If you're interested in art and architecture you can't NOT visit the Hunderwasserhaus! It was my favourite thing in Vienna. The Kunsthauswien that kickingtheground mentions is right across the street..

If you had another half a day I'd also recommens the famous ferris wheel

(I do not recommend the Spanish Riding School. I found it a waste of time and money. The horses are not actually "training", they just kind of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 4:37 PM on May 12, 2008

Mmm.... I've been doing the "not at this address" etc. thing for YEARS with this guy's mail, and the previous stream of mail stopped ONLY after I sent a signed letter with my own name. It seems that if I just write something on the envelope and throw it back in the box, it either doesn't get there, or nobody cares (except me, who gets all the mail)

I also found this thing about British collection agencies. The person named Elizabeth has a very similar story to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 4:33 PM on April 9, 2008

There *is* a return address on the envelope, but no company name, and the address is an office building with multiple occupants.
That's why I don't think it will end up with the right people if I just throw it in the mailbox, etc. etc. etc. see original extended quetion.

But whatever, I'll just "Return to Sender"" it again and wait for the steady stream of mail to come, which I have to send back over and over and over and over and over.
Ot I'll just move.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 10:58 AM on April 10, 2008

I already sent it back with "moved" on it (and some more words to make sure they send it back).
I did remember to write "UK" under the address on the back this time. This person also used to get a lot of mail from Hamilton in the UK, and there is a Hamilton very close to Toronto in Canada as well, so I guess that whenever I forgot it there it just ended up in the wrong Hamilton.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 1:47 PM on April 15, 2008

For Toronto:
live music depends on what you like. There are tons of venues, each have slightly different line-ups and moods. I like C'est What, Hugh's Room, Cameron House, Clinton's, The Rivoli, Massey Hall, or the Music Gallery. Other's will tell you The Phoenix or Kool Haus (Guvernment) or The Horseshoe. There's lots.

Ingredients: Kensington Market or St Lawrence Market.

Restaurants I'm not so good at recommending. I only eat at... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 3:36 PM on April 9, 2008 marked best answer

I think I know what you mean, but I don't know what it's called either.
There are lots of patterns on here though, so maybe you can dig through their archives until you see something that looks like what you mean and then you can point to a picture and someone with better patterns vocabulary will know what it's called.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 10:37 PM on February 29, 2008

I played this too growing up in Holland (unsurprisingly, the danger was water, not lava.)

But is this a meme?
It resembles the birds and milk bottle situation: all through Britain birds (tits) discovered how to peck open a new type of milk bottle cap very soon after it was introduced, without having been near enough to each other to have been able to copy it. So is THAT a meme? Critics disagree.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 10:36 AM on February 4, 2008

Objective: Some menu items are in a different place and all the file extensions/formats changed, so if you want people with older version of Office to open your files, you have to "Save As" and select the 2003 option.

Subjective: it sucks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 7:27 AM on February 1, 2008

I don't anything about the technical stuff, but I'm wondering whether it's a good idea for a newspaper to host blogs. People tend to blog their own crazy ideas, and if someone finds "Kittens are carriers of deadly alien virus!" on a site with a domain matching your paper, well... people might get confused.
You need to be really clear towards the readers that the blogs are not written by newspaper editors, but you also need to have some really clear guidelines about what is... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 9:42 AM on January 24, 2008

You guys are amazing! I just went to do some lab stuff and when I came back to look at the thread I found all this!

I also realized that if I include this in my faux course syllabus I should also devote the next fake lecture to the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and the Sokal Affair to show how people can be gullible about fake science.

(I hope to one day be able to actually teach a real course like this, so I'm putting a little more work in my... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 11:25 AM on January 21, 2008

I can't believe I forgot the Discworld science books. I own two of them!
And the mention of the dragon book triggered a memory: Gnomes is something like that about gnomes. My mom has it and I've read it a million times but somehow forgot about that as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 1:38 PM on January 21, 2008

Marked as best the things I will most likely use, but I like all the suggestions I've had time to check out so far!
I've never read Asimov, but I'm intrigued by his parody of a chemical journal paper, and my library has a book that supposedly contains it, so I'll look for that.
Science Made Stupid and A Briefer History of Time are perfect examples of things that are only funny because they assume a certain background knowledge of basic scientific concepts to get the joke.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 7:51 AM on January 22, 2008

Do you have Nile soups in New Zealand? I lived on those when I was on my stupid low fat diet. They're the kind of thing you add water to (so they're lightweight), and they're not as fat as noodles, but they're mildly spicy.
They're more filling than Cup-a-soup type soup.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 9:26 AM on December 20, 2007

When cats disappear, they aren't necessary out of the house. They can be somewhere inside, accidentally locked in a closet or cabinet or laundry hamper, and can sit or sleep there quietly for HOURS (even until the next day) before someone either finds him by accident or he starts meowing.
So your story might involve something being opened and closed during the party and the cat hopping in. Requires to be resolved in less than a day, unless the cat is in an area of the house where you... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 10:27 PM on December 11, 2007

Honest Ed's has ridiculous clocks in general - have you checked there?
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 10:16 PM on December 11, 2007

Faved this because I'm looking fr the same kind of thing, and I'll slowly go through the recommendations.
My own favourites last year were the Aimee Mann xmas CD (mentioned above) and this (disclaimer, I know them, but they're still great)
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 9:33 AM on December 8, 2007

I forgot one of my favourite non-traditional Christmas CDs ever: Once upon a Christmas by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. I've liked that since I was a kid, when it was embarrassing to admit, but I've since discovered that many people secretly like this.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 9:40 AM on December 8, 2007

To summarize the problems:
1. Can't post to blog from Flickr
2. Gravatars are also not showing and image upload didn't work for around the same period of time (fixed that last one) so it might all be One Big Problem
3. I can't back up my site right now because I am stupid, so I am not going to reinstall anything or do other risky things for which I would need to back up first.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 9:58 PM on November 18, 2007

Plugins I have installed and active: Akismet, catcloud, Gravatars, Wordpress Multi URI Ping, Miniblog, Wordpress Database Backup

I haven't edited anything in the template lately, so that can't be it. All I did recently was add a link to the sidebar using Wordpress' links -- no meddling with templates.

On the bright side, I managed to login to ftp, so I can backup and I'll be open to "reinstall" suggestions. I had a username/password... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 7:48 AM on November 19, 2007

Someone also asked about these last year.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 10:08 AM on September 12, 2007

Thirding or fourthing Berlin!

I did something on Berlin in grade 10 and it was the first time I was excited about a history project.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 9:32 PM on September 10, 2007

I'm 29, 117 pounds, vegetarian, and I just had my gallbladder removed last week. So, hi, welcome to the club of people who are highly unlikely to get gallbladder disease and get it anyway because apparently it's a genetic thing that doctors and nurses are only just getting used to after cramming "FFF" (fat, forty, female) as the only group of people who get gallstones. (I'm frustrated about it because I was very sick in December and they couldn't figure out what was wrong with me,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 9:14 AM on September 7, 2007 marked best answer

MRI is pretty much based on holding a strong magnet to your brain. So the brain isn't really "impervious", it does do something.

I understand what you're wondering about though, and it's hard to explain. It's not so much biochemistry but physics, and the difference between inorganic and organic molecules. It's been too long for me to be able to explain.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 5:13 AM on August 24, 2007

It's a call for mechanics
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 10:06 AM on August 23, 2007 marked best answer

Also, no Dipsomaniac, there is a station called "St Clair West" on the Spadina line-- it's not the western line of the St Clair station, but a different station altogether.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 10:08 AM on August 23, 2007

Thanks!
eBay is not an option though, due to my last minute planning...
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 7:34 PM on August 2, 2007

Follow-up: Back at the store, other people were having the same problem, and another store employee confessed that he himself mixed and matched stoves and fuel.
I ended up taking the last two MSR cannisters in the store, only used one tiny one, and it worked perfectly.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 9:31 PM on August 14, 2007

I just switched last week, and every worked fine, including iTunes purchased songs.

You can deauthorize iTunes on your PC after you're done moving all the files, if you don't ever want to use iTunes on there anymore, so you're not needlessly using up one of the five allowed computers that you can play your iTunes purchases on.

Also, if your iPod has disk use enabled, you don't even need to reformat it for the Mac. But if you don't have that, then... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 6:53 PM on June 20, 2007

If it's not all news blogging, and if you're on a platform that allows it (Wordpress, Movable Type, and others too probably) then you can also consider lining up a couple of posts to appear while you're away. It's a bit of work if you're already too close to your vacation, though.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 10:33 AM on May 28, 2007

http://www.snacksby.com/

and flagged as noise.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 5:18 PM on May 26, 2007

I don't have any real advice, but I've been in this exact same situation: I was living with two other girls, and the used WAY MORE toilet paper than I did. I never wanted to mention it, and I just bought the cheapest toilet paper whenever it was my turn and stashed my own.
One possibility is that they also stashed THEIR own, but that would only account for one pack, not for all those times that we went through a huge pack of toilet paper in one week.

I use... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 5:34 PM on May 19, 2007

I have a Toshiba Satellite, and it has a DVD player and a CD writer/reader (no DVD writer, but otherwise, kind of the same deal). But then it stopped playing DVDs about a year ago (when the laptop was just out of warranty -- typical! -- at age 2 years and a bit). It kind of tried to read the DVD, spinned it a bit, but then just pretended there was nothing in there. CDs were fine, both reading and writing.
I took it to the official Toshiba fixing-place. They said the DVD reader was... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 7:26 PM on May 17, 2007

1. There ARE violins that are mass produced. They suck. There are also mid-range price violins that are no entirely hand made by one person, but the parts are mass produced. (So instead of making all the pegs by hand, I guess they all come from one big peg-making place. I'm not sure about the actual logistics, but my violin is made by several groups of people.)

2. This is actually being researched scientifically.
link 1, link 2, link 3
and there's... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 9:22 PM on April 27, 2007 marked best answer

Bring a drink, like a bottle of water, and sip from it during the meeting. When you feel tears coming up, CHOKE ON THE DRINK! (Or, you know, fake it for safety's sake.) Cough! Distract! Tears while choking are appropriate, and you have an excuse to wipe them off and about half a minute to take a few deep breaths and pull yourself together.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 11:22 AM on April 27, 2007

Seconding Nada Surf's "Popular", Weezer's "Buddy Holly", and Ben Folds Five's "One Angry Dwarf..." and "Underground".

I knew all four of these would be here already. You're all so predictable!
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 8:21 PM on April 17, 2007

Istanbul (not Constantinople)
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 8:39 PM on April 8, 2007

Hi, you're me.
I was always really good at math, but it seemed so pointless at an academic level (apologies to the mathematicians on here), and I went from Chemistry to Biochemistry. But at the bench I'm no longer good, I'm just average like everyone else, because there are no more of those exams that I could ace just by "getting it". Suddenly who's best depends on who gets their results published first, and that wasn't me. I'm the one who spends weeks trying to get stuff... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 12:54 PM on April 8, 2007

1. If you feel up to it, you can go to work on good days. If you're not, you simply won't want to go. You're not infectious to your coworkers.

2. Just regular food. Be careful not to snack too much just because you're not doing anything else.

3. Sleep. You'll have moments where you decide that you want to start something, and open a book or DVD case, but promptly fall asleep again. Sometimes you puke and whine a bit.

Also,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 10:23 PM on April 5, 2007

I had to get rid of all the notes from grade nine until the end of university. It was very hard, because, like you, I assumed I might still need them some day.

Not true.

I brought some of the textbooks with me, and I have used one paragraph from one of the books just once since I started grad school. That's it.

I did keep some of my favourite essays and project reports, but the actual notes don't even make sense anymore... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 6:49 PM on March 21, 2007

Hart House does weddings, but they might be too big for your need (and therefore too expensive). Although, now that I checked, their website says they can do smaller events as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 6:10 PM on March 17, 2007

Disobedient little girls are a recurring fairy tale theme, and since this was a fairy tale, the theme might have been put in on purpose.

This theme is discussed in the book "Folk & fairy tales" by Martin Hallett and Barbara Karasek.
They mention the most famous example: Little Red Riding Hood, who left the path even though she was explicitly told not to.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 5:50 PM on March 17, 2007

I should add: in the book they also describe this theme as "loss of innocence", which is in line with the "forbidden fruit" reference someone mentioned above. (I also thought of the forbidden fruit biblical theme when I saw the scene)
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 5:52 PM on March 17, 2007

I fill the sink as I go along, so I always start with the cutlery, because I can wash that in a tiny layer of water and rinse it under the still running tap. Then there's a bit more water, and I wash the plates (and rinse them). Glasses and cups go next (oh no, they'll get all the plate-dirt!), and at that point there is usually enough water that I stop the tap, but I still rinse the glasses/cups and later the bowls/pots/pans. I just have to turn the tap back on for a bit.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 6:25 AM on March 13, 2007

Isn't it more fun to watch really crappy math movies with mathematicians? I used to go to Biology students' movie marathons in university (even though I was in Chemistry) and despite being shown just general recent blockbusters (no theme) we'd have so much fun laughing at all the scenes where the science was totally off or unrealistic, especially because we all knew better. I remember Deep Blue Sea being incredibly funny for that reason.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 8:21 PM on March 7, 2007

"argument" should be in there, because it has a different meaning in philosophy and in casual conversation.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 8:03 PM on March 7, 2007

Do it! Why are you even wasting a question on this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 7:57 PM on March 7, 2007

Cake - No Phone
It's about not wanting to pick up the phone. The starts with some old school phone rings, and the first lines are "No phone, no phone, I just want to be alone today."
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 10:39 AM on February 20, 2007

"Einde" in Dutch.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 9:25 PM on February 18, 2007

There's a metafilter group? *joins*

In response to the question: I would not personally add random people. Why would you want that anyway? You can still send messages to people that are not your friends, I think? And then if you get along they can be your friend. But this is just my old-fashioned "real world" idea of what a friend is. Don't take my advice: I only have 30 Facebook friends, so I'm very uncool.
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 2:11 PM on February 13, 2007

jacquilynne, I remember the day delay from when I worked as a teller at a bank in Holland (until 1998 or 1999) and the ATM network wouldn't communicate to the bank branches until the end of the day. So the money was already out of the account right away, and processed as such, but if you walked into a bank and asked to see your balance, it didn't show up yet.
However, now that I think about it, the people that answer bank helpline phones are probably connected to the network in real... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by easternblot at 4:18 PM on February 6, 2007