Current governors that have law degrees:
Janet Napolitano, Arizona
Mike Beebe, Arkansas
Bill Ritter, Colorado
Charlie Crist, Florida
Rod Blagojevich, Illinois
Mitch Daniels, Indiana
Steve Beshear, Kentucky
Martin O'Malley, Maryland
Deval Patrick, Massachusetts
Jennifer Granholm, Michigan
Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota
Haley Barbour, Mississippi
Jim... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 6:11 PM on October 5, 2008

See here: "Day trading refers to buying then selling or selling short then buying the same security on the same day... You will be considered a pattern day trader if you trade 4 or more times in 5 business days and your day-trading activities are greater than 6 percent of your total trading activity for that same five-day period."
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 11:43 AM on October 5, 2008

When I was entertaining someone from our Australian office recently, he seemed thrilled by the prospect of hitting up the taco trucks and pupaserias. He was much more fun to eat with than most Americans I know.

He might be interested in going to an American football game, too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 4:16 PM on September 30, 2008

The stock market is not the issue. The issue is in the credit markets. Nobody is lending to each other because nobody thinks anyone has any money. If businesses can't raise debt, they have problems continuing their operations.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 11:35 AM on September 30, 2008

CNN's live stream from the hall (WARNING - resizes browser windows)
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 3:54 PM on September 26, 2008 marked best answer

Prediction market software
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 12:28 PM on September 25, 2008

Ornamental penmanship
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 10:07 PM on September 23, 2008

"Delicious Monster is headquartered literally inside a cafe, the Zoka coffeehouse near University Village in Seattle. Under a special arrangement with the manager, programmer Wil Shipley and his small crew work there each day... Zoka, for its part, gets several very regular customers. The coffeehouse gives the company a weekly bill for coffee, meals and a sizable tip that Shipley established for each order. Zoka's baristas say it works well on both personal and business levels.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 8:19 PM on September 23, 2008

Significant difference in 2 sets = t-test

t = (mean1 - mean2)/sqrt(var1/n1 + var2/n2)
t = (6.83 - 4.1)/sqrt(1.67^2/70 + 1^2/70) = 2.73/0.23 = 11.73.

11.73 is significant at whatever level you want.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 8:11 PM on September 23, 2008

Your story has a number of awfully large leaps of faith, but the incentive for a portfolio manager to lend stock is securities lending programs. They let investment managers collect fees for lending their shares. Some of it goes back to the fund and the company running the program keeps the rest. If you don't like it, you need to start demanding more from mutual fund boards (which are some of the phoniest institutions in America - read The Investor's Dilemma).

* -... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 10:33 PM on September 22, 2008

Another political food thread. I stand by my suggestion of homemade sausage.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 4:04 PM on September 22, 2008

Point out to your guests that you are doing your part to get America off of foreign oil by only cooking with California-grown olive oil.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 4:52 PM on September 22, 2008

Mistakes Were Made covers some things like this.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 1:35 PM on September 22, 2008

Kr = Kronenbourg
Pb = Pabst Blue Ribbon
La = Lost Abbey
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 4:15 PM on September 16, 2008

In swimming, we'd swap caps with other people after a meet.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 3:49 PM on September 16, 2008

Previously
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 9:21 PM on September 15, 2008

Are you sure that's a money market fund? A money market fund should not lose 10% - that would be considered "breaking the buck" and would be considered a rather spectacular fund failure.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 10:42 AM on September 15, 2008

The YTM right now is over 10%. The reason it would be that high is, a) the company is nearing default, b) thinly traded, and somebody has needed to unload a large position in them and they've just been taking it in the pants, c) provisions that make it unattractive to hold or complicated, or d) something else.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 5:26 PM on September 14, 2008

Places like the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 4:58 PM on September 14, 2008

For a year in college, I had a roommate who would buy a lot of crap like this (I know from his ebay profile that he bought a Duke lacrosse T-shirt). Though it's not really a political decision to buy the shirt - it's just a mixture of current events and celebrity - I would describe my roommate's political philosophy as Anecdotalist. He liked stories that reveal manliness or rebelliousness or who they "really are" (flag pin stuff). He would've responded positively to much of the RNC,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 11:38 PM on September 13, 2008

Caltrain is the easiest/cheapest way. A taxi from SFO to San Jose would cost north of $100 each way.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 9:55 AM on September 12, 2008

Black Box Voting will have a lot of information for you.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 3:54 PM on September 9, 2008 marked best answer

I believe my washer/dryer is a Frigidaire model similar to yours and I had a problem with my dryer that sounds like yours. A symphony of unpleasant noises, snagging clothes, etc. I live in an apartment, so my landlord took care of it, but when I was trying to diagnose what the hell was causing the pained groans from the dryer, I found there is a foam-ish gasket between the dryer drum and the front of the dryer. It had come loose and created a space where clothes would get caught, and also... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 8:49 AM on September 8, 2008

The Unofficial Troubled Bank List
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 1:06 PM on September 6, 2008

There's uncertainty at this point:
WaPo - "common stock would be diluted but not wiped out"
NYT - "the common and preferred shares of Fannie and Freddie would be reduced to little or nothing"
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 8:30 AM on September 6, 2008

Uva = grape in Italian.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 7:48 PM on September 5, 2008 marked best answer

I think it just refers to it having a grape-y taste, since Andre also sells peach, strawberry, etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 8:13 PM on September 5, 2008

Forms - Firearm Ownership Record.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 8:47 PM on September 4, 2008 marked best answer

And some info about whether or not you actually need to register it
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 9:19 PM on September 4, 2008

The -ist sites tend to have low-volume local interest sports coverage.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 7:12 PM on September 4, 2008

This may be less useful in the Age of Facebook, since it has become very easy to find out how stupid most people are, but this is how I managed to wake up for early classes:
1. Get to class on time once.
2. Find someone in class on whom to have a crush.
3. Every subsequent day,waking up early is mostly about getting to see that person again. Also becomes very easy to find time to make yourself presentable.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 11:00 AM on September 4, 2008

Onion Map made the rounds recently and has a black background.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 9:47 PM on September 3, 2008

Things I've gotten from school that I like:
-package of seeds of flowers in the school colors (I live in an apartment, but my mom likes them)
-invitations to the bigger donor dinners
-parking passes for evening lectures, etc (for locals)
-books
-thank you letters
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 9:01 PM on September 3, 2008

I was going to suggest The Surrender, but I see it is sold out.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 1:50 PM on September 3, 2008

Coconut macaroons are just egg whites, sugar and coconut (and almond/vanilla extract). That has to be the easiest and most delicious way to use a lot of coconut meat. To use the coconut cream, I would start making curries.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 12:10 PM on September 3, 2008 marked best answer

From the New Yorker a few weeks ago - perhaps it is just easier for your mind to wander and allow yourself to make the connections after you have a few cocktails:
"As Jung-Beeman and Kounios see it, the insight process is an act of cognitive deliberation—the brain must be focussed on the task at hand—transformed by accidental, serendipitous connections. We must concentrate, but we must concentrate on letting the mind wander... One of the surprising lessons of this research is... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 10:38 PM on September 1, 2008

Remember that the cost to trade is not zero. There is both fees and time/opportunity cost of capital.

If the price is 1.8, to bet that she will not be president you need to commit $9.82 for the $10 contract. But you pay $0.05 if you are a price-taker and are charged another $0.10 if you are correct. You could win between 3 and 8 cents on a $9.82 commitment.

The math
Price taker:
$9.86 = $9.90 * e^(-rT) * P(x)... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 2:41 PM on September 1, 2008 marked best answer

I noticed I have the price taker price wrong (it should be $9.87 in the example, since the fee is 5 cents), but it doesn't change the math or the conclusion that it is not profitable to continue betting against it. Fees are listed here.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 4:46 PM on September 1, 2008

"Coin edge bezel" is usually what that is called. Amazon has a couple of them for men that may work.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 10:08 AM on August 31, 2008

I seem to remember other cast members barely holding it together in a sketch where Will Ferrell is wearing an American flag thong in a business meeting. He keeps thrusting his crotch right at people while pouring coffee, etc. Sorry I don't know the name of the skit.

here it is
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 12:00 AM on August 31, 2008

Max Power has it - at the 7:50 mark you can get a look at the hood - a 1959 Corvette Stingray Racer.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 10:13 AM on August 30, 2008 marked best answer

Get one hundred $2 bills and use them exclusively for tipping.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 4:33 PM on August 27, 2008

Note that people who vote and don't vote tend to be different.
-non-voters tend to be more Democratic than voters
-which implies voters are more conservative than the population as a whole
-and, of course, voters are... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 11:00 AM on August 25, 2008

Pew has put out a lot of work on who is in cell-phone only households and what they mean for polling. In focused on this one focused on the 2008 election, they mention that the effect on the reliability of polls is muted because they are less likely to pass through the likely voter screens that most polling places use.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 10:37 AM on August 23, 2008

ESPN says Aug 22 8:00 AM ET
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 9:02 PM on August 21, 2008

Link
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 9:04 PM on August 21, 2008

The most uncomfortable pop-psychology/decision-making book I've ever read was Mistakes Were Made.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 4:07 PM on August 20, 2008

Do you only include bodies east of the Golden Gate? Or can they come from around San Francisco, but not exactly in the bay - like the Farallon Islands? Because there's a fair number of shipwrecks toward that area. The California Shipwreck Database shows 140 wrecks in San Francisco County.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 6:53 PM on August 13, 2008

A while back, one of my friends spent a year at Trinity in their Peace Studies program through a Rotary scholarship.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 10:21 AM on August 13, 2008

Do you have a television? Do you have a Tivo/DVR and a cable subscription that has radio channels? My cable has radio channels way up in the 900s. I didn't know what you'd do with those channels until I remembered that shows like Says You and Wiretap don't have podcasts. I record them to Tivo and listen to them when I cook.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milkrate at 3:44 PM on August 12, 2008