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KevinSmithFilter: I remember Kevin Smith releasing, in illustrated comic book form, a recounting of how he met, dated, and married his wife. I've heard the story through
An Evening with Kevin Smith and remember seeing this comic book. It may have been released by a third party, and not Smith. One way or the other, I can't find that through my Google-fu. (I know, it sounds strange, but it really was rather sweet.) Can anyone assist me in locating it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 7:55 PM on April 10, 2006
(11 comments)
Food for thought regarding Ask MeFi: Answer the question or answer the underlying circumstances? Posit that the questioner didn't specifically ask that responses exclude a particular discussion, but, for example,
this. A lot of people are saying "forget the computer, it should be disciplinary." Not directly responsive to the question, but responsive to the situation. Good? Bad? Thoughts?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:48 AM on April 5, 2006
(33 comments)
I would like to build and host a del.icio.us clone on my Mac (Intel iMac running Tiger). It need not be accessible outside of my machine, although if you can advise me how to do that while still keeping my machine secure, that would be a very nice plus. I am able to build simple command-line apps in Unix and puzzle some stuff out, but I am very much not a l33t hax00r. Can anyone walk me through the process very simple step by very simple step?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 11:46 AM on March 31, 2006
(8 comments)
I was riding in an elevator at work when I saw
the Suzuki Forenza commercial "Elevator" come on. I'd like to get a copy of the commercial ...
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 10:30 AM on March 24, 2006
(5 comments)
Admin first aid needed.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 7:57 AM on March 22, 2006
(22 comments)
Neil Gaiman gets cease-and-desisted. In a rather bizarre legal turn of events, Neil Gaiman
posted in his journal today that he received a
cease-and-
desist letter from Mark I. Reichenthal of
Branfman & Associates insisting that he remove an "
unauthorized"
link from
tomatoesareevil.com to the official movie website for "
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". (Interestingly enough, Reichenthal evidently
has previously been deployed to defend the "... For Dummies" trademark.) Problem is that Neil doesn't own the site; they merely posted a
photograph of him with a particularly evil-looking tomato, a tomato which Gaiman is turning into salsa in the hopes of becoming "the Paul Newman of
satanic salsas." Neil's reaction: "What an astonishingly small amount of research they must do before firing off these bizarre letters."
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 8:58 PM on March 19, 2006
(36 comments)
Help me determine how much green blood runs through my veins.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 10:24 AM on March 17, 2006
(24 comments)
Dr. Ross tells the Democrats to stop bending over. Clooney: " ... [I]t drives me crazy to hear all these Democrats saying, 'We were misled.' It makes me want to shout, 'Fuck you, you weren't misled. You were afraid of being called unpatriotic.' Bottom line: it's not merely our right to question our government, it's our duty."
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 8:56 PM on March 13, 2006
(60 comments)
Why are people so "end the relationship"-happy on Ask Metafilter? I see a
Newsweek article in 2010 discovering the cause behind the 10% increase in the divorce rate is the Little Green Website That Could ...
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 2:24 PM on March 8, 2006
(213 comments)
Help me untangle a few weirdities in my fine, freshly hand-rolled Cuban cigar ... er ... Javascript bookmarklet.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 11:05 AM on March 7, 2006
(19 comments)
Looking for the "scream" from the 1978
Invasion of the Body Snatchers film.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 5:08 PM on February 25, 2006
(9 comments)
What keystroke do I use to open the selected bookmark in Safari's Bookmarks screen?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 7:27 AM on February 17, 2006
(8 comments)
Jezztek:
"I can seem to find a thread I was interested in re-reading using the search function, perhaps someone else has the link handy. I remember it was a story of prisoner abuse that came to light not too long ago, and one of the key features that suck in my mind was some mention of a chef, or cook that was permitted to beat a prisoner to let off some steam. I'd like to reread the details of the incident, if anyone could help."
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 1:33 PM on February 15, 2006
(12 comments)
I'm looking for a web-based to-do application with a few very specific features, but, essentially, one that's almost a del.icio.us clone and is very much centralized not on categories, but on tags.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 2:12 PM on February 7, 2006
(6 comments)
I’m looking for a special kind of news website or resource.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 1:20 PM on January 31, 2006
(6 comments)
PlumbingFilter: Help me understand my new tankless toilet with no shut-off valve. What do I do if it clogs?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 3:10 PM on January 20, 2006
(6 comments)
Bookmarklet to display Amazon cover art?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 2:48 PM on January 13, 2006
(1 comment)
A question about American Girl currently on AskMeFi's front page appears to be looking rather funky in MSIE6. (Yes, I know, use Firefox, but I'm on a Windoze machine at work, so that's where I'm noticing it.)
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 2:14 PM on January 9, 2006
(2 comments)
HtAccessFilter: I’m seeking regular expressions to describe URLs that encompass search engines’ image and video search engines, but not the engines themselves, so that I can block said image and video search engines using “SetEnvIfNoCase Referer” in .htaccess. Also, I’m also seeking to block all incoming requests for one particular URL which is popular with these video and image search engines but which no longer exists – but I don’t want to serve them the normal 404.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 9:56 AM on January 5, 2006
(6 comments)
Don't know if this is the right thread for this or not, but I'm curious as to people's thoughts. (If this is something I should, ironically enough,
save for my Ask MeFi question, I can do that.)
What kind of questions do you think Ask MetaFilter is best at? It "queries the hive mind," as its motto puts it, but obviously it occasionally fails. Yet sometimes it spectacularly succeeds.
My own thoughts are that it's good at harvesting a bunch of different personal experiences with anything (consumer products, life strategies, weight loss things), and it's good at some aspects of general and specialized knowledge (whether it be factual or pop culture), because you're tapping the knowledge of all of MeFi's varied readers and respondents. But occasionally it seems to yield no results whatsoever, or not turn up an answer at all, and I'm curious if there's a pattern in those 'failures', so to speak.
So, what kind of knowledge and qeustions do you think AskMeFi is well-suited for finding? And, also, what kind of knowledge and questions do you think AskMeFi does
not do so well at finding?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:20 AM on December 21, 2005
(40 comments)
On Thursday night, my stove's glass door exploded for no discernable reason whatsoever. Since MeFi's population encompass many trades, I'm hoping there's someone with a background in physics, engineering, or an appropriate tradesman who either knows or can venture a fairly educated guess as to why it happened.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 8:13 AM on December 21, 2005
(25 comments)
I recently purchased a new Palm T|X with WiFi & Bluetooth. It's been a long time since I had a Palm, and it was the old Palm Vx running Palm OS 3.x. Obviously, they've come a good ways.
I'd appreciate any recommendations as to cool Palm apps. I really don't need to be uber-heavy on the games (although I do like nostalgia games, i.e., stuff from the '80s and Doom), and would appreciate more how-did-I-ever-live-without-this kind of convenience/useful apps. I'm aware of Pocket Quicken, SiEd, and MealTip. And, for what it's worth, I'm on a Mac.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 7:59 AM on December 14, 2005
(12 comments)
How can I configure Firefox so that I can use Cmd-1 through Cmd-9 for bookmarks on my personal toolbar, identical to the behavior Safari uses?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 2:02 PM on December 6, 2005
(3 comments)
Looking for Chicago geek group activities/social events that’ll get me out of the house.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 1:55 PM on November 29, 2005
(10 comments)
Share your epiphanies.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 11:46 PM on November 20, 2005
(38 comments)
Ever since upgrading to QuickTime 7 and Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger), I've noticed that apparently what I think is the H.264 and H.267 codecs play very choppily on my machine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 8:35 AM on November 2, 2005
(11 comments)
In Illinois, or nationwide, is there a policy or law that says that if you become uninsured, but resume health coverage within X number of days, you do not need to worry about pre-existing conditions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 1:31 PM on October 20, 2005
(8 comments)
Where can I find a sound file (preferably freely accessible) of Richard Nixon going "Sock it ... to ME?!" (I believe that's the inflection he gave it.) It was from the September 16, 1968 episode of "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In." No luck with Google-fu.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 9:59 AM on September 24, 2005
(4 comments)
I'm looking for a good Chicago apartment and landlord ... and also, thoughts on how to practically avoid stinkers when you can't talk to and/or don't know the tenants.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 12:42 PM on September 6, 2005
(19 comments)
What does "nonmonograph designation" mean, with regards to pharmaceuticals and the FDA? Or, more specifically, why did the FDA pull attapulgite off the market?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 7:31 AM on August 2, 2005
(5 comments)
When I was a child, I remember a Spanish-language claymation short consistently airing with one of the English-speaking PBS educational series.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 5:40 AM on July 18, 2005
(7 comments)
Any tips for getting through a day at work while feeling flu-ish?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 7:17 AM on July 6, 2005
(14 comments)
I hadn't intended to use my question for this, but I just can't get it out of my head right now ...
what skin ailment would cause this? (Warning: semi-icky, but not disasterously awful, picture.) And is she wearing some sort of leather slacks, or are those her legs?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 4:59 AM on June 29, 2005
(14 comments)
How can you tell the difference between mosquito bites and flea bites? (Does one heal quicker than the other?)
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 10:50 AM on June 16, 2005
(7 comments)
I'm dealing with some boring things to do at work. I'm wondering what things you do (mentally, emotionally, procedural 'tricks', self-benefits/rewards, discipline, etc.) to get yourself through stuff you find excruciatingly boring, but necessary.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 5:27 AM on June 1, 2005
(9 comments)
Can anyone provide me with the origin of the word "meh"? I mean, yeah, definition-wise, it almost undoubtedly comes from "ehh."
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 10:40 AM on May 17, 2005
(29 comments)
Shoud I put my iBook to sleep, or shut it down, when I'm done with it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 11:20 AM on April 20, 2005
(18 comments)
I'd appreciate any and all advice associated with changing work environments -- whether practical advice (about little bits of personal business to remember, or health insurance crud), or mental/emotional advice (how to adjust internally), or sociological advice (how to smooth the transition into a new employee culture).
I also suck learning names -- hopefully they'll have nameplates, but anyone have tips for committing a large mass of names and faces to memory?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 7:34 AM on April 13, 2005
(14 comments)
I'm looking for conservative bloggers who are going to make me, a fairly well-entrenched liberal, re-examine my ideas and my own precepts by the weight of their arguments, and yet be an enjoyable read in the process.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 5:43 AM on April 4, 2005
(15 comments)
SafariFilter or AppleScriptFilter: I very often collect bookmarks of pages I'd like to look at in Safari, through the double magic of NetNewsWire and Saft. The problem is that I end up having one folder with 180+ bookmarks in it. I often then manually split them into chunks of 20 using cut and paste, but it strikes me that there's got to be an easier way to do that automatically via AppleScript. However, my
google-fu fails me in that respect.
Anyone know of a link to an AppleScript that takes one bookmark folder and splits it into folders with
x number of bookmarks each in them? Or any AppleScript master and MeFi resident out here savvy enough to whip one up for me?
I'll send you a cute picture of my cat sunning himself in a sunbeam, if you want. :)
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 6:17 AM on March 15, 2005
(4 comments)
There is a Yahoo! commercial currently airing in which we see a woman going through her closet to the tune of Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight"; we then notice that the lyric "wondering what clothes to wear" is repeating. The wife comes in, where the husband is causing the lyric to repeat on his laptop. "Honey?" "Yeah?" "Knock it off." "Yeah." I crack up every time I see this commercial -- can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of this, preferably not streaming or Windows Media?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 8:05 PM on March 7, 2005
(5 comments)
How can I make salads more palatable? And any recommendations for healthy food with strong flavors?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 2:24 PM on February 28, 2005
(56 comments)
I was recently diagnosed with moderate sleep apnea.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 2:32 PM on February 17, 2005
(18 comments)
