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Is there an alphabetical list of MeFi usernames anywhere? I have a vague recollection of a username I'm trying to recall and I know what letter it started with, but I'm stuck there. This wouldn't be hard to compile, it would just take a numerical increment and a simple web scraper. Just wondering if anyone's ever done it. Thanks!
posted to MetaTalk by scarabic
at 6:34 PM on January 11, 2008
(55 comments)
Are "expiration" and "sell by" dates intended to communicate how long the product will last - even once opened? Or are they only meaningful in terms of shelf life
before opened? A jar of peanut butter might have an expiration date 2 years off. But that's only if it remains unopened, right? It's not going to last 2 years once exposed to oxygen, etc. Right?
I read these
two pages and am aware that these dates are guidance only, not law, and that they are imprecise, and sometimes refer only to flavor / quality not safety. I'm just trying to understand the opened/unopened thing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 8:08 PM on October 3, 2007
(12 comments)
I have an idea for a web project. It may have some commercial potential eventually but will basically be a night project for me and the other folks involved. Think of how MetaFilter got its start... hand-rolled / bootstrapped, whatever. My question is: how do you agree on who gets what share of any proceeds down the road? In particular, the design work will be heavy up front but tapering off after launch. Is it insulting to offer a designer a 5% share for a few days work? Does everyone brought in need to be made an equal partner? I'm sure the answer to that is no, but I'm not sure what the alternatives are. Paying people cash for work is not an option. There is no cash, and everyone involved is willing to invest some time and wait for results. The only thing is that some of us will be investing more time than others... so what to do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 6:38 PM on September 5, 2007
(7 comments)
I'm a big meat-eater and I respect that choice. But I'd like to see the path to a more vegetarian diet.
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 8:58 PM on July 28, 2007
(20 comments)
We just figured out our house was burgled. One laptop and a necklace or two missing. No one is in the house. We can see where they got in and we've secured it. What should we do now? File a police report? What about the laptop? Any identity theft steps to take? We changed the email passwords and stuff... Other suggestions welcome.
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 9:59 PM on July 16, 2007
(16 comments)
$320 to replace the thermocouple on my classic 1950s-era oven. Too much? Nothing happens when I turn on the gas. I believe the guy when he says it's a bad thermocouple, I just don't know if the price is crazy or not. It's $65 if I send them home without doing anything. Thanks!
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 1:27 PM on May 16, 2007
(13 comments)
bug: can't submit an AskMe question. The final "post" button just reloads the page, like the "preview" button. Firefox 2.0.0.1.
posted to MetaTalk by scarabic
at 5:14 PM on February 9, 2007
(1 comment)
The cats are bein' bad...
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 5:12 PM on February 9, 2007
(18 comments)
Fast User Switching isn't working for me in Windows XP Pro.
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 9:08 AM on December 22, 2006
(10 comments)
Hey Matt, in the gifting spirit, how about a link to the
give-a-mefi-membership gift option somewhere on the Blue? Did the "beta" period work out? If so, don't be shy. It's a great feature. I just used it. But I had to hunt and peck through the MeTa archives to find it :)
posted to MetaTalk by scarabic
at 9:35 PM on November 16, 2006
(8 comments)
Simple html escape characters appear to work in the live preview but don't come through correctly. Is this a bug or intentional?
posted to MetaTalk by scarabic
at 1:07 AM on October 17, 2006
(34 comments)
I have made an offer on a condo and it's been accepted. I'm in the contingency period and now is my chance to investigate/negotiate anything that might be a problem down the road. I'd like general advice on what to watch out for in a condo situation, and have included more specific details and questions inside.
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 8:54 PM on September 26, 2006
(15 comments)
Who from the Bay Area wants to ride with me to Las Vegas for the MeFi/MeCha meetup there?
I'm leaving the morning of Saturday, Sept. 23rd and plan on attending Jonmc's wedding.
Book your own room. I'll be driving back on Sunday, the 24th. If you can share the driving, cool. I'll probably be smoking at the wheel for such an occasion,m FYI. Shotgun is reserved for DaShiv, brundlefly, or caitlinb, whoever responds first :)
posted to MetaTalk by scarabic
at 9:06 PM on September 14, 2006
(24 comments)
Please comment on the wisdom of buying a MacBook Pro PRIMARILY for use as a Windows computer.
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 11:30 AM on July 29, 2006
(26 comments)
I have gotten two tickets now for expired registration tags on my truck. When I got the first ticket, I removed it from the windshield. The next day, there was a new one. I am late with the renewal but it's in the mail). Can I be hit again and again for this? It's $25 every time, and could get expensive. I'm in Berkeley, CA.
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 5:50 PM on July 5, 2006
(14 comments)
I would like to purchase a high-mileage / low-emissions vehicle which I can drive (alone) in the carpool lanes around the Bay Area. Hybrids present one option, though I'd rather be in a diesel VW Golf, running biodiesel. I need help figuring out
the requirements listed here to see if a diesel Golf meets them. And does anyone know if filling it with biodiesel changes anything? What other vehicle options are there?
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 1:35 PM on May 12, 2006
(15 comments)
I need to try to make a business case that my internet company should start publishing RSS feeds. We like traffic, and my claim is that RSS will bring new traffic in. But I don't have a frame of reference for how much. It would be great to know, for example, what percentage of MetaFilter's users click in from an RSS reader. Any data from CNET or any other site, really, would be helpful. How much traffic growth can RSS drive?
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 7:28 PM on April 21, 2006
(13 comments)
Recently I've begun seeing a ltitle dot just to the right of the cursor in the comment submission form (
screenshot). Is this just an artifact of live preview or something? Happens in Firefox on Win.
posted to MetaTalk by scarabic
at 12:00 PM on April 7, 2006
(85 comments)
I'm looking for a venue to hold an event for 50 or fewer people in Las Vegas. It will be a social event, basically people standing, talking, having a few drinks and eating. A sit-down restaurant is not quite it - not social enough. In the past, in other cities, we've rented out upscale beer joints for this event. Can anyone recommend such a place in Vegas? Close to the main strip and Mandalay Bay is preferred.
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 2:29 PM on April 4, 2006
(8 comments)
Google has quietly improved their stock info page.
I'm not a huge fan of posting every new Google feature, but this is by far the best UI for stock price tracking, history, etc I've seen. Think google-maps-good. Until recently they were just linking to a Yahoo! Finance version.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 5:32 PM on March 22, 2006
(24 comments)
Riddle:
What
brings ThePinkSuperhero's foot down, makes me jiggle with excitement, and is right around the corner from mathowie's hotel?
It's a NYC MEFI MEETUP! 6pm on Sunday, 3/26, at
Revival, near Union Square. Be THERE! Or be drunk... uh, ELSEWHERE! yeah...
posted to MetaTalk by scarabic
at 9:22 PM on March 21, 2006
(33 comments)
Noo Yawk Citay! I'm coming for a visit and I'd love to meet some of the NYC crew. I'll be available from Sunday, 3/26, to Weds, 3/29. Anyone want to get together in there somewhere? My calendar is pure vacation in that window and pretty open. I could also use a hotel recommendation... [more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by scarabic
at 4:58 PM on March 14, 2006
(48 comments)
Help me settle a physical sciences argument about boiling water.
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 7:27 PM on March 11, 2006
(22 comments)
Wasn't there a site that existed solely to commemorate members of various online communities who have died?
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 3:18 PM on February 23, 2006
(7 comments)
How evil is this
ad targeting company "
Revenue Science?" Would you want to be on a site that placed one of those cookies? Is it actually the kind of thing that might make ads more interesting? Privacy issues? Any security risks to the average web user? Any similarity or history shared with operations like Gator?
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 12:27 PM on February 8, 2006
(4 comments)
I have a WordPress blog (linked on my profile page if that's helpful). It is set up to notify me when there are comments on postings. I've been getting spam comments and deleting them. They disappear from the post where they appeared. However, they DON'T disappear from the "recent comments" module on my homepage. This module contains a link to the spam URLs they are propagating. I know some SQL but almost no PHP. Is this a common problem? Any suggestions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 5:32 PM on January 28, 2006
(11 comments)
"Title of Post:
(for RSS and page titles)"
That's what it says next to a key field on the MeFi link submission form. But it's a part of posting that seems not to get the same level of craft and care as the link and body. This is a call (from a recent RSS convert) for more attention to making good titles. [more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by scarabic
at 8:33 PM on January 16, 2006
(16 comments)
I'm curiouser and curiouser about this "Rosetta" technology which will bridge the gorge between here and an all-Intel world for Apple. I understand that it is "binary translation" and not exactly "emulation," but I have some follow-ups...
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 3:54 AM on January 15, 2006
(14 comments)
Free Windows chart-making software that works with simple tab-separated data files and beats Excel's charts for options, esthetics, and readability?
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 5:16 PM on December 29, 2005
(7 comments)
Mexico City meetup? I'll be there January 1st-7th. Anyone want to get together?
posted to MetaTalk by scarabic
at 4:13 PM on December 26, 2005
(4 comments)
Install an iPod in a Scion XB
This is a pretty lame project in that it's only relevant to people with the same car as me who want to hook up an iPod to it. But I couldn't find very good resources on the net when I got started, so I kept notes and took pictures along the way and put this together.
posted to Projects by scarabic
at 6:45 PM on December 17, 2005
Are you in your early 40s? Do you resemble the God Apollo yet feel a certain dissastisfaction (like a splinter in your mind) toward photos of yourself? You are not alone:
"I have enclosed below a series of pictures to show how the US government starting around 1994 went back in time with remote sensing and holographic radiation longitudinal emf and sound wave holographic energy beams as shown in the movie time tunnel to place different computer generated holographic archetypes of different Nordic, Celtic, and Aryan faces and other attributes around my body as if I were a microcosm of the center of the universe, Adam, and God, to change the genetic attributes, facial form, eye color, hair color, voice sound, and many other body attributes throughout my life year by year from my birth (1962, Jan 23 Midnight) to the present representing correlation's between the years in my life and the ages of evolution and history from the beginning of time to the present." [
via Waxy]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 5:41 PM on December 1, 2005
(55 comments)
Help me help my grandpa. I need a record player that will spin 33s/45s/78s AND support stacking up a bunch of discs that will then play in succession. He doesn't believe that 78 players are still sold, period. I know that's not true but finding one that will play a stack of discs one at a time is another story. Any help? Something slim and low-profile which I can install into his old stereo console will be helpful. Bonus points for sub-$200.
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 8:13 PM on November 26, 2005
(11 comments)
Small usability suggestion for the "MetaFilter comments by:" page (
example).
When a user has made more than one comment in a thread, there are multiple "jump to the comment in this thread" links you can use to see them all. The weird thing is that they are storted top-to-bottom newest-to-oldest. Can you reverese sort these links, so that clicking the first link takes you to the first comment, and clicking the last link takes you to the last comment? This seems that it would more closely match the structure of the thread it's linking to.
posted to MetaTalk by scarabic
at 10:43 AM on November 21, 2005
(16 comments)
Significance of numbers.
Not to be confused with the concept of "significant figures," this page lists the significance of numbers 0 through 1000.
See! "2 is the only even prime."
Hear! "24 is the largest number divisible by all numbers less than its square root."
Thrill! "3367 is the smallest number which can be written as the difference of 2 cubes in 3 ways." Whoa!
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 2:09 PM on November 11, 2005
(43 comments)
I'd like to find a deluxe banana seat to put on
this bike - so deluxe it'll practically be a motorcyle seat. I'd like a lot of comfortable padding for a nice, easy ride, and a split-level / two-seat configuration, kind of like
the seat on this thing. It will be mounted on the bicycle seat post + sissy bars down to the rear dropouts. I am finding squat on eBay / Froogle. Any help?
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 5:51 PM on November 10, 2005
(7 comments)
On Sunday, 10/16,
CTP and I will be holding our first monthly free bike repair clinic in Berkeley. We're offering free repair, free advice/teaching on anything relating to making your bike work. All Bay Area MeFites are invited to come get a free tune-up, help with repairs, or just hang out. [details inside]
posted to MetaTalk by scarabic
at 3:11 PM on October 12, 2005
(19 comments)
When will new Battlestar Galactica episodes resume? Season 2, episode 10, "Pegasus" was billed as the "summer finale," but I think there's more to come before Season 2 is done. Sci-Fi's website is pretty uninformative about this - though it looks like they'll be airing repeats for the next few weeks at least.
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 7:02 PM on October 1, 2005
(18 comments)
ScoreHer.com
-
Dating advice for men from women. With a name like that how can you not prick up your ears? With promises like: "
I'll post an article in the next few weeks on how to convert a friendship on fourth down and make it to her end zone," how can you not bookmark it? And with features like
Women Only Want Tall Men vs. Men Only Want Big Boobs, a "what she says/what she means"
Chicktionary, and
5 Cardinal Rules for Internet Dating, how can the men and women of MeFi not immediately turn this thread into 101 separate flamewars about romance, love, dating & genitalia? Here's a momentary distraction to divert the guys' attention long enough for the women to take the high ground: on the off-chance that it's not just link spam,
squadmember Jennifer P., 29, is tall, blonde, smart, turned on by guys in briefs, and
looking.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 5:29 PM on September 25, 2005
(51 comments)
The
Logitech Harmony 680 is looking like a good way for me to control my Media Center Edition PC plus projector/audio receiver. However, its specs do not list a USB infrared receiver. It says it's good for controlling MCE PCs, but I can't figure out how it connects. I do not already have a remote hooked up to this MCE PC. Probably a dumb question, but... help!
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 10:51 PM on September 13, 2005
(6 comments)
I'm heading over to Zeitgeist in SF for the Benday
celebration. See you there!
posted to MetaTalk by scarabic
at 6:08 PM on August 18, 2005
(6 comments)
Damn it all to hell, I've gone and "pinked" both pairs of jeans I own by washing them with something red in the same load. Clearly, my innate stupidity is incurable, but is there hope for my pants? I think I'd rather walk into work in my boxers than swish in on twin ringlets of pink fringe.
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 12:17 PM on July 21, 2005
(11 comments)
I have two computers, each with something like 350W power supplies. By keeping them on 24/7, am I consuming the equivalent of seven 100-watt light bulbs around the clock? What can I do (either software or hardware) to make my machines more power-efficient?
Also - while I'm on the subject - does an incandescent bulb consume less when it's on a dimmer and that dimmer is turned down?
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 10:30 AM on July 7, 2005
(18 comments)
