What I wound up with was one of the drugstore day of the week boxes that comes with a sliding case: with case on, with case off. I also have a new purse with snug inside pockets, which may help with the chaos somewhat.

(Lest you think my original requirements were inaccurate, I shall note that the pills you see in the picture are not all of the pills I need to carry; there's a "horse pill" that I just ran out of today and need to refill and I also often throw... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 10:44 AM on May 3, 2008

Lois McMaster Bujold
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 6:59 AM on February 8, 2008

MeetMegan, for all I know, this request came from him! ;) (This is a friend-of-a-friend thing, but I think the original request came from the marketing folks at Lexis)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 7:50 AM on January 4, 2008

The nice lady at my insurance helpline told me I do not need a referral for mental health services. (There is a limit to the number of visits/year, but I am not worried about that yet.) My GP is part of one of those walk-in storefront arrangements, and I don't always wind up seeing the same guy. It's fine for routine stuff, but I didn't really feel he's up on the latest in psychiatry.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 12:31 PM on July 13, 2007

Thank you! I knew it had to be something obvious I just wasn't seeing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 5:26 PM on March 10, 2007

My housemate suggests that for the recipe as is, try adding herbs/spices, or chopping up a chipotle in with the filling.

For a cheese sauce, make it with a roux (a thickener - arrowroot works) to make it more solid. You can also press ricotta a bit before using to make it a little less wet.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 4:25 PM on March 10, 2007

I'm a little concerned about erythritol as well - it seems that it's supposed to have less of a laxative effect than maltitol, which means it still does have that effect. (Basically anything ending in -ol is a sugar alcohol and causes upset).

I suppose if I could find a splenda chocolate bar, I know where to find molds.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 3:57 PM on February 24, 2007

For Meebo, I find that if I use https:// I can still get through past Websense.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 8:08 AM on February 5, 2007

Honestly, I'll probably have to do it another way. A float would do it too, except I hadn't been able to get IE to do that properly either.

What really bothered me about this was the jump caused by resizing the window. Something about the re-rendering caused by the width change fixes the issue. So it's just... strange.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 8:55 AM on November 13, 2005

What I was trying to do, incidentally, was create marginalia. That is, be able to pull parenthetical remarks into a side column (or have them lay in with the text in the print layout). It works so easily in Firefox that I can only assume that the margin adjusted right float is not a hack, especially since the IE rendering error is so idiosyncratic.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 10:21 AM on November 15, 2005

Looking closer, it seems to be Mass Pike -> 290 -> 495 -> 93, which detours around Boston a little, which seems to make sense. I guess we used to catch 3 off of 495.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 8:15 AM on September 6, 2005

Hm. Folks in the ME-NJ thread seemed to feel pretty strongly about using the Tappan Zee. Maybe Tappan Zee (287) to 95 is better than the GWB?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 8:20 AM on September 6, 2005

A good enough dye job shouldn't be obvious to a casual observer. When it's obvious (poorly done), that's a turnoff. Otherwise, I'd have no problem.

I think most people suggesting the professionals are doing so because it's easy for a novice to do a terrible job. Many of the women successfully dying from a box do well now because you didn't know them when they went through the first three disasters.

Greying hair looks different on other people.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 1:49 PM on August 26, 2005

I suppose "find a new job" is out of the question?

Does he have a manager or team lead that can serve as a buffer between him and the boss? Sometimes just knowing someone else in the office has your back can help with that sort of thing.

I'm gathering from your description that the boss is not abusive or anything (in which case a call to HR is in order), but that your friend is unnerved by authority? Does his job comp for training?... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 9:54 AM on August 5, 2005

GMail would require the other folks to be able to figure out how to use it. It seems to me that the "Gmail hard drive" requires some hacks, and I don't think they'd be willing/able to set that part of it up.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 6:09 PM on June 26, 2005

sadly, I cannot install the gmail drive shell extension - I lack admin privileges at work...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 2:40 PM on June 27, 2005

I take Wellbutrin for clinical depression (for which it works adequately), and also have ADD. I found a slight improvement in focus, but it's not night-and-day, just a slight improvement.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 11:39 AM on May 13, 2005

roly - Welbutrin is primarily an antidepressant, but no drug does only one thing (IIRC Rogaine was originally a hypertension grug). It does seem to help some people with attention deficit as well.

Note also that Wellbutrin (bupropion hcl) is also marketed as Zyban, which is indicated for people trying to stop smoking. (It's the exact same pull, except for the name stamped on the wax finish - Glaxo Wellcome was just concerned that people trying to stop smoking would not... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 12:17 PM on May 13, 2005

I asked a similar question. Based on the commentary, I wound up with the Sony EX51's and I've been happy with them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 11:35 AM on May 13, 2005

Quality doesn't just vary from agency to agency, but from office to office. I worked for Ranstad for many years, off and on, and even when I moved to the edge between two "territories", it was always my "home" office that found me work reliably. I had a good relationship with my main agent, which made a *big* difference. Try registering for interviews with all of the ones in your area, and use the interview to check them out.

Some tricks of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 6:44 AM on April 25, 2005

It really will vary from convention to convention. Some have "panels" which would suit your described panel fine. Some pay guest, some just give guest table space to sell their own stuff.

Your best bet is to go to the websites for the local conventions and email whoever's listed there as guest relations. If there's nobody listed, try to find any friendly person on staff and ask them who to talk to. Conventions tend to be incestuous affairs and very often if... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 7:19 AM on March 2, 2005

I don't know how well I can make suggestions, as I'd kind of like to be job hunting now myself and having a hard time.

Word of mouth, or personal networking, can work fairly well. The trick is to have friends who work places you would like to work and have them pass your resume around. How to make friends who work places you would like to work is an exercise left up to the reader.

If you're willing to start really far beneath yourself, you can... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 11:32 AM on February 28, 2005

I have to second the slicing it along with some with cheese on a cracker. I don't recall the exact cheese my puerto rican friend serves with it, but it was very hard white cheese with a little sharpness.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 5:39 PM on January 20, 2005

In New Jersey, driving without insurance (first offense) carries a mandatory twelve month suspension. (Which, incidentally, is twice the penalty for DUI). Period. There is none of this wussy conditional license stuff.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 10:12 AM on January 7, 2005

It's a funny thing. I'm taking bupropion hcl myself (under the brand Wellbutrin), and have stuck with it because its one of the first anti-depressants I've been on that had negligible side effects for me. Most drugs do have the long list of terrible things; they have to list all the possible effects.

Assuming you have a good doctor, trust him and take the prescription, but scrupulously track the side effects. If they get bad at all, call the doctor at once and discuss.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 6:23 AM on January 6, 2005

Yes, I'm linking to my actual pages for this. I am aware I am a vastly inferior amateur coder, etc. I'm just looking for stylistic advice about the parenthetical comments here.

With the comments pulled into a separate endnotes file, it looks like this; with the css notes, it looks like this. (In either case, there's an example in the second header "What's with the little red dots?">. I didn't like the endnotes because it requires the reader to go to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 11:06 AM on December 22, 2004

Primarily because I don't know any JavaScript, and nice titles does use a little scripting.

I guess I am just a coward at heart.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 11:14 AM on December 22, 2004

Do you know if there's a length limit on those? I know some browsers will only display a certain amount of titles in the "tooltips" type box and some of my parentheticals are a bit long.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 11:40 AM on December 22, 2004

My mechanic friend says try checking the coolant level; there might be an air bubble keeping the gague from showing the overheat.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 6:34 PM on December 21, 2004

The section breaks as above should do it for you. If you find that the numbers are continuing from one section to the next, the properties are probably under Insert -> Page Numbers -> Format (Format is a button). Every version of MS Word, bless its little heart, tends to put things like that in a different place, though.

You can also go the multiple document route mentioned before. Once you've got each document, you can manage it with what Word calls a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 6:44 AM on December 21, 2004

Shoulder details: As far as I know, I don't have arthritis (yet), but my joints do pop quite a bit, and I throw my shoulder out from time to time. I've always attributed it to the fact that I'm double jointed, and as the shoulder is a weak ball and socket joint to begin with, I probably stress it more than it needs. Sometimes it just aches (centered on the joint, sometimes radiating up the neck, sometimes radiating down the arm), sometimes I lose range of motion as well (I can't raise my arm... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 8:16 AM on November 9, 2004

Truly? Really and truly? Or do you just mean you're very flexible?

I am capable of joining my hands over my head, elbows locked, and pulling them straight back until they touch the small of my back (when the shoulder's not frozen, of course).

I have no idea whether this qualifies by the technical definition of double jointed, but I do know that it's about 90 more degrees of rotation than the next most flexible person that I... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 10:21 AM on November 9, 2004

I picked up this one:

From the sos_usa livejournal community
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 7:46 AM on November 2, 2004

I can offer this pumpkin pie recipe, which has a high pumpkin content.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 7:47 AM on October 26, 2004

I always wondered, unless they go about wearing a "Hi, I'm the owner of the joint" nametag, how do you know who the owner is?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 12:33 PM on October 11, 2004

For more details, the trip in question is for GenCon in Indianapolis, from Jul 28-31, 2005, from New Jersey. I know Indianapolis is a Continental hub, and late July/August is not a time I know of any blackout dates...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 10:10 AM on August 27, 2004

OK. I was wrong, it's August 11, 2005 - August 14, 2005, but still it should not be balckout dates.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 10:16 AM on August 27, 2004

That was part of what I was asking. If I know ticket sales open up in, say, May, then I could just leave myself a calendar reminder and forget about it until then.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 11:07 AM on August 27, 2004

Summit's nice. I thought it did have a movie theater again. (It had one when I was a kid, which vanished, and I have a vague memory of a new one going up ten or so years ago). The train line there goes to Manhattan now (you used to have to go to Hoboken and take the path, now they alternate Hoboken and Newark Penn).
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 4:34 PM on August 26, 2004

I can't for the life of me remember where I stayed in Paris, but I remember finding a charming inexpensive place using the "Hitchikers Guide to France" (not related to Douglas Adams, an actual book).
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 8:42 AM on July 21, 2004

Undo works, too, in a way. After you type in the cell and move to the next cell, the link turns blue and underlined. If you Undo (Ctrl-Z) just once, it undoes the formatting, but not what you entered.

I'd love to be able to uncheck that in AutoFormat the way you can in AutoCorrect for word, but my older version of Excel does not seem to support that.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 10:33 AM on July 16, 2004

They dissolve after about an hour.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 2:12 PM on July 6, 2004

As a female who varies her nail length, I have observed that I actually pick up less under-nail crud when my nails are slightly longer.

I've never worked out the exact mechanism, although I suspect it has something to do with distance of scratching edge to dirt-holding crevice.

Ditto the suggestion of the white under-nail pencil, if it really bothers you.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 8:13 AM on July 6, 2004

I have to be on the phone most of the day (not quite call center level, but close) and took to having music playing in my non-headset ear to drown out a neighbor who whistled and drummed.

I now spend a lot of time reassuring people that, it's ok, I jump like that all the time. Good for the heart, you know.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 12:48 PM on June 30, 2004

Hankins, how badly do you want to know?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 11:39 AM on June 28, 2004

I'd love to be on the invite list (sarudy at yahoo dot com).
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 8:24 AM on June 11, 2004

Found this about preparing a will. It's a little vague, though.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 7:42 AM on January 9, 2004

I'm pretty sure he's been through Asimov and the Ender series.

me3ia - do you know a good bio of Asimov? He's an interesting enough guy there should be a good one somewhere.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 10:14 AM on December 12, 2003

Who puts egg in an apple pie?

Crust - butter/crisco/whatever + flour and
Filling - apples, sugar, spices, thickening agent (cornstarch/tapioca/whatever)

Where do eggs come in?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 11:06 AM on December 11, 2003

Ah. I learned the traditional flour-butter/lard-icewater crust (maybe a little salt/baking soda or whatever)... It stays together ok for me, although you have to work it very carefully (enough to bind, but no so much it gets tough). The only time I've used egg white in making crust was brushing a little egg white on the top to make it extra shiny.

I'm also the only person I know who makes an eggless pumpkin pie, too (not vegan, though, as there is milk - never tried... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karmakaze at 12:17 PM on December 11, 2003