Ask comment:
"Also try putting out familiar smells - Food, but also your dirty laundry. No idea if it helps, but I did when my buddy went for a walk for a few days, and he sauntered on home maybe 8 hours after I scattered some dirty t-shirts outside along with..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Lesser Shrew
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I will say the heretical here: I don't like the Thomas Guide. I spent the better part of a year working as a runner and I never used it. Instead, I kept in the car two copies of the whole AAA Los Angeles set of maps, and I used Mapquest before I..." [
more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Room 641-A, dhammond, matteo, cacophony
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"If you have no interest in a blog on any part of the web site, uninstall Wordpress and start with the "free drag and drop site builder" advertised on Bluehost's homepage...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by anildash
6 months ago
Ask post:
DVD ripping on linux
favorited 10 times, recently by finrod, Lentrohamsanin, so, Ctrl_Alt_ep, natabat, dyno04, rpn, lou, Zed_Lopez, jjb
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"Ha! It's fairly accepted conventional wisdom among my peers (I'm male and 34) that women tend to vanish from the dating market between 25-30 and then re-appear only to marry someone within the next couple years. Usually it's because they were in..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by chicainthecity, Kololo, eatcake
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"I don't think that is conventionally defined. You could find the slope of the projection of that line onto an arbitrary plane, or more meaningfully you could find the slopes of the 3 projections onto the planes defined by the x, y, and z axes. Been..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
8 months ago
Ask comment:
"Stress is caused not by challenges, but by being confronted with challenges for which you do not have appropriate resources.
Sounds like the project is poorly engineered and managed, and that is part of the company culture.
If your code is so..." [
more]
favorited 4 times, recently by rmm, lilithim, anastasiav, malaprohibita
Last year
Ask comment:
"This is a truly semantic argument undermined by a lack of understanding of the mechanisms of dreaming.
Girl #2 is basically arguing that if you do not recall your dream, then you did not have it.
My personal belief is that the narrative of..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by milkdropcoronet
Last year
Ask comment:
"I think we don't really care that much? Personally, I had stopped using it in favor of newer medications that work just as well." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Jaie
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I used to love to eat Elio's frozen pizza. But it was bad pizza. I knew this even when I was 12. Pizza Hut makes bad pizza. They may make something you consider a good dinner, but it's not good pizza.
If you are unable or philosophically..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by feloniousmonk
Two years ago
Ask comment:
"Unless you are planning on adminstering some server software or doing some coding, you're not going to gain much. You may get a deeper understanding of how a computer works. I would amend reklaw's comment to say that most of the..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by trwh
Two years ago
Ask comment:
"See also Fowler in 1908. What's interesting is that I believe he is the one who first popularized the idea of restricting "which" to non-restrictive clauses, but he makes an argument from utility (style), not because it's a rule on the..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by RussHy
Two years ago
Ask comment:
"Did you even read that entry?
Some people extend the rule and insist that, just as that should be used only in restrictive clauses, which should be used only in nonrestrictive clauses. By this thinking, you should avoid using which in sentences..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by RussHy
Two years ago
Ask comment:
"It should be noted that this is a style and usage thing, not a grammatical rule. If the usage noted above were followed universally, certain ambiguous constructions would be eliminated. It is not, however, universally followed, and in the past the..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by RussHy
Two years ago
