What if I change my mind?
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 5:01 AM on July 10, 2008 marked best answer

Yup, that's it. I've seen this happen myself, and it actually works.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 4:09 PM on July 9, 2008

Definitely milk.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 7:20 AM on July 4, 2008

I used Drupal for a podcast CMS back when I was teaching podcasting to university students. Worked fine. This was with an early version of Drupal 5 -- it's probably even better now.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 9:15 AM on July 1, 2008

I'm an American working under a NAFTA permit near Toronto, and I can attest that if you possibly can go the NAFTA route to do it - dead simple from your end, and reasonably easy from your employer's. However:

1. The permit is only good for a year. Renewals are pretty easy - I just got mine renewed - but there's a nonzero possibility that something bad could happen.

2. There are restrictions on what you can do under NAFTA - no second job, and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 6:22 AM on June 29, 2008

Erowid. Pretty much the best source of info for this sort of stuff.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 7:00 PM on June 25, 2008 marked best answer

I used to live in Southeast Asia where we did have big flying roaches occasionally, but they were nowhere near six inches long, so I personally find it hard to believe that you had a roach that big in NYC. Could you be mistaken? Perhaps you had a particularly vivid nightmare? At any rate, roaches really do not like people, so nthing the sentiments that the roach has long since scurried out.

Do you have some friends or neighbors that can go into your bedroom with you or... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 4:38 AM on June 24, 2008

When I lived in California, guys talked in the restroom. While you were at the urinal, it was not at all unusual to have a coworker start a conversation. No problems with that whatsoever with me -- I'm not pee-shy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 8:50 AM on June 23, 2008

Yup, I've always thought of it as a tank. Now that cruisers are sort of coming back into style, expect to see more of them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 10:36 PM on June 21, 2008 marked best answer

Should you assume this? Yes, absolutely. Will they be? Probably not.

If you're really paranoid about it, consider installing Tor.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 7:06 AM on June 19, 2008

Oh, and I believe https pages are as secure as https pages usually are, although maybe someone else knows differently.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 7:07 AM on June 19, 2008

Lube will help. How much it'll help, I don't know, but it's entirely possible that your girlfriend isn't hurting from your size, but from the lack of natural lubrication. I'd say it's worth a try.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 2:07 PM on June 16, 2008

I had a Dahon Speed P7 and it wasn't so bad. Nowadays though there's a lot more variety in folders -- used to be just Dahon and the super-expensive Bromptons, Birdys, etc. I own a KHS Urban X (normal, not a foldy bike) and it's superb; I'd look at their folders if I were looking to buy another (here's one, here's another; sorry for linking to the Canada site, but their US site here seems to be broken).

I haven't ridden one of this style, but the Strida bikes look... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 5:21 PM on June 15, 2008

Don't forget gpsbabel for when you actually want to do something with the data.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 6:31 PM on June 11, 2008

As far as I know, lanesplitting is *only* legal in California and in no other state in the US, let alone Ontario. Could be wrong though.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 3:36 PM on June 8, 2008

If you're just moving up there for the summer you're probably not going to be a resident -- it'll be one of those six month max visitor's permit, right? At any rate, a summer is not enough time for OHIP to kick in, so you'll have to arrange for alternate insurance or hope that the insurer you have now will cover you in Canada, although I think this is highly unlikely.

The wait time thing is typically exaggerated by Americans who are, deep down, ashamed of their system... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 8:18 PM on June 10, 2008

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah one more thing. Hopefully you're still reading this thread. But make sure that the drugs you need are available here. Check out my frantic-ish askme post about one of my wife's meds that, thankfully enough, we ended up not needing.

If you have a question about the availability of your meds up here, please feel free to memail me and I'll dig into it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 8:21 PM on June 10, 2008

Maybe you should be using tor?
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 10:34 AM on June 9, 2008

Maybe Sheep On Drugs? They're awful, but definitely the first thing I thought of. Someone's mp3 blog had some 12" of 'em - check hypem.com.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 4:40 AM on June 4, 2008

Geez, lots of SoD on youtube, huh?
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 6:27 AM on June 4, 2008

Maybe one of the menus on this page will do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 12:34 PM on June 2, 2008

Or if you'd prefer iPod style menus...
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 12:39 PM on June 2, 2008

If you're looking for something reasonably easy to get up and going and that you want to transition into a "real" catalog later on, Koha is probably the best right now. Evergreen, the other big open source library LMS, is a fair bit more difficult to install, although it's getting better.

No open source catalog has a straight, simple CSV import as far as I can tell. They're all tuned to MARC.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 10:43 AM on May 27, 2008

Seconding git. I use it for some backups, and it's so awesome it's scary. It's got a bit of a learning curve but it's so worth it.

Here's a good introduction to git.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 4:57 PM on May 18, 2008

As Jessamyn says - learn LAMP/general Unix stuff. I am a systems librarian, and I know from experience that it's truly hard to find MLS people who know anything in-depth about it - and Linux/Unix is the backbone of nearly any good-sized library.

I work academic, but have a nigh-useless BA (woo creative writing FTW) and only the MLS otherwise. I can get away with this because of my tech skills.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 7:15 PM on May 13, 2008

UK is 220 volt power; North America (well, at least US and Canada, probably Mexico) is 110 volt. If you don't have a transformer it probably won't work. But at least it won't blow up, like if you plugged a 110 appliance into a 220 outlet.

thomas144 has it on the nose: get a multiregion DVD player. Try looking here for help.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 1:26 PM on May 13, 2008 marked best answer

Oh man, I feel for you. Regexes occasionally make me despair of humanity's goodness too. Do you have access to a shell? I've found txt2regex to be pretty helpful.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 4:08 AM on May 12, 2008

ARL stats graphical builder thing. It does individual institutions.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 12:13 PM on May 10, 2008

Mac and me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 3:42 AM on May 5, 2008

Maybe they're wardialing? Wait, do people even wardial anymore?
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 8:36 PM on May 1, 2008

I am an American working here in Ontario on a NAFTA permit, which means that I am not officially a resident. I have OHIP though -- in my situation, I had to live in Ontario for three months before OHIP kicked in; before that, I was on a plan sponsored by my university.

I imagine it will be similar for you.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 12:50 PM on April 24, 2008

One big plugin for Wordpress, you say?
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 4:00 AM on April 23, 2008

fantasticninety -- check your memail.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 8:40 AM on April 14, 2008

Not only does Amazon not know it, but Worldcat doesn't either. You sure you have the title and author correct?
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 11:38 AM on April 3, 2008

null terminated: I think the federals are the only folks required to have their stuff in the public domain.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 8:09 PM on March 28, 2008

My current library has two catalogs, sort of. Maybe three, depending on how you're counting. The older one does have a name as a first name, but the other two do not. We usually refer to them as "the catalog" now.

The prevailing theory in library circles, at least as I see it, is to not single out the catalog for any special mention, as it's supposed to be part of your general web presence and not some monolith that sits apart. Back in the bad old days, an... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 12:28 PM on March 25, 2008

When I was a kid, I loved James Clavell's King Rat.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 9:06 AM on March 24, 2008

Not exactly what you're looking for, but you might want to investigate thelastripper.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 4:42 AM on March 20, 2008

nobeagle, I have a wrt54g. Is that sufficient do you think?
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 2:55 PM on March 7, 2008

I believe this is normal, although I've never made starter by adding in store-bought yeast; just by mixing flour and water together, waiting a day, dumping out half and adding more flour and water. This process took about a month IIRC, but once I got a good culture going I had pretty much what you describe - good growth followed by shrinking, beery smell, brownish liquid. I think you're probably okay, although it made not be very sour since your starter is mostly store-bought yeast right now.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 4:06 AM on February 29, 2008 marked best answer

Here's the recipe I followed when I made my starter.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 4:11 AM on February 29, 2008 marked best answer

Busdriver is pretty off the wall.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 6:38 PM on February 27, 2008

How about a Jucy Lucy?
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 10:29 AM on February 25, 2008

Seconding truecrypt. It now has the ability to encrypt the entire drive, very useful.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 8:19 AM on February 22, 2008

I've encrypted portions of drives with Truecrypt on Linux -- not folders, but logical drives -- and I haven't seen any appreciable performance hit.

What might be best for anonymous is to divide their disk up and keep sensitive info on a Truecrypt portion, rather than the whole disk.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 8:34 AM on February 22, 2008

jrishel, jbickers has already been taken care of wrt GC.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 7:21 AM on February 20, 2008

My bets on OxyContin. Check his pupils if possible. Can you score a unbroken pill from his kit? You could then tell for sure, likely.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 7:43 PM on February 19, 2008

XAMPP and PHPTriad aren't inventory management systems, they're installers for PHP, Apache, and MySQL. So they won't work for you because there aren't any applications written on top of them, but to call them "half-baked" is probably uncalled for. That said, yeah, these kinds of things are probably overkill for your situation. Why not use Excel for this? It would probably work just fine for what you need.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 1:45 PM on February 19, 2008

medusa, sorry. I don't use the calendaring in N800 -- there exists a scheme to sync it with Google Calendar, but I don't use Windows so I don't know about any Windows stuff.

Bummer about Garnet not being free, though. I rather liked it. It worked with every app I threw at it except one.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 12:37 PM on February 19, 2008

Yeah, I'm not sure there's any orthodox way to prepare for it. Really, the only way is to practice -- go to bar trivia nights, or watch a hell of a lot of Jeopardy. Read a lot too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the dief at 12:28 PM on February 19, 2008