You Are My Flower, by Ida.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 10:37 AM on July 8, 2008 marked best answer

Sorbet. It's the best thing going, and easy as all get out.

(I know it's not pie or cobbler, but it's just as tasty and counts as dessert, and you'll be happy that you made it)
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 6:33 PM on July 3, 2008 marked best answer

"When the Sun Hits Me," by The Halo Bit (fronted by Alex Kemp, of Small Factory).

Which reminds me, that's one of the few albums that I don't yet have digitally.

"So Quiet," by Beekeeper (Karla from Ida and her brother).... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 2:33 PM on July 2, 2008

30 miles round-trip is a long way on a scooter. Which is why I'm going to recommend a Kymco People. They've got bigger wheels, and ride much better (and safer) than the smaller-wheeled scooters. There's the People S 125, the People 150, and a few others.

Don't be discouraged by the high price tag - at a dealer you can find them much cheaper. Someone I know who has one got the previous year's model for $1900 out the door.

Also, make sure... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 3:02 PM on June 30, 2008

Uh, what? That's not possible. A#=B♭, all the time. They are the same note, period.

Not true. Well, on a piano, maybe. On a stringed, unfretted instrument however, how a note gets played has a lot to do with where it is in the movement of the melodic line.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 5:28 AM on June 27, 2008

For food: Primanti Bros, in the Strip District of Pittsburgh. Also, the "O," in Oakland.

For places, there's The Warhol Museum and the Mattress Factory. Also, you should ride the Duquesne Incline.

You should know that Fallingwater is about 90 minutes southeast of Pittsburgh - it would add significantly to the trip. Also, they advise that you book your tour at least 2 weeks ahead of time during the summer.

Of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 5:39 AM on June 24, 2008

Two data points - my brother is tall, and drove an Altima for several years. He loved it. I'm taller than him, and I drive a Hyundai Elantra. I guess it's too small for me, but it doesn't really bother me at all.

Deals come and go - driving an uncomfortable car sucks for a long time. I'd say wait on something that you feel good in.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 1:14 PM on June 11, 2008

In DC, just about everyone sells decent 120. There's Penn Camera, L'Imagerie in Bethesda, Uphoto in Beltsville, and one other place that I can't think of right now. My personal favorites are Velvia 100 (bright sun), Neopan 400 (general use), and Delta 3200 (for when it's dark).

As for processing, you can take it to any of those places. Prices will be outrageous (like $6/roll), even if all you're doing is having them process and give you the uncut roll.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 12:20 PM on May 29, 2008

Damn, I wish I was in NYC. I'd do it for you tomorrow.

Were I you, I'd call WYNC, and ask for the engineering department. They'll either be able to do it for you (at a fairly reasonable price), or possibly, one of their engineers will be interested in doing it on the side.

One thing to watch out for - make sure the tape isn't separating. It's possible that the emulsion is separating from the backing. If this is the case, you're going to have... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 9:31 PM on May 20, 2008 marked best answer

My wife and I recently stopped (completely randomly) at Fratelli Pizza about a week ago, and their pizza was outstanding - it's a cute little place and reasonably priced. It's about 3 minutes off of 70.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 6:36 PM on May 10, 2008

I use EZPrints - the prices are excellent, as are the prints, and they do sizes up to 30x40.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 8:09 AM on May 9, 2008

Did you mean "The cursor always returns to where it started?" That's what happens in Audition for me, and is what I'd consider to be "proper" editor behavior. If you start playback at 1:32.483 and run until 1:55.293, when you hit stop, it'll return to 1:32.483. What you want, though is for the cursor to stay at 1:55.293?

In Pro Tools, it's called "Timeline insertion after playback." That might help you google what you're looking for, but... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 6:21 PM on April 30, 2008

Also, are you talking single-track, or multi-track? I don't think it matters, but it'd be nice to know, either way.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 7:09 PM on April 30, 2008

Yeah, I get what you're saying - it's been a while since I couldn't tell by the waveform, but I can see how it would be frustrating. Personally, I use a similar method to gjc - basically, I always have my left pinky above shift, to extend/shrink the selected region, and I've found that using the scroll wheel for zoom is key. Basically -

1. Find the inpoint. Place the cursor. Zoom out.
2. Play the clip until the outpoint. Stop playback, hold shift, and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 8:16 PM on April 30, 2008

I'll speak from my experience with a few Apple LCDs - it's probably the data cable for the LCD. The inverter cable provides the voltage necessary for the panel, while the data cable carries the information to be drawn on the screen. I think this is what you need to replace - and it's possible that this might be what you're looking for. I'd check the part # of your panel against what's listed in the description for that item, and go from there.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 1:40 PM on April 30, 2008 marked best answer

Beard. Absolutely beard.

You're getting the wedding haircut, I assume? Either as part of it, or before it, go to a barbershop - preferably one maintained by a sole elderly man. He will give you the best shaving/beard trim you've ever had in your life, and you'll look exceedingly dapper.

And oh man, now that I look at the pictures on your blog, I'm even more resolute in my support for the beard.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 10:33 AM on April 23, 2008

You might like The State We're In, from Radio Netherlands.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 6:16 AM on April 21, 2008

The State We're In, by the way, is in English. It may be a good starting point, though, for Dutch-language podcasts of a similar nature.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 7:02 AM on April 21, 2008

This is a question I'd ask on the VWVortex Forums - there's a lot of useful info (especially about widespread issues) on those boards. There's also the Newbeetle forums, specific to the modern Beetle. I can't speak to the quality of the forums, though.

I'd say that you should take it back and be extremely forceful with the management. If they don't provide you with the solution you need, move up the customer service ladder. I wouldn't expect to get far, though, since... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 2:13 PM on April 10, 2008

The ultra-short depth of field tricks the eye into thinking that the shot was taken with a macro lens, or close-up filters. If you look at actual shots of model train sets and the like, you'll notice a similarly short DOF.

My thought is that this is a learned response - it's not like people are born knowing that short DOF = a certain type of lens.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 12:28 PM on April 10, 2008

Okay, here's the thing.

Stations don't want this. At least at my station, the budget is split roughly 50/50 (I work far from the numbers department, so the details are fuzzy) between listener donations and underwriting (the little "ads.") This will of course vary wildly between stations, but so do costs - as has been mentioned above, costs (at least for NPR programming) are proportional to listenership.

The reason stations don't want... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 9:32 PM on April 8, 2008

You know you can replace the seats, right? And that it's really easy?

Just find a you-pull-it, drop $50 on two new seats (cloth, this time), and swap them out. Keep the old ones in your garage, or sell them, or do whatever you want with them. I'm sure there's plenty of '98 Camrys out there that are the right color.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 12:38 PM on April 3, 2008

If she's actually going to make it into the city (which is damn far from Grove City, by the way), I'd second the Church Brew Works. You can get growlers of anything that's currently being brewed. The Pipe Organ Pale Ale is excellent.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 7:57 AM on March 24, 2008

I'd say go the preventative route - just replace the cables. It does involve a fairly gruesome tear-down of the ibook, but if you're out of warranty, why the heck not? There's two cables that feed the LCD - the LVDS (low voltage data signal), and the power cable for the inverter. They both run from somewhere on the board (depending on model/features of ibook) up through one of the hinges to the screen. If you could do it yourself, it'd cost you about $30 and maybe 2 hours, if you've never... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 11:41 AM on March 20, 2008

"Fuck this, I'm leaving," by The American Analog Set.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 8:52 AM on March 20, 2008

Ener-G makes pretzel rings that are gluten-free, and pretty tasty. They're carried at Whole Foods where I am. You could probably check one of the few in Manhattan if you didn't want to order online.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 7:21 AM on March 5, 2008 marked best answer

The one thing you may want to watch out for is that instead of salt, those Ener-G pretzel rings have sesame seeds - I'm not sure they'll be exactly right for that salty/sweet chocolate-covered pretzel taste. To me they tasted (saltwise) somewhere between the average pretzel and a saltless one.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 7:55 AM on March 5, 2008

Personally, I'd go a little bit further, and do something like this - rather than building a computer into the old UPS, just run a pass-through electrical, and hide the money in there. I'd guess that it's much less likely to get stolen than a computer.

Umm, but yeah. Should be safe.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 6:34 PM on February 29, 2008

Yeah, totally possible. Random sounds like white noise, applause, rain, etc, are really easy to edit seamlessly because of their randomness. So here's how I'd do it -

Make like 8-10 samples of white noise, each between maybe 30 and 60s long. Make a playlist out of them. You'll have to make sure that they're set for gapless playback. Then, when you listen to the playlist, set the Nano to shuffle/repeat only that playlist. That way you won't get used to the length... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 7:49 AM on February 28, 2008 marked best answer

1. The Wicked cheap Behringer mixers are crap. They've got the noisiest preamps I've ever used in anything, period. The few times I've had to use them, I've gotten a better signal by reversing my gain structure - keeping the preamp very low and pushing the fader as hard as I could. You don't want one.

2. I'm not sure about the USB mic, but any interface you get (including USB) should allow you to adjust latency in software - I've got an Mbox. It's USB. Latency is... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 12:42 PM on February 27, 2008 marked best answer

My old Erg workout plan -

A quick warmup, emulating the in-boat warmup we did. Maybe 2 minutes, total.
Quick arms-only strokes
Arms and Back
Arms back, and just barely pop the knees
3/4 strokes
Full strokes

A good 2K - pull maybe 2-3 power tens (10 awesome strokes - really push it), and sprint out the last 500 meters or so - bring the stroke rate up over 32/34. If you can't keep... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 7:12 PM on February 26, 2008

Okay, well - There's other DVD case generating software out there, right? I figure there's got to be. If you've gone crazy looking, then this will help.

1. Figure out what DPI your printer is printing at. It looks like it goes up to 1200dpi for black and white stuff. That's probably overkill. 300dpi is pretty darn sharp.

2. Figure out the size of your images, and then divide by the printing DPI to get the largest reasonable size for those... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 12:26 PM on February 25, 2008

Crap. I obviously screwed up that "templates" link - Here.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 12:44 PM on February 25, 2008

Back right - Wallet.
Front Right - Cell (very slim Motofone F3)
Front Left - Chapstick, Flash Drive, Pocketknife, keyfob transmitter for my car, and change.
Keys hang on a mini-carabiner from the center back belt loop. My workplace is really informal (jeans and a hoodie most days), so I can do this. When I have to wear a suit, I'm screwed, and I lose my keys every 10 minutes.

It seems like a lot, but it's amazing how easy it is to get used to.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 7:17 AM on February 22, 2008

The Hotel Monaco is gorgeous, and is in the free fare zone (as far as I can tell). It does appear, though, that unless you know the right people, their cheapest room is about $150/night.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 10:25 PM on February 21, 2008 marked best answer

It depends on what you're doing, and where you're playing.

If you're playing in situations where you're not going through the PA, get the 15". It's the only way you'll get any serious thump. My one beef (as an audio professional) with 15"s is that they bleed a hell of a lot worse than 10"s, and if there's no gate on the kick mic, they take that mic over. It's a huge pain in the ass. However, if the bass isn't getting mic'ed, then the kick might not be... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 6:27 PM on February 13, 2008

In early 2000, I built my first computer - it was a little behind at the time, but -

AMD K6-2 450mhz
128M PC100
12G IDE HD
8x CD-RW
Nvidia TNT2 with 32M ram
El Cheapo Soundcard built around the ensoniq 1371
3com 3c905 PCI ethernet

Most of my hallmates at the time were running brand new Dells at 600mhz, so I felt pretty inferior. It served me well for a good 4 years, though... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 1:33 PM on February 1, 2008

Didn't McDonald's buy them a while back?

McDonald's was at one point the majority owner of Chipotle - this allowed them to become the behemoth they've become. However, McDonald's has been fully divested of Chipotle since October 2006.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 1:21 PM on February 1, 2008

I've got a friend who was in Taipei for the entire football season - he had a bar that he went to every weekend to watch the Stillers games - they replay sports in the evening. I'll check with him and let you know.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 7:27 AM on January 31, 2008

Alright - He suggests the Tavern or The Brass Monkey (FuXing between ChangChun and NanKing, near NanKing E Rd MRT station).

Apparently the Tavern has a ton of screens, and is fairly big, while the Brass Monkey is smaller, and much more of a neighborhood place (though is still not small).
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 9:24 AM on January 31, 2008

Home Depot.

Cheap canvas drops, paint them as cheesily as your little heart desires.

I'm thinking the faux-field or faux-library are your best bets - but try this for inspiration.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 9:10 PM on January 30, 2008

The cheesiest senior pictures, IMHO, involve your graduate year (big 97 or something to lean on), your truck, your animal, or your instrument.

Oh jesus. I had one where I was perched, like a catcher, behind four instruments - a banjo, a mandolin, an upright bass, and a 12-string guitar. I didn't even like bluegrass that much...

no worries, extrabox!

posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 9:25 PM on January 30, 2008

I can't speak for straight distilling, but a word of warning, if you plan to filter. I freeze-distilled a few gallons of hard cider, and then ran some of what I got through a brita, just for kicks.

Big mistake. I'm not exactly clear on what happened, but my Applejack went in looking like apple juice, and came out looking like iced tea. Needless to say, I didn't drink it. Nor will I be filtering my next batch.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 9:05 PM on January 23, 2008

This is fairly common (if not standard procedure) in Astrophotography. It's easily done in photoshop, and I imagine that it could be done in The Gimp as well.

For basic averaging, the first image remains as-is. The second image is layered on top, with an opacity of 50%. The third image gets an opacity of 33%. Continue for n images, giving each image an opacity of 1/x, where x= the position of the image in the stack.

I also noticed Salavon's... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 11:24 AM on January 22, 2008

1. Jerry's is totally awesome. Please go there. If you're looking for anything but vinyl, though, I'd second Dave's Music Mine, and of course, there's always Paul's.

2. There's an interesting-looking fabric/photo installation going on at the Garfield Artworks.

3. Public Transportation does, in fact, totally suck. Like Arco said, be prepared to drive and get lost. In fact, the best piece of public transportation in Pittsburgh is pretty much... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 1:18 PM on January 17, 2008

Okay, here's the thing. Mics aren't meant to play nice with guitar pedals. You've got this nice, balanced signal, which you're forcibly unbalancing, and then plugging into a jack that's expecting a balanced (yet still 1/4") input. That's just no good.

Do yourself a favor - avoid this entirely. Does your mixer have an FX send/return? Plug the mic into the mixer, then use the send (which could be balanced) to go to the pedal, and then bring it back to a return.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 8:39 PM on January 15, 2008

One of my music blogger friends recommends Soul Sides - it's not entirely 60's soul, but that's a large part of it.

And holy crap, that western swing blog rocks. Superawesome, Chez shoes.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 4:02 PM on January 8, 2008

Greenkarat.

They're very anti-diamond (at least non-lab created diamonds), are reasonably priced, and super-willing to do custom work.
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 9:22 PM on January 5, 2008

I'm going to take a shot in the dark here, and say that you're probably out of luck. I've removed/replaced the LCD on my G3/G4 ibooks numerous times. It's pretty easy. The problem is, the construction of the Powerbook Cases is totally different - they're apparently glued into a single functioning unit, and from what I've heard, taking them apart without wrecking the crap out of your screen casing is damn near impossible.

If someone had a spare display, you could... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 5:11 AM on December 26, 2007

I'm pretty sure this isn't going to be a problem with printing - think about the numbers.

You're scanning at 600dpi. You'll probably be printing at 300dpi, or slightly greater. You're talking about a very small number of pixels, which translates to hundredths of an inch. I didn't see what you were talking about until you posted the zoomed-in shot, and I seriously doubt that anyone will notice the color in a print unless it's of a significant size - probably bigger... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by god hates math at 10:12 AM on December 18, 2007