If you're a UA Premier Exec or higher or have Star Gold status on another Star Alliance carrier, you should get lounge access in LHR on the outbound and LAX on the return. You might be able to swing a free upgrade to Economy Plus on UA (more legroom, same craptastic coach seats) but certainly not up to business class or an exit row.

On an international flight, there's going to be a list of at least 20-30 people who will get upgraded ahead of you because of frequent flyer... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 7:05 AM on August 5, 2008

There's not a lot to see on Highway 12 through most of western Montana through most of South Dakota. It's rangeland through MT and the Western Dakotas and transitions more into farmland once you cross the Missouri. A few highlights, though:

Miles City, MT to Baker, MT. 80 mile stretch which is basically open range. This is an awesome stretch of highway to drive on a cold, clear, moonless night -- Miles City is barely a glow on the horizon and there's... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 9:33 PM on August 1, 2008

Oh, to plug my hometown: stop in Scranton, ND if you're hungry for pizza or decent bar food.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 9:37 PM on August 1, 2008

Apples power adapters are auto-switching. I've used my MBP in Japan, China, the UK, etc. with nothing more than a regular plug adapter. (you could buy official kit for the usual Apple price)
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 7:09 AM on July 30, 2008

Your MacBook Pro might be up to date for software, but have you made sure your base station is current?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:47 PM on July 29, 2008

This is only slightly related to your question, but I would recommend against using typefaces from most "free fonts" sites on the web.

Seconded. What isn't incomplete is usually a commercial font with the ID changed and copyright stripped.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:04 PM on July 28, 2008

What kind of effects do you want to to apply to the vector part? Illustrator is surprisingly robust to the point of fault. (In our shop, we have files that take 30+ minutes to flatten when sent from a Mac Pro).
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 6:41 PM on July 12, 2008

Bringing photos into Illustrator causes massive files sizes that are really unneeded.

You don't have to embed the images in Illustrator -- you can link to them just fine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 6:30 PM on July 14, 2008

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
Beth Orton - Stolen Car
Haley Bonar - Car Wreck
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 9:33 AM on July 12, 2008

First, it's "sites", not "sights".

To answer your question, a previous question on AskMe yielded free graphics from Briar Press.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 1:51 PM on July 3, 2008

There's no way to do it in the app that I'm aware of --- Acrobat really is not meant for hardcore text entry. You could set the text in another program and use a subscript glyph (not subscript style, but the actual glyph) and paste it into the form field. That should work.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:59 AM on July 3, 2008

Try dropping the global maximum connections (in the "Peers" tab) steeply to see if you get an improvement. You might be overloading your router.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 10:01 AM on June 29, 2008

Check with your bank. My bank (Wells Fargo) will let customers drop off old bank statements, unused checks with old addresses, etc. for destruction along with the branch's sensitive documents. My favored branch doesn't care if you throw in a few credit card statements as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 3:57 PM on June 15, 2008

Is the flight actually on Sri Lankan or is it codeshare with another carrier?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:34 AM on June 12, 2008

You really don't need to worry about the colorbreak. Just let your printer know in advance and tell them you want to make the RGB blacks solid black (or black + cyan or black + magenta if they use an intensifier and if you want it to look "cold" or "warm" respectively) and the greys at 40% black. If you want to pay for two colors, the grays could be easily tint matched to a spot.

And yeah, clean up your typesetting a bit. Loosey goosey tracking on... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 6:22 PM on June 6, 2008

It depends on what OS was installed on the G4. If the OS on the G4 was released *after* the G5, then it should boot just fine. Otherwise the best you can hope for is to install the G4's hard drive in an external enclosure or into the G5 itself and pull the files off.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 10:01 AM on May 26, 2008 marked best answer

Early, silent film horror and scifi classics. Think Metropolis and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 7:59 AM on May 17, 2008

Are you sure they want a composite tiff and not separated, 1-bit tiffs?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:08 AM on May 15, 2008

Do you just need one or do oyu need many? And how high quality does it need to be?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 6:03 PM on May 12, 2008

I only have Pro installed, not Reader, but in your print dialog, is there a pop-up labeled "Comments and Forms"? Try changing that to "Document and Markups"
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 6:02 PM on May 12, 2008

I have nothing on your first question, but the father of Eddie Murphy's love interest in Coming To America rana restaurant called McDougal's (I think) that was exactly like McDonald's.

It was McDowell's.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:36 AM on May 12, 2008

Just out of curiousity, try moving the proflie to ~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 9:31 AM on May 10, 2008

Have you tried contacting Omni?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:07 AM on May 8, 2008

What version of Mac OS X are you running?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 6:47 AM on May 7, 2008

Fax spammer?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:42 PM on May 1, 2008

Not that I know anything about InDesign, but why can't it do that anyway?

That setting makes it output all blacks as their exact cmyk values. Often in printing you add other inks into black to increase its intensity.

djgh -- what are the cmyk values of your black?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:36 AM on April 17, 2008

And oh is the black actually shifting values to gray or is it just rendering as gray?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:39 AM on April 17, 2008

Is it coming from the engine or is it coming from inside the passenger compartment? If it's the later, it's probably a bad blower motor in the climate control system.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 7:49 PM on April 13, 2008

Just send her USD20 in a nondescript envelope and be done with it --- it will cost you far less time and trouble in the long run. And be prepared to wait. Letters seem to take about 2 days to reach the Philippines and then get lost in a Philippine Postal black hole for 2-4 weeks. Mail outbound from the Philippines seems to do much better.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 7:01 PM on April 13, 2008

Plant something that stays low and can crowd out the weeds.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 9:33 PM on April 9, 2008

Restart?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:35 PM on April 9, 2008

My wife is Filipino (Visayan) and says it's "Agay" in Cebuano and "Aray" in Tagalog.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 6:42 PM on April 9, 2008

How large of a flatscreen? You could always go with an off-the-shelf digital picture frame.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:34 AM on April 4, 2008

Something that specific could be a DNS issue. Try going to http://64.233.187.99 in either browser.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:44 PM on March 25, 2008 marked best answer

My first guess is that your ISP or whomever is supplying your DNS has a problem. In the meantime, you can try OpenDNS to get around the problem. OpenDNS does have some critics but, at the very least, switching over to their DNS servers for testing will at least let you prove to your ISP that, yes, the problem is them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:56 PM on March 25, 2008 marked best answer

It would help if you told exactly what you need a map of.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 6:45 PM on March 21, 2008

Worst case scenario? Your fiance is determined to have committed visa fraud and is banned from entry for X number of years.

Just do the K1 paperwork. It's not that hard and it's better to wait six months for the K1 than to get rejected when filing for AOS.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 7:45 PM on March 18, 2008

I agree that we should talk to an immigration lawyer and am in the process of trying to find one here in Tennessee. Any suggestions?

You really don't need an immigration lawyer unless your case is complicated -- and you're actively complicating your case.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 9:23 PM on March 18, 2008

Again, agreeing with Optimus Chyme. The simplest way to put this is that your printer will hate you if you embed your images.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 7:46 AM on March 14, 2008

You can always do an Archive & Install of 10.5 and then re-run the 10.5.2 delta updater. That will return your system to normalacy while preserving installed apps and all user files. (Obviously make a complete backup first.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:06 AM on March 12, 2008

snes9x is great for SNES
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 7:28 PM on March 11, 2008 marked best answer

Most airline cabins are pressurized to about 6000 feet. The pens should be ok barring any rapid pressure changes. In which case you and your pens will be equally messed-up.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 12:40 PM on March 3, 2008

Have you checked hardware stores or farm supply stores?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 4:12 PM on March 1, 2008

Another concern with the iPhone is that it makes you a huge huge target for thieves in at least of the countries you mention. Not only is the phone itself a fantastic score, it also advertises you as a rich foreigner with lots of other good stuff to steal.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 9:37 PM on February 29, 2008

There's always the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. Free and in a cool neighborhood.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:32 PM on February 28, 2008 marked best answer

Agree with Abiezer. If you fly into Hong Kong, you can get it done same day. I believe you can even get it done at Hong Kong and then hop a bus/train/ferry across the border into Guangzhou.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 7:15 AM on February 28, 2008

If you're interested in economic games, there's always OpenTTD, an open source clone of TransportTycoon Deluxe. I'd also check out the Railroad Tycoon series... it's got enough of an economics engine to make it interesting and involves a good deal of micromanagement. As a plus it plays well on older hardware.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 9:27 PM on February 27, 2008

Disclaimer: I work for a division of one of your national competitors.

There's only so much that mags and trades can do for you -- it takes a couple years of doing prepress before you get into the flow. Get your hands dirty -- learn how to fully keyline and assemble a file. It's a drastically different viewpoint than design and the best way to understand is by doing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 11:12 AM on February 26, 2008

The thought of a design firm doing prepress work without prior experience makes me shiver. Like Ken said, you need to hire new good people and dip in gradually. Otherwise you're going to rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars in rework, printer fines and even legal liability.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 8:24 PM on February 26, 2008

If you need res down to a micron, you might need to get friendly with a local printer and have them burn film.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nathan_teske at 11:07 AM on February 24, 2008