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It'sa ardha ota ivgay a itshay esthay aysday.

How would one write "it's hard to give a shit these days" in Latin?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dirtdirt at 7:11 PM on September 16, 2008 (6 comments)

A Promise Kept

A Promise Kept: "When two medical flight helicopters collided near a Flagstaff, Ariz., hospital June 29, a promise died. It was a sacred promise from a Red Sox-loving father to his three young sons. On his 37th birthday in August, they would make the 2,100-mile pilgrimage to see the Red Sox play in Fenway Park."
posted to MetaFilter by dirtdirt at 9:20 AM on September 8, 2008 (21 comments)

Slightly dynamic .ram files in IIS?

Slightly dynamic .ram files in IIS?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dirtdirt at 6:36 AM on August 22, 2008 (5 comments)

A new jug ships clean

Wal-mart/Sam's Club and Costco are in the process of switching to a re-designed milk jug.
posted to MetaFilter by dirtdirt at 12:53 PM on June 30, 2008 (197 comments)

Please help me replace and adjust the belt on my front load washing machine.

Please help me replace and adjust the belt on my front load washing machine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dirtdirt at 4:56 PM on May 20, 2008 (10 comments)

The most perfect specimen of a North American tree

The last standing member of the Council Oaks, a group of 14 oak trees located in what is now downtown Austin, Texas, the Treaty Oak has stood for more than 500 years. The Treaty Oak got its name from the (probably apocryphal) story of how Stephen F. Austin signed a boundary treaty with local tribes under its branches. In 1927 the Treaty Oak was called "The most perfect specimen of a North American tree". In 1937 the City of Austin (prodded by the Campfire Girls of Port Arthur and other schoolchildren) purchased the quarter acre of land upon which the Treaty Oak stood and believed that this ancient tree, and its 128 foot canopy, was safe. Of course, the did not know that in 1989 someone would dump enough of the herbicide Velpar around its roots to kill 100 trees.
posted to MetaFilter by dirtdirt at 8:39 AM on May 12, 2008 (33 comments)

rubbermaid my brain melt

What do I do about the crappy garbage can rolling around on the street in front of my house?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dirtdirt at 4:31 AM on February 17, 2008 (14 comments)

Jettison

Another song by the Goddamn Handclaps.
posted to MeFi Music by dirtdirt at 12:59 PM on January 24, 2008 (4 comments)

Japanese BBQ Sauce like at DOJO.

How can I make or buy "Japanese BBQ sauce" like they serve on the breakfast special at Dojo in NYC?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dirtdirt at 5:22 AM on January 20, 2008 (13 comments)

Stripped to the Bone

A song written by my good friend Dylan Jones, as performed by my band - the Goddamn Handclaps.
posted to MeFi Music by dirtdirt at 9:57 AM on January 15, 2008 (11 comments)

On preview, zipperhead.

Previewed HTML works fine, posted HTML less so...
posted to MetaTalk by dirtdirt at 9:31 AM on January 11, 2008 (36 comments)

Extremely simple SQL, Access, .ASP help.

How can a fool make a table in an Access database reference another table, using SQL and ASP?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dirtdirt at 9:13 AM on January 11, 2008 (10 comments)

Recommend a bomb-shelter restaurant in Elkhart County, IN?

In the early 1980's there was a pizzeria/bar near Goshen, Indiana called Das Keller that was in an underground bunker...
posted to Ask Metafilter by dirtdirt at 8:16 AM on December 3, 2007 (7 comments)

Runny Pie, you are making me crazy.

Why did my pecan pie get runny?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dirtdirt at 9:56 AM on November 23, 2007 (8 comments)

Nag Champa with no wood?

Where can I buy Nag Champa incense sticks that do not have a wooden core?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dirtdirt at 7:22 AM on November 8, 2007 (5 comments)

Ol' Rip

1897, Eastland, TX. A cornerstone was being laid in the foundation of the new county courthouse (to replace the old county courthouse, not to be confused with the original county courthouse). People put various items in the hollow space in the marble, time capsule style. Just before they sealed the box court clerk Ernest Wood (E.E. to his friends), acting on a whim, grabbed a horny toad that his son, Will Wood, had picked up on the way in to town and placed it in the box. Entombed forever. But...31 years later, 1928. Eastland, having decided it needed a NEW new courthouse, was about to demolish the old one. Someone recalled the time capsule, and the unfortunate horny toad, and 3,000 people showed up to see the poor dead lizard. "As a county official held up the dusty reptile, his leg twitched, and then his whole body came alive."
posted to MetaFilter by dirtdirt at 9:23 AM on September 28, 2007 (22 comments)

Help me format a list of phone numbers in Microsoft Word

Help me format, for print, a giant list of phone numbers in Microsoft Word.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dirtdirt at 12:28 PM on July 23, 2007 (5 comments)

I've got some Hershey's on me forehead...

What is the goo that drips down Mr. Zorg's forehead in The Fifth Element (1997)
posted to Ask Metafilter by dirtdirt at 11:45 PM on October 28, 2006 (37 comments)

help me remove one thousand layers of paint?

So, instead of simply throwing a new coat of paint onto the rusty, peely, pressed steel/tin/aluminum porch-swing we got out of the trash, I decided to try and strip off some of the many layers of paint first. Now, several hours of elbow grease and nearly a quart of citra-solve into the project, I am left with a goopy sticky partially stripped porch-swing and several piles of removed paint that look scrambled eggs and smell like the droppings of an animal that eats nothing but Tang...
posted to Ask Metafilter by dirtdirt at 4:10 PM on June 4, 2006 (16 comments)

waiting for the elves.

Leather shoe repair with putty?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dirtdirt at 7:00 PM on May 15, 2006 (1 comment)