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I'm probably going to meet up with some friends to Ibiza in June, but I'm not much of a beach person, so if I get antsy, what else could I do with a few free days in southern Spain? I was thinking of spending a few days in Barcelona, but what are some other options that are relatively accessible from Ibiza?
Also, advice for finding less expensive flights from the east coast of the US to Ibiza would be amazing.
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at 1:01 AM on April 30, 2013
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Can someone tell me what is going on musically in this
song? I'm mostly interested in chord progressions and key changes, and especially what happens in the breakdown starting around 3:20 and continuing for the next minute or so-- does it just go up an octave or is there a key change, and why is that so emotionally affective? I'm not interested in production techniques or the percussion(which I already know), only the melody of the lead and interplay with the bass and pads in the background.
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at 6:00 AM on March 22, 2013
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My girlfriend and I really enjoyed playing Walking Dead together. I controlled it, but she made all the dialogue choices and helped solve puzzles. What are some other games like that? She's not really a gamer and doesn't really get FPS controls (yet) so stuff like co-op portal and even minecraft is out. I'm going to try and see how it goes with Braid next, but are there any other games like Walking Dead where people who aren't actively controlling it can help make meaningful decisions or contributions? I was also thinking Heavy Rain, but I don't have a Playstation, only a pc and Xbox.
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at 9:15 PM on March 9, 2013
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I want to spend two or three weeks driving across country this summer, then probably fly back to the east coast. I have a decent amount of money, but I'd like to spend as little money as possible on travel costs and accomodations (so I can spend money on activities and siteseeing)
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at 3:53 AM on February 20, 2013
(12 comments)
How do I get my windows box to work with my Thunderbolt display? I'm trying to get rid of an extra monitor. I'm willing to invest in a new motherboard and/or video card. Has anyone done it?
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at 4:53 PM on January 8, 2013
(5 comments)
Help me buy a Christmas present for my host family in Guatemala.
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at 8:01 AM on November 23, 2012
(2 comments)
Private school drum-focused marching bands in central America-- what kind of music is that? Where can I read more about it? Where can I find examples online?
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at 4:51 PM on August 30, 2012
(5 comments)
Recommendations for beginning Spanish reading?
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at 2:32 PM on August 15, 2012
(16 comments)
I'm landing in Guatemala city at around 1:30 pm. I've been told I want to get out of the city to Xela or lake atitlan or Antigua as quickly as possible.
Once I land at the airport, how do I find a bus to my destination and where should I go first? (I'm staying for a few weeks, so I'm on no set schedule)
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at 9:56 AM on June 14, 2012
(9 comments)
Traveling in Central America -- what do I do about money?
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at 6:10 AM on May 15, 2012
(15 comments)
Backpacking in Central and South America -- What do I bring?
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at 10:10 AM on April 19, 2012
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What should I know about going to a Spanish school in Guatemala?
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at 6:45 AM on April 12, 2012
(14 comments)
Travelling around South America for a year on a low budget -- give me the run down of how one prepares for that kind of thing and how much money you should realistically budget?
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at 8:12 AM on April 2, 2012
(19 comments)
What are the most mathematically 'advanced' RPG systems? Pen & paper and otherwise?
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at 7:24 AM on March 14, 2012
(24 comments)
When did people start calling the Attorney General "General So-and-so". It's seems like it's both wrong and a fairly recent "innovation".
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at 3:51 PM on March 3, 2012
(7 comments)
I keep reading rumors of Ron Paul supporters sneaking their delegates into state conventions.
How plausible is it that Ron Paul can get the nomination
with this strategy? And if it can't get the nomination, what
can he do with all the extra delegates?
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at 1:05 PM on February 16, 2012
(4 comments)
I'm in my mid 30s, have a lot of spare time and happen to live next door to a university and I want some more structured education in my life, how do I do it? (details inside)
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at 12:05 PM on February 4, 2012
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A couple of years ago, I read about a guy who wrote a script that would randomly order items that cost $1, so he'd get a bunch of cheap, unexpected stuff from all over. I think it was for ebay auctions, but maybe it was amazon. Does anyone remember this or know where his page was? And if you don't, does anyone know of something similar to that (automatically ordering random cheap stuff)?
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at 11:04 AM on January 27, 2012
(5 comments)
I had a flu/cold a week or so ago and now my TMJ is killing me. Could they be related?
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at 7:19 AM on January 10, 2012
(9 comments)
This article says that there is more variety in Asian dogs than in western dogs and that there are some dog types and characteristics that are unique to Asia. What are they? The article talks about DNA diversity, but doesn't talk very much about how the differences are actually expressed.
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at 7:46 AM on December 5, 2011
(3 comments)
Music lessons for a 4 and a 6 year old in the Baltimore area?
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at 10:26 AM on November 25, 2011
(1 comment)
I want to spend the next year getting better at writing and composing music -- how do I do it?
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at 11:32 AM on November 4, 2011
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Are there any Great Scientists who are also Great Artists? If not right now, who was the last person who comfortably fit in both categories?
For the purpose of this discussion, a Great Artist has produced museum quality work (or a great novel, or similar), and a Great Scientist has made at least one 'important' discovery or invention, however you want to define that.
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at 10:20 PM on September 29, 2011
(49 comments)
Cisco experts -- how do you get AnyConnect working with Active directory?
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at 12:06 PM on September 20, 2011
(4 comments)
Are songs in particular musical keys supposed to have a particular character? I don't mean whether the song is in a major or minor key, but different fundamental notes. Should songs in A minor have a particular feelings associated with them, that songs in D minor wouldn't? Why do people write songs in one key, but not another? Is it mostly a matter of instrument tuning or are there some feelings that you need a particular key to evoke? Is it mostly arbitrary? Do individual songs feel different if you transpose them up or down a key or three?
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at 2:24 PM on September 12, 2011
(23 comments)
I'm interested in books about 'underground' or 'bohemian' sub-cultures in despotic regimes. Artists, musicians, intellectuals, or even party kids or 'hippies'. I know there's a ton of these about the Soviet sphere, but I'm also interested in ones in Islamic countries or Asian countries or South America. Fiction or Non-Fiction is fine.
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at 6:31 AM on August 19, 2011
(9 comments)
Asking for a friend:
I was entering some data into excel and I realized it was changing gene names into dates. E.g. there is a gene in my dataset called SEPT5 and Excel automatically makes this into Sep-05. If I manually set the column as text, it inexplicably changes the cell to a 5-digit number that represents that date, in this case 38596.
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at 6:30 AM on August 10, 2011
(21 comments)
Just got a macbook air, how do I best manage the drive space?
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at 3:40 PM on July 31, 2011
(7 comments)
What are some examples of fictional thrillers that revolve around some kind of currency manipulation or other arcane financial shenanigans? Spy novels, murder mysteries, police procedurals, action movies, doesn't matter what genre. Not interested in crimes like bank robberies, just white collar crimes. (Non-fiction about these kinds of capers is also acceptable.) The more arcane and complicated the scheme, the better.
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at 4:35 PM on July 4, 2011
(51 comments)
How do writers keep track of huge casts of characters in sprawling epic novels like Game of Thrones? Is there software for that, or do they use notecards or what?
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at 3:39 PM on June 20, 2011
(23 comments)
I'm looking for audio of people saying interesting things about making or listening to music -- movies, youtube videos, hip-hop albums, tv shows, doesn't matter. I'm especially interested in people talking about how music or dancing makes them feel or why they make music, more than details of how they make it.
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at 12:07 PM on June 9, 2011
(11 comments)
I'm in search of examples of metagaming.
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at 5:45 PM on June 1, 2011
(33 comments)
I haven't look at a new pen-and-paper RPG since sometime in the mid 90s, but I'm kind of curious what's happened in the past 10-15 years or so? What are the best fairly recent pen-and-paper RPGs -- what are the most popular ones that are new. I assume stuff like D&D and World of Darkness are still around, but what are some fairly recentish ones that have gotten big followings?
Have there been any that introduced really new mechanics or game play philosophies?
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at 12:48 PM on May 21, 2011
(12 comments)
What are some interesting conspiracy theories -- and websites and communities that support them? There are the classics like the Templars and Flat Earth and Elvis Is Alive, and newer ones like 2012 and chemtrails. What are some other interesting ones you've found?
Please no current political conspiracy theories (though older stuff like the Kennedy Assassination is okay). I'm especially not interested in conspiracy theories centered around Obama or Bush. They're boring and will just start a political argument, which I'm not particularly interested in.
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at 5:52 AM on May 10, 2011
(40 comments)
Is there a 'bubble' in higher education? By that I mean, are there too many colleges right now, who are charging too much for tuition, and too many people paying too much for degrees, and taking loans that they will never be able to pay off? And assuming that there is such a bubble, and it were to burst, how would a deeply cynical person invest to make money on the collapse in the way that some savvy people made money on the housing market collapse?
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at 12:22 PM on April 26, 2011
(21 comments)
What are some good 'visual novels'?
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at 1:43 PM on April 14, 2011
(9 comments)
What are some limits of the human brain? I think everyone knows that people can't keep more than 7 items in short term memory, and I was just reading
an article here that mentions limits to the theory of mind (A knows that B thinks that C thinks.. etc). What are some other things that it is just impossible to think about or remember or to visualize? I'd prefer actual studies and hard data to anecdotes and folk wisdom, but I'll take either.
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at 9:10 AM on March 27, 2011
(24 comments)
Google seems to have changed their 'reply to all' feature recently for lists with a 'reply-to' email address specified. Now when you click 'reply all' it sends an email to the person who sent the mail as well as to the list.
I'm on a list where like 90% of the people use gmail and it's causing a problem, because some people habitually click 'reply-all' and some people usually click just 'reply'. What happens is, I'll click 'reply all' to an email, and some other person will click only 'reply' to mine and the reply will go back to me personally, instead of the list.
Is there a way to revert this behavior?
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at 5:40 AM on March 10, 2011
(9 comments)
I want to write a text-heavy story-based RPG. I'm familiar with scripting languages like python and ruby, but I have no art talent whatsoever, so i'd prefer that whatever I use have art assets available, and I don't want to write an engine from scratch so I'd like to build off of an existing framework. What are my options? Free or paid, doesn't matter. It might be an RPG engine or an adventure game engine, or even a 3d engine, but whatever I use, I'd want something that would let me focus on writing and designing and less on programming the framework.
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at 5:28 PM on February 26, 2011
(6 comments)
I want more soundtrack music like
Hans Zimmer - Time and
Gattaca - The Departure -- really emotional, sweeping orchestral songs that tug at the heartstrings...
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at 1:38 PM on February 19, 2011
(23 comments)
Why are there so many Chinese restaurants in America that serve really cheap, low quality food, compared to, say, Thai restaurants, which seem to always have fresher ingredients? I've seen what really good, genuine Chinese food looks like from shows like Iron Chef, and I'd love to try some, but every restaurant I eat at always seems like they serve reheated food out of vats. How can you find the good Chinese restaurants in your town? I know they must be out there.
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at 7:04 AM on February 11, 2011
(62 comments)
Windows 7 changed my folder view for one of my folders to show only mp3 information. I have a bunch of mp3s in there, but the folder isn't all mp3s, how do i go back to the normal view where it just shows size, date modified, etc?
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at 4:49 PM on January 25, 2011
(2 comments)
What's the largest possible solid block of words you can make in scrabble? I've gotten 3x3's in Words with Friends a bunch of times, but never a 4x4. Is it possible? Are larger ones possible?
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at 7:59 PM on January 17, 2011
(31 comments)
Are there any iTunesU/Open Courseware communities or Forums?
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at 8:25 PM on January 6, 2011
(2 comments)
What are some interesting, particularly well-written or unusual fictional depictions of 'bodily functions'?
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at 8:18 PM on December 30, 2010
(30 comments)
Can someone id this cover of Lead Belly's Whoa Buck?
It starts at around 3:40 in this video.
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at 7:43 PM on December 21, 2010
(3 comments)
What are some songs that make you feel unnerved or uneasy just listening to them?
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at 12:36 PM on December 12, 2010
(105 comments)
Everyone knows about the Greeks and the Romans and the Norse, but what are some of the less well known pantheons and pagan religions from Europe?
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at 2:43 PM on November 24, 2010
(20 comments)
What are some famous (or infamous) neighborhoods that no longer exist?
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at 2:11 PM on November 17, 2010
(74 comments)
Help me get an ethernet connection from the basement of one apartment building to the 3rd floor of another.
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at 11:16 AM on November 10, 2010
(15 comments)
