For the restaurant suggestions, you might want to check out the Chowhound forums for GTA Toronto. I've seen a few family orientated threads before so there might be some finds.

(And when I was a kid, I thought Ontario Place, ROM and the AGO were all great places.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 3:26 PM on July 19, 2008

dobbs My lasange is of the raw, vegan variety and is quite visually appealing. It's a wonderful summer dish! However, the white and red parts never get heated so never become runny and are as thick at serving time as I made them during prep. If you're open to trying such a dish (I'd put it head-to-head with any lasagne I've ever tasted), let me know and I'll post the recipe.

I'm not Mutant but I'm interested in your vegan lasagna.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 6:30 PM on June 29, 2008

I like the suggestions Amphitheatre and Appleseed.

Easy enough to be in pretty much everyone's vocabulary but also unique enough to create an identity. Seriously, all my favourite Mac programs follow the same philosophy and I think it works well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 6:44 PM on June 3, 2008

No pain whatsoever but I guess it could very well be my form. Thanks for the reassurances and suggestions!
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 2:56 PM on April 28, 2008

(That it to say, I'll keep at it and also use my camera to make sure I'm in proper form.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 2:57 PM on April 28, 2008

How do I add the TED talks to my iTunes as a podcast feed?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 4:17 PM on November 20, 2007

I have a Mac mini too and it's great for casual use. Compared to the PC at work, it feels just as responsive and capable. The only time it slows down is with CoverFlow and Spaces Expose in Leopard.

It's small, draws only 30 watts of power from the wall and only slightly audible from a metre away. The only immediate downside I see is that I don't think it can drive monitors larger than 22 inch at native resolution.

Also, just note that the Mac... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 6:16 AM on November 8, 2007

Canadian IPs are banned from Demonoid anyways. Not that I would know.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 4:17 PM on October 23, 2007

Are there iTunes alternatives for us OSX users with large libraries?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 9:57 AM on September 13, 2007

I just want to say as a Canadian with English as a second language and as someone that has never heard of Ani DiFranco before, I would pronounce Ani the same way I would pronounce the first two syllables of the word animation.

If Any is pronounced the way I think it is, then Ani isn't quite way and Ahni or Ahnni is more close.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 10:35 AM on August 30, 2007

mp3tag will also do this. In fact, if all you want to do is replace underscores with spaces in your tags, mp3tag can do that too. Also can rename the actual file based on the tag values (however you like).
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 7:09 PM on August 16, 2007

Here's a naive approach at it (programmaticaly):

1. Construct a node for every valid member.
2. Construct a lookup table that points to all those nodes.
3. For every valid pairing of members, lookup the nodes and add a pointer (edge) to each other.

4. a) Optimise space: to determine if {1,2,3} is valid, look at each member and check for a pointer to another member in that set. If there is a member that has no... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 7:29 AM on August 15, 2007

I can also vouch that TD will frown upon you bringing in a big jar of coins. They require you to deposit coinage in those cardboard tubes you get for cheap at the dollar store. Though, last time I deposited some $300+ in coins, I didn't get charged any fee (and it was definitely more than eight rolls).

Why not spend a few evenings putting them into cardboard tubes yourself? It's kind of fun in a McScrooge way to line up your coins and realise how much you have saved up.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 5:30 PM on August 14, 2007

Seeing as no one has answered your question yet, I'll throw in my experience with sending a message from a Canadian number. I'm on Rogers in Toronto and it took me pretty much a day, give or take a few hours, to have my messages show up on Twitter.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 5:58 AM on August 11, 2007

This was a few months ago when I tried out Twitter for a few weeks so things might have changed. The quickest was half a day and the latest was 30 hours I think. It could've just been Rogers -- SMS isn't that big here.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 12:10 PM on August 11, 2007

I have neither read the book or a back-of-the-book summary. So what is the purported difference between those who conform to a 9 to 5 lifestyle and those who go out to make it 2 to 4?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 6:19 PM on August 2, 2007

In MPC, go to Options.
In the Audio Switcher pane, enable the built-in audio switcher. Map back-left and back-right to front-left and front-right respectively.

Alternatively, while the video is opened, right click and look at the contents of the filters submenu. Choose whatever filter is acting as the audio decoder. When the properties window opens, find the option to down-mix. If it's ffdshow audio, it's in the Mixer pane.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 6:11 PM on August 2, 2007

A bit late but I think Amarok is pretty much your only option and even then it's not lightning fast. It seems like a lot of people are satisfied with iTunes so there isn't much effort in developing an alternative.

I'm hoping Songbird will eventually come around like how we got Firefox from Mozilla.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 5:00 PM on July 26, 2007

I have to go against the wind here about the 'smooth-sailing' switch to Apple. I'm happy I switched but it was pretty difficult for me.

I consider myself an advance PC user: my first PC only had DOS 6 and fun time was that gorilla game in QBASIC. someone came along later and installed Windows 3.1 for me and I had Solitaire, after Win3.11 + Win32s I had FreeCell and I was happy. Just before I switched to Apple, I was running Win2K with Litestep, cygwin, WindowBlinds,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 6:23 PM on July 24, 2007

kirkaracha

Sorry when I meant bust, I meant that as in the alternatives weren't quite there yet and not as in there are no alternatives.

Taking the video player example, VLC simply works a lot better than the alternatives.

MPlayer (GUI version not the CLI version) lacks basic options like changing the audio or subtitle track. It also seems to be worst than VLC at decoding x264 videos, I often had... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 7:50 AM on July 25, 2007

Most Firefox plugins work on the Mac, only a handful don't. Userchrome.css, usercontent.css, etc. work as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 12:07 PM on July 25, 2007

I live in Toronto so unfortunately, US based groups like Earth911 and Green Citizen are not as helpful. hazel's link to freecycle has a few Toronto communities though so I'll hoping someone will want a few hundred CDs for craft supplies.

I considered making some crafts with them but I simply have too many CDs I want to be rid of. (Incidentally, I have the sudden need to dispose of a few hundred CDs because I just went through spring cleaning and have been trying to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 5:18 AM on June 21, 2007

Wow, lots of good answers. Thanks everyone for replying.

To be honest, the major downside to me seems to be the shifts and the fail rate of the training. It kind of sucks thinking the year spend training might be for nothing.

To those who have seriously considered being an ATC, what held you back? And say you pass the training but don't make it through the check-out period, what happens?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh at 5:59 AM on May 25, 2007