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For the past five days, I've been getting the same nuisance phone call three to four times a day: Phone rings, I answer. Male says "Hello, could I speak with Mike please?" and the line goes dead before I can get a word in edgewise. Caller has a vaguely Scandinavian accent, with the same inflection every damn time. I suspect it's a recording. What the hell is going on?
posted to Ask Metafilter by YamwotIam
at 7:09 PM on January 22, 2008
(14 comments)
How would you go about proving that numerals are more "readable" than numbers?
posted to Ask Metafilter by YamwotIam
at 7:28 PM on January 11, 2008
(27 comments)
What's the sticky glutinous gunk I get on the bottom of the pan when I try to fry rice?
posted to Ask Metafilter by YamwotIam
at 2:51 AM on December 17, 2007
(23 comments)
O glorious snark gods! My writing has improved tenfold, my salary has doubled, my sex-life is perky*, and I have YOU to thank for it!
*May or may not be true.
posted to MetaTalk by YamwotIam
at 8:47 PM on October 10, 2007
(186 comments)
Can anyone help me track down the theme music for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's television coverage of the 1982 FIFA World Cup?
posted to Ask Metafilter by YamwotIam
at 6:10 PM on September 20, 2007
(2 comments)
I'm looking for a table hockey game (rod hockey, not air hockey) that I played as a wee 'un back in the 80s. It featured a super-slick surface, 3D players, an electronic timer (and goal counter), and a behind-the-net left winger.
posted to Ask Metafilter by YamwotIam
at 9:08 PM on June 21, 2007
(6 comments)
Good grief. First, tips on
how to write, now this. Yann Martel, award-winning author of
Life of Pi (
previously), believes the Canada Council for the Arts is not getting
a fair shake from the Canadian government. The solution? Send Prime Minister Harper a
book to read. Every couple of weeks, mailed on a Monday. In case you were wondering, the first book on the list is Tolstoy’s
The Death of Ivan Ilych (SparkNotes
here). The Prime Minister’s office has not yet responded. Meanwhile, President Bush already has his own
reading list.
posted to MetaFilter by YamwotIam
at 7:50 PM on April 17, 2007
(25 comments)
Has any more
thought been given to a MetaSpace for creative writing? As in a help-me-improve-this zone? Not a
Penguin-type wiki by any means--simply an impromptu writers' workshop. I'm assuming AskMe is absolutely inappropriate for that sort of thing, and that it's out of scope for MeFi Projects.
MeFi is a nice demographic for this kind of thing, BTW, as it seems to consist mostly of snarky articulate bastards.
Thanks.
posted to MetaTalk by YamwotIam
at 12:01 AM on March 31, 2007
(23 comments)
SanityFilter: I want out of my marriage. I know it's going to be painful. We have a child, for one thing. What body blows can I expect and prepare for, if any?
posted to Ask Metafilter by YamwotIam
at 9:13 PM on July 1, 2006
(49 comments)
