What? No love for Tu Lan or Shalimar? The former's a true hole-in-the-wall of Vietnamese persuasion, once visited and recommended by Julia Child herself! The latter's Tenderloin location epitomizes the hole-in-the-wall experience with fantastic Pakistani food served in squalor. Squalor I tell you! Shalimar also has a couple of other locations, but they are definitely lacking in the squalor department. I also have to wonder if having a website detracts from a restaurant's hole-in-the-wall... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 1:57 AM on April 19, 2008

I second the Jimbo in Purgatory answer. It's by Gary Panter. There are more samples of the artwork here.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 12:12 PM on February 20, 2007 marked best answer

A very good friend of mine worked at Lockheed on the International Space Station project. She got to meet a number of astronauts as a result, including a husband-and-wife pair who had been up in the shuttle together. They were asked if they had sex when they were up in space and the answer was "Of course! Who wouldn't?"
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 4:17 PM on September 26, 2006

Thank all of you for the very helpful suggestions - too many to mark everyone as best!

spilon - it never occurred to me to use CitySearch - d'oh! The lady at Ansley was very helpful, but it seems that it may all depend on the state wine distributor carrying what I need.
pants - Wine Searcher seems to be a really useful tool, though - thanks for bringing that up! There does seem to be a store which carries something which might work, which is cool.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 2:22 PM on August 7, 2006

booksherpa - thank you for the recommendation!
mooders - are both the Warre's and Graham's that you tried tawnies or were they vintages? Is it worthwhile going with a vintage versus an aged Tawny? (There are also vintage tawnies I understand, but please pardon my lack of an oenophile vocabulary)

Thanks for the suggestions of vintners and labels. Your suggestions have given me a great place to start!
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 10:58 AM on August 8, 2006

Well, it turns out that none of the local wine merchants will deliver alcohol since it is against state law to do so. I have found, however, that some wine stores local to me will deliver to Georgia regardless and so they're probably my best bet of arranging this. Thanks for everyone's help, despite the way it's ended up.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 1:26 PM on August 21, 2006

jesourie - they call themselves "youpers", the spelling of which I'm not certain, unfortunately.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 2:23 PM on August 8, 2006

Old-style pedometers merely count the number of steps you take and aren't necessarily that accurate as a result. However, there are new accelerometer-based pedometers which don't have that limitation. I use the Polar 625X myself, and am quite happy with it. It consists of a pod which you attach to the laces of one shoe and the watch/computer. I've only had to calibrate it once and doing so iis pretty straightforward. The only problem I've had with it is when running in urban areas the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 3:46 PM on May 22, 2006

IcelandAir used to have cheap flights between Luxembourg and New York, with a layover in Reykjavik. I seem to recall it being cheaper to take a train from Switzerland to Luxembourg and taking this flight than many of the other options for flying back to the U.S. from Switzerland. Granted this was more than ten years ago, but unless things have changed a whole lot I wouldn't completely dismiss IcelandAir as an option.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 11:40 AM on April 20, 2006

Dagnabbit. Now I have the "bang, quote, pound, dollar, percent, ampersand, tick, open close parentheses, asterisk, plus, comma, minus, period, slash, colon, semicolon, less than, greater than, question mark, at-sign, left bracket, backslash, right bracket, caret, underscore, backtick, left curly brace, right curly brace, tilde" song going through my head..
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 10:01 PM on April 5, 2006

mdonley - it could very well just be the opening offer and they're expecting you to haggle. As you already have noted yourself, every price there is negotiable. So negotiate! Determine what the housekeeping/laundry service is worth to you first or find out from your expat friends what a fair price would be and then start bargaining.

On preview: essentialy what alms and lapoil said.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 4:22 PM on March 30, 2006

I wonder how I Love Tacos feels about Huey Lewis and the News.
OnTopic: Not a single company per se, but the automobile industry has convinced most of the world that they should drive. Of course, they also had a hand in making it necessary to drive here in the U.S., but they've succeeded in equating the automobile with the "mystique" of America.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 11:26 AM on March 28, 2006

On preview: damn you, lunalaguna.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 11:26 AM on March 28, 2006

Finder by Carla Speed McNeil. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Queen and Country by Greg Rucka. He also did Whiteout, which is also an outstanding work.
Black Hole by Charles Burns.
The Goon by Eric Powell.
Hellboy by Mike Mignola (don't let the movie spoil you on the book).
Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo (once again, the original comic is superior to the movie adaptation).
The Tale of One Bad Rat, The Adventures of Luther... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 10:10 PM on March 26, 2006

I forgot to mention Lone Wolf & Cub by Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima. If possible, get a hold of Dark Horse's first series of reprints which were full-sized. They're still being sold in digest-sized reprints in which you can still enjoy them, but to me the smaller form detracts from the art.

Is Halo & Sprocket still being published?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 9:51 AM on March 27, 2006

Just from your laundry list, I have to chime in with another recommendation for the Palm TX. It fills all your requirements and you can get a case/belt clip with enough room to spare in your budget. Personally, I was shopping around for a PDA for my dad and decided that it was the best option available.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 12:50 AM on March 9, 2006

I don't know about queer theater companies, but there's Theatre Rhinoceros, a queer theater in San Francisco. It might be a good starting point to look for companies or that kind of thing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 11:42 PM on March 3, 2006

I would second Carbolic's suggestion if you enjoy employing that aspect of your skills. In fact, a very good friend of mine was in a similar position as yourself (albeit without a JD) and found her vocation as an interpreter.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 10:46 AM on January 20, 2006

I just want to thank unSane for that incredible comment. I've always had problems with plotting, but this technique seems like a brain-dead tool to help me along.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 5:23 PM on January 17, 2006

Schwinn recently came out with the retro-styled Stingray line which you can see here. The banana seats in the classic line to which I linked most look to be approximately what you're asking for, but you'd have to be the judge. I would say to contact a Schwinn dealer and see if you could just by a seat off them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 6:18 PM on November 10, 2005

By the way, I don't know if they're only available in kids' or teens' sizes, which might be a possibility. It was the first thing I thought of, though.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 6:20 PM on November 10, 2005

Name it "Rock Band".
Number all your albums, e.g. "Album #1", "Album #2", etc.
Give your songs self-reflexive names like "Song about my cat", "Angsty song about love #34", "Rocking song about rocking out", etc.
Wear nondescript brown-paper colored clothes and label all your instruments in big stencil letters, "LEAD GUITAR", "BASS GUITAR", "DRUMS", and "KEYBOARD".
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 11:54 AM on November 4, 2005

The Tin Drum. Found using this google search. Google's cache of the comment which mentions the eel-fishing.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 8:29 PM on November 3, 2005 marked best answer

Budget-wise, I was thinking of something which would work out to the $20-$25 per head, as some in the group have tighter pursestrings at the moment. Lots of good suggestions so far, though. Has anyone had any experience with the Delancey Street Restaurant?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 1:47 PM on October 31, 2005

Preview, preview, preview. That should read: "work out to $20-$30 per head not including drinks"
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 1:53 PM on October 31, 2005

Thanks for all the suggestions, folks! Now it seems that I'll just have to get reservations at this 11th hour.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 3:11 PM on November 1, 2005

The real concern is whether your girlfriend is able to equalize pressure in her inner ear with the ambient pressure. If she has problems doing so, and a good indication would be if she has had problems with equalization on an airplane flight, then it would be a pretty bad idea for her to go diving. Conventional ear plugs are definitely not an option for scuba diving since they impede a diver's ability to equalize. The only earplug option that I know of is the vented version of Doc's Proplugs.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 1:25 PM on October 26, 2005

I would also second mister e's suggestion of visiting ScubaBoard. Good luck! Diving's a ton of fun, especially if you have a buddy to share it with!
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga at 1:27 PM on October 26, 2005