As far as I'm concerned, Ted Sturgeon is God of the short story, and there's a good series of anthologies. Microcosmic God and Thunder and Roses are fine places to start, but I think you can hardly go wrong.

Second in the pantheon is Harlan Ellison; Paingod and I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream are excellent collections. The latter is darker and bleaker.

Both Sturgeon and Ellison are pegged as science fiction, but that does short service to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 4:08 PM on May 28, 2008

Remember when you were a kid and you went out and rode your bike til you were tired and then stopped and then did it again the next day? There's your program. Logs and diets and intervals and heart rates and crap are for squeezing out the last 1% of what you've got to give, but the first 99% is just get out and ride. If it's hot out, drink some stuff. The most important principle is to end your rides wanting to do it again.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 3:46 PM on May 28, 2008

Have you been to Green Ridge yet?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 5:02 PM on May 25, 2008

Rhymezone's related meaning search is pretty cool and might make some connections for you.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 8:42 AM on May 21, 2008

That's Supermemo.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 5:59 PM on May 14, 2008 marked best answer

I'm kind of inclined to suggest you go to a strong calculus book and revisit what you know with more depth, paying attention to foundations and proofs of theorems and the "large storyline" more than the computations this time. Apostol's Calculus is a good choice for this, but I particularly recommend Spivak's (equally creatively-titled) Calculus. You can learn to Think Like A Real Analyst from those, and in your position it sounds a better... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 3:35 AM on May 14, 2008

I'll recommend another one, Lay's Analysis with an Introduction to Proof precisely because it does spend real time talking about the structures and styles of proofs, which I think is likely to be helpful. You might also consider picking up a book specifically about proofs, like Solow as a complement to whatever you settle on as your main book on analysis.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 5:04 AM on May 14, 2008

Particularly in the absence of any evidence of anyone anywhere saying anything else ever, common usage is a good and satisfying explanation. Practically, though, unless John is our boss, we are likely to say, "Hey, John, pick up all that shit off the printer."
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 2:15 PM on May 7, 2008

Also a stinger. (Which I remember from MST3K).
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 5:10 AM on May 6, 2008

(which article gives some plausible attempts at when did it start, too.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 5:11 AM on May 6, 2008

Progress Quest.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 2:50 PM on May 5, 2008 marked best answer

You aren't so perfectly happy that you aren't worried about whether other people think you're weird or not. How "lone wolf" is that, really?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 5:49 AM on May 4, 2008

Good luck figuring this out! The overall impression to me is rather like an uncorded puli. Picture number 2 makes me wonder if the blue eyes might be from a border collie rather than a husky - I don't see much sibe in there.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 7:37 AM on April 21, 2008

Skinning a squirrel is not much work. (Slice - yank - nude squirrel.) Burning fur is appalling in ways that can't be conveyed to text. The payoff-to-work ratio is quite a lot higher than, for sake of comparison, peeling a banana before eating it, which I assume you consider an acceptable trade-off.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 3:09 PM on April 18, 2008 marked best answer

Pink Floyd - Free Four
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 2:12 PM on April 18, 2008

MegaDeth - High Speed Dirt
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 9:11 AM on April 18, 2008

It will sort correctly if the cells actually contain strings, but selecting the cells and applying "text" format won't do it.

Make a new column beside your existing labels and beside each one (say the first one's in cell A1 and your new column is B), put

=text(A1,"00000")

Now you'll have actual strings that you can copy and paste-as-values back over the originals (if they look like what you want!) and it should sort like you want.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 12:38 PM on April 17, 2008

(Rather just "0000" for your numbers, actually)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 12:40 PM on April 17, 2008

For a big-name band at a big venue, $40 sounds about right.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 8:05 AM on April 14, 2008 marked best answer

I don't think I've ever seen tees over $40, but they do seem to top out near there.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 8:09 AM on April 14, 2008

Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man.
A lot of Robert Silverberg from the 60's and 70's - I recommend Dying Inside, To Live Again, Book of Skulls, and Tower of Glass, among others.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 2:38 AM on April 14, 2008

I just had my trusty, never-(and I mean never)-fail yorkie recipe fail to rise twice in a row and I was pissed, cursing the gods, impugning the cookware, and so on - then I happened to notice I'd accidentally picked up a bag of self-raising flour at the market instead of my usual stuff. (I switched over to cursing and impugning the flour and the market respectively.)

So, no, for anyone visiting this thread in the future, it doesn't work, and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 4:35 AM on April 12, 2008

Die Schröders - Ich und Frau Schmidt (Schmidt! Schmidt! Schmidt!)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 4:15 PM on April 8, 2008

The planimeter is the ideal thing. If you don't have one at your disposal, you can make a polygonal approximation of the region to whatever degree of accuracy you want, and then use the so-called surveyor's area formula. It's explained only briefly there, but it's pretty simple, and it computes exactly what the planimeter would compute if you slid it along your straight line approximation.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 7:58 AM on April 8, 2008

Here's a low-tech, less computational but entirely workable solution: you can press silly putty or playdoh out to a uniform thickness, mark the boundary of the figure on it, trim it and throw away the scraps, then re-roll it into a rectangle of the same thickness.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 8:01 AM on April 8, 2008

Planet Hell
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 1:30 PM on April 4, 2008

Old threads: 1 2 3 and probably more; Bike to Work forums.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 4:40 AM on April 4, 2008 marked best answer

Classics Today slipped this album review in with the rest of their daily batch.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 3:54 PM on April 2, 2008

It's hard to top agalloch and moonsorrow at their game. Maybe you'll like some Ulver.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 6:21 AM on April 1, 2008

Yep! If you're secure in yourself, though, get a stuffed animal.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 7:14 AM on March 31, 2008

Any of the following would be entirely recommendable: Bernstein on either DG or Sony, or the Naxos disc with the New Zealand SO. Absent the opportunity to listen to them for yourself, the choice of couplings may be the deciding factor - all three are different.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 5:02 PM on March 30, 2008 marked best answer

What do you want to know that's not here?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 7:09 AM on March 28, 2008

nebulawindphone is accurate and concise - to the extent that there's a good answer here, that's it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 1:42 PM on March 24, 2008

Somebody out there must be knee-deep in stats and can tell us the answer.
I can; the answer is "vanishingly small" - if you assume that the male and female populations at large have the same fraction of "good" (i.e., worth a second call) candidates and that the group of applicants reflects the population at large, then, with the numbers that applied, the probability that the best 20 are a 10/10 split are so close to zero that it doesn't make a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 2:30 PM on March 24, 2008

You're overthinking it. "Thanks" means "thanks", probably he didn't have time or wasn't prepared yet to say more. I would think if anything it's uncommon for the interviewer to disclose on the spot what sort of recommendation they're going to make, particularly since they often don't make that decision until they've talked to all the candidates they're scheduled to interview and are in a position to make comparisons. "Interviewers vary" is the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 1:08 PM on March 24, 2008

Seriously, the interviews don't actually matter.
That also varies. They can be very important.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 1:21 PM on March 24, 2008

I think the relevant connotation for "lights out" here is "end of the day", "end of the show", or "it's all over." (The last of which, figurative, comes from the previous quite literal ones). Playing lights out just means playing so effectively that you're essentially shutting down the game and declaring it over.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 9:59 AM on March 23, 2008

Chicken or veal piccata would do nicely I think.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 4:23 PM on March 20, 2008

I agree with Enroute, teaching places by name is great. "Go upstairs", "go downstairs", "go to your bed", and so on are useful and great mental exercise. Teach them to pick out people by name, or pick out toys by name. (I know a sheltie who has a hoard of toys that he loves and knows by name. "Get your bunny." yay!!!!! "Get your sheep." yay!!!!! etc.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 12:08 PM on March 20, 2008

Tear down the rat-racial slime
Can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 8:56 AM on March 20, 2008

It's going to be impossible to answer this definitively - I'm afraid it really is a situation where your mileage is pretty much guaranteed to vary, as far as what's optimal for you. Your friend's "...any more than that will do nothing for you" isn't completely accurate, but it's subtler than the "I had freshman physics" crowd will admit, because your exercise and eating habits can change the basic rates at which your body uses calories... but that's quite a rabbithole to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 12:14 PM on March 19, 2008

I was one of the answerers in the previous thread, and I stand by the advice there: cook it very slowly (200 degress, just under a boil), in broth (with lots of onion if you like that), for a long time (all day is fine), and serve it with boiled potatoes or noodles with a sour-cream gravy. The "peeling" will, honestly, become self-explanatory once you've done it - there's an outer skin that will shuck off just like the jacket of a boiled potato once it's been cooked. (And like a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 1:03 PM on March 18, 2008

(Leftover tongue, cold, on sandwiches - with buttered bread - the next day is excellent advice too.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 1:05 PM on March 18, 2008

So I can crock-pot it all day, and take it out at the end? After I cook it and peel it, how would that affect throwing it into a stew?
Yeah, you can do, but use the low setting on your crockpot. Some crockpots still boil things even on low, which is why I rather just put it in the oven at 200, which is a bit more dependable. If you're going to do stew, I'd strain out the broth, use that to cook the vegetables, barley, or whatever else is going in, and then just... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 1:12 PM on March 18, 2008

Jessamyn beat me there, but may I point to a particular comment in that thread?
Congratulations! You've just necrosed the mucosal layer of your intestinal lumen
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 11:21 AM on March 18, 2008

Rations seems like an option.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 4:54 PM on March 17, 2008

The yeast needs to be in a particular temperature range to do its thing; you can kill them by getting them too hot, and they just won't be active if they're cold. That's the most likely culprit.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 1:17 PM on March 13, 2008

I dunno, "not too hard, not too pop" is kinda goldilocks. Any particular range of tempos in mind?

Here's a not-too-far past dump of songsfrom my "trainer" playlist that I use when I'm riding indoors. They pretty much all have rock-steady beats and cover a good range of tempos that you can actually pedal too. Most of them are on the heavy side and she won't be interested in Children of Bodom, presumably, but there's a lot that's just hard rock or... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 11:54 AM on March 12, 2008

u can hs wiki.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 5:48 AM on March 10, 2008

Oh, I agree totally, annie, that's what I was aiming at with my #3 there, but it can't be overemphasized.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 4:12 PM on March 9, 2008