1-800-DEAD-COW. They will remove your dead cow.
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 6:32 AM on July 14, 2008

It looks like a bit of alteration to the _filedir() function in /etc/bash_completion might do the trick - without needing a prefix.
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 9:34 AM on July 11, 2008

Heh, It could have been World, but probably not Highlights for Children.
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 7:11 AM on December 5, 2007

cgc372 wrote: "That link goes to ask.metafilter.com, SlyBevel.

Perhaps alluding to the sad fact of this very question now being the top google result for "ostrich throat".
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 7:16 AM on December 5, 2007


junk | awk '{for(i=2;i<=NF;i++){printf $i " "};print}'

posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 7:19 AM on December 3, 2007

Under the Skin by Michel Faber is an excellent little book, and it has its own discussion questions at the end.
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 10:41 AM on October 9, 2007

You want soundplant
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 8:04 AM on September 14, 2007

eval $(echo $NAME | awk -F_ '{print "BLDG=" $1 ";CPU=" $2 ";MOD=" $3 ";NUM=" $4 }')
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 10:03 AM on August 29, 2007

eval $(scutil --get ComputerName | awk -F_ '
{ print "BLDG=" tolower(substr($1,1,4)) ";CPU=" $2 ";MOD=" tolower($3) ";NUM=" $4 }
')

takes care of a lot of it
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 10:14 AM on August 29, 2007

ok, sorry last one. This is how I would do, I think it's pretty readable:

NAME=$(scutil --get ComputerName | awk -F_ '{
if( $2 == "1.42GHz" ) { x = "A" } else if( $2 == "1.25GHz" ) x = "B"
print tolower(substr($1,1,4)) "-" tolower($3) "-" x "-" $4
}')
scutil --set ComputerName $NAME
scutil --set LocalHostName $NAME
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 10:22 AM on August 29, 2007

Cucumbers I can take or leave but cantelope-type melons make me gag uncontrollably.
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 6:46 AM on July 16, 2007

A few books that leap to mind. Their common thread is being awesome and engaging no matter what your level of interest in the subject matter. Stop me if you've read them all:

The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald Norman.

In Suspect Terrain (geology) and The Curve of Binding Energy (nuclear physics), by John McPhee (or pretty much any of his other books).

The Making of The Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes, which turns... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 12:20 PM on June 27, 2007

Oh, that Tom Wolfe book about modern art is pretty cool.
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 12:28 PM on June 27, 2007

Italo Calvino? Nicholson Baker? Mark Leyner?
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 10:03 AM on June 20, 2007

curl -s http://podcastfile | awk -F\" '{for(i=1;i< nf;i++){if($i ~ /mp3$/) print $i}}'/code>
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 6:25 AM on May 10, 2007

i dunno why mefi ate code, but: i< nf/code> should be i< nf/code>
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 6:28 AM on May 10, 2007

ok i give up
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 6:28 AM on May 10, 2007

[swearing redacted]
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 6:31 AM on May 10, 2007

Moka Pots
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 6:38 AM on February 13, 2007

Yeah, I could have phrased that better. The NYT feeds (and BBC as well) display basically a single sentence in the feed, as opposed to at least a decent paragraph, and that turns out to make a big difference.

If I need to click through every headline to see if I'm going to read it, I've begun to realize that I don't actually click through any of them. And oddly enough, if I get a good chunk of article, I'm almost guaranteed to click through to their valuable, money... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 1:46 PM on February 12, 2007

Yeah, soundplant is exactly what you are looking for. If you're on a mac, email the guy and he'll send you a copy of the Mac version, which is usable.
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 10:43 AM on November 28, 2006

before i got a mac, i used to play with my girlfriends powerbook when i was over at her place. it took about 6 months of this cycle:
1) complain about something slow/broken/missing that i had in windows
2) stumble across mac version/way of doing the thing
3) come to prefer the mac version/way
before i realized I wanted one myself real bad.

take your time. the situation was good for me cause i had a windows box i used... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 2:02 PM on November 17, 2006

Longitude by Dava Sobel, is quite interesting. Emporer of Scent was far out. But if you are really cool, get past the title of Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea for one of the most amazing stories ever.
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 9:07 AM on August 14, 2006

I get bloody marys on all my flights. I do it because I actually _don't_ like plain tomato juice and vodka very much at all, and it keeps me from downing my tiny drink in like, a minute, and having to wait an hour for another one.
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 10:51 AM on June 23, 2006

Like phyle says, in many cases when I've programmed out a beat and the rhythm still felt wrong, what it needed was tweaks to relative volumes.
posted to Ask Metafilter by [@I][:+:][@I] at 5:40 AM on April 10, 2006