I have serious doubts about whether U Chicago would count as radical intellectualism.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 9:47 PM on July 23, 2008

I had very similar issues (didn't want to take a beginner class, not good enough for advanced work) and I took private lessons at UT. There are almost certainly other places you can get private lessons, but I went with UT because it was easy and I was reasonably certain of the quality of the instruction.
The new swimming complex there is lovely, and if you aren't a UT affiliate you can get a community membership. Now is actually a really good time to do it, as you can get a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 8:50 PM on July 23, 2008

Sounds like you may be subject to throttling. You can google it to find boards where people discuss various tactics to get around it, but basically if you're not profitable (getting too many discs in a month) they'll find ways to slow you down. I'd get stuff from way down my queue, longer and longer delays, etc., but I didn't know it was a deliberate play on their part until I ran across an article about it recently.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 2:23 PM on July 21, 2008

Ooh, you should go see the temple at Segesta in the morning and then go to the Baglio Pocoroba for lunch. It's a fixed price, several course meal of some of the best food you'll ever eat. Giuseppe, the owner, went out into the fields between courses to pick fresh peaches for our dessert when we were there. The lamb was out of this world. We went two years ago when they had just opened and we still talk about the meal and the location regularly. Giuseppe and his father are delightful, and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 12:08 PM on July 17, 2008

It's a rebus. "...(eye) consider w(hat) (yew) have (awl)ready done for my (bee)hoof, and t(hat)...." and so forth.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 6:43 PM on July 15, 2008 marked best answer

It appears in the first one the devil is thanking Lord whatever for his services in spreading vice ("encouraging all manner of wickedness, by gaming..." and promising that he will be a privy counsellor forever. It involves some business in Germany.
No clue what the source is or why the page numbers, but that's what I can make out so far.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 6:57 PM on July 15, 2008 marked best answer

"In Germany w(hen)" -- a really weird looking hen -- and baro(net).

Although I can't believe I missed "ass". I kept trying to figure out what kind of animal he meant that to me.

A yew is a tree -- to be honest, I have no clue what they look like, I just figured it based on context.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 7:18 PM on July 15, 2008 marked best answer

Is it just me or does "he developed Grangemouth" sound more like a loathsome disease and less like a property development?
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 8:07 PM on July 15, 2008

Could it be "no less assiduous in crowding my kingdom"?
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 7:07 AM on July 16, 2008 marked best answer

DUH! It's "peopling"!
Now if only the woman with the scythe would begin to make sense.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 11:04 AM on July 16, 2008 marked best answer

There's Old Town Spring and Conroe with its lake on the Houston end of things. Closer to Dallas there's Corsicana with the world's best fruit cakes and a charming downtown. In between there's beautiful piney woods and wide, smooth interstate.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 8:10 PM on July 13, 2008

Lasix works faaaaaaaaast. I can't really say about the -pril drug I'm on, because I was put on a bunch of meds at the same time, but the diuretic there's no question about. If I don't take it for several days (or weeks, lately) and then I take a dose, I'm running to the bathroom within a few hours. When I was first put on Lasix, I was given a bolus dose at the hospital. That night I didn't sleep more than 5 minutes at a time because I was going to the bathroom so much; prior to that, I had... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 8:39 PM on July 9, 2008

Hopefully someone with more knowledge of Australian law will pipe up, but it appears to me the relevant clauses are:
"The University asserts ownership of Intellectual Property created by students where:
a student participates in a research team whose members include staff members;
the Intellectual Property has been created with substantial contribution or use of University resources;
the Intellectual Property has been created as the result... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 11:21 PM on June 25, 2008

I can't speak to the trial law end of things at all, but as Clyde Mnestra suggests, patent law would be the obvious choice with your background. Since you're in Texas, you might want to consider UT. The IP law program is very well-respected, as is the IP journal. Lots of folks on the journal are older than the average law student, having had careers in technology before coming to law school. Most of them end up with multiple offers from biglaw firms. Some get jobs as in-house counsel with... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 12:54 PM on June 25, 2008

I'm about your age and size, and I've been on 10 mg lisinopril for a bit over 3 years, along with a whole bunch of other meds. I've had plenty of side effects from my meds, but none of them seem to be caused by lisinopril except perhaps some of the fatigue. I get regular blood tests to monitor kidney function, but that's about it. As mathlete says, to me it's one of my safe medications. There's always the possibility of side effects, but I wouldn't freak out about it just yet.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 9:13 PM on June 23, 2008

It doesn't matter what most people would do. What matters is your morals and what you can live with. Tell them -- besides their goodwill, is the worrying worth $37 to you?
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 3:05 PM on May 29, 2008

Do you do this with other big things in life? I've always resisted transitions, even when I have wanted them and planned for them for a long time. When I went to study abroad (out of country for the first time), I was ready to turn around and walk away rather than get on the plane -- even though I'd been looking forward to going for 2 years, and I loved it when I was there. Even with smaller things, as the time draws near to actually do something, I tend to resist, consciously or... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 7:10 AM on May 25, 2008

Eleanor Estes's Moffat books were written and are set during WWII. I always found them fascinating, as a day-to-day look at life during the war (victory gardens, knitting washcloths for soldiers, etc).
She also wrote the Pye books, which were written later (1950s) but set earlier (1920s).
The Great Brain books would also fit into the Betsy-Tacy category, and are a great look at life in Utah at the turn of the century.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 3:45 PM on May 24, 2008

According to this calendar, there were a couple air shows that day, one in Chino and one in Corona. The Chino "Planes of Fame" website shows some good pictures of their planes, so you can see if they look like the ones you saw.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 5:01 AM on May 22, 2008

My cat's paws work too, much to my frustration. For point of reference, the computers i question are a Fujitsu Lifebook and a Toshiba Satellite; she can control both.
However, unlike loiseau, I am fully prepared to speculate that my cat is more sensitive than yours.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 9:30 PM on May 15, 2008

No, it really depends on which state he was born in. In New York, for example, only the person named on the certificate or their parents can get a birth certificate without a court order. In many, if not most, places, you have to have some kind of relationship to the person named on the certificate.
It would be helpful if we knew which state he was born in and which state he lives in now, as that materially affects the availability of these records to you if you don't want to ask... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 2:31 PM on May 15, 2008

According to Toshiba, if you've got some (any kind, I think) installation medium for XP, you can use that; when you get to the product key stage, you call Microsoft and they'll give you a valid XP key to replace the Vista key. I don't know if all computer manufacturers are doing this, but that's the deal Toshiba worked out. (Note that they still aren't providing the drivers needed to run their products under XP, but that's another story).
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 5:43 PM on May 12, 2008

Some contrary advice. I took a grad level foreign language exam at a university in the frozen north. My proficiency in the target language was reasonably good (I'd say intermediate) but the important thing was knowing how the language exam was structured. It turned out that at my school, they gave you a passage of something -- a historical or philosophical tract, for example -- and asked you to translate that. I looked at some sample exams and they were all impenetrable to me. What I did... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 7:16 PM on May 10, 2008

Heh, JMOZ, I didn't think of it as particularly southern, but I grew up hearing "slicker than shit" in similar circumstances. Owl snot is simultaneously less uncouth and more colorful.
In the category of phrases that are talked about more than they're used (in my world, at least): "he couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel".
I always heard it as "you couldn't stir 'em with a stick" to describe a crowded room --... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 8:16 AM on May 8, 2008

Yeah, as Metroid Baby and middleclasstool said, pop is not typically southern. It makes my ears bleed -- and I'm not a Coke diehard. I'm fine with soda or soft drink, but pop? No way. Among other things, some southern parents (though not mine) refer to corporal punishment of any variety less than a whipping as "a pop" -- so hearing a parent ask a child, "You want a pop?" sounds like the child is acting up in the grocery store and is being threatened with a smack on the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 6:26 AM on May 10, 2008

I love a good mystery!
Did you get the image from Ancestry.com? Their transcription of the name is Peklavprska. What I'm seeing is Pekla__rska, and the letter right after the "A" does indeed look to me like a V.
However, it's not really relevant what a valid Polish name is/was; the census takers were notoriously bad at spelling names they were unfamiliar with, especially if the person being enumerated was not a native English speaker. In this same census,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 5:29 PM on May 3, 2008

romakimmy's suggestion of eMule is a good one -- so far I've managed to download the files for Rome and Milan, and am about to finish one that alleges to have the info for Sicily. I haven't been able to find the files for all cities/regions yet, but I've gotten a good chunk of the data. If you have trouble finding or downloading them, shoot me a mefimail and I can send you the ones I've got.
Also, make sure you use emule-project.net, rather than emule.com. The latter is an... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 4:33 PM on May 1, 2008

A massage gift certificate.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 1:38 PM on April 26, 2008

Close to the HRC side of campus are a couple of B&Bs -- Austin Folk House and Star of Texas Inn, if they are within your budget. It's about a 5-10 minute walk to HRC -- and I say this as someone who a) walks pretty slow and b) suffered through a 1 mile walk to class the summer we had 110 degree weather. The Days Inn is on the wrong side of campus from the HRC and in a not-terribly-nice part of town. From the B&Bs you'll cross the Drag to get to campus, and that's also where you'll... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 5:14 PM on April 22, 2008

"Schadenfreude.

What's that, some kind of Nazi word?

Yup, it's German for happiness at the misfortune of others.

Happiness at the misfortune of others? That *is* German!"

Seriously, though, I use schadenfreude (and feel it) far more often than I should.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 1:46 PM on April 22, 2008

Bonor Blad has a website -- http://www.bonorblad.se/ -- and if you click on "tesortiment" there's a listing of the teas, including what I would guess is the kind your fiancee likes, "Rooibos Bubbel (Champagne) Rooibos samt arom champagne. Koffeinfritt. Innehåller antioxidanter."
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 4:01 PM on April 13, 2008

A non-productive cough and SOB on lying down (known as orthopnea) is suggestive of pulmonary edema -- fluid in the lungs. One of (probably many) things it could be is heart failure. It's time to take her to the ER. Insist on a BNP test (it's a blood test -- b-type natriuretic peptide) along with a chest X ray.
Note: I am not a doctor. I am someone who was misdiagnosed and given codeine cough syrup for 2 months before someone sent me to the ER, where I had near end-stage heart... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 5:02 AM on April 10, 2008

So, jmnugent, you've piqued my curiosity -- how do you connect American Idol and early US presidents?
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 1:02 PM on April 6, 2008

Yes, it's unreasonable to expect the building to compensate you for the missing clothes. No, you can't use it to get out of your lease. Asking the management to increase security, and/or to let you know when the trash is taken away (to minimize the stench while sitting and waiting) would be reasonable.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 7:31 PM on March 26, 2008

Here's a good sample medical release you can use to draft your own.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 8:19 PM on March 25, 2008

The creator owns the copyright unless it's a WMFH or they explicitly transfer the copyright. It's like buying JD Salinger's letters -- even if you own the physical letters, you don't get to publish them, because he still owns the copyright.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 2:39 PM on March 24, 2008

I know several law students older than you who have firm job offers from prestigious, high-paying firms. I definitely wouldn't let age stop you. You might want to be aware, though, that there are some firms whose culture is not welcoming to older hires -- they want young, enthusiastic people who will be willing to devote themselves completely to the firm. One of the older guys I know lost a job offer because -- I kid you not -- he got lost during a scavenger hunt all of the summer associates... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 10:34 AM on March 24, 2008

To clarify, how are you putting it into columns? I did a test doc (with a short sample of words) and first went into page setup, selected landscape. Then I selected all and put it into two columns. It was able to maintain alphabetization. If you're wanting the pages to nest properly, it should work okay if you go to page setup and under "Pages", pull the dropdown and select bookfold and the number of pages in the booklet. If this doesn't do it, can you explain a bit more about... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 10:25 AM on March 24, 2008

Get a bigger hoop. I couldn't hoop at all, even when I was a little kid, but once I got a big hoop (from Superhooper) I was finally able to get enough momentum to keep it going -- I got up to 10-15 minutes at a whack without too much effort. For reference, my hoop comes up almost to my chin and is fairly heavy, but has no filler of any kind. It's purple and it's pretty and it cost what seems like a ridiculous amount of money but I love it anyway. Even if you're short, a larger waist size... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 6:44 PM on March 17, 2008

Don't be so sure most students will be in class in the AM. When I was an undergrad, classes were scheduled so (generally speaking) lower-div classes were in the AM, upper-div in the PM, and grad classes in the late afternoon and evening. Plus some students go out of their way to schedule classes on only 2 or 3 days a week. It was not at all uncommon for juniors or seniors to have jobs in the morning or on their off days. If you can find one you like who has a schedule that meshes with yours,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 8:37 PM on March 14, 2008

The World Famous, in my state, at least, the bar application requires a signed copy of your law school app.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 6:04 PM on March 12, 2008

My dad has run over the cord on his mower, oh, at least 3 times now. Definitely be careful of that.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 7:08 AM on March 12, 2008

Legally speaking, even pushing open an unlocked door can constitute breaking and entering. Having someone else open the door for you is constructive B&E. I'm trying to figure out what else you might mean by "alternative measures" that would not violate the law.
I tell you this not to attack Urbex -- I don't really care about it one way or another. But it could cause some trouble in trying to publish. Your pictures would probably be considered as evidence of felonies.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 1:44 PM on March 11, 2008

Seams shouldn't pucker. In a really nice suit, the lapel will roll, not be pressed into a sharp crease. Check the finishing of the small details -- buttonholes, as YoungAmerican mentions, as well as vents, hems, etc. You shouldn't see rough edges or fraying threads.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 12:10 AM on March 9, 2008

Cary Grant's suits (at least in the movies) had functional exterior pockets which he frequently used. If Cary Grant is wrong, then I don't wanna be right.
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 1:36 PM on March 11, 2008

Man, this is far from the advice I normally give, but I would stay away from this project if I were you. I think, legally, you'd probably end up coming out okay, but you'd be walking some pretty fine lines. If you don't have the money to consult with a lawyer about this on an ongoing basis, it may be more trouble than it's worth.
I say this as someone who is willing to push pretty hard on issues of fair use, right of publicity, etc -- but this is a weird and difficult set of facts,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 11:10 AM on March 8, 2008

Not nearly as strange as the Museum of Jurassic Technology, but my fondest memory of Paris is of sitting on a bench next to a Wallace Fountain on Ile de la Cite and watching people's reactions to it. Some people just re-filled their water bottles from it, like you're supposed to, but others spent several minutes looking at it and trying to figure it out, while still others spotted it but then studiously ignored it (I assume because they couldn't figure out how to use it). It was also one of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 3:02 PM on March 5, 2008

Could it have been opcal.exe? According to that website, you can download it here (search down the page for "one page calendar").
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 4:31 PM on March 3, 2008

Sounds like a very smart plan to me. The only things I would caution you about are having a separate phone line, preferably not traceable to your home address, to give to your clients. Same for a mailing address -- a PO Box or some other way to receive your mail without having to give out your home address. In general, you probably don't want clients having unfettered, 24-7 access to you -- and that goes double for criminal defendants. My cousin (criminal and family law) got a second cell... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 9:16 PM on February 27, 2008 marked best answer

Another suggestion I've got is to get Jay Foonberg's How to Start & Build a Law Practice, which deals with a lot of the things you should think about in starting your own firm, including several pages about practicing from your home. If I'm recalling correctly, one of his suggestions is to hook up with a lawyer or law firm that has a conference room that you can use occasionally. Another possibility (at least in the States, I'm assuming something similar is available in Toronto) is to rent... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by katemonster at 9:33 PM on February 27, 2008 marked best answer