Re: [silk] New member Intro: Jitendra (Jiten) Vaidya
>I make a ridiculously lip smacking (I have to say so myself because only I >and the husband have ever eaten it, we never got as far as to share it) >spaghetti sauce - comprising of beef mince, whole tomatoes, whole garlic, >onions, butter, salt and pepper. It cooks on high heat for 40 minutes and >comes out like it's been going on the fire all night. That does sound yum! And now suddenly I too find myself super hungry. :D Cheers, Nani On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 3:50 PM Huda Masood wrote: > I haven't really tried sous vide for the same reason - i.e. plastic and > leaching. > > I'm a big fan of the OPOS method - One pot One shot. A gentleman in Chennai > who goes by Sir Ramki came up with it and I really think it's the bees > knees. It basically utilizes the inherent moisture in the ingredients > themselves to cook under pressure (std 15 psi, 120 degrees centigrade, > moist heat) and there is none to little addition of water. He's got a great > primer book explaining the science behind it on Amazon kindle - called OPOS > primer. > > I make a ridiculously lip smacking (I have to say so myself because only I > and the husband have ever eaten it, we never got as far as to share it) > spaghetti sauce - comprising of beef mince, whole tomatoes, whole garlic, > onions, butter, salt and pepper. It cooks on high heat for 40 minutes and > comes out like it's been going on the fire all night. > > I think I've made myself quite hungry. > > Let me know if anyone has tried it out or wants to come over for a demo ! > > H.M. > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 11:18, Jitendra Vaidya > wrote: > > > Bruce, > > > > Thanks a bunch for the detailed posts. I think you (and Naren and Ashim) > > have finally convinced me to take the plunge. > > > > I will report back results, and possibly ask more questions, soon. > > > > -Jiten > > > > > -- > Huda Masood > +91 9886796967 >
Re: [silk] Slow thinking
>For various reasons for the past year or so I've been either lurking on >Silklist or just ignoring it. But I've got all the messages archived, so >if I want to get a sense of what y'all have been talking about of late >it's easy to do so, at my own convenience. Because there are real >conversations here, not just hastily-written cryptic texts, I feel >comfortable joining back in. +1...! The fact that one can go back and sift through everyone’s viewpoints is rather comforting. Speaking of slow thinking, I’m reminded of the ultimate slow conversation -- the lost art of letter writing. Yep, “snail mail”! There was a strange and pleasurable sense of anticipation in waiting for, receiving, and then opening that envelope with eager fingers. And somehow, those exchanges felt deeper and far more satisfying. N From: j...@wetmachine.com Sent: 10 August 2018 20:09 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Cc: silklist Subject: Re: [silk] Slow thinking I too prefer asynchronous communication over "real-time" & email over over slack, etc. For various reasons for the past year or so I've been either lurking on Silklist or just ignoring it. But I've got all the messages archived, so if I want to get a sense of what y'all have been talking about of late it's easy to do so, at my own convenience. Because there are real conversations here, not just hastily-written cryptic texts, I feel comfortable joining back in. jrs On 2018-08-10 03:45, Ashim D'Silva wrote: I prefer asynchronous communication for just that > reason (email vs phone), but slack replacing email for instance is just > speeding things back up again. > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:32 AM Dave Long > wrote: > >> "Slow" and "fast" might be better words for what we used to call >> "literate" and "oral" communication styles*. >> >> Although written communication one thousand years ago was almost >> always >> the result of reflection and composition, while spoken communication >> was >> almost always extemporaneous if not spontaneous, we now encounter all >> four >> quadrants in common use: >> >> fast spoken - oral communication >> fast written - texting (conversational online comments?) >> slow spoken - prepared speeches, lectures, etc. >> slow written - literate communication (epistolary mailing lists?) >> >> -Dave >> >> What about podcasts: are they generally fast or slow? >> >> * this would also explain why a recent BBC article claimed "we" prefer >> texting to email, when my preference is the opposite; I'm guessing >> their >> exclusive-rather-than-inclusive "we" (which might include ancient >> romans, >> tut-tutting "lucernam redolet"?) prefer fast to slow. >> >> >> -- > Cheerio, > > Ashim D’Silva > Design & build > www.therandomlines.com > instagram.com/randomlies
Re: [silk] Conspiracy Theory for the day...
Can't speak for Auchincloss Brown or Hapgood. And (knowing nothing about cartography or geology) I hardly have a hypothesis so much as a fun explanation for why the US might 'appear' to be lackadaisical about an accepted global phenomenon. That said, I sure would love to find out answers (but not alternative facts!) to these questions: 1. How did those Siberian mammoths happen to have tropical grass in their bellies? 2. What event caused them to get buried alive by *that* much snow that rapidly? 3. How was it possible for ancient maps to be right about the existence of a mountain range in Antarctica (that modern science only discovered buried under a mile thick sheet of ice) and YET so wrong about that entire continent being tropical? 4. Why is so much ice accumulating in Antarctica every year? Has this been happening in perpetuity? 5. If a trillion tons of ice piled up in just TEN YEARS, what effect, if any, would long-term accumulation have on planetary motion? Hapgood wasn't a kook (at least, Einstein didn't seem to think so), so I for one am curious why there aren't published studies (or rebuttals) of his ideas instead of passing scorn. BTW, I am new to this forum; the intent of my post was to stimulate thought/discussion on a topic that I found interesting. No offence meant (and none taken). :) Cheers, Nani On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Charles Haynes <charles.hay...@gmail.com> wrote: > The first question to ask anyone with a wild new theory is - what would it > take to falsify your hypothesis? What evidence would convince you it was > false? > > -- Charles > > On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 at 22:04 Nani <nani2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Slow Monday... figured this is as good a time as any to get folks wound > up > > a bit... :D > > > > THE ASTONISHING THEORIES OF CHARLES HAPGOOD AND HUGH AUCHINCLOSS BROWN > > > > Have you guys e > > ver wondered why the most powerful nation on earth seems hellbent on > > ignoring global warming, a phenomenon that virtually everyone is in > > agreement as being real? > > > > Conspiracy theories are seen as being kooky; but what if, instead of > > climate change denial, there is a 'conspiracy' of willful ignorance, and > it > > is a GOOD one for the benefit of mankind? > > > > #1 Tropical Antartica: > > Those of you who've watched "2012', the Hollywood blockbuster starring > John > > Cusack, may recall a far out reference to an "Earth Crust Displacement > > Theory" espoused by a Prof Charles Hapgood. > > > > Turns out, this gent did solid research on the world of cartography, and > > unearthed scientifically accurate ancient maps describing Antartica and > > other parts of the Earth that weren't "discovered" until centuries later. > > These maps were so sophisticated and accurate that they couldn't have > been > > created without the use of advanced math such as plane geometry and > > spherical trigonometry; yet the ancient sources, on which they were > based, > > dated back to times when such knowledge purportedly did not exist. > > > > Apparently, Antartica was a tropical land, rather than a barren icescape > > with a mile-thick layer of sheet ice, as we know it today. Giant woolly > > mammoths supposedly roamed the Arctic and the Antartic. Scientists have > > found mammoths preserved under the Siberian permafrost - frozen solid and > > standing upright with the flesh on their bodies still intact - as a > result > > of being almost instantaneously covered by meters of snow/ice - due to > > rapid climate change from tropical to arctic within a matter of hours. > Now > > here’s a mind-blowing fact - the undigested grass inside their bellies > was > > TROPICAL grass! > > > > Modern experts dispute segments of these maps that show South America > > merging with Antartica. But what if there was no sea there at that time? > > What if these continents were indeed connected by a land bridge, much > like > > Sri Lanka and India were in antiquity? > > > > In fact, what if ALL places in the world that are deserts today, like the > > Sahara, Gobi, and Thar, were once colossal lakes or even completely > > undersea? > > > > #2 Global Warming: > > Here is an unreal but true factoid - the Earth accumulates billions of > tons > > of ice at the poles EVERY year - that is billions with a B! A satellite > > study by NASA concluded in 2015 that the Antartic sheet had a net gain of > > 112 billion tons of ice EACH YEAR from 1992 to 2001, and 82 billion tons > > per year subsequently. That is a whole lotta ice! > > > > Back in 1948,
[silk] Conspiracy Theory for the day...
Slow Monday... figured this is as good a time as any to get folks wound up a bit... :D THE ASTONISHING THEORIES OF CHARLES HAPGOOD AND HUGH AUCHINCLOSS BROWN Have you guys e ver wondered why the most powerful nation on earth seems hellbent on ignoring global warming, a phenomenon that virtually everyone is in agreement as being real? Conspiracy theories are seen as being kooky; but what if, instead of climate change denial, there is a 'conspiracy' of willful ignorance, and it is a GOOD one for the benefit of mankind? #1 Tropical Antartica: Those of you who've watched "2012', the Hollywood blockbuster starring John Cusack, may recall a far out reference to an "Earth Crust Displacement Theory" espoused by a Prof Charles Hapgood. Turns out, this gent did solid research on the world of cartography, and unearthed scientifically accurate ancient maps describing Antartica and other parts of the Earth that weren't "discovered" until centuries later. These maps were so sophisticated and accurate that they couldn't have been created without the use of advanced math such as plane geometry and spherical trigonometry; yet the ancient sources, on which they were based, dated back to times when such knowledge purportedly did not exist. Apparently, Antartica was a tropical land, rather than a barren icescape with a mile-thick layer of sheet ice, as we know it today. Giant woolly mammoths supposedly roamed the Arctic and the Antartic. Scientists have found mammoths preserved under the Siberian permafrost - frozen solid and standing upright with the flesh on their bodies still intact - as a result of being almost instantaneously covered by meters of snow/ice - due to rapid climate change from tropical to arctic within a matter of hours. Now here’s a mind-blowing fact - the undigested grass inside their bellies was TROPICAL grass! Modern experts dispute segments of these maps that show South America merging with Antartica. But what if there was no sea there at that time? What if these continents were indeed connected by a land bridge, much like Sri Lanka and India were in antiquity? In fact, what if ALL places in the world that are deserts today, like the Sahara, Gobi, and Thar, were once colossal lakes or even completely undersea? #2 Global Warming: Here is an unreal but true factoid - the Earth accumulates billions of tons of ice at the poles EVERY year - that is billions with a B! A satellite study by NASA concluded in 2015 that the Antartic sheet had a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice EACH YEAR from 1992 to 2001, and 82 billion tons per year subsequently. That is a whole lotta ice! Back in 1948, an electrical engineer named Hugh Auchincloss Brown postulated a wild theory that when this polar 'weight' becomes too high, once every 7 thousand years or so, the Earth "wobbles" on its axis and "tips over", thereby causing the poles and equator to 'switch places' rapidly, presumably to maintain centrifugal balance. If true, that might explain how Antartica could've been equatorial land once. So what's the Conspiracy? HAB's fantastic theories have long been ridiculed, and Hapgood's theories have never been investigated at all. But here's the thing - WHAT IF the powers-that-be had secretly figured out all along that a cataclysmic event was indeed on the brink of occurring? What if they have deliberately ALLOWED global warming to progress, thereby causing the ice caps to melt at a controlled rate, sufficiently enough to reduce polar weight gradually without causing gigantic tsunamis that could wipe out the human race?! Even within our lifetime the North Pole has changed from being an icy land where intrepid explorers once walked and planted their flags, to a seascape where ships can now sail through at all times of the year. Maybe when outcomes were weighed in the balance, a few polar bears losing their habitat wasn't the worst thing compared to the potential obliteration of mankind. Food for thought… ;) Cheers, Nani References: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses http://www.archive.org/stream/eathsshiftingcru033562mbp/eathsshiftingcru033562mbp_djvu.txt http://www.skrause.org/writing/papers/hapgood_and_ecd.shtml http://bcm.bc.edu/issues/fall_2000/ft_linehan.html http://www.knowledge.co.uk/velikovsky/index.htm http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/198001/piri.reis.and.the.hapgood.hypotheses.htm http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/libraries/about/exhibits-new/ONLobbyExhibits/deepfreeze.html
Re: [silk] Culinary holiday to Thanjavur
Thanks, Venkatesh! :) On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Venkatesh H R <hrvenkat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nani - welcome to the group. Rakesh - many thanks. My mother's family are > Thanjavur Marathis who settled in Bangalore in the early 20th century. > Still, I > hold out hopes for travelling to Thanjavur some day! > > > > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 9:33 AM, Nani nani2...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello Rakesh, > > > > > Good to find other Chennai-dwellers on this forum. > > > > > With close relatives in and around Thanjavur, I can attest to its cultural > > and culinary splendor. And a Tanjore maami's decoction kaapi served in a > > traditional copper 'davarah-tumbler' is to die for! :) > > > > > Cheers, > > Nani > > > > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Rakesh Raghunathan <rakes...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hey Guys, >> > > >> > My name is Rakesh and I am from Chennai. I am a food traveller and >> > > researcher. I also host a food and travel show on TV. I have curated a >> > > culinary holiday to Thanjavur. Should any of you wish to join can check out >> > > the detailed itinerary >> > > <https://puliyogaretravels.com/2017/02/17/culinary- >> > > holiday-to-thanjavur-2n-3d/> >> > > >> > Hopefully will meet some of you. >> > > >> > Cheers! >> > > >> > -- >> > > [image: photo] >> > > *Rakesh Raghunathan* >> > > TV Show host || Food Traveler || Writer || Chef >> > > >> > Puliyogare Travels, a food travel company >> > > puliyogaretrav...@gmail.com | www.puliyogaretravels.com >> > > <http://facebook.com/puliyogaretravels> >> > > <https://twitter.com/puliyogaretrave> >> > > <http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl4QoIuyQR49s34gNFv_f3w> >> > > <https://www.instagram.com/puliyogaretravels/> >> > > >> > > > > > > H R VenkateshTow-Knight Fellow 2016, New YorkCo-ordinator, Hacks/Hackers > New > Delhi > Ph: +1 646-874-9924Twitter: @hrvenkatesh >
Re: [silk] Culinary holiday to Thanjavur
Hello Rakesh, Good to find other Chennai-dwellers on this forum. With close relatives in and around Thanjavur, I can attest to its cultural and culinary splendor. And a Tanjore maami's decoction kaapi served in a traditional copper 'davarah-tumbler' is to die for! :) Cheers, Nani On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Rakesh Raghunathan <rakes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Guys, > > My name is Rakesh and I am from Chennai. I am a food traveller and > researcher. I also host a food and travel show on TV. I have curated a > culinary holiday to Thanjavur. Should any of you wish to join can check out > the detailed itinerary > <https://puliyogaretravels.com/2017/02/17/culinary- > holiday-to-thanjavur-2n-3d/> > > Hopefully will meet some of you. > > Cheers! > > -- > [image: photo] > *Rakesh Raghunathan* > TV Show host || Food Traveler || Writer || Chef > > Puliyogare Travels, a food travel company > puliyogaretrav...@gmail.com | www.puliyogaretravels.com > <http://facebook.com/puliyogaretravels> > <https://twitter.com/puliyogaretrave> > <http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl4QoIuyQR49s34gNFv_f3w> > <https://www.instagram.com/puliyogaretravels/> >
Re: [silk] SilkList
Thanks, Anish. :) On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:30 PM, Anish Mohammed <anish.moham...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 at 11:26, Nani <nani2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Haha, you're too kind, Thejaswi. :) > > > > Thanks Deepa, and Amitha! > > > > Dunno about being a professional, but back in the day I was invited to > the > > Team USA cricket selection camp; never got to even try out though, as it > > turned out citizenship was mandatory. On the plus side, I got to meet > with > > Sunil Gavaskar & Sir Garry Sobers, and was picked to a bowling camp with > > Kapil Dev. Only in the USA! ;) > > > > And during engg college days, was the starting 'keeper all 4 years at > > football (the beautiful game version). :)) The highlight of my > > all-too-brief sojourn into Squash was beating the University #2 within a > > month of first picking up a racquet. Wish I'd found the sport sooner. :P > > > > Cheers, > > Nani > > > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Amitha Singh <amithasi...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Welcome to Silk List Nani... > > > > > > Regards, > > > Amitha > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 1:20 AM, Nani <nani2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks Udhay, for adding me to this group. > > > > > > > > Hello Silk Listers! My name is Narayanan. Most friends know me as > Nani. > > > I'm > > > > co-founder at Milestone42, a Cloud services startup based in Chennai, > > > > Tamilnadu where the coffee is strong, the accents are thick, and the > > > talent > > > > pool so deep that you'll find one of us in most boardrooms. ;) > > > > > > > > I also help out at JustBooks Anna Nagar, a library franchise that my > > wife > > > > runs. Passionate about Cricket; discovered too late that I was better > > at > > > > Squash... operative word being "was". These days I am content to > watch > > > > streaming video of American college football (Roll Tide!)... > > > > > > > > Some of you may know me already from a previous avatar at Yahoo!, > > where I > > > > used to be Director of PMO for Emerging Markets and Global > > Marketplaces. > > > > Look forward to connecting with the rest of the folks here. > > > > > > > > Here's to stimulating conversations on Silk List. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Nani > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > *amithasingh.com <http://www.amithasingh.com>* > > > *"Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or > > > because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders > > > progress." -- MK Gandhi* > > > > > > Hi Nani, > Welcome to silklist :), enjoy the ride > > > > > >
Re: [silk] SilkList
Haha, you're too kind, Thejaswi. :) Thanks Deepa, and Amitha! Dunno about being a professional, but back in the day I was invited to the Team USA cricket selection camp; never got to even try out though, as it turned out citizenship was mandatory. On the plus side, I got to meet with Sunil Gavaskar & Sir Garry Sobers, and was picked to a bowling camp with Kapil Dev. Only in the USA! ;) And during engg college days, was the starting 'keeper all 4 years at football (the beautiful game version). :)) The highlight of my all-too-brief sojourn into Squash was beating the University #2 within a month of first picking up a racquet. Wish I'd found the sport sooner. :P Cheers, Nani On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Amitha Singh <amithasi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Welcome to Silk List Nani... > > Regards, > Amitha > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 1:20 AM, Nani <nani2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks Udhay, for adding me to this group. > > > > Hello Silk Listers! My name is Narayanan. Most friends know me as Nani. > I'm > > co-founder at Milestone42, a Cloud services startup based in Chennai, > > Tamilnadu where the coffee is strong, the accents are thick, and the > talent > > pool so deep that you'll find one of us in most boardrooms. ;) > > > > I also help out at JustBooks Anna Nagar, a library franchise that my wife > > runs. Passionate about Cricket; discovered too late that I was better at > > Squash... operative word being "was". These days I am content to watch > > streaming video of American college football (Roll Tide!)... > > > > Some of you may know me already from a previous avatar at Yahoo!, where I > > used to be Director of PMO for Emerging Markets and Global Marketplaces. > > Look forward to connecting with the rest of the folks here. > > > > Here's to stimulating conversations on Silk List. > > > > Cheers, > > Nani > > > > > > -- > *amithasingh.com <http://www.amithasingh.com>* > *"Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or > because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders > progress." -- MK Gandhi* >
[silk] SilkList
Thanks Udhay, for adding me to this group. Hello Silk Listers! My name is Narayanan. Most friends know me as Nani. I'm co-founder at Milestone42, a Cloud services startup based in Chennai, Tamilnadu where the coffee is strong, the accents are thick, and the talent pool so deep that you'll find one of us in most boardrooms. ;) I also help out at JustBooks Anna Nagar, a library franchise that my wife runs. Passionate about Cricket; discovered too late that I was better at Squash... operative word being "was". These days I am content to watch streaming video of American college football (Roll Tide!)... Some of you may know me already from a previous avatar at Yahoo!, where I used to be Director of PMO for Emerging Markets and Global Marketplaces. Look forward to connecting with the rest of the folks here. Here's to stimulating conversations on Silk List. Cheers, Nani
