I thik the "speak now or forever hold your peace" bit refers specifically to people with knowledge that one of the parties is already married and thus not free to marry again, rather than an opinion or evidence that one of them is a "douche".
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 3:55 PM on July 24, 2008

For starters I wouldn't do it in Photoshop/Gimp but in a vector application like Illustrator, Corel Draw or even Freehand. Generate your type, get it onto the angle you want, create the black drop-shadow either with an effect or with the even simpler method of popping a black version of the type behind it and offset by a couple of points, and make a three-point gradient (white, yellow, orange) that you paste into your letters. Voila.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 1:23 PM on July 23, 2008

Around here Cocotte is well thought of, and they don't come from a third world sweatshop either.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 10:48 AM on July 23, 2008

There are products targeted at people who worry about these things.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 8:27 PM on June 24, 2008

The way to go about this is not to find a blog that does it, but make a blog that does it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 8:14 PM on June 18, 2008

According to my sister, who lives there, learn to sing the Wilhelmus and say "Hup Holland Hup" a lot. Also, wear more orange. No amount of orange is too much.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 8:06 PM on June 18, 2008 marked best answer

What about the nameless women who invented agriculture while the men were off hunting, or more likely hanging out in the forest bragging about their exploits and having pissing contests?
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 4:23 AM on June 5, 2008

The site's pretty Web 1.0, but Media Job Search Canada carries listings that might be relevant.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 7:16 PM on May 20, 2008

Chat?
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 3:13 PM on May 16, 2008

When one of my 2 cats died rather suddenly, a friend came by with a large slab of smoked salmon, which may seem like an odd gift but was just perfect. Maybe a bottle of champagne to toast the life of the departed kitty would be just the right thing, too.

I can't recommend pointing them to that Rainbrow Bridge business. If they don't buy that particular view of the afterlife it's not going to help.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 11:24 AM on April 26, 2008

La petite vie
Les Bougon
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 8:39 AM on April 26, 2008 marked best answer

It's Rue Ste-Catherine. No S at the end.

The Jazz Festival will be on in Montreal – it's on from June 26 till July 6 this year. Lots of free outdoor shows, as usual.

Saturday, June 28 there will be Italian fireworks at La Ronde and visible from various other locations around the waterfront, part of the annual fireworks festival.

The Grand Prix will be over, and the comedy fest doesn't take place till mid-July.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 8:10 PM on April 25, 2008

Bribe him with ice cream, and if that doesn't work, you'll have to resort to medication.

In other words, if DQ doesn't work, it's off to the DR.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 11:11 AM on April 20, 2008

Not everyone has mass storage space for industrial quantities of t.p. and soap, though.

To me the added expense notch for many of these things has to do with how they smell. Or, more to the point, how the classier ones don't smell while the cheap ones do.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 9:19 PM on April 13, 2008

I've no idea how good an internet connection you'll have in Burkina Faso, but while you're brushing up, Quebec's Grand dictionnaire terminologique might be very handy. I've mostly used it for computer-related terms, but it's got lots of science and technical terminology in it too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 1:10 PM on April 12, 2008

I was on a trip with a friend who got frustrated because my photos were good and his were crap. He asked me why this was.

I pointed out something that is so obvious that people forget it. A photo is nothing but a rectangular image framed a certain way. Nothing else gets in there. You have to put in what you intend to put in, leave out what you intend to leave out, and remember that nothing else - not the smell of flowers or the chirping of birds, or your sadness or your... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 6:17 PM on April 7, 2008

Still Life by Noël Coward, the play from which the film Brief Encounter was made. One set: a railway café.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 4:37 PM on April 2, 2008

Barbara Milner is still doing neuroscience at the Montreal Neuro at age 89.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 6:09 PM on March 31, 2008

I always put sushi cravings down to needing a protein surge.

Well, it's either that or you've got a serious wasabi deficiency...
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 5:02 PM on March 30, 2008

Coming from a graphic design background, I just want to note that although you may be keen to learn new software, often it's a very big messy deal to change a basic package in which a lot of a shop's work has been done: people have to be retrained, archives become worthless, tried and true methods are swept away, and many things have to be reinvented from scratch. So it's not necessarily a stupid or retrograde choice on your employer's part, and I can guarantee you this is not the last time you... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 4:55 PM on March 30, 2008

Font Bureau Sloop.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 5:49 PM on March 28, 2008 marked best answer

I'm pretty sure I spoke English with Safwan when I got inked at Imago.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 5:29 PM on March 26, 2008

Jamais vu is different – it refers to a sudden spooky feeling that you've never seen a familiar setting before. Exactly the opposite of déjà vu.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 6:19 AM on March 20, 2008

Party of One: A Loner's Manifesto might appeal to you.

Also Starting Out in the Afternoon

Also look up Susanna Moodie's writings on Gutenberg: her Roughing It In The Bush is a Canadian classic, and she wrote a few others on similar topics.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 11:11 AM on March 16, 2008

Should've linked: Susanna Moodie.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 11:12 AM on March 16, 2008

Oh yes – and Ani Tenzin Palmo is interesting: she's an Englishwoman who spent years in a cave in the Himalayas doing a strict Buddhist retreat. She writes about it in Reflections on a Mountain Lake. She was also written about in Cave in the Snowby Vicki Mackenzie, but I found that book kind of flimsy with a tendency to try to be sensationalistic.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 11:18 AM on March 16, 2008

The Fulani, I think. The Boy Georges of the Sahara.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 3:38 PM on March 9, 2008

It goes through the Adirondacks. If you like camping you could plan a night in the mountains.

Unless you're interested in camping in three feet of snow, I don't think this is the best time for that.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 7:43 PM on March 8, 2008

That logotype takes Pump Triline and links it together.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 7:41 PM on March 8, 2008 marked best answer

President Gas, by the Psychedelic Furs
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 5:25 PM on March 6, 2008

I like "Greetings" too, although I've been told it sounds a bit like an alien visitor speaking.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 1:49 PM on March 3, 2008

Metropolitan Nightmare by Stephen Vincent Benet. You can Google it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 9:45 AM on March 1, 2008 marked best answer

Just wanted to note that it is a long time since UK citizenship automatically conferred Canadian citizenship. The countries are quite distinct.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 11:48 AM on February 29, 2008

Do your designer a favour and don't dictate minutiae like font choice. But what most of us like to see is examples of visual material you admire. Needn't be other menus, could be ads clipped out of magazines or bits of packaging or anything else along those lines. This gives us a shortcut to understanding your aesthetic, and we understand you're not asking us to copy your samples, but that they're there as a talking point and to give us a general sense of the kind of thing you have in mind.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 7:15 PM on February 28, 2008

I have exactly the same arrangement. You can't just "learn" to play ping-pong, it's like telling someone with profound colour blindness to learn to paint. It's hard for someone without such a (relatively minor) deficit to imagine what it's like. Generally, you wouldn't know I have a problem, but then when I poured wine all over the place trying to refill your glass across the table, or you tossed something to me and it went past me and hit the wall, you might wonder.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 12:24 PM on February 24, 2008

All fiction? My favourites when I was a kid were the How and Why Wonder Book of Our Earth, Dinosaurs, Primitive Mammals and a selection of books on bugs, birds, and so forth. There must be good dinosaur books available now for kids, I suggest looking into that, and maybe some other good nature guides with good illustrations and simple but not condescending copy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 3:17 PM on February 18, 2008

Montreal has none. There are a few spots that have poor, post-WWII housing thrown together in a hurry for returning soldiers, now inhabited by recent immigrant families, where an affluent white person might feel out of place, but crime here tends to be between and among gang members, not foisted on random members of the public.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 8:09 AM on February 15, 2008

It could be conspiracy. But it could simply be that Bush is not funny.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 9:10 PM on February 14, 2008

In spirituality and meditation there's very little new under the sun: most of the basics were invented in India several thousand years ago. Start by reading some of the classic texts and see what's already known and how the ideas have been presented.

You have to also have to learn and practise first. If someone is trying to capitalize on a special spiritual insight, people will want to know who his teachers were, where he got the ideas, and how long he's been practising... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 3:25 PM on February 14, 2008

My blog has a favicon that comes up in the title bar, but it doesn't appear on the feed in Bloglines (where some feeds have favicons and some do not).
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 12:56 PM on February 13, 2008

tra la. Thanks all, I will go forth and tinker.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 5:03 PM on February 13, 2008

If the cholesterol connection were at all serious, we'd see studies connecting coffee with cardiac and circulatory problems, but I haven't seen anything persuasive on that account. Drink your coffee. Enjoy your life.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 12:28 PM on February 13, 2008

It should be "J'ai des papillons noirs tous les jours" – the adjective noirs has to agree with the plural noun papillons.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 6:11 PM on February 12, 2008

Reining in, as horses. Not reigning, as kings.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 7:17 PM on February 11, 2008

I'm a solitary person. Even adults mostly don't deal well with being told "I need to be alone now for awhile, it's nothing personal" but you really can't pull that on a kid. The fact that I never felt much maternal impulse (baby dolls were never my scene), that I think the planet's already well enough populated and that my genes are nothing special were entirely secondary. Maybe some people want kids so they won't be alone – that exactly describes my reason for... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 9:39 AM on February 10, 2008

Just thought I'd mention that Montreal has had way more than usual snow this year, although temps have been average. A walk on Mount Royal is still possible, but expect to be outnumbered by cross-country skiers and snowshoers and not to go off a few well-trodden paths, or you'll be up to your necks in it.

Getting here: there's actually nothing wrong with the bus. I'm a Montrealer and have travelled down into New England and as far as New York City by bus, and it's always... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 7:09 AM on February 7, 2008

There's also a major show on Cuban art at the Museum of Fine Arts – an opportunity to see some work that's unlikely to tour the U.S.

Depending when you're here, you also might want to consider the Montreal High Lights festival at the end of the month, which includes the all-night Nuit Blanche extravaganza.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 7:42 AM on February 7, 2008

Depending where you're staying in Montreal, having a car with you can be a nuisance. You don't need to drive to see Old Montreal or get around downtown, and parking can be like this when we get a snowstorm. And parking signs can look like this...
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 9:21 AM on February 7, 2008

or this... or this.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 9:24 AM on February 7, 2008

at which time Nigeria was still a British colony, I should have written.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zadcat at 7:30 PM on January 27, 2008