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Current state of US train travel?

Can anyone give me any firsthand (or reliable secondhand) impressions of US (Amtrak) rail travel these days?
posted to Ask Metafilter by flapjax at midnite at 5:09 PM on July 5, 2008 (42 comments)

Playing with the numbers

Thinking of Joe Cocker's great cover of the Beatles' "With a Little Help From My Friends", I started wondering: what other cover versions have actually changed the time signature of the original?
posted to Ask Metafilter by flapjax at midnite at 9:54 PM on June 21, 2008 (45 comments)

Stolen car returned within minutes. Why?

Can you help solve a somewhat bizarre and mysterious crime?
posted to Ask Metafilter by flapjax at midnite at 4:59 AM on October 2, 2007 (57 comments)

I want more satisfaction.

What are some cover versions of well known songs that have refashioned or rearranged the piece so dramatically as to seem not exactly the covered song, but more of a unique work in and of itself?
posted to Ask Metafilter by flapjax at midnite at 6:36 AM on September 24, 2007 (97 comments)

Visiting Brisbane with 6-year-old.

My wife and I will be in Brisbane, Australia for 5 or 6 days in early October, with our 6-year-old daughter. Any recommendations for kid-friendly fun and/or sightseeing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by flapjax at midnite at 7:09 AM on August 29, 2006 (9 comments)