Oh man. Thanks so much for the heads up on 4.5. I'm installing it now. Apparently my many calls to RIM to complain about this might have had an effect. Good to know.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 1:20 PM on October 3, 2008

Okay apparently I'm NOT installing it. I just installed the features that will tell me when it's officially available. Is there somewhere I can get a copy of 4.5?
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 3:51 PM on October 3, 2008

I made a turn into a driveway. I crossed all wheels off the road onto the driveway. I backed out. I parked at a meter. I put away my GPS. I locked my car and started putting money into said meter when the cops showed up to ticket me. My understanding has always been - and I believe People V. McGuire 1978 backs me up - that a three point turn, using a driveway, was kosher in California.

Which, by the way, I cited. For all the good it did me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 2:30 PM on September 22, 2008

Also, regarding the points on my license, is there anything I can do now that the judge has denied me traffic school? for instance, can I go visit my sister in NYC, get my license there, and then come back without it going on my insurance?
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 2:34 PM on September 22, 2008

All good advice. And even if I don't get to use the locations for racing fuel, it's good to know where they are.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 2:28 PM on September 15, 2008

Well I'd actually kind of like my name to mean "shimmering" or "gleaming." But I appreciate the leads. This is all pretty interesting.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 12:48 PM on September 8, 2008

Yeah I've been parsing this for a lot longer than I should. Paul is definitely the main kid singing. But I don't think he's the two voices I'm hearing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 1:12 PM on August 31, 2008

here's my advice: the soothing electric piano stylings of the mid to late 70's/early 80's. These are my selections from a mix I made called "Tight with the Money, but never with the lovin"

Reminiscing - Little River Band
Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan
Baby Hold On - Eddie Money
Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp
I Keep Forgettin - Michael McDonald
IGY - Donald Fagen
Goodbye Stranger -... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 5:50 PM on August 18, 2008 marked best answer

I'd get your rheumatoid factor checked. It was what finally tied together a bunch of my random symptoms.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 3:08 PM on August 12, 2008

Okay but, I might add, if you DO go the cruise route, DON'T cheap out and go with the Carnival cruise lowest price package. I just got back from one and, among many other slights, they actually didn't have a working pool on the boat for three days out of four. It was like being trapped in a two star hotel for half a week.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 3:25 PM on August 4, 2008

Well whatever you do, don't forget David's groundbreaking work documenting, producing and singing along with the indigenous hate songs of Springfield:

David's Finest Work IMHO
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 3:17 PM on August 4, 2008

For the record, I have complained to building management (they're in Korea and could care less. Our elevators go down more than Windows Vista)

I have left pleasant notes on the windshields to no effect.

I have even asked security to get involved. Their response was that it wasn't their job.

I've done all the smart and reasonable stuff. So now I'm onto car dollies.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 2:14 PM on June 17, 2008

These are great. Thanks so much everyone. I thought the jazz would be the hardest. Apparently the blues and pop are much harder than I expected.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 2:48 PM on December 11, 2007

I've done the Picard thing before. Sadly someone, I believe, edited these tracks slightly so the ID'ing either doesn't work or I'm completely mistaken and what I think is bebop jazz must be Woodie Guthrie. So I'm going back to the idea of posting and letting your collective music brainz figure it out.

I think I'm going with the Vox blog idea. While I appreciate the idea of only posting a clip of the music, sometimes, for the person listening, you're cutting the one part... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 12:36 PM on December 4, 2007

Okay some quick things

1) Residential neighborhood, I'm on the third floor, and no subway, freeway or night-time construction site are nearby. It's actually a very nice little area. So I'd rule out all shakes transportational.

2) We have two regular washing machines downstairs that are in the back of the building and never seem to shake when I'm doing laundry. And as a man I've done many an unbalanced load. Often with little regard for separating... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 6:20 PM on November 26, 2007

Well if I don't have an answer, at least I have company in my near-sleepy trembles.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 3:52 PM on November 27, 2007

1) My Rheumatologist is in the process of diagnosing me.

2) My mentor is someone who's been close to me my whole life and a source of good medical advice in the past. She urged me to seek out a macrobiotic nutritionist and see what they say. Nothing more.

3) I had the vicodin from a previous surgery left over. When the asprin did nothing I started with a third of a tab, then a half tab then, as of this morning and pain that just wouldn't abate, a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 11:17 PM on November 15, 2007

To add some more here:

Symptoms: I'll list of the ones that are the reasons why I HAD to go in, but, in retrospect, most of the symptoms had been there for years in much milder ways. I just never put two and two together.

1) Eyes. Red. Dry. Painful. Occasionally very itchy. Eyelids Droop in the light sometimes. Numbness, tinging, pressure other times. Periods of constant tearing. Periods with a spreading numbness that goes back from the left eye... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 7:03 AM on November 16, 2007

Good thoughts all around. Thanks. I do feel a little like my world is ending. The worst part is, till I get a specific diagnosis, I don't even know what support group I should go to.

One thing though: how can you get a flu shot when you're on Enbrel? I thought exposure to a live virus is a bad thing when you're on any of the anti-TNF drugs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 5:34 PM on November 16, 2007

It's official:

I am the owner of a Certified Pre-owned 2006 Audi A4 with 11K miles on it. It has the sports suspension, the heated front seats and the dealer threw in the installation of an IPOD jack to seal the deal. It's got a rock solid warranty through 2011.

I paid 23,500 with 3.9% financing over 48 months. I am EXTREMELY happy with my purchase.

The Car
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 5:44 PM on November 3, 2007

For the record, I'm also willing to consider foreign phones that are unlocked and usable on the T-mobile network.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 8:56 PM on October 29, 2007

It's unlocked now but for some reason all the bluetooth crippling just can't be helped. That and the other stuff are reasons I'm looking to switch. That N95 looks sweet though.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 2:56 PM on October 30, 2007

Just looked at the N95 at a store. I need at LEAST a smart-type keyboard. Like the pearl. I can't go back to a standard number board again.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 4:22 PM on November 3, 2007

IN general? I'm just not feeling the whole green status thing. I mean I'd like good mileage, but I'm just not willing to wait on waiting lists and drive something that just looks geeky. The prius, to me, looks like one of those cars of the future from Demolition Man, where a robot drives and you sit back.

Someday I may be okay with that. But I've just come from driving a few tons of mopar muscle power. I can't just jump into the car equivalent of a compost heap and a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 8:42 AM on October 3, 2007

I should point out that I don't want to do a lease. I really want to own this so I can either trade it in down the line or, if it gets messed up, I will pass it on to my nephew for college when he turns 18
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 9:08 AM on October 3, 2007

Well these have all been fantastic recommendations. Currently I am looking strongly at a slightly used 350Z or used Audi TT. Barring that, the next down on the list is a used Audi A4.

And should I not be able to find ANY of those cars with the immediate depreciation removed (but still possessing warranty protection) then I will go with a new 2008 Honda Civic EX-L. I'll still suffer the depreciation but it will at least be less than most cars.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 12:56 AM on October 11, 2007

If you're in a state where you're allowed to record the conversation without the other person's consent, I would do it. Just to be on the safe side.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 6:10 PM on September 24, 2007

It's PAST 90 degrees. Usually significantly so. For whatever that's worth.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 6:03 PM on September 24, 2007

These are all FANTASTIC suggestions folks. Thank you.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 9:40 PM on September 13, 2007

Also I can't believe this made The Consumerist. What a rush.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 9:56 PM on September 13, 2007

If nothing else, i think you've all identified a GREAT new kind of website to start. Runforoffice.com or something to that effect.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 12:17 PM on August 20, 2007

It's not college humor.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 3:31 PM on August 15, 2007

It was all light colors on the site. And I remember it having a really short name too for whatever it's worth.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 3:54 PM on August 16, 2007

And it wasn't Sidewayspony either.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 3:55 PM on August 16, 2007

"People comment on eachothers submissions and you can wade through randomly based on tag or criteria"

Yup. That's exactly the stuff this site did.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 3:56 PM on August 16, 2007

Well allow me to throw in a little anecdotal evidence. I was in college in 1994 and I wrote a little teleplay for five eps of a sitcom that I shot and produced. I WROTE the script in September of 1994 and I used the phrase "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt" in it.

Now I stole that, clearly, and I remember took it from a line in that sketch with the two gay movie reviewers "men on film" from the TV show "In Living Color"... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 11:48 AM on August 13, 2007

Yeah you DO get to keep the car, but they get some 300 dollar fee back from the money allocated. I think it was a disuse charge thing. I'd have to look over the paperwork.

But that said, I don't imagine I'll get anywhere near the money I put in. I just want to know what to baseline the price as.

RR-
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 1:23 PM on June 18, 2007

The AC is only half of it. It's the small mechanical problems that keep cropping up. I just can't use it as my daily driver in Los Angeles anymore.

So, ballpark, what would you ask for this car right now? What's the range?
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 5:01 PM on June 18, 2007

well IE7 seems a little slower overall but it's MUCH faster loading than firefox
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 9:44 AM on May 25, 2007

And it's on MOST webpages. Not all but definitely the majority of them. As far as spyware goes, I've got windows defender and it did a spyware search this morning and I came up clean
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 9:46 AM on May 25, 2007

OKay so far I have

1) Uninstalled all my add-ons
2) Uninstalled then reinstalled firefox
3) Ran a speed test

it came back with:

3259 kb/s download and 2350 kb/s upload with 90 ms latency and a server less than 50 miles away.

I go to a google image search and it still takes 15 minutes to load most of the images on the page
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 2:13 PM on May 25, 2007

Well it's never been that way before. But I also tried some other sites.

On Amazon it takes 10 minutes to load half of the pictures related to a particular sneaker.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 2:25 PM on May 25, 2007

Okay. Brain problem. That is a scary possibility I had not considered. Especially since one of the the other symptoms is a falling sensation with faintness.

Which I've had since I was 10

Makes me pine for the days when I spent hours trying to figure out if I had photo-electric sneeze response.

Anyway, thanks for all the help people.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 9:54 PM on March 22, 2007

Go to the public agencies section of the white pages and start writing. Anything that might be fire hazard? Fire inspector. Think his car isn't up to code? Smog check. Didn't feed his dog this week? Animal control. Think he's a danger to children in the neighborhood? Local parents groups and the PTA.

Make complaints in LETTER form so officials are obligated to respond to them.

I did this once to an AIG insurance guy who wouldn't settle a claim... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 12:47 PM on March 16, 2007

I think it's Amplio Discipulus Victus

Or barring that, Vendi Vidi School-y
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 4:31 PM on March 7, 2007

Camp CreekCreekCreek
Camp WeAllaGoaTuba
Camp Dehumanizing Nickname
Camp WatchaWata
Camp GoFlowNoRow
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 4:28 PM on March 7, 2007

Well for the record I only want to do it the one time. I just need that boost for the moment.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 12:37 PM on March 7, 2007

The idea is for me to spend as little as possible myself but I'd be willing to kick in a couple of hundred bucks. Which rules out any sort of party boat or anything like that (which runs a few grand for my number of guests).

I thought about Hotel Fig, but I think it's gonna be too cold at night by the pool (I was there for a Nov party with that problem).

Cinespace wants a 5 grand buyout for the bar so that's no good.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 2:42 PM on February 21, 2007

What I wonder is, at some point, does learning get FASTER though?

With speed readers, they gain incrementally until they hit some magic point where, whammo, suddenly they're flying through the pages. IN theory, maybe that's how the learning works. Once you learn enough disciplines, suddenly, all the connections start making sense. Like a unified field theory of learning.

Maybe that's the batman secret. Or he's taking tons of anti-alzheimers drugs to compensate.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 3:26 PM on February 20, 2007

I disagree. Do it. And do it blatantly. It sounds like, out of fear of this guy, people have held back and just hoped he'd go away. Well he's not. So take action with mockery. If it provokes him to an ACTUAL rash act, well then maybe you can do something about it. And maybe people will stand by your side.

But the important thing is that you do SOMETHING. In the words of Eric Stratton, rush chairman, "I think this situation absolutely requires a really futile and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by rileyray3000 at 1:00 PM on January 22, 2007