A few recipes for tripe. Lots of recipes for white chocolate. None that combine the two. The search continues.
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 6:17 AM on May 28, 2008

Btw, I'm turning 25 today and I just completed Spring semester with a 4.0

Um
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 8:17 PM on May 14, 2008

Obligatory?
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 5:22 PM on April 24, 2008

As a "victim" of more than one of these background checks ...

(1) No. Well, unless the reason you kept changing jobs is because you kept taking money from the register!
(2) It depends on the country. Having lived in North Korea is more interesting to the Feds than having lived in Costa Rica.
(3) You don't fail your background check, but you must provide information. When I went through it, I provided the information that was correct... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 5:25 PM on April 15, 2008 marked best answer

The version of the catalog I had didn't specify that you needed to send in a check or money order for $1, so I taped an actual dollar bill to the form and sent it off. Three years later, the envelope was returned to me unopened.
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 5:27 PM on April 13, 2008

Partly speculation, but the following seem feasible to me:

1. They don't know the condition of any apartment until the tenants move out. If the tenant really trashed the place, it might take longer to get the unit up to "leasable" condition.
2. They know, but they might set the rates based on how much interest they receive. They're waiting until late in the process so they know how high they can charge, matching supply with demand.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 5:57 PM on April 10, 2008

Strange to think that 32% of Americans cannot claim to believe that human emissions of greenhouse gas are causing the atmosphere to warm up. Almost one in three! One might have expected the Internet to have improved the level of knowledge among the people beyond that, but instead its contribution to the erosion of any recognition of 'authority' on such questions leaves plenty of room for people to believe whatever they like, and then find any amount of propaganda designed to support it.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 5:53 PM on April 8, 2008

Look on the other boards inside your computer. Often, those boards will include jumpers, but they aren't set to anything useful. They're there just in case you don't want the default setting.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 9:30 AM on April 8, 2008

Before I can place a value on an endorsement from God, I need to know how He feels about George W. Bush.
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 7:34 PM on March 9, 2008

Maybe you should delay initiating unfamiliar transactions until you find a more seasoned "senior executive".
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 1:25 PM on March 8, 2008

Definitely Don't call it negotiating
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 3:46 PM on March 6, 2008

Strike up a conversation with some total strangers. Don't just pick people who look they'd be in your social circle. Try the mall.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 6:58 PM on March 5, 2008

This research is taking place in Utah, of all places.
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 6:55 PM on March 5, 2008

No, thanks. I already Google.
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 4:23 AM on February 24, 2008

With regard to the author of "101 Reasons to Stop Writing", my money is on "Never makes it to 101".
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 4:14 PM on October 31, 2007

so we started with condoms and then somewhere in the middle he convinced me not to use them. i didn't give in on this quickly. to give myself the credit i deserve, i held my ground for quite some time. but i gave in eventually, and that was my downfall.

he said he wouldn't come in me. he was true to his word. sadly, it made no difference.

The credit you deserve? Really? That's how the problem mortgage crisis in this country... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 4:46 AM on October 25, 2007

What? No Michael Vick jokes?
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 7:12 PM on October 22, 2007

Wait. Charge money for a new OS. Then charge a fee for a downgrade to the old OS? Awesome times.
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 1:38 PM on September 24, 2007

Wait! Our score was higher than only 95 countries? Come on people. We need more points!
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 1:25 PM on May 30, 2007

If an employer has to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman would do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?

If a woman is only paid 59 cents to do the same work a man does for a dollar, why would any woman work?
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 11:31 AM on May 18, 2007

You know who else is dead?
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 8:21 AM on April 27, 2007

Seconding Gamblor. Beat me by 23 minutes.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 12:10 PM on April 10, 2007

Derivative, at best
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 12:06 PM on April 10, 2007

It's pronounced Ain Rand. (like "taint", without the 't's)
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 5:50 AM on March 21, 2007

but Old Town is the place to be only if you're in your 50's or a tourist.

This is spot on.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 6:13 AM on February 15, 2007

I hope it's compatible with this other drinking-convenience device.
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 10:31 AM on January 25, 2007

That's exactly what I was looking for, Gooney.

Thanks for all the tips, guys.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 1:02 PM on November 7, 2006

First of all, it's not a race. Unless the pediatrician says there's a problem, let her figure it out on her own.

Secondly, though, is if she isn't in a day care, and you can afford it, do it. She'll see the others and feel like trying more and more.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 2:03 PM on November 6, 2006

If w=1, then the problem is 16p^8 - 49p^6, the answer is (4p^4 +- 7p^3). Put the w's back in to get (4p^4w +- 7p^3w). The w's don't matter in this case is what I'm saying.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 10:42 AM on November 6, 2006

w is in the exponent. And I am correct as long as w is an integer. I assumed that w was an integer because of the simplicity of the question.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 1:57 PM on November 6, 2006

I have to second casconed. I just moved to Raleigh, and I didn't get any calls until I put a fake address local address. It also helped me to buy a second cell phone with a local number. I was going to get a new phone anyway, so it wasn't a big deal. Finally, have a very firm date for when you can start working. I got the impression that employers didn't want to deal with relocations, but not because I was asking for relocation assistance because I wasn't. I had to impress upon employers... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 1:53 PM on November 6, 2006

I am Jack's raging webrage.
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 9:48 AM on October 18, 2006

Maybe you can change your userAgent using this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 1:16 PM on October 12, 2006

er, this, I meant.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 1:16 PM on October 12, 2006

Is it because the site uses ActiveX? There's a plugin for that, too. But at that point, you might as well break down and use IE every once in a while.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 1:43 PM on October 12, 2006

Haiku are poems
for layman no-talent-hacks
See what I'm saying?
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 1:24 PM on October 12, 2006

Is the divorced twice the problem? McCain been divorced. Giuliani's been divorced. Reagan had been divorced.

Being divorced twice is a problem? Giuliani married his cousin!
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 9:57 AM on October 12, 2006

Relatedly ... Interesting article on some quick change artists ran in Slate a while back.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 5:50 AM on August 11, 2006

In this non-chatfiltery scenario, does this building lack a fire-safe stairwell?
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 5:42 AM on August 11, 2006

I went through the same thing last year with my wife, and if I can provide a semi-rant, then a suggestion ...

I bristled at the suggestion that "I was doing such a good job" dealing with the pregnancy. Why? That's my fucking job! It's what I'm supposed to do. That was my son incubating in there and my wife that was doing the vast majority of the heavy lifting, physically and metaphorically. My support was minor compared to what she went through. If my... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 7:37 AM on August 9, 2006

a good grep expression to use for SSNs is '[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'. i am finding boatloads! some even associated with names!

That also presupposes that you'd put dashes in your web search
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 11:02 AM on August 7, 2006

Sudoku takes no special knowledge other than how to count from zero to nine and teaches you to repetitively apply a finite number of techniques to a grid.
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 7:40 AM on August 2, 2006

You're right, signal. ESPN the magazine does sudoku that uses the nine positions on a babeball team.

You can tell how long sudoku lasted in my rotation. It is one to nine, not zero to nine.
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 7:44 AM on August 2, 2006

Maybe this and all points in time in the past are so utterly devoid of interest that no one
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 9:16 AM on July 28, 2006

er, no one ever comes back this far
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 9:16 AM on July 28, 2006

Obliquely, Walter B. Jones is the "freedom fries" guy.
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 8:26 AM on July 28, 2006

Now stop futilely hitting on the secretary; there's a middle manager on the fifth floor who's managed to delete all his email!
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 8:21 AM on July 28, 2006

My thoughts exactly
posted to MetaFilter by clearlynuts at 12:04 PM on July 27, 2006

Every night begins the same way. She falls asleep in the middle of the bed, diagonally across the bed, or in a fetal position perpendicular to the way I fit on the bed.

Here's your problem right there. Why would someone fall asleep diagonally, in the middle of, or perpendicular to the long axis of the bed? Purposely. To increasingly detrimental results as time passes?

No offense, but that sounds astoundingly selfish on her... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 9:16 AM on July 27, 2006

I've had it done at Circuit City with no ill effects.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clearlynuts at 9:03 AM on July 18, 2006