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I need help picking out an inexpensive Mac-based (or web-based!) database to maintain a 2,000-person POSTAL mailing list / membership database for a small academic non-profit.
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at 9:19 AM on July 18, 2008
(8 comments)
When I was a kid living in La Mesa, California, my mother got to poke around in the tailings at local tourmaline and mica mines as part of weekend classes we took at the natural history museum. Are there any kinds of similar gemstone mines anywhere near where I live now - Sacramento, California - that offer similar opportunities?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 8:09 PM on June 30, 2008
(7 comments)
I am 37, 5'9", 185 & just had a minor heart attack. Diagnosis: diffuse coronary disease. I swim several times a week, and eat well. But I have questions about my new diet, the one that will help me lose 30 - 50 lbs in 2 years, as my cardiologist wants.
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at 10:30 AM on May 16, 2008
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Need help finding a good park for a high school reunion family BBQ in the Berkeley/Albany CA area.
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at 9:59 AM on April 23, 2008
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When I build a spot gradient in Indesign or Illustrator I'm not getting exactly what I want. What I want: a very dark blue (say, PMS 2756) to black - with the blue getting darker and darker toward black. What I get on screen and on proof: the blue becoming a lighter gray, then the gray darkening toward black. I assume the solution rests in using a blue > nothing gradient in a layer above a blue > black and messing with overprinting / transparency but I'm unsure how to proceed. Any advice?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 10:00 AM on March 12, 2008
(11 comments)
Can anyone confirm or deny the current existence of that Chinese food stall that used to be parked outside the Downtown Berkeley BART station - it was green and red/pink at one point, earlier than that pink and red - which serves these amazing, incredible dumplings (pork, shrimp or chicken)? Is it still there?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 2:50 PM on February 9, 2008
(12 comments)
I'm looking for search engines & portals on county sherrif, state & federal prison websites that can be used to find mugshots of current prisoners.
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at 1:20 PM on February 1, 2008
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My friend says the fuel injection in my 2002 Jetta wagon (non-diesel) suffers if I let the tank get less than 1/4 full. She also believes that "el cheapo" gasoline, from locally-owned non-chain stations, isn't as good, or is actively bad, for the car. Is there any truth to either of these claims?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 5:54 PM on December 7, 2007
(29 comments)
I hear things that other people don't. Not like voices, but more like a really painful high-pitched whine. So high that I've never heard anything like it. I've wondered for years what it was, and recently heard it at a shoe store and asked the employee - she noticed me flinch - and was told it was their burglar alarm, that the employee didn't hear it but knew that some customers had a problem with it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 3:47 PM on November 13, 2007
(31 comments)
In Mexico, would one use the vernacular term "email" or the direct translation "correo electronico"?
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at 4:44 PM on November 2, 2007
(5 comments)
A caveat: I prefer New Green Bo to all of these. However, with a group of 10 friends from out of town, do you recommend Jing Fong, Golden Unicorn or another one of Manhattan's giant dim sum emporiums? I'm looking for quality and range. I haven't been back in Jing Fong since it was remodeled but I assume it's still pretty nice.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 9:08 AM on October 22, 2007
(12 comments)
United Really Sucks dot com
As I am constantly trying to learn a bit more html and css, I decided to turn a typically ridiculous experience (transferred to a phone sex line? check!) into a website. The template is a stock Typepad template, although I'm slowly making it an "advanced" template and will try to figure out how to make all the typelists appear in that by coding them manually.
posted to Projects by luriete
at 10:31 AM on October 17, 2007
How can I find out the dates of the upcoming 2007 Yuba City Sikh parade/festival? As some of you may know, this is the largest gathering of Sikh people outside of India/Pakistan, and many tens of thousands (sometimes hundreds of thousands) of people come from all over the US to eat the amazing free food, see the floats, and generally have a great time. Non-Sikhs are invited, and I want to go, but can't find the date anywhere.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 10:27 PM on October 6, 2007
(8 comments)
Does anyone know of an online vacation rental (or any kind of partially-shared expense) calculator? For example,
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 1:41 PM on September 28, 2007
(4 comments)
My friends and I are working - and when I say working, I should add that it is with only very vague direction as we are almost all self-taught - on a web project which we think would be very useful to many people. It is in some small respect tangentially similar to Metafilter, but would not compete with it. Are there any out-of-the-box products, commercial or free, that allow a similar question-and-answer (or comment-and-answer) functionality, where anyone can post and/or comment?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 4:56 PM on August 29, 2007
(17 comments)
Can anyone recommend a sturdy armband holder (for working out) for the iPod Nano (current version) that will work with the FM tuner attachment? I've looked at a half dozen on Amazon and it seems like they only have a small headphone out on the bottom, and none will take the larger dock-like block that the FM tuner attaches to.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 3:42 PM on August 9, 2007
(6 comments)
Can you bank sleep? And if not - how much sleep is too much?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 4:34 PM on June 10, 2007
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I got a piece of junk mail from a company called Florida Direct Vacations who said they were going to charge me $140 for some kind of vacation package if I didn't cancel the order by May 22. I think they got my credit card information from Holland America, who I took a cruise with a few years ago; they claim to be some kind of authorized reseller for them, although I've never done business with Florida Direct Vacations before. I called and canceled, and they charged my debit card anyway. I've called and they say they never got my cancellation and, basically, tough luck. What now?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 9:55 AM on May 31, 2007
(17 comments)
I'm going to the Sasquatch festival in George, WA in a coupla weeks. Apparently they no longer have any RV camping spots available, and none of the local campgrounds we've found will take an RV, either ... Any ideas on where we can park our RV legally near there? And any ideas on how we can get to the Gorge from the RV spot, since they say no RV parking is allowed? We are, obviously, RV newbies (it's a rental).
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 11:07 AM on May 14, 2007
(10 comments)
map of Greene & Greene homes
Using the social-mapping tool Platial, I've created this map of all (I think!) currently-existing Greene & Greene homes. There are a few civil structures - walls, bridges, memorials - that I've yet to add, and eventually I'll include a layer for destroyed/demolished structures as well. This map is to accompany my primary hobby, Hewn & Hammered (
http://www.hewnandhammered.com), and I'll eventually make maps showing all structures by Frank Lloyd Wright, Maybeck, Morris and other important architects in the Arts & Crafts movement and its various children.
posted to Projects by luriete
at 10:45 AM on May 7, 2007
In late May, I'll be driving with a bunch of friends in an RV from
Sacramento CA to George WA and back for the Sasquatch Music Festival. I've only driven as far north as the Oregon border before, so I'm looking for recommendations of interesting places to stop - your favorite diners, pie shops, waterfalls, hot springs (improved or not) and other oddities of northwest highway culture. I'm familar with many Northern California hot springs (I really like the one in
Sierraville), and would love to find other very inexpensive and informal places like that.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 2:57 PM on April 25, 2007
(14 comments)
My wife and I are in the process of adopting a child and I have some questions about insurance and leave from work.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 4:02 PM on February 21, 2007
(3 comments)
I use tables in Indesign for lots of layout control purposes - they are fantastic for building very complex grids and forms. I often use them to build graphs as well, even simple bar graphs, but am having a big problem now.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 12:07 PM on February 6, 2007
(9 comments)
Will pearls - regular, black and other types, both freshwater and non - be damaged by freezing for extended periods of time? We're not talking deep-freeze, just the temperature (or range of temperatures) in your average home kitchen freezer.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 2:56 PM on January 18, 2007
(19 comments)
Can anyone recommend easy to install, cross platform monitoring software for Mac OS X - that is, something that would allow a parent, employer or teacher to, from their PC, monitor the screen of a Macintosh? Will remote desktop do this? Is it relatively easy to install?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 12:07 PM on December 28, 2006
(13 comments)
What are the best survivalist's reference books? That is, if the power went out tomorrow for an indefinite period of town, what are the books on first aid, shelter, hunting, farming, nature, tool use & making etc. that you'd want to have and be familiar with?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 9:33 AM on December 7, 2006
(22 comments)
What are the lyrics of the Metric song
Police and the Private about? Drug addiction? Prostitution? Post-9/11 security? I have listened to it 50 times and it's driving me completely nuts; I can't figure it out. The last lines seems to undo the above meanings.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 10:32 PM on November 23, 2006
(2 comments)
headphone choice for non symmetrical hearing: my father is mostly-deaf in one ear. He wears an in-ear hearing aid that works well. He would like to find the following...
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 4:28 PM on October 24, 2006
(4 comments)
I'm trying to make my new web project legal in California. After reading through the Nolo press book(s), we thought that perhaps the LLC was the best corporate structure (we are going to issue stock and give the primary developer a portion in lieu of payment). While the Federal government taxes LLCs like sole proprietorships - you aren't taxed unless you make profit, and I don't see our profit outpacing our costs for a year - the State of California charges an LLC "tax" (really a fee) of $800, due almost immediately after your incorporation paperwork goes through, so...
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 9:55 AM on September 8, 2006
(9 comments)
As an employee of a state legislature, I'd love to post anonymously in
this thread, but I don't know if that is possible.
posted to MetaTalk by luriete
at 1:03 PM on August 9, 2006
(20 comments)
Are Force Fin-brand "
slim fins" just as good for recreational SCUBA diving and snorkeling as the standard "
original/dive" model? I like all the adjustable options of the slim fin, but I am wondering why every vendor - not just the examples on Amazon - show the more customizeably and sturdier looking slim fin as being $10-$20 less expensive than the original/dive model.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 2:26 PM on August 8, 2006
(1 comment)
Harvard students, staff, faculty & visitors: Where's the good lettering? I'm looking for recommendations for the best engraved lettering, printing, calligraphy and other lettering on your campus in preparation for an upcoming visit. The type of stuff I am talking about: like the inscriptions on the Harvard Gates, or the Eric Gill piece downstairs in the memorial chapel. Any suggestions?
For that matter, any typographic or chirographic must-sees in Boston and Cambridge overall?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 9:22 AM on July 26, 2006
(5 comments)
My wife and I are hosting some Korean exchange / homestay students while they study English here. One of the students has a really amazing cell phone - well actually all their phones are pretty slick. Super high res screens, high resolution cameras, slide out keyboards, better battery life, color phasing led-backlit keys, etc. I realize these don't work here because of "something to do with networks," but can anyone tell me WHY? and can these devices be altered to work here? And besides things like Treos and sidekicks and stuff like that, are there cool and relatively inexpensive phones available here? Is there a all-mobile-device weblog like Gizmodo or something that lists them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 10:22 AM on July 18, 2006
(16 comments)
I got an extremely expensive traffic ticket (my first! and $632!) for doing 97 in a 75 on a lonely stretch of road outside of Lovelock, Nevada. I paid the ticket, and asked the court (and the ticketing officer, at that point) about traffic school; they both said that the points wouldn't transfer to California or go on my record, but as far as traffic school to lower insurance went, it was between me and my insurance company, and they'd get in touch with me. However, can't I do something pre-emptively to keep this from going on my insurance record? Or am I screwed? I paid the fine in mid-June, just before it was due (took a little while to save the money); the ticket was issued in mid-May.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 9:31 AM on July 11, 2006
(26 comments)
What US neighborhoods are best known for interesting examples of Craftsman homes? I know about the various bay area neighborhoods - the Maybecks of the Berkeley hills, Westwood Park in SF, etc.; I'm familiar with Pasadena and its Bungalow Heaven, as well as Santa Barbara's many restored bungalows - and I'm familiar with similar neighborhoods here in Sacramento, where I live now. What I'm mainly looking for are out of the way, underrated or less-known neighborhoods with interesting historical and architectural character, specifically expressed in homes built in the Craftsman aesthetic - from the conservative late Victorian through the Prairie and Mission revival.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 2:53 PM on June 7, 2006
(21 comments)
Who is responsible for the wonderful type engraved in stone seen on gated walls around the Harvard campus? I am not talking about architectural lettering, but about the several quotes engraved in slabs of smooth stone and mounted in the walls separating various parts of the campus. The work looks contemporary, or at least very well-cared-for.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 11:21 AM on May 30, 2006
(13 comments)
Made most popular to many Americans as the closing song for the Grand Ole Opry programs, Will The Circle Be Unbroken was written in 1907 by Ada Habershon, an intensely religious young woman and acquaintance of
Dwight Moody and
Ira David Sankey. The music was "composed" by
Charles Gabriel, a popular songwriter and composer of the era who is often solely credited with the song, but while he may have put the notes down on paper, the tune itself already existed as the African-American spiritual Glory Glory / Since I Laid My Burden Down. [lots more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by luriete
at 6:10 PM on May 26, 2006
(18 comments)
can anyone suggest a relatively inexpensive, decent, higher capacity (as opposed to the 5-round magazines that many seem to have) .22 caliber target pistol good for a beginning shooter?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 11:03 PM on April 26, 2006
(9 comments)
Does the US Department of Agriculture prohibit the use of growth hormones on meat raised for consumption? What other chemicals / additives are prohibited?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 11:04 AM on April 18, 2006
(3 comments)
I'm trying to put together a restaurant guide for an academic meeting being held in Los Angeles' Universal City. Aside from the (mediocre) places along the nearby Citywalk, can folks recommend interesting / funky / neat / fancy and other types of worthwhile places to eat within a short taxi ride, drive or public transportation trip (from the Universal City metro station)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 4:30 PM on March 19, 2006
(7 comments)
Hewn and Hammered
Devoted to my favorite subject, Craftsman / Mission / Prairie art, architecture and design. Will implement
redesign soon. Am trying to figure out a better way to integrate the photo hosting, which I've moved to Flickr (having it on Typepad caused me to go over my bandwidth limit every month, and they won't extend it or let me buy more; I guess it wasn't a good idea to start it there, oh well!).
Plus, it's a great way to get nice furniture at a steep discount and lots of free books!
posted to Projects by luriete
at 10:01 PM on March 3, 2006
Can I use litho printing inks - such as Van Son rubber base or Taniguchi oil base - for letterpress printing on my Vandercook proof press?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 4:47 PM on February 17, 2006
(4 comments)
My mother has an Acer LCD (model AL1715) hooked up to her Mac Mini. The warranty expired 3 days ago, and last night it woke up after being asleep for about 45 minutes with a black line across it - the image divided in such a way that the image has rolled - that is, the bottom is at the top and the top at the bottom, split not quite equal halves. Disconnecting and reconnecting don't work, powering off and back on don't work, changing the display mode on the mac doesn't work, and we can't find a reset button. Acer doesn't answer tech support phone calls (endless holds) or emails. Any ideas?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 11:21 AM on February 6, 2006
(6 comments)
Please recommend an interesting hotel or B&B in the Angels Camp / Murphys, California area. Also looking for things to do in the area after exploring Moaning Caverns. Other caves? Hot springs?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 10:00 AM on January 26, 2006
(5 comments)
Am organizing a small & quiet low-key (no strippers) bachelor party for a half dozen guys. We are thinking of Sierraville hot springs, although it's a little newagey/hippie/meditative for us, as we might want to be a bit more social.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 1:45 PM on January 17, 2006
(1 comment)
i just bought a tivoli system (kloss model 2, extra speaker and cd) and have it on the bookshelf but some questions:
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 7:33 PM on January 7, 2006
(10 comments)
I just got a $50,000 home equity loan to remodel our kitchen, but we might not pay the contractor for 3 months. Can I do anything with the money to make a little interest, at least to cover the 5.9% interest, before then? Right now it's in our savings account.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 7:37 PM on December 22, 2005
(7 comments)
Someone posted a thread (I think in the green) wherein makers/sellers of really high-quality / artisan quality mens goods were listed - briefcases, clothes, luggage. i found the pinhole camera dealer listed there, but i would like to find the thread and the other recommendations listed there. Any ideas? I tried all the searches I could for mens, gifts, leather, goods, quality, outfitters, etc., no luck. Hope it's OK to post this here?
posted to MetaTalk by luriete
at 1:02 AM on December 11, 2005
(3 comments)
I was thinking about buying a commercial range for my kitchen - a Vulcan costs half as much as a Wolf and has the same output, same safety rating, same dependability and two folks I know who use them love them. However, many of the sellers will only sell to a commercial entity - not just for tax purposes, although I could understand that, but because they tell me my insurance company won't allow it, that I'll need fireproof floors, and industrial venting etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by luriete
at 11:50 AM on December 7, 2005
(11 comments)
