Re: [Silk] Silver!

[gabin kattukaran via Silklist]

So it looks like we have around 15 people at the meet on Saturday.  Should
be a fun evening. If you’re planning on joining and haven’t responded yet
please let us know here so that we can arrange accordingly.

Thanks,

Gabin

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 18:29 Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan via Silklist <
silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 3:46 PM Udhay Shankar N via Silklist <
> silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:
>
>>
>> OK, after all the back and forth, the plan is that we meet up at Surabhi
>> and Vinit's place. Details"
>>
>> Date: Saturday, Jan 21
>> Time: 7:00pm  to around 9:30pm
>> Venue:  apt #703/704, Garden Apartments, Vittal Mallya Road, Bangalore.
>> (google maps link: https://goo.gl/maps/UngGTM95EpsCLW688 )
>>
>> We will order in some food and split costs. Please bring whatever you
>> want to drink.
>>
>> Show of hands please?
>>
>>
> Showing 3 fingers of a hand, hesitantly.
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Re: [Silk] Silver!

[Ramakrishna Reddy via Silklist]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 7:18 PM gabin kattukaran via Silklist <
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> So it looks like we have around 15 people at the meet on Saturday.  Should
> be a fun evening. If you’re planning on joining and haven’t responded yet
> please let us know here so that we can arrange accordingly.
>
>
I would be in town and would drop by for a few hours.


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[Silk] Hello!

[Jo Pattabiraman via Silklist]

Thank you, Udhay, for adding me to the list. I am honoured!

Hi folks,

my name is Jyotsna, I'm a long-time Bangalorean. Like many of you, I am an
internet veteran - my internship was at IISc ERNET where I helped build a
GUI monitor for the backbone. I feel like I might have crossed paths with
many of you.

Most recently, I was the founder of health food company, Grow Fit. I'm now
a noob investor looking into climate, among other things.

I live near MG Road with my husband and black lab, Rooney. Son has just
left for college, so we are empty-nesters. For hobbies, I am
learning Korean ( really just an excuse to watch a lot of K-dramas), having
mangled many other languages in the past.

Thank you, once more, for including me.

Best,

Jo
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Re: [Silk] Hello!

[Venkatesh Hariharan via Silklist]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 9:25 PM Jo Pattabiraman via Silklist <
silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:

> Thank you, Udhay, for adding me to the list. I am honoured!
>
> Hi folks,
>
> my name is Jyotsna, I'm a long-time Bangalorean. Like many of you, I am an
> internet veteran - my internship was at IISc ERNET where I helped build a
> GUI monitor for the backbone. I feel like I might have crossed paths with
> many of you.
>
> Most recently, I was the founder of health food company, Grow Fit. I'm now
> a noob investor looking into climate, among other things.
>
> I live near MG Road with my husband and black lab, Rooney. Son has just
> left for college, so we are empty-nesters. For hobbies, I am
> learning Korean ( really just an excuse to watch a lot of K-dramas), having
> mangled many other languages in the past.
>
> Thank you, once more, for including me.
>
> Best,
>
> Jo
>
> Your mention of ERNET brings back  memories of gopher, pine and veronica.
Welcome to this group, Jo.

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Re: [Silk] Hello!

[Huda Masood via Silklist]

Welcome Jo! Why does your last name sound so familiar?


On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 16:55, Jo Pattabiraman via Silklist <
silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:

> Thank you, Udhay, for adding me to the list. I am honoured!
>
> Hi folks,
>
> my name is Jyotsna, I'm a long-time Bangalorean. Like many of you, I am an
> internet veteran - my internship was at IISc ERNET where I helped build a
> GUI monitor for the backbone. I feel like I might have crossed paths with
> many of you.
>
> Most recently, I was the founder of health food company, Grow Fit. I'm now
> a noob investor looking into climate, among other things.
>
> I live near MG Road with my husband and black lab, Rooney. Son has just
> left for college, so we are empty-nesters. For hobbies, I am
> learning Korean ( really just an excuse to watch a lot of K-dramas), having
> mangled many other languages in the past.
>
> Thank you, once more, for including me.
>
> Best,
>
> Jo
>
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Re: [Silk] Hello!

[Alaric Snell-Pym via Silklist]

On 19/01/2023 15:09, Jo Pattabiraman via Silklist wrote:

Thank you, Udhay, for adding me to the list. I am honoured!

Hi folks,

my name is Jyotsna, I'm a long-time Bangalorean. Like many of you, I am an
internet veteran - my internship was at IISc ERNET where I helped build a
GUI monitor for the backbone. I feel like I might have crossed paths with
many of you.


Hello!

I suspect this is our first crossing of paths :-)

I live in Gloucester, UK, with wife, two kids, four cats, three 
chickens, and two rabbits. I'm a computer nerd, specifically one who 
specialises in the platforms people build apps on - databases, network 
protocols, operating systems, programming languages, frameworks, that 
sort of thing. Varied career but currently working for the UK Department 
for Education helping them to better integrate data about teachers 
throughout their careers (from considering getting into teaching, 
initial training, actual teaching careers, finding new jobs, further 
training, retirement, being disqualified, all that stuff). A lot 
"softer" than my usual 
deep-in-the-guts-of-a-low-level-software-component work, but I really 
appreciate having a break to do less mentally demanding things and talk 
to actual people from time to time :-)


I have lots of personal projects in software, electronics, and 
engineering, but the current new interesting one is that my family 
recently came into possession of six acres of ancient woodland, so I'm 
learning about how to look after trees.


"Ancient" is such a relative term. In the UK, "Ancient woodland" means 
something oddly specific:


"Ancient woods are areas of woodland that have persisted since 1600 in 
England and Wales, and 1750 in Scotland" - 
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/habitats/ancient-woodland/


That's mainly because that's when decent maps were first made, so we 
don't really have good historical records as to whether a wood existed 
before that or not. But this definition "ancient woodland" is supposed 
to be as good an approximation as we can easily get for "It's been 
woodland since the last ice age so has a rich and complex ecosystem of 
diverse organisms". Woodlands planted in the last few centuries have a 
much small number of species present. Ours has been cut down in areas as 
it was a quarry and industrial site in the distant past (we need to get 
archaeologists in to look at the ruins, which from my research could be 
anywhere from "late Roman occupation" to "early Industrial age") so we 
don't have very many ancient trees, but it looks like the trees regrew 
through natural processes from the surviving trees in other areas, 
retaining the diversity; and the ground-level ecosystem has retained a 
dizzying variety of fungi, and therefore probably insects too.


Until about ten years ago, I lived in a house that was built in the 
1600s, which made anything modern-day Americans call "ancient" seem funny.


And yet I think that most things we'd call "ancient" here in the UK are 
recent developments compared to the history of India!


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Re: [Silk] Hello!

[gabin kattukaran via Silklist]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 21:25 Jo Pattabiraman via Silklist

>
> Hi folks,
>
> my name is Jyotsna, I'm a long-time Bangalorean. Like many of you, I am an
> internet veteran - my internship was at IISc ERNET where I helped build a
> GUI monitor for the backbone. I feel like I might have crossed paths with
> many of you.
>

ERNET does bring back memories. I was at NCST in the mid ‘90s. I had
visited IISc back then as well. Welcome and nice to meet you.

-Gabin

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Re: [Silk] Hello!

[Suresh Ramasubramanian via Silklist]

Welcome.  I did run across more than one ERNET / NIC person over the years 
(Gopi Garge, RS Mani ..) but we haven’t crossed paths yet.  I rather suspect we 
will have several acquaintances in common, especially around netops as you say 
you were involved in that.

regards
--srs

From: Silklist  on 
behalf of Huda Masood via Silklist 
Date: Thursday, 19 January 2023 at 10:17 PM
To: Intelligent conversation 
Cc: Huda Masood 
Subject: Re: [Silk] Hello!

Welcome Jo! Why does your last name sound so familiar?


On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 16:55, Jo Pattabiraman via Silklist 
mailto:silklist@lists.digeratus.in>> wrote:
Thank you, Udhay, for adding me to the list. I am honoured!

Hi folks,

my name is Jyotsna, I'm a long-time Bangalorean. Like many of you, I am an 
internet veteran - my internship was at IISc ERNET where I helped build a GUI 
monitor for the backbone. I feel like I might have crossed paths with many of 
you.

Most recently, I was the founder of health food company, Grow Fit. I'm now a 
noob investor looking into climate, among other things.

I live near MG Road with my husband and black lab, Rooney. Son has just left 
for college, so we are empty-nesters. For hobbies, I am learning Korean ( 
really just an excuse to watch a lot of K-dramas), having mangled many other 
languages in the past.

Thank you, once more, for including me.

Best,

Jo


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Re: [Silk] Hello!

[Jo Pattabiraman via Silklist]

Good morning!

Great to hear from you all on such diverse matters, from ancient woodlands
to netops. Thank you for your warm welcome.

Suresh, while I did intern at ERNET during Gopi’s tenure, that was the
beginning and end of my involvement in netops. I was an engineer for a
while, building things like online wallets and storefronts but that was a
while back. I might put on my engineering hat again! (….but it seems like
work …….)

Huda, I’m so intrigued that you know my last name! After all these years, I
met someone with the same last name only last week, because it’s such a
long-a** name that most people just abbreviate it.

Alaric, what a charming and, dare I say, informative description of
entish-sounding woodlands as well as your own work these days. Thank you
for taking the time to write it.

Gabin and Venkatesh, yes, those were grand old times, we were like the
lumberjacks of the internet. But I must confess I’m an MBA now so I no
longer know anything useful, though I’m hoping to make amends now that I’m
on a kind of sabbatical.

Hoping to see you soon,

Jo


On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 6:30 AM Suresh Ramasubramanian via Silklist <
silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:

> Welcome.  I did run across more than one ERNET / NIC person over the years
> (Gopi Garge, RS Mani ..) but we haven’t crossed paths yet.  I rather
> suspect we will have several acquaintances in common, especially around
> netops as you say you were involved in that.
>
>
>
> regards
>
> --srs
>
>
>
> *From: *Silklist 
> on behalf of Huda Masood via Silklist 
> *Date: *Thursday, 19 January 2023 at 10:17 PM
> *To: *Intelligent conversation 
> *Cc: *Huda Masood 
> *Subject: *Re: [Silk] Hello!
>
>
>
> Welcome Jo! Why does your last name sound so familiar?
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 16:55, Jo Pattabiraman via Silklist <
> silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:
>
> Thank you, Udhay, for adding me to the list. I am honoured!
>
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
>
>
> my name is Jyotsna, I'm a long-time Bangalorean. Like many of you, I am an
> internet veteran - my internship was at IISc ERNET where I helped build a
> GUI monitor for the backbone. I feel like I might have crossed paths with
> many of you.
>
>
>
> Most recently, I was the founder of health food company, Grow Fit. I'm now
> a noob investor looking into climate, among other things.
>
>
>
> I live near MG Road with my husband and black lab, Rooney. Son has just
> left for college, so we are empty-nesters. For hobbies, I am
> learning Korean ( really just an excuse to watch a lot of K-dramas), having
> mangled many other languages in the past.
>
>
>
> Thank you, once more, for including me.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Jo
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Silk] Hello!

[Suresh Ramasubramanian via Silklist]

I do hope you can join the silklist anniversary meet on Saturday, if you’re in 
Bangalore?

Looks like a lot of people will find things to talk about.  Welcome.

From: Jo Pattabiraman 
Date: Friday, 20 January 2023 at 9:06 AM
To: Intelligent conversation 
Cc: Suresh Ramasubramanian 
Subject: Re: [Silk] Hello!
Good morning!

Great to hear from you all on such diverse matters, from ancient woodlands to 
netops. Thank you for your warm welcome.

Suresh, while I did intern at ERNET during Gopi’s tenure, that was the 
beginning and end of my involvement in netops. I was an engineer for a while, 
building things like online wallets and storefronts but that was a while back. 
I might put on my engineering hat again! (….but it seems like work …….)

Huda, I’m so intrigued that you know my last name! After all these years, I met 
someone with the same last name only last week, because it’s such a long-a** 
name that most people just abbreviate it.

Alaric, what a charming and, dare I say, informative description of 
entish-sounding woodlands as well as your own work these days. Thank you for 
taking the time to write it.

Gabin and Venkatesh, yes, those were grand old times, we were like the 
lumberjacks of the internet. But I must confess I’m an MBA now so I no longer 
know anything useful, though I’m hoping to make amends now that I’m on a kind 
of sabbatical.

Hoping to see you soon,

Jo


On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 6:30 AM Suresh Ramasubramanian via Silklist 
mailto:silklist@lists.digeratus.in>> wrote:
Welcome.  I did run across more than one ERNET / NIC person over the years 
(Gopi Garge, RS Mani ..) but we haven’t crossed paths yet.  I rather suspect we 
will have several acquaintances in common, especially around netops as you say 
you were involved in that.

regards
--srs

From: Silklist 
mailto:hserus@lists.digeratus.in>>
 on behalf of Huda Masood via Silklist 
mailto:silklist@lists.digeratus.in>>
Date: Thursday, 19 January 2023 at 10:17 PM
To: Intelligent conversation 
mailto:silklist@lists.digeratus.in>>
Cc: Huda Masood mailto:hudamas...@gmail.com>>
Subject: Re: [Silk] Hello!

Welcome Jo! Why does your last name sound so familiar?


On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 16:55, Jo Pattabiraman via Silklist 
mailto:silklist@lists.digeratus.in>> wrote:
Thank you, Udhay, for adding me to the list. I am honoured!

Hi folks,

my name is Jyotsna, I'm a long-time Bangalorean. Like many of you, I am an 
internet veteran - my internship was at IISc ERNET where I helped build a GUI 
monitor for the backbone. I feel like I might have crossed paths with many of 
you.

Most recently, I was the founder of health food company, Grow Fit. I'm now a 
noob investor looking into climate, among other things.

I live near MG Road with my husband and black lab, Rooney. Son has just left 
for college, so we are empty-nesters. For hobbies, I am learning Korean ( 
really just an excuse to watch a lot of K-dramas), having mangled many other 
languages in the past.

Thank you, once more, for including me.

Best,

Jo


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Re: [Silk] Hello!

[Vinay Rao [Bang*] via Silklist]

> Hi folks,
>>
>> my name is Jyotsna, I'm a long-time Bangalorean. Like many of you, I am
>> an internet veteran - my internship was at IISc ERNET where I helped build
>> a GUI monitor for the backbone. I feel like I might have crossed paths with
>> many of you.
>>
>
> ERNET does bring back memories. I was at NCST in the mid ‘90s. I had
> visited IISc back then as well. Welcome and nice to meet you.
>
> Welcome Jo,
We met years ago, I think.

I was at NCST Bombay too in the mid-90s, as a student balancing a full time
mechanical engineering job, NCST, multiple train commutes and the general
disorientation that hits *some* people when they have to make important
life decisions. I had an email that went 'xrao@...'. Like a "generic" rao,
who/that was easily replaceable.

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