This one-time vegan recommends Veganomicon and Vegan with a Vengeance over the Barnard/Kramer books. They aren't bad, but (particularly in the second book) the recipes come from a bunch of disparate sources and can be inconsistent. I find Isa Moskowitz's recipes to be super reliable as well as tasty.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 11:42 AM on October 1, 2008

box, Ravelry's got a bajillion forums, each with a moderator or, for big ones, a team. Of course it's no 4chan, but no, the "on its own" part doesn't quite hold up.
posted to MetaFilter by clavicle at 11:22 AM on September 30, 2008

Yeah, aswego has it. Also, do you have any interest in science libraries? A disproportionate number of us librarians are humanities people, so a good librarian who's willing to be a subject specialist in the sciences is a hot commodity (and may not need as much of a science background as you might think, depending on the institution).
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 7:58 AM on September 30, 2008

Could the drink have been mezcal? From agave just like regular tequila, but tastes smokier and supposedly causes hallucinations in large quantities?
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 12:26 PM on September 19, 2008

Neat, mathowie has strabismus just like Jean-Paul Sartre and me.
posted to MetaTalk by clavicle at 2:07 PM on September 15, 2008

Maybe t-shirt surgery? (Google for ideas, tutorials, books, &c.) The end product is wearable/usable and in the process you learn about making things fit, but there's not a ton of sewing involved.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 9:11 AM on September 11, 2008

Hey, nice post, and I also appreciate the Dykes to Watch Out For mention that NPR inexplicably left out.

But what if that also seems nutty?

Then try RTFA -- this one, I mean -- AND considering it in the context of its time. (The context of the current state of the film industry, as in this post cited above, seems worth a look too.) Without context, yes, it is nutty. Your favorite theory that explains culture, taken out of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by clavicle at 9:42 AM on September 3, 2008

My profile says: it sounds like a musical instrument, but is not. "rebar" and "fricative" were taken. "rebar" and "fricative" are two other words that sound nice.

What my profile doesn't say is that my first choice, also already taken, was an abbreviation of a name I use elsewhere. The abbreviation? "pb." Just my luck, I thought.
posted to MetaTalk by clavicle at 1:17 PM on August 28, 2008

bricoleur on clearing the way for personal peace and quiet. I actually forgot to favorite it until just now, but I think about this comment every day or so, whenever I have to do something stupid like wash my dishes.

Gordion Knott's late cat.

Outside reviewed by aeschenkarnos.

schroedinger hits one out of the park during a misogyny clusterfuck on a subject I am personally furious about on a regular basis.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by clavicle at 8:57 AM on August 18, 2008

Another subversive princess book.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 3:04 PM on July 22, 2008

Red raspberry leaf tea (a few cups a day) also works to hurry it up by a few days. scody is right that you can't change when you ovulate without hormones, but once you *have* ovulated, red raspberry leaf (or parsley, like in Verdandi's link) will speed up the bleeding part. It works by making your uterus contract faster (and maybe more frequently?), so you'll bleed more heavily. In my experience it doesn't make cramps worse, but your uterus may vary.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 1:11 PM on July 17, 2008

Oil. Seriously. I also am frizz-prone and my favorite way to keep it under control is by squirting a few drops of oil into my hand, then running my fingers through the ends (and any other frizzy bits), usually after washing but also at any unusually frizzy moments. At the moment I'm using almond oil. Jojoba is nicest but more expensive; you could also use refined coconut oil, grapeseed oil, apricot kernel oil, olive oil (this will be a little heavier, a little goes a long way) and probably a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 10:53 AM on July 9, 2008

invisible ink: Aura Cacia.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 8:35 PM on July 11, 2008

If the granola-ey dancing sweetkid mentions upthread interests you, the search string you want for googling it is "contact improvisation" or "contact improv". It's neat stuff and the people who do it are often good for frequent platonic hugs as well.

On non-seedy massage: legit places won't call themselves massage parlors; they'll be called therapeutic massage centers or something to that effect, and will often have websites explaining their... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 12:20 PM on July 11, 2008

I'm not sure how Scrivener handles the Track Changes and commenting features in Word docs, but it does import and export them, and for writing and organizing, I love it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 8:01 PM on July 10, 2008

love!
posted to MetaFilter by clavicle at 4:57 PM on June 23, 2008

A schooner IS a sailboat, inigo2!
posted to MetaFilter by clavicle at 10:32 AM on June 16, 2008

Yes, totally get the latest Vegetarian Times. The peanut butter coconut ice cream is amazing, super amazing with chocolate sauce, and simple: coconut milk, peanut butter, maple syrup, vanilla. (About the vanilla: any extracts you use to make ice cream have to be alcohol-free, because alcohol messes up freezing points. The alcohol-free extracts I've seen are made with glycerin.)

Re: ice cream makers, the one I have experience with is an older Krups model bought for cheap... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 10:17 PM on June 12, 2008

Partner acrobatics. (Like this stuff.) A folk festival I used to go to every year that was like a weekend all-you-can-eat buffet of really good music, attended by a lot of nice people.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 7:45 PM on June 5, 2008

Take a look at the recipe in Vegetable Soups from Deborah Madison's Kitchen. It's super delicious and pretty light, and there are suggestions for tweaking it. I made mine with celeriac root. Fresh and natural is pretty much how I'd describe the difference between using homemade broth and not, so I'd definitely recommend trying that (the guidelines in the front of the book are kickass).
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 1:32 PM on June 1, 2008

Alison Bechdel (of the Dykes to Watch Out For strip and Fun Home) is a Tintin fan, has blogged bits and pieces about Tintin and Hergé a bunch of times, and has even been known to emulate his hairstyle.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 12:39 PM on May 6, 2008 marked best answer

Intra-national misconceptions: People from the East Coast (my ancestral home) think the upper Midwest (my current home) is uniformly dull and flat, like rural Ohio (untrue).
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 1:15 PM on May 1, 2008

Related: I totally wanted to fpp this guy, who is 22 and has his own tiny little chocolate factory furnished entirely with equipment he built himself. The story's amazing and it's seriously damn good chocolate.
posted to MetaFilter by clavicle at 12:52 PM on April 28, 2008

Yeah, give them to a shelter - easy + will make people happy. I just got rid of a small stack this way and while it sounds like yours are worth more than mine were, I checked through some eBay comic listings first and it looked as if single issues and small runs just went for peanuts.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 1:31 PM on April 19, 2008

I've had a Bio-Brite sunrise clock for about a year and a half and I'm a fan. I hate being jarred awake by bleeping; light plus gradually louder bleeping is a lot more tolerable. I also have SAD and I don't think the clock affects that directly, but it definitely doesn't hurt to wake up gradually and thus be less rageful in the morning. (I am a super snooze button addict/night person/morning cranky-ass slowpoke and I actually use the clock in conjunction with a cell phone alarm across the room... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 1:26 PM on April 19, 2008

Disapproving Rabbits yay! They've been on the blue before, and since then, they've become a book.

I'm a past volunteer at the Great Lakes Rabbit Sanctuary, which I thought made this a little too self-linkish to go in the fpp, but I'm linking it here because it is so happy-making: a video of five hundred bunnies running around. They were part of a crazy huge bunny rescue from somebody's backyard in Reno. Most of them are basically feral and live in the outside run you'll... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by clavicle at 2:21 PM on April 18, 2008

Lots more. I like the one with the curling rock because - well. Curling!!!
posted to MetaFilter by clavicle at 6:54 AM on April 16, 2008

I totally cosign the request for a dramatic reading by cortex of YouTube comments.
posted to MetaTalk by clavicle at 11:05 AM on April 15, 2008

Neat - I'll be new in town come May Day.

(Also, I know what Omaha the Cat Dancer is because I cataloged it. For work. At an academic institution. The awesome is strong in the art library.)
posted to MetaTalk by clavicle at 6:10 PM on April 11, 2008

Also.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 9:27 AM on April 11, 2008

I don't remember the answer to this, but I do remember that it's in one of David Feldman's early Imponderables books, maybe this one or this one.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 2:47 PM on April 10, 2008

This was about twenty years ago now, but I distinctly remember my parents having a special lead-lined bag to protect their film from x-rays - we'd been to London for a month and had a ton of exposed film, all of which came out fine. Anyone else know if camera shops still sell this sort of thing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 5:44 AM on April 7, 2008

Ani DiFranco has run her own record label for about twenty years now and was famously perplexed when Ms. magazine framed it in terms of her financial success.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 6:53 AM on April 5, 2008

"The Final Countdown" by Europe?
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 12:26 PM on April 4, 2008

Yeah, Whole Foods will have the brown rice syrup, but it's probably called for just because of the low glycemic index thing, not because it's crucial to delicious granola. You can safely sub in whatever liquid sweetener you want: maple syrup, honey, both.

I don't think any granola recipe should be too terribly difficult to make. The stovetop step in the Martha Stewart recipe is unnecessary fussiness; Alton Brown's and boomchicka's recipes both look good. (I don't like... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 9:24 AM on April 4, 2008 marked best answer

Get it right, you guys, it's peanut butter, bacon, AND a thin layer of mayo on toast. (I haven't eaten meat in ten years but still have fond memories of this sandwich, and it's pretty good made with the requisite vegetarian/vegan analogs too.)

Potato chip and sweet pickle sandwiches with butter. French fries stuffed into your favorite Mediterranean-deli-type wrap sandwich - I like them with a smoky baba ghanoush. Pineapple juice with lemon.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 8:08 AM on April 3, 2008

Take a look at the subject headings that show up here (scroll down) - they're clickable and will show you more along similar lines, and you can try searching Mothers and daughters -- Fiction too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 7:42 AM on April 3, 2008

I get little red bumps too, not diagnosed but probably keratosis pilaris, and there is definitely a positive correlation between the little bumps and my sugar intake. Not eating refined sugar works better than anything else I've tried. Weird but true.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 7:22 AM on April 3, 2008

Also, gamahuche, from French (way more awkwardly than "cunnilingue" for my money, but for the sake of completeness, here you go).
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 2:39 PM on March 30, 2008

Soy milk or creamer? That's non-dairy, of course, but it tastes better in coffee than it does on its own, and either way it sure is better than Coffee-mate-type gunk. Comes in screw-top containers that don't need refrigeration even if they're sold refrigerated.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 1:48 PM on March 25, 2008

The best common example of 5/4 I know is the theme from Mission: Impossible. Beware sneaky radio/dance remixes that mush it into 4/4 - or listen to them alongside the original and try to hear the difference.

Piggybacking on Coaticass's comment re: conductors drawing beat patterns, the images here might be a helpful accompaniment to watching someone conduct.

Piggybacking some more on ao4047's "America" example, that one switches back and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 7:26 AM on March 4, 2008

Why wouldn't mint residue come out in the wash? (Curiously strong mints?) You sure they're not soap stains, which are tricky because they show up on washing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 9:42 AM on February 25, 2008

I like sea salt too, but if you're after fine grains, baking soda (added to whatever regular cream you like) is pretty great.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 12:53 PM on February 20, 2008

I'm joining the shoe party - I totally make snap judgments about people based on their shoes and also try to guess where they're from.

I notice when people aren't aware of where their bodies are in space. I spend a lot of time in the same few airports and parts of the university campus where I work, always knowing where I am and frequently surrounded by people who don't know where they're going and have to stop to reorient themselves. In unfamiliar spaces, people's... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 12:12 PM on February 13, 2008

Very sensitive neck here too. My thyroid is slightly - like, subclinically - on the underactive side of normal. I'd be surprised if just a little bit of hypothyroid accounted for my having to yank my shirt collar down when I read this post, though. I suspect I have - in addition to wikipedia-induced hypochondria, of course - some low-grade sensory defensive traits, and being weird about my neck is one of them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 7:01 AM on February 12, 2008

Ahaha, links plz, billyfleetwood!
posted to MetaFilter by clavicle at 7:54 AM on February 6, 2008

Apple clafouti (like a giant pancake full of apples, recipes easily googled) with some sort of topping (caramel sauce, creme anglaise, ice cream)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 11:23 AM on January 16, 2008

Yeah, I second mumkin's questions about what exactly you like about Wait Wait. For another data point in the meantime, I love Wait Wait; second the suggestion for My Word (and if you like that, you might try My Music too); don't care about cars but have a dopey affection for Car Talk; love the Puzzlemaster segment on Weekend Edition; and HATE HATE HATE Whaddya Know with the FIRE OF A THOUSAND SUNS.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 8:31 AM on January 16, 2008

Earthdance is a retreat center in the Berkshires for contact improvisation dancers. There's an explanation of contact improv on their site, and you can probably google around and find groups even closer to you.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 10:51 AM on January 15, 2008

Polka, yes, in Ohio and western Pennsylvania. There's a big Slovenian-American population there and they've got their own polka style which seems to be a pretty big deal to this day. There are radio stations that play nothing but polka, and I'll bet you could find out about dances by calling them up or checking out their websites.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 1:03 PM on January 15, 2008