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Guess who needs boots like
Marilyn Manson?! Yours truly! Here's the problem, it seems to be a
very standard design but we need to try them on and take them home rather than buy them online and wait/pray it works out. Where (greater boston)?
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at 2:08 AM on January 3, 2008
(20 comments)
This question is dumb, (but so am I). I need to find a trivial bit of apparel but can't think of the most direct way of going about getting it. If you check out this
video around 0:25 (or 2:13
here), I need that thingie on the bassist's wrist. It's like a wristband but it's thicker goes up the forearm a little more. Were you in the Boston area where would you go to find something like that that doesn't involve just random stores + hope?
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at 12:12 AM on October 23, 2007
(11 comments)
Suggest some 'love' songs with an uneasy obsessional edge to them?
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at 9:57 AM on August 22, 2007
(103 comments)
So a common subplot in a lot of movies is that the protagonist has a dull life and suddenly a romantic partner sweeps in and changes EVERYTHING. It spans genres from
The Mask to
Stranger Than Fiction (and of course the romantic comedy / chick flick industry would go broke without it.) I guess Cinderalla is the archetypal story here. I'm sort of curious about what larger connections there are to this thematic convention—like has anyone written about it, maybe focused more on Cinderalla and gender studies or psychology etc.
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at 7:29 PM on July 13, 2007
(8 comments)
Mystery Equation:
x2+y2=(1-z)z4
A friend of mine has a bet regarding whether anyone can figure out what it represents. It's supposed to be mildly romantic. Ideas?
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at 4:34 AM on June 16, 2007
(30 comments)
Wardrobe software. Has nobody done this? Wouldn't a social webapp for clothing be fiercely awesome?
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at 11:36 PM on May 12, 2007
(20 comments)
Late last year (November?) I saw Brad Pitt with a sort of patchwork of highlights on the cover of one of those major gossip magazines at a supermarket checkout. Which magazine/issue was it--or more to the point, where can I find an image of Brad Pitt with that look--or even more to the point, is there a more precise way of referring to it than 'patchwork of hilghlights'?
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at 3:19 PM on March 18, 2007
(4 comments)
CluelessFilter, MassachusettsFilter: "Mobil station at exit 17 off 495 in Franklin". Totally lost about how to find out whether this location is even vaguely accessible via the
MBTA/commuter rail? I can plug in an address at the MBTA site but I have no idea how to find nearby addresses or that of the Mobil station at that particular exit.
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at 11:07 AM on February 2, 2007
(11 comments)
In Toni Morrison's '
Beloved', there's some part where—I think a guy gets to sleep with someone he's wanted to in a shed or something—so a motif about this guy's heart being like a closed black tinderbox or somesuch is brought up and upon that moment, he feels that there's a beating heart in there with red blood & the works. Ring a bell?
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at 5:02 PM on December 12, 2006
(10 comments)
Looking for a web-based FLV player (ideally want it to approximate the youtube one.) For-pay is fine. The usage has to be just 'pass your flv url to the player and it plays' (ie. not something that requires manipulation in Macromedia Flash to work.) Any pointers? Thanks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 3:05 PM on October 27, 2006
(5 comments)
Did Sylvia Plath write any villanelles besides 'Mad Girl's Love Song'?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 3:53 PM on June 20, 2006
(5 comments)
Cluelessfilter: So I got an income tax refund and the only organizations marked on the check are 'United States Treasury' and 'Treasury / Financial Management Service'. Where is such a check cashed?
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at 12:31 PM on May 31, 2006
(21 comments)
So, the Achilles' heel of Social Networking is the 'What Now' Issue. Once you've listed all your friends publicly, which doesn't solve any problems you had in the first place, you're pretty much left hanging. Ideas about getting around this problem in building a social networking app?
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at 12:19 PM on April 4, 2006
(13 comments)
In Boston area. Want to rent a laptop for a week or two. Budget maxes at $100. Realistic?
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at 4:36 PM on March 8, 2006
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Dear crafty gnomes of Mefi, riddle me this: my laptop (Vaio PCG-FRV27) just had a fit and died. What may the problem be?
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at 10:40 AM on February 14, 2006
(11 comments)
Why is "some of my best friends are black/jewish/gay/whatever" seen not only as unconvincing when it comes to disclaiming bias but also as a stereotypical response by one who is biased?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 9:31 PM on January 25, 2006
(41 comments)
Epigraph Filter: Writing an essay on the reasons for the Iraq invasion, thesis is that Bush and Co. had an aggressively nationalistic / Hobbesian worldview which combined with Democratic Imperialists (Wolfowitz et. al) found conviction post-9/11. Can you think of a relevant quote or poetry excerpt to stick in the beginning?
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at 7:59 PM on December 19, 2005
(12 comments)
What does this mean? "If only centuries delayed, / I'd count them on my hand, / Subtracting till my fingers dropped / Into Van Diemen’s land." From
Emily Dickinson. Apparently
Van Deimen's land = Tasmania, once a penal colony... but if your fingers dropped from fatigue, why would they drop there?
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at 4:46 PM on November 18, 2005
(20 comments)
I have a bunch of tasks I can rank by imminence, completeness, and rate of activity. Is there an interesting or useful way to visualize them rather than three sorted lists?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 4:43 PM on October 3, 2005
(5 comments)
I'm looking for a large-ish general (or political) textbook store in, or accessible from, Boston, preferably one open on Saturdays and/or Sundays. Basically, I need to acquire the book "Comparative Politics: Notes and Readings" by Bernard Brown (9th Ed.) ASAP.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 2:48 PM on February 25, 2005
(7 comments)
QuoteFilter: is there a well-known phrasing of the concept that 'the three (or bough, or branch) that does not bend with the wind gets snapped'? I wouldn't be surprised if it's a proverb shared across many cultures.. it doesn't have to be limited to the three/wind metaphor. Bonus points for Latin or attributable quotes.
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at 2:51 PM on December 4, 2004
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