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At some point in the future, I'd like to follow the recommendations of some various sites I've seen online and scan most of my paper archives to PDF. It looks like
this would be the best solution (I'm a Mac user) – or, at least, that's the device I've seen recommended a few million times. However, I really can't see having the discretionary $417+ to purchase this device, not for a very, very long time. Does anyone offer this device for rental? (I live in Chicago.) Is there a
RipDigital equivalent for this kind of thing (a
very long time ago, they did the initial move of my music from CDs to MP3s)? Are there cheaper alternatives that are
just as good?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 8:20 PM on November 21, 2009
(9 comments)
"
Dollhouse" is dead. Joss Whedon falls victim to FOX once more.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 3:19 PM on November 11, 2009
(146 comments)
I'm by nature a person who likes to keep myself looking neat. I'm having a logistical problem with that.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 10:40 AM on October 20, 2009
(27 comments)
Henry Rollins:
The Death of Joe Cole:
Part 1,
Part 2. About 17 minutes total, but, God, worth it.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 1:43 PM on October 1, 2009
(38 comments)
Doomsday vs. Lyric (YT). From
Rhyme Spitters 2006, a documentary of an annual Chicago tournament of
freestyle emcee battles – completely improvised verbal battles between two rappers where insults are brought to a lyrical form that's often hilarious, often very politically incorrect, and usually NSFW. It's usually not taken personal by either party – in fact, it's not unusual in these battles to see a rapper smiling in appreciation of a particularly well-crafted insult that just came from their opponent. See also
Rhyme Spitters 1,
2, and
4, each hour-long documentaries online at Vimeo featuring tons more battles.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 12:58 AM on September 27, 2009
(36 comments)
Idea: the Metafilter link-checker. Take the part of the 'new post' process that double-checks against prior posts, add the part of Mefi that conjures up the related posts, put a link to the feature up on the two lines of links near the logo.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:59 PM on September 18, 2009
(42 comments)
How do you multiply probability across multiple chances? Let's say that every time you roll a die, you have a one-in-six chance of having five come up. What math would you perform to come up with the probability of five coming up at some point with the dice being rolled two times? Three? Five? Ten? (I'm using dice as a shorthand here: the actual probability figure I'm working with is 24%.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 9:39 AM on September 16, 2009
(15 comments)
"
Hi. My name is Gene and this is my journal." Young Gene Roddenberry meets two Garfield-eyed aliens who proceed to take him everywhere in their exploration of this strange planet Earth. In the process, we see where Gene came up with the idea of a unified
borderless,
moneyless world that would allow
dashing starship captains to
seek out new life and new civilizations, boldly going
where no one has gone before. We see where Gene first met
tribbles,
Orion slave girls,
Organians, and the
Guardian of Forever, and how Gene came up with
phasers,
tricorders, the
Prime Directive,
food replicators (from which he orders
gagh),
Questor androids, and the
Enterprise design.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 8:32 PM on September 2, 2009
(28 comments)
Whenever I listen to National Public Radio, I occasionally come across a news segment or op-ed by Daniel Schorr (he can be listened to
here, and
here's his Wikipedia article). I don't understand why, but his voice drives me up one wall and down the other. Why?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 5:59 PM on August 24, 2009
(32 comments)
The Obama administration signaled today it is ready to entirely abandon the public option,
i.e. giving Americans the choice of government-run health insurance (
AP,
Daily Kos,
Politico,
Hill). Further, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius indicated that end-of-life counseling was "
probably off the table", presumably due to Republican "death panel" commentary.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 11:32 AM on August 16, 2009
(491 comments)
Unix mavens: is there a way for
ls on a Mac OS X install to alphabetize its listing case-
insensitively, while still preserving any other ls flags you may be using? If not, does another
ls variant offered by anybody offer case-insensitivity, and if so, how can I supplant one with the other,
without risk of any harm to anything else on my system? (If it matters, my shell of choice is
tcsh.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 11:03 AM on August 16, 2009
(17 comments)
I am wondering if people could assist me in locating Ask Metafilter questions along the lines of
this and
this. I know it's a concept frequently asked about, but evidently the concept's too amorphous for tags to be of help, Related Questions just circularly refer to each other, and I can't find the right Google-
fu for this one.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:03 PM on August 6, 2009
(11 comments)
Something that's always had me a bit curious: how is what's happening to the breasts of the female skydivers in
this image that's circulated around the 'Net (NSFW) even anatomically possible?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 8:59 AM on August 3, 2009
(10 comments)
M. Joseph Young does rather interesting, detailed temporal analyses of the different timelines created by the
Terminator films, the
Back To The Future trilogy,
Millennium, those
Trek films that dealt with time travel,
12 Monkeys,
Flight Of The Navigator,
Army of Darkness,
Lost In Space,
Peggy Sue Got Married, the
Bill & Ted movies,
Frequency,
Planet of the Apes,
Kate and Leopold,
Somewhere In Time,
The Time Machine,
Minority Report,
Happy Accidents,
The Final Countdown,
Donnie Darko,
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and
Deja Vu.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 6:44 PM on July 30, 2009
(56 comments)
I was watching
the Chumbawumba "Tubthumping" video, and while it's obvious that most of the women in the bathroom scenes are men in drag, I wasn't so sure about one: am I right in saying that the woman we see mouthing to "pissing the night away", "oh, Danny boy, Danny boy", and "don't cry for me, next door neighbor" is the lead singer in drag?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 9:57 PM on July 26, 2009
(4 comments)
I recently had a MeFi post deleted. I know it will still show up in my Metafilter Recent Activity for a while, but once it goes from there, is there any way to track it and any deleted posts from my past?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:30 PM on July 18, 2009
(34 comments)
Ctrl is an NBC webseries starring Tony Hale (
Arrested Development's Buster,
Chuck's Emmett Milbarge) as an office drone who suddenly finds that, thus far, CTRL-Z lets him undo recent events in his own life, and CTRL-B em
boldens him to stand up to his boss and confess his love to the source of his crush. It was based on a short film,
Ctrl-Z, starring Hale's
Chuck co-star Zachary Levi as the boss. Not exactly a
new concept, but nonetheless well-executed by a fairly good comic team ...
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 8:14 PM on July 18, 2009
(38 comments)
Auto-Tune the News #6. I know the Autotune folks aren't exactly
new to Metafilter, but, damn, this one's pretty catchy, and it's about the only time I've loved what came out of Rep. Boehner's mouth.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 6:26 PM on July 13, 2009
(71 comments)
Could someone explain to me two references I don't get? In
Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog, Billy receives a letter from "Dead, Not Sleeping" (
clip). Is that a reference to something? Also, in the
Total Eclipse of the Heart "literal" video I
posted to Mefi, there's a lyric that says: "And I've joined the Glee Club of the Damned (reference joke!)" (
clip). What's "Glee Club of the Damned" a reference to? I presume it's a reference to
something since they outright say it is ...
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 6:47 PM on July 4, 2009
(19 comments)
Michael Scheuer, the former chief of the CIA's "bin Laden Station", and the initially anonymous author of
Imperial Hubris, pulls an
O'Reilly on
yesterday's Glenn Beck broadcast:
"The only chance we have as a country have right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States [...] only Osama can execute an attack which will force Americans to demand that their government protect them [...] with as much violence as necessary."
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 12:24 PM on July 1, 2009
(96 comments)
Click on "My Profile". Click on the number to the right of "Favorited by others:". Click on the word "Popular". Copy and paste the top result into this MeTa thread (with hyperlink).
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 7:27 PM on June 25, 2009
(311 comments)
There are about six different places where favorites live, and I often find myself confused as hell as to the differences between the various tabs and links.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 7:14 PM on June 18, 2009
(58 comments)
Does formal, or politely euphemistic, language exist by which, early on in the job-hunt process, you can make sure you and a potential employer aren't considering salary ranges that are half a planet apart?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 11:45 AM on June 12, 2009
(8 comments)
Pony request: can following all anonymous posts (or maybe, more widely, following a specific user) be integrated into MyAskMefi?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 1:21 PM on June 9, 2009
(29 comments)
It's a bit difficult to give context to
Fathom without ruining the fun of the game, but I daresay it's worth your time. A bit more
here, and the comments there seem to offer a few useful hints if you're getting too frustrated.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 4:38 PM on May 19, 2009
(44 comments)
Looking for a Twitter client with very specific certain requirements. Does it exist?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 3:52 PM on April 21, 2009
(6 comments)
