According to this page:

To remove mold, mildew and their odor from upholstered auto seats, products with peroxide and detergents will restore the car interior. This both removes the stain and deactivates the odor. Simply spray a citrus cleaner product on the soiled area. Wait about five minutes for it to penetrate. Using a clean white absorbent cloth, blot the area, pressing down firmly without rubbing for 30 seconds. Repeat this blotting process until the area... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 10:24 PM on July 24, 2008

Don't be a dick, of course it's a good thing. But say hi to your mum.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 7:41 PM on July 17, 2008

That might be where the word comes from, but I say shonky (in New Zealand) and I only associate it with 'crappy' or 'badly made' there's nothing antisemitic about it's usage whatsoever here.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 1:04 AM on July 16, 2008

I don't know what it's like to be a sex worker in NYC (actually, I don't know what it's like anywhere) but some students here pay their way through uni doing that. Of course, given that it's legal here, it's somewhat less risky than it might be there.

This isn't meant to be flip, you did say as much money as possible, as fast as possible.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 12:24 AM on July 16, 2008

I don't remember there being much in Ubud besides the Monkey Forest, stay somewhere more fun (ideally closer to all the restaurants in Kuta & Legian) and take a day trip to Ubud instead - it's what I did.

The Monkey Forest is pretty great, the town is small and you'll run out of things to do pretty quickly - I can't imagine staying there for two weeks, maybe two days.

You haven't said what else you want to do, or if you've been to Bali before,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 1:20 AM on July 15, 2008

Metafilter.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 6:11 AM on May 4, 2008

Get a program called gspot, that will (or should) tell you what audio & video codecs are used in the file, once you know that you might be able to configure MediaCoder or FFmpeg to transcode it to something more usable.

If VLC can play it, this should almost certainly work. However, if it doesn't, then I'd try using a screen capturing (or screen casting) program - something like CamStudio - then you can play the video in the ActiveX app, run the capturing program on... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 6:00 AM on April 24, 2008 marked best answer

I like Revision3 & TomGreen.com - as it happens they both use the same CDN & video player.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 6:48 AM on April 15, 2008

New Zealander here, you should go. I think it would be a good idea to stick with your coworkers, and generally out of the way of the family, unless they approach you.

You probably would have mentioned it, but just on the off chance that they're Maori, and it's a tangi - I hope you don't mind the sight of dead bodies. Also, if it's on a Marae, when you get to the gates, if there's a group of people there, don't go blundering in, join the group and wait for the powhiri... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 8:07 AM on April 8, 2008 marked best answer

Good for you mate, you did the right thing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 7:07 AM on April 14, 2008

You use different names in the States, but I think a Nighthawk is a CB250? If so, I've ridden both that and it's slightly larger brother the CB400, and I can't say I rate them very highly. Strange buzzing little engines and an odd upright position (granted that I'm much larger than you at about 185cm, so you might find the ride experience rather different to mine).

I can't help but think that if you're going to get a Honda (and you should, they make great bikes), then... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 6:15 AM on April 14, 2008

Weird, we use the phrase (in New Zealand) to refer to losing money covering an expense -- possibly an unexpected one, or one that someone else should perhaps have covered, or when you expected to make money, but lost it instead.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 6:13 AM on April 3, 2008

Get her off and she probably won't care how long you last. So get her really super hot, ideally give her an orgasm before you even penetrate. Of course this probably only works well if you don't fucking suck at going down. When you know she's got a headstart and going for her second before you've even had your first, you need to catch up anyway.

You might find you're fucking too fast - I mean, physically thrusting faster than you need to, nice long slow strokes can be... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 6:07 AM on April 3, 2008

I mean, don't men buy and use electric razors on their faces?!

Not if we want a close shave, no.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 5:00 AM on April 3, 2008

Have your cake and eat it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 4:53 AM on April 3, 2008

I routinely make peanut butter & vegemite toast, it is delicious.

You accursed heathens.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 2:35 AM on January 30, 2008

I have a hunch that a good dry off is a big part of it as well, I towel dried my fella - but I would give him a fan heater to lie in front of if he wanted it, or send him outside to lie in the sun, season permitting. (I would have used a hairdryer on him, but the only one in the house was much too loud to use on a nice doggie.)

I never expressed his anything, and he always smelled lovely to me - until he found something to roll in, of course.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 6:36 AM on January 12, 2008

oxford blue is entirely right about who you're protecting yourself from, it really is "them", every paranoid's favorite faceless bogeyman. The chances of anyone watching are probably small*, but it's easy to take reasonable care, so you should anyway. (Reasonable care includes making sure you haven't been compromised by any malware, which is probably the most likely way anyone will fuck you over, IMHO.)

Whether you should really worry about SSL depends on... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 4:18 AM on January 10, 2008

Not being an American in America I didn't consider that, but I'm sure you're right Malor.

(Of course, being part of Echelon, my country might well be playing its part by monitoring me closely. I hope they like redtube.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 5:41 AM on January 10, 2008

Hah, that's funny as baking soda was one of the things I considered.

I suspect that those who suggested beating the purge to the punch where probably right on the money, I don't know exactly what the mechanism is that makes one sick, but I suspect it's something like "bacteria in stomach reach critical mass, cause/generate a particular toxin which enters bloodstream, body freaks out and throws up", so cutting to the chase would seem to me to mean that less of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 5:22 AM on January 10, 2008

Oh, as for the timing question from rxrfrx, it was about 2.5 - 3 hours, which was about the same as with the bacon sandwich.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 5:30 AM on January 10, 2008

I found that rolls of freezer bags (50 per roll for cheap) did the trick very nicely for cleaning up after my dog. Folded up really small and flat in a pocket, too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 4:29 AM on January 10, 2008

I don't have any of the holes you speak of. I don't think you're going to be agnostic for long, if you are in fact agnostic now.

The only guide I need for how to live is the golden rule - it's so good it's a part of every major religion. Though of course they fuck it up with superfluous rules - dictating bloody genocide for instance.

If you really want ritual and fellowship, some martial arts dojos can be pretty strong in those areas. They can... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 6:50 PM on December 30, 2007

In New Zealand (in my experience) salt is either in a grinder, or has a single large hole, in some cafes and restaurants they'll provide a small bowl for pinches of salt - but I'm not really a fan of other people's fingers in my food, so I usually skip the salt if they do it that way. Pepper is also in a grinder, or in a shaker with many smaller holes. (i.e. same as Britain.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 9:36 PM on December 26, 2007

Well there's the DMOZ weightloss personal pages directory. Though I'm sure some of them are hawking something too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 2:16 AM on December 18, 2007

You cry a lot and your heart aches. And then your heart keeps aching, but you only cry every now and then. And then your heart aches but you don't cry. And then your heart aches a bit less. And then one day you realise your heart doesn't ache anymore, and maybe you cry about that for a while, and feel guilty. And then you don't feel guilty anymore. But you never stop missing them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 4:42 AM on December 11, 2007

Have you actually used one? I'm not sure what your motivation is. I haven't found the screen on mine to be a problem. You'd be sacrificing your speakers as well (they're on either side of the screen).
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 4:36 AM on December 11, 2007

I gave one of these to my mum in about 1990 or so, it was an electric boiling chamber with a standard milk frother spout, did a good job (made for ridiculously good milo). I think it was called a Mr Cappuccino, but I can't find anything resembling it on google.

I found this thing, which might meet your critera, but isn't what I'm talking about.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 4:31 AM on December 11, 2007

Never mind everything else, these would be heavy. I don't know about you, but I love how light my spectacles are, they don't slide down my nose, and apart from the sharp vision, I hardly notice I'm wearing them.

Bags of fluid is bad thinking. Some sort of deformable polymer would be more manageable. A material that flexes when some known current is applied would be easier to manage than something that required pumps or servos (materials like this exist, but I don't... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 3:25 AM on December 10, 2007

I think others are right, you'll need to wait for her to be really comfortable with this, and you should never ever put undue pressure on your lover, talking to her away from the bedroom is a good idea - but you'll have to pick your timing.

Sex is pretty great, you know, so you don't want to give her any additional issues that spoil that for her (and thereby, yourself).

I do know how frustrating it can be to be with a girl who won't give oral, I... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 2:47 AM on December 10, 2007

It's already been said, but allow me to reiterate, if you're trying to avoid trite don't say 'I'm sorry for your loss'. It's really just about the worst - and certainly much worse than a plain "I'm sorry".
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 1:46 AM on December 10, 2007

If you don't like silver you can replace the body panels with differently coloured ones. (Though I don't know how accessible these are in your market.)

How about an autobot logo on the roof? Or perhaps some judicious pinstriping in key positions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 4:08 AM on November 20, 2007

My Eee fits in a very small bag indeed, less than a third of the width of my laptop bag. So just about any bag you like, really.

I really don't like the holster idea at all, I think it would look pretty ridiculous. (It might be small for a laptop, but it would still make for a ludicrously big holster.)

Maybe it'd suit you, who am I to judge.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 2:32 AM on November 20, 2007

I think Apple would have to completely lose their minds before they'd show any interest in a site like this.

Unless you're getting a shit tonne of traffic to your front page, I don't think that selling the site will net you jack shit. And if you're not getting a shit tonne of traffic, slapping up advertising won't make you anything either.

If you rope some like minded individuals in and turn it into some sort of advocacy blog, shining light on... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 8:23 AM on September 14, 2007

Loquats definitely don't match your description (though they look fairly similar to the picture, but not quite), however it really sounds like you wanted loquats, so next time try to get some of them.

(Now I'm going to go and think about happy childhood days sitting up the loquat tree in my garden gorging on those fabulous little things.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 4:21 AM on August 20, 2007

I don't have any idea what "rough outlook" Dee Xtrovert is talking about for New Zealand. Without further details it really just smells like FUD, TBH.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 6:33 AM on August 15, 2007

I use the FLV Embed plugin, which makes it all super easy. It uses Jeroen Wijering's flash player, but I think they basically all do - it just does the job so nicely.

Simply upload your .FLV file to some known place on your server - or any server, it doesn't have to be the same one the rest of your site is hosted on. To use it you just put a really simple tag into your post:
[flv:url_to_video width height]

Or... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 6:47 AM on August 6, 2007 marked best answer

Seido Karate.

(Can't spar right away as a beginner, though.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 5:58 AM on July 23, 2007

Go for it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 3:58 AM on May 23, 2007

I seem to recall it being 'jungle juice' around here.

(Related aside: when we got old enough to raid the folks liquor cabinet, our desire to take little enough that it wouldn't be noticed necessitated taking a little from several bottles, the resulting concoction was called 'rocket fuel'. Really taught me to hate gin.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 11:58 PM on April 25, 2007

If you have to ask the question, it's not okay.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 6:59 PM on April 7, 2007

For now, you could consider putting that giant brain of yours to better use and try holding the phone to your left ear.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 4:37 AM on April 6, 2007

We already have lots of the things suggested.

Pork rinds for instance, southern comfort, and SPAM. (Please, every supermarket in the WORLD has SPAM.)

We also have all kinds of marshmellow crap, both local and imported. I don't know what the difference that chr1sb0y mentioned is. They look the same as the marshmellows I seen on American TV, so *shrug*. (I've never liked marshmellows, and don't claim to be an expert.)... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 4:03 AM on March 6, 2007

Dr Pepper is available. Not super common, but even many corner dairies (in Auckland at least) have a can or two in the fridge. Less available than even Sars or Creaming Soda, but usually stocked in the same place.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 6:00 AM on March 6, 2007

Fudge? Please. We probably make better fudge than you've ever even dreamed of in your life.

As to soda/pop/softdrinks. I'm sure there are plenty in the US we don't have (I remember a mefi post about a place that made turkey flavoured, and that sort of thing, I haven't seen that here) but there are a lot we do have.

Just off the top of my head...
Coke
Coke Zero
Vanilla coke
Lemon... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 4:34 AM on March 7, 2007

Go on, someone say chocolate. Or potato chips. Or beer.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 4:38 AM on March 7, 2007

I think the 1710 is the one with the red back, right? Wow, that's one of the ugliest laptops I've ever seen. Also, a 17" so not as portable as the OP seems to want.

On portability stakes the d420 is amazingly tiny, so light and small, and sure it doesn't have a DVD built in, but so what? It has USB, who carries DVDs around anyway? We had a couple in the office a while ago, really really nice. I was highly tempted, but decided that the screen was probably a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 2:36 AM on March 7, 2007

Seeing as it was white, I'd say the most likely reason to take his ears would be to remove cancerous growths. So sad to be sure, but possibly alive because of it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 5:09 AM on December 22, 2006

mikeh: (You're not really adding water to whiskey, are you? Water's for the side, just sip the whiskey slowly and take a sip of water occasionally.)

This is just simply not true.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 2:48 AM on November 5, 2006

Now, I feel that I made a bad decision.

I can't help but agree with you.

By acting precipitously you made a stupid mistake that could potentially have far reaching consequences, but which will probably require nothing more than finding a new program for your son.

Don't be so hasty in future, ok?
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Monkey at 12:39 AM on November 5, 2006