All of the suggestions about forwarding the call to a VOIP number overlook the fact that interviews should not be conducted over VOIP unless it is completely unavoidable. Interviews should be given with the highest fidelity possible, since they will likely be re-encoded or compressed anyway.

How about this idea---- call YOURSELF from your cell phone, leave it open, and then allow the interviewer to be the **NEW** call- "Click over" to the new call and leave... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 8:49 PM on August 2, 2008 marked best answer

wow. Are you kidding me? You can seriously hear four chords and pick it out just like that? Is there a trick I am missing? SSG- how did you do you that? Can you pick out the other mashups from LOVE? Or is there a website that lists all 130 pieces used in the CD?
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 11:18 PM on March 30, 2008

My friend Sam taught me the following trick:

On the week before his wedding date, he shopped for an "Anniversary Cake" that was allegedly going to be given to his parents and their anniversary party. He described the cake (flavoring, coloring, etc.) and found that it cost about 60% less than an identical "Wedding" cake. His theory is that bakers (caterers and bands as well) tend to gouge people if they know its for a wedding.

YMMV as well as YEMV.
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 11:23 PM on February 17, 2008

For reference, let's start here.
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 8:56 AM on January 20, 2008

"Costco Effect"
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 1:19 PM on January 13, 2008

This answer also made it onto Gizmodo's Front Page and Boing Boing
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 12:57 PM on January 13, 2008

First of all, make sure the Vista laptops are not setup to see "G only" networks- this may be in the wireless card utility or in network settings. Secondly, try changing the channel on the Netgear B network (try either 1, 6, or 11) in case the Vista laptops are receiving interference from another AP n the same channel.

If these two steps do not work, I would disable MAC filtering on the AP.

For troubleshooting, two programs that may... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 9:22 AM on November 25, 2007

I use iStat Menus to watch all the temperatures as well as CPU utilization, and do not see any unusual spikes (my CPU cores are currently running at 3% and 5%, with GPU temp at 106, CPU temp at 115, Enclosure bottom 90F, and Memory bank at 131.

Do those data points indicate anything interesting? I assume because of the variance in temperatures the thermal sensors must be working. iStat menus also says Right Fan is at 5998 RMP and Left Fan is at 5996 RPM.
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 11:48 PM on October 21, 2007

Make sure you have NAT running on a home router. (2Wire or Linksys, etc.) and AVGFree should be fine. If you are using IE you probably need anti-spyware running as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 12:20 PM on June 12, 2007

First of all, I am sorry to hear that you are grieving. Hopefully this type of distraction will help you in the process.

Secondly, good luck leaving this one alone after you've spent an hour with it. Seriously.

Be Warned: this game is insanely addictive.
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 9:53 PM on June 11, 2007

You gotta try PrimoPDF. We evaluated at least fifty different ways to do this, and our IT staff decided that PrimoPDF was the solution.
Plus, you can't beat the price.
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 5:50 PM on April 16, 2007

The coolest math trick I ever learned, and the one I use every single day, is called the doomsday rule. This trick alllows you to determine what day of the week any given date is, either in the future or the past. There are several different webpages that try to help you master this trick, but this one is my favorite.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 10:00 AM on February 24, 2007

Actually I have tried QuickSilver for several days not just once but two seperate times, and for some reason I just don't connect with it the way so many other people seem to.
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 9:30 PM on February 19, 2007

Jimbob, thank you so very much! Based on your idea, and the idea of avoiding problems with spaces, here is what I ended up with:

#!/bin/bash
query=""
for this_query_term in $@
do
query="${query}${this_query_term}+"
done
url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/search/full_search.php?search=${query}"
open... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 10:28 PM on February 19, 2007

Jessamyn, Not that I would ever condone this or anything, but you can get TMobile for free for the next 90 days if you make one small tweak.
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 10:00 PM on February 17, 2007

P.S.- Since you are using an Intel Mac, a Parallels Desktop VM with Vista (either beta or retail) would allow the TMobile trick to work w/o any messy ethical or legal questions. As an added bonus, once you have the Vista VM working on the WiFi, Safari/ Firefox will work as well. Here you go. Good luck!
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 10:46 PM on February 17, 2007

The LinkedIn toolbar will do this. It will create a new contact list called "Found Contacts" or something like that, which you can then export/ mailmerge/ whatever.

on preview- cmicall has a pretty darn good answer, too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 7:21 PM on February 16, 2007

Don 't worry about "802.11a friendly". What you really want is "802.11n friendly"

802.11n, the "nextgen" or WiFi, is both 2.4 ghz and 5.x ghz (not sure if it's 5.3 or 5.8ghz or maybe even both, wikipedia is not helping since it only says "2.4 and 5ghz")

So I would say go for the 900mhz models, especially ones that do DHSS.
p.s.- Also, here is a link that may be of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 9:04 PM on January 22, 2007

I'd be willing to be that those are xvid or divx AVI's. Do they play directly in quicktime?
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 6:24 PM on January 15, 2007

Definitely wait. We are talking about less than a hundred and twenty hours. Why deal with the hassle of returning something in case his Steveness announces colored MBP's or integrated EVDO? Besides, the prices on current MBP's will fall after the keynote... even if only a few percentage points.
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 10:05 PM on January 3, 2007

Repair permissions, reset PRAM, remove all USB devices one by one to see if there is a conflict somewhere.

I also superstitiously believe that USB flash devices should be connected directly rather than through a USB hub (even the one that Apple provides on the keyboard). I have only anecdotal evidence to support this theory.
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 1:39 PM on January 3, 2007

Although the previous discussion focused on business usage, there may be some info there you can use. Good luck!

For the record, I agree with Kadin2048's suggestion of putting up two Wifi networks with non-overlapping channels. You can even set the clients (laptops, etc) to fail over automatically from one SSID to the other.
posted to Ask Metafilter by crazyray at 1:31 PM on January 3, 2007