the stark difference in risk attached to large population
concentrations in less-developed versus more-developed countries/regions :
http://www.preventionweb.net/files/9414_GARsummary.pdf
Apropos of
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:34 PM, sur...@hserus.net sur...@hserus.netwrote:
if iliad knows any, beyond 'midnight express' on ttk road, and sleazy tea
kadai dives... I'd like to find out
So do I. Though, I've been told that the late-night buffet at the Park is
very good. Suresh, should we try?
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:04 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 15 May 2009 7:34:42 pm sur...@hserus.net wrote:
I am going to keep my opinions to myself for the moment, but if anybody
knows Illiad, please ask him where he got the impression that there are
lots of food delivery
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
my wife would quite probably object
Even if she came along?
C
--
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages
http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/
+91-9884467463
or
Venkat five heads would pop up (including mine). Ditto for Subbu
or Subramaniam.
I know the feeling! I take solace in the fact that, at least, it's
pretty hard to beat Inumella for uniqueness.
Well, I am no Venkat. But try beating Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan for
uniqueness.
C
--
http
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.comwrote:
On the subject of blogging, it is quite easy to toss out a tweet with a
link and be done, but it also
lets you think a bit more about what you're blogging. Oh, and it doesn't
hurt as a publicity tool for your blog,
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Have you looked at the time, you and the next six? Owls!
In my case, a rooster that's just morphed into an owl. Been up since 4:48 AM
today.
C
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com wrote:
Shooting in RAW requires access to a software like Lightroom else it is
not
practical.
Well, there are alternatives, but Lightroom and Aperture
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
Its chandrachoodan's birthday I see, from facebook. Now what do we do to
him when we meet him at the dinner? Sing happy birthday and cut a cake too?
:)
Or, we could just wish him well and deny him the chance to
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
nungambakkam is right downtown. post mobile #
My number: 98844 67463.
C
--
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages
http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/
+91-9884467463
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
gabin kattukaran wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Suresh Ramasubramania
i'm 98840 64791
me: 99670 43010 -gabin
99001 80761 not sure where I will be, will know shortly.
Gabin -
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
Dinner, or Lunch?
Dinner, please. Lunch would have to be a rushed affair and that's not a good
thing for Silk meetups.
C
--
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Krish Ashok krishas...@gmail.com wrote:
And Cedars in Kotturpuram
Cedars is good and I prefer it over Benjarong, for tomorrow.
--
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages
http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/
+91-9884467463
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Aditya Kapil blue...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm thinking of buying a D80. Any reason I should not?
I own a D80. All my recent photos are from the D80.
There's no reason not to own one. Go for it.
Unless, um, there's one small thing. The D80 does not have a full-frame
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Aditya Kapil blue...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
As with any such photography question what is your intent? Will
you be shooting
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Jai Iyer iyer@gmail.com wrote:
Known super powers include amazing autorickshaw-fu.
Can you please, please, please teach me?
Welcome to Silk.
C
--
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages
http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/
Or so says Lars Willem Veldkampf, on flickr.
Typocalypse is a fun set on flickr - sarcastic, sometimes true descriptions
of typefaces.
http://flickr.com/photos/larsveldkamp/sets/72157607710779069/
C
--
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote:
At 2008-12-18 11:40:27 -0800, divyasamp...@yahoo.com wrote:
If you are nostalgic about my outbursts of linguistic pedantry on
Silk, we can go into why the 'h' in 'hour', 'honour' and 'honest' are
silent, and why
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
One final show of hands for this weekend in Mysore, please! I'll go
first... Me!
Me (+2)
Kiran and Pradeep are making their own way to Mysore, as is
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:47 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone know of places which do reasonably priced high quality scans
of 35mm slide film ?
(Preferably in Chennai...)
There's an outfit called RapidScans in Royapettah. Used to scan
transparencies for ad agencies. They
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
There's an outfit called RapidScans in Royapettah. Used to scan
transparencies for ad agencies. They still might.
Any idea
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote:
At 2008-12-11 06:23:04 +0530, chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
But the last few panoramas I did were manually stitched using
Photoshop. Takes a lot of time I don't have, but I am very happy
with the final result.
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On a trip to mountains some time ago, I took an entirely unplanned
series of photographs of the view to the North; and used Hugin and
Autopano-SIFT (for the first time) to stitch them together into a
panorama.
I'm
Hello
A friend who works for the Hindu is doing a story on gadgets and wants to
talk to gadget gurus who currently don't have a column on a competing
newspaper. If you answer the description, can you send me a mail off the
list and I shall do the necessary hooking-the-two-up?
C
--
To quote fellow Silk-lister Ashok,
Your question does raise a rather important point about the current state
of computing and networking technology. The fact that all those bright
people (especially some of them on Silk) are unable to write a simple
function that can determine gender from IP
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Bonobashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- On Sun, 16/11/08, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, seriously though, here's what I'd like to do.
1) Really study history - not make jabs at it.
2) Learn three languages - one European
Before we take this off list...
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Bonobashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I notice that not all good historians are particularly into historiography.
Some of them are empiricists to a fault; that itself might be taken up as an
example of an historiographical
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Bonobashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You don't do the shit you happen to be doing in order to pay the bills, you
start doing the beautiful stuff just waiting to be done. Off-roading in
Iceland, for instance, comes to mind.
I'm currently doing a pretty good
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That reminds me of all of the various things that I will do When I have
The Time (small unrepresentative sample follows)
* Masters degree in cryptography
* Learn Perl
* Find those treasured old college ripped jeans
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Get rich? Definitely want to do that.
Define rich.
Enough wealth so all this list-making loses significance and I can
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mohit (मॊिहत) wrote, [on 11/15/2008 9:05 AM]:
I need to learn how to use chopsticks...and swimming...and
dancing...and smiling while stabbing someone.
That reminds me of all of the various things that I will do
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll be at both too. Chandrachodan, will you be able to lead a Chennai
photowalk as part of FoU Madras?
Yes.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I nominate Chandru to figure out what
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thaths wrote, [on 10/31/2008 10:22 PM]:
Sounds good, but in the spirit of exploring all options, how about
Mysore? I had a great time there earlier this month, and wouldn't mind
another trip. We stayed at the Sports
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Hell, lets do both.
Why not?
So two hands up?
Count me in for both.
C
--
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages
http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Deepa Mohan wrote:
Mysore has a heritage walk too.. a photo walk would be a great idea
there...
Not to forget that the food is also pretty good in and on the way to
Mysore from Bangalore. Yum! Thatte idlis in
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I was thinking we could entrust ourselves to the tender mercies of
chandrachoodan and do one of his photo walks around madras.
Photowalk followed by a food walk work for you guys?
C
--
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone been listening to Radio One in Bangalore? They have this
awesome new filler called Chamrajpet Charles who is supposed to be an
Anglo-Indian
I used to know an Anglo-Indian. Played cricket with us (when I used to
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought the Ceylon ones were the multilayer ones, rolled out into a
circle, greased, rolled up again into a cylinder, coiled around into a
circular shape, and re-rolledwhat's the difference between Kerala and
Ceylon
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:45 AM, . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
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* amit_123 just cannot locate edible chappathi in Chennai
and porotha (the southern equivalent of the paratha or so i'm told)
Aren't the
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:26 AM, . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote from a fish-eating veggie : it does not move when i eat it,
hence its veggie. That's a gem for sure.
Hah! I used to say I'd eat anything that didn't walk, run, fly, crawl or
swim. I've since then altered my definition
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
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Hah! I used to say I'd eat anything that didn't walk, run, fly, crawl or
swim. I've since then altered my definition slightly
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On my way to Madras, I expect to be in the Adyar area for a few days.
Anyone in the vicinity, and wants to meet?
As always, I am in.
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:39 PM, . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... they clam into perl.
But they don't knit?
(Blasphemy! Non-tech-geek code on Silk)
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you consult?
I know nothing about consulting. I think I can.
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Giancarlo Livraghi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This isn't really a silly question. I am working on a book and there is a
page where I am quoting examples of myth, legend, folklore, fairy tales,
fiction or whatever where a picture or a statue or an idol or an icon
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
So we say No much more than we say Yes, how interesting
No?
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On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Nishant Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Other words I tried and did not appear - I had exhausted the parts of
speech
and was looking at functional binaries - were good/bad, black/white,
day/night... but I did get up/down while trying those.
That's how I got
Apologies if this is old hat. A game/quiz in which you try to find the 100
most common English words in 5 mins.
My highest score's 41.
http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Ashwin N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
My name is Ashwin, I'm from Bangalore and currently studying in
Singapore. I've heard of silk-list for a long time, decided to jump in
and check it out. I guess I know a few members from the list, thaths,
Bharat and
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:22 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another real bugger of a sentence (in Kannada this time) is Neenu nimma
appana yeshtane maga? which needs about 20 words or so to translate into
English grammatical English.
I think it goes something like Of all your father's
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Raj Shekhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in infinite wisdom Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan spoke thus On 05/29/2008
04:59 PM:
Um, Ludlum, IMO, is a garrulous fool! The worst two books I've read are
the
Matarese Countdown and Scorpio Illusion, both by Ludlum
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