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Best Flat White in the City of London? Coffee-lovers, please advise!
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at 6:06 AM on June 24, 2008
(7 comments)
UKFilter (again): What are the advantages of private medical insurance over just relying on NHS? I'm an American moving to London being offered private medical insurance. What are the advantages? Things to look for in a private medical plan? Any guidance/links appreciated.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 10:01 PM on March 23, 2008
(15 comments)
Mobile Broadband in London? I'm moving to Central London and would love any recommendations for mobile broadband access. Who are the providers? What are the best packages?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 12:34 AM on March 16, 2008
(5 comments)
Who is the supposed historian (may be an ex-physicist, think he's Russian) who had demonstrated that human written history is only half as old as we believe it to be? I think the core of his argument was that documents referring to events thousands of years ago, actually referred to events hundreds of years ago, that history was fore-shortened.
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at 1:26 PM on March 7, 2008
(11 comments)
I need a document that is in Gibraltar delivered to me in the US (via express delivery I guess) How do I do this? Is this what courier services do? Can anyone recommend one?
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at 3:18 PM on February 26, 2008
(9 comments)
LondonFilter: Thinking of subletting a place in London for 3-6 months. How would I go about doing this? Is there a good website for sublets (preferably furnished)?
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at 4:47 PM on January 8, 2008
(12 comments)
Mystery surrounding a miracle in Coachella involving a cross which burns bright in a window, even at night?
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at 6:52 PM on December 27, 2007
(10 comments)
For a good reason, I need some program, any program that I can leave unattended and will eat up CPU on a windows xp box. Recommendations?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 2:52 PM on December 20, 2007
(7 comments)
MacFilter: Diagnosing a spinning-beach-ball of Death on a Mac.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 1:57 PM on September 13, 2007
(6 comments)
A recommendation for a place in London to get a hearty American-style breakfast?
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at 4:57 PM on August 18, 2007
(20 comments)
I have a question about the movie Pan's Labyrinth. It involves a crucial plot point and so don't read inside if you haven't seen the movie...Spoilers follow...
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at 3:54 PM on March 17, 2007
(37 comments)
OldMovieFilter: I'm trying to find a movie I saw a while back. It was from either the 1940's or 1950's. It was about three women trying to make it in a new city...
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 12:45 PM on February 9, 2007
(4 comments)
If it costs me, say, 2 cents a minute to call a landline in Europe and, say, 25 cents a minute to call a cell phone in that same city- why isn't there a service (in Europe) that allows me to call a landline which connects my call to a mobile phone (and charges me 5 cents a minute or a monthly charge or whatever) Or, is there?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 4:23 PM on January 19, 2007
(12 comments)
In Enrique Vila-Matas novel
Bartleby & co. everyone seems to be real. He talks about Duchamp, for example, and about
B. Traven, the mysterious author of Treasure of the Sierra Madre. But he also talks about Clément Cadou, a supposed painter who only painted furniture and dubbed them "self-portraits" and whose epitaph was about himself, as a piece of furniture. Is Cadou real?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 8:33 PM on January 2, 2007
(6 comments)
SanFranciscoWiFi: I currently have DSL service with AT&T. It came with a DSL modem/wireless router thingy from 2WIRE. Can I replace the 2Wire? If so, what are my options? Please speak to me as if I were a child because in the area of networking, I am.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 3:06 PM on December 4, 2006
(10 comments)
How can I scan a book that is precious to me? The book is a couple hundred pages and I just want to produce high-quality pdfs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 1:13 PM on October 25, 2006
(9 comments)
Help identifying a specific photographer who photographs libraries? I think she's female and may be German. I do have one of her photos...
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at 4:10 PM on October 16, 2006
(8 comments)
Hieronymous Bosch - Filter: I saw a painting in the Mimara museum in Zagreb which claims to be The Temptation of St. Anthony by Bosch. But...I suspect its a fake...
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 10:07 AM on September 26, 2006
(4 comments)
So the new
Itunes 7 was just released but I am a little wary. Is there anyplace I can go (or keep my eye on) to see what, if any,
restrictions have been introduced by the new Itunes. I am thinking things like Network-sharing (incompatibility with Ourtunes?), Limits on how many times you can burn, etc.? Or will I just have to watch and wait?
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at 11:31 AM on September 12, 2006
(31 comments)
Who are these people and why do they keep calling me? They call from Area code 323 and I've never answered in time. This
Yahoo Answers says they are spammers but nobody claims to have heard what they are selling ot trying to do. Whats going on here?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 2:47 PM on September 1, 2006
(22 comments)
WorldCupFilter: Where can I watch the 7am PDT games in San Francisco?
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at 12:11 PM on June 19, 2006
(8 comments)
Now that San Francisco is getting
city-wide Wi-Fi, I'm starting to look around for something I've always wanted: a portable Internet Radio device. Any recommendations?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 2:29 AM on April 6, 2006
(3 comments)
BugsBunnyFilter: As I recall, a common feature of households seemed to be a box-like sauna where you'd sit inside with your head sticking out. What were these?
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at 5:31 PM on February 19, 2006
(19 comments)
SanFranciscoFilter: I'm an interviewer for my college. I'd like to meet my interviewees downtown but am looking for help on nice, quiet locations. Hotel lobbies, like the Hyatt Regency? Some cafe with quiet, plush seats where we can talk. No bars, as my interviewee will be a high-school senior. Thanks!
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 12:20 PM on February 2, 2006
(13 comments)
How to install Tiger (OSX 10.4) on a Powerbook with a broken DVD drive?
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at 1:21 PM on January 17, 2006
(5 comments)
Multiple day hikes? I'm interested in information on hikes that take place over a series of days. The caveat is that at the end of each day, you arrive in some lodge or other place even though the hike itself is fairly rural.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 12:25 PM on December 3, 2005
(23 comments)
Who decided that the Portuguese explorer named Fernao de Magalhaes was to be known as Ferdinand Magellan?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 9:47 PM on October 31, 2005
(13 comments)
Idle Corporate Question: Has anyone here worked in a Payroll department? I know that one of the great taboos in large corporations is that nobody else knows how much everyone else makes (subordinates excluded.) But, what about a Payroll department. Do they each know how much everyone else in their department makes? Or, is their own information segmented off somehow?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 2:36 PM on October 12, 2005
(14 comments)
Linuxfilter: I have a third-party app which writes occasional messages to its logfile. The problem is I dont know when these messages are logged. There is no timestamp - just the message. Is there any way I could force a timestamp? Maybe some trickery with 'tail-f' and 'date' and pipes into some new pseudo-logfile? Thanks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 7:58 PM on August 30, 2005
(12 comments)
My friend just got a paycheck in the mail. It had obviously been opened and then scotch-taped back up. Also, it arrived a couple days later than she expected it. Inside was the intact paycheck and stub. Problem is the stub also had her full name, SSN #, and of course salary and workplace. Should she be worried? If this was ID theft why would they have taped it back up? I'm curious too about what may have happened here.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 8:28 PM on August 2, 2005
(9 comments)
Why, from a psychological perspective (evolutionary or otherwise) are first impressions of other people so strong and lasting?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 8:46 PM on June 28, 2005
(14 comments)
Maybe this is San Francisco specific but ... can someone explain to me the prevalence of big colored-chalk menus on half the coffeehouse and small crepe places in this city? Are they all owned by the same people or is there some big colored-chalk menu discount place that they all buy from? Thanks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 11:43 PM on June 20, 2005
(18 comments)
ShrinkingWoolSweaterFilter: Ok, so I took a wool sweater, washed it in cold water then let it dry naturally. Result: it shrank! Now, I'm asking something slightly different than what you think I'm asking...
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 8:34 PM on May 24, 2005
(6 comments)
ArtFilter: I am trying to track down an artist I saw at the Tate a few years ago. She (I recall it was a woman; I may be wrong) exhibited photographs side-by-side of young, injured Portuguese bullfighters and nude pregnant women. You think this would be easy to Google..
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 2:57 PM on May 7, 2005
(3 comments)
I use Mail.app on OSX. Is there a way to have a reference/resource link/shortcut to a particular email. Ideally, I'd like to be able to click on that link, have it fire up Mail (if not already up) and pop up the email. Possible?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 6:57 PM on April 24, 2005
(7 comments)
Whats a good, public, lightweight, web-based chat service? Some friends of mine and I will be traveling around Asia, meeting up in different places, then diverging, then meeting up again etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 10:49 AM on March 23, 2005
(13 comments)
How can I send email to myself in the future? Or, more broadly, is there a way to do so reliably?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 11:46 PM on March 6, 2005
(16 comments)
File Hosting question: What is a good Hosting Provider or other online service where I can upload (ftp?) any type of file (digicam movies, legal mp3s, huge zipfiles etc.) for a reasonable price for bandwidth and storage. This is not for a website so hosting tools, domain services etc. are not a concern. Any OS is fine although Linux/Unix would be coolest.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 5:15 PM on February 19, 2005
(17 comments)
ClicheFilter: What's the deal with literary reviews and the phrase "tour de force"? Why do even great writer-reviewers continue to use this worn-out phrase? Is this some sort of big inside joke?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 10:05 PM on December 7, 2004
(17 comments)
Somewhat related to grumblebee's question below but not really: I have an uncanny sense of time. I never wake up to an alarm because I spontaneously wake up a minute or two before it goes off and reach out and shut it off. Also, If asked to guess the time after not having looked at a clock for a day, I am usually within 10 minutes or so. Firstly, what exactly is the "internal clock" and how does it differ among people? Secondly, is my behavior typical or is it at an extreme?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 12:50 PM on November 24, 2004
(18 comments)
How do I load a series of different URLs into different windows/tabs as fast as possible? The reason I ask is that a regular train ride I take stops for about 15 seconds at a station with wireless access. I'd like to load pages which I can then read for the rest of the trip but even opening new windows and launching bookmarks is manual and slow. Any ingenious ideas?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 11:22 AM on November 15, 2004
(11 comments)
A friend with a free Blogger account has asked me to recommend a way to track visits to her site (e.g. hits, views, maybe even geography and IPs.) She'd prefer something invisible (no big tracker badge) and is willing to pay. I don't have any experience with any and Google fails to distinguish anything useful. Suggestions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 2:32 PM on October 10, 2004
(8 comments)
Games for my Powerbook? Having recently switched from PC to Mac, what games would you recommend that I may not have heard of/seen before because they were only available on Mac? Anything from small puzzle games to graphics-intensive stuff is fine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 4:35 PM on September 29, 2004
(24 comments)
Hot tub/Spa question: I know about chlorine and bromide based solutions for keeping a clean hot tub. Is there an alternative that is more natural and relies less on nasty chemicals? One friend has suggested saltwater, but I'm skeptical. Anything else I should be thinking of?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 10:56 PM on September 19, 2004
(7 comments)
Hotel recommendations for Vancouver B.C.? I'll be there a couple days for a wedding. My primary concerns are that it be central and unique/interesting. Any price range is fine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 2:39 PM on August 20, 2004
(17 comments)
I've heard it mentioned, as recently as
this thread that when you learn a foreign language as an adult , you never lose your accent. Kissinger is always brought up as an example. Is this true or is this an urban myth? Also, what if you were brought up bilingual and speak two (or more) languages flawlessly. If you learned a third language, what determines which accent you will have?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 3:18 PM on August 6, 2004
(23 comments)
When I open the doors and windows sometimes these little gnats/flies come in and proceed to fly in small circles in the center of the room. I am sure many of you are familiar with this. What are they? Why are they doing this? (more inside)
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 3:15 PM on May 24, 2004
(14 comments)
I am about to make a big purchase of books at amazon.com. Are there worthy non-profits or charities (a list perhaps?) I could give my commission to?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 8:24 PM on May 15, 2004
(3 comments)
