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Help me buy a good power converter for a one-month stay in China.
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 10:02 AM on June 9, 2008
(6 comments)
Where is the best place online to find and purchase a
Zhongshan suit?
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 3:41 PM on May 30, 2008
(3 comments)
Among industrialized nations,
Japan has a pretty low rate of violent crime, a relatively high number of police, and a virtually non-existent acquittal rate. Yet, somehow
the Yakuza persists.
posted to MetaFilter by absalom
at 4:45 PM on May 12, 2008
(58 comments)
Help me coach a high school softball (or tennis) team when I have no real team sport experience.
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 2:19 PM on April 23, 2008
(14 comments)
The
post from a couple of days ago is great, but really made me wonder where the MeFites make their magic.
posted to MetaTalk by absalom
at 2:55 PM on January 15, 2008
(208 comments)
Online news sources for reading level 5-10.
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 10:39 AM on January 2, 2008
(3 comments)
How famous could you
really get as an author before the printing press?
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 2:29 PM on December 7, 2007
(26 comments)
We fragged the hell out of each other
last weekend, but the MeFi Team Fortress 2 server has been a ghost town since then. Who wants another go this Saturday and/or Sunday?
posted to MetaTalk by absalom
at 5:02 AM on October 19, 2007
(66 comments)
I am interested in setting up a D&D game with old friends using the magic of the internet, what tools do I need?
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 8:09 PM on August 26, 2007
(7 comments)
Help an absolute beginner make short videos for use in a classroom setting. [Requirements Inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 10:12 AM on July 12, 2007
(11 comments)
Help me find an old (mid- to late- 80s), impossibly obscure, pistol-type stand up arcade game. [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 9:55 AM on July 5, 2007
(3 comments)
Goodbye everyone, Since there has been discussion regarding whether or not my posts to this community are relevant, I have decided to no longer post here. I've enjoyed my time here...meeting a lot of you, but I simply find this community's rules too restrictive, and since I write what I feel, without regard to content (Is it sexist? Is it parental? Is it political? Is it, God forbid, all three??), this community will only end up stifling my originality, and I have no intentions of letting myself be censored in this way. i hope you fall off your soap box someday and bust your ass.
i'm out of here. i am not sad about it either.
posted to MetaFilter by absalom
at 7:34 PM on May 7, 2007
(120 comments)
Reinstall of WinXP and I just noticed that when I load up Add/Remove Programs the list never populates. How do I fix this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 3:43 PM on April 12, 2007
(4 comments)
If someone walks into my classroom (filled with students) wielding a gun, what should I do? I have recieved no training or input in this area, and while I cannot imagine it ever happening at my school, if it ever does happen, I'd like to make sure myself and my children see the event through safely.
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 7:03 PM on October 9, 2006
(33 comments)
If you have a lot of time on your hands and a deep love for animation and LEDs, you might put together something like
this.
[via]
posted to MetaFilter by absalom
at 8:14 PM on August 4, 2006
(17 comments)
I've tried clicking on
this thread four or five times using firefox on mac. Every time it borks everything - it doesn't crash, but it becomes totally non-responsive (cannot change tabs, even). Is there something evil in there, or is this just one of those things?
posted to MetaTalk by absalom
at 9:01 PM on July 18, 2006
(14 comments)
When it comes to collaborative art projects, the internet is
kind of a mixed bag. Now with
TheBroth, that bag gets a whole lot mixier.
posted to MetaFilter by absalom
at 5:27 PM on July 5, 2006
(11 comments)
How do I get Firefox to be the browser of choice for Thunderbird in OS X?
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 8:34 AM on June 30, 2005
(9 comments)
So, this MeFi CD swap reincarnated (previously discussed
here) has its
own page now, but I don't see a whole lot of activity. Are we going to do this thing, or what? (Or am I just being impatient?)
posted to MetaTalk by absalom
at 3:44 PM on June 29, 2005
(26 comments)
When was the first salvo in the "culture war" fired? By which I mean, I don't remember hearing the term all that often growing up, despite a lot of the same issues being debated and discussed. Now, though, it's all over the place. When did the Left/Right, Red/Blue, Catsup/Ketchup divide start being refered to as a War. Bonus points to whoever can tell me who first started using it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 12:40 PM on May 27, 2005
(19 comments)
I don't know what it was about
this post that makes me suspicious. (Wait, it's the cafepress link.) I can't say for *sure* that this is a lame-ass shill for some lame-ass shirts. (more inside)
posted to MetaTalk by absalom
at 2:40 PM on May 24, 2005
(38 comments)
Back in the 1980s on Nickelodeon, a pair of cartoons -
The Little Prince and
Belle and Sebastian - that ran back to back (at least, in memory). I'm not sure either ever went to sindication in any meaningful way, so how am I supposed to get my hands on them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 6:11 PM on April 5, 2005
(9 comments)
Of the few memories I still have of childhood,
Ed Emberley is tops among them. Though I am to this day a miserable artist, his
drawing books were staples of my young life. And I always thought he was my little secret. [via
BoingBoing]
posted to MetaFilter by absalom
at 12:50 PM on January 29, 2005
(15 comments)
Cartography is a skill pretty much taken for granted now, but it
wasn't always
so. Accurate maps were once prized state secrets, laborious efforts that cost a fortune and took years (or even decades) to complete.
How things have changed. (Yours now,
$110) It took almost 500 years to map North America, but it's only taken one tenth of that to map just everything else. In the last 50 years, we've been able to create acurate atlases of
two planets and
one moon (with a
second in the works). Actually,
we've done a lot more than that. We're actually running out of things to map.
Maybe Not.
posted to MetaFilter by absalom
at 5:51 PM on January 27, 2005
(17 comments)
DebtForgivenessFilter: I'm currently student teaching and expect to get my licensure in May or June, and a job shortly thereafter. Problem is, over my educational career, I've managed to accumulate a not-insubstantial amount in student loans. I'd like to see them lessened to vanish entirely. [+mi]
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 9:16 AM on January 20, 2005
(8 comments)
I do a bit of drinking, and I'm looking for a new toast. "Panties: Not the best thing in the world, but right next to it." is what my friends use, but it's getting a little old. Any suggestions? (Witty and sublime both appreciated)
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 6:33 PM on January 12, 2005
(105 comments)
NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory
recently detected [reg required] the largest explosion ever detected in the universe: an eruption releasing the energy of hundreds of millions of
gamma ray bursts. Just to put it in perspective, a single
GRB releases enough radiation to
wipe out just about everything human beings would require for survival in a 1000 light year radius. (The Milky Way spans ~100,000 light years, while the
United Federation of Planets spans about 8,000). Arthur C. Clarke has gone so far as suggesting that GRBs might be one of the reasons for Extra-Terrestrial silence:
Gamma Ray Bursts are so large and inescapable, a single one would wipe out even an enormous galactic empire. Makes
killer asteroids seem downright
quaint.
posted to MetaFilter by absalom
at 5:10 PM on January 8, 2005
(24 comments)
Adventure - based on the classic text game of the
same name - was the first game ever to contain an easter egg.
It seems laughably primitive these days, but when it first hit shelves, Adventure was a programming masterpiece. The
text version of Adventure (by Willie Crowther and Don Woods) required hundreds of KB and a mainframe computer to operate, so much that Atari brass told
Warren Robinett not to even bother with a 2600 version.
He did anyway, and the results are near legendary. The 2600 version of Adventure went on to sell over a million copies at $25 a pop. For his effort Robinett recieved absolutely nothing beyond his $22,000/year salary.
Play the 2600 Adventure. (Flash) If you're one of those who requires some eye candy, why not download the
Quake 3 Adventure Map, instead?
posted to MetaFilter by absalom
at 9:42 AM on January 7, 2005
(41 comments)
Anyone have any suggestions for writer's software (
a la RoughDraft) for the Mac?
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 3:26 PM on January 5, 2005
(11 comments)
HBO's Deadwood
is quite possibly the best television show ever produced. Not only is it amazingly gripping stuff, it's also meticulously researched. (Pretty easy to do when the
entire city is a registered
historic landmark.)
Sure, we all know that
Wild Bill and
Calamity Jane were real people. As it turns out, though, almost
every main character in the show (and many minor ones) had a real life counterpart, as did many of the
events.
Deadwood notables
EB Farnum,
Reverend H W Smith,
Seth Bullock and his partner
Sol Star,
Colorado Charlie Utter,
Al Swerengen with his Gem Saloon, and the crosseyed gambler
Jack McCall all lived and breathed in one of America's most storied cities.
posted to MetaFilter by absalom
at 10:18 AM on December 10, 2004
(82 comments)
