Thirding The Go! Team.. matches your description to a T, and there's 2 albums worth of songs to choose from.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 7:23 PM on July 16, 2008

I'm not so sure it's a myth based on personal experience. But it could just be like articwoman says, sometimes your hair changes over time and if you're paying careful attention to it because you're removing it, you attribute its changes to the fact that you're removing it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 11:49 PM on June 28, 2008

I have the same problem, but it doesn't bother me. Subtitles are helpful if it's on DVD. If not and if it's an enjoyable movie, I want to watch it over and over anyway, and in the process find myself saying "Ohhhhh that's why..." and those little revelations amuse me. If it's not an enjoyable movie I don't care if I get it or not.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 7:49 PM on June 28, 2008

Personally, I have a weakness with retaining verbal/audible information, that's where the subtitles become helpful. Your comment about teacher read-aloud time made me think of that. In that case, the subtitles aren't really a crutch, just a tool. Other than that, the only thing I could think of to tackle the problem head on would be to practice on focusing and watch alot of movies and also try reading some novels or listening to them on your commute. Also, don't beat yourself up. Alot of the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 8:08 PM on June 28, 2008

The Decemberists! Definitely a love/hate kind of voice. Also they have covered Joanna Newsom so you might be digging the style.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 11:49 AM on June 22, 2008

Carl Jung wrote a very interesting forward to one of the editions that you may find useful. He does a reading right before your eyes and it gives you a framework for how to think about it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 9:42 PM on June 20, 2008

Being that you got her from the SPCA, she may not have had the greatest of upbringings and just was never taught or encouraged to do these things, like knowing that you can use your paw to open the door, etc. I'm not sure how that accounts for everything, but it might be something else to consider?
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 5:39 PM on June 16, 2008

Everyone I know knows the lyrics to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song. Other classic tv theme songs may work as well and you can do them call and response line by line.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 7:11 PM on June 12, 2008

Hmmm... thanks for your helpful responses everyone. I'll be much more prepared now when I go see the doctor.

Notes:
I did go to Lenscrafters like I always do, just because I don't think about my glasses/can't afford to replace them till I break them and it becomes an emergency that needs to be resolved today...(they gave me a set of "loaner lenses" for the distance only that I used till my fancy lenses were ready a week later) I do have faith in... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 6:19 PM on June 7, 2008

Look into If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. It's about a Reader who is attempting to read one book, but keeps finding odd chapters from other books instead. Each one of those chapters is included. I'm not sure if it's exactly what you want because, actually, I didn't get all the way through it, but it's something to look at.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 4:01 PM on June 5, 2008

Think if you can actually get work done in a coffee shop. I know I can't. There's no room to spread out, there's people making noise, there's nonstop latte drinking. Libraries with or without wifi work better for me. And goals are really helpful to stay focused. But don't spend more time plotting out your goals than you do studying.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 6:29 PM on May 19, 2008

I haven't read the others, but Gregory Hays is very interesting, accessible and well written and gives a lot of interesting background and notes for almost every line.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 4:51 AM on May 19, 2008

OK, maybe I should have said mid-back support. I would like just a tiny bit more. I didn't realize this couch is designed to make you sit like a Buddhist monk.. which could be a feature rather than a bug, but takes alot of getting used to I guess. It's against a wall now, but my makeshift pillows look really poor and sloppy and don't work great either. Otherwise, I love the way it looks and it fits perfectly where it needs to fit, which is why I want to keep it. I just want it to act right as... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 1:27 PM on May 10, 2008

I'm pretty sure Amtrak is too expensive to be viable for a daily commute - I just looked now and it's over $100 round trip. For commuting you would have to look at where the commuter rail lines go. You can take a look at the online maps forMetroNorth (Westchester), Long Island Railroad, or NJTransit to get an idea of how far out they go. You can also use the maps to see how far average train ride into Penn Station or Grand Central will take. Personally, I would focus on Westchester or NJ but... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 2:42 PM on April 19, 2008

My little suggestion: Start at NYC and go south, and don't take the chance that you could miss the game because of travel snafoos.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 6:31 PM on April 15, 2008

I'm a big fan of having everything hanging on hangers - even t-shirts and sweaters can be folded in half and hung up, and this prevents them from getting all smushed inside the drawer as you shuffle through them to find the one you want.

I have underwear/socks/etc. in those hanging canvas things (a few dollars in the Ikea As-Is section). I also have this bed from Ikea which has really nice looking and functional drawers that are on little wheels.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 5:55 PM on April 15, 2008

What about using an Excel spreadsheet with conditional formatting to color the boxes and then sizing the cells exactly how you want them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 7:58 PM on March 26, 2008

What if you had the motor pumping the water up through the middle of the box? If you used a cut up pipe for the top box, like job1270 suggested, you could use another piece of cut pipe to hide the motor, and then I'm envisioning the water coming up from the middle and therefore falling down all around more evenly, rather than being pumped in from one side. Also it would look cool. Unless I'm misunderstanding your blueprint.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 8:21 PM on March 20, 2008

And now, having spoken of the men born of the pilot's craft, I shall say something about the tool with which they work, the airplane Have you ever looked at a modern airplane? Have you followed from year to year the evolution of its lines? Have you ever thought, not only about the airplane, but about whatever man builds, that all of man's industrial efforts, all his computations and calculations, all the nights spent over working draughts and blueprints, invariably culminate in the production of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 7:01 PM on March 13, 2008

Forgot: It's right at the beginning of chapter 3: The Tool.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 7:03 PM on March 13, 2008

If it were me, I would spring for another cheap mattress or even an inflatable mattress (even if i was broke from buying that other stupid thing, I would find the money somewhere). It might be your mattress sucks AND you're hurt. If you get a cheap mattress and you can sleep a little easier, then it'll be worth it. If you still can't sleep then you know you're really hurt.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 7:14 PM on March 9, 2008

I think for what you want to do, you have a lot of options besides joining the army. You could join the VSO or another foreign volunteering organization instead - it's a big change, but you're not selling your soul and you can always leave.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 7:10 PM on March 3, 2008

I interpreted "ol wu wopte" as something like "a good time", meaning "trying to have a fun, romantic getaway but everyone kept calling me ("where are you, yeezy" i assumed to be slang meaning "dude") and then the paparazzi showed up and harassed us and i'm sorry". This is just my interpretation, but it works for me and the music video i see in my head when i hear this song.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 4:10 PM on March 1, 2008

If school is so boring and annoying to him, see if you can't get him into Advanced Placement or maybe double up on his credits so he can graduate early. It's a terrible idea to have him sitting home alone on the internet all day and night. I don't know what you expect him to be doing totally on his own all day and night. But this whole setup is totally bizarre and it's not something that needs to be fixed with routers and software.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 2:22 PM on February 10, 2008

Whoa, I missed that it was you who was fed up with public school. He needs to be in some kind of school. Try private school. Catholic schools don't care what religion you are these days.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 2:30 PM on February 10, 2008

Shoes for Crews has been recommended here before. I haven't tried them yet but I'm going to soon. They have customer reviews on their site but as always they are mixed reviews so it's hard to get an idea if they are any good.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 2:26 PM on February 9, 2008

That doesn't sound unreasonable to me at all. If they are your friends it should be OK to be honest with them. Have you ever brought this up with them? They might not realize it's problematic for you. Just mention it in a calm, friendly manner and work it out. You are allowed to fix this. I wouldn't go up there just to suffer.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 2:18 PM on February 9, 2008 marked best answer

You could try bringing him to a different vet for a second opinion if your regular guy is scratching his head. I'm sure the panic of going to the vet isn't as bad as not being able to eat. I'm not at all qualified but it sounds like something is getting stuck in there. It might be something that blood tests wouldn't necessarily pick up.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 6:14 PM on February 4, 2008

OK I sometimes do the same thing when my kitties were having health problems - Wanting to do the right thing but feeling really conflicted about what's best and going back and forth. If you are both in luv with the kitty, it helps to bring someone neutral and businesslike who isn't so crazy about him (my mom, for example) to come with you to the vet to give you some perspective and talk things over with. The person obviously wants what's in kitty's best interest, but they have a different... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 7:12 PM on February 4, 2008

Open Source Web Design is a site where people upload their designs for other people to look at or use. You can search for designs that only use CSS without images (among other criteria). You can also download the designs as .zips that include the css and html.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 5:51 PM on February 4, 2008 marked best answer

I'm a girl and you don't see me wearing jewelry because I Don't Like To Wear Jewelry, no matter who gave it to me. I just can't be remembering to take it off and put it back on every day.. it's just not one of the things on my radar screen for some reason. But if she already wears earrings then she might be different from me. It looks like you're already going with the jewelry/henna thing though so I guess all I'm saying is that not all ladies wear jewelry, but she will probably love it anyway... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 3:45 PM on February 4, 2008

I've called it cultural osmosis, but you might have to explain what you mean by that.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 8:25 PM on February 2, 2008 marked best answer

Actually, lonefrontranger, I think Kellydamnit had it - the shirts are apparently cut for a smaller bust than I have (i have C-D-ish), but the next size up is too big everywhere else (even though my waist isn't very narrow..) Off the rack stuff doesn't seem to do a good job with anything, but I would have thought that tailoring a shirt to go around when it's built to go straight down would be really complicated. I even had trouble trying to give mine a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 7:36 PM on January 31, 2008

I wouldn't worry about it, but keep in mind that letting them find the toys on their own is also pretty amusing. I used to have a cardboard scratching post that had a little catnip holder, they enjoyed that.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 4:40 PM on January 31, 2008

Tough Guy by the Beastie Boys might be good. It's a fast, loud, hyper, shouty rock song (not rap). It's technically about trying to play basketball with a huge jerk, but you could see playing basketball as a metaphor for trying to live with someone (playing by the rules, letting you do your thing, what-have-you)... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 4:19 PM on January 31, 2008

This is my experience with OpenOffice and people that I've recommended it to: if you save an OpenOffice document as a .doc and then open it in Word, it won't always look exactly the same, especially if you're using alot of fancy formatting like the complicated tables that my resume uses. You can save it as a .pdf using a free converter, but sometimes people get freaked out if you send them anything other than a Word document. But you could just give OpenOffice a shot, see if it's any good for... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 12:46 PM on January 26, 2008

Oh seconding Jackie Brown.

Jackie is a normal lady who finds herself trapped in a bad spot, but if she's gonna get out on top she has to muster up everything she's got.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 8:38 PM on January 14, 2008

I had Bank of America and although their web interface IS great, they also had a lot of stupid fees that were always driving me into negative numbers (i was a broke college student at the time). So that's something to consider.

I use Washington Mutual and their interface is very nice, especially compared to Commerce and the local credit union i have also used which were annoying.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 3:39 PM on January 13, 2008

SnagAJob has jobs like this:
http://www.snagajob.com/
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 4:22 PM on January 6, 2008

Sing down the moon and Island of the Blue Dolphins, both by Scott O'Dell, are books about adolescent Native American girls who try to rebuild their lives when they find themselves removed from their societies.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 5:40 PM on December 13, 2007

From a friend:
Generally, the whomp whomp is made using a trombone (or any brass instrument) with a plunger mute.

the second one is from vaudeville shows from the early 1900s... that was usually done with a marching band.

They were popularized by cartoons such as looney tunes as onomatopoeia for sounds that accentuate embarrassing moments
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 1:22 AM on November 22, 2007

I would pay for this, maybe like $25 or so. Just because all the pictures I have of me aren't good. Most people don't know how to take pictures. I wouldn't want it too polished, just an ordinary photo of me in my house or something, except by someone who knows how to make someone look good. And I don't think it would be a vanity thing either. Sometimes you just want a decent photo of yourself for posterity.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 3:57 PM on November 3, 2007

Is there someone else, like a friend you can visit instead?
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 3:01 PM on October 27, 2007

tumbleweed houses are pretty little cottages for which you can buy a set of plans from the architect. i really want one of these but that's the extent of what i know about them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 5:44 AM on October 16, 2007

i second encouraging him to get a job. for emergency money, you can put money into his checking account on an as-needed basis.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 4:31 PM on September 15, 2007

Virginia Woolf writes about sudden "shocks of trancedence" in an essay called "A Sketch of the Past" You can read excerpts here.
Scroll down to the heading "Artist-Critic—Shock-Receiving Capacity"

This essay is inside the collection of essays entitled Moments of Being in which you may find other interesting pieces.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 10:24 AM on September 3, 2007

I'm actually out of town until thursday but I want to give them as much notice as i can even though i'm not there. My boss did request that i give two weeks notice when i mentioned this to her a few weeks ago. I'm reasonably sure they are going to want me to continue working as long as possible.

I might just do the phone call thing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 6:27 PM on August 19, 2007

When i had to give my pets medication I would always get the vet to give me an in-office demo and make me get it right while she was there to correct me. that's what i would recommend.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 2:03 PM on August 11, 2007

I saw The Drowsy Chaperone. Alot of its humor is poking fun at the genre of musicals, but it has other stuff going on too, the performers were all great, the story is great, the staging is very unique and interesting and well done. And it was really, really funny and smart and clever.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 3:51 PM on August 5, 2007

you know at carnivals they have those throwing games where you try to throw beanbags into tiny little holes, or knock down bottles. i'm thinking a carnival-esque throwing game of some sort. everyone likes an excuse to throw stuff.
posted to Ask Metafilter by amethysts at 9:41 PM on July 5, 2007