You can make a nice dip by mashing tofu, ginger, and white miso together.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 1:44 AM on September 6, 2008

What Omie said.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 10:16 PM on September 2, 2008

Here in Oz you won't be paying anything back. You just won't be getting any more.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 11:58 PM on September 1, 2008

Thank you so much!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 8:40 PM on August 27, 2008

What would be the best bass guitar forum on the web for someone who is a bit of a novice and not devoted to metal?

This would be it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 11:10 PM on August 21, 2008

I'm going to say that I prefer Basschat to Talkbass. I find it a little friendlier.

I find Basschat a little sleepy, activity-wise, although perfectly pleasant.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 6:42 PM on August 22, 2008

This is not new news, but it used to be that the only post office that shipped overseas at economy rate was at rue de l'Epée de bois in the 5th. Anyway, that's what you want — tarif économie.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 12:50 AM on August 19, 2008

I review books in a large metropolitan newspaper in Sydney. Some books for review are sent to me by my editor, others come direct from the publisher. I don't distinguish, which is to say that if I got a book I liked enough to review I wouldn't care if it was sent by a publicity service, a starving artist or Joe Bloggs's Aunt Mabel. Next time — because there is an aspect of timeliness to these things, it's a newspaper, we need news — scope out some critics who have some interest your subject... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 8:15 PM on August 15, 2008

These little $50 JBLs are great.

Thank you, I believe I will buy a set. I really like the sound of JBLs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 1:02 AM on August 8, 2008

Brian Eno and I recently finished our first collaboration in about 30 years. For the most part, Brian did the music and I wrote some tunes, words and sang. It's familiar but completely new as well. We're pretty excited. The name of the new record is Everything That Happens Will Happen Today and the music will be available on this Web site on August 18th, free for streaming and available for purchase as both a download and in physical formats.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 11:30 PM on August 4, 2008

OK, now I see the poster has been to the site in question. Call it a spot of evangelising on my part, then.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 11:35 PM on August 4, 2008

I spent a year studying in Paris, as there were no realistic provincial options for the programme I wanted to follow. I wouldn't say life in the big smoke was especially easy, but there were a lot of cultural and scholarly compensations for suffering a certain amount of inconvenience and bearing a few expenses. That said, I am sure Nantes would be fine, it's a pretty place and easy to get around — it's very walkable, and I'm sure you could make a ton of friends there, which is difficult in... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 12:08 AM on August 1, 2008 marked best answer

Ir's a mistake. A wrong note.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 2:16 AM on July 25, 2008

I're make 'em sometimes too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 2:18 AM on July 25, 2008

I'm another idiot with an MA and a PhD (in, uh, French) and I got no substantial job action whatsoever from this (if you discount a few research contracts I picked up along the way). I can't say I regret it, but employment-wise what I am doing now is almost completely unrelated.

I did this because I wanted to and because my temperament is somewhat Micawberish.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 7:49 PM on July 22, 2008

Cleland is always popular with overseas types. Pat a koala, feed a roo. Hike/picnic in Belair National Park, Waterfall Gully and Morialta Falls. Head down to Deep Creek conservation park, continue on to Waitpinga for roos at dawn. You can do a 2-hour dolphin-spotting cruise on the Port River for around $3.50. Botanical Gardens are fun. What about a game of Aussie Rules? The SANFL games are pretty cheap.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 11:30 PM on July 6, 2008

There was a qat tree in the Botanical Gardens here in South Australia. And then the Somali refugees found out about it.

They love that stuff for sure.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 5:51 AM on June 26, 2008

Guilty.

Seconded.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 6:13 AM on June 22, 2008

Artemisia Gentileschi
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 1:09 AM on June 5, 2008

PhD students do this all the time, and they don't have PhDs. I wouldn't expect to see actual money, though, the usual fee is you keep the book you're reviewing. The last one I did, the book cost 90 Euros.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 10:46 PM on May 27, 2008

You are going to have to be a monster linguist to comprehend complex spoken texts with your one summer of French studies. Going to France and doing a course is the quickest way.

/French teacher
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 12:35 AM on May 27, 2008

Bullshit.

Caddis is right. You can also do a nice oil finish on unfinished wooden furniture if you sand vegetable oil into it with fine wet-and-dry paper. Anyone who says the contrary has never done this.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 2:11 AM on May 22, 2008

Nthing the above advice. Talk to your departmental head, or, if you have one, the Dean of Students. Do it on Monday, or at least make an appointment to see someone on Monday. Things can be done, but you must act quickly.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 12:50 AM on May 17, 2008

The film by Otto Preminger with Jean Seberg is not bad either.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 3:42 AM on May 16, 2008

This bass is gettable for around $600 new. US electronics, too. It's absolutely capable of holding down a pro gig. I have three.

(Yeah, I know it's probably not what you're asking for, but if we are talking PRS SE and the like this is the same ballpark. Rondo pretty much have a lock on the "zomg it's so cheap I can't believe it" thing.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 12:01 AM on May 13, 2008

(Note that we are up to $550 in the first comment of the thread. I didn't say anybody started anything — it's because you won't get past Rondo at their pricepoint that the recommendations of more expensive yet still fairly cheap jobs are about the best we can manage.*


*Happy to be proven wrong.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 12:34 AM on May 13, 2008

Medeski Martin and Wood are pretty good. Here's a sample with John Scofield.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 12:38 AM on May 12, 2008

I had a relationship of this type for about five years. When it ended, I lost not only her, but the kid. None of which is to discourage you, I merely relate. Her primary bond is with the child.

Good luck, I hope it works out. There's really no reason it shouldn't if all parties are compatible. The child may well be jealous of you, depending on age. This too can pass.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 1:01 AM on May 6, 2008

Lessons first. Get the basics solid, then you'll be in a position to elaborate on your firm foundation.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 5:22 AM on April 10, 2008

should you really learn acoustic first or can you / should you buy an electric and just go to town on that?

Doesn't matter in my view. Get the one you want to play — that's a much more powerful motivator than some kind of superego command that "you must do things in the proper order".

I don't play the guitar any more, but I have done 30 years on the bass.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 5:32 AM on April 10, 2008

For those who say "Why not just start with electric?" I'm boggled.

Does this mean me? Perhaps you should read the question directly above my comment.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 6:32 PM on April 11, 2008

Ah. Cheers, then!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 6:32 AM on April 12, 2008

So if you spend the first year of your life only hearing English, you end up not perceiving, say, aspirated and un-aspirated [p] as different sounds.

My daughter spent the first year of her life hearing Cantonese and probably some Mandarin. You can't now differentiate her spoken English from that of a native speaker, which is the proof that she hears English phonemes and signifying differences in the same way as I (also a native speaker) do. Which... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 11:45 PM on April 9, 2008

Obviously she realised we were speaking different languages and had to rewire to a degree; it just seems to me that the age limit of one year is way low. All I am saying is that we now have an absolutely bona fide native speaker of English, which if I am reading your argument correctly should not be the case — there has to be some difference, however infinitesimal, or the theory makes no odds.

Anyway, feel free to enlighten me. All I am saying is that this is my experience.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 12:31 AM on April 10, 2008

I am not amazingly convinced by the argument I just put forward, but could somebody show me this child who has miraculously learned the language and its phonic system without instruction or effort? This is a large part of what parenting is about, is it not?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 12:36 AM on April 10, 2008

I wonder if you could link to this study?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 2:17 AM on April 10, 2008

Our data indicate that language-dependent memory traces in the human brain emerge before the age of 12 months. To our knowledge, this is the first definite neurophysiological evidence for the development of brain memory traces for speech sounds in infants. Our results show that by the age of one year, the MMN amplitude increases for native phonemes and decreases for non-native phonemes. Thus, during their cognitive development, the ability of infants to discriminate native speech sounds... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 4:24 AM on April 10, 2008

Perhaps I could also mention that I'm a language teacher, and that the hundreds and thousands of hours of instruction in English I have given my child — as would any parent — are a bit different in kind, content, adjustment to level and detail to the type circumstances occasionally permit me to offer older students.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 4:42 AM on April 10, 2008

I rented.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 11:55 PM on April 8, 2008

It's very easy to write the classical three part essay. For, against, conclusion. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. It also reads well — it has an organic feel to it if done correctly.*

*I don't mean it smells like tofu and hippies' toenails. I mean it reads and flows easily.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 11:37 PM on March 30, 2008

Possible, I suppose. They're Sonys.
[NOT SONYIST]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 9:14 PM on March 19, 2008

Having tried different media I am fairly sure it's the drive. Best answers all round, and thanks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 6:27 PM on March 21, 2008

A CD lens cleaner disc appears to have sorted this problem out.

So, uh, don't be shy, yeah?

I'd adjust best answers, but all advice given is sound. So, no.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 3:57 PM on March 23, 2008

Seconding prefpara. If you can take the quite pointed criticism directed at you in this thread and make a positive out of it, this is an entirely good thing and says a lot for you.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 10:36 PM on March 5, 2008

Les Paul invented multi-track recording. On wax discs.

Respeck.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 10:03 PM on March 5, 2008

Go with M. This stuff is difficult enough without people being snits. You owe it to your work.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 5:56 PM on March 2, 2008

I can't hear you. I have a banana and some oranges in my ear.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 2:32 AM on February 26, 2008

Not ready? Who the heck is ready?

As mentioned above you will need someone to take this ride with. This is vitally important, as unconscious parental modelling has in my view a ton more impact than anything you consciously profess. As in your deeds will speak louder than your acts.

Anyway, most fascinating thing you can do. Really!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 10:55 PM on February 24, 2008

As in your deeds will speak louder than your acts.

Good lord! I mean your words!

I was distracted by a small child!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 10:58 PM on February 24, 2008

Going to second the hat — give yourself a year, just go through it day by day. You'll be a stronger and more self-aware person at the end of it, even if the healing process is not complete.

Another failed first marriage person here. But the second one has been amazing!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolof at 10:11 PM on February 24, 2008