[silk] Introduction

Hi all, My name is Rajesh Mehar, Uday just added me to this list. I'm a parent of a three year old, and I live on a relatively quiet street in Jayanagar, Bangalore. I was born in and grew up in Bangalore and other than for a one-year-stint in Mumbai, I've lived here all my life. Happy to join

Re: [silk] Introduction

father to two boys, 7 and 4 respectively. Is there a 12-step programme to restore my sanity after such trauma? :-) -- b On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Rajesh Mehar rajeshme...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, My name is Rajesh Mehar, Uday just added me to this list. I'm a parent of a three

Re: [silk] Written vs. spoken version

Is it the same for Arabic and Chinese as it is for Tamil? I'm not sure. I know for Tamil it is a severe paucity of written symbols for the various sounds in the language. So the same symbol is used to represent the sounds cha, sa, sha, and ja in the symbol set of the traditional script. More

Re: [silk] Written vs. spoken version

Thanks for the corrections Charles. Anybody knows enough about Arabic to explain? And maybe Meera can clarify the meaning of her original question?

Re: [silk] Project Tarana

Hi Sandhya, Congratulations on your beautiful journey and Tarana. We're hoping to adopt too, we're waiting for our first (biological) child to get a bit older before embarking upon the journey. All the best.

Re: [silk] E.T go home :)

I'm very interested in your ideas on pop-up dinners! Welcome Charanya. And let me know if y'all are meeting up to discuss food, while eating food.

Re: [silk] E.T go home :)

Hi Rajesh, I am keen on a night out with Korean food. If there are more people interested, we could plan something soon to eat and make merry :) If you haven't yet been, there are two really nice Korean places in Bangalore. One called Arirang in the Kammanahalli area (north Bangalore). And

Re: [silk] Slacktivism

I have no attachment or antagonism towards the Ice Bucket Challenge campaign, but what the viral-ness of the campaign has caused is increased scrutiny, and consequently some interesting revelations. This link below talks of one FB user's research that for every $100 contributed to the cause, only

Re: [silk] To retire or not - that is the Q.

Fifteen more years has also given me some perspective on the importance of doing *work you believe has enduring value*, and of the need for down time to keep work from being the force driving you. @Bruce: This is really interesting stuff for me. Could you write a little bit about how you decided

Re: [silk] USA West Coast restaurant recommendations

(About 3 weeks or so will be spent in NYC, but I'm set there.) Oops. I was eager to give you NYC recommendations, because that's the only American city I've been to. Care to share what your itinerary there is? Do you have some Chinese places in Queen's planned? I know a great one...

Re: [silk] To retire or not - that is the Q.

... several card carrying members of Alcor ... Funny to see Shoba Narayan's I want to die at 75 article and mentions of Alcor in the same thread. So, I guess another question worth asking is what percentage of one's life is one aiming to spend in retirement? With current levels of medical

Re: [silk] USA West Coast restaurant recommendations

Sorry for the slightly spammy advice Madhu: I've recently been reading Michael Pollan's COOKED. In it, he describes this place called The Skylight Inn in Ayden, North Carolina, where they specialize in barbecuing whole hogs: But this a most unusual kitchen, one where the principal cooking

Re: [silk] best indian whisky and rum ?

I would second (or is it third) the Amrut range. They have 3 variants. Amrut Single Malt, Amrut Fusion, and Amrut Peated. I personally like the peated whiskey the best. It has a much more dense and smoky flavor to it. I would rank the Fusion second, followed by the regular variant.

Re: [silk] The least random number

I think I'm one of the most recent joiners. Udhay told me about the list after we met at Kiran's house. Many people have mentioned the legendary threads of yore. Any links to the archives for the n00bs? Happy holidays to y'all! --Rajesh

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2014

My own reading seems to be VERY different from all the others on this thread, but I wanted to mention a few books that have affected me deeply this year: 1) The First 20 Minutes by Gretchen Reynolds. This book brings together all the latest research on fitness, working out, athletic performance,

Re: [silk] So, hi! An introduction

Hi Esther! I suspect I was the newest kid on the block before you arrived. :-) Your work experience sparked a thought in me. I studied (and really enjoyed) programming beginning with GW Basic on a ZX Spectrum and then Quick Basic on a 386 DX2. Then I studied C and C++ in engineering college

Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 62, Issue 13

Wow. Great find! Thanks Dave.

Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 62, Issue 11

Sorry it's taken me this long to set up, but these models suggest a few ways one might attempt to make casual programming more attractive, by relaxing the normal constraints: - give people a surplus of resources, so just about anything they create works[3] (the flower

Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 62, Issue 5

Thanks for these responses Dave. I've been meaning to set aside a few hours one weekend to go through the links and info you provided. Will get back to you when I get around to it!

Re: [silk] So, hi! An introduction

To turn the question around: What are you interested in? What sort of thing do you want to build? Web apps? In-browser games? Robots? Software to model quantum field theoretic models of nucleus formation? Actually Alaric, when I'm not having fantasies about writing my own Android Apps, I

[silk] Is any industry actually profitable?

Hi Silklisters, I was reading this morning about a UN sponsored report that tries to factor in the true costs of industries around the world including environmental costs which, according to the report, are usually externalized to show unrealistic profits. It also says that social costs are not

Re: [silk] Food spoilage question

I don't know if I'm revealing some secret (likely not) but Gautam John likes to leave fish fry out overnight to get a nice souring taste in... Right Gautam?

Re: [silk] The one word that drives our senseless habits

Although, I think queue-cutting is much more a taboo in modern India than saying no. I've seen fistfights break out over queue place holders hired by the well to do in situations where their privilege does not otherwise allow them to cut in. LPG connections, Passport services, and temples come to

Re: [silk] Food spoilage question

There's a Tulu dish called Thawwe. The recipe sounds identical. Is this Daalithoy the same dish but called so in Konkani?

Re: [silk] Does The Landline Telephone Need An Heir In The Modern Age?

Isn't Skype already doing exactly this in countless Indian families? Other than the sentimental philosophising, I actually can't see the value add from this new product. Sometimes the 'Indian' sharing mentality anyway stretches the use of products like Skype and WhatsApp. E.g. I've seen 5

Re: [silk] Indo-Mexican fusion restaurants and recipes

I've eaten at Chinita several times. The lady who designed the restaurant, and runs it along with her husband and brother in law, is of Chinese ethnicity but lived in the US mostly. So, I guess it's reasonable to expect a certain degree of 'fusion-y-ness' in the food. Having said that, at

Re: [silk] To retire or not - that is the Q.

Hey again Bruce! Thanks for reviving this thread. I've had a similarly non-linear career path up until now. I was a full time theater artist and then a full time musician; both these sucked up all my time but gave back very little money. Then I worked in online-learning and then did a stint in FM

Re: [silk] What's your take on this? 1984 happening soon?

"Until now, there hasn't been an easy way to track activity on one and tie it to another." I think this is happening anyway, my phone is inextricably linked to my laptop through Google. Android device, chrome browser, and Google apps that build up my data base work together to do exactly this

Re: [silk] Bangalore meet in September

>> Arbor Brewing Company on Magrath road at >> 6:30pm?​ >> > I shall drop in, albeit a little later. How late is everyone planning to stay? I may be able to make it around 9 PM. >

Re: [silk] Beer and bites this Friday in Bombay

Happy birthday Mahesh! Congratulations on 50. With the aid of scientific advances and good sense, here's to another 75 maybe? On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 at 12:27 Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: > Dear Mahesh, > > I will drop in for a while. It's been a long while since we last met. >

Re: [silk] Renaming Aurangzeb Road

There is an apocryphal story about a Hamilton Bridge in Chennai (used to be Madras when this story happened) that was pronounced variously by non-English-speakers as Amton bridge, Umton bridge, etc. One year, there was a huge drive to have bilingual signs in English and Tamil. The bridge sported

Re: [silk] Puns in other languages

In Kannada (and many South Indian languages), there are two possible pronunciations of the sound corresponding to the English letter L. Wikipedia says these are called Retroflex Lateral Approximant and Retroflex Lateral Flap. Usually, while transliterating Kannada, they're written as l (as in

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

I've enjoyed reading: Deep Green Resistance by Authors: Aric McBay, Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Seasons of Trouble by Rohini Mohan (winner of the Shakti Bhat first book prize) On Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 08:43 Radhika, Y. wrote: > Children of Air India by Reneé Saklikar

Re: [silk] Bangalore

I would like to make it, but things are a bit unpredictable right now. I'll keep a track of the venue and time and land up unannounced if that's ok. > > >

Re: [silk] Danese in Bangalore...time for a Meetup?

10 min away. Which table are you at Danese? On Fri, Mar 4, 2016, 18:45 Danese Cooper wrote: > How can I be the first one here??? > > > On Mar 2, 2016, at 2:19 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > > > Arbor Brewing Company on Magrath road. > > > > -- > > ((Udhay

Re: [silk] Danese in Bangalore...time for a Meetup?

Don't think Windsor Pub is open before 7 PM on weekdays. I even saw it closed at 6:30 PM last Sunday. Worth calling and checking. > >

Re: [silk] What happens to pilots of planes that are hijacked?

troduction-Psychotherapy/dp/1855759659 > > --srs > > > On 01-Apr-2016, at 12:09 PM, Rajesh Mehar <rajeshme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello Silkies, > > > > This question popped up in my head this morning and St Google didn't > > provide any good ans

[silk] What happens to pilots of planes that are hijacked?

Hello Silkies, This question popped up in my head this morning and St Google didn't provide any good answers. I know that in some cases, the pilot is killed during the events of a plane hijack and so this question is moot. But I'm sure that in many hijacking cases, the pilot survives and must

Re: [silk] sanitary napkins in brown paper bag ...

Have you tried buying beef yet? :-) - the guy will either wrap it in > > a > > > newspaper or a brown paper bag before putting it inside a plastic bag > > (not > > > done for anything else) >

Re: [silk] Hello (intro)

Hey! You know me from before anyway. Welcome! I'm quite new here myself. On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 at 14:48 Madhu Menon wrote: > On 3 August 2016 at 13:49, Venkatesh H R wrote: > > smattering of Tamil and Hindi. Was anchor at CNN-IBN for 9 years. Numbed >

Re: [silk] Tom Athanasiou's TedX talk on the climate crisis

ave time to look at them > closely and respond until next week. > > Perhaps I’ll ask Tom A. to weigh in also. > > Clearly we’re facing a very complicated situation. > > jrs > > > > > On Aug 3, 2016, at 2:11 AM, Rajesh Mehar <rajeshme...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: [silk] Maacher Jhol

Koorka is called kurrukkankizhangu in Tamizh. I think this is also what's called Arbi in Hindi. Right? Seems to be a pan-Indian tuber? May have been the precursor to the potato. Would be good to know if someone has already explored this idea... > >

Re: [silk] In praise of slowness

>>2. Studied piano. Played 3 piano concerts (as part of a group of pianists) at St. Andrews Auditorium in Mumbai (with a proper audience, before you ask). Also played a father-son concert with my older son. 3. Learnt how to read and write music. Used that to transcribe specific songs that I've

Re: [silk] In praise of slowness

I slowed down on 31 March 2011. I used to work for an FM Radio station in Mumbai (having been transfered there from the Bangalore station) and I had swiftly moved up the organizational hierarchy from being an on-air presenter (or RJ) to being creative supervisor, assistant program director to

Re: [silk] To retire or not - that is the Q.

>> 2) Hired a* professional "family office" investment consultant* to invest >> and maintain this corpus. I enjoy the financial planning aspect of wealth >> management, but my weakness is I hate paperwork - and this from a person >> whose career was built on documentation! So for my own sanity, I

Re: [silk] ... Chennai, Silk, Satin, Top Posting

In fact it's pretty much impossible to bottom post. Both on my phone and laptop browser screen everything (including quoted text and response) gets formatted as quoted text. It's really painful. On Tue, Nov 8, 2016, 20:21 Shrabonti Bagchi wrote: > The top and bottom

Re: [silk] Mysore Masala Dosa in Bangalore

Dosa in Bangalore is like Biryani in Hyderabad, it gets way too many hot and heavy opinions. So, careful of online 'foodies' communities. Also, the 'traditional' masala Dosa has been altered to suit modern economics more than anything else. Nowadays there is almost nil Urad dal in most

Re: [silk] An introduction

Welcome Harnidh, I follow you on Twitter. I'm close to 40 and still not much yet. :-) On Fri, Aug 4, 2017, 11:29 Deepa Mohan wrote: > Welcome, Harnidh. > > Are there any young fogies on this list? > > Deepa. >

Re: [silk] Silkmeet on June 29 - bangalore

Who wants to draw a Venn diagram of all of this? Heh. On Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 16:33 Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Hopefully next week let me try > > --srs > > > On 19-Jun-2017, at 4:19 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > > > > > I'm mostly arriving on the 29th

Re: [silk] Silkmeet on June 29 - bangalore

I'd like to come too. On Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 07:47 Shyam Sunder wrote: > In. Looking forward to it. > > Warm regards, Shyam > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 18-Jun-2017, at 22:26, Suresh Ramasubramanian > wrote: > > > > Hi, I'll be in town and

Re: [silk] Hello silklist

Hi Peter, welcome to Silk. Many fellow quiet readers and observers here. Don't worry. But do jump in whenever you feel like it. Everyone gets a long leash on Silk. :-) On Thu, Oct 12, 2017, 16:23 Peter Griffin wrote: > Hi All > > (This feels like the first day of

Re: [silk] The end of the teens

Tentative +1 (attendance will depend on childcare options falling in place for the date of the meetup) On Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 18:26 Venkat wrote: > +1 for 17th. I'm out on 15th and 16th. > > On 23/11/17 4:55 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > +1 > > > > On 23/11/17,

Re: [silk] Which came first? Ctrl+Alt+Del OR Command+Option+Esc

1980 on the Apple III but option dates > to 1986 and the Apple IIgs > > So ctrl alt del is the clear winner here > > --srs > > > On 29-Nov-2017, at 10:24 AM, Rajesh Mehar <rajeshme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm wondering if the Apple Command+Option+Escap

[silk] Which came first? Ctrl+Alt+Del OR Command+Option+Esc

I'm wondering if the Apple Command+Option+Escape key combination came to be later than the equivalent Windows Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination or if they were introduced around the same time. Does anyone here know?

Re: [silk] Reintroducing myself

Hi again Nadika, Look forward to reading your thoughts here too. :-) > >

[silk] Bangalore Help Needed

Hi Silklisters, I need some urgent help in Bangalore. An advocate friend of mine needs to move out of her current office and is looking for a new office. But it's not just a simple real estate search, because... Her practice has a high pro bono component and clients need her office to be close

Re: [silk] Bangalore Help Needed

te out of WeWork in Bangalore and they’ve > gotten a pretty decent deal. I don’t know if that is personal contacts / > favours or if they will do this for more people. Might be worth exploring? > > -Gaurav > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Rajesh Mehar <rajeshme...

Re: [silk] The end of the teens

I propose a "the one thing that I have learnt/become better at/thought newly about because of Silk list thread." Or the one memory from being on Silk list thread. Nothing synchronous can be planned due to varying timezones right? On Fri, Nov 17, 2017, 12:49 Landon Hurley

Re: [silk] Reintroducing myself

> Out of curiosity: What is the difference > between active and passive lurking? In my mind, active lurking is reading the post and enjoying the discussion but consciously (for whatever motive) not responding. And passive lurking is mostly not reading the post and discussions but not LEAVING

Re: [silk] Ashim - An Introduction

I loved pickle jar. Why didn't it work out? On Sun, Nov 5, 2017, 11:54 Ashim D'Silva wrote: > we > also tried running a photo site for a while that we’d love to get going > again: http://picklejar.in > > >

Re: [silk] Ashim - An Introduction

Oh n... It was a super idea. On Tue, Nov 7, 2017, 14:32 Ashim D'Silva wrote: > > Rajesh, it got hard to source diverse enough photographs that were useful > stock I think. So we ran out of material. > >

[silk] Happy Founder's Day

It's Udhay's birthday today! Happy birthday Udhay. I think this is an appropriate forum to demand a Speech! Speech! Speech! Tell us three interesting things you're thinking about today.

Re: [silk] Mental Illness, Relationships, and Awareness

Hi Vani, I haven't had to deal with mental illness in myself or in my immediate family. But I have seen several people discussing mental health and getting support from each other online. E.g. On Twitter, there is a handle @therestlessquil operated by a woman who regularly discusses mental