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Steamed Rice with what? I'd like to use my rice cooker more often. I'm looking for recipes that take five to ten minutes that I can add / pour over / serve next to my steamed rice. Bonus: What are some things I can add to the rice cooker as the rice is being cooked to make it a one pot meal?
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at 11:12 PM on September 1, 2008
(34 comments)
Fasting may be the remedy for jet lag. By
overiding your clock (audio interview 12 min) that prepares your body to eat, it is likely that you can reset your body's clock. Might this be the missing step in training yourself to be an
early riser?
via
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at 6:41 PM on May 23, 2008
(23 comments)
Meet
Freddie:
He looks up at me and the bargaining begins. "If I eat two peas is that enough?" I am used to him starting the bids low. "Now Fred there are only seven peas on your plate, can't you just eat them? ". He then starts to turn pale. He slumps down into his chair and fiddles with his cutlery, accidentally on purpose knocking them onto the floor to create a diversion. Can one determined woman turn
Freddie into a vegetable lover?
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at 7:43 PM on April 26, 2008
(66 comments)
So I enjoy books that are an elaboration on theoretical taxonomies such as
Roget's International Thesaurus (not the dictionary style) and
A Pattern Language. What other books or websites might I enjoy in this vein? Taxonomies on birds or plants are interesting, but I'm looking for things that aren't immediately obvious.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bigmusic
at 10:09 PM on March 30, 2008
(17 comments)
I'm trying to rember a quote from a science or public radio show (maybe even TED) and where it came from "X is a story we tell ourselves." Where X is what the story is about. I think X might have been memory, but I'm not sure.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bigmusic
at 7:16 PM on March 7, 2008
(15 comments)
Syndicated columnist Annalee Newitz on
Metafilter.
posted to MetaTalk by bigmusic
at 6:13 PM on January 30, 2008
(74 comments)
What has changed chemically in the process of these "long lasting gums?" Before a piece of gum would be flavorful for like 10 minutes tops. Now, I can chew on these newer gums like an hour before they are not flavorful. What happened?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bigmusic
at 8:22 PM on January 21, 2008
(3 comments)
If I wanted to extrapolate how many years it's going to take before traffic fatalities were reduced to a statistically insignificant occurrence, how would I do that? I would use the data from the
Fatality Analysis Reporting System.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bigmusic
at 8:36 AM on January 11, 2008
(14 comments)
Austinites and
San Antonians UNITE! Let's have a meetup in San Marcos on the 2nd of Feb.
posted to MetaTalk by bigmusic
at 9:54 PM on December 29, 2007
(30 comments)
I would like to make crunchy snacks from scratch. Please give me recipes.
(Slicing up a vegetable or a fruit is not a recipe)
posted to Ask Metafilter by bigmusic
at 11:56 PM on December 3, 2007
(24 comments)
It's nice that we have popular favorites for ask.me for the last
7 days and the last
thirty days, but can we get all time favorites as well? (also links to the 7 days and 30 days on the popular questions page.)
posted to MetaTalk by bigmusic
at 6:24 PM on November 28, 2007
(23 comments)
"If the emergence of techno and the proliferation of its related genres thrust DJs and producers into the spotlight, it also spawned artists who, like Kraftwerk before them, chose to remain anonymous and distant. The Scottish duo Boards of Canada (Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison) is a case in point, an even more enigmatic presence on the UK's electronic music landscape than Aphex Twin and Autechre. Eoin and Sandison have consistently minimized their role in the commercial side of music-making and have avoided its attendant lifestyle: They've shunned city life for the rural seclusion of their Hexagon Sun studio and its local collective of artists. They claim to record primarily for themselves and their friends. They have reportedly amassed an enormous archive of unreleased music dating back to the early '80s (numerous apocryphal BoC tracks make the rounds). They seldom give interviews or perform live."
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at 9:11 AM on November 26, 2007
(70 comments)
I want to do minor maintenance on my cars (oil changes, brake checks, and so on), but I don't have a garage to do it in or a concrete driveway. All I have is a gravel / dirt driveway to work on. I would like to jack up my cars (and put them on jack stands), but I'm not comfortable at all doing it on this kind of surface. How can I do this without putting myself in harms way?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bigmusic
at 6:59 PM on September 24, 2007
(9 comments)
Favoriting on the blue has stopped working with Opera on Windows XP. Works fine on all other sites.
posted to MetaTalk by bigmusic
at 10:06 PM on June 18, 2007
(2 comments)
In the emergency room at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, Edith Isabel Rodriguez was seen as a
complainer.
posted to MetaFilter by bigmusic
at 10:32 PM on June 2, 2007
(114 comments)
What could cause electricity to go out sporadically?
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at 10:35 PM on May 23, 2007
(10 comments)
It's probably about time to start planning the 10th anniversary for metafilter. It goes without saying that there should be a meet-up involved somehow. But where should it be?
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at 3:59 PM on May 7, 2007
(99 comments)
How do you create text files from a spreadsheet?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bigmusic
at 10:55 PM on May 2, 2007
(6 comments)
In sixteenth-century Paris, a popular form of entertainment was cat-burning, in which a cat was hoisted in a sling on a stage and slowly lowered into a fire. According to historian Norman Davies, "[T]he spectators, including kings and queens, shrieked with laughter as the animals, howling with pain, were singed, roasted, and finally carbonized." Today, such sadism would be unthinkable in most of the world. This change in sensibilities is just one example of perhaps the most important and most underappreciated trend in the human saga: Violence has been in decline over long stretches of history, and today we are probably living in
the most peaceful moment of our species' time on earth. [pdf]
via NPR
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at 9:02 PM on April 14, 2007
(148 comments)
I usually buy brown cage free eggs and boil them in the morning for breakfast. Yesterday I bought cage free eggs with
enhanced Vitamin E and Omega-3 and I tried them this morning and the yolks tasted very fishy and made me want to puke. Did I just get bad eggs or do all of these type eggs (omega3 and vitamin E enhanced eggs) taste this way?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bigmusic
at 7:38 AM on April 9, 2007
(15 comments)
CAD Filter: Can someone explain to me why all the layers in my file seem to be in a layer called xref?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bigmusic
at 8:29 PM on March 11, 2007
(4 comments)
When doing
this post (nsfw) I did a strikeout for the title and it worked fine in the preview, but when it went live the strikeout was removed. "Go back" should have been striked out.
posted to MetaTalk by bigmusic
at 2:23 PM on February 26, 2007
(16 comments)
