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"My wife and I sold used books on Ebay for a several years. Here are some tips:
1) Learn how to grade books and accurately describe their condition.
2) Learn what a "book club edition" of a book is, and avoid them.
3) Learn how to..." [
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9 days ago
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"I took 6.5 to get mine (it was a double major, but both social science, so that's no excuse); ended with a GPA below 3, and got into Penn State's MPA program with no problem -- it's not Harvard Law, but no Hollywood Upstairs College of Medicine..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Theloupgarou
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"quonsar: outrage is mefi's stock in trade. it gets boring.There was a time when I would have felt the same way. I simply could not understand how people could get so up in arms about something that really didn't affect them. As I've matured, however,..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by George_Spiggott, Twicketface, moonlet, orrnyereg, palomar, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, perilous, Blazecock Pileon, crystal.castles, dirtynumbangelboy, scody
Last month
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"bunnytricks: Don't tip people for just doing their job unless they count on tips for income, like taxi drivers and wait staff in restaurants.twirlypen: To me, it just intuitively seems outrageous that I should pay for service on top of the..." [
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5 months ago
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"For what it's worth, when we moved about six months ago, we did a change of address to a PO box. From that point, we filtered out all the mail that warranted us doing an address change directly with the sender (bills, magazines, etc).
After about..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by box
5 months ago
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"Agreed, Mister_A. A coworker of mine is a diehard Republican (and Rush listener), and he came to me a week or so ago to discuss Rush's idea that Republicans should vote for Clinton in the open primaries. I pointed out (diplomatically, I hope) that (a)..." [
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6 months ago
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"I distinctly recall a couple of friends staring at me dumbfoundedly in 10th grade when I pronounced someone (perhaps myself, ironically) 'OM-nee-sigh-ent' rather than..." [
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9 months ago
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""Jelly beans?" Philistine! For your wedding, nothing but the best will do. Jelly Bellies in cinnamon, cherry, red apple, or raspberry ($72 for a ten-pound single-flavor bag).
Hershey's does make red-wrapped kisses (see here for an..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by elbaso
Last year
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"What exactly is "the quonsar tag fiasco," other than a fantastic name for a band?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jofus
Last year
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"Following up on delmoi's broadening of the request to encompass a reviews.metafilter.com, that could also be a repository for travel/restaurant information that's so frequently sought on AskMe...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amberglow
Last year
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"In that Jeopardy thread, the guy who bet $2600 weighs in:
Hi, everybody. I was interested to see what kind of reaction my wager would get; you all have not disappointed me. :-)
So why did I do it? I knew that there had never been a 3-way tie..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by librarina, Jaybo, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, washburn, jjwiseman, Blazecock Pileon, miss lynnster, neustile, ClaudiaCenter, SeizeTheDay
Last year
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"The guy in the lead was grinning like the cat who ate the canary while the answers of the other two were being revealed, so I think he was deliberately angling for a two- or three-way tie -- and why not? He had to know the other two had bet it all,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by librarina, tehloki, Blazecock Pileon
Last year
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"This should do the trick. It's the same as my first post, but I explicitly reference the table in the outer part of the nested query:
UPDATE [tablename]
SET END_TIME=
(
SELECT MIN(START_TIME) FROM [tablename] b
WHERE tablename.event_type=b...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by apark
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"Thanks for the responses, y'all. Just to clarify, I have no intention of ever defending myself; this was just something I was always curious about. Of course, the juvenile side of me had pictured the defendant asking a question, then running to the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oxford blue
Last year
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"So are you looking for something that you (as the webmaster) would initiate, and not something the user would initiate?
I can't provide any guidance, but I can tell you that I'd probably flee any site that popped up a chat client on my screen..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
Last year
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"Don't waste your energy following the PA race. I know Santorum's a favored foe of the left, and nothing will be sweeter than seeing him go down in flames, but he's been out of the race for months -- the last poll I saw (Quinnipiac, I believe) had him..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by TochterAusElysium, Maishe, pyramid termite
Last year
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"Five pages of regular 20-pound paper is the most you can fit in an envelope with one stamp (that is, under one ounce). I'd say 3 ounces worth of postage ($0.87) would probably do you. If the paper's the good stuff, it might not hurt to throw an extra..." [
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Two years ago
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"The fact that you're asking this question indicates to me that you've already got a good start, that being the understanding that all coders aren't interchangeable, and that you can't hand code off to someone unfamiliar with the project and expect..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rmm
Two years ago
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"Try the following subroutine; stick it in a module in your document template by hitting Alt-F11 from Word. In the VB Editor, on the left side of the screen, right-click your document template name (e.g., Normal) and select Insert -> Module. Then..." [
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Two years ago
