Nthing overcharging. I typically charge my phone once a week, if that.
But then I'm a very light user - no more than 20 minutes a day.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 6:53 PM on July 24, 2008

Freezepop's Stakeout.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 12:38 PM on July 18, 2008

Hell, Freezepop's anything.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 12:39 PM on July 18, 2008

ask to be moved off of your current web/db server, and moved to a different one

This is key. Can't stress it enough.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 7:36 AM on July 11, 2008

miagaille and I are taking the California Zephyr from Chicago to San Francisco at the end of August, in a sleeper; memail us at some point after that and we'll have stories then!
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 6:41 AM on July 6, 2008

I noticed this in Tel Aviv and (especially) Jerusalem when I visited. To give people a sense of just how many cats we're talking about here - they're nearly as pervasive as squirrels are in American cities.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 6:14 AM on July 3, 2008

I don't believe that anyone knows quite why

On the contrary.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 2:34 PM on June 27, 2008

I got an iMac about a year ago, with a glossy screen. I hoped I would get used to it. I haven't.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 2:48 PM on June 8, 2008

... any visual stimulus projects slightly different images into each eye because the eyes are in different places on the head. By the process of stereo vision, the disparity between these images is used by the brain to infer distance. Because each eye is actually aimed slightly askew when we look straight ahead, the lens of the eye acts like a prism. Incoming light is thus broken into the colors of the spectrum, which are projected to slightly different locations on the retina. The... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 7:21 PM on June 1, 2008 marked best answer

Take off your glasses and the effect goes away.

You meant to say "remove your corneas and lenses".

(Not recommended.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 1:11 PM on June 2, 2008

You just had to disappoint us all by letting on that the parrots are only metaphorical, didn't you.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 9:11 PM on May 21, 2008

K.I.S.S. H.E.R.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 12:30 PM on May 7, 2008

And then of course there's this.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 4:02 PM on May 4, 2008

Assume the position.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 7:20 AM on May 4, 2008

You might try GeoGebra.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 6:51 AM on May 3, 2008

Massive Attack's Teardrop comes to mind somewhat.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 5:34 AM on May 2, 2008

YES! I'm a 4th year in cognitive neuroscience (mid level vision). I wish I'd started keeping a notebook years ago. Right now my "notebook" is mostly my extremely detailed checkin notes to my SVN repository, which is nice because it's not decoupled from my actual workflow.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 1:40 PM on April 29, 2008

baking soda works in the fridge

No, it doesn't.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 1:37 PM on April 29, 2008

Wikipedia claims "Food is any substance, usually composed primarily of carbohydrates, fats, water and/or proteins, that can be eaten or drunk by an animal for nutrition or pleasure."
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 2:40 PM on April 13, 2008

This is what finally helped me understand Bayes.

Warning - lots of java applets - page will hang your browser for 30 seconds.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 4:16 PM on April 12, 2008

Somewhat relevant.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 12:24 PM on April 9, 2008

Just curious - wouldn't it have been faster to just... try?

Possible outcomes: It works. Question answered. ... or, it doesn't work. Question answered.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 5:51 AM on April 7, 2008

It's none of their business.

I haven't even visited my home town since the day I left for college 14 years ago.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 11:43 AM on April 1, 2008

My wife takes the gummy bears.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 7:53 PM on March 31, 2008

4th Jungledisk.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 4:59 PM on March 31, 2008

Low tech solution: when they're not at the PC, have the screen be black. The alarm can consist of the full screen flashing rapidly. Install a mirror to make it more visible from their positions.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 7:22 PM on March 29, 2008

Pretty much nthing the above. I used to use LaTeX until it became painfully clear that nobody at all uses it any more. Everyone uses Word - no journals want LaTeX any more. For analysis, I mostly use Matlab and/or R, and then make things pretty in Illustrator.

I use CiteULike for references. Bibim is a simple Mac app that takes a Bibtex file and turns it into an Office 2007/8 format sources.xml.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 5:49 AM on March 24, 2008

This is priming.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 5:34 AM on March 20, 2008

Adobe's Acrobat reader plugin is on par with RealPlayer in terms of bloatware crap any sensible person doesn't want hide nor hair of.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 7:23 AM on March 15, 2008

Here's a much more readable version of same.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 6:18 AM on March 2, 2008 marked best answer

Question-answering marital TEAM!
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 4:05 PM on March 3, 2008

I'd say Gandi or Dreamhost.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 2:27 PM on March 1, 2008

Perl is overkill. Don't confuse the issue. This can be done in any text editor, even notepad.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 4:52 PM on February 28, 2008

cmiller, you honestly think the type of person who would ask a question like this is going to be able to handle even five lines of python?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 4:55 PM on February 28, 2008 marked best answer

I've owned 4 WRT54G routers over the years. Every single one has had this issue.

About 6 months ago, I purchased a Motorola SBG900. I haven't had to reset it in all that time.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 4:54 PM on February 28, 2008

Previously:
babyblog, babybook
How can I get my old dead blog on paper?
Can I turn my blog into a book
Turning HTML into a book
How to edit and print from... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 9:51 AM on February 28, 2008

How long of a trip? If you're going for more than a year, I'd invest in a portable hard drive. If not, just buy cards.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 5:46 PM on February 26, 2008

A very small, tasteful picture of a milkshake.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 5:36 PM on February 21, 2008

I feel just fine acting silly around strangers.

You're not acting silly. You're acting like someone who wants to act silly, but doesn't really know how, and ends up acting like an annoying idiot.

Sorry.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 5:19 PM on February 19, 2008

Any excuse for extra cake is always warranted!
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 3:38 PM on February 19, 2008

A vote against the vx8600. It looks nice, but I've found it too small and very very slippery - hard to even hold without a case.

A friend has the W385 - low end, but very sturdy and grippy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 10:52 AM on February 18, 2008

I'm a grad student in neuroscience at a major hospital. My adviser is a MD PhD neurologist. Every week, there's a morning case conference where all the neurology attendings and residents get together and present all the new cases that have come in in the past week.

Every single week with little or no exception, one of those cases is someone who died or became a paraplegic due to the actions of a chiropractor.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 5:37 PM on February 15, 2008 marked best answer

Kind of a different sort of thing, but Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 6:40 PM on February 7, 2008

I recommend Jungle Disk. The actual data gets stored on Amazon's servers. I'm pretty confident that even if Amazon tanks, they'll do it in sufficiently slow motion that you'd be able to get your data back first.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 6:29 AM on February 5, 2008 marked best answer

No amount of money can replace nekkid photos of your first girlfriend, ya know?

Well, I wouldn't say that. I'd take 50k or so.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 10:10 AM on February 5, 2008

I find that (prescription) Tagamet decreases the time-to-heal by a few days.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 6:28 AM on February 5, 2008

See yesterday.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 9:21 PM on February 2, 2008

From the horse's mouth.

And I mean 'horse' in the nicest possible way.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 7:27 AM on February 2, 2008

Australia is the place to be.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 8:15 PM on January 28, 2008

I can only understand speech well in my left ear. If I put the phone in my right ear, I get very, very confused.

I probably have a tapeworm in my corpus collosum.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dmd at 12:30 PM on January 18, 2008