Re: [silk] New Hottest Chili

2011-02-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
What, no cartoon effects like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnLEyxuz1BE On Monday 21 February 2011 10:40 AM, Biju Chacko wrote: Earlier this week Nick Martin decided to try one of his Infinity Chillies. I actually ate one yesterday. It was one I'd had frozen from last year - so I thought it

Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

2011-02-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Vinayak Hegde [15/02/11 00:19 +0530]: I really couldn't make sense of this paragraph no matter how hard I try to wrap my mind around this. I see that you use the English alphabet but your floral and verbose language doesn't make any sense to me. Looks like I am getting a little dense with age.

Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

2011-02-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sirtaj Singh Kang [14/02/11 17:27 -0600]: You asked for a mechanism by which a machine might seek self- improvement, and I've provided one that is in common use. Talking about individual's preferences in this context is meaningless unless you are demanding complete anthropomorphisation of this

Re: [silk] Books on Words Language

2011-02-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Eats shoots and leaves? Hobson Jobson / Brewers? -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:25:16 To: Silk Listsilklist@lists.hserus.net Reply-To:

Re: [silk] The greatest rock song of all time

2011-02-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Kiran K Karthikeyan [09/02/11 10:39 +0530]: On 9 February 2011 10:13, Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com wrote: Q: What are you missing? A: The Greatest Rock Song of all time. Also known as Sweet Child o Mine, as opposed to the stuff we had to endure in that video. My personal favorite is Set

Re: [silk] Biryani Recipes

2011-02-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Next silkmeet in bangalore = get together and cook up biryani, mirchi ka salan and double ka meetha for dessert. There might be other accompaniments and desserts for other biryanis but as a hyderabadi i'll stick with these. And kewda + milk between the layers - its mostly yoghurt and saffron in

Re: [silk] Biryani Recipes

2011-02-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
This is a pretty standard dum biryani recipe Some turmeric powder in the yogurt you use for the chicken marinade maybe And freshly ground ginger / garlic paste rather than store bought You cover and SEAL the dum dish (eg by sticking it shut with dough) Then you leave it on a low flame for

Re: [silk] Biryani Recipes

2011-02-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Oh yes. Fresh black pepper. The true biryani recipe is one of those exercises in balancing the bodily humors - heat, bile, cold etc -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 15:21:50 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Reply

Re: [silk] Biryani Recipes

2011-02-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
and other south/south east asian) on that blog are quite good indeed. srs Suresh Ramasubramanian [06/02/11 15:24 +]: Oh yes. Fresh black pepper. The true biryani recipe is one of those exercises in balancing the bodily humors - heat, bile, cold etc -- srs (blackberry) -Original

Re: [silk] Rockets, path dependence, and lock-in

2011-02-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I do have to agree with Shiv that this article is poorly researched. It could have done with far less verbosity as well. ss [06/02/11 10:30 +0530]: On Sunday 06 Feb 2011 8:20:08 am Udhay Shankar N wrote: On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:46 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [silk] Kragen's essay on Egypt

2011-01-29 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Civil society groups who blow international grant funding on plush conferences are sure a barrel of fun --Original Message-- From: underscore Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk]

Re: [silk] (no subject)

2011-01-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Udhay feels that the account got hacked because of some sort of javascript or other browser exploit caused by visiting a compromised site .. that'd then take over the infected PC and vacuum it for passwords. The other options are - 1. Just being infected by a virus 2. Checking mail without

Re: [silk] server hosting in india

2011-01-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Abhijit Menon-Sen [19/01/11 15:27 +0530]: My general reaction to Net4 is uniformly negative and I'd really rather not host with them, but I'm told they've become better recently. But they charge a hell of a lot, and their monthly data transfer limit is netmagic solutions is probably the only

Re: [silk] server hosting in india

2011-01-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Eugen Leitl [19/01/11 11:59 +0100]: not too much. you'd find that - for most ISPs, singapore would be a safe bet for network proximity and quality datacenters. not cheap though Good to know. How is mainland China? Painfully slow because traffic in/out of the mainland goes through the great

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Udhay Shankar N [19/01/11 13:00 +0530]: Basically, this is a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket (i.e stuff to do before you die) for some on this list it'll probably mean investing in a cryogenic technology for me, its to leave my family self sufficient i dont have any

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

2011-01-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ss [13/01/11 21:19 +0530]: If the author of that article had actually said all this he would have been accused of bigotry or of being a religious fanatic of a rival religion. So he has to tippy toe around the obvious. The only way he can escape that accusation is by being non specific. And that

Re: [silk] Hacker Anthropologists

2011-01-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I rather liked your interview. And I need to read a lot more of what you've written. Having been on both sides of the online activist scene - that is, been an activist for things, argued and even fought with other activists whose position (or more accurately, whose methods of expressing their

Re: [silk] introduction

2011-01-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
you could start with http://www.medindia.net/indian_health_act/the-drugs-and-magic-remedies-act-1955.htm On Wednesday 12 January 2011 09:25 AM, Eva Jansen wrote: Dear all, I am new at silk list, my name is Eva Jansen, I am a German PhD student writing on Naturopathy in South India. At the

Re: [silk] introduction

2011-01-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wednesday 12 January 2011 09:38 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: I am not a lawyer, but one of the comments that concerned me was about the use of heavy metals in popular ayurvedic medicines like Chawanprash. As far as I know, naturopathy and ayurveda are loosely regulated as compared to

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Thaths [06/01/11 16:10 +0530]: Speaking of ACK, I also ordered Nandini Chandra's The Classic Popular Amar Chitra Kathas (1967 To Now) from flipkart. Should be worth a read, if only for the brushwork in there. I was quite a fan of ram waeerkar, and of jeffrey fowler, who illustrated like three

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Samanth is silklist material and udhay's been trying to entice him over for quite some time. Samanth being maxed out on email already, will probably take time to do that. Thaths [06/01/11 08:58 +0530]: On Sunday, December 12, 2010, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: following fish

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Suresh Ramasubramanian [05/01/11 19:59 -0800]: Samanth is silklist material and udhay's been trying to entice him over for quite some time. Samanth being maxed out on email already, will probably take time to do that. amazon threw this out as a suggested link for following fish doesnt seem

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [06/01/11 11:55 +0530]: http://randomhouseindia.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/arunava-sinha-bankim-or-tagore/ in context. I've had the chance to speed read parts of the Durgeshnandini translation and, I'd heartily recommend it to anyone who'd love to read a reasonably rich and

Re: [silk] How do I tell if I'm getting ripped off by the optician?

2011-01-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Check the brand of lens Sieko? Crizal? etc The ones that remain thin even @ high power will cost you --Original Message-- From: Biju Chacko Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] How

Re: [silk] New year meetup in Chennai

2011-01-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Kiran Jonnalagadda [04/01/11 17:35 +0530]: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: Let us tentatively say we meet at noon at Azulia(sp?) at the GRT grand on Wed. I'm in. See you tomorrow. Need somewhere to hang out between 6 AM and noon though. Not 6 - but after 7:30

Re: [silk] New year meetup in Chennai

2011-01-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
anilkumar.naga...@gmail.com [04/01/11 13:46 +]: Relatedly, does anyone know if Broadway (or is that Brindavan) Hotel on M G Road, Bangalore exists and continues to serve meals on plantain leaf? Brindavan exists, and I ate there just last week. Pretty average though. If you want meals

Re: [silk] New year meetup in Chennai

2011-01-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Srini RamaKrishnan [04/01/11 19:02 +0530]: I remember eating there at the last silk meet we had in chennai a year or two ago and I wasn't impressed. Weren't you the one who suggested Azulia the last time as well? Confess now, what's the attraction? :-) Azulia is seriously good. IF you are not

Re: [silk] How do I tell if I'm getting ripped off by the optician?

2011-01-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Biju Chacko [05/01/11 10:38 +0530]: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com wrote: claimed they would be a piece of cake).  My Mom has the same complex of issues I have, and she recently had her cataracts fixed with corrective lenses (embedded in her eyes) and could see

Re: [silk] How do I tell if I'm getting ripped off by the optician?

2011-01-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepa Mohan [05/01/11 10:56 +0530]: I see lots of people just typing +1that's two keystrokes and a send button, thrice as much effort! I havent really liked it though I'm on lots of lists that use it. Usenet used to just say aol - because of lots of aol-ers who turned up on usenet and did

Re: [silk] Popular histories on the Balkans and the Golden Age ofthe Arabs

2010-12-31 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
If dorothy dunnett grabs you - also pick up louis l'amour's the walking drum -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: Supriya Nair supriya.n...@gmail.com Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:58:27 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net

Re: [silk] New year meetup in Chennai

2010-12-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I am in bangalore from today till the 31st afternoon as it happens -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:06:08 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Reply-To:

Re: [silk] Close the Washington Monument

2010-12-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Nikhil Mehra [23/12/10 06:08 +0530]: You know this just might be an Indian speaking, but I seriously want you very privileged American bastards (and I was till recently one of them by sheer virtue of having lived there) to truly fearfully deal with terror cynicism or theatre, to know Schneier's

Re: [silk] Kindle readers?

2010-12-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Tuesday 21 December 2010 07:37 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote: Is for all practical purposes the same as yes? No, methinks.Charles...you never read a DTP (Dead Tree Production) on a flight? I want to be the person who invents the next-gen longest-life battery/power source. For all practical

Re: [silk] Diaspora

2010-12-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 11:11 AM, Calvin wrote: If anyone have any invitations left, I would love to have one. TIA. Calvin Invited you. Though I seriously doubt I'm going to log back into it again - I don't see any particular use to it. Only thing it solves is facebook's lack of

Re: [silk] The Spamularity

2010-12-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Udhay Shankar N [20/12/10 22:59 +0530]: An interesting speculation from Charlie Stross (who needs to be on silk) - I've seen versions of this idea before, but this is probably the best articulated. I would love it, if AI was the only way spam was filtered :) Interesting idea though, thank you.

Re: [silk] Kindle readers?

2010-12-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Udhay Shankar N [21/12/10 08:57 +0530]: From a journo friend of mine. Any suggestions? hope all is well. so far so good here. would you know anyone in bangalore who read books only on kindle, i-pad, etc? it's for an article. I dont shun regular books and got a closet full of them. But yes

Re: [silk] Diaspora

2010-12-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
One for me please? Might as well see what the fuss is about, and then probably abandon it for evermore like I did twitter, lj, orkut ... Still, might as well help boost their userbase -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: Neha Viswanathan nehav...@gmail.com Sender:

Re: [silk] Lurkers, hidden audiences, and public archives

2010-12-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Given the size of silklist I don't say anything I wouldn't say to a person's face That would still not stop me from expressing some degree of contempt for ms.roy though -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.com Sender:

Re: [silk] Diaspora

2010-12-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sent you one from sur...@joindiaspora.com -Original Message- From: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net [mailto:silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of Pranesh Prakash Sent: 15 December 2010 18:27 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk]

Re: [silk] Diaspora

2010-12-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [15/12/10 19:50 +0530]: If you/list members still have one, I'd like it. done 2 left

Re: [silk] Visa-free and visa-on-arrival travel for Indians: maybeuseful for last-minute travel

2010-12-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Andre Uratsuka Manoel [16/12/10 01:26 -0200]: I'm going to Mexico next year to visit a friend and I can attest that an American visa is accepted by Mexico. not for indians it isnt. try going to san diego and putting a trip across the border to tijuana into your program

Re: [silk] Coffee Machine Recommendations

2010-12-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Charles Haynes [13/12/10 22:59 +1100]: Ok, I am a dyed in the wool, full-on, coffee... connoisseur. and that was definitive, and a keeper. my wife will probably slaughter me if I blow a couple of thousand dollars on my coffee habit though, so it is back to plan b, buying small quantities of

Re: [silk] Coffee Machine Recommendations

2010-12-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Monday 13 December 2010 08:05 AM, Aditya Kapil wrote: Can the 'fresh brewer' experts recommend a reasonably priced ($1000) coffee machine? One that makes 2-3 cups ber brew. Adit. Reasonably priced? Good lord. I've found that the standard tamil filter coffee drip filter makes an

Re: [silk] Coffee Machine Recommendations

2010-12-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Monday 13 December 2010 08:05 AM, Aditya Kapil wrote: Can the 'fresh brewer' experts recommend a reasonably priced ($1000) coffee machine? One that makes 2-3 cups ber brew. Adit. Oh, from http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1293844 I do like and 100% agree with what this guy has to say

Re: [silk] Coffee Machine Recommendations

2010-12-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Monday 13 December 2010 08:43 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote: The Vietnamese coffee filter costs $6, I think, and needs no electricity. You can send me the rest of the money mentioned above. If you're stateside (or anywhere else that thing can be bought) please do bring one back for me. I dont mind

Re: [silk] Coffee Machine Recommendations

2010-12-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
If you live in hyderabad then fresh ground coffee beans is a challenge, unlike chennai. All you get is rubbish like green label (47% chicory). There are a few coffee roasters though, and likely to be far more in tamil dominated areas like padma rao nagar / skandagiri (about 10 minutes from the

Re: [silk] Coffee Machine Recommendations

2010-12-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Monday 13 December 2010 10:07 AM, Aditya Kapil wrote: The obvious big question now (in addition to what machine?) It takes you nothing more or less than 5 minutes to get a cup of filter coffee. 1. Buy coffee powder in small quantities (a quarter kilo at a time max) 2. Four spoons of

Re: [silk] Coffee Machine Recommendations

2010-12-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Monday 13 December 2010 10:35 AM, Aditya Kapil wrote: 4. Shut the lid on the filter and wait about 5 minutes - during which time you boil the milk Last step not necessary, I think, since I prefer black. But are there changes to the other steps to compensate for not having the last?

Re: [silk] Coffee Machine Recommendations

2010-12-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Monday 13 December 2010 10:48 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: Well, Coffee Day outlets let you specify what blend of coffee you want and how much chicory you want. There was (is?) a place called Senthil Coffee Works in KK Nagar that would roast and grind any blend for you on a

Re: [silk] Coffee Machine Recommendations

2010-12-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Monday 13 December 2010 10:52 AM, Ashwin Kumar wrote: the worst kind of black coffee. I hated the dispenser which gave out something like coffee, but tasted like flavoured water. I prefer the Lavazza coffee machines in my CA office. It serves a decent macchiato with a double espresso shot.

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2010-12-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Thaths [11/12/10 10:41 -0800]: I'm going to be in India in a few weeks. I am looking for your recommendations of books that have been published in the sub-continent over the last year/two. following fish, by samanth subramanian

Re: [silk] Silk meet in Bangalore

2010-12-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wednesday 08 December 2010 02:59 PM, Vinit Bhansali wrote: Venkat is the best thing Windsor pub has going for it!!! Hahaha Given how it's walking distance from my office, I'm in for the 14th too! Its walking distance from cunningham road unless you want to pay the auto guy 10..15

Re: [silk] Silk meet in Bangalore

2010-12-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I'm in bangalore most of the 12th (at a kqa quiz - institute of agricultural technologists, queens road, next to the ESI). If someone wants to meet up there or try their luck as part of a 4 member team in kqa's megawhats .. go ahead. On Wednesday 08 December 2010 10:39 AM, Venkat Mangudi wrote:

Re: [silk] Silk meet in Bangalore

2010-12-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
, 2010 11:17 On Wednesday 08 December 2010 10:47 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: I'm in bangalore most of the 12th (at a kqa quiz - institute of agricultural technologists, queens road, next to the ESI). If someone wants to meet up there or try their luck as part of a 4 member team in kqa's

Re: [silk] Silk meet in Bangalore

2010-12-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
December 2010 11:34 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: If someone wants to meet up there or try their luck as part of a 4 member team in kqa's megawhats .. go ahead. So you're in need of a team member? Am not the best, might bring you down. But interested. :-) -V -- srs (blackberry)

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Bulls balls confirmed -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:48:55 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk]

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Pica. Calcium deficiency. --Original Message-- From: Andre Manoel Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten? Sent: Nov 24, 2010 18:14 On Wed,

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten? Given that it's unlikely Suresh was ever a pregnant woman we could allow him that one On 24 Nov 2010 19:23, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 November 2010 18:39, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Pica

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ss [25/11/10 07:39 +0530]: Agreed. I am not a big seafood fan. My experience with squid told me that they are rubbery and tasteless. Snails - on the one occasion I ate them were oily and fried and did not stand out as something I would want to eat again and again. Unlike curd rice. Eating

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Camel and ostrich in saudi arabia, kangaroo in australia Not terribly exotic --Original Message-- From: Udhay Shankar N Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: Silk List ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sean Doyle [23/11/10 22:02 -0500]: In Kangding I was treated to a hotpot restaurant by some of my wife's colleagues and it was delicious. I remember feeling a big queasy about duck intestine and yak stomach but when I ate it all I could feel was the unusual texture and the kick of the red, red

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepa Mohan [24/11/10 08:32 +0530]: friends tell me that I should eat meat just before I die so I won't die of regret for abstaining all these years :) Eat fugu, it would probably ensure that you ARE eating meat just before you die. You won't die of regret, just of fugu! You can eat fugu if

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepa Mohan [24/11/10 09:40 +0530]: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Meera meerak...@gmail.com wrote: the gardener brought home something called mookuchali pazham - translated as 'nose-mucus fruit'. I guess an editor would not use the word snot! What WAS it, ultimately, Meera? 2929

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Vegetables are what the food eats --Original Message-- From: Chetan Nagendra Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten? Sent: Nov 24, 2010 1:17 PM

Re: [silk] In NY: 19th - 30th Nov

2010-11-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Vijay Anand [12/11/10 22:21 +0530]: @suresh: can you help with an Intro to Minn? are you on facebook? then friend me and I'll intro you

Re: [silk] In NY: 19th - 30th Nov

2010-11-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Not a silklister but a mutual friend of lots of people here.. Minn. You might want to say hi to her. Vijay Anand [12/11/10 12:48 +0530]: Folks, Its that time of the year where I am making some travel plans and am to be in New York from the 19th of this Month, till the 30th (I know its a bit of

Re: [silk] Sao Paulo silk meetup

2010-10-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Not me, my sister lives there though --Original Message-- From: Andre Manoel Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] Sao Paulo silk meetup Sent: Oct 28, 2010 06:44 Hello, I was thinking

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Tue, October 26, 2010 2:05 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: Somehow he doesn't sound too happy... ;) And clearly hasn't applied for a US visa. Or maybe one from Argentina (which, for indian citizens at least, needs an affidavit sealed by a notary public) I just suppose he's lucky that someone in the

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Biju Chacko [26/10/10 20:40 +0530]: In fact the most annoying part of the process is the ridiculous attitude of my Dad's travel agents. They seem to think any visa application should be handled as if they were sending a newly graduated software engineer working for a shady bodyshopper to the US

Re: [silk] Fwd: [CCM-L] Looks pretty good for me coming to Chennai (OT)

2010-10-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Gautam John [26/10/10 20:47 +0530]: (which, for indian citizens at least, needs an affidavit sealed by a notary public) Really? I applied for an Argentine visa last year in Bombay and it was painless. And because I was going for a conference, they gave it to me gratis. Delhi, and the semi

[silk] Can some kind soul traveling in from someplace with better electronic goods available

2010-10-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Traveling into India (or better, Chennai) from singapore, the states or whatever .. get me one or preferably both these: 1. Displayport [note - fullsized for a thinkpad, not mac mini displayport] male - DVI male adapter cable 2. HDMI male - DVI male adapter [got a thinkpad with a displayport

Re: [silk] Can some kind soul traveling in from someplace with better electronic goods available

2010-10-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
2010 09:05:41 +0530 On 19 October 2010 08:03, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: you meant this : http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-HDMI-Adapter-Cable-Meters/dp/B001TH7T2U/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronicsie=UTF8qid=1287459056sr=1-2 2. HDMI male - DVI male adapter

Re: [silk] Can some kind soul traveling in from someplace with better electronic goods available

2010-10-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.37065 http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.37234 Thank you!

Re: [silk] Can some kind soul traveling in from someplace with better electronic goods available

2010-10-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
someplace with better electronic goods available Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:51:48 +0530 I suggest dealextreme It takes a while but it comes With free shipping On 19 Oct 2010 08:06, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Traveling into India (or better, Chennai) from singapore

Re: [silk] The subaltern studies collective?

2010-10-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The english might not have been the best historians. I will still confess to enjoying percival spear for clear, readable writing. While at the same time viewing marxist rhetoric fueled dissertations with detestation purely for the inherent cant even without being overlaid with the baggage of

Re: [silk] Music question

2010-10-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
vtms = middle aged women wearing diamond earrings. culture vultures, I've heard another type described .. you know, aggressively ethnic fabindia clothes, a bindi as large as a manhole cover, consciously (over)use bharatnatyam mudras even in normal conversation over dinner etc. Detest them

Re: [silk] Music question

2010-10-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepa Mohan [13/10/10 15:00 +0530]: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: culture vultures, I've heard another type described .. you know, aggressively ethnic fabindia clothes, a bindi as large as a manhole cover, consciously (over)use bharatnatyam

Re: [silk] The subaltern studies collective?

2010-10-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Post modernist pretentiousness strikes again. Possibly the one thing more bogus is science studies, I guess --Original Message-- From: Srini RamaKrishnan Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject:

Re: [silk] The subaltern studies collective?

2010-10-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Udhay Shankar N [14/10/10 06:54 +0530]: Not the entire field, but some members of it, certainly (which is fine, recalling that 90% of *everything* is crap) It is marked by intellectual dishonesty such as the use of logical fallacies, ad hominem rather than debate .. you name it. Shines through

Re: [silk] Music question

2010-10-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Charles Haynes [07/10/10 23:26 +1100]: That's my primary way of listening to music. I almost never listen to music while doing something else, I find it interferes with my concentration. The same with me. I cant treat music I like as useful background noise when I get on with other work, and I

Re: [silk] Techno-literacy and its implications

2010-10-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ss [06/10/10 09:31 +0530]: Incidentally how many people on Silk can recall how to calculate the square root of a number manually? If you were taught in the first place. How many cooks need to know how to grow wheat or milk a cow? Or slaughter a cow for that matter? Having thrown my maths and

Re: [silk] Techno-literacy and its implications

2010-10-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepa Mohan [02/10/10 08:57 +0530]: Well, then, Shiv, how do you feel about the way your children got educated? Did you consider the home-schooling option? (I remember that Pooja's first school was CALLED something like Home School?) Did you know that the option existed? That was my old school

Re: [silk] Anybody else got a spam email from ...

2010-09-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The list is archived on gmane, yahoogroups etc --Original Message-- From: Venkat Mangudi Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] Anybody else got a spam email from ... Sent: Sep 13, 2010

[silk] Well worth a read .. and just $2.99 on the kindle store

2010-09-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I picked this gem up – a (rather poorly ocr’d in parts) copy of John Bradshaw’s Sir Thomas Munro and the British settlement of the Madras presidency. The man introduced a whole lot of what has now become the IAS .. plus got himself almost god like status (with legends that he was descended from

Re: [silk] Well worth a read .. and just $2.99 on the kindle store

2010-09-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Of sankarshan Sent: 14 September 2010 10:04 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Well worth a read .. and just $2.99 on the kindle store On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: I picked this gem up – a (rather poorly ocr’d in parts) copy of John

Re: [silk] Chennai meetup?

2010-09-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Venkat Mangudi [02/09/10 15:04 +0530]: I am in Chennai from Sep 19 through Sep 21. Not sure where I am staying as yet, but open to catching up dinner types on 20th. Anyone in town? Ideally, I should be. Azulia again?

Re: [silk] Chennai meetup?

2010-09-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Udhay Shankar N [02/09/10 19:21 +0530]: Deepa, Your posts are coming through multiple times to the list. Any settings you tweaked recently? no. gmail's been a bit buggy this way for quite a while now, random users getting affected by it

Re: [silk] Chennai meetup?

2010-09-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thursday 02 September 2010 03:06 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Ideally, I should be. Azulia again? Shall we try another place, kind of bored of Azulia? Once I find out where I will be staying (I hope this is ok, you pedant :-) ), I will let you know. On a totally unrelated note, I wonder

Re: [silk] The Non-profit Failure Awards

2010-08-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Thaths [17/08/10 16:46 -0700]: With the prize in his sights, Tim Kelly, a technology specialist at the World Bank who had just flown in from South Africa, found himself I actually know Tim very well and know the great work he's been doing, for years - at the ITU and then at the world bank.

Re: [silk] What happened at Yahoo

2010-08-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Thaths [12/08/10 09:27 -0700]: I know there are quite a few Yahoo!s in silk list. I'd like to hear their views on Paul Graham's views: Not from yahoo. But my view of the meltdown was too many divisions operating like little tin gods their own way, with little or no central coordination /

Re: [silk] What happened at Yahoo

2010-08-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Coming as I do from a 150 man startup founded in the mid 1990s which was acquired by the archetypal big company (a primary colored 3 letter one) last year .. I can relate to some, but not all of that. This company has actually integrated all the ideas and the technology - but the business

Re: [silk] decarbonising and other rituals

2010-08-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/technical-stuff/4105-carbon-cleaning-decarbonisation-engine-7.html has an active discussion on it. If you do it - 15..20k kilometres is fine, though Maruti says their engines just don't accumulate carbon so decarbing won't be necessary. srs -Original

Re: [silk] Getting in (and Out of) Line

2010-08-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The backstory being that Vishnu is paying off an infinitely large loan to Kubera, which he'd taken for his wedding, with the revenue from this temple (including 70 crore diamond studded crowns presented by iron ore robber baron politicians) -Original Message- From:

Re: [silk] instructional dvd for toddlers in tamil

2010-08-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
There are some VERY badly produced ones - Pebbles and Apple Tree brand. VCDs though. Their English VCDs are even worse. Nobody I know of that produces DVDs. You can pick this crap up at any landmark, odyssey, crossword etc type place in Madras. -Original Message- From:

Re: [silk] instructional dvd for toddlers in tamil

2010-08-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: There are some VERY badly produced ones - Pebbles and Apple Tree brand. VCDs though. Their English VCDs are even worse. Nobody I know of that produces DVDs. You can pick this crap up at any landmark, odyssey, crossword etc type place in Madras

Re: [silk] instructional dvd for toddlers in tamil

2010-08-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of Vinayak Hegde Sent: 06 August 2010 15:31 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] instructional dvd for toddlers in tamil On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Dont think ACK publishes tamil DVDs. If you still have

Re: [silk] No demat accounts for Hindu gods: HC

2010-07-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepa Mohan [19/07/10 12:38 +0530]: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote:I dont know about that but i do know a dog bank. http://www.syndicatebank.in/ How is Syndicate Bank a dog bank? (probably going to slap myself on forehad when you explain

Re: [silk] No demat accounts for Hindu gods: HC

2010-07-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Aadisht Khanna [19/07/10 13:06 +0530]: If the Sangli trust registers a demat account for Lord Ganesh and then say, the Siddhivinayak temple also decides to do this, how will the deduplication work? We just get nilekani to break his head over this question, I expect. Ganesh still has a pan - so

Re: [silk] No demat accounts for Hindu gods: HC

2010-07-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Address proof - garbha griha, temple x All right then, issue it -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:15:34 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Reply-To:

Re: [silk] No demat accounts for Hindu gods: HC

2010-07-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Indrajit Gupta [19/07/10 11:14 +0530]: It is an excellent bank, industrial grade. I dont know about that but i do know a dog bank. http://www.syndicatebank.in/

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