In the past when I've needed to concentrate on work, and get massive
amounts of work out of the door I've resorted to a very simple
strategy - I've maxed out my time. In essence I tell myself that I
don't get a break ever, and just concentrate on getting work done. If
this means 2 months at a
Adit,
[...]
I was setting deadlines for myself that were not crucial for company success
at the time. One can argue that there are other deliverables that ARE
crucial for success and these could now be squeezed into a 60 hr week.
but I say... why?
[...]
Analyzing priorities is definitely
This is all in the past, I lead a much saner life now, but if you need
the statistics, I can oblige.
On 12/27/06, Abhishek Hazra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this means 2 months at a stretch without ever seeing a Sunday, working
16 hours straight every day that's fine.
in your 16 hour schedule,
On 12/27/06, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 27 Dec 2006 10:36 am, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
meaningless pauses in life.
What is a meaningless pause in life?
Let's not take things too literally here. I was refering to any event
outside of your control where you are usually
On 12/27/06, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 27 Dec 2006 4:35 pm, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
Like for example, when you get stuck in an airport / traffic jam, when
someone is supposed to show up for a meeting and doesn't, when you are
supposed to be working on the computer
On 12/27/06, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Manar Hussain wrote: [ on 07:39 PM 12/27/2006 ]
All this makes Helion India's first noteworthy American-style
venture-capital firm. Its $140m gives it reasonable clout.
Eh? Westbridge? Chrysalis Capital? Various others? I think Helion is
On 12/27/06, Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Stress can equally well be caused when you are raring to go and cannot
work due to external factors.
I find that is the case often these days for me, just the other day I
was getting my home DSL connection installed. After verification
On 12/28/06, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
Scry stuff indeed, and it makes me want to turn rebel and kill a
few no good suits in Redmond and Santa Clara (Intel).
I am in the process of buying a PC for the
On 12/29/06, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/29/06, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're not buying hardware without checking for compatibility with
your favourite OS of choice first? And then, you bitch and moan?
Doesn't compute.
Umm, Eugen. Cheeni's OS of choice is Windows XP.
On 1/1/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 01-Jan-07, at 7:14 PM, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
Why is it that we, one of the oldest civilization on the earth,
lack basic civic sense (apparent from the trash thrown out of a
speeding luxury car) and honoring others' labor? The 30-day
On 1/2/07, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Indeed, I'd like to add that there is a restaurant in Coimbatore that
does not state a fee and it's been the experience of the organization
that runs it that people tend to overpay more than the value of the
meal.
It could
On 1/2/07, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 2007-01-02 17:45:17 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am interested in the 3000-year-old computer story, but I
can't find any explanation in that Scientific American page
I didn't read the article, but surely it's referring to the
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/16288994.htm
Drug lord's legacy: Herd of unwanted hippos
By Chris Kraul
Los Angeles Times
PUERTO TRIUNFO, Colombia - Hacienda Napoles was Pablo Escobar's
pleasure palace, a 5,500-acre estate where the notorious drug lord
held court over
On 1/4/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 03 Jan 2007 9:31 pm, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
At 2007-01-03 07:28:59 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They should shoot the hippos.
I hear hippos are tasty.
Exactly where would one have to shoot a Hippo to kill it dead?
What?
---
In August, for instance, Muslims in the Kikandwa district of central
Uganda grew feverish over reports of jinn haunting and raping women in
the district. So when a young woman stumbled out of the forest one
day, unkempt and deranged, she was denounced as a jinn. Villagers beat
her almost to
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: [ on 11:33 AM 1/4/2007 ]
http://www.economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8401289
Jinn
Born of fire
Cheeni,
This is only news to you because you didn't read the Tim Powers that I
gave you.
The jinn in a coke bottle theme didn't
Biju Chacko wrote:
Thanks. :)
For a bit of context, here's a mail I sent out a little earlier in the
day to an internal mailing list in my office:
Congratulations!
[1] Yes, that's his full name. The reason why he doesn't have the same
last name as me is lost somewhere in the mists of
Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 01:44:29PM +0530, Aditya Kapil wrote:
I'd like to remove 'Infopath' and 'Publisher'. Can't do it with Add/Remove
programs. Can't custom re-install whole package.
Have you tried contacting Microsoft support?
Can you also setup a date with Hell?
On 1/12/07, Vinit Bhansali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Those Eicher maps are extremely well done.
Having never used the Eicher maps I can't compare, but I picked up
what I thought was the most detailed map book of Hyderabad ever.
It's the Guide map of Greater Hyderabad - a letter sized book with
Manar Hussain wrote:
Interesting insight, with India aspect trailing the blog article:
http://schulzeandwebb.com/blog/2007/01/09/japanese-repair-culture-and-distributed-manufacture/
Repair cultures usually take too much time to propagate knowledge and
reach scale. The Ludhiana car spares
On 1/15/07, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i have been looking for an online map system which will allow me to
flag people (contacts) on a world map along the lines of frappr.
I dont really want a membership and members marking themselves on
the map(which frappr does).
I've used this
Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 03:40:27PM +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
So a duck that was meant to be killed got a stint in the hospital in
the hope it would survive? How does one do a moral U-turn like that?
If you have a live duck in your fridge, would you expect your wife
On 1/28/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone,
I just joined silklist and Udhay asked me to post an introduction. I'm
Charles Haynes, I'm an engineering manager at Google. I've known Chris
Awesome, welcome to Silk - I started at Google pretty recently, I
spent the last two
On 1/29/07, Nandkumar Saravade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
I closed my ICICI Bank account when it became impossible to use their
Internet banking website with Firefox.
I regularly use Firefox (Windows XP) for net banking on the ICICI Bank
site. You may want to
Hi,
Welcome to Silk, I am an ex-burgh, ex-bangalore, now in HYD person.
Where do you spend your day? At school? Work?
Cheeni
Shyam Visweswaran wrote:
Hello all,
Should have posted this sometime back. Now seeing
the recent intros I better do so.
My name is Shyam and my only connection with
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:04:56PM -, Shyam Visweswaran wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Srini RamaKrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Welcome to Silk, I am an ex-burgh, ex-bangalore, now in HYD person.
Where do you spend your day? At school? Work?
Ah ex-burgher! I am in school
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:47:28PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
[...]
Will think of more by and by.
I am surprised that Udhay hasn't mentioned Fanoos so far, I remember it being a
favorite of his. I
can't add a surprise location, other than second what everyone else has
mentioned so far.
On 2/6/07, Zainab Bawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just one single day. Not starting one day!
In the recent past it happened for not one, but three days actually,
and of course not all money transfer stopped, but just the exchange of
checks in the US. Right after 9/11 the grounding of all
On 2/3/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have said on and off that I had been working on a book about Pakistan. A
couple of silklisters have seen early drafts of the book.
The book is now online as a freely downloadable and distributable ebook on
On 2/9/07, Abhishek Hazra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
one needs to recall that a doctor does not have to suffer from
a brain tumor or bleeding piles to treat those conditions
Marc Bloch: a historian needs thicker boots and thinner notebooks
I've not yet read the book Shiv, I've only skimmed
On 2/13/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
I presume you're in home office, or have a quite space at work
to retire for a power nap?
I tend to take a 30 minute break cum snooze on the massage chair some
days, but I'd really like more time in bed. Of course, I'm working
towards that
On 2/15/07, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
I couldnt find any links online about this technologyanybody ever
heard of this?
Well, it does sound like a lot of hot air ;-)
Cheeni
As far as I know the MacBook Pro C2D supports 802.11 a/b/g officially,
and draft n unofficially. However, my notebook doesn't detect an
802.11a network. Co-workers tell me that Macs sold in India have 802.11a
support disabled since it is not an allowed spectrum in India. Would
anyone have more
On 2/20/07, Aditya Chadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as I know the MacBook Pro C2D supports 802.11 a/b/g officially,
and draft n unofficially. However, my notebook doesn't detect an
802.11a network.
Any particular reason for using an 802.11a network, btw?
It's faster.
Cheeni
Anish Mohammed wrote:
btw did u try n ?
I don't intend paying for the software update. I thought it downright
sneaky of Apple to suggest that a firmware update to enable existing
hardware functionality should be billed extra. Even if they plead that
it's due to SOX, it seems dishonest.
Casey O'Donnell wrote:
You could just buy a new airport and get the CD with it. ;)
I don't need one right now, my Linksys WRT54G serves me fine. That's the
other reason why I am in no hurry to get the firmware upgrade, I don't
have an 'n' capable access point to use.
Cheeni
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
[...]
(which is how long since I've been in bangalore) :)
Ahem, I have evidence to the contrary, but never mind :-)
Cheeni
This is very interesting, have we just discovered a building block of
nano-storage?
Cheeni
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/01/0113240
Posted by: samzenpus, on 2007-03-01 05:08:00
[1]PetManimal writes Computerworld has a story about a new technology
developed by Keio
On 3/6/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
I was approached by a sales rep from WIPRO selling a little gizmo the size of
a cellphone with a screen to match and it comes with a pen. The gizmo is
called a mobile e-note taker and clips on to a pad of paper. Writing on the
paper with the
Hey all,
I will be in the vicinity of SF for a couple of weeks or so, 10 Mar - 1 Apr
actually. Let me know if any of you are going to be around.
Cheeni
On 3/9/07, Badri Natarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And just to be cynical -- it's amazing how in India a white person's
skills will be more advanced than those of an Indian with exactly the
same skills.
Or at least, that's the impression I get from all the press that
Infosys's foreign
On 3/16/07, Sriram Karra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
All that might well be history real soon, given the change this year
in Infy's strategy to hiring from Indian B-schools. By (a) doubling
salary they offered last year, (b) recruiting directly for onsite
engagement manager positions, and (c)
On 3/22/07, Badri Natarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/16/07, Sriram Karra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
I'd like to meet the sucker(s?) who signed up to work for Infy last
year only to see the next class make double right out of college and
go on to better jobs.
Surely last year's
On 4/7/07, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone suggest a good restaurant in chennai
Dakshin, Park Sheraton is a nice traditional Indian cuisine sit down
fine dining restaurant.
Cheeni
On 4/10/07, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
7. Karpagambal mess in Mylapore.
I'd advise you to carry a can of roach spray with you. I think this
place is waaay over valued. BTW, I love Eden Park in Beasant Nagar.
It's not really traditional South Indian fare, but it's got possibly
the
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
Someone who lives in California, wants to buy wine in Chennai..such is
life...Thaths, how come you didn't get your 2.5 litres at the
duty-free when you came in?
si fueris Rōmae, Rōmānō vīvitō mōre; si fueris alibī, vīvitō
1. historyofoil.typepad.com the history of rome (the LSE lectures
though not only about history do have some excellent history talks)
2. Too many to list and at the same time nothing to list.
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
At today's Chennai silk list meetup
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Sean Doyle sdo...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree. Bragg is often surprised at what his guests say (e.g., that Malory
of Le Morte Darthur was a thug) - he obviously prepares for his podcast
but he doesn't try to script/control his guests too much (except in in the
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote:
Karpagambal Mess - been around for several decades at least.
With a side order of a cast iron stomach? It's improved of late, still
the sight of giant cockroaches lingers in my memory.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Sidin Vadukut sidin.vadu...@gmail.com wrote:
Ahem. (Sheepish grin.) I forgot to recommend a podcast I wished existed.
1. A factually accurate, detailed podcast telling the history of India's
military conflicts since independence. Both internal and external.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Naresh xxx...@yahoo.com wrote:
I need some advice on which USB flash drive to buy..the parameters are
1.No separate cap but the retracting mechanism must be solidly built
The retraction mechanism makes no sense since the port is still left
open for dust to
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Naresh xxx...@yahoo.com wrote:
http://www.flipkart.com/sandisk-cruzer-blade-16-gb-pen-drive/p/itmczc2ndmuqrmt7?pid=ACCCWPADYYFEJ7ZGref=8938e4a9-ba8c-47a3-abef-349c1379cbe3
Second that one. Decent drive, decent price. If you want speed, ask for USB
3
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
You mentioned asking the guy whether he does a chocolate dosa
That ranks a close second to asking for cold milk with tea, and as such
rates as due grounds for deportation. We don't want these types here, I
have to
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Andy Deemer andydee...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey -- I was just going off the Deccan Herald's 99 Dosa recc's...
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/217211/content/217419/F
Yes we are a billion people, so I think we've earned our right to produce a
few idiots, and
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Sean Doyle sdo...@gmail.com wrote:
I would welcome that. We're having a definite quality control problem here.
Fox has been aiming at a 3 year old mentality (mine! all mine!) but the
rest of the media isn't as coherent. And.. to prevent too much thread
drift
A preview of my real life action adventure game for tourists - live life
like a Madras teenager:
- A visit to the TASMAC store to pick up cheap liquid courage
-- For bonus points: this is done at around 6PM on a Friday or October 1st
- A spicy chicken Biryani made of genuine 100% crow
-- For
Would you happen to know of the tasty lassi and samosa shop in the lane
behind Devi theater? I remember it being way too successful to have closed
down by now, so I still hope.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
That place no longer
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
1. Mylapore
A more serious contribution to your list:
- Rayar's Café and Maami Kadai -
http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2295935.ece
- Dabba Chetti Kadai - traditional Indian medicines and things your
There's a long (paid column inches I am sure) rant in almost all Indian
newspapers today by the chief of Novartis lamenting the death of
innovation. I couldn't be bothered to read it.
The front page headlines that weren't paid for ran with the conventional
wisdom that the ruling was good for the
Welcome, Silk can be worse than miscmarket. You are warned.
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:24 PM, frozencemetery rharw...@club.cc.cmu.eduwrote:
I've been told it's good form to post an introduction, so: hello!
I'm a computer scientist and security researcher currently at Carnegie
Mellon
Satellite images of light pollution in India show the most uniformly
polluted sky of any developing country. In contrast, China is mostly only
polluted with light haze along the coast.
The few dark regions of India are the most revealing: Dantewada (maoists
who tear down the few electricity poles
I am yet to see a calamity that will force Indians to evacuate. If
Indians were the kind that would quit unhealthy environments, then
prices of land in Bangalore should be falling right now.
Bhopal never skipped a beat even when its citizens were falling dead
from poisonous gas, and it's dusty
If there's any innovation in Jugaad, it is in talking a tall tale.
There is no ethnic flavor to innovation, not Indian, Chinese or
African. Sure when you take away the resources and / or laws, then
new solutions with trade-offs become possible. Like the Chinese mobile
phone clones or Indian drug
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com wrote:
An ugly public building comes up right next to a 1500 year old temple. A
monument to incompetence and corruption built in the backyard of
a millennial legacy of elegance and brilliance, and no one bats an eyelid.
I
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
Much as I like the marundeeswarar and much as I don't like the MRTS
station, your comparison doesn't hold true. Temple poetry is more about
exaggeration of the attributes of the diety and less of
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
I can see the MRTS evoking some Marxist / North Korean poetry.
You mean of the fascist joy through suffering variety, indeed. We
should let Hitler know.
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com wrote:
This is quite true of most places in India. A combination of dust, smoke,
concrete and other assorted particulate matter have made most
urban/semi-urban habitats next to impossible to live in without some
version of
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
The MRTS monstrosity is poetic in its own way. The MRTS stations are an
Ozymandian reminder of the early 90's and corruption.
Vomit is a reminder of yesterday's folly too.
Temples weren't invented here or only here obviously, though this
became the land of temples. They go afaik much further back than
proto-Abrahamic - hard to find any standing so it's all debatable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_religion
Fire temples are evidenced in Aryan history -
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
It is easy for one who has voted with his feet to condemn those who can't.
No sense going after the arguer, please do attack the argument.
Without some sensitivity a lot of very valid concerns sound like, You must
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Caitlin Marinelli
caitlin.marine...@gmail.com wrote:
Do they need micro insurance?
India is generally very passive-aggressive towards insurance isn't it?
Most insurance products sold here are halfway between investment and
insurance, with the insurance pay out
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
While sophisticated investors might not want to mix insurance and investment,
it still remains an option - in several cases - for less sophisticated
investors, as long as they find a honest advisor who doesn't
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
While sophisticated investors might not want to mix insurance and investment,
it still remains an option - in several cases - for less sophisticated
investors, as long as they find a honest advisor who doesn't
The conservatives will obviously welcome this and the politicians will love
it because it's a meaningless but decisive move; with no political downside
to it because of the taboo. The only thing this will really do is destroy
Indian democracy some more by strengthening intrusive laws, and help set
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com
wrote:
The conservatives will obviously welcome this and the politicians will
love
it because it's a meaningless but decisive
Mukhopadhyay
sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com
wrote:
The conservatives will obviously welcome this and the politicians will
love
it because it's a meaningless but decisive move; with no political
downside
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Nikhil Mehra nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com wrote:
This should liven up the debate a bit:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/04/economist-explains-why-iceland-ban-pornography?fb_ref=activity
Iceland with 322,000 people is the size of an Indian
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Deepak Shenoy deepakshe...@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking purely economically - it's cheaper when they ban the darn
thing. If they make it legal, they'll charge a bloody license fee and
have auctions for licenses and some random minister will fraud the
taxpayers
It's possible I may be able to attend (Chennai), pick a date and I'll try
to drop in.
On May 6, 2013 9:10 AM, Divya S divyasamp...@yahoo.com wrote:
I'm happy to meet in Chennai on any date from 6th to 10th.
Cheers
Divya
Sent from my iPad
On 03-May-2013, at 5:31 PM, Adrianna Tan
The upshot: screw the experts.
This is generally good advise for anything. Religion, investing,
philosophy, exercise, diet, don't adopt anything without verifying for
yourself.
It's silly how many people have respect for authority.
I was lucky to be genetically disposed towards rebellion.
Zombie phone mode was active, sorry
On May 9, 2013 6:49 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com
wrote:
Zzz d'sa zzz a Ss z
Masterfully argued, Cheeni.
Thaths
--
Homer: Hey, what does this job pay?
Carl: Nuthin'.
Homer
The gourmands on the list (I'm thinking Charles and Gautam chiefly,
but also several others) will probably be interested in Steven Poole's
new book, You aren't what you eat (2012)
http://stevenpoole.net/you-arent-what-you-eat/
Guardian's review:
Parts of this, especially about the decrepitness of the railway system
and the corruption rings true for Indian railways too. Incidentally,
Declan Walsh was recently thrown out of Pakistan for attempting to
cover the elections.
Ever since much the same happened in Pakistan about five years ago I've
been wondering when India would follow. My regret is that they didn't go
torch a politician's bungalow, at least that would have yielded results.
On May 24, 2013 2:25 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
(...)
What's the current PV deployment situation in India? Any signs for
a ramp-up?
The power grid and sub stations need more investment than power generation,
we are losing 100 - 800 MW of wind energy daily in Tamil Nadu alone.
Power
, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com
wrote:
The power grid and sub stations need more investment than power
generation,
we are losing 100 - 800 MW of wind energy daily in Tamil Nadu alone.
Transmission loss is more theft than inefficiency, in my
understanding. One only has to look
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Charles Haynes
charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
Saravana Bhavan
In the spirit of Silk, I register here my personal opinion that
Saravana Bhavan is the combined nutritional and ethical equivalent of
McDonalds Monsanto.
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 8:25 PM, mark seiden m...@seiden.com wrote:
but i must ask:
[...]
why is that your opinion? (i have only been to the sunnyvale branch, rarely).
(perhaps do they now serve Bhopal-style McDosas?)
Ethical: Their business practices in their early years were very rough
-
On Jun 3, 2013 12:59 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com
wrote:
He was not universally liked but I guess even those that didn't like him
would be saddened by the news.
I agree, on both counts. RIP, Atul.
It was too
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk
s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
Anyone?
Time sink, but then most games are. Not for me.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Chetan Nagendra che...@nagster.org wrote:
I wonder if the PFRDA cannot even secure their website, how will they manage
billions in public funds?
Your optimism is remarkable. Pension deductions are a form of taxation
any way you look at it, either directly on
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
in rich countries. In the end, though, they too will change as the
alternatives become normal, and what was once normal becomes quaintly
old-fashioned.
It has been quaintly old-fashioned for many years now where I sit.
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
[...snip links...]
Notice that most of it is very predictable, several days
in advance.
You are right up to the point that global climate change bites. And
even without a climate apocalypse, I thought the margin of error with
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in
wrote:
Just say neigh, you think?
A night mare race to find the worst pun?
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
Speaking about a wipeout, how probable would you see a nuclear
conflict arising between failing states? I see huge problems
in the Pakistan/India/China corner. The climate shift will
probably hit Pakistan much harder than it
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
I wrote this some time agosomeone else referred to it on FB recently
(yes...a woman.) What makes us detest certain subjects at school, and why
is Maths (or Math) frequently at the top of the list? It can't always be
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym
ala...@snell-pym.org.uk wrote:
On 06/20/2013 04:23 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/enterprise-it/security/India-sets-up-nationwide-snooping-programme-to-tap-your-emails-phones/articleshow/20678562.cms
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Much more, including the full spreadsheet with all 21 'weirdness
features' for all the languages, at the URL below.
Also, it amuses me that this list says the most 'normal' language is
Hindi. :-)
It depresses me a little
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
Now if anyone would have a decent peak resource/energy mailing list
(especially now than the The Oil Drum is shutting down), that'd be
just great.
The Oil Drum is the biggest - but lots of Peak Oil websites have
crashed and
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
A few large discoveries in the Americas notwithstanding, it isn't like
The discoveries are not large, and mostly nonrecoverable. According
to recent graphs the Bakken story looks already over -- further data will
tell. We'll
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