Moving to Munich: Help me connect with the German subculture
posted to Ask Metafilter by ubersturm at 3:21 PM on September 4, 2007 (10 comments)

My computer boots, but the monitors go black before the OS loads.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ubersturm at 2:47 PM on July 2, 2006 (8 comments)

Sentences like "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contain all the letters in the alphabet. Are there similar sentences that are designed to contain all of the commonly accepted phonemes in the English language?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ubersturm at 10:39 AM on October 14, 2005 (14 comments)

I'm silkscreening a few posters, and I don't have access to the nice exposure table I usually use, so I'm being forced to print out my designs onto transparency sheets rather than drawing them by hand and oiling the paper.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ubersturm at 3:42 PM on August 25, 2005 (2 comments)

yet another computing question - in windows xp, how can i check to determine whether files in the recycle bin are copies of files elsewhere on my computer? (note - this is for a large number of music files, so i'd rather not check them one by one...)
posted to Ask Metafilter by ubersturm at 4:05 PM on October 23, 2004 (4 comments)

Ad Aspera Per Astra - an interview with Brother Guy Consolmagno, one of several full-time Vatican astromomers at the Vatican Observatory. He talks about the Church's take on astrobiology and the eventuality of encountering an alien race. The idea of the Church's mission beyond the Earth is something that's come up in a few good books, like The Sparrow and A Canticle for Leibowitz. Interesting to hear an actual Jesuit's take on the matter. [Via BoingBoing]
posted to MetaFilter by ubersturm at 5:11 AM on May 13, 2004 (8 comments)

large broken bottle of honey + carpet = much sticky unhappiness. any suggestions on how i can get the carpet cleansed before the ants arrive?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ubersturm at 12:56 AM on May 12, 2004 (7 comments)

Cirque de Sore Legs may have won the people's choice award, but the competition [including a giant poodle, a bird's nest, and Kafka mid-metamorphosis] wasn't half bad. Baltimore's annual Kinetic Sculpture Race, an unholy amalgam of engineering and art, occurred last week. Created by Hobart Brown in 1969, kinetic sculpture races require participants to build human-powered vehicles that can traverse a racecourse over land and sea, not to mention mud and sand. And they have to do it in style. Don't live near the Chesapeake? Then visit similar races in Arcata, Boulder, Ventura, Corvallis, and even Perth, Australia. Too tame for you? Perhaps you'd like to try a flugtag or the Providence or Bognor birdman competitions.
posted to MetaFilter by ubersturm at 10:44 AM on May 6, 2004 (9 comments)