From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4449 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2006 18:17:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 4442 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Apr 2006 18:17:56 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ACCESS1.CIMS.NYU.EDU (HELO access1.cims.nyu.edu) (128.122.81.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:17:55 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3IIHriE005215 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:17:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:17:00 -0000 From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: RE: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup In-Reply-To: <002401c66312$6135e140$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Message-ID: References: <002401c66312$6135e140$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00052.txt.bz2 On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > On 18 April 2006 18:11, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Natalia M. Belfiore wrote: > > > >> [snip] > >> Tasha > > > > Well, actually, what he wrote is unimportant. What is interesting (and > > really unsettling to anyone who grew up in Russia) is that Natalia (or > > Natasha) is a purely female name (c.f. "War and Peace"), and this person > > is clearly male. > > > > No point here, just venting... :-) > > Igor > > :) At first I kinda suspected that it was a bloke attempting to > employ the well known > "Pose-as-a-helpless-female-and-flutter-your-virtual-eyelashes" technique > to achieve faster response times from geek-filled mailing lists....... > > Then I found.... > > http://genome-lab.ucdavis.edu/People/TashaBelfiore/default.htm Yes, I've looked at that. Hence my comment about "clearly male". > AAAAUUUUGHGHGHHHH MY EYES ARE BURNING !!! > > http://genome-lab.ucdavis.edu/People/TashaBelfiore/personalinfo.htm > > "I am also called Natasha, it being a common diminutive of Natalia, my > legal name" > > Note the carefully worded phrase "my legal name", plus also the > various cute icons including a kitten and a sheep and someone dancing? > OK, I'm going to take a guess: this can only be explained by GR surgery. I wouldn't put it past the parents to name their male child Natalia... There are some weird name combinations out there. I once heard of a Cuban name Vilare, which stood for "Vive la Revolucion!"... Igor P.S. Ok, who'll be the first to name their child "Hippo"? -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"