What about just adding the form to the thank you page? You should have the form data available to you at that point, so you could pre-populate the values.

If you're handy with AJAX (and you'll have to be if you have you have your heart set on "without reloading if possible"), you could strip out all the html from the thanks/error pages except the actual message part. Then have the form make the ajax call and update a (previously empty) div with the returned... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 12:38 PM on July 24, 2008

I'm hoping the person up front has a radar detector.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 9:42 AM on July 23, 2008

My wife breastfed so she took all the feedings, which early on means all the 'wakings', but once the baby's stomach grew a bit my wife and I settled on this algorithm: I'd take all the non-feeding-time wake-ups until midnight and every other one after midnight; she'd take alternate wakings after midnight (and, of course, all the feed time wake-ups). I didn't have to get up until 7am though.

Mostly, like pearlybob said and Ostara, flexibility and the baby is boss. And... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 8:52 AM on July 10, 2008

idest, I wondered about that too. I assumed she wanted to get up to have time to get non-baby stuff done, but, yeah, OP don't get up at 4:30 unless you really have to!
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 8:54 AM on July 10, 2008

What judge.mentok.the.mindtaker said. Remove it from whatever environment made the mold (and never store stuff there again) and let it dry. It'll be fine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 12:14 PM on July 9, 2008

And a vaporizer would even be better.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 12:24 PM on July 9, 2008

I agree somewhat with mkultra. Will be people able to at least choose a new nick if they don't like the one assigned to them?

For the assigned name, what about taking their name and replacing all the vowels with a different randomly chosen one? Love, dunastaperstir
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 8:56 AM on July 3, 2008

Rolling your own takes time and practice. Learn to do it, but try not to get good at it. Maybe wear ill-fitting rubber gloves so it's extra difficult.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 11:52 AM on July 1, 2008

There's numerous patents for timed cigarette dispensers, but I can't find one actually for sale, except this cool-but-way-too-costly one
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 12:09 PM on July 1, 2008

FYI, the work covers my shin/ankle/foot

Pardon me for just skimming, but has anybody mentioned knee-high socks yet?
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 10:42 AM on June 17, 2008

I played Taps as a kid in the 70s in DC suburbs. Also called it 21. Generally, there wouldn't just be two players, though....there was one shooter and all the other kids (2 or 3) would try for taps.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 2:54 PM on May 16, 2008

Thinking back...there was no "three tries to score a basket this way". You could try an tap until the ball hit the ground at which point it became like regular one-on-one(-on-one-etc) basketball. Whoever scored a basket first went to the free throw line. I think it was 3 points for a tap, 2 for one-on-one and 1 for a free throw.

If you were at the line and had 20 points and missed, there was a major penalty...like losing all your points or something.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 3:07 PM on May 16, 2008

Two or three of the smallest pebbles you can find can also function as a screen in a pinch.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 1:00 PM on May 12, 2008

Nthing that setting the attributes in CSS vs. html is likely trivial in terms of speed (probably not even worth profiling) and that you should have a goal of doing both eventually and that you should really physically resize the thumbnails (and, perhaps, that I'd be interested if someone has a definitive answer to the speed question).

Adding that, for future projects at least, I think either or your co-developer need to put in charge enough that one of you can say 'this... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 7:38 AM on May 8, 2008

Assuming your username refers to your breasts, could that be one cause of your awkward running style? If so, could this AskMe about sports bras help?
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 1:13 PM on May 5, 2008

But I think what you actually want is a CMS, even though you say it isn't.

Yeah, that. It seems to me like what you don't want is a whiz-bang CMS with a database backend but, instead, a simple interface to editing static html files using a WYSISYG. That's still a CMS in my book.

In that case, I still think FCKeditor/TinyMCE/etc is what you need. There's 13 pages of various projects that use FCKeditor here, but if you don't... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 7:15 AM on April 30, 2008

If you can point out an open source program that I can study.

phpffl - Though the code is currently being refactored to use CakePHP.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 12:31 PM on April 25, 2008

USE YOUR WORDS

...works on so many levels.

How about a face reading a book and something like "Old School Social App" below?

Or: TAKE IT TO MEMAIL!

Of course, I'd pay good money to see "LONGBOAT" on a mod's t-shirt.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 9:26 AM on April 24, 2008

e.g.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 9:29 AM on April 24, 2008

935px
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 11:13 AM on April 24, 2008

Seconding what pax said...any yoga balancing posture will strengthen your feet. I feel it when doing Warrior 3 especially. Hero Pose is supposed to be especially for stretching the top of the foot and strengthening the sole, but I haven't tried it much. It's demonstrated at about 2:15 of this video .
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 10:21 AM on April 24, 2008

(Regarding the kid, it's possible he or she from a previous relationship and is older than 8. I'm not sure why, but I actually assumed the child was older,... I guess because I find it unlikely and <8 year old would call up Dad at 3am to say Mom is "banging some 22 yr old". I agree the welfare of child is important, but I'm not sure it's part of the question.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 8:21 AM on April 22, 2008

Hobbes mentions the Upward-Facing Dog position, which is often part of Sun Saluatations. To turn the hindu-pushups into more of lower-body workout, practice doing the downdog-plank-chaturanga-updog sequence slowly (spend some time holding in each position) and really concentrate on squeezing your butt as you move from chaturanga to updog. Definitely a glute-toner if you do it right.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 8:51 AM on April 17, 2008

What an odd question. I don't know if Chesterfields qualify as gentlemanly but they are certainly infamous.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 6:55 AM on April 15, 2008

We (wife, 2 boys under 10, myself) did Vegas-Zion-GrandCanyon over the last Christmas holidays and, honestly, Red Rock Canyon was the best time we had. Easy going trails and, I dunno, the "wow" just feels a little closer to you. It was perfect for kids, but it sounds like you're a couple. Red Rock also has a few petroglyphs, which are disappointing in terms of size and clarity but, again, you could go right up to them and touch them. I do think you should give Red Rock a 1/2 day in... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 3:57 PM on April 10, 2008

If you think you are going to see anything in {DeathValley,Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion} in 5 days you are nuts. You will be driving, nonstop.

Also, yes, that.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 3:59 PM on April 10, 2008

If you guys stay together, when you're 52 you'll be banging an 80 year old. Whereas he was banging 24 year old when he was 52. This fact shouldn't have much effect short-term, but be prepared to deal any resentment that you may feel a decade or two from now.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 9:43 AM on March 25, 2008

Who's right?

I'd give the edge to the person who's actually seen the applications.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 4:26 PM on March 24, 2008

But not to the other people who saw the applications and decided that most of the best candidates were women.

Untrue. I would give the same weight as I gave to the professor to the opinions of the other hiring committee members, if we had any indication of how they reached their conclusions regarding who to call back. Of course, in that case, this question would likely answer itself. As it is, all we know of even the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 6:04 AM on March 25, 2008

but what on earth do the two things have to do with one another?

They're cold?
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 11:56 AM on March 17, 2008

Probably depends in part where you're building it, both in terms of latitude and southern exposure.

Make that definitely. Where geographically and environmentally (city/rural/etc).
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 9:35 AM on March 7, 2008

Just a data point:

About 3 years ago, I spent about $100k on a 900 sq ft addition in the Washington DC area made from SIPs. I was my own general contractor, but didn't do much labor myself. No passive solar, but top-of-line windows/doors and a solar hot water system...so maybe not really at all what you're looking for (esp if your building in an area where alternative materials are a good option), but maybe this will help you think of costs you've overlooked. The... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 11:33 AM on March 7, 2008

So just to be clear...You need to accept files via http (using a multi-part webform) and then the webserver needs to FTP the files to a remote (from the webserver's perspective) FTP server. Is that an accurate description of the problem?

Also, the webserver does or does not have php's ftp functions enabled?
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 8:57 AM on March 21, 2005

Has anyone mentioned mosh? I never knew I could like an Eminem ditty.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 12:47 PM on March 18, 2005

How about asking Jon why his parents didn't name him Patrick?

*kisses whinerkid's irish part*
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 7:20 AM on March 17, 2005

Just keep loading the google homepage...I've been seeing "New! Get Gmail - Google's free email service with 1000 MB of space." about every fourth load for a couple days now.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 7:18 AM on March 16, 2005

Here's a (pretty old) article on this topic at phpbuilder.com. Note that in the comments, someone else also recommends httrack.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 8:02 AM on February 24, 2005

One of joys of having children is the ability to say "My son is sick" since you don't have to worry about faking symtoms the next day.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 11:01 AM on February 4, 2005

Isn't "a record of who's viewed the page" kind of a primary requirement that's being ignored in this pile-on? Saying "a log parser is all you need" seems a little obscure.

If it is truly a single page, that you need to protect/record, look at opening a file and recording the $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] value and a timestamp during each visit.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 10:09 AM on January 26, 2005

scody, I can hardly wait for the day when I can dance on John's grave for what he said about Baltimore.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 1:28 PM on January 25, 2005

Shawn + Seen =
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 9:23 AM on January 24, 2005

This is another instance of creeping ... illiteracy.

I don't think it's anything new, scratch. My grandfather's (and subsequently my uncle's and brother's) name was "Orion" pronounced OR-ion, bceause my great-grandmother read it in a book and liked it but had no idea how it was pronounced.

My wife hated the name, until she saw it written... and then she was the most vocal proponent of naming our firstborn... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 11:48 AM on January 24, 2005

depending on some server and browser issues (see link), you could also just put the 'refresh script' at the end of the php file. build all the page output, use flush() to send the output back, and then call the refresh function.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 8:43 AM on January 18, 2005

i wouldn't worry about car theft in crystal city area (assuming you don't drive a mazzaratti or something). garage closing is potential issue but you should be able to find that out easy enough eh?

are you sure the bus won't be running? it's been awhile since i've been on a metrobus, but my experience was they go pretty late. also (hopefully this isn't too obvious) metro has a great trip planner where you can input the time of travel.

welcome... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 1:26 PM on December 10, 2004

Tack on a ?foo=bar here and you get your session killed and your browser redirected to our corporate homepage.

???
if (i have no idea what this is referring to) { should i not consider myself a php programmer? }
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 6:58 AM on December 10, 2004

oohhh....here... meaning his employer's website. (my apologies.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 7:01 AM on December 10, 2004

what's available on the server (php, asp, a database, etc)? which scripts are you looking at?
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 11:51 AM on December 7, 2004

well considering the first google hit for Poll_It is a security bug, it looks like SimplePoll is better choice of the two.

it looks like the main install procedures are 1) creating the database tables and 2) modifying some variables in the config file. is one of these steps in particular where you're having problems, or do you not know where to start?

the simplePoll zip file is here if anybody is looking for it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 12:46 PM on December 7, 2004

you should be able to use the "execute SQL" tool to create the tables. just paste the contents of the sql.txt file into the text area of the tool. (this is assuming your host has already created a database for you.)

i sent you an email with IM info if that would help.
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 1:39 PM on December 7, 2004

plussizebras.org is interesting. they don't sell 'em though as multiple disclaimer attest, but seem related to a somewhat defunct forum dedicated to subject. (via -- nsfw -- lush boobs forum) ok, shutting my male ass up now
posted to Ask Metafilter by danOstuporStar at 10:24 AM on December 2, 2004