So to clarify, you think it says "[...] om jag är t o m kär i dig"?

"jag är t o m kär i dig" means "I'm even in love with you", unambiguously. If she's a native speaker, she wouldn't place an "om" before that though but reverse the order of the following to read "om jag t o m är kär i dig". Are you sure the om isn't an "och"? That would be "And I'm even in love with you".
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 6:30 AM on July 22, 2008

Regarding your google results: Abbreviated words used to be marked with a point (t.o.m. for "till och med" and bl. a. for "bland annat"). Since a few years, a single space is recommended instead (t o m and bl a, respectively).
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 6:36 AM on July 22, 2008

It doesn't make perfect sense grammatically. You're welcome to Mefi-mail me if you think this riddle is easier to solve off the record.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 9:21 AM on July 22, 2008

Another recommendation for glycerol.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 5:17 AM on July 19, 2008

The cordless drill is easiest, because it's supplied with a constant voltage all the time from the battery. When a coil is connecting to the battery, current flows through it, turning it into a magnet until it's disconnected. The motor is just a set of coils arranged in a circle and a permanent magnet that's allowed to rotate (the rotor).

The coils don't all carry current at the same time, but do it in a time pattern such that the permanent magnet is always pulled in... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 7:30 PM on June 22, 2008

Next time you have a naked guy available, try this:

Make him stand with his feet at shoulder distance and slowly stroke his inner thigh upwards with your finger or a pencil. The testicle on that side will lift as if it was scared of you, and it looks really funny. You can repeat it one or two times before it gets the joke.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 1:38 PM on June 19, 2008

I put some candy next to my alarm clock. It helps me stay awake in the morning, which makes a lot of difference.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 3:56 PM on May 27, 2008

In Condensed matter physics, graphene is very hot, much like carbon nanotubes were some years ago (and still are to a certain extent). It's single layers of carbon, one atom thick, wherein electrons behave much like photons.

Very recently, a new type of high-temperature superconductors was discovered. It's too early to say how interesting it is, but I think the original results were published by a Japanes group and Chinese researchers caught on immediately and announced... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 6:38 PM on May 11, 2008

Twin Peaks got a few extra episodes due to action by Citizens Opposing the Offing of Peaks (COOP). That didn't help them tie together an ending that would make sense compared to just cutting it short though.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 11:14 AM on May 6, 2008

The way I read the question, "Every breath you take" by The Police fits better than '97 Bonnie and Clyde, not for what it was allegedly written to be, but for being frequently taken as a love song.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 6:45 PM on April 3, 2008

If you have good bandwidth on the road, I think you should just use Remote Desktop. My situation is similar to yours and that works well for me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 6:09 PM on April 3, 2008

Pastabagel: Skin and proximity effects are unimportant here. The proximity between the turns in a coil doesn't choke high frequency currents as much as it enables them by forming capacitive shortcuts.

Wrapping the coil around a magnet doesn't reinforce DC currents, and you really don't wrap the coil around a magnet at all, but around a core with high magnetic permeability; something that could be magnetized but isn't. The coil partly magnetizes the core when it passes a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 8:30 PM on March 26, 2008 marked best answer

It may be hard to know what pieces of math are important and which are not, so let me give my opinion. The shortest shortcut to physics includes algebraic manipulation, differentiation and integration, and being fluent in these. Had I known how much I'd use these techniques during my education, I would have spent more time practicing them from the very start. Once you understand the principles, do lots of simple exercises, as you did with multiplication.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 3:56 PM on March 24, 2008

If you play electric guitar, The Stompbox Cookbook is pretty good.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 8:47 AM on March 24, 2008

I'm in physics and have spent a lot of effort trying to find software solutions that suit my needs. A good way to take lab notes has been my main concern, and I ended up using MS OneNote for that.

Measurements and data analysis is done in Matlab. My measurement system includes routines that automatically write the important parameters of all instruments, my comments and any graphs produced in human-readable form to OneNote, with a link to a directory that contains all... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 8:35 AM on March 24, 2008

You can't use a copper layer that's thicker than your intended lateral resolution, or the undercut will destroy it for you regardless of the exposure resolution. Again, there is special equipment to work around it, but nothing that's cheaply available.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 1:55 PM on February 26, 2008

From Swedish, I suggest you take Orka, which is to have the energy to do things. If you'd rather stay at home and watch TV, you say "Nah, jag orkar inte". It's like "can't be bothered" but more versatile and with no rudeness about it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 2:07 PM on February 18, 2008

I don't know what the liquid is exactly, it could be CO2 but the can seems a little flaky for that. Anyways, the pressure inside the can is high enough to "squeeze" this substance into a liquid. Under normal atmospheric pressure and room temperature, it would be a gas. It's still at room temperature inside the can, but cools a bit on its way out. When it's let out to regular atmospheric pressure, it quickly boils off, and all the extra gas causes the over-pressure that blows the lid... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 6:18 PM on February 10, 2008

Re: Ideal gas law and compressibility:

What you're looking for in a substance like this is something with the right boiling point. It should be below room temperature (at atmospheric pressure). Then it's going to build up a pressure when you enclose it. If the boiling point is too high (eg water), there's going to be no propellant action - the water will just lie in a pool at the bottom of the can, not boiling and therby not creating any additional pressure. If the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 8:09 PM on February 10, 2008

Try this: Lift your shoulders towards your ears as high as they can go fify times, at a rate of say once per second. It hurts more at first, but then it feels like a lot of extra blood is pumped through the muscle, and afterwards it's exhausted enough to actually relax. This works very well for me, as do hot baths and painkillers. Stretching when the pain is already there seems to do more harm than good.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 2:36 PM on January 14, 2008

I wouldn't be too worried about it. Put them in boxes, make sure the cedar sheet is moist and take them in the cabin. The most important thing is that the cover leaves don't get dry enough for cracks to form.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 2:16 PM on January 13, 2008

Any decent LED lamp has a converter that provides a fixed current regardless of the supply voltage. There is no current limiting resistor like the one noble_rot talks about. The converters are more efficient for higher supply voltages, but accept a wide range of input voltages while giving the same light intensity. Many (most?) of the switching LED drivers commercially available do upconversion from low voltage, so a single NiMH cell can drive even a high-voltage white LED.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 3:33 PM on January 11, 2008

For international train journeys within Europe, Deutsche Bahn is where you search for timetables, even if you never cross a German border. At least the Swedish railway company is notably poor at this.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 1:20 AM on October 26, 2007

NVIDIA's hardware firewall used to cause similar problems for me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 4:54 PM on October 18, 2007

A male acquaintance was featured in a cat magazine when he was single. Subsequently, a horde of cat-loving women contacted him with all sorts of ideas on their minds. If that's a crowd you want to expore, you can use the cats to your advantage.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 2:55 PM on October 16, 2007

teraflop: With the basic DLL support, a native Matlab callback would likely be at least very hard to implement. The easiest thing for me would be a dll function that returns with the message as soon as it has arrived. Any recommendations for a wrapper that can do something like this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 4:21 AM on October 14, 2007

moonmilk: Unfortunately, this has to be done in realtime, message by message.

cmicali: I've snoped around jglatt's site, and it contains some nice information. .NET components can be accessed from Matlab, though I'm not sure how to go about it. A solution like that is one option, accessing winmm.dll from a MEX file (Matlab's C interface) is another one. Again, details and alternatives are most welcome - I'm very inexperienced with API interfacing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 8:13 AM on October 14, 2007

Another possibility: Matlab can quite easily use Java classes. JavaSound seems to have useful MIDI functions, but I don't know where to find it. I tried to install a recent Java SDK, but I still can't find it. Should I look for a jar file with a different name?
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 2:32 PM on October 14, 2007

For the record: I ended up using the COM interface of MIXI-OX. Thanks for the advice, everybody.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 2:31 PM on October 16, 2007

"You are the one for me" with Charles Aznavour.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 4:24 AM on August 28, 2007

Thanks for your answers so far. Right now I'm running R-Studio Demo from the USB hard drive, to see if anything pops up that looks right.

autojack: I'm interested in gpart, but it seems a bit invasive to try to restore the old partition map. Won't it be confused by the fact that the drive isn't just formatted, but also holds some 12GB of new OS files?
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 2:26 PM on July 10, 2007

When the song you're listening to is the best one ever written, stop drinking because you're on the peak. This advice comes from an alcohol researcher that a friend of mine spoke to.

And don't worry too much about your drunken escapades. The embarrassing memories are normal and part of being hungover. The first time I drank I was brought in by the police, and my mom had to come and bail me out...
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 4:22 PM on June 19, 2007

wtdoor's graphs are right. Looks a bit like those snapshots of a raindrop bouncing of a puddle.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 6:52 AM on June 16, 2007

If you take the airport bus, get off at the first stop, Korsvägen. From there you can have a short walk to the museeum of fine arts, which is quite good for a town of this size. It's just at the top of the parade street, Avenyn. If you have any interest in design, go check out the The Röhsska Museum of Design and Decorative Arts. It's a three minute walk down Avenyn, at Valand. Just a block from there is Götabergsgatan, with a couple of art galleries.

The most well known... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 12:16 PM on June 9, 2007

And the best directory for Sweden is at www.hitta.se , which has maps and satellite pictures.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 1:23 PM on June 9, 2007

True, getting off at Avenyn (Park Lane) is better. Last time I took the airport bus it didn't stop there, so I forgot that it usually does.

methylsalicylate: The mail I sent to your hotmail address bounced.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 10:07 AM on June 10, 2007

Huge or unlimited quotas on mail and file servers!
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 3:28 PM on April 11, 2007

I recalled this thread today, while talking with my girlfriend about working outside in the sun. There is one major problem with this, and I'm sure it would be thought of as great and innovative if you solved it:

Install power outlets in nice places outdoors, so people can sit there with their laptops. It would be brilliant if you could take a seat under a tree on campus and find a couple off sockets under a hatch in the grass.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 3:06 PM on April 25, 2007

InterRail (the version for EU citizens) claims to have improved their zone system a lot as late as this month. If that's true for Eurail too you can't rely on others' opinions about prices and value for money.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 2:55 PM on April 24, 2007

odinsdream and jamjam:

The distinction is between resistive loads and reactive loads, where the latter can be either inductive or capacitive.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 4:49 PM on April 18, 2007

Listen to Baby Balrog, and practise bends on the second draw note. If you're shaped anything like me, get a D harp with a plastic comb to start out with - I always found they were most comfortable to bend, particularly the old style Hohner Pro Harps.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 5:31 PM on April 15, 2007

Jimbob, Steven C:

Any element that multiplies two signals does this, strictly from trigonometric identities. There are many ways to multiply signals, and maybe the simplest one is to feed the sum of the signals into a non-linear element (a diode or whatever). Regardless of the exact transfer function of this element, the product of the two signals will be present in the Taylor expansion, and the rest can be filtered away. It's a nice illustration of first-year calculus.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 5:00 AM on April 6, 2007

If it's cold outside, do not go outside to smoke, but try to do it indoors under a kitchen stove fan or similar. In the cold, smoke condenses on clothes and skin and make them smell a lot worse.

In the same vein, you can make your clothes smell much less by leaving them in a warm place (eg on a radiator) for some time. To substitute cigarettes, try a patch and use under-the-tongue pills as a complement. Try them out a few days in advance, so you don't overdose at the interview.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 5:24 PM on March 27, 2007

It doesn't seem likely that you burned it. First make sure that you're testing it with the right voltage and the AC/DC-and power switches set to what they should be.

If it still doesn't work, check the fuse "F1 1A". If that one is ok and you can handle a multimeter, test if 12V shorts to ground (TP4 to TP5) with no power connected and the switch set to DC. With no such short, the three LEDs D203-D205 should light up when you turn on the power. Otherwise it's a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 6:13 PM on March 19, 2007

Swedish has the word "palla", specifically meaning to steal fruit from trees in other people's gardens. It doesn't just apply to apples though.

On a tangent, "knickers" (the golfing variant) go by the name "äppelknyckarbyxor" in slightly old fashioned Swedish. That literally translates to "apple stealer pants", presumably because you could stuff them full of apples that wouldn't fall out through the legs. It's interesting that the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 3:14 PM on March 5, 2007 marked best answer

It's hard to say anything without knowing what you're like and what you're after. Different crowds go to different kinds of party. I don't live in Stockholm, and only go clubbing there a couple of times a year. That said, if I were to go out there at new years, I'd go to Debaser, which is a pop/rock club at Slussen. They open to the public at 11 PM, and you should expect a long queue, as to any good venue.
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 2:08 PM on December 23, 2006

Seconding Uccellina.

When I read stories to my girlfriend she never fails to fall asleep, usually within ten pages. Her sleeping disorder are otherwise quite severe. Try the Moomin books by Tove Jansson!
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 7:12 PM on December 7, 2006

It but it makes things a lot easier if you're fast at algebraic manipulations, Taylor expansions and the basic rules of differentiation and integration. These things show up all the time in formulas, and if they are transparent to you, all reasoning will seem much clearer.

Since you didn't study maths in a while, let me emphasize that you learn it by exercising. You can read the book and think it makes sense, but you have to solve problems. That's how you acquire the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 2:18 PM on November 30, 2006 marked best answer

My T610 is probably the worst piece of commercial technology I've owned.

* The charger developed a contact problem after a fairly short time. It won't charge unless fiddles with extensively, and even so I often wake up to an uncharged phone (or an obnoxious signal, see below).
* The user interface is MUCH worse than any Nokia I've had. It responds painfully slowly and common actions require a multitude of button presses. I usually type in numbers that I know... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 2:29 PM on November 25, 2006

The advertised shortage is most likely a temporary one. Here in Europe, there was a similar dip a few months ago, when two He-producing oil wells in the Middle East were down for maintainance. Right now there seems to be plenty available.

Still, it's true that helium leaves the atmosphere and is a non-renewable resource. It's also not something you can store practically for a long time, except in a place like the US' National Helium Reserve (which is a big cave). I work... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by springload at 4:56 PM on November 24, 2006