All of these books.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 11:42 AM on June 27, 2008

2007 US Lacrosse Participation Survey (pdf).
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 2:41 PM on June 26, 2008 marked best answer

I think that there is being weird (which is fine) and being an attention-whore (which drives me insane) and it seems like some of your friend's behavior crosses that line. Her worrying about the blue joke seems fine, reasonable people can disagree about things like that, but the freak-out about the cartoon shooting and the lover stuff and the statue seems like attention-whoring. The bad news is that there is no cure for it that I have ever found (except not hanging out with theater majors).... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 8:55 AM on June 20, 2008

Check the compilation linked to in this post or the other albums linked to in the comments.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 12:31 PM on June 13, 2008

There is a guy who posts to MeFi Music that is really similar to Brad Sucks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 11:33 AM on June 13, 2008

You live in the second to worst ranked state in the nation for eduction because your son's school is the top end of the spectrum that is being averaged against these kid's schools. School quality is ranked on a statewide basis, but in reality can vary greatly based on which neighborhood you live in, not to mention which county and which city. Moving from South Carolina to North Carolina won't do anything for your kid educationally. If he is in a good school then I would recommend thanking your... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 10:57 AM on June 10, 2008

The sugar in chocolate sparks the release of a nerve chemical called serotonin and might lower another nerve chemical called NPY; the end result is a sense of well-being. The sweet taste also releases endorphins in the brain, giving us an immediate euphoric rush.

Exercise can cause your body to release endorphins as well, so maybe your body wants that sweet sweet junk.

I prescribe moderate exercise and the moderate eating of chocolate chip... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 10:40 AM on June 10, 2008

The IDES's Fast Facts for Employers (pdf) asks employers on page 21 to notify them ahead of time if the employer is planning a significant layoff, but doesn't make any other mention that I could find in a quick scan of notifying them of firings. I have also never heard of anyone doing that in my state. There are numbers in that pamphlet to call with questions, and this seems like one that they could clear up for you with 100% accuracy pretty quickly.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 2:29 PM on June 3, 2008

Do you believe in astrology?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 12:38 PM on May 27, 2008

Rather than specific tips, I'd like to address your philosophy. The way that you be fair in business is to try to get as much as possible from the person sitting across the table from you, because the person across the table from you is trying to get as much out of you as they can. When both of you are doing that, then the result is fair. However, if the person across the table from you is trying to get as much as possible from you and you are trying to be "fair" then you are going to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 8:34 AM on May 22, 2008

21 is something totally different where I come from. 21 is used to play basketball when you have an odd number of people, has no out of bounds and everytime you score you get three free throw shots. It is like the go-to pick-up game.

Taps is a more kid-friendly and rarer game. I played taps a lot in South Carolina in the 90's. Same rules as you described. Super-fun game. Keeps you running around a lot.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 1:50 PM on May 16, 2008

If you were at the line and had 20 points and missed, there was a major penalty...like losing all your points or something.

You go back to 15, which then allows you to get 21 without having to make any free throws.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:47 PM on May 16, 2008

Man I have been you and I stayed and wasted some great years of my life in a crappy relationship. If I could go back in time and speak to myself, I would grab 18-year-old-me by the shoulders and scream "Break up with her right now! Sure do it as nicely as possible, but make it crystal clear that it is over and that there is no possibility of it not being over. Go now run, for the love of god! Also by Google stock!" The kindest thing that you can do is not send mixed signals or leave... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:06 AM on May 16, 2008

"Buy" Google stock, 18-year-old-ND¢, not "by" Google stock. That doesn't make any sense.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:08 AM on May 16, 2008

The collection and reporting of racial/ethnic data are mandatory for all institutions that receive, are applicants for, or expect to be applicants for Federal financial assistance as defined in the Department of Education (ED) regulations implementing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (34 CFR 100.13), or defined in any ED regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The collection of racial/ethnic data in vocational programs is mandated by Section 421(a)(1) of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 11:35 AM on May 2, 2008 marked best answer

The IGN review says it is better on the PS3.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 10:00 AM on April 29, 2008 marked best answer

I took an adult/child/infant CPR class at the hospital that we are scheduled to give birth at last week after work from 6:00pm until about 8:30. It only cost $20 and I guess I learned a lot. I don't know if I could do it in an emergency, but I feel a little better now. Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I really appreciate it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 2:02 PM on April 27, 2008

WHAT.
THE.
NERDS.
FUCK.

...would probably not be appropriate or advisable.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 2:39 PM on April 24, 2008

I'm going to be banned now aren't I?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 2:40 PM on April 24, 2008

What good are all the profits in the world gleaned from producing hilarious t-shirts if I don't have a special Metafilter to share them with?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 3:00 PM on April 24, 2008

The federal law is the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Here is some Texas specific info. I have never heard the $500 thing, but I don't practice in this area and I am not your lawyer etc. Wait and talk to your lawyer when he gets back. That is what you are paying him for.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:17 AM on April 24, 2008

Are there places on the net, in the real world, where people still believe that someday, someplace, when the right time comes--you're going to meet that someone who you've been waiting for your entire life.

I don't know. Where do 13 year olds hang out? Livejournal?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 5:43 AM on April 22, 2008

I don't think you sound absurd, just a little immature. I think that this idea that we all have a soul mate that will complete us and who we have been waiting our whole lives to meet is an invention of greeting cards and bad movies and is not how romantic love has ever really been viewed or worked up until now and I also think it does way more harm than good. See this answer. I sympathize with your feeling that you will never meet a nice girl, and I have felt that way before too, but really I... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:56 AM on April 22, 2008

You can't take moral positions without sacrifice. That is why I avoid them entirely. Either don't get listed in the directory or accept the fact that your self-interest is more important than your moral compunctions. The middle ground is just hypocrisy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 8:51 AM on April 17, 2008 marked best answer

I don't think it would work, no matter what the speed. See here, about 35 seconds in.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 2:14 PM on March 27, 2008

Just leave it alone and I wouldn't worry about it either. That is pretty minor stuff.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 1:53 PM on March 27, 2008

When I was in college I took a class called "Math for liberal arts majors" and my friends and I would just get high and go to that class because it was so cool. We didn't have to do any actual math, with numbers and stuff. The teacher would just go "So like, some infinities are bigger than others!" and would then prove it somehow and we would just sit in the back of the class and freak out. It was awesome. So tell the kids about how some infinities are bigger than others.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:42 AM on March 27, 2008

Yeah I remember that 1= .99999 one too. That class would let out at the same time as a bunch of others and I would always see friends milling about outside afterwards, just getting out of Poetry 101 or some shit, and I would run up to them with my face lit up going "You'll never guess what I learned in math class today!" and I would try to convey to them how cool some mathematical principle was and I would always fail and people would start avoiding me at that time of day, because they... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 8:04 AM on March 27, 2008

Seriously, if some of this sort of stuff was taught in high schools, maybe I wouldn't be so full of math fail.

Yeah, I mean, it sounds cheesy, but math seriously is amazing, and they take this incredible mind-blowing discipline and poison children against it. They suck every bit of cool out of it and make people hate it. They should teach these things in kindergarten before 2+2=4. Let children learn the hows after they have seen what the hows can do.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 10:01 AM on March 27, 2008

Target. Cheaper and less hassle. I also don't like the atmosphere in the Gamestops and what not. Kind of the dark unseemly underbelly of geek culture.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 9:30 AM on March 21, 2008

Some people make no effort to be nice to people from whom they can not gain any advantage by doing so. So they only socialize with those that they see as either their equals when it comes to money, popularity, influence, etc. These may be those kind of people and they may see no benefit from being nice to you.

However, having been in an extremely successful band (visit your local Meficomp), I know that hangers-on and star fuckers come with the territory, and I never... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 12:58 PM on March 17, 2008

Joseph Pulitzer? (more)
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 11:32 AM on March 17, 2008

This book seems to say that they are.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 1:39 PM on March 11, 2008 marked best answer

This exact question was asked on Big Big Question.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 11:46 AM on March 11, 2008

It was asked there because it is blatant chatfilter. You know how you can tell? "Here I'll go first" is the universal chatfilter indicator.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 11:47 AM on March 11, 2008

I think that part of it is the element of surprise. It is like how a first album by a band will come out and people will go nuts, and then the band will put out a second album that is just as good or better than their first, and it will get panned. It isn't a sophomore slump so much as it is that the first album had the element of surprise.

When Smash came out, very few people had any expectations for it, and so when they first played it it blew... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:27 AM on March 6, 2008

But expect this if you play the rat.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:29 AM on March 6, 2008

MeTa
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 2:58 PM on March 9, 2008

I partially agree with the above. There is a very special type of person for whom the cost benefit math works out for membership in a prepaid legal plan. For 99% of people, there is no such thing as a good PPL plan, as PPL plans are currently designed. I don't think that the idea is fundamentally flawed, but I have never seen or heard of it being implemented in a way that the majority of people would be benefited by it. So, if you would like to, as suggested above, describe what kind of legal... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 10:27 AM on March 7, 2008

Democracy - Leonard Cohen
The President's Dead - Okkervil River
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 1:40 PM on March 6, 2008

The Beatles invented pop music. You listen to their early stuff and think "Hey I have heard this a million times before." because you have heard a million people copying them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 11:55 AM on March 5, 2008 marked best answer

I like the sound of those stand up pianos that you see in saloons in western movies. There is a lot of that playing in Willie Nelson's album Milk Cow Blues. Not just Willie singing accompanied by one of those pianos, but it is there in the background.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 11:31 AM on March 5, 2008

Seconding every single Pat Conroy book.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 6:36 AM on March 5, 2008

Beetle Bailey.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 12:40 PM on March 4, 2008

If you take it later in your college career, try to hold onto this fervor that you have now as a freshman. I took it as a senior in college and ended up rolling out of bed, still high from the mushrooms I ate the night before, got to the testing place dirty and groggy and still pretty freaked out. Taking it under those conditions were pretty fucking surreal, and did not lead to me doing my best. Then I had to go to law school in South Carolina. Thats a lesson for all you kids out there.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 8:07 PM on February 29, 2008

I haven't been in a relationship with a narcissistic person, but I am one (not like to the extent where I have a disorder, I just know that I am pretty damn great), and I can tell you that if your ex knows that two girls that he has dumped are sitting around analyzing him and trying to figure him out then he will be delighted. Why give him the satisfaction? The narcissistic person is now in your past, so you don't have to worry about narcissism, except to the extent that you now know your... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:00 AM on February 29, 2008

Yeah Lego Star Wars is what you are looking for.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 8:41 AM on February 28, 2008

Did you happen to catch the Academy Awards last night?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 11:56 AM on February 25, 2008

phil has it.

A young lady who goes by the pen name Diablo Cody won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for the film Juno last night. The following is from that wikipedia page: "At the age of 24, Cody wrote her memoir Candy Girl: A Year in The Life of an Unlikely Stripper. The memoir began after Mason Novick, a manager, showed interest in Cody's acerbic wit and the popularity [Ms. Cody's blog] Pussy Ranch had received. Novick, who... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 12:13 PM on February 25, 2008

Well I am outside your parameters right off the bat, but the only prop this one takes is a quarter: Hold a quarter between your thumb and pointer finger. With your other hand, make a fist around the quarter as if you were grabbing it, while simultaneously dropping the quarter down into the palm of the hand in which you were originally holding it. Take the fist that your audience thinks the quarter is now in, hold it fingers up and blow on it, open it and show them that there is no quarter in... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:13 AM on February 22, 2008