Almost anything choral from anything Final Fantasy is, by default, bombastic.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 6:34 PM on October 15, 2007

Most of the folks guys I know, including my own tattoo artist, didn't necessarily plan on getting a sleeve at all, but became so pleased with the results of prior tattoos that they then went and planned a sleeve around the tattoos already there. In one instance a guy had a sleeve to cover up defects in a pre-existing tattoo. Another got so addicted to the rush of getting a tattoo that a sleeve just kind of sprang forth as a collaboration between himself and his artist.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 6:08 PM on October 15, 2007

"folks guys"??
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 6:08 PM on October 15, 2007

Apropos of nothing really relevant to this question ... at least not yet ... I came across this term: scavenger debt collector. Putting it here for everyone to benefit from.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 5:24 PM on October 15, 2007

This program is now free for up to 500 comics, and is updated weekly.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 7:36 PM on May 2, 2007

Try 1000bulbs.com
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 5:11 PM on November 28, 2006

About 90 minutes out of Vegas is Valley of Fire State Park, and it's quite lovely at sunset. Highly recommended.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 10:00 AM on August 29, 2006

Thanks everyone. Not being one who wears cologne, and not knowing ANYthing about what the ladies wear, your responses were very helpful. I went with socrateaser's suggestion because on the phone they were quite helpful for someone clueless like me. Thanks again! My mom will be happy AND fragrant come Mother's Day (which falls on her birthday this year) :-)
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 9:31 AM on May 3, 2006

I was 45 days out when my Motorola phone, on Verizon's network, completely died. I got no "early" phone, despite asking nicely followed by threats to quit.

However, the sales rep who was so obstinate about "the rules" no longer works for Verizon Wireless. Some justice!
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 7:49 AM on December 21, 2005

I'll second the Belgariad. Yes, a young adulthood fave, but I still love it ("Wolf" in my name is after one of the characters in the Belgariad). The characters are almost immediately affecting, what with their loving banter, and the story does build to an epic conclusion.

Even though it's almost exactly the same story, Edding's second 5-book work in the same world, the Mallorean, is also fun.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 6:36 AM on November 19, 2005

Try Direct VobSub. It came as part of the AutoGK installation I use to make DVD to XviD rips and it works fine for me. Not too sure why you're using real player though. Try Media Player Classic with RealAlternative! ;-)
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 2:46 PM on October 17, 2005 marked best answer

Publication order! It's probably a matter of personal taste, but I found none of the books after Second Foundation to be very good, so if you were me you'd stop then. :-)
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 11:19 AM on October 8, 2005

I have this headset and I love it so much I would marry it. You want to have a headset rather than a microphone for voice chatting, especially if you're a gamer. Also, preferably, a cable connection. Dialup and DSL connections using Skype seem to be ... less than optimal.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 10:25 AM on September 23, 2005

Queen's Reich (or Rike/ryke if you're sensitive) is how my momma taught me to say it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 12:52 PM on September 22, 2005

I'm getting out. Watching/reading ColdChef go from "bring it, bitch" to taking in 20 of his nearest-and-perhaps-not-so-dearest after Katrina, tomorrow morning I'm picking up everything I can from outside and locking it in my house, grabbing the cat and getting out.

As of early afternoon, Home Depot in my area (SW Houston) still had plywood, but you had a 90 minute wait to get it cut, then another 90 minutes to check out. Only place in my area still with... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 4:45 PM on September 21, 2005

My family's always been racist. My beloved great-grandmother got "the vapors"--sometimes to the point of fainting--when going out to eat and being seated close to black diners.

My grandparents' generation wasn't quite so bad, but the only relationships they ever had with non-white people were ones where the non-whites were, essentially, servile.

My mom and my dad freely use racial epithets and actively and overtly... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 9:28 AM on September 21, 2005

This one time, at YMCA camp, we had to swim in the local river and moon the people on shore. The winner was the one who could bob his (this was males only, for some reason. That reason being Central Texas, methinks) buttocks the most times without coming up for air. The losers had to skinny dip the rest of the time.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 4:00 PM on September 7, 2005

captainscared, wikipedia's got some fairly concise information for you regarding the late Roman Republic and the beginnings of the Empire. Check it out.

For longer, but still not-completely-historical-reading, read Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series of books, starting with this one, which begins about 75 years before the events chronicled in HBO's series, and cover the late Republic in marvelous detail, all the way up to Augustus taking power... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 9:49 AM on September 6, 2005

panoptican, I also play Rome: Total War (AWEsome and fun game!) and have used this site in the past for information about ancient Rome's military life. You'll also find information about Rome's opponents there :-)
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 11:57 AM on September 6, 2005

Yeah, I could have done without ... the ... trepanation ... bleah.

I've read nothing (nor seen any visual representation) of Romans smoking anything. I'm pretty sure opium was taken as a syrup, and I believe mushrooms were ingested. Jeez, do people smoke mushrooms now?! bleah²
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 8:22 PM on September 5, 2005

languagehat, I'm actually finding a lot of details to be surprisingly accurate (Cato not wearing a tunic underneath his toga, for example. How many casual viewers will catch that?), so that's why this little bit of speech leaped out at me. I'm also enjoying how colorful the city of Rome is in this series. A feast for the eyes, and I think it's pretty well accepted that in this time period, at least, Rome was not all polished white marble.

That's a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 9:43 AM on September 6, 2005

In case anyone's wondering, Plutarch's Lives is where to cite the tunic-less Cato and look all smart and stuff .
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 9:57 AM on September 6, 2005

You can try Fate out to see if you like dungeon crawlers (and if you do, you gotta get Diablo II). The Fate demo's free (and is WildTangent software really spyware?), and if you like the game, it's 20 bucks well spent.

Even though you may not like empire building/grand strategy games, Rise of Nations manages to take you from Stone Age to "let's nuke everyone else out of existence" in half an hour or less in a way that's totally fun. Conversely, Rome: Total... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 4:30 AM on September 4, 2005

Going off of geoff., I think they should totally, like, speak with bitchin' Valley Girl accents.

Since we've got a Rome thread running ... why were all the ladies' pubic hairs trimmed down to a landing strip? Is that historically accurate, or only in the Julio-Claudian family line? ;-)
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 10:27 PM on September 1, 2005

Sheesh, folks, so much for subtlety; "Julio-Claudian family line" was meant to indicate I was fully aware that the full-frontal female shots we got in the first episode were all of noble (and nubile) women. Sorry, so sorry, for the derail. Sheesh!
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 2:53 PM on September 2, 2005

I sent a registered letter

In some cases, this isn't enough due diligence. ALWAYS send BOTH a copy via return-receipt-requested AND via regular mail. And state that you're doing as such in the letter itself. This avoid's the other party stating "I'm never home when the postman delivers the mail, so I can't sign the card" dodge--which will usually work in the other party's favor if you have a cantankerous judge on the case.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 5:38 PM on August 31, 2005

I've got coke bottle type lenses, even in this day and age, and so prescription sunglasses just look weird. So I have had Transitions lenses--and the same lenses--for more than 10 years, and they work fine for me, and always have, in all kinds of lighting situations. Outdoor-to-indoor is slower than indoor-to-outdoor, but well within my tolerance.

This sounds like a YMMV situation.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 12:44 PM on August 30, 2005

Manatees? Or The Manitou? ;-)
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 11:22 PM on August 24, 2005 marked best answer

I go into the optometrist about every 2 months for a good cleaning (which they'll usually do for free) ... they'll pop the lenses out, clean the frames ultrasonically, etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 2:50 PM on August 13, 2005

In general, seducing guys is very easy.

Satisfy his stomach, and the rest will follow. Seriously, a good meal, good company, and a bottle of good red wine ... the worst he can say is "no" and there's plenty of other guys out there, you know.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 11:00 PM on August 9, 2005

rassum frassum italics tags
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 11:01 PM on August 9, 2005

I'm torn. I'm really afraid that the 360 will be this generation's equivalent of the Dreamcast, and the backwards compatibility of the PS3 will allow me to play PS2 games that I missed by getting an XBox instead (Katamari Damancy!!). Sooooo....

I'll be getting a Revolution, dammit, because, y'know, Mario, Metroid, Zelda. Dammit.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 6:50 PM on August 8, 2005

I have asked the sitter--and unfortunately there's a bit of a language barrier; I can deduce most of her spanish, but I have to usually reply in horrible spanglish or english and sometimes I'm not sure we're making each other fully understood.

However, I DO know that for the first several days I was gone, she exhibited formerly-extinct attention-getting behaviors such as pulling CD's off the computer desk, ties off the rack, and sweaters off the hangers. Once she got... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 9:14 PM on August 1, 2005

Ding ding ding ding. We've got a winner! Took cat back to the vet -- I've never had a cat who's needed me to trim their claws, but Livia's are extraordinarily long and sharp -- and while looking at (and trimming) her claws, he found one of them to be slightly infected at the quick (or where the claw retracts into the skin). A trim, some antibiotics, and she's relatively back to normal! By which I mean she's at least walking on the floor again and has retaken interest in her toys that are... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 9:26 AM on August 4, 2005

My mother owns about 20 properties, some in multi-dwelling complexes, some single houses, and I've been managing/landlording all of them for her for about a year now.

When she came into a bit of money when her granparents died in the mid-80s, she immediately started plugging it into some of the more, um, how shall we say this, depressed areas of Houston, Texas, banking on the fact that there is a definite cycle to property values and what was down back then would slowly... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 11:50 AM on July 27, 2005

...and hop on socks!

I love men, with no qualifiers. Well, some, but they don't have to do with common prejudices. I won't sleep with any man who has more hair products than hair in his bathroom.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 11:44 AM on June 3, 2005

Ella Fitzgerald. If the verbal riffs are what your kid likes, give him the Queen of Scat, man.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 6:41 PM on May 20, 2005

Sorry I meant to link this page about Fitzgerald. Who was the first lady I ever fell in love with.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 6:45 PM on May 20, 2005

Ditto headphones a must. However, other than that caveat, skype is great. Use it for gaming, and the only time I've ever noticed any problems is someone using a mic/speaker combo rather than headphones. Appears to be okay on dialup connections, based on the one person I know who's still on 56K ;-)
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 4:02 PM on May 18, 2005

Y'know, Serta is stamped all over my new memory foam mattress and box-spring set, and it cost about 1/2 what Tempurpedic would have charged me, but darned if Serta doesn't list the thing on their website.

Once you've changed your mattress, encover it with some Egyptian cotton sheets. Mmmmmmmm.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 11:22 PM on May 6, 2005

I'm with fff; one of my best friends had vitiligo hit in our senior year, and alluvasudden BAM there's a streak of white in his dark black hair. It looked cool. Still does.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 5:08 AM on April 30, 2005

I was very daunted by Gibbon, til I actually read him. He's very readable, and often quite amusing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 5:32 PM on February 26, 2005

I like a-spicy-sauce so I add crushed red pepper to my sauce. And I use a lot of garlic and less onion. I also sometimes add freshly grated parmesan cheese to the sauce while simmering.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 4:43 AM on February 24, 2005

And if you don't want to go tomato sauce use 2/3 cup olive oil, freshly squeezed lemon juice (1 or 2 lemons depending on how tart you like things), lots of grated fresh parmesan and some fresh rosemary, salt and (black and/or red) pepper and whirl it all together, then toss w/pasta and top with more cheeze (if you like). Nummy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 10:57 AM on February 24, 2005

people who grew up during the 1920s (when queerness was quite widely accepted)

Really? That sounds kind of interesting, where did you find out about that?

Pre-Freudian views of sexuality? Before everything had to be pigeonholed, labeled, and analyzed? If this were back in the 20s or prior, I truly believe anon. wouldn't have to worry about "advertising" it would just happen. But you wouldn't talk about it. Ever.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 12:43 PM on January 29, 2005

The "c-word" was pronounced "cunt" back in the 80s in the United States.

And then something happened. I don't know what. I think it goes beyond social circle ... the Brits seem to have a particular fondness for the word ... and delves into nationalistic territory.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 9:51 PM on January 17, 2005

If you call a man a dick, a cock or a prick, you're taking away everything that makes him a human being and just turning him into a walking phallus.

But see guys aspire to this.

wtf? twat rhymes with hat (or cat, or prat)

Over in the UK, yes. In the US, I've never heard it pronounced as anything other than something that rhymes with "ought". In fact, I thought the insult... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 6:15 AM on January 18, 2005

is this a case of americans over-correcting for english accents?

No.

Though the image evoked by your last sentence had me over-correcting for coffee splurting out my nose.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 7:14 AM on January 18, 2005

I'll third the motion for Cowboy Bebop. The story rocks, the setting rocks, the characters rock, and the music rocks the hardest of them all.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 9:02 AM on January 17, 2005

Wow, the synchronicity of MeFi continues to amaze me. My kitty coughs--like she's trying to bring up a hairball--whenever she wakes from a deep sleep (not a catnap). It's getting worse, and I called the vet today and they suggested it might be asthma and to bring her in. The info here has me forearmed for possible medications/costs/diagnoses. Thanks!
posted to Ask Metafilter by WolfDaddy at 10:06 AM on January 14, 2005