This is a shot in the dark, but if I were going to try to block Javascript only on a specific page on every browser on a Windows machine, I'd do it using the hosts file. You don't say much about the site being blocked, but it'd be relatively elementary to add the part of the domain that the javascript is hosted on to the hosts file and thus only block the javascript and only block it on that page, but for every browser on the machine.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 11:56 AM on October 6, 2008

Ah. That's good.</small.
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 11:57 AM on October 6, 2008

> garrh.
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 12:03 PM on October 6, 2008

As everybody else is saying, you're going about this backwards.

Go to a psychiatrist.

Ask for an evaluation.

If you have ADD, then discuss treatment, and ask if you should be prescribed.

If you don't, you still have a problem with procrastination. Ask the psychiatrist what to do. Discuss options and solutions.

You should never have taken Concerta or... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 11:23 AM on October 6, 2008

Contiguously gingivinous.
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 9:48 PM on October 5, 2008

The greatest novel in the 'dystopian' genre, I believe, is Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Yeah, it's set more than a century ago, but it certainly feels like the end of the world. Particularly the image of a barren prairie carpeted as far as the eye can see with piles of bleached buffalo bones is a haunting one that it's difficult to shake; the book seems to be about confronting that nameless, faceless thing in us and in the world that annihilates. It's a fantastic book,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 2:28 PM on October 5, 2008

Sorry, that was a spew of words, but I meant to say what A Canticle for Leibowitz is about: a monastery in the dry, dessicated centuries after a nuclear holocaust that maintains the secret knowledge of the past.
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 2:30 PM on October 5, 2008

Derive the Hamiltonian of...: I usually rip straight through novels, but Blood Meridian has required several sanity pauses.

I still remember the day I finished Blood Meridian. I couldn't talk for two hours straight after finally putting it down.
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 2:53 PM on October 5, 2008

There are many different definitions of the term "philosophy."

Yes, Zen is a book that talks about understanding the world, so, in modern parlance, it is "philosophy."

My only comment, I guess, would be that its conceptions of Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas and Plato, among many others, are horribly and utterly wrong. Maybe that's because Zen is written from the perspective of a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 11:22 AM on October 5, 2008

The interesting thing about this question is that you neglected to say whether you're a guy or a girl, yet it's obvious from the way you talk ("I was in threesomes with girls, so I gave the orders") that you're a guy. Not too subtle a guy, either.

I'd back off.

Also, not to get all Dan Savage on you, but: if you are a guy, you should think about what you'll be doing with the boyfriend. Are you and him going to be... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 10:43 AM on October 5, 2008

1. D/L and burn a copy of a Linux live cd. My absolute favorite for this stuff is Knoppix - good for partition work, especially where there are NTFS partitions, as Knoppix can mount, read, and write NTFS partitions.

2. Boot the computer with the Linux live cd in the drive.

3. Open a terminal and enter the command fdisk and press enter.

4. Press 'p' and then press enter.

Now... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 8:36 AM on October 2, 2008

... and if fdisk doesn't see that 120 gigs, then we might have a deeper problem.
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 8:38 AM on October 2, 2008

This is precisely the problem that this guy had: people on his network wanted access to a VPN but also wanted strong security. His solution? A Linux live CD that didn't touch the hard drive, so that you could stick the disk in, disconnect your home network cable, reboot the computer, and use the VPN through your computer without anybody seeing anything on your hard drive - absolute security, even beyond encryption, since nobody can decrypt what they can't see.

The... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 3:50 PM on October 1, 2008

It's French for "-ality." True.

And I don't think it has anything particular to do with the discussion of art.
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 11:48 AM on September 30, 2008

I don't think you should necessarily just go in and ask for another drug, but anecdotally I've had great results with Ritalin LR. It's the newest reformulation of Ritalin and constitutes a gigantic step forward for the drug, in my opinion - I was on the old Ritalin all through high school, and it was hell.

Drawback is that there's no generic version.
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 12:16 PM on September 29, 2008

Yeesh. I can find absolutely nothing on this dude; he's obscure, no? Just a bunch of prints for sale on ebay.

Speaking of which, I did discover that you could, if you wished, go on ebay and purchase this back issue of American Artist from 1971. There's an article in there by one Robert Kolbe about our guy called "ARTHUR SELLER: B DESIGN." Don't know if that's a typo.

Or go to a library and see if they can get you... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 2:55 PM on September 28, 2008

Sorry, link to that magazine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 2:55 PM on September 28, 2008

It's really an art. Good on to you for moving to what lots of cooks believe is the ideal cooking setup; it just takes some getting used to. I cook with Calphalon stainless pans myself, and they're fantastic.

First, remember why a gas range is the best kind of range: because it heats instantly. Often, when using an electric, I turn it all the way up to get it to heat fast and then turn it down as the pan approaches hot. You can't do that over a gas range; there's not... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 2:15 PM on September 28, 2008

I wouldn't trust Vista. Even beyond my (admittedly somewhat superstitious) distrust, I've heard from friends that it doesn't handle some USB drivers well.

This is a simple check. Have you tried plugging your flash drive into a computer with a different OS? Say, an XP computer or a Mac?
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 3:50 AM on September 27, 2008

I should say more specifically: the experience I've heard about is Vista demanding drivers for flash drives when they're plugged in (which is a little silly) and misassigning or neglecting to assign drive letters. You might have luck checking into the Disk Management dialogue and making sure letters are assigned or formatting or partitioning from there.
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 3:54 AM on September 27, 2008

1. Do not, under any circumstances, buy a new guitar. New guitars are for people with more than $500. New guitars that cost less than $500 are not worth learning on.

2. Go to yard sales. Seriously. Better than pawn shops, better than Craigslist, better than ebay. At yard sales, people often don't know what something's worth.

3. Understand that that's the only way you're going to get a guitar for $50 - by getting lucky. Shoot for $100, maybe, and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 4:47 PM on September 26, 2008

Hey! That Takamine looks kinda nifty! And it looks almost like the guitar I learned to play on!
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 4:48 PM on September 26, 2008

althanis: Am I being immature and burning my bridges?

No. And that's your whole mistake, guy.

She's a person who's desperately in need of help and support. You, my friend, as nice as you seem, are not the person who can give it to her. What's more, given your soul and outlook, the world needs people like you to keep from being dragged down by people like her

Get a new cell phone number and email address, guy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 1:15 PM on September 26, 2008

geoff.: "she was so boring she made my boner die." = I made out with her and I got rejected.

I wasn't going to comment because, as has been noted, matty answered this question the best it can be answered - you don't owe him anything, not even a second thought. However, I do want to say a few things on the matter of honor and respect purely because I sense, anonymous, that you're on the fence on the subject and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 9:17 AM on September 26, 2008

Link
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 2:14 PM on September 24, 2008

Well, this text seems to indicate that one A. Proviña produced a translation of Mauss'
Manuel d'ethnographie (link is to copies of full text in French) in 1957 which was entitled Manual del Folclore frances contemporaneo, and that this quotation occurs on page 17. I may be incorrect, but that's my reading of the situation. Unfortunately, I can't find the quotation, so I'm thinking I might have taken the wrong track.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 1:06 PM on September 24, 2008

Sorry: that first link ("this text") is a link to a .pdf, and the indication to which I refer is at the top of page 16, which is marked as page 33. There's a line in the bibliography about it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 1:11 PM on September 24, 2008

Ah. I should be reading instead of searching so much. Proviña isn't a translator; he's a sociologist himself who seems to like to quote the bit you're looking for.
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 1:21 PM on September 24, 2008

Okay. The French formulation is:

« Est populaire tout ce qui n’est pas officiel ».

Or, as you say above, 'the popular is all that isn't official.' Mauss appears to have formulated this as a way to think about folklore and ethnography. It is mentioned here in an interview with Pierre Bourdieu.

Though it seems to be a theme in his works, and I can find similar ideas, this particular phrase does... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 1:52 PM on September 24, 2008

That sounds very much like the Iron Law of Institutions, which states, according to Wikipedia: "... the people who hold power in institutions are guided principally by preserving power within the institution, rather than the success of the institution itself."
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 12:28 PM on September 24, 2008 marked best answer

Although JoanArkham's link is probably better; Pournelle is the man you want, I think. He's a science fiction writer.
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 12:32 PM on September 24, 2008

This is hard to do right, and I'll say that personally I implicitly don't trust for-profit trade organizations, but they are becoming more and more common. The most well-known for-profit trade organization is probably the Better Business Bureau.

The trick about all this is, although I have no idea what industry you're thinking about, the line between 'for-profit trade association' and 'marketing company' is a very fine one. Since there usually... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 10:25 AM on September 24, 2008 marked best answer

Oktober: I imagine it's usually done as a "not-for-profit" enterprise in order to gain favorable tax treatment.

On the contrary, 'not-for-profit' entities are subject to a higher level of transparency, especially about where they're getting their funding. In short, it's much easier for the public to know that a not-for-profit isn't getting paid off to lie.
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 10:27 AM on September 24, 2008

Also, that second one, La Jettée, directed by Chris Marker, is a remarkable movie. It's probably not worth noting, but the vastly inferior Terry Gilliam film 12 Monkeys is based on La Jettée.

And, if you like La Jettée, you should find Chris Marker's other (not totally obscure) movie, Sans Soleil. It's a documentary-poem in English with images from around the world... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 10:46 AM on September 23, 2008

languagehat: Also, since nobody's actually spelled the movie's title correctly yet, it's La Jetée. The title is hard to translate; Wikipedia says "boarding platform," which I guess is as good as anything I can come up with.

Gah! I was so busy fussing with it trying to get the unicode accent to work that I misspelled the damned word!

But I think "tarmac" is a pretty... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 12:58 PM on September 23, 2008

A Jetty
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 12:59 PM on September 23, 2008

Thanks for the tip, tremspeed! I have the Criterion DVD of Ozu's Late Spring (a fantastic film if there ever was one), yet I'd never looked at the stuff on the bonus disc, which includes Tokyo-Ga. I can't wait to watch that now...
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 10:04 AM on September 24, 2008

Lokheed: Did you actually make a U-turn?

shinynewnick: I guess my first question would be, did you make the illegal u-turn in a business district?

joshrholloway: Pay the ticket and be more careful from now on.

Ahem:

rileyray3000: I took google maps pictures proving from where the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 1:48 PM on September 22, 2008

troy: geez a 3 point turn in a business district is more dangerous than a straight "U"ie. The whole point of the law is to prevent people from swooping into available parking spaces like that.

I don't know if you read the comment correctly ("I crossed all wheels off the road onto the driveway") but if you're correct, then it's either illegal to pull into a driveway or illegal to pull... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 8:17 PM on September 22, 2008

I've seen 'Free Public Wifi' nodes all over, like that article states. And, true to form, they're always ad-hoc, and they always go nowhere.

Also, as he points out, my attempts to study whatever the hell the network is doing have gone nowhere. Those 'Free Public Wifi' connections don't look anything like spyware or anything - they don't even connect, and there's never much pinging. Which is nice.

So they seem to be totally pointless features of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 11:20 AM on September 22, 2008

As far as Metafilter-anecdotal evidence is concerned:

I've moved Pyrex from the freezer to the preheated oven without incident more than once.

As far as Pyrex warnings are concerned:

According to what rtha quotes above, it looks like Pyrex warns against not
As far as other pieces of advice:

No, I do not think you should throw it. I think that would cross over into the realm of "unsafe."
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 11:14 AM on September 22, 2008

jnaps: I went to a bar with a girl I'm seeing and hung out with her group of friends...and also met two of her ex-boyfriends. I played it off, but when we met, she told me she was 140% lesbian. Am I being too hung up on labels or is it a little shady that she didn't tell me that she's bisexual? ... The thing is, I'm not so much worried about dating a true bisexual, but I am worried about dating and falling for someone who's more in the bi-curious range, and getting my... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 10:09 AM on September 22, 2008

Also, I understand that this isn't about 'labels' for you or for her. There's a whole lesbian dynamic, as is to be expected, and it makes sense that she'd tell you: 'I'm 140% lesbian.' That's her saying: 'hey, I'm not just the goofy little girl at the buffet who wants to try a little of everything, I'm in this, so don't worry. You won't have to spend months disentangling a weird situation where I go off and do impulsive things or get ambivalent or silly.' 'I'm a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 10:15 AM on September 22, 2008 marked best answer

Python is very good at string manipulation and at natural-language analysis, which (I believe) is what you're talking about: it would, for example, be very good at trying to do more and more complex parsing of written text for more and more complex kinds of information. If you're looking to mine data from text, then a really great way to learn Python, in fact, is through the Natural Language Tool Kit, which is both a suite of language-analysis program and a tutorial for... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 9:23 AM on September 18, 2008 marked best answer

Also, if I may disagree with shothotbot (I think): if you are set on designing a data front-end (which it sounds like you want to do) then you will have to learn to program. If you really want to learn to program (keep in mind, this is a serious undertaking, and you should read Peter Norvig's awesome Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years to get an idea of what it means) then I believe that Python is the very best way to go. Python's a great first language - it's intuitive,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 9:36 AM on September 18, 2008 marked best answer

Minor quibble: Tesseract is open-source, and therefore wasn't "purchased" by Google - it's under the Apache license. It's free for any company to use it if they like, and it doesn't appear to me that Google is putting much development manpower on the project, if they're putting any at all. (Apologies if I'm wrong about that.) Rather, they've been kind enough to offer hosting and to encourage others to work on the project rather than allow it to languish. That's what works... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 1:34 PM on September 17, 2008

kiltedtaco: I would caution you against looking for a source like "so and so in this TV show, in 1992, episode twelve". It's an complex word with a much larger history.

I hold that this is the most sensible answer to your question. For example, since I happen to be reading Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, here's a passage from page 250 of the Penguin... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 10:51 AM on September 17, 2008

Sorry, missed a link. Here's the entry on the etymology of the word 'so.'
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 10:53 AM on September 17, 2008

Geez, don't people know how to talk anymore? There's such a thing as rational discourse.

Talk with her. Tell her you disagree. Listen carefully to her points and decide whether you think she's right, then tell her what you think and tell her why. You might learn something; at the very least, you'll have an interesting conversation. She might not change her mind, but that's her prerogative, and if you're the type of person who finds it annoying that people disagree with... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 9:53 PM on September 14, 2008

idb: It's been a struggle to maintain that intellectual respect for my friend. I'd like to be able to do that.

That's understandable - I know the feeling. In this age, we have a habit of assuming lots of things and believing that no one could ever think otherwise.

I'll only say that my experience is that, when I believe that something is clearly, obviously, and self-evidently true, and then I meet... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 9:57 PM on September 14, 2008