I recently read that U Chicago has produced more Nobel laureates than any other institution if that means anything.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 6:57 AM on July 24, 2008

Stephen King's The Eyes of the Dragon?
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 2:02 PM on June 11, 2008

If he's Jewish you can plant a tree in Israel in the baby's name via the JNF.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 7:11 AM on June 9, 2008

Pepsi
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 2:21 PM on May 28, 2008

From Sunday to Friday.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 12:46 PM on May 22, 2008

Get a Linksys WRT45GL and flash the firmware with X-WRT (http://x-wrt.org/).
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 1:09 PM on May 11, 2008

Dragonball-Z?
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 6:49 AM on May 7, 2008

Chumby
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 6:45 AM on April 24, 2008

The colloquial greeting in South Africa is "Howzit" which is a shortened "How is it?".
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 2:32 AM on April 17, 2008

I would also suggest transferring the cigarettes from the pack/boxes they originally came in into a small cigarette case.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 1:18 AM on April 15, 2008

Wii Fit. Don't think it's been released outside of Japan yet but it's selling like gangbusters.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 5:59 AM on April 14, 2008

Another vote for Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 2:16 AM on April 14, 2008

Get into T20/Pro20 first. It's a short game where each side bats for 20 overs. Over in about 3 hours, lots of action, lots of 'slogging' (reckless hitting)

The get into one day matches and one day tests. This is a 50 over per side match and takes about 6 hours to play. Still fast paced but with a bit tactics thrown in.

3 day games are usually only played at the county level and are a precuror to....

The 5 day... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 12:50 PM on April 2, 2008

Yukarin Disco by Yukari Fresh (and a whole bunch of other J-Pop).
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 1:52 AM on March 28, 2008

Seeing you're on Ubuntu I would use GnomeBaker. Just go to Tools -> Copy CD/DVD and select 'Only create image'
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 1:19 AM on March 25, 2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can_Has_Cheezburger
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 5:48 AM on March 10, 2008

I have four desktops:

1 is for mail
2 is for work and priority applications
3 has one or two terminals open for utility stuff
4 is for other applications that aren't priority

This is on GNOME on Linux.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 2:01 AM on March 6, 2008

Accountants
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 8:02 AM on February 26, 2008

Veruca Salt
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 7:47 AM on February 26, 2008

And if you want it vaguely Christian themed: Flyleaf.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 7:48 AM on February 26, 2008

And also: Smoosh.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 7:54 AM on February 26, 2008

I came to suggest The Years of Rice and Salt as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 7:02 AM on February 18, 2008

The Number is an in depth look at the "Number" prison gangs (the 26's, 27's and 28's) of South Africa. Really good.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 3:13 AM on January 21, 2008

I came in to suggest the $14 Steadycam as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 4:03 AM on January 9, 2008

Pepsi Ice Cucumber(Youtube)
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 7:06 AM on December 3, 2007

"1. Which text editors are the most stable, meaning won't crash if I have huge documents?"

I've opened log files going into the hundreds of megabytes with Vim.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 1:30 PM on November 13, 2007

I just used a bag the Rabbi provided. Looking at my pictures it was plain old cheapy looking red velvet.

Also, please use a wine glass or light bulb. Do not use a thick bottomed glass like a whiskey tumbler, which can result in the groom only breaking the glass on the 6th attempt.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 1:31 PM on October 23, 2007

Barry Diller and Diane Von Furstenberg
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 1:22 PM on October 23, 2007

My mother-in-law loves Woman's Weekly, which is so middle of the road, pedestrian and non-threatening that it borders on the hilarious.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 1:49 AM on October 23, 2007

Thoughtworks
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 5:16 AM on October 18, 2007

I know this picture exactly. I saw a similar one in an old Time-Life book on Japan (it was a series of books each focusing on a country) that belonged to my dad (I think he got it from his dad so it could be quite old). Xere is correct that it's a ceremony where an entire roomful of Japanese guys in loincloths scramble after scrolls (although I recall the accompanying text saying it was just some sticks but I could be wrong) throw in amongst them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 5:08 AM on October 18, 2007

Petrol price is just over R7 in Jo'burg so it will be just under that at the coast.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 3:41 AM on October 3, 2007

Obsession - Animotion
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 1:19 AM on August 29, 2007

I live in Cape Town so I can't answer the Pretoria specific questions but here goes:

C) If you use international roaming and you're out of SA and people call your number you will be charged the difference between the cellphone and international rates. MTN is probably the company you want to talk to as they have a much larger Africa network than Vodacom.

D) Dealerships and car hire places (Avis, Tempest, Super-Rent) are probably your best bet. Car... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 2:14 AM on August 23, 2007

Well the European's came back with tobacco, so does lung cancer count?
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 3:31 AM on August 13, 2007

I do not know any specific books but you might be interested in books that cover


Cecil John Rhodes (who eventually bought out DeBeers from Barnato)

Paul Kruger and the Boer Republics (although they were more involved gold mining)... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 9:35 AM on June 27, 2007

'Enron: Smartest Guys In The Room' by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind who I believe both worked at Fortune magazine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 6:45 AM on May 27, 2007

Call it what it's called in South Africa: Biltong
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 7:52 AM on May 24, 2007

Octave is a 'mostly compatible' open source clone of Matlab. They have plenty of free documentation for that so studying that could probably help with Matlab as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 12:06 PM on May 23, 2007

"Forever Young" - Alphaville
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 12:27 AM on April 4, 2007

Lack of exercise leading to muscle atrophy?
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 7:08 AM on April 3, 2007

That might be it but the computer doesn't reboot 60 seconds after connecting to the internet, it does so immediately (right after the password is sent and I assume the PPP connection is up). I'll definitely investigate this though.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 2:28 AM on March 14, 2007

stovenator: Thanks for the links. I tried LSPFix before but it didn't seem to help. It's not specifically an IE thing as it happens when I use Firefox as well. The dial-up dialog comes up normally, dials in, sends username and password and then immediately reboots. Sometimes it will reboot into a BSOD other times it won't.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 3:51 AM on March 14, 2007

Have a look at Scratch, which is custom designed for kids. It's build on Squeak/SmallTalk.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 12:44 AM on March 5, 2007

If you're keen for the DIY route there's always MythTV.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 11:22 PM on February 28, 2007

My friend's brother was told by Ozzie customs to put his wooden African statues in the freezer for three months in order to kill an insects hiding out in the wood.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 6:37 AM on February 20, 2007

If you're looking to study further you might want to look at Financial Engineering, although that is less economics and more actively trading.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 12:23 AM on February 12, 2007

Read programming.reddit.com.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 8:20 AM on February 5, 2007

Another vote for SQLite. There's a binding for basically every language out there.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 12:53 PM on January 28, 2007

Pure conjecture here but it seems that in the US: UK bands = Eurocool, UK single artists = Eurotrash.
posted to Ask Metafilter by PenDevil at 11:56 PM on January 25, 2007