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Do a curly-haired person's curly hairs all (or nearly all) have the same chirality (i.e., left-handed coils or right-handed coils)? Does it vary from person to person?
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at 6:32 AM on June 5, 2008
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Anyone good with GAP? I've defined a largish permutation group and would like to make a tally of elements by cycle type - how many of each cycle type occurs in the group. Possible? Trivial? Use something else instead? Oh, and where's the
right place to ask GAP questions?
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at 9:20 AM on March 9, 2008
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I have a moderately-sized pile of papers (say, several dozen) in front of me. What's a quick way of getting them thoroughly shuffled by hand? I am familiar with lots of shuffling algorithms, but they don't work well by hand, and techniques like riffle shuffle that work well with small, stiff cards don't work well with standard sheets of paper.
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at 6:54 AM on January 16, 2008
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Sudenmorsian: I'm very interested in finding a recording of this little radio opera by Pylkkänen, or at least a copy of the libretto to read (not the original story of Kallas that it was derived from). I'm nearly convinced no commercial recording exists, but AskMe is sometimes miraculous...
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at 5:19 PM on August 20, 2007
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Mac Pro, OS X 10.4.10: Why in the hopscotching christ is Real Player (10.1.0) sending audio to the internal speaker? Output is directed to go to the line out in System Preferences, and no other media players or noisemakers fail to do the right thing.
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at 12:22 PM on August 9, 2007
(3 comments)
I'm looking for a song with little to go on: I'm nearly (but not entirely) certain it was sung by Andy Stewart; it's basically a humorous ballad (in the story-telling sense) which ends up with the protagonist making a hasty exit from town, quite possibly chased by men with swords, quite possibly pulling his pants up as he goes, with a genius lyric in there somewhere on the important of learning discretion as the better part of valor.
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at 10:33 AM on July 23, 2007
(4 comments)
Can you recommend me a reasonably bicycle-friendly route into Charlottesville, VA coming from the west (from Lexington, to be precise)? I don't mind sharing a road with traffic - I ride Route 11 frequently and happily - but as much as possible, I would like to avoid getting mixed in with dense commercial traffic.
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at 3:56 PM on June 13, 2007
(8 comments)
Which great circle on the Earth has the largest proportion of its length lying on land (not water)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog
at 7:12 PM on May 10, 2007
(23 comments)
I am called upon, with short notice, to deliver the
Address to a Haggis. I know the words, but I want to make it sound as good as possible; can you point me to a pronunciation guide or - better - a credible recording?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog
at 9:32 AM on January 26, 2007
(5 comments)
OS X: An alias to a server remembers the last user name that was used. Where is that piece of data stored, and can I change it to be blank? (On a public lab computer, I'd rather the dialog comes up empty rather than suggesting the last-used name.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog
at 5:55 AM on August 26, 2006
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I'm trying to remember a metal song with the lyric "I hate humanity and I wouldn't hesitate to kill." I'd have sworn it was Edge of Sanity, or Carcass, but no dice. Probably mid-90s vintage; almost certainly a growling vocalist; I'm pretty sure this was the opening line.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog
at 2:40 PM on February 27, 2006
(5 comments)
iTunes (Mac) crashes when seeking from one CD track to the next.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog
at 1:37 PM on January 25, 2006
(5 comments)
Help me find a copy of
this out-of-print Schoenberg/Craft CD, issued by Koch in 2000 and apparently vanished into the ether?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog
at 1:50 PM on January 5, 2006
(2 comments)
Can anyone steer me to an image of a Chinese character suitable for expressing "Good Luck!" (as in, good luck on your exams)?
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at 3:34 PM on November 30, 2005
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Has anyone experienced Word 2004 on OS X generating malformed PDF? I have a friend who constantly has difficulty printing documents (that typically have a lot of equation editor objects in them.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog
at 12:14 PM on November 11, 2005
(6 comments)
XP, emacs, and tex-mode with MikTeX / YAP.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog
at 6:34 AM on September 22, 2005
(9 comments)
Are "ut" and "si" just variants of "do" and "ti", respectively, or is there more to it than that?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog
at 11:36 AM on August 26, 2005
(4 comments)
Wireless ethernet cards: how much processor power do they require?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog
at 6:29 AM on July 23, 2005
(8 comments)
