Welcome to Silk, Charles.
Charles Haynes 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
Kantarjiev for, well, a few decades now. I've worked for Apple, Xerox,
DEC, various startups, and now Google. I cook, I ride a motorcycle, I
play poker, I like photography, I like to eat out. I've been a
I share all five interests. My wife has begun telling me to reduce
eating out, so I have to start making excuses. Of course, she is looking
out for me and my triglycerides, but the food here is so yummy.
Are you bringing your motorcycle to Bangalore? I am not sure it would
stand the test of time, traffic and Bangalore.
I'm currently located in San Francisco, but I'm going to Bangalore for
a year on assignment starting on February 6th, and was hoping to be
able to ask folks here for advice as well as participate in
discussions here.
Silk has a peppering of members from all over. Many of them are from
Bangalore, including your truly. Although I was out of the country for a
decade and returned only a couple of months ago, I offer you my services
as required. ;-)
You will definitely find a lot of suggestions from the group, sometimes
conflicting. We are only human. Or as we Indians like to say "We aar
like that wonly". :-)
PS I've been blogging a little about my experiences so far at
http://edgeplay.blogspot.com/ I'll warn you it's mostly about food so
I read the latest posts on Bangalore, very interesting. Maybe we can
collaborate on reviewing the restaurants in Bangalore.
Venkat
