What should a couple of early-twenties, American girls do and see, if they were to find themselves in Romania somewhere around December 15 - 22?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cosmonaught at 4:14 PM on December 6, 2007 (7 comments)

Books/writing on death, loss and grief.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cosmonaught at 2:11 PM on December 19, 2006 (41 comments)

How to spend 7 days in Italy?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cosmonaught at 7:27 PM on October 30, 2006 (26 comments)

Flying Ryanair on a ticket that doesn't match my name exactly (but is really, really close). Am I boned?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cosmonaught at 12:55 PM on October 23, 2006 (15 comments)

Name that Book TV speaker: British author, late 30s/early 40s, spoke about West & rest international politics, looked roughly like a bearded Kevin Kline.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cosmonaught at 5:42 PM on January 30, 2006 (9 comments)

My girlfriend is getting ready to start grad school this summer, and is having a hell of time figuring out what needs to be done for financial aid. Obviously, time is running out.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cosmonaught at 6:07 PM on April 28, 2005 (4 comments)

Sometime, say within the last 4 years, I read an editorial which answered the question of what accepted practice of our society would be viewed by future generations as morally reprehensible. The editorializer (who I believe was a person of some note) proposed incarceration as punishment for crime as an answer. Does anybody know who this was or where it appeared?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cosmonaught at 10:23 PM on March 5, 2005 (3 comments)

Who's That Monk?!?!?! Any or all of these details might be wrong, but it's all I've got: oddball 17th century monk (maybe Jesuit) who developed the water system for Bernini's Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers, in Rome's Piazza Navona) and made strange mechanical devices like a mechanical Jesus that walked on water. I know I heard a story about him on an evening NPR show, I think there was a meme floating around the web around the same time. I want to say his name was Chirac, but I only remember hearing that, so I may be spelling it wrong, or even confusing it with a certain foreign president. Any takers?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cosmonaught at 3:45 PM on November 30, 2004 (7 comments)