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posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 8:18 AM on June 29, 2006

It's a "knife switch"
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 1:59 PM on June 26, 2006 marked best answer

here's one Once you know the name, they're plenty google-able.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 2:00 PM on June 26, 2006

timer=setTimeout("window.open('video_popup.html',','width=550,height=400')",37000)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 10:38 AM on June 23, 2006

The reason a lot of people have to get their wisdom teeth removed is because our jaws are getting smaller. Of course, with the orthodontists we've evolved, we've removed the selective pressure for individuals without those teeth.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 11:13 AM on June 21, 2006

If their concession to you working from home is that they'll let you do it if they don't have to pay you that day, then I don't think you're going to make much headway with any argument.

But that said, why should they want you to work from home? "It would be better for me" is not a good reason to them, what's the benefit? Maybe you could make the case that you'll get more done, or maybe you'd be willing to clock an extra half hour every day or something like... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 8:46 AM on June 8, 2006

No. Don't underestimate the effect your physical work environment has on your overall well being and peace of mind.

I'm fairly convinced that it's impossible to do quailty work in a cubicle environment.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 8:00 AM on June 1, 2006

The thing to do is probably make a program (not script) that will accept the files on the command line, copy them to a given directory and email you the event (so you know if anyone tries any funny business). Make the directory readable/writable only to you and make the program setuid.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 1:35 PM on May 18, 2006

I got contacts for the first time ever about 2 months ago, and my doctor recommended PureVision. I have nothing to compare them to, but I have one toric lens, which means it's thicker than normal, and I have had no problems, I can wear them comfortably all day.

Being new to contacts and nervous, I clean them pretty throughly at night and haven't had any tears yet (but then, I'm only on my second set).
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 9:51 AM on May 18, 2006

I would imagine when the light hits a non-perfectly-reflective surface (you), some of the light will be absorbed as heat. So over time, you will absorb (as heat) all the chemical energy in the flashlight batteries.

Also of note, if we assume the sphere is reflective to all radiation, the heat put out by your metabolic processes will build up inside too. If this is dangerous to you probably depends on the size of the sphere.

As to what you... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 3:39 PM on May 15, 2006

My reading of those product pages leads me to believe that you make an SSL connection to their proxy, then the proxy makes another SSL connection to your actual destination.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 12:13 PM on May 11, 2006

Joel has some thoughts.

Figuring out how long it's going to take you to do something is a skill that needs to be learned. You're going to have to ask your developers for time estimates, and if they're wrong, call them on it. Don't pressure them to work faster, pressure them to get their time estimates right (again, I stress, not by working hard to stick to the estimate, by being right about the estimate in the first place).... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 9:11 AM on May 11, 2006

Also, should I feel guilty about not writing enough code?
Holy balls no! You're not a developer anymore. You're a lead developer. Your main job (IMO, your boss might have different ideas) is to enable your people to turn out their best work. That means scheduling their tasks and shielding them from all the crap from upper management and other departments. Your motto should be "tell them to talk to me".
(At least, this is the manager *I'd* like to work for)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 9:15 AM on May 11, 2006 marked best answer

There used to be one on Yonge, south of St. Clair, on the west side.

Yup, Jack's is still there. About $20 for a men's hair cut. You don't mention if you're a lady of the female persuasion or a gentleman.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 11:19 AM on May 3, 2006

First, are all the jumpers set correctly on both drives?

Second, does your motherboard have a second IDE channel? Try leaving the 80GB as master where it is, and putting the new drive as master on the second channel.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 9:46 AM on May 2, 2006

The easiest way to see if you have a second channel is to just open up the case and see if there's another socket next to where the drive cable currently plugs in. I really suggest trying that configuration (each drive set as master on it's own cable). I don't know much about Dells, but most motherboards have two channels.

But if you don't want to do that, try changing the jumbers on the drives from cable select to master and slave.

Sorry, but... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 9:58 AM on May 2, 2006

Oh man, you don't know about the west-end sexateria?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 8:44 AM on April 17, 2006

Dead Poets Society, of course
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 2:19 PM on April 10, 2006

Do you have an iPod dock? Try playing through the line out on that. If that play's fine, then you know the headphone jack is the problem, otherwise, it's the innards.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 12:21 PM on April 10, 2006

You can do this in bash by "sourcing" the script instead of running it (assuming your current shell is bash too). This means the commands are executed in the current shell, instead of starting a new shell (whose enviroment disappears when the script ends). To source a script, put a period then a space before it, a la:

$ . ./myscript.sh
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 12:20 PM on April 7, 2006

The problem is that, in UNIX each process has its own totally independent set of environment variables. When a shell starts another program, it sets up this new process' environment by copying its own (*), and then that process' if it starts other processes, could in turn pass on any inherited environment variables, but there's no way for these changes to move in the other direction, from parent to child, and there's no way for changes to the parent's environment made after the child is... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 12:26 PM on April 7, 2006

aubilenon's right, any store that does computer service will have a pile and would give you one for free or cheap.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 12:26 PM on March 31, 2006

I, um... obtained a copy of the movie, and have listened to that section a couple of times, but I can't get the song. I'll try to post an audio clip tonight.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 12:41 PM on March 21, 2006

The decay thing is directly attributable to agriculture and specifically sugar consumption. We've always had the plaque bacteria, but until we started consuming massive (relatively speaking) amounts of sugar in everything we eat, they didn't produce enough acidic waste products to be a huge problem.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 9:11 AM on March 21, 2006

Here's a python script that will do the job:

import sys

import urllib2

import fileinput

 

for line in fileinput.input() :

	line = line.strip()

	try:

		urllib2.urlopen(line)

		

	except urllib2.URLError:

		print line, ' NOT ACTIVE'

		continue

		

	except ValueError:

		print line, ' CANT PARSE'

		continue

	

	print line, ' OK'

posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 3:19 PM on March 16, 2006

Um, those extra new-lines didn't show up in the live preview, sorry.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 3:19 PM on March 16, 2006

I have two hanging in my wall courtesy of eBay.
Well, like I said, these things are literally covering whole street level blocks, it really seems like I should be able to obtain one.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 8:36 AM on March 10, 2006

There's a song on the new Cardigans album called "Losing A Friend".
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 1:00 PM on March 8, 2006

According to the Futurama DVD commentaries, for babies, they just get Frank Welker to overdub it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 9:15 AM on March 8, 2006

I've been everywhere
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 10:38 AM on March 6, 2006

Maniac Mansion.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 8:55 AM on March 6, 2006

up, up, down, down, half circle towards, A, B
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 8:20 AM on February 28, 2006

Spend way too much money on a really good vegetable peeler. "Way too much" is not even that much, for a vegetable peeler, and it is so satisfying to just effortlessly spool the peel off of apples, carrots, taters.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 9:43 AM on February 27, 2006

Ok, so we have list A, and list B. And for two files, x and y, if both x and y are in A and B, and x is after y in A, then x must be after y in B? Correct?

If so I can give you O(2(m+n)):

Using a variation on smackfu's method, stepping down the lists, you can generate a list of all the files in A that are not in B, these are the files that have been deleted. Then do the same thing to get the list of all the files in B that are not in A, this... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 9:05 AM on February 2, 2006

Yes, you can get a qualatative measure of nostalgias per second (n/s) with the formula
t = 1/m * p
Where p is Proust's Constant, approx 2.14323

Ha ha, just kidding.

What do you mean by "memory" do you mean physical and chemical changes in the brain, or the subjective experience of those changes?

The former is an effect of physics on a physical object, an effect of time, really. The later is a subjective phenomenon.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 8:15 AM on January 31, 2006

What you can do to prove this to yourself is this:

The next time you see a big moon near the horizon, stick your arm all the way out and measure the moon with your thumb. Then lean back so your arm's pointing up at the sky, and imagine a moon the same size on your thumb-ruler up there. Hey, it's much smaller now!.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 8:07 AM on January 31, 2006

Silly question, the actual on/off switch, on the back, near where you plug in the power cord, is that on?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 1:13 PM on January 25, 2006

Yes, I felt that both High Fidelity and Chuck Klosterman's Sex Drugs & Coco-Puffs gave away way to many of our (hu-man males, that is) secrets.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 8:31 AM on January 23, 2006

Simpler beasts overall than women, men respond well to consistency because it enhances predictability, and are creatures of habit.
This condescending and patronizing attitude, displayed in a woman, frustrates and repluses me, personally, more than almost anything else.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 1:06 PM on January 23, 2006

Except that I'm pretty sure paulsc isn't a woman.
So am I, but none the less, I meant what I said, ladies, if you want the Capn out of your life, or to not take you seriously ever again, this is the way to accomplish that.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 2:19 PM on January 23, 2006

An Altoids(tm) tin was all the rage a couple of years ago, and you can get those littler ones now (tins, I mean).
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 11:55 AM on January 20, 2006

Fear, Uncertantity and Doubt, the three pronged attack often used against software that's made by dirty hippies who want to communize your computer and steal your women.

If they're not blowing smoke, it's possible someone fell for a site like this what tries to sell you something free, and what might come with some "bonus" software installed too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 3:11 PM on January 16, 2006

Third Mariachi's.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 10:18 AM on January 4, 2006

WipeoutXL, for the original Playstation, could probably be obtained cheap and still has a lot of play value. Although I have not played it, I understand Kingdom Hearts is fun for the kids.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 8:21 AM on December 12, 2005

Jill Greenberg?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 8:25 PM on December 10, 2005 marked best answer

I found a few on eBay
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 4:13 PM on November 21, 2005

Did you say extreme cold?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 4:12 PM on November 15, 2005

The easiest way is to come in early or stay late and swap it for someone else's.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 2:55 PM on November 14, 2005

It's kind of a horroscope thing. Video game character profiles have it too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 10:53 AM on November 8, 2005

My basic imperative is "try to leave things better than you found them"
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capn at 10:06 AM on November 8, 2005