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What free Windows malware detectors/removers should I put on a CD or USB stick?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 3:15 PM on July 9, 2008
(6 comments)
In a SQL query that returns totals by date, how to interpolate dates where there are no results?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 2:42 AM on April 20, 2008
(7 comments)
In
On Drink and
Everyday Drinking Kingsley Amis lauds two American researchers who allegedly concluded that without alcohol, Western civilisation would have collapsed in 1912. They are briefly named as Hoyt and Roths in the first book. I cannot find anything further online about these marvellous people, and the books in question are lightweight potboilers with no references.
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 7:55 PM on March 17, 2008
(2 comments)
How dodgy is this third-party supplier's SEO practice? And if it is dodgy, how do we tell our customer?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 1:13 AM on February 7, 2008
(14 comments)
When I view my "My Comments" page, everything after
this comment is small. There seems to be no closing tag. The original post page is fine. Is there some auto-closing mechanism that needs to be implemented in the new My Comments page?
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 5:51 PM on May 18, 2007
(6 comments)
"I am in therapy, and my therapist has agreed with me that Ask MeFi has resulted in some really intelligent and meaningful answers before."
Nice feedback for AskMe.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 7:47 PM on March 20, 2007
(30 comments)
In Melbourne this weekend with my almost 12 year old daughter, staying in Carlton. What things are fun and don't require a car?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 9:52 PM on March 7, 2007
(14 comments)
Fibromyalgia specialists in the Colorado area?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 7:18 PM on November 29, 2006
(4 comments)
I note with happiness that ikkyu2 has quietly returned to AskMe, dispensing the good oil as he goes. Since he doesn't have an email in profile: welcome back.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 8:50 PM on October 25, 2006
(23 comments)
Auckland meetup, bbq edition? This weekend?
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 12:58 AM on October 9, 2006
(10 comments)
What are the most useful and effective things a person can do to assist elephant conservation?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 12:04 PM on October 8, 2006
(18 comments)
Our feisty little cat has snapped a canine. What should we do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 2:03 PM on August 26, 2006
(14 comments)
My daughter wants to decorate a sphere in a football pattern. How do we determine the correct side length for the pentagons and hexagons, given a sphere of diameter n?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 6:57 PM on June 9, 2006
(11 comments)
If I were to stop drinking, what would happen physically, and when would I notice?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 8:20 PM on March 16, 2006
(18 comments)
What American books provide the best introduction to personal investment?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 8:06 PM on February 14, 2006
(9 comments)
Teju Cole
is a Nigerian who is returning home after years in the US. His writing is some of the best online prose I have ever read. Good photographs too.
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 6:13 PM on January 8, 2006
(12 comments)
Tourism with children in New York - where shall I take my 10 year old daughter?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 6:23 PM on December 1, 2005
(28 comments)
Your experiences with amplifiers for electric violin performance, please.
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 8:19 PM on October 3, 2005
(11 comments)
Stepmothers in Grimm's fairy tales. Some claim that the Grimms altered mothers to step mothers lest the bourgeois reader be shocked.
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 1:12 AM on July 16, 2005
(14 comments)
My US-resident sister will be moving to Hewlett, NY in August this year. I am planning a trip from New Zealand to see her, and I need some advice.
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 1:21 AM on May 26, 2005
(5 comments)
I dissected my old VISA card. Underneath the hologram is a 4x4 matrix of rectangles. There are numbers or letters in each row, thus: blank, blank, '1', blank; blank, 'A', blank, blank;'C', blank, blank, blank; blank, blank, blank, '4'. Why are they there, and what do they mean?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 1:33 AM on April 6, 2005
(15 comments)
Impulsive skim-reading foodies could be hurt by cooking with tobacco. Could
this question be edited a bit please?
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 12:32 PM on March 26, 2005
(59 comments)
A question from the young 'un I couldn't answer. There are lots of clean crisp flavours out there: why are toothpaste, floss and other dental/oral products stereotypically mint-flavoured, and not, say, clove or cinnamon? Is it simple popularity, or is there a technical reason?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 11:49 PM on March 16, 2005
(24 comments)
Are equilateral triangles also isosceles?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 11:11 AM on March 3, 2005
(25 comments)
Portuguese authors for the learner. I am teaching myself Portuguese and want some enjoyable fiction to read for exercise. Any recommendations for authors with a simple prose style (a la Hemingway or Steinbeck)? Bonus points for Brazilian setting.
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 5:41 PM on January 24, 2005
(14 comments)
I am in New Zealand, and we are on New Zealand Summer Time. UTC + 12 hours does not cut it - I need another hour. We start summer time early here, and finish it late, so this would make for many months of timezone happiness.
Just when you have time, mate.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 1:19 AM on December 28, 2004
(4 comments)
WineFilter. We have acquired some champagne, the real deal. I always thought wine bottles should be laid on their side to keep the cork wet and sealed, but one of these bottles actually says on the label to store upright. What's best for sparkling wine? On its side, or on its end?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 10:18 PM on December 6, 2004
(12 comments)
New post count might have some sort of race condition in AskMe:
"For gamblers, what's the attraction? [more inside]
posted by jonmc at 7:10 PM PST -
1 comments (2 new)"
I think the second comment might have been posted in that split second between querying the total and counting up the new posts.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 7:21 PM on November 15, 2004
(13 comments)
Workplace racism and etiquette advice. MI.
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 10:08 PM on September 6, 2004
(16 comments)
Avocadofilter! My Dad has a very productive tree and gave some to us. I have 8 that are all ripe at once. Sick of guacamole, tried pasta sauce, had them on toast - what else can you do with them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 2:37 PM on September 3, 2004
(29 comments)
EructationFilter! One has often heard tell of people who can burp the entire alphabet. But has anyone got firsthand experience? Because try as we may, my SO and I can't get past "C".
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 5:09 PM on August 6, 2004
(18 comments)
I bought a pizza stone. According to the instructions you are supposed to slide your pizza on to the pre-heated stone. How the hell can you slide a large pizza on to a stone without mushing the damn thing up? And any tips for doing this on a pre-heated stone that do not involve minor burns to the cook?
(Guess what I've got in the oven, answers inside...)
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 11:54 PM on July 3, 2004
(28 comments)
Hunt the quote. For weeks I've been trying to track down a sort of litany about how much better life is in France, "because the wine is cheaper", or something like that. I thought it was Kingsley Amis, but it's not, and Google has let me down. Let loose the literary boozehounds!
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 7:58 PM on May 29, 2004
(3 comments)
Where did this hairless spot on my chin come from?
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 3:09 PM on May 11, 2004
(5 comments)
What is the component in a smoke detector/fire alarm that can produce such a high volume noise from a 9v battery? (more inside)
posted to Ask Metafilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 2:48 PM on April 26, 2004
(9 comments)
Mouseover Madness, Or, The Terrible
Title.
I applaud the use of the title attribute, but
here the text is so long there isn't time to read it before the browser hides it again.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 6:54 PM on April 21, 2003
(24 comments)
Ted's Caving diary
I strongly suggest reading this late at night and alone for full effect. The homebuilt look of the site adds to the frisson. (more inside...)
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 10:16 PM on November 24, 2002
(45 comments)
Omar Zabir's Portal.
It's a DHTML/Javascript tour de force. But is it for real, or a subtle joke? (IE only, I'm afraid, but worth booting Windows for).
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 7:37 PM on November 12, 2002
(41 comments)
