In the UK, it's almost a given that small shops won't accept anything larger than a £20 (probably about $35). The bars at my University's campus wouldn't accept 50's either.
I can't say I've ever heard any small business holder complain that they lost custom because they wouldn't take very large notes.

Cultural caveats
+ ATMs and bank accounts may be more available/accessible in the UK
+ there may be more of a "plastic"... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 7:27 AM on April 4, 2006

Yeah, I must have absent-mindedly pruned the mention of a sign from my answer - as DaShiv and mendel say: a notice informing customers about any limit is a good idea. I doubt it's a legal requirement, but it will certainly make it sound less like this limit is an abitrary personal level and more an establishment policy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 8:09 AM on April 4, 2006

or var_dump($variable1[, $variable2 ...]);

There's a distinction between this and print_r, but it's one of those things I've been content to forget, because it doesn't make much odds.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 1:26 AM on March 27, 2006

The latest one, while better, reminded very much of the Sony Ericsson logo
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 1:56 PM on March 22, 2006

Pancakes (crepes) play very happily with malt vinegar and sugar.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 8:02 AM on February 28, 2006

I hope so. I couldn't stop myself if it wasn't.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 5:44 AM on February 23, 2006

What happens when you up the refresh rate?
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 5:38 AM on February 23, 2006

Ouch, I wish I'd known about this a long time ago.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 9:59 AM on January 28, 2006

Good question.
Hello bookmarks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 7:58 AM on January 24, 2006

My girlfriend gets conjunctivitis more than she should as a result of wearing her contacts for years without paying attention to lubrication.

Yes, you sound like you have it, and not in a small way.
Yes, go to the doc, take what he/she tells you, use the drops, rest your eyes for a few days.
Yes, go to class if you can still read what you need to, just make sure you don't rub your eyes and keep your hands clean.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 11:41 AM on January 22, 2006

OK, as everyone else say "NO!!!", don't go to class. You won't exactly be a biohazard if you're not playing with your eyes, but I suppose no-one will thank you if you are generous with the goop.
And you get to stay in bed - bonus!

I'm just a livin'-on-the-edge kind of a guy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 11:47 AM on January 22, 2006

King Tubby
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 4:13 AM on January 5, 2006

I believe I found the Thinner/Autoplate label through MeFi, and that's got some really nice contemporary electro-dub.
Loads and loads of downloadable tracks/albums too (maybe all of them)

(second The JH - modern dub can get boring when you start if you haven't got something to take your mind off the music: if you code, then crack open a project; if you're a normal human being, light up. It'll all seep in, nice and warm.)... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 8:30 AM on January 5, 2006

This isn't going to help you find an answer, I apologise, but can you share some of the good music from Sweden and Belgium?
I'd be interested.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 8:07 AM on December 20, 2005

Sorry, I should have said
I'm far more of an electronica, indie (Clinic), indie rock (Interpol) man than metal.

As far as the question goes, I've heard quite a few really good things drag themselves out of Dutch warehouses, but the only things that spring to mind about Sweden are ABBA and Whigfield and, though I have a soft spot for the big W, I can't say the music is really worth my time.
I seem to be coming from the other angle to GNFTI, but I'd... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 9:00 AM on December 20, 2005

This is a good thread!
Sorry for piggybacking, gnfti
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 1:44 PM on December 20, 2005

I can open and re-export the "Satisfying 'Man's search" gif with FireWorks and it magically re-appears.

So if you need I can do the same with your other GIFs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 11:05 AM on December 20, 2005

Sorry, left after a half hour without reply.
Looks like I got lucky with that first one: I've tried with 5-or-so more GIFs and they all came back unopenable in Fireworks.

I can edit them in a recent version of ACDSee, but the process is a bit laborious and can't be batch-run. I genuinely can't bear to do any more than a few, and you have lllllllllllllots. Fortunately, most of them look like duplicates - if you can tell me which images you actually need... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 1:43 PM on December 20, 2005

Sounds like the TV is poorly tuned to the signal. I don't see why that would affect the input from your PS2/VCR/DVD, but your TV reception willl vary from street to street.

Have you tried hand-tuning the set? Check the manual and nudge it up or down a couple of notches.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 1:35 AM on December 20, 2005

Excel itself uses apostrophes at the beginning of ambiguous field values to stop things like this happening.
For instance: a column of "00" secret agents would become '001; '002; ...; '007 so that Excel itself wouldn't convert this column of almost-numbers into a column of actual numbers (1; 2; ...; 7).
It hides the apostrophe when just displaying the value, but if you edit it the apostrophe is shown.

It's ugly, it's a hassle, it's a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 6:37 AM on December 5, 2005

Oh, which joeclark just said.
Never mind.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 6:38 AM on December 5, 2005

can't name an animal without pictures.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 5:05 AM on December 2, 2005

However, here's a list of names of winds (although it doesn't include Keanu, so I don't know how comprehensive it is).

You could also call him Set, after the Egyptian god of storms, although I think he was also the god of evil, so maybe not.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 5:12 AM on December 2, 2005

The Joker had fiendish cunning, psychotic determination and a hideous violent streak. The Riddler had a bowler hat, that walking stick thing, and... um... spandex.

As for Lex Luthor, he had the money to buy anything in the world, even if those things didn't belong in this world.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 5:56 AM on November 30, 2005

(there was a MeFi post a little while ago giving brief on the lamest super-villains and their costumes. I can't find the thread, but it included people like THE CLOCK KING)
(jesus)
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 6:08 AM on November 30, 2005

via oddman's link: Mr. Banjo, criminal and leaker of secrets via music from his banjo
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 9:01 AM on November 30, 2005

"you know how it is, sometimes your finger slips on up the mouse"
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 8:07 AM on November 24, 2005

Whether or not you send them back, other eBayers will buy them, however if you send them back and eBay asks for proof of fraud, you have nothing.

If that really is all they were going to say to me, I'd contact the fraud dept. If they don't want the DVDs sent as evidence, I'd keep the DVDs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 4:55 AM on November 24, 2005

The Constitution of Ireland (Bunreacht na hEireann) states in Article 4.

"The name of the State is Eire, or in the English language, Ireland"
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 12:24 PM on November 9, 2005

If you set up an account on Last.fm (it's free) and download the player, you can type in band/s you like and it will play other bands in the same groove.

It's not perfect, but it's good.

I'm listening to it now, so I'll give you a bigger list later, but the first track, like Onanist says, looks, smells and sounds very Avalanches.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 1:59 AM on November 9, 2005

Drums: DJ Shadow, Unkle

Song samples: Moby - "Play" (bizarrely)

Weird "ripped from some TV show in the 70's" samples: Lemon Jelly - "KY"

Scratching, more weird samples: The Avalanches - "Since I Left You"

Rap levelled with the music loops: Handsome Boy Modelling School - "So...How's Your Girl"

Shout samples and club Jazz... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 3:03 AM on November 9, 2005

The only thing to be feared in death is the people you love.
How theirs affects you, and how yours affects them.
Your own death will be one of the very least important things in your own life.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 3:28 AM on November 3, 2005

The resolutions possible on the screen are controlled by the graphics card driver, not the monitor. Before you install that, the OS will just assume that you've got a base-level VGA card.
Actually, that should mean your colours are limited to 256 as well but you didn't mention that - am I on the wrong track?
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 5:14 AM on November 2, 2005

Sorry keijo - I went for lunch, happily oblivious of graphics cards and BIOS. What a bastard I am.

Whatever happens, you're going to have to go greasy-handed into the machinery. As mmcg seems to have said everything, I'll just agree

a) try to ID the motherboard first because getting the drivers should sort out any other problems you haven't found yet (like getting the sound and network to run)

b) get another card (but... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 6:20 AM on November 2, 2005

Yes, unfortunately, through both speakers and via headphones when replacing the speaker jack in the soundcard.
It's something internal, although that "something" may the the card itself rather than the OS.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 6:08 AM on November 1, 2005

Yep, Ultra DMA it was. Win2k hides the settings for it under the IDE channel properties so it wasn't an easy option to mess with, but both drives were on channel 2, and now both drives play happily.

Of course I'll probably not play another CD in this machine for the next 3 months, but I'll appreciate it when I do.

Thanks all.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 6:40 AM on November 1, 2005

By the way, the guy who coined the phrase "GoogleBomb", Adam Mathes, and who created the first one at the expense of his friend was given a job at Google a couple of months ago.
That's something odd for your resume - "yeah, I was the one who started f*cking with your results for fun, please hire me". Glad they saw the funny side.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 1:30 AM on October 27, 2005

• I still bite my nails, I'm 26.
• The bitter stuff doesn't work, but it did teach me how to clean my hands thoroughly.
• A lack of attention has absolutely nothing to do with anything - it's a habit, like scratching in the wrong places - however constant scolding builds an unhelpful well of resentment. If you can give positive attention due to lack of biting, I think you're on a winner.
• I find it's due to boredom or anxiety. If there are things to do and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 7:00 AM on October 18, 2005

A post to try and condense, perhaps clarify, perhaps loosen the strictures a little

HTML tables used for presentation are bad in the "semantic web".
By that (as you may or may not want to know) we mean "web code which means what it says". The "semantic web" implies that, when included in HTML, <TABLE> means "tabular data", like figures in categories;... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 3:52 PM on October 8, 2005

I apologise for that post, it was supposed to be a lot less... massive.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 3:54 PM on October 8, 2005

Operations Manager or Development Coordinator, perhaps. Neither of them really include the design aspect though, which is what I'd really appreciate from a manager.
Creative Director sounds good.

Unless you are an information architect (with a very solid grasp of usability, information presentation and structure) I wouldn't try calling yourself that. It's a buzzword pothole, just like XML and Java were - you may say that you can do these things, but as soon... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 11:58 AM on October 7, 2005

Where you set up the Flickr parameters (borders, background colours etc.) try setting first one to
flickr_badge_background_color = "transparent;float:left";

You're essentially just tricking the Flickr script into floating the whole "badge", which fixes the problem.
Although I couldn't find what was causing the problem in the first place.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 2:22 AM on October 4, 2005

Actually, curt as he was, Sparx has got a good point: the blogspot code is, as we scientists say, bolloxed.

There are replicated ID, invalid tags, unclosed DIVs...
I can fix the symptom, but there's a whole lot of cause for grief in there I can't touch for you.
Still, I'm sure if you dig up any more probs we'll find a way round.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 2:34 AM on October 4, 2005

This. Add to wild rice cooked in moderately salted water, dressed with extra cilantro/coriander and lemon juice.
And make plenty, because you'll want it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 2:11 PM on September 27, 2005

Being white, being English, I've no real overtones from the Confederate flag. Only within the last 4-5 years did I even find out what it's history wound around. That's not to say I haven't known of the flag design itself.

It's a macho, obnoxious format, a strong diagonal cross studded with stars on a vivid background. It's ugly and, however simplistic, appears busy.
But that's just a design impression.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 1:56 PM on September 23, 2005

Lots of Low tracks (but not from the last 2 albums) and "Stargazer" by The Zephyrs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 2:38 AM on September 22, 2005

Ouch.
It's a holiday, she won't be around forever. I suppose face to face for a little while would be a good time to sort this situation out and, with her being your friend and all, I wouldn't discount the idea that she's thinking the same thing. Who wants to let good friendships die out?

"does she think my feelings will have changed over the last 5 months"
Sounds like she's hoping. How do you want her to find out?
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 8:23 AM on September 21, 2005

Your tank, however, is much more likely to heat up during the day.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 5:11 AM on September 21, 2005

I prefer/make efforts to buy software which
a) I use plenty (I rarely buy software for 4-5 uses)
b) I enjoy using
c) is easy to buy/register
d) is priced reasonably and sounds friendly
e) allows me a demo period to test it

But ask yourself: "Why do I sometimes buy the software I could have just pirated?". If you can evoke the same happy altruism in your users which persuades... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 7:44 AM on September 19, 2005

WaterWorld is great for things like that, however it's really popular and in Stoke-on-Trent.
I suppose not many places can claim the last two things.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NinjaPirate at 5:09 AM on September 19, 2005