I'm a 20 something who started on the new Who, and watched through Sarah Jane Adventures, and have watched almost all of the Fourth Doctor adventures that are on DVD with my fiancee.

I would have to say that Genesis of the Daleks, while it would fit in to the Time War as a starting point, is a harder episode to watch than most of them. It's got a few points where it seems like the characters are stalling for time, and might be hard for kids to watch. It wasn't the most... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 8:37 PM on June 18, 2008 marked best answer

Yes. I have successfully spliced one back together with electrical tape, exactly like caddis said.

(A coworker of mine had a cat who loved to eat the magsafe cords.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 4:53 PM on May 7, 2008

Are you looking for an analog or digital scope? If analog, mefi-mail me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 9:07 AM on April 16, 2008 marked best answer

I've never had Bertucci's.

Whenever I work with tomatoes, I've found if I cut the watery seedy part out of the tomato and leave the thick flesh (so it looks like a spoked wheel) it really cuts down on the acidity.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 7:37 AM on April 11, 2008

Please not PDF. PDF is hard to read on any of the devices I use, palm or nokia 770.

Please do HTML.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 7:01 PM on April 2, 2008

CheeseburgerBrown, you can select text out of a PDF, if its done correctly, but even so, the scrolling is a pain, and most lower powered devices lag real badly on PDFs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 8:07 AM on April 3, 2008

thedaniel, I've been meaning to ask this question for quite some time. I haven't found anything suitable for my needs yet. Ideally for me, this would mean looking books up based upon filename in the ISFDB, and then tagging them somehow. It's on my list of programming projects, but the list goes ever on and on.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 7:13 AM on April 2, 2008

aleahey, I would second looking at the student jobs. They usually pay fairly well and understand that you're a student first, and a worker second.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 8:21 AM on March 28, 2008

I had this done about 5 years ago--the month before I started college. I was 18.

The minute I woke up after the surgery, I was amazed by how much clearer my sinuses were than beforehand. My nasal polyps were blocking my airway, so even with all the gauze packing, I could breath a lot easier AFTER surgery rather than before.

I was really exhausted for about 4 days, and pretty tired for even up to 10 days.

I'm doing great... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 11:34 AM on March 17, 2008

Webkinz are little stuffed animals like Beanie Babies, but each one has a unique code that lets you join an online flash website. This website has a bunch of flash games, a lot of trivia questions (my favorite), and a Sims-style home that you can furnish with virtual furniture and wallpaper and such paid for with KinzCash, the currency. At no point is "real" money exchangeable for KinzCash. The pet you "adopt" lives in your home, and you can talk to it and bathe it and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 3:48 PM on March 14, 2008 marked best answer

Talked with the wifey, got a few corrections and addendums.

They announce the Pet of the Month one month before hand. Next month's is the Lilkinz pet poodle.

If the child only has one Webkinz, they might get confused with how to register the second pet. You do not make a second login and password, you adopt a new pet from inside the Webkinz world while logged in. The Webkinz tech folks can combine accounts within either 30 or 14 days, but its... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 4:32 PM on March 14, 2008 marked best answer

Yet another followup. Sorry guys. The pet of the month information is posted on the internal newletter.

This month's Pet of the Month is the lil kinz pig, and the next month's pet of the month is the BIG KINZ pink poodle.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 10:34 AM on March 17, 2008 marked best answer

In 2007, I went to a TMBG at First Avenue in Minneapolis. They played nearly every song on The Else, and a few others. I think they played "Clap your Hands."

If you want to know just about every song they'll play, listen to their latest album "The Else" and the collection "Dial-a-song."

Don't worry about it, it'll be sweet.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 8:06 AM on February 13, 2008

There's at least one book I can think of where "You are God" could be considered a plot point, and perhaps a spoiler, but I've never seen the gag spoiler.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 6:18 AM on February 6, 2008

bitteroldman, a therapist had me tap my finger to words, and it worked better than nothing, but was a pretty meh-worthy technique, but I can definitely see letting the finger pace your speech instead of the speech pace your finger being more effective.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 12:48 PM on January 30, 2008

Cedar Rapids, IA -- official slogan of "City of Five Seasons," unofficial slogan of "City of Five Smells," as it has one of the world's largest oats processing plants, IIRC.

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, as it isn't a change of the name itself, but its definitely derogatory.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 8:07 AM on December 17, 2007

Mannheim Steamroller? I'm at work but I am pretty sure they have their stuff on iTunes.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 9:37 AM on November 29, 2007

Cheezburger?
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 12:48 PM on September 18, 2007

I like chocolate chip cookies. I love them. I do not like oatmeal raisin cookies. This, however, is my new favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. My girlfriend found it on the Taste of Home website.

Oatmeal Chip Cookies

2 cups butter, softened
2 cups sugar
2 cups packed brown sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
6 cups quick-cooking oats
3 cups all-purpose... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 8:21 PM on September 6, 2007

Many people enjoy Apples to Apples. I do not understand why.

Settlers of Catan is a great game if you've got 3.

The BoardGameGeek or BGG is a veritable Mecca of board game knowledge.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 4:53 PM on September 4, 2007

I use newspipe. I tried to host it on my Dreamhost account, but no matter how much I niced the job, it went over Dreamhost memory limits and was killed. I had about 100 feeds.

Now I host it on a home machine and have it use Dreamhost to mail me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 6:31 AM on August 27, 2007 marked best answer

The pins that MrMoonPie used may work--is it hard to attach the pins properly?
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 11:29 AM on August 23, 2007

Thanks guys, but I convinced the store to give me my money back.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 1:27 PM on August 24, 2007

I had something like this when I was growing up. Usually I'd just throw in an extra "You sure, Mom?" when it didn't quite make sense, and she'd know something was going on.

Seconding the warning about phones being loud enough other people can hear.

I don't think this tactic ruined my ability to deal with peer pressure.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 6:14 AM on August 9, 2007

I've seen turtles when I walk around Lake Calhoun. I've seen both hard and soft-shelled turtles (leatherbacks?) when walking around the Lake. It might be cool since you can walk right up to the edge of the water in most places, but its pretty popular so you probably won't be alone.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 9:55 AM on August 2, 2007 marked best answer

I have not used Wine-doors, but it sounds pretty cool. It looks like a sort of package repository for things that are freely available and install through wine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 3:01 PM on July 25, 2007

I'm seconding chairface and adding protoboard/solderless breadboard.

You're going to want to get a kit or something to really make this a totally sweet gift, but you're already onto a great idea.

I'm an EE student, so I get to do this stuff all year long for credit.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 11:08 AM on July 23, 2007

gilmonca, that Rainbow is my usual grocery store. I must have missed them. I love that section--they have Violet Crumble!
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 12:22 PM on June 25, 2007

Thanks, gilmonca. I grabbed some after work today. You get best answer because you picked the same grocery store I go to every week.

Now I'm all ready for Saturday. (potential Dr. Who spoiler if you haven't seen the second season of the "New Who" and don't want to know who the "Big Bad" is)
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 4:13 PM on June 25, 2007

Please let us know if you find any better solutions!
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 6:34 PM on June 21, 2007

I had "bloody jello" in my mouth after my wisdom teeth were extracted, after my first nap. I didn't get dry sockets.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 12:28 PM on June 10, 2007

I'm one of those rebels who enjoys onions and peppers in his burrito. If you offer this, something that separates burrito joints I frequent and burrito joints I try out once is the sogginess of the vegetables.

Chipotle and Qdoba and such have nice, crisp, pretty vegetables.

Other places, like the burrito joint in my hometown, have brown, soggy, mushy vegetables.

This small difference is basically the first thing I look for in a new burrito place.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 6:01 AM on June 7, 2007

If you could post your results here, I'd appreciate it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 12:34 PM on June 6, 2007

Why is it that I cannot find a US distributor for Tooth Mousse?
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 12:31 PM on May 31, 2007

I don't want this to turn into HorribleAnecdoteFilter, but I had chronic nosebleeds. Went to the doctor, had her cauterize the vessels. They didn't stop. I figured it was nothing, but it was nasal polyps and I had to have them removed.

If you're due for a doctor appointment, make sure to mention it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 8:57 AM on May 29, 2007

Sorry, not it.

IIRC, the scientist isn't the main character.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 8:28 PM on May 10, 2007

Try John Ringo's stuff on Baen Free Library. Have you read Accelerando by Stross? IIRC that's free as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 8:23 AM on May 10, 2007

I've had a lifetime of sinus trouble, and I use a "high volume nasal irrigator" which is essential a Westernized neti pot.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 7:04 AM on April 27, 2007

If you're looking for sf to fill your time until he publishes something else--

I love Stephenson's work, and I recently read Blindsight and the Rifters trilogy by Peter Watts and I remember feeling that they were Stephensonny at some points.

Blindsight and the first two Rifters books are freely available at his website.

(I promise I don't mean to derail...)
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 10:49 AM on April 18, 2007

I have a sister in Duluth so if you need a person in the area she may be able to help. Email's in profile.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 3:48 PM on April 16, 2007

My literary experience is that whenever you have scars that start to tingle and/or produce pain, tell Headmaster Dumbledore sooner rather than later.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 8:10 AM on April 15, 2007

I'm familiar with the anecdote you mention, but I'm not absolutely certain it's from Scott Adams.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 6:52 PM on April 11, 2007

From the question, the dividing-up-the-Moleskine with GTD intent is probably the PigPogPDA.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 2:11 PM on April 9, 2007

I'm more productive when I have a set of albums I only listen to when I code. It helps put me in the right frame of mind when I put the music on.

For me, these albums are Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway, and Switchfoot's Beautiful Letdown.

I can't believe I wrote that down.

I also like Jean Micheal Jarre's Oxygene. It is much more energetic than Music for Airports.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 6:13 AM on March 27, 2007

I've commented on this previously.

I have a Nokia 770. I have read ebooks for about 8 years as the majority of my reading. I have read around 250 novels in ebook format, starting with the Palm IIIxe. The Nokia 770 is the best ebook reader I have ever used.

It has the most intuitive, perfect design for reading ebooks. The reader on the device, FBReader, opens almost anything you throw at it (not pdfs). It officially supports at least OpenReader,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 5:06 PM on March 22, 2007

My girlfriend, who is in college to become an elementary school teacher, asked me to post the following:

I'm studying elementary education and there was a substitute I had to deal with during my practicum last semester. Not only do you want to gain respect from the students, but you need to respect the students as well. The substitute was disrespectful towards the students by not even attempting to learn their names. During roll, she wouldn't even try to pronounce their... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 11:21 AM on March 4, 2007

I run mythtv at my place. I can run it and my girlfriend can run it. I am, however, a professional linux admin, and while I love the idea of MythTV, I do not believe it is ready for people who don't administer linux machines to run yet. Mythtv is made of so many little pieces that are each a little finicky, so when one changes, the whole deck of cards can fall down.

Someday, MythTV will be exactly what you want.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 9:07 AM on March 3, 2007

I've got a few suggestions. If you're interested in all the feeds I read, I can send you an OPML file if you email me. Email should be in profile.

http://www.instructables.com/ex/y/process/rss.xml - Instructables. Usually lame (knex guns and ramen recipes) but sometimes awesome. Usually the awesome ones end up on Make in a day anyway.

http://365tomorrows.com/feed Free scifi story on a regular basis that's less than a page... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 10:52 PM on March 2, 2007

You may want to look into Carman. It's an OBD-II analyzer for the Nokia 770 and N800 internet tablets.

It looks sexy. It's LGPLed, and the internet tablets run Linux. Nokia endorses third party development.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 4:36 PM on February 24, 2007 marked best answer

NES Ice Hockey. I had an emulator cabinet when I lived in the dorms at college, and a friend and I played probably 200 games of Ice Hockey.

Seconding ToeJam and Earl.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamwolf at 8:44 AM on February 19, 2007