jedicus, as has been covered here before, titanium rings are only marginally more difficult to cut off than other rings -- most, if not all, ERs can handle it just fine with the manual rotary cutters that they all have in their equipment lockers.

This can't-be-cut-off thing really has reached Huge Urban Legend status.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 8:34 AM on July 21, 2008

I suspect you are using an IMAP-configured email account, and that you have "show deleted messages" turned on in Mail.app (View menu, "Show Deleted Messages").

If that's true, then before turning that off, though, go to the Mailbox menu and choose "Erase Deleted Messages" -- and the message will go away. That's a good verification that this was the issue.

Again, if that's true, the best way to get Mail.app to adhere... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 12:51 PM on July 13, 2008

I know a few others have said it, but I'll definitely echo the sentiment -- we lurve our Bugaboo Cameleon. We live in very NYC-like environs -- Capitol Hill in DC -- and the sturdiness of the Cameleon can't really be stressed enough; that thing humps up and down curbs, over wildly-uneven brick sidewalks, and through parks like no other stroller I've used. We brought it to NYC with us when we visited three weeks ago, and loved it there as much as we love it here. We quickly gave up our... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 7:21 PM on July 11, 2008

Saying this as the dad of a three-and-a-half month old who is either fed right from the boob or fed pumped milk, I'd go with none-of-the-above (for your offered options); what my wife is currently doing, which is working really well for her, is to breastfeed when she's at home, pump milk at work, and then be really flexible for times when she might be able to get back to the baby to feed her but might also not be able to (i.e., your "might be two hours, might be more" periods in your... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 8:10 PM on July 10, 2008

First and foremost, CONGRATS! New babies are awesome, awesomely scrumptious, and just the bestest. Truly, congrats.

So my wife and I have a three-and-a-half month old at home, and the best thing folks have said here is that the key is to be flexible, since your new baby won't be all that flexible for the first few weeks to months (and maybe even longer!). Each of you has roles that you'll fall into more easily, and each of you will have roles that you'll gladly hand... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 7:52 PM on July 10, 2008

Seconding, thirding, whatever the Japanese flush-cut saw. This is one thing that they're for -- they have flexible blades that will allow you to "offset" them however much you want.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 12:09 PM on June 29, 2008

What you're looking for are called "tremor picture hangers"; I've had bad luck finding them in actual stores, and have bought them from Ace Hardware's outlet when I've needed 'em. (While Washington, DC isn't known for its earthquakes, I just hung a canvas painting over my baby's crib, and figured this was good insurance.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 7:27 PM on June 11, 2008

Lou Adler? I've always thought it was Donald Sutherland, and from the images, I'm not shocked that I made that mistake -- in the hat and with the beard, they look frickin' identical.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 1:19 PM on June 11, 2008

unSane, that makes no sense; if airguitar2 is using Gmail, that blacklist has no effect whatsoever on his/her attempts to send mail unless Gmail itself is on the blacklist. In other words, that blacklist is for IP addresses of machines that are delivering a piece of mail to its final destination, not mail clients accessing webmail services. (And in other other words, when Mac.com uses that blacklist, it's for accepting mail from machines that are delivering it to users... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 7:21 AM on May 13, 2008

Given my experience using the Yahoo UI Library, I'd bet that the Yahoo Rich Text Editor might fit the bill; the YUI stuff is generally identical across browsers (in my experience, again), and even though the RTE is listed as "beta" in their toolkit, I'd give it a shot and see if it works as you want it to.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 11:11 AM on April 15, 2008

Lassie, I'm an ex-trainee of the NYPH pediatrics program, so color this with that grain of salt. That being said, the NICU at the Columbia campus of New York-Presbyterian Hospital -- that's the hospital at 168th St., not the Cornell campus at E 68th Street -- is pretty much unparalleled in NYC. I'm not sure what issues your friends' baby faces, though... they need to be very frank in talking to the pediatrician/neonatologist at St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital to find out if a higher-level NICU... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 10:43 AM on April 8, 2008 marked best answer

And just for reference, the NICU at Columbia has a dedicated website, it'd seem.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 10:51 AM on April 8, 2008

mosk et al, lately I've been filling up before I get down to 1/4, and it hasn't really affected anything; I've been thinking that maybe the stirring-stuff-up theory is correct, so I'll definitely ask my service folks about that. I don't overfill, though, ever -- some time ago, I learned about what moitz mentioned, so I always just let the pump automatically stop filling, and then leave it at that.

I'm not so sure about leaving the gas cap off; on my car, that triggers... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 12:12 PM on March 11, 2008

I assume you're set in your decision to bank the cord blood, sublivious, yes?
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 12:08 PM on March 5, 2008

Yeah, it's FastEthernet -- and if you don't know what you're doing with Cisco routers, you might want to be careful plugging random cables into and out of one. But by all means, learn what you're doing -- Cisco routers (well, ANY access routers, but Ciscos specifically) are awesome and a great way to learn networking!
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 5:40 PM on March 4, 2008

Starsixnine00, certified mail != delivery confirmation, so I'm a little confused. Did you send the returns both as certified mail and with delivery confirmation ("return receipt" in USPS parlance)? If so, you say that you got the delivery confirmation back for the state ones but not the federal ones, but again, the two services aren't necessarily tied together -- certified proves that you mailed a certain article at a given date and time and allows you to use USPS's website to see... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 4:10 PM on February 27, 2008

Interesting, Taken Outtacontext, and that suggests a potential solution. yhbc, I assume that you have the same ActionTech router as TO -- have you tried to plug your computer directly into the router via an ethernet cable, and tested to see if you can get to MeFi? If so, then probably the best solution for you is to do exactly as TO did -- get another inexpensive wifi router that doesn't suck as much ass as the ActionTech one does, plug it into your ActionTech via ethernet, shut off the wifi... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 11:26 AM on February 27, 2008

Yeah, they're clearly putting their own copyright symbol, and claiming copyright, on his photos directly. See this link, which is the American Greetings high-res download of this photo, which is without a doubt this photo of Jon's. I see that they give a cursory attribution at the bottom left, but then claim copyright at the bottom right... makes no sense.

I don't have any legal answers, but this just isn't right -- I'd start by finding a number to their corporate... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 11:18 AM on February 27, 2008

View source shows the DTD to me just fine on any website that's well-behaved enough to HAVE a DTD. DOM interpreters, like Firebug and the slew of others, don't have it -- because as malevolent and misterbrandt say, it's not part of the DOM.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 1:59 PM on February 22, 2008

Yeah, what do you mean by cutoff or truncated? Does the forwarded email literally get cut off right in the middle of a word? When you hit the forward button, do you have any text highlighted (and thus trigger the only-forward-the-selected-text feature of which cmiller speaks)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 1:57 PM on February 22, 2008

I'm confused, though. They handed you a Democratic ballot, you filled it out and dropped it in the box. After that point, how would they have known that that specific ballot in the Democratic primary came from you, a Green party-registered voter? There's nothing on the ballot, I'd assume, that links it to an individual person; that would defeat the whole point of anonymous voting.

I'm not a Californian, so I'm just guessing here, but my guess is that the only way they... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 3:35 PM on February 6, 2008

As others have said above, there are certainly ways to do it -- but I have to tell you that you definitely need to be prepared for a lot more administration effort than you might think. Having worked in, designed, and set up more multi-platform networks than I care to remember, setting up universal authentication is never easy, it's never few-steps-and-you're-done, and it's never even lots-of-steps-and-then-occasional-maintenance. It's always been a process of getting all the rickety pieces of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 7:11 AM on January 11, 2008

I gotta say it's weird that the doc only did a urine test; a blood ß-HCG isn't expensive, and is really the definitive test. I'd say ask to get a blood test done, and let us know!
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 6:04 PM on January 9, 2008

Drgonzo2k2, there is something out of line there -- the 415G in the /Volumes directory. Look there and tell us what you see.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 5:56 PM on January 1, 2008

We've gotten three things from Art.com, all framed, and honestly, we love them. Two prints and a large poster, and everything's perfect. Honestly, the large poster actually came with a slightly wonky cant to the frame, and they replaced it instantly -- shipped a new one out to us within two days, and had us ship the original one back to them in the same box. Went perfectly.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 7:12 PM on December 20, 2007

Yes, my wife and I did this a year or so ago, and it turns out that they'll get mailed just fine; USPS told us that the system would have the record of our purchase, and when the postage got scanned in the post office, the transaction would automatically be completed. Sure enough, our card got charged and everything got where it was going.

Hope it still works that way, and that your packages get where they're supposed to go!
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 7:09 PM on December 20, 2007 marked best answer

You might want to ask the person who prescribed those medicines to you....
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 11:16 AM on December 17, 2007

jjsonp, no offense, but if you're "not interested in that in this question" (discussion of your lack of formal programming instruction, use of OOP and code-reuse, etc.), why did you mention them in your incredibly verbose question lead-in? I'd argue that you ostensibly thought they were relevant to your question... and others seem to agree, remarking that they might be part of the problem.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 1:49 PM on December 9, 2007

Wow, this is weird; I just ordered the Spyder 2 (I got the Spyder 2 Pro, since their "differences between our products" page shows that you need the Pro to do a multi-monitor setup). It's due to get to me next week, and I'll certainly come back and post my experience if you're interested.

(Incidentally, if what I think is right, and the Spyder just generates a display profile for your monitor, how can one version support multiple monitors and another one not?... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 4:38 PM on November 21, 2007

No matter what app you settle on, I would imagine that you would benefit from the Griffin Powermate; it really was built for just this kind of use.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 4:34 PM on November 21, 2007

Nice answer, DevilsAdvocate; there's a nice review that talks about this a bit more, but all that being said, I haven't seen any clinical recommendations at all that advise to give Rhogam to a mother of a fetus with two known Rh-negative parents.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 7:25 AM on November 20, 2007

That’s the one-size-fits-all NHS for you.

Nope, to be clear, I'm a board-certified (pediatric) hematologist in the US, and know the Rh-alloimmunization guidelines pretty well; ACOG's current practice bulletin still doesn't make the recommendation for RhoGAM/WinRho to Rh-negative mothers when the father is "known to be Rh-negative".
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 2:16 PM on November 20, 2007

I doubt I can say anything that hasn't been already said in this thread, but yeah, I'll nth the idea that if the relationship depends on the up-front production of a superbly expensive bauble, then the relationship might not be The Relationship. That's not to say that engagement rings are bad, per se (although some will argue that), just that I can't imagine a healthy relationship that requires them. (Note that if you're counting votes, though, I did... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 6:16 PM on November 19, 2007

Feels like an ISP issue -- something at your ISP is sensing a prolonged connection to a single host and cutting it. It makes sense that BitTorrents work, too, since these tend to be a lot of shorter connections to multiple hosts, and if your ISP kills one of the connections, your BitTorrent client just sets it back up and/or moves on to another computer that's seeding your file.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 11:14 AM on November 9, 2007

You're looking for Proxifier, which is a cross-platform app (there's a native OS X version) that'll let you set granular proxy settings up.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 6:35 PM on October 24, 2007 marked best answer

Jewish, incorporated the glass-stomping ritual into our wedding, and all we (read: my mother-in-law-to-be) did was wrap the glass in a plain table napkin, seam it so that the glass wouldn't fall out at an inopportune time, and stomp away.

And I've never heard anything about there being any proscribed way for the napkin/wrapping to look or not look -- it's not one of those things, like the wedding bands in Jewish weddings, that's supposed to be unadorned or anything. But... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 9:14 AM on October 23, 2007

I generally, if not always, go out of my way to avoid leaving coins for tips, but I have to say that it's never crossed my mind that it's abhorred by waitstaff and bartenders.

But wow, quite unimportant -- you can also tell which people who've worked in the service industry feel that they're above their patrons, and which don't.

I've worked in bars where if you tip in non-quarter pocket change, you'll get it thrown back at you or it... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 1:54 PM on October 18, 2007

Info about Yahoo and what they're calling push IMAP (which isn't): http://blog.dave.cridland.net/?p=32. Executive summary: they're using a proprietary non-P-IMAP, non-Lemonade version of "push IMAP" that hasn't yet been determined. I haven't seen anything more recent that rebuts this...
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 2:58 PM on September 25, 2007 marked best answer

As a physician, I'd be happy to discuss with any of my patients what diagnoses and history I record about them -- because lord knows, mistakes make it into charts here and there -- but I can't imagine a time when I'd remove a properly-made diagnosis or a properly-recorded bit of history from a patient's medical record. For one thing, it's engaging in a flat-out lie, as if I never made the diagnosis or elicited the history; for another, if the patient ever developed a complication related to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 8:59 AM on September 23, 2007

What everyone else said, with the additional observation that while I understand that that letter is geared towards the layman, it's remarkably general to me -- it actually implies that your friend might have developed antibodies to the ABO blood group antigens. As the good Jedi mentioned above, pretty much everyone has antibodies to the ABO blood group (well, everyone who's A has antibodies to B, everyone who's B has antibodies to A, if you're O you have antibodies to both,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 9:58 AM on September 12, 2007

I'm not sure you want to do what you say you want. Understand that if you achieve what you seek -- keeping your DNS servers local to your machine -- then if your workplace has a behind-the-firewall DNS server that serves up names of internal hosts, you won't be able to use that at all. This is pretty common -- and it'll mean that you won't be able to resolve the names of many hosts you probably use regularly when you're connected to your VPN.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 8:01 PM on September 11, 2007

My first response is a question: thinking about it rationally and with a clear head (understandably difficult), what would be a reasonable way for Marriott to make this right? There's no turning back time, there's no getting the shuttles to retrospectively appear, and there's no way to fix the brunch not happening; it's hard, but you need to come up with a reasonable thing that Marriott can provide to you. I'm personally not sure that lifetime stays for free is a reasonable request -- but you... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 9:16 AM on September 8, 2007

Bonus points for anyone who can interpret the above into English.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 5:39 PM on September 7, 2007

Yeah, sorry, but I have to weigh in that this seems just very weird. "Scars" on your liver? "Damage"? As a physician, I have no clue what either of these mean; without knowing more, there's no way anyone can help you. (And what you've described of your past drug use doesn't ring to me as having anything to do with whatever it is you're currently experiencing.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 2:38 PM on September 2, 2007

My bet: your Airport Express is creating a behind-the-device network that has the same exact IP address space as your office's network, and that's causing you the problems you describe. Let's see if I can explain this; skip to the bottom of my answer for how you can probably fix it.

Your FIOS modem gives you a single IP address, an address that's on Verizon's network (so let's say it's address 128.1.1.99 or something like that). When you plug your iBook... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 6:28 PM on August 26, 2007

Oh, and note that if when your Airport Express reboots, you might have to disconnect and reconnect your iBook from it -- since the AE will change addresses, your iBook needs to get a new address from it, and sometimes the only way to make that happen is to have your iBook reconnect to it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 6:31 PM on August 26, 2007

Sorta -- I guess our versions of the Airport admin util are different (mine's the one that came with the new Airport Extreme base stations, but it works fine with the Airport Expresses as well). That setting you describe is the one for how you dole out addresses to all the clients on your network; what you're looking for is the setting for the actual address of your private network. That'll give you the ability to change that 10.0.X.X addressing -- you're looking for the option that'll let you... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 5:00 AM on August 28, 2007

Just to update this thread, both for everyone and for myself: I got a message via one of my Flickr pictures of the door molding in question saying that Mad River Woodworks might make the right molding, and sure enough they do! This place is awesome; I think I'll be doing a lot of business with them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 9:53 AM on August 17, 2007

My MacBook Pro -- 15" -- has had this problem FOUR TIMES now. My screen was replaced twice, then Apple replaced the entire laptop, and now it's happened again and I'm getting the screen replaced sometime this week. Working with our company's on-site AppleCare warranty folks, we think that maybe part of the problem might be that the MacBook Pros have an extreme sensitivity to pressure on the top of the case (the part with the Apple logo), and that maybe the normal wear-and-tear of how I... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 3:58 PM on August 12, 2007

For more info, see:

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and a jillion other places out there.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delfuego at 10:31 AM on August 7, 2007