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Please recommend a good puzzle or activity website that's suitable for a 3 or 4 year old.
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at 6:36 AM on November 10, 2007
(17 comments)
How long will scrambled eggs keep?
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at 5:37 PM on October 27, 2007
(21 comments)
Which food do you credit most for your weight loss?
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at 10:40 AM on October 14, 2007
(56 comments)
What is the deal with
this kind of half-undress in Baroque paintings?
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at 11:14 AM on October 4, 2007
(12 comments)
Mail order entrepreneurs: How have your sales figures been over the past few months?
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at 11:07 AM on September 26, 2007
(5 comments)
Are there any "rude restaurants" (i.e. intentionally rude waitstaff) in Texas? I could have sworn there was such a place in Dallas in the late 1990s but I can't find any trace of iot. If you've been to one, how was it? What other forms of "dinner theater" exist?
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at 5:28 PM on September 7, 2007
(20 comments)
Can anyone recommend an email whitelist system that works with my existing hosting service? I want to defeat the spam.
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at 10:03 AM on August 28, 2007
(6 comments)
Why are all these sketchy people going to my house's side door?
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at 8:15 PM on August 19, 2007
(45 comments)
How can I thicken/season a vegetable stew without resorting to mystery meat ingredients?
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at 5:02 PM on August 7, 2007
(32 comments)
How much pressure can I put on a piece of 6x6 lumber across a 6'6" span without deflecting past the standard l/360 figure? The span
tables only have figures for 2-by-X lumber. The back of their full book has some technical values for 6x6's listed but I don't know how to use them.
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at 12:41 PM on July 25, 2007
(9 comments)
Is it possible to get an ultra-cheap roundtrip out of the DFW area to anywhere, just for the sake of flying? I have a nearly-4 year old son who would love a plane ride, but I haven't seen any truly cheap tickets since the Southwest Airlines "Peanut Fares" days. If not, I'll just wait for a real vacation to come up one day.
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at 9:11 PM on July 7, 2007
(14 comments)
Has anyone here worked in fast food? How common is it for cooks to "mess" with food? Was it more common than you wanted to see, or did nobody bother with such shenanigans? I emphasize this question is about fast food, not traditional restaurants, and I'm wondering how much stock to put in those stories that sometimes make the rounds.
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at 9:54 PM on June 27, 2007
(63 comments)
I need to write a document with a lot of algebraic formulas. What word processor / page layout program would make this quickest and
easiest?
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at 5:47 PM on June 18, 2007
(25 comments)
I have been writing books in PageMaker 7. With some projects I like to put "factoid" type material (quotes, facts, minor tables, etc) in the margins. Unfortunately I've never found a way of binding these with the main body of text so that factoid text blocks will be forced to appear on the same page. So I've been doing it manually, and it's a big PITA. How should I be handling this? Will Quark or newer versions of PageMaker help?
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at 3:23 PM on May 20, 2007
(7 comments)
Is there any reason I wouldn't be able to plug two Linksys
WRT54G WiFi devices into a Linksys
BEFSR81 LAN router? Will the WRT54G's play nice or will they fight with one another, requiring configuration to be done? SSIDs will be different of course.
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at 11:22 AM on May 13, 2007
(14 comments)
I just caused some minor body damage to a local rental truck (
see photos) caused by grazing a chain link fencepost. I know nothing about body work and would like to get a general idea of what dollar amount of damage I'm in for and whether I should get my insurance involved (or whether it will get involved).
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at 11:19 AM on May 6, 2007
(18 comments)
What's a good dialup Internet service for Texas cities? All I need is just basic dialup Internet, as I'm visiting relatives in San Antonio who don't have WiFi or DSL. I looked at Earthlink but they rope you into a $22/mo plan after an introductory period and that sounds pretty steep.
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at 10:03 AM on April 27, 2007
(12 comments)
How can I get the most out of cycling, in regards to a workout? I'm a real newbie.
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at 10:24 AM on April 3, 2007
(29 comments)
How can I set up my Win 2000 computer to automatically set its own time clock from any external source? I tried Googling on this but just get a bunch of cryptic instructions on making the computer into a time server. I don't want to build an NTP time server, I just want to have the correct time.
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at 3:57 PM on March 7, 2007
(8 comments)
I'm looking for textbook suggestions for teaching myself algebra and trigonometry. Are there any algebra textbooks that stand out as exceptionally good?
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at 11:34 AM on February 21, 2007
(7 comments)
What causes the temporary "feeling fat" syndrome? Not "feeling full".
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at 3:13 PM on January 25, 2007
(18 comments)
What typically happens when your stuff is in a U.S. motel or hotel past checkout time?
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at 9:00 AM on January 8, 2007
(9 comments)
A revised U.S. plant hardiness map
has been put out by the National Arbor Day Foundation, based on numbers from 5,000 cooperative climate observation stations throughout the United States. The foundation
forged ahead with their own revisions since the official
USDA map update has stalled. One unofficial
draft [PDF] does exist. A USDA
spokesperson said their map delay is because of fine-tuning where to draw the zone lines; the agency also plans to incorporate other data such as wind.
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at 8:29 AM on January 6, 2007
(8 comments)
This evening some repo guys and a Rentway truck showed up briefly asking for the people that lived here a year ago. This got me to wondering. Wikipedia only talks about the contract aspect. What I don't understand is (a) why don't repo guys take it to court, and if they did why isn't a peace officer or deputy involved in seizures; (b) what keeps them from asking for -my- ID to prove I live here; (c) and what happens if the people they're looking for say they can't enter? I just want to understand more about who showed up expecting to come in my house and how my own rights relate to them. I think they were after the plasma TV that we saw when touring the house last year.
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at 6:59 PM on December 23, 2006
(9 comments)
What's a good "gateway drug" as far as a book title for philosophy? Something that will suck me in?
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at 6:23 PM on December 8, 2006
(33 comments)
What are some good fiction or SF books that plunge the reader within a severe economic collapse or Malthusian catastrophe in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world?
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at 10:27 AM on November 17, 2006
(27 comments)
What's
this [Google map] webwork of streets between LAX Airport and the beach?
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at 3:36 PM on November 6, 2006
(13 comments)
Is the Atkins diet worthwhile as a
temporary diet for dropping about 10 lbs, or does this type of diet have a higher rate of rebound compared to the same weight loss from portion control, Weight Watchers, etc? I'm aware Atkins is intended to be a lifestyle change, but I tend to keep a constant weight just fine and simply want to take 'er down a notch.
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at 11:22 PM on October 29, 2006
(9 comments)
My father-in-law who's a Korean War vet has full VA benefits. Still is there anything I need to look out for so as not to get shafted by funeral/cremation companies?
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at 7:48 PM on October 22, 2006
(11 comments)
The amount of image spam I'm getting has snowballed in the past few months. What can I do?
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at 12:13 PM on October 11, 2006
(16 comments)
A dedicated Fedora Plesk server has been set up for me at a hosting company, and as a site admin I'm not sure what to do next. Is there a good guide or tutorial anywhere that will get me up to speed on preparing a dedicated server for a website that uses PHP and mysql? Will I have to install Apache? Are those programs normally installed by default with run-of-the-mill dedicated hosting? This company's documentation is scarce and I think I'm in over my head.
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at 11:05 AM on September 22, 2006
(4 comments)
Is there a dependable program that will do a "freeze frame" of a fresh Windows 2000 install, so that I don't have to install Win, SP4, my basic driver set, DirectX, etc, etc, if/when my computer bites the big one? Ideally it would generate a bootable CD that would replace /winnt and registry.
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at 9:35 AM on September 12, 2006
(11 comments)
I need an alternative to Newegg.com that easily allows Paypal. I'm having trouble lately submitting orders on Newegg.
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at 11:53 AM on August 31, 2006
(7 comments)
Where can I find obscure and interesting attractions in my corner of Texas? We often can't think of anyplace to go.
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at 11:11 AM on August 20, 2006
(7 comments)
I'm an American hosting a couple of guests from Greek Cyprus for whom I am doing professional (scientific) training. We may go out to dinner on one of those nights. Will "going Dutch" be nothing unusual to them? Or being from a Mediterranean culture where friends become extended family, might they expect one of us (me or them) to pick up the entire tab? Granted I am the host and can do what I want, but I'm still interested in what they'll expect.
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at 6:17 PM on July 31, 2006
(11 comments)
LightScribe DVD and CD labelling -- do you find it's worth it? Is this another "overpriced consumables" trap? Is it better pricewise than labels?
posted to Ask Metafilter by rolypolyman
at 5:05 PM on July 23, 2006
(11 comments)
Is an arbitrary "not valid after..." date printed on a check enforceable? I thought checks were good for a year.
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at 7:52 AM on July 13, 2006
(19 comments)
Doonesbury, November 1984. Does anyone remember the "Votebusters" running gag? I have only a foggy memory of it, perhaps being a mashup of Ghostbusters and the Presidential election. What was the joke exactly?
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at 8:34 PM on July 5, 2006
(4 comments)
I reinstalled Win2K for business use at home. What utilities can I install that will help me manage & oversee system processes that get put on this computer over the next year or so? What's that program that allows me to run a Win2K "microwindow" to containerize suspicious freeware/spyware.. VMS or something like that... is that worth having or does it seriously slow down the system?
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at 11:25 AM on June 28, 2006
(4 comments)
Does a regular consumer dishwasher chew up food particles? Reason is that a live roach that was in there when the cycle was started is now missing, and I think I saw an insect bit.
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at 6:28 PM on June 20, 2006
(21 comments)
Has anyone ever heard of a 1997 alternative rock band called Joy Luck or Joy Luck Club? (NOT Joy Division)
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at 6:47 PM on June 12, 2006
(10 comments)
Where can I read some Vietnam tour of duty stories?
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at 9:52 PM on June 3, 2006
(20 comments)
I am trying to reverse-engineer a data file comprised of various integers, strings, floats, and so on. Is there a good Windows tool that will help me group the records and start picking the fields apart? I'd rather not try this in a plain vanilla hex editor.
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at 10:25 AM on May 27, 2006
(5 comments)
A WTO victory
came last week for the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) industry. HFCS is that
controversial stuff that seemingly
permeates everything in American consumer foods, from Gatorade to cough drops. Mexico had slapped tariffs on HFCS dumping in 1998 but agreed to revoke them in 2007, a move that will expand HFCS outside what is almost exclusively a U.S. market. The industry is quite firm that HFCS is
safe, but there
are some
naysayers.
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at 2:15 AM on May 24, 2006
(45 comments)
"We wired the Ho Chi Minh Trail
like a drugstore pinball machine and plugged into it every night." From 1965 to 1975, telemetry from thousands of microphones hidden in remote Vietnam jungles were fed to a massive data processing center in Thailand, where an
IBM System/360 [wiki] mapped real-time Vietcong movements to display terminals. The
details of Project Igloo White remained compartmentalized and highly classified until only several years ago.
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at 10:37 PM on May 22, 2006
(33 comments)
I found a $100 Series EE savings bond of mine that matured in 1999. Did it continue appreciating after 1999 or is it limited to $100 forever? None of the resources I've checked tell me the answer. Where can I redeem it locally (U.S.) if I don't have a local bank branch?
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at 9:38 AM on May 19, 2006
(13 comments)
How can I be more empathetic?
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at 12:40 PM on May 9, 2006
(26 comments)
What's a good Windows-based program for sending daily blind carbon copy E-mails to a small group of people (like 10 or 20)?
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at 3:37 PM on April 23, 2006
(11 comments)
Is it just me, or has the verbal crutch "I mean" (used as a conjunction rather than a correction) really flooded into American English recently? Last night I was listening to a radio show and nearly all the callers were doing it. My wife does it. My friends do it. I have to stop myself from doing it. Is this at all new? When did it start? I really don't remember hearing this (or doing this) 10-20 years ago.
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at 9:04 PM on April 15, 2006
(40 comments)
Where can I buy Djarum Super clove cigarettes online in the U.S.?
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at 7:35 PM on March 21, 2006
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