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"I have actually done this and I have the definitive answer! :) I learned to ride a bike by myself when I was about 22.
1. Buy a bike. This will be hard because you won't be able to help the bike salesman fit you. I got a Gary Fisher Tiburon hybrid..." [
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12 days ago
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"There've been questions on AskMe before along the same lines--make sure to search the archives, there's good stuff in there.
But drawing on those questions, you will basically get two kinds of responses. One type of person will tell you to buy..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"I answered this question in the January thread; here's what I said (I still I think I have the best answer, since I've actually done this):
I have actually done this and I have the definitive answer! :) I learned to ride a bike by myself when I..." [
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2 months ago
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How do I take notes on big books?
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4 months ago
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"I'm a grad student in English who teaches literature to undergrads, and every semester I have a few students like you: science people who have never liked humanities subjects and have chips on their shoulders about it. Often they're really busy with..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by LobsterMitten, Weebot, painquale, RogerB
5 months ago
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"IMO, the magazines you must subscribe to nowadays are, in order of value with a couple ties:
- The Economist / The New York Review of Books
- Atlantic / New Yorker / Harper's
- Scientific American / Science / (and I've heard good things about..." [
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7 months ago
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"Books, books, books (not the web!). And long walks and bike rides are good too. I've found it best to stringently eliminate the evening activities that make you feel gross and bad, e.g., TV, drinking, web-surfing, etc. in favor of activities that..." [
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8 months ago
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"I'm a grad student in literature, so for me 'reading it all' is not just a personal goal, but a professional one too. From a more concrete perspective, here are the actual particular strategies I have employed over the last couple of years to get rid..." [
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9 months ago
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"$600 should be totally sufficient for a romantic weekend in New York. My suggestions, based on romantic stuff my girlfriend and I did back when I lived in NYC:
- Stay at the Chelsea Lodge. It's in Chelsea (obviously), and has extremely cute,..." [
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11 months ago
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"I was in a long-distance relationship all through college (I'm not in it anymore). We wrote paper letters too, which was really, really great. Send packages, little gifts for one another, and other stuff too--physical reminders, that have passed from..." [
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11 months ago
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"Pracowcity's advice is OTM on many, many levels!
I think the key thing is that you're a student, and it's 2005. By now it should automatically be the case that the two of you are alternating meals / gas / various expenses. My girlfriend of..." [
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Last year
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"Obviously there are lots of different, valid responses to this question, and that's that. I will only add that I, personally, have always been convinced by the porn-is-degrading-to-women feminist position, and frankly mystified by the porn-is-good..." [
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Last year
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"I haven't seen this, so I can't comment on it ... but I'm one of those people who just don't get these ultra-gorey grindhouse torture movies. I can watch a violent movie when there's a meaning to the violence--Audition comes to mind, but a better..." [
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Last year
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I do not see why we should have the disadvantages of being the gentleman while they have all the advantages of being the cad.
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How do I take notes on big books?
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Last year
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"Great thread; from cruising through my iTunes:
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
R.E.M.: Lifes Rich Pageant
Belle and Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
Brian Eno: Here Come the Warm Jets and Another Green..." [
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Last year
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"Handee is right: at a very straightforard level, it's very possible that "we" don't cause anything to happen in our brains; rather, our brains decide and then we "decide" as a result. (This is called epiphenomonalism, by the way:..." [
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"My advice--which might not play well here--is that online is not the way to go. The way to get 'well-rounded' is to use the library. In my experience, despite the hypertextual nature of the web, it's really in reading long, old-fashioned books that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jason's_planet
Last year
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"This thread seems more or less over, but I'll follow up to my previous post anyway in case anyone ends up reading down here in the future.
I disagree with you, Il Furioso, in your sense of doom and gloom. Yes, there are lots of bad departments..." [
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Last year
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"For the past year or so I've bought all my clothes from a store called Sean, which has locations in a fair number of U.S. cities. The clothes are Parisian / European in style and color, happen (by total chance) to be perfectly cut for me, and are at..." [
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Two years ago
