A couple of things I would check if this happened to me:

Does it happen in a fresh user account?

Are you using hardware suspend or software suspend (the Safe Sleep "hibernation" mode)--perhaps accidentally by testing out a widget like Deep Sleep?

Have you done any RAM tests?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 12:47 PM on July 23, 2008

"Off" does not mean off-screen. That's abbreviated as (O.S.)--or (O.C.) for off-camera.

This example would mean to me that we see Omar on camera while Bookhouse says "This guy is lying."

I don't think there is a universal meaning to underlined action.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 9:55 AM on July 23, 2008

Chlorine dioxide does have a public health statement about its dangers but it's an accepted way to treat municipal water in the US and is almost certainly the best for emergency use in areas away from clean water.

The only Aqua Mira bottles I've ever seen were each one ounce, and you used the same number of drops out of each bottle to activate the mixture. They should therefore generally run out at the same time.

I'm not sure what you mean about... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 12:06 PM on July 19, 2008

Dropping in empty index files is definitely not what you want to be doing. You'll definitely want to start with a tutorial on the .htaccess file.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 10:53 AM on July 19, 2008 marked best answer

How about keeping the bird in the bathroom when you're not home, instead of the cat?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 12:15 PM on July 18, 2008

Anyone reasonably proficient in Filemaker could build this in a few minutes; for a beginner it might take a day. Then you would also have the benefit of something that could have features altered or added as needed.

You don't need anything more complicated than that if you only have 2000 records and a handful of criteria to track.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 9:41 AM on July 18, 2008

(By the way, Bento DOES allow you to add any sort of "checkbox" type criteria you want; it should be even simpler to deal with than Filemaker since it walks you through everything. I haven't used it, though, so I don't know how well it handles import and export.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 9:45 AM on July 18, 2008

The description of this video camera on Amazon makes it seem like it uses a separate memory card for still photos (instead of the built-in hard drive). Can you take the card out and read it with an ordinary USB memory card reader? You can pick one up that reads dozens of different card types for under twenty bucks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 7:43 PM on July 12, 2008

I know I read an article about the phenomenon of regional American Chinese food restaurants and the indentured-servitude-like working conditions, but I can't find it now.

Here's a blog post that hits upon some of the ideas and links to a few similar articles:
illegal Chinese immigrants...are deployed as wait-persons, bus people or cooks to an entire network of Chinese restaurants all over the East Coast and Midwest via a handful of “work centers” operating... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 1:53 PM on July 11, 2008

Yup, there's a Candy Coating Attachment for a Kitchenaid mixer—but it's seven hundred bucks!
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 11:20 AM on July 11, 2008

Maybe you mean a section sign? Your question might be too vague; can you scan one in or take digital photo?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 7:20 PM on July 10, 2008

Did you Google "I'm a slut" "that's why you love me" lyrics? Google thinks your song is Howlin' Maggie's "I'm a Slut".
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 7:14 PM on July 7, 2008 marked best answer

Is it Sunshine by G. Love and Special Sauce? Because that's the first hit on Google for those lyrics.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 7:52 PM on July 6, 2008 marked best answer

My string was the same as iconomy's. Generally my strategy is to pick the phrase that's most distinctive yet has the least possibility for misinterpretation (i.e. I wouldn't bother with leftover vs left over, stone-cold vs stone cold, and I wouldn't string multiple lines together unless they were so generic that I needed them all to weed out the results. And if I did have to use multiple phrases, they would each get individual quotes).
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 7:54 AM on July 7, 2008

Do you have to use Excel and Word? Can you use Access instead?

This strikes me as one of the classic points where the things you want to do strain the boundaries of what spreadsheets are for. You might be better off storing your data in a database, where you can build any reporting structures you like.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 5:27 AM on July 6, 2008

My understanding as an insured layperson is that the "pre-existing condition" caveat generally applies to your ability to get health insurance on your own that you pay for yourself. Generally speaking, group policies in a corporate setting won't deny you coverage for a pre-existing condition like needing medication for ADHD. And once you're "in," even if you leave that job you can remain insured/insurable via COBRA or new insurance at a new job and that's when... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 10:25 AM on July 3, 2008

Rose Levy Beranbaum is amazing but the Cake Bible can be a little intimidating to a novice. The end result will be spectacular but that book gives me agita just thinking about the precision of the directions.

So my pick would be Barefoot Contessa's Coconut Cupcakes. These are the most amazing cupcakes I have ever eaten and the recipe is really straightforward. If you don't like coconut, don't worry—the cupcake itself is a "plain" buttermilk cake that's... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 5:40 AM on June 19, 2008 marked best answer

Spring panzanella, a cold salad of bread, asparagus and peas. And you could do worse than digging around in the 101 Cookbooks archive—Heidi makes a lot of unique dishes that are delicious.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 6:55 AM on June 17, 2008 marked best answer

It's called Decoupage.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 11:22 AM on June 15, 2008

What version of OS X are you using? Are you using Spaces or some other window/desktop management software? Does the problem persist if you use a fresh user account?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 4:07 PM on June 8, 2008

Huevos Rancheros. Eggs Florentine, the variation on Eggs Benedict which substitutes spinach for the ham. There a million variations of hot egg sandwich you could do, too, and of course you can substitute egg whites for whole eggs if you want to reduce the fat content.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 9:40 AM on June 6, 2008

I haven't heard that Helium song in ages but I loved it when it came out. Off the top of my head you could try Metric, who aren't scared of a disco drum but might be sometimes be more tuneful than you're looking for. Or the Knife, who are much more over into the electronic side but have a similar dirty aesthetic.

(I don't think critics were comparing that particular Helium song to the Fall, btw...it's more likely they were talking about Mary Timony's almost arbitrary... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 5:13 AM on June 6, 2008

What kind of web design/development do you do? Making pretty templates for pre-existing blogs? Writing custom CMS systems for small businesses? Developing portfolios for artists? Some more information about your business plan or your skill set will help people find you a better name.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 9:08 AM on June 5, 2008

The systems you're calling "all in one" systems actually generally have extremely robust templating that would allow you to build your template entirely from scratch—it's just that their marketing right now is more heavily in favor of prebuilt, customizable templates that take some of the work away from writers who would prefer something that lets them Just Get Writing.

The technical advantage of using WordPress or MT would be that they've already done... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 12:07 PM on June 4, 2008

I do this with FastStone Capture Portable which has a couple of benefits--like it's free and it's portable (you don't need to install it, you just unzip it and run it, and it doesn't do anything wacky to your registry so you can easily delete it).
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 12:56 PM on June 3, 2008

10.5.x isn't enough information--can you narrow that down?Have you tried upgrading to 10.5.3, which came out a few days ago? (If not, I hope you have a way to get it over a broadband connection since it's several hundred megabytes)
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 6:26 AM on June 3, 2008

Thanks for the advice so far. Sorry about my terminology. I'm sure it's part of the problem. There is a folder on the server called "office". It has sharing turned on and the sharing permissions are set to allow read/write to Everyone.

Within "office" is a folder called "personnel"; I would like to restrict access so only people in the Personnel security group can access it, its contents, and its subfolders. If a user in the Personnel group... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 1:05 PM on May 21, 2008

(And by the way I'm trying out the advice so far to see if I can reset things back to the beginning, I will report back!)
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 1:07 PM on May 21, 2008

Sorry for the delay in returning to this question, I didn't mean to leave you all hanging. The way the "advanced" dialog boxes and checkmarks for inheritance interact seems needlessly confusing to me. But I have now successfully set these folders the way we'll need them!

Thank you all for your help. I'm marking a bunch of these as best answer as I kind of combined bits and bobs from all of you.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 11:44 AM on June 2, 2008

The best blog I know of on the topic of book design is India, Ink., but it's more about the day-to-day workflow of typesetting and editing than an analysis or overview of changes in the industry. Still, could be a good starting point or contact for further research.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 11:08 AM on May 31, 2008

Keep in mind that this is not the best day to buy a Mac: WWDC starts June 9 and there will probably be new models (or at least updated processors/pricing) released that week. Wait a bit longer and you'll see all the "old" models go down a bit more in price.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 9:53 AM on May 31, 2008

"For snatch read abduction." is in the OED entry. Your example was basically "for dry read boring."
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 6:14 PM on May 29, 2008

thanks, however on mac, that will not work....

Erm, that is how it works in Firefox on a Mac, too—you can tell it to use the system default or select other in-browser options like Yahoo mail.

Anyway. Have you moved Mail.app out of the Applications folder by any chance? Are you using any ad blocking programs, add-ons, extensions, InputManagers? Do mailto: links work when you use another account on your Mac (you can test it by... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 7:33 PM on May 26, 2008

I use a silicone keyboard cover like one of these. The keys on my PowerBook, which is more than three years old and has pretty much never been turned off, look brand new. Added bonus: no crumbs and crap in the keyboard, either.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 12:57 PM on May 26, 2008

The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford for the period between the two world wars, if you're into the (rather silly) adventures of the aristocracy in England during that time.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 2:09 PM on May 24, 2008

It's not the Nixons. It's Nixon. Here's his MySpace. His records are all on fairly obscure, teensy international indiepop labels and will require some legwork to track down--there's a discography on the MySpace page.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 9:57 AM on May 22, 2008

In my experience, it's not that the PDF has somehow shrunk, it's that Adobe Reader is set to shrink the print out so the "whole" PDF fits within the current printable margins. That means that a print from Reader about 94% percent of actual size. Assuming you've used normalish margins in your original publication, try telling Adobe Viewer not to resize anything in the Print dialog box.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 6:43 PM on May 19, 2008

Self, Blogger does allow editing of stylesheets. But looking at the list of Blogger tags, there are "per post" and "per date" footer but no "per post but not per date" footer. Electric Water Kettle, you could probably figure out some way to use adjacent selectors to have a "per post" footer be rendered as display:none if it is immediately followed by the tag for your "date header" blogger tags, but that wouldn't work in many browsers.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 6:25 AM on May 19, 2008

I recall finding this easier to do in Motion Pictures, which you may have if you have Roxio Toast, because it didn't tie up the CPU with rendering until I was finished setting up all the durations and transitions.

This was before the latest (completely rewritten/redesigned) version of iMovie so this may now be a moot point. But it's something else to look at if iMovie doesn't end up being right for you.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 2:25 PM on May 18, 2008

Have you already exhausted the non-chemical, non-bacterial possibilities? For example, you could try the Zip-It, which is pretty amazing (although make sure you steel yourself before looking at what it pulls out of the drain—I nearly barfed the first time).
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 7:55 AM on May 18, 2008

There are instructions here on Microsoft's website. Make sure you're choosing color TIFF, not monochrome TIFF.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 5:40 AM on May 15, 2008

What have you changed in your life in the month since you last asked basically the same question? Have you taken any of the advice in that thread?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 2:41 PM on May 14, 2008

For the Macs you probably want to have a look at Super Duper.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 7:41 PM on May 12, 2008

Ask her.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 12:25 PM on May 11, 2008

Your math seems a little suspect. If your image is 5000 pixels wide and you print it out so it's 25 inches wide, that's a resolution of 200 pixels per inch. 5000 divided by 25 equals 200.

Higher pixels per inch will not render your print illegible; laser printers commonly print at 600 or 1200 pixels per inch and we're all perfectly happy using them. Now if your writing is only, say, 12 PIXELS high in your source image, then it's going to be 1/16" tall in your... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 12:55 PM on May 9, 2008

Ah, yes, you don't want to "resample image" if your goal is preserving the image quality. With "resample image" turned off, Photoshop keeps all your pixels intact and just tells the output device or other image-viewing program what the DPI should be--the data in the image actually remains the same, which is what you want.

How are you getting this output, by the way?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 1:28 PM on May 9, 2008

Praetorian DT.

On preview: crap!
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 12:15 PM on May 8, 2008

Design*Sponge?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 10:37 AM on May 8, 2008 marked best answer

VLC Media Player is a program my Mac and I have been utterly reliant on for years. Total swiss army knife for audio and video playback.

Recent versions for OS X have regressed on some features a little bit—things like full-screen, multi-monitor, and FLV playback all need attention. Seems like a good place for a talented programmer with a Mac & A/V bent to contribute.

It's also a large/high-profile project so you may benefit from having a team... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 1:29 PM on May 5, 2008 marked best answer

(I should add that Expression Media isn't Spotlight- or Finder-integrated so it doesn't meet that portion of your requirements. But as for keyword tagging, searching, thumbnail views, lightboxes, etc, it seems to be what you're looking for)
posted to Ask Metafilter by bcwinters at 12:00 PM on May 3, 2008