I will second GarageBand, and post a link to their podcast guide.

It should have come free with your mac.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 7:35 PM on July 21, 2008

the dock will work with either.

On the macbook, under sharing you can enable ftp or smb access, so you can just ftp the files over from your windows machine (I just use ftp instead of smb, since it is just a one time thing). Once you turn it on, on the windows machine go to:
ftp://youmacsipaddress and use your macs username/password to login.

you may be able to get away with replacing the itunes folder in the Music folder with the one... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 11:16 AM on July 17, 2008

ross- you are in seattle. So unfortunately Magic Hat is out of range for us on the east coast, and I miss them dearly.

Some good options, if you want to have a story to tell, drive down to Georgetown Brewery and pickup a growler or two of the Manny's Pale ale (which has a nice citrus finish) or the Roger's Pilsner. You will have to pay for the container, but its around $6-8 a fill for the growler once you buy the container.

Also, Bluemoon is... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 2:50 PM on June 10, 2008

er, report back with your success and which worked out best.

Answering beer questions while at WWDC.

Also, the Elysian has a very good IPA, which I always drink as my summer beers (IPAs, on the lighter sides, not the heavier ones) Their Jasmin IPA in particular.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 2:54 PM on June 10, 2008

I live currently with two cats that have been together almost from kittens (about a year apart, same mother, different litter) in a 440+ sq foot apartment. They have one litter box, I just have to clean it much more than if I just had one cat.

Also, while two cats can keep each other company (if they are litter mates), you can also find solo cats that can work out. Some older cats do fine by themselves, and are harder for shelters to adopt out vs kittens.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 5:50 PM on May 26, 2008

regarding indoor/outdoor. my cats are indoor only, as the areas I have lived just haven't been practical. One cat could care less and just likes chasing the flys when they get into the apartment. The other one does want to get out and go on adventures, so I've started leash training him, and that seems to give him some outdoor adventure time (and provide me with comfort knowing he isn't going to be hit by a drunk on capitol hill).
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 6:00 PM on May 26, 2008

Try these

Mount them parallel to the wall, two deep.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 12:09 AM on May 5, 2008 marked best answer

Your best action is to meet with the other 4 people, and contact the landlord as a group. State specifically you are having issues with tenant X, and all of you have decided either she goes or you all go.

Tenant X has been able to get away with what she is doing simply because of the nature of the house. It has been free flow, and so one or two people get fed up, they move out, someone else comes into the space. So there house is never low on rent, and the landlord is... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 2:08 AM on April 28, 2008

aqua verde further down, by UW Medicine. It is pretty packed, but the food is great.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 7:45 PM on April 10, 2008

Eat it, it should still be good.

Or dump the motherfucker already.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 2:40 PM on April 6, 2008

for dairy, you might want to find a hari krishna community and see if you can swap choirs with them for milk and cheese. From my limited experience (visiting one such farm in central pa) they raise the animals and do not sell any for slaughter. When they get too old to milk, they go out to pasture. The same for the male calves, which are used for basic labor around the farms. They also tend to have a collection of chickens for eggs, etc. themselves.

I guess the solution... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 11:54 AM on April 6, 2008

put it on a coolpad.

Seriously, I carry the same one i've had since 2000 with me, for use on the road and on the desks I setup my macbook pro on for any longer period. Being able to pivot the laptop alone is worth it.

It also automagically lifts your laptop off of whatever surface you have put it on, and will help keep airflow going around it (and the tilt makes it a little easier to use on a desk), for $20 its a good deal.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 5:16 PM on April 5, 2008

10.5 includes screen sharing. If you can, setup the machine at a friends place / neighbors, .etc to make sure you understand how it works and that it works over the internet with its configuration.

Buy her a TimeCapsule also, configure it as the router and backup machine for the macbook, ship that to her along with the macbook, so you know she has a known working and good network configuration / backup working already. This way you wont have to configure the router etc... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 12:35 PM on April 5, 2008

again, all of the above settings can be managed on her account, in the account prefences pane (under managed account).

you can connect to her machine using screen sharing just by enabling remote access, and doing:

vnc://yourmomspublicip

in the go -> connect to server dialogue. she doesn't have to enable it, and you don't have to use something like logmein.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 1:22 PM on April 5, 2008

Oh, and along with a timecapsule, if you are going with a macbook, buy her atleast two more power adapters. If she is going to want to move around the house with it, make it so she can have power at various tables / locations she would use the computer.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 5:10 PM on April 5, 2008

Really, the best answer for this is see a doctor, and a nutritionist. The starting point before this is to keep a food diary, so you can show them what you are eating over the course of a week/month, etc. and they can help make suggestions. Supplements are not replacements for a well balanced diet.

Also, increasing your physical activity to working out (amount and length to be determined by your doctor) 3-4 times a week will probably help you more than taking a super... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 9:44 AM on April 3, 2008

Well, you really have the easiest on.

Team Brando.

Just cross off the W and feature an andre the giant line art graphic of Marlon Brando as your logo.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 8:58 AM on April 2, 2008 marked best answer

Well, now you have your slogan also.

Team Brandon: Lumbering and Unstoppable
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 10:26 AM on April 2, 2008

Tappen Zee all the way.

Specifically, if you are coming from NH, you are going to want to take 90 west (toll road), to 84 through hartford, 684 south just past Danbury CT, then get on 287/87 west/south over the tappen zee (free westbound, make sure you got ez pass or cash for return trip).

From 287 you can either take the Garden State parkway, or the palisades down towards Newark, to meetup with 95 south of that mess for the coast or even... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 11:44 AM on April 1, 2008

Step Zero: in switchrezx, hit "reset to factory defaults"

Step One: Remove Application Enhancer (sorry, it breaks tons of things, and will continue to do so, especially if you plan on upgrading to 10.5 in the future):

Step Two: make sure you've deleted the prefpanes from both ~/Library/PreferencePanes and /Library/PreferencePanes

Or if you haven't tried it, run its own uninstaller, as it will cleanup after... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 11:29 AM on March 30, 2008

depending on the dvd players at the gym, they may support the xvid/divx formats generated by handbrake, but to burn them you will need something like Burn or toast.

You can also replace DVD 2toOneX with Visual Hub, which will produce a .iso file you can burn using Disk Utility to a DVD-R. You can even look into making a 15 hour dvd that will fit on a dvd-r (heavily compressed, but for those small gym lcds you probably wont notice), which means you could fit almost an... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 11:32 AM on March 24, 2008 marked best answer

dw- if you are still in look for a dark rum, check out Goshling's Navy Rum, it has a thick syrupy taste / mouth feel to it, which while not exactly great for sipping, the heavy molasses flavors work well with baking. I've used them in pumpkin pies with much success.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 4:52 PM on March 22, 2008

You can do Parallels (VMWare Fusion is faster) from your bootcamp partition, however it works by enabling a second hardware profile in the windows install, and things can get ugly if a parallels instance isn't closed properly, etc. It is doable, but if all you are doing is game,s you can also manage a second install of windows just for games in bootcamp, and keep your parallels image for the misc. windows stuff while you are working.

You can't do hardware mirroring... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 12:57 PM on March 17, 2008 marked best answer

If you want to buy local, www.seattlemacstore.com actually has some decent deals, they can bundle 3rd party ram and disks with the box, and will still do apple certified warranty work on the box, if you want a local brick and mortar store to work with. (I can't speak to the quality of the sales people, as they have changed since I was last there, but their service department is top notch).

For tivo/pvr/dvr look into el gato, they do external usb/firewire based tuners,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 1:00 PM on March 17, 2008 marked best answer

also, ram is best in matched quads, so either get 4gb to start (4x 1gb) form apple, or just get 2x 1gb aftermarket. or go all the way up to 8gb at 8x 1gb.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 1:03 PM on March 17, 2008

hincandenza- yeah, your post actually stuck out because i have a greasemonkey script that flags contacts and people in my 'nearby' list. Hit me up over memail if you want to flesh it out more over coffee.

To answer questions here for future googlers-

Applecare *is* worth it, it is one of the few extended warranties that Consumer Reports recommends. As a technician and an engineer who has had to support, install and repair countless machines, I... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 3:02 PM on March 17, 2008

Checkout Modo Luxology, more of a full package with modeling and rendering in it, but it works well, as my friends at my last job have started using it after dropping alias / autodesk / maya as a product they sold.

http://www.luxology.com/
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 12:45 PM on March 13, 2008

One thing to look out for with the litter robot, and why i had to retire mine, is that some cats will not turn around when they go in to pee, and will actually pee onto the step and then some. Apparently there are stricks involving using duct tape to act as a 'catch' or handing a coin from a piece of string, however one of my cats seems impervious to the conditioning and still does it. So now I use a different litter box, and have gone back to my drawing board for the "ultimate litter... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 12:16 PM on March 13, 2008

Also, leave the unit off when he does start using it. Then, once or twice a day turn it on (and it will run a clean cycle when it first turns on). Leave the old box out, but as he starts using the new robot, don't clean the old box as frequently. Once he starts using the litter robot exclusively, and has started to not be skittish when it turns on, you can try leaving it in auto mode.

Also based on his weight you might not be able to get the sensitivity switch to trigger... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 12:23 PM on March 13, 2008

It depends entirely on the final encode format they are providing. Most mac users can load up Flip4Mac (free plugin is available from microsoft, who paid the flip4mac guys to make it available when they decided to no longer support the mac) which provides a free plugin so quicktime can stream windows media content, as long as it does not contain DRM or other weird stuff.

If you can link me to an existing stream (unless it requires some login) or mefimail me the url for... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 8:55 PM on March 4, 2008

3" high closed looks like another 3" of travel with a short, single handle (check out the info / guides for the pdf with the specifications).
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 12:49 PM on February 28, 2008

I was intrigued by twistedonions comment, so here is Blumenthal's perfect burger recipe.

Personally, I find good beef, grind it (i've been meaning to try the alton brown 3 meat mixture for a while).

The three best toppings for any beef dish: Bacon, Bleu Cheese, Jalapaneos.

Maybe some carmelized onions also.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 11:17 AM on February 25, 2008

As someone who lived in a Dodge Caravan for a summer, I can say they are perfectly functional vw bus replacements (also during that summer, i got to meet up with some friends who were living in a 70s vw bus, which i got to help them push start on a few occasions).

After the van died, I put my money into a Matrix XR. I specifically checked to see if I could lay down in the back (I'm 6', 230lbs, broad shouldered) and it was more than adequate. I loved the carrying ability... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 9:57 PM on February 17, 2008

I have two cats, that currently live in a ~480 sqft apartment with me. As long as they have vertical space (these guys have shelves that give them access to run around the perimeter of the apt almost un obstructed) they will keep themselves occupied. (When I originally got them, it was in a much bigger apartment).

Also, having two cats means your cats will socialize with each other and keep each other busy. The single cat households that I've been in, the cat always... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 10:33 AM on February 17, 2008

I was looking for one also, I was just in ballard yesterday morning and passed the columns.

I was able to make an EPS out of the image you linked, so I can get you a print of any size you want. (If I could find a place to buy one I would).
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 9:40 AM on February 16, 2008

Here is Vectormagic's output of the post
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 9:47 AM on February 16, 2008

Let me move in?

Operate a Tor Node by contributing your bandwidth to a massive anonymous proxy service?

Host a team fortress match?

Hit up multiple torrent sites at once and grab as many tv shows you want (You wont get massive speed on any one torrent, but you will be agregate bandwidth).

Watch all the HD trailers on apple.com?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 9:00 PM on February 15, 2008

Dancer in the Dark, followed by Cool as Ice
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 4:01 PM on February 14, 2008

Pure Speculation, but:

Closest thing I've found is an article about food preservatives / commercial brining solutions (here), that mentions:

Higher pH levels enhance the protein extraction and produce higher yields but have a detrimental effect on the color. "Alkaline phosphates can cause grayish color and a 'soapy' flavor in meat,"

As to how or why it is getting on / in / around your meat I... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 11:21 PM on February 12, 2008

The surefire way to make sure no unauthorized user will delete the file:

Lock the file in "Get Info" in the finder, then change the owner to someone that isn't the logged in user.

create two accounts on the machine, admin and "Local Guest" (or whatever, a non admin account) created in the System Preferences -> Accounts Pane.

The Local Guest will be the account you will leave the machine logged in as.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 9:35 PM on February 12, 2008

With the file locked, it will keep the users from moving the file to another folder (it will make copies) it will however still let you move it to the trash, in the finder anyway, and that is kind of a pain still.

Another option, if this machine is running leopard, is to copy the locked file to the default user template directory, and then enabling temporary guest user. If the file disappears or is modified, just log out the guest account and log back in, it will restore... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 9:43 PM on February 12, 2008

I think functional degradation is going to be a large aspect of whatever next buzzword design. You go to the same site from an iphone on edge vs wifi vs OLPC vs mac pro, and each will display the same content, but it will be a push/pull interaction between the browser and the server to negotiate which content to display.

One implementation of this is if you use the youtube app on your iphone via edge you are actually served a lower bitrate video than if you load it over... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 2:56 PM on February 12, 2008

My aunt has birds (budgies in this case), and if you don't let them have a nest, they will still lay them, but the eggs will fall to the ground. Just clean out the cage weekly to take care of the eggs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 11:54 AM on February 11, 2008

Probably nothing built since 1999 or so. Apple started shipping its entire assembly process overseas, to have it assembled by FoxConn and AsusTek and Quantum, instead of in their own factories in mexico. You are talking about serious old school machines here if you want to go the ethical route.

On the plus side, they have been called out on it enough, and publically, that they supposedly are doing things about it, unlike other manufacturers who have just given lip... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 1:31 PM on February 8, 2008

Unforunately, you would either have to install some file management server and run that locally on your machine, so it can read and generate html files for you on the fly. Or find a plugin for firefox that would render the OS X metadata / previews/ for you when you used the file:// URI, which I don't think many people would have a lot of time or motivation to develop, as finder (leopard), path finder and other applications do it better.

Have you not looked at coverflow... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 11:37 AM on February 7, 2008

If you setup apache, you would have to change its default settings to share your home folder instead of the standard setup, and to deny anything but localhost connections (or else anyone at anytime can browse your files over port 80).

To be able to get image previews you would either have to pre export the images through something like iphoto or picasa, or use gallery2 to generate albums based on the contents of the folders, but then you are getting into php/mysql land.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 11:43 AM on February 7, 2008

A big argument that I have heard against cleaners, soaps, etc. is that they make your skin more oily because they actually strip the protective oils from your skin, making your body overproduce them and therefore oily.

As someone who did the smelly hippy seven weeks of back packing when he was 16, and only the only major washing being pretty much a dip in a lake or river (except for the hands, which were washed with soap and water) my face didn't magically break out in... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 9:12 AM on February 5, 2008

Forktine- Dogs actually have a higher body temperature than us. There were even special hairless breeds developed to use as bed warmers (by the romans, i think). The term "three dog night" is supposed to refer a night so cold you need three dogs in your bed. As someone whose spent nights sharing a bed with a weimaraner, I can attest that those are some fierce little furnaces.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 9:15 AM on February 5, 2008

Don't forget Gary Ridgway AKA Green River Killer.

Best explanations I've read is that the dense populations with proximity to wilderness, along with the wet moist atmosphere makes the Pacific Northwest a great spot to dump bodies, as the majority of the body will be gone within a season.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 4:35 PM on January 28, 2008

Other things to add to the list of stuff for her to read about / do in portland:

Visit VooDoo Doughnut. If you need any more explanation, look here.

I found Fugitives and Refugees a good book to read about the area, if you wanted a snarky, Chuck Palahniuk perspective of the city.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrzarquon at 11:30 AM on January 26, 2008 marked best answer