Ask comment:
"Taco seasoning and flour tortillas. Mexican food was the only thing we never found anywhere when I lived in China, and the Mexican food themed care package we got was the best ever! Seconding magazines - I don't read them here, but things like..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by silkygreenbelly
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Some of the online commentary is really interesting:
- Whistleblower about why he identified Sanlu as the company responsible for the contamination
- About downplaying the incident by pointing the finger - other countries do it too!
- Chinese..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by sebastienbailard
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I just spent a good chunk of this afternoon literally turning our apartment upside down, looking for that paper.
I finally found where it *should* have been (with essays called "Hackettsville Forensics Case", "Self Identification:..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by roger ackroyd
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Every time that resurfaces, I wish I'd been able to answer at the time.
This was the final exam question in my forensic anthro class in college (apply your knowledge of forensic identification techniques and write about how to overcome them), so..." [
more]
favorited 8 times, recently by roger ackroyd, arcticwoman, sveskemus, piedmont, bettafish, middleclasstool, dejah420, shelleycat
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"ColdChef, that's heart wrenching reading, I'm so sorry you have to go through this.
What can we out-of-towners do to help? Would donating to a national charity like the Red Cross be ideal, or are there any charities in your local area that could..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by scody
Last month
MeFi comment:
"It's a sad event in any case, but it becomes much more disturbing if they were specifically targeted for being foreigners/Americans.
Nationalism and anti-foreign sentiment has been running high in China anyway in the lead-up to the Olympics (i.e...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The labeling of the Uighurs as "terrorists" has been ongoing for a long time, since way before 2001, and some Han Chinese are, frankly, terribly racist when it comes to this particular minority. It seems to me that equating the Uighur..." [
more]
favorited 5 times, recently by lukemeister, homunculus, Tlogmer, bookish, longbaugh
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Is it possible to have a headset where I sometimes use the earbuds for sound, and other times have sound come out of my speakers, while I still use the microphone?
Like others have said, this will normally drive your teammates crazy. But you can..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by flibbertigibbet
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"When I worked in archeology, we had a ritual for when we finished all the fieldwork on a site.
The head of the project would get a stack of new quarters minted that year, and we would toss one into each of the excavation pits as we refilled them...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Elsa
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I met him once and chatted for about ten minutes, and he was a really nice guy that came off as both incredibly smart and hooked into the political community, and yet very humble and kind of reminded me of a bumbling great uncle in a way.
A huge..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by misha
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"I would suggest that you ask the salary question once you have a good feel for the job and the company, and once you have decided you would like to work there.
As the interviewer, I like to get this question at the end of the first interview, if..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by twiki
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I was in China when the Belgrade embassy was bombed. It was a very tense time for us for a few days. We got thrown out of cabs for being Americans and had to walk everywhere. We were refused service at a few restaurants because we were foreigners...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"The most common Chinese font families as far as I know from my own research for work are Ming (aka Song, because it's based on the Song Dynasty writings), Hei, FangSong (may also be called "Li", I think), and Kai, but there are various..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by bonaldi
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"And if by "stupid" you mean "dream-encroachingly addictive", then yes.
I certainly was a much better spy in my TF2 dream last night than I have ever been on the server......" [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Pope Guilty, The Great Big Mulp
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The thing is, holding the Olympics is not only related to trying to emerge as an important power on the global stage. The PRC government is also so focused on the Olympics because of how it plays for the average Chinese citizen.
Holding the..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"And if you can explain to me what it is about video games that enriches your life like LEGOs, flirting, poker and building treehouses have enriched mine, then I'll finally feel like I really get it.
The question you are asking is important, I..." [
more]
favorited 16 times, recently by Merlyn, Bearman, misha, sixcolors, Wilder, ulotrichous, CitrusFreak12, Rock Steady, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, slimepuppy, flatluigi, jtron, chrismear, naju, mathowie, stavrosthewonderchicken
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"Is spear-phising different from regular phising?
evariste already ably answered this, but I thought I'd elaborate because it's a huge issue for me. It's also a really insidious social engineering technique that not enough people are aware of. Like..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Abiezer, anaelith, evariste
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"I totally sympathize, as I've been in similar positions. Here is what I did.
In order to feel like I had done everything I could, I tried to not prejudice my interaction with the person in question beforehand. That meant to tough it out for a..." [
more]
favorited 6 times, recently by spinturtle, ukdanae, Serena, suedehead, red_lotus, pomegranate
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Buckley's version makes me cry every time, and in my mind it's the definitive version.
That said, I really dig the live version by Espen Lind, Askil Holm, Alejandro Fuentes, and Kurt Nilsen (a Norwegian Idol winner, ironically) off their..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by donnagirl
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"There is only one reason that I can think of, other than "she's just not that into you". Is there any possibility that she is very self conscious about her appearance and body, and that she is just too afraid to move beyond kissing?..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by gregb1007
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If you can apply critical thinking to printed pages, then you can do the same with the information you find on the internet. Banning Wikipedia and Google searches won't help your students develop good research habits and a critical mindset. Spoon..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by uncorq
8 months ago
Ask comment:
"How about Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow. A weird meshing together of historical fiction and sci-fi written from an anthropological perspective." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Rallon
9 months ago
Ask comment:
"I have pretty much constant sinus infections, and from what I understand from my ENT, amoxicillin for a sinus infection is pretty close to worthless.
I have been fighting frequent and recurring sinus infections for years. The ONLY thing that..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by cptspalding
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What languagehat said. The traditional characters are so much easier to learn, too, because a lot of them kinda make sense once you know the radicals.
Spotting funny Chinglish sings was a cheap and fun pastime in Beijing. If I'd only thought to..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
9 months ago
Ask comment:
"When my husband eats the last of my saved treat without asking, there is NO doubt that he will get sent out to buy me more of it - or something of equal or greater deliciousness. I don't care that it's 10:30pm on Sunday night - that's what you get..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by anaelith, taff
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"For anyone who is in the lower middle class bracket (where you make enough money to get by, with just a little bit extra to spend on luxuries) the deep discounts of Black Friday can be extremely important. If you are stretching your money as far as..." [
more]
favorited 6 times, recently by lunit, bugbread, transona5, pandaharma, Arasithil, landis
10 months ago
Ask comment:
"A lot of the abbreviations seem to have evolved naturally from the type of shorthand you have to use when you are playing games online. Way before you could talk to eachother using built-in mics, you had to type any commands or comments. In order to..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by amyms
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I like the 8-year old who has a button for "firewall" and an item on the screen called "Security". That probably tells us a lot about her parents' computer/internet savvy...." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, Dillonlikescookies
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Given that production of the OLPC just got started on November 6 at the Quanta factory in Changshu, that's pretty decent turnaround for it to be on the market. However, some people say that the "give one get one" initiative is a very..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by lodurr
10 months ago
Ask comment:
"-Do a genealogy site for your family, with pictures and the family stories that fade from everyones' memory as they grow old. Have your family submit content.
-Put up a tribute page for whoever you are most in awe of.
-Post your favorite recipes..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Locative
10 months ago
Ask comment:
"Just for future reference, you can also format the merge field in the Word document to do the same thing, without having to fiddle with the spreadsheet/database. You do it by using a numeric picture field switch (\#) within the merge field.
Once..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Optimus Chyme, kev23f
10 months ago
Ask comment:
"A friend of mine made a lampshade from a number of CT Scans, and it turned out really well. It made for a really cool lamp, a true conversation piece. The lampshade was really large for a tiny and low-watt lamp, but the light was enough to shine..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Wolfster
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"When I studied in China, I had a teacher who was fond of telling us about some of the Great Leap initiatives that she remembered from her childhood. Teacher L told us in vivid detail about several of these in particular - one was the sparrow hunting,..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by chlorus, Pope Guilty, baphomet
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Quite interesting, thanks. I liked the blacklisted IPs showing up as well, it gives you a neat way of looking at the net. Bookmarked for when they add in IP address search...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by lenbust
11 months ago
Ask comment:
"A few things off the top of my head:
-Make sure that you can't post to the forum without having registered with a valid email address. This sounds incredibly basic, but it weeds out a lot of problem people (who are either too lazy or too..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by thebrokedown
11 months ago
Ask comment:
"Ah, yes. This stuff is the bane of my existence, particularly on window blinds. Washington, D.C. here, but we get the same city dust too.
I use Murphy's oil soap diluted in water with a good low-lint cotton dust rag that can be washed in the..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I would much rather be the Evil Overlord than the "tool of the evil empire", dammit! Remind me not to wear red shirts...
The Myers-Briggs is not going to get at your exact personality, of course, but it can be a general pointer. On one..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I hyphenated my last name when I got married, which is probably the single biggest mistake I've made in my marriage (so far, knock on wood). It's too long and cumbersome, and it's awful to fill out on forms, even if it makes my full name very..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Goofyy
Last year
Ask comment:
"Definitely talk to your grad school IT administrators. They are going to be protective of their systems, and most certainly would have an issue with someone using your school email address to harass you, as it will have to pass through their servers..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by ClaudiaCenter, koakuma, thebrokedown
Last year
Ask comment:
"Life can be so tough sometimes. I really empathize with you, and it sounds like you are dealing with the grief and anger better than a lot of other people would have.
Sometimes it's almost harder to deal with bad things that happened to those who..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by splendid animal
Last year
Ask comment:
"Trend Micro online scanner
If you don't have an active anti-virus program (given your comment on Norton), you should get yourself one. There are a ton of free ones. Personally I run AVG.
Try starting in Safe Mode (usually F8 as you start your..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by schoenbc
Last year
Ask comment:
"You buy a domain name, the site/blog associated with that domain name has to be created (by me, a template, or a designer), then hosted somewhere. Is that correct?
Yes, that is correct.
Once I find a host, how do I direct my domain name to my..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by healthyliving
Last year
Ask comment:
"My husband used the Personal Trainer series from O’Reilly to get caught up before his new job. They look silly, but they are quite good if you want to work at it for a while.
If she wants an overview primer, try the Free Online Tutorials here, or..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by moonshine, logic vs love
Last year
