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Short and sweet: "Please don't water these plants. (it's killing them)" in Spanish.
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at 5:29 AM on May 6, 2008
(17 comments)
Need shoes that really breathe.
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at 4:51 PM on April 21, 2008
(13 comments)
MeTa Sidebar Picture Pony
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at 11:11 AM on April 16, 2008
(5 comments)
Need help with an 80/20 housing issue gone mad.
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at 4:25 PM on January 25, 2008
(13 comments)
Inappropriate cat pee issue.
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at 8:45 AM on November 29, 2007
(21 comments)
Rude song with plenty of single entendre.
posted to MeFi Music by plinth
at 10:54 AM on November 13, 2007
(3 comments)
"you will automatically receive one entry for each bill payment you make" Is
this sweepstakes set up by morons?
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at 1:09 PM on September 18, 2007
(9 comments)
How do you make your own chocolate?
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at 1:03 PM on April 8, 2007
(18 comments)
Crohn's Disease and Mangosteen - snake oil or success?
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at 1:29 PM on January 29, 2007
(12 comments)
Looking for interesting cello sheet music
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at 11:20 AM on November 17, 2006
(10 comments)
Comestible of the month club?
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at 1:58 PM on November 1, 2006
(12 comments)
Reputable US herbal supplement manufacturers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by plinth
at 2:48 PM on October 13, 2006
(5 comments)
I would like to host a MeFi MeetUp as part of a larger fund-raising event for a non-profit organization. What's the preferred protocol so as to avoid being crass?
posted to MetaTalk by plinth
at 1:52 PM on September 7, 2006
(15 comments)
My Little Favorite Pony - for marking posts and comments as favorites, how about allowing you to put in a little note as to why it piqued your interest.
posted to MetaTalk by plinth
at 6:12 AM on July 21, 2006
(14 comments)
Help me get
someone else on a TV talk show.
posted to Ask Metafilter by plinth
at 8:00 AM on July 13, 2006
(12 comments)
This is a concert march by Robert Jager arranged by me for my brass quintet. Just a march, eh? No, it's in 7/4 in the first strain and 5/4 through most of the rest of it.
posted to MeFi Music by plinth
at 5:07 AM on July 13, 2006
My Favorites Pony - Love the favorites. How about adding into the contacts section a "jump to contacts' favorites" link?
posted to MetaTalk by plinth
at 11:03 AM on May 16, 2006
(9 comments)
In the US there are three major forms of manual communication
ASL (American Sign Language,
PSE (Pidgin Signed English or Contact), and
SEE (Signing Exact English). Translating from English to any one of these is hard enough. That's not stopping
this team from trying taking on the added challenge of a machine translation. I can't imagine them doing half as well as
this man's efforts at live translating rap, switching between all three variants (video, with voice over).
posted to MetaFilter by plinth
at 7:06 AM on April 18, 2006
(9 comments)
How to: multiple fluorescent light fixtures on one circuit
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at 6:53 PM on April 17, 2006
(7 comments)
Good credit card for internet purchases
posted to Ask Metafilter by plinth
at 7:05 PM on March 17, 2006
(9 comments)
AskMeFi followup - nearly 4 months ago, I asked
this question about home theater searching. Ultimately, the guidance from that thread led me to save up for and purchase an appropriate unit. Once I got the DVD player to output the right Dolby variant, we've been basking in good sound. Thanks,
Civil_Disobediant and
misterbrandt!
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at 1:20 PM on December 31, 2005
(21 comments)
How to cope with unpleasant and not fully explainable longterm medical issues?
posted to Ask Metafilter by plinth
at 7:52 PM on December 1, 2005
(10 comments)
October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month
- at a time when
eugenics was socially sanctioned,
John Langdon Down pioneered many of the techniques that are considered best practice today for encouraging the development of children with Down syndrome. Not long ago, standard practice in the United States was institutionlization from birth, which led to short, unhappy lives. Only in the past generation, have we rediscovered that with care and medical treatment, people with Trisomy 21
can and do
flourish.
Find a
local Buddy Walk near you and get educated.
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at 8:53 AM on October 1, 2005
(27 comments)
Home Theater Component search - I'm trying to find components with features that I want, which apparently bear little or no relation to what the major resellers and search engines provide.
posted to Ask Metafilter by plinth
at 6:24 PM on September 4, 2005
(12 comments)
Is it worth it to be a landlord?
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at 6:02 PM on July 26, 2005
(16 comments)
Years ago, Jane and Michael Stern authored
Amazing America, a fabulous book about roadside America, which was one of my favorite references for something novel to see while traveling in the US. The New Jersey section is far too brief. Thank you
Weird NJ for filling in the gap.
posted to MetaFilter by plinth
at 5:58 PM on June 6, 2005
(9 comments)
Please help me diagnose my FTP issue so I can find out who's responsible and work to correct the problem.
posted to Ask Metafilter by plinth
at 6:14 PM on May 3, 2005
(11 comments)
Headphonesfilter - in the mid 90's I tried out a set of headphones at a CreativeLabs developer's conference that featured open-air behind-the-head design.[+]
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at 6:34 PM on February 12, 2005
(6 comments)
TreoFilter - trying to install custom MIDI ring tones [+]
posted to Ask Metafilter by plinth
at 12:41 PM on February 5, 2005
(5 comments)
iBookFilter - my wife's iBook running OS 9.1 fails to mount audio CDs or CD-R's. In each case, it instead asks to format the disk (which is laugable since the drive isn't capable of writing). How can she once again use the drive?
posted to Ask Metafilter by plinth
at 3:03 PM on August 24, 2004
(2 comments)
Ask MeFi Karma - I think it would be cool that if you are reading the comments of an AskMeFi thread that you created, you could rate an answer by granting or taking away a karma point from the answerer. In this way, there will be a new mechanism
of MeFi elitism to encourage constructive replies.
posted to MetaTalk by plinth
at 10:56 AM on May 13, 2004
(20 comments)
In 1985 or so, there was an educational game for the Macintosh that I exactly once. It featured a robot on skates with an iconic programming language that you use to help make it travel safely through little virtual worlds. What was it called?
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at 9:53 AM on March 19, 2004
(11 comments)
I tore apart an old, effectively dead PowerBook 540c in order to salvage workable parts. Most notably, the active matrix TFT LCD screen, a Toshiba LTM09C017, was in fine condition. I would love to try to hook this up to an SVGA out, but I can't find pinouts or spec sheets. Can you?
posted to Ask Metafilter by plinth
at 12:43 PM on February 17, 2004
(2 comments)
Old Time Candy
- ready to say goodbye to your New Year's Resolution diet? Old time candy will sell you gift boxes based on decade! We looked for the nostalgic sweet stuff before, but here is another good collection.
posted to MetaFilter by plinth
at 4:05 PM on January 29, 2004
(4 comments)
Godzilla roar, the making thereof. [more inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by plinth
at 4:02 AM on January 26, 2004
(6 comments)
Related to
this question, suppose I'd like to do something similar but with the target a remote ftp host on which I can run scripts. More inside...
posted to Ask Metafilter by plinth
at 3:20 AM on January 14, 2004
(5 comments)
The Atari 2600 redux
This time
Jakks TV Games has put 10 old Atari games into the old Atari joystick form factor fo $20US. That's $2 a game. Sure, they're not all
terrific games, but hey it's easier than trying to
do this yourself.
Don't like the 2600? It's OK,
they also make Activision and Namco versions.
posted to MetaFilter by plinth
at 10:39 AM on June 7, 2003
(22 comments)
The Wishing Fish Clock
a wonderful piece of functional art in the Regent Arcade in Cheltenham. I've always love
Kit Williams' work and this is a perfect reason why. He consistently captures wonder.
posted to MetaFilter by plinth
at 3:34 PM on September 5, 2002
(3 comments)
Gourmet Magazine
had a pretty interesting article (wish it was up on line) about farm-raised salmon v. wild salmon. Farm-raised salmon is scary, especially with regards to
disease,
waste handling, food (feather meal, blood meal, bone meal and other things that wild salmon do not eat) and an industry which is controlled by a very small number of multinational companies.
posted to MetaFilter by plinth
at 3:50 PM on August 29, 2002
(23 comments)
