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Anyone here work on the Panasonic HVX200 camera? We're having a footage emergency and need advice immediately -- seriously, epic karma points to the piler who can help us out. Details inside.
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at 10:52 AM on March 13, 2008
(11 comments)
My comedy group needs a new visual identity, including but not limited to a new logo, graphics, website look-and-feel, and general visual aesthetic. We're looking for an experienced, creative designer with a fresh sensibility -- someone who can get a feel for our work and provide us with a complete, distinct visual package that complements what we do. We're based in New York, but you don't have to be. Get in touch and we'll talk!
posted to MeFi Jobs by tweebiscuit
at 10:03 PM on February 4, 2008
I've been planning an upgrade to a MacBook Pro for a few months, but had been waiting for MacWorld, assuming that there would be a hardware revision. Now that the keynote has come and gone, sans even a spec bump, how long can I expect to wait for the next revision?
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at 1:57 PM on January 15, 2008
(13 comments)
iChat has an annoying tendency to periodically disconnect itself from AIM and Jabber, bouncing in the dock to alert me. Reconnecting is always simple, but it's annoying. Anyone else have this problem, and ever find a solution?
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at 3:29 PM on December 3, 2007
(6 comments)
Can anyone recommend a psychiatrist in New York City who has experience with learning disabilities? (As opposed to, say, mood disorders.)
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at 7:30 PM on November 15, 2007
(3 comments)
When I bite down lightly on the inside of my lower lip, I feel something resembling little balls moving between my teeth, as though it were full of the stuff that's inside a hacky-sack. What are those little balls?
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at 11:46 PM on October 11, 2007
(10 comments)
I want to include some fabricated video game footage into a commercial video piece. I don't have the time or the resources to have professional 3D animation done, so I've decided to use a machinima approach towards animation. My main concern, though, is copyright issues -- what's the best game engine to use for producing footage that's truly royalty-free?
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at 7:23 PM on August 7, 2007
(4 comments)
I'm producing a parody of Deal or No Deal. Since assembling an audience of sufficient size is beyond my means, I am planning to occasionally show audience shots from an original episode of Deal or No Deal. Does this qualify as fair use?
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at 4:16 PM on July 8, 2007
(14 comments)
I still have periodic acne breakouts at the age of 24, and now that I have health insurance I want to see a dermatologist. However, there's a million of them in NYC, and I don't have the time to shop around, so I'm considering going with NYC's most heavily advertised doctor,
Dr. Zizmor. Is this a bad idea? Have you or anyone you know ever said,
"Thanks, Dr. Zizmor?"
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 11:18 AM on June 20, 2007
(21 comments)
Digital video workflow question: I'm editing a greenscreened music video, and wish to do a rough cut in Final Cut, then move the project into After Effects to do compositing. However, the only automated means of conversion the project is Automatic Duck's plugin, the price of which exceeds my budget. What's the best workflow for moving a sequence between the two applications under these conditions?
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at 2:55 PM on March 31, 2007
(10 comments)
How much do older Apple Cinema Displays differ from the newer ones? Do the display elements compare favorably to today's standards? Help me stay within my budget!
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 7:10 PM on March 12, 2007
(14 comments)
What are the chances that Apple will release a 12-inch MacBook Pro in the next few months?
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at 11:25 AM on February 1, 2007
(24 comments)
How long would it take the average gambler to lose $50 in Las Vegas? Assume that they're playing at the lowest-stakes table possible.
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at 9:32 AM on January 17, 2007
(17 comments)
What is the physically smallest laptop capable of running OS X? I'm only interested in word processing and light web browsing, so I have no prejudice against old models -- in fact, I'd prefer an older model if it's cheaper.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 3:59 PM on December 25, 2006
(23 comments)
A few months ago I received a metal cocktail shaker as a gift. The first time I used it with ice, the top and bottom became welded together, presumably because the cold caused the metal to expand. Fast forward to the present -- they're still stuck fast, and I'm sick of gin and tonics. How can I get them apart and get back to mixologizing?
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at 10:52 AM on December 2, 2006
(27 comments)
DV / Final Cut Pro question: We just upgraded cameras to a Panasonic DVX100B, largely for the ability to shoot in 24P. However, imported footage still appears interlaced in FCP, and it's unclear to me what our new configuration should be. How will we need to change our workflow in order to edit in 24P? (More specific inside.)
On an unrelated note, we just imported a tape which appears to be corrupted. Can it be salvaged? (More details inside.)
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at 4:49 PM on October 1, 2006
(6 comments)
What's the world record for computer uptime?
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at 3:59 PM on September 20, 2006
(28 comments)
I've just finished making a few hundreds annotations to forty or so PSD files, and am quite ready to be done with them. However, being annotations, they all have my name at the top! Is there any way to batch-change this without going in and re-editing every one by hand? Save me from wasting countless non-billable hours fixing this manually!
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at 5:30 PM on August 14, 2006
(8 comments)
Hardcore Apache question: How can I write an .htaccess file that will apply a RewriteRule to only the most recent file posted to my Wordpress blog?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 7:56 PM on July 24, 2006
(13 comments)
How can I tell how many of my website's users have Quicktime 7 installed?
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at 4:05 PM on July 16, 2006
(4 comments)
I need a recommendation on what CMS / Blogging system to use for my video podcast. My big restriction: The main homepage of my site is flat HTML -- I want it to stay that way, but include a very abbreviated version of the blog (i.e., "links to the last five posts only") on it, via an iframe or something similar. What's the best system to use to do this?
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at 12:36 PM on July 8, 2006
(4 comments)
You are suspended in a large, hollow sphere. The inside of the sphere is perfectly mirrored. There is nothing else in the sphere, and all you carry is a flashlight. You turn the flashlight on. What do you see?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 2:49 PM on May 15, 2006
(41 comments)
I just got a DivX-capable DVD player. Is there some way of telling (on OS X) what DivX/XVid files can be burned directly to a DivX disc without requiring conversion?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 5:09 PM on April 26, 2006
(15 comments)
Quicksilver / OS X shell junkies: How can I have Quicksilver run a shell script in the
current (or a particular) terminal window? Alternately, how can I pipe the output of the script to a particular terminal window?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 10:07 AM on February 22, 2006
(11 comments)
What's the best bandwidth throttling method for my Apache webserver?
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at 10:46 AM on January 31, 2006
(16 comments)
What's the most effective and broadly compatible way to swap embedded Quicktime movies on a web page? I've written my own JavaScript to do so, but it doesn't work on certain (a minority of) browsers, and it's a bit slow. Does anyone have experience doing this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 9:42 AM on January 9, 2006
(9 comments)
How do DVD manufacturers convince DVD player manufacturers to cripple their product by include region restrictions? And why isn't the high cost of region-free DVD players considered a form of price-fixing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 7:49 AM on December 8, 2005
(18 comments)
What was the first "play for a few minutes a day" Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG)?
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at 7:09 PM on November 30, 2005
(21 comments)
I need to listen to music at work, but my iTunes library is at home. I've set up remote sharing via SSH tunnelling and Bonjour proxying, but I'm a bit of a nazi about playcounts -- I have multiple Smart Playlists set up to create mixes based on play count -- and iTunes doesn't update playcounts for shared tracks when they're played remotely. Fellow iTunes micromanagers: Is there a better solution for having one iTunes library in two places at once?
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at 10:53 AM on November 22, 2005
(7 comments)
I'm about to start my first salaried job, and will therefore have health insurance. My girlfriend has none. We'd like a method of birth control that's safer and more effective than condoms, but neither of us can afford birth control pills out of pocket. As a man, is there any way I can use my health insurance to pay for birth control pills? If not, what are my other options?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 12:28 PM on November 13, 2005
(26 comments)
I maintain a complex website that I update by hand. (Unfortunately, this is unavoidable.) I want my local directory to be an exact mirror of the site, so that when I alter and modify thirty HTML files and I can simply run a script to copy them instead of FTPing them all by hand, in addition to removing deleted files and downloading any server-side changes made by scripts or other users. What's the best means to do this on OS X?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 5:41 PM on October 17, 2005
(17 comments)
What happens if the Red Sox, Yankees, and Indians are all tied three days from now?
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at 5:00 PM on September 30, 2005
(13 comments)
I have some video on a DVD that I want to edit in Final Cut Pro. What's the best intermediate codec to use? I don't have space for uncompressed video, and the rest of my footage is DV-quality, so I can afford a bit of quality loss.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 12:17 PM on September 22, 2005
(6 comments)
Is it still possible to walk
The High Line? I know
Kottke did it, but I haven't found any more recent accounts anywhere, and I'm concerned that since the High Line has attracted more attention (and federal funding) recently, they may be taking stronger steps to prevent trespassing. Will my trip be ruined?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 2:48 PM on August 10, 2005
(10 comments)
Is the "Please drink responsibly" tagline that now suffixes beer/liquor ads the result of a law, or just a voluntary trend?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 12:23 PM on August 3, 2005
(5 comments)
Why are seemingly no IM clients compatible with each other for anything other than chat? (i.e., file transfer, image insertion, file transfer, oh, and also file transfer.) I'm not talking about Y!IM vs. AIM here -- I'm talking about the various clients that all use AOL's IM service. Even the open-source clients have this problem. Why wasn't this problem solved years ago?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 2:32 PM on March 22, 2005
(9 comments)
MeFi Font Patrol: I have taken on the task of updating
this website, and I need the name of the font that was used in
these menu images. (More inside.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 3:18 PM on August 7, 2004
(15 comments)
I am in the process of creating a DVD of my sketch comedy group's work. This means I have to go through about fifty DV tapes in order to find the ones which have completed sketches rather than footage on them. In addition, many of the tapes are unlabelled. Is there some method or program which can scan a tape quickly and give me an overall impression of what's on it? (I'm thinking via thumbnails, but I presume there are other ways of doing it.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 3:50 PM on July 26, 2004
(7 comments)
I just did a Sherlock search for "Diner" in the 60662 zip code. One of the diners, "The Tasty Burger", had an address of "1000 Virtual Road", and Sherlock couldn't provide a map. I Googled the address, and got
this -- tons of business that all have that address, many in different cities. What is this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 10:22 PM on June 28, 2004
(14 comments)
Remarks by the President to a Press Pool.
THE PRESIDENT: I'm ordering ribs. David, do you need a rib?
Q: But Mr. President --
THE PRESIDENT: Stretch, thank you, this is not a press conference. So instead of asking questions, answer mine: Are you going to buy some food?
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at 2:29 PM on January 22, 2004
(58 comments)
Metallica sues over use of E, F chords.
No, it's not an Onion article. Really. They're completely serious. No exaggerating is taking place here. Honestly, they really are suing another band for using the E and F chords. It's on their
website, for god's sake. All I know is, I'm getting drunk tonight.
posted to MetaFilter by tweebiscuit
at 1:12 AM on July 17, 2003
(39 comments)
If you're already familiar with the work of
Jack Chick, the creator of those amusingly offensive evangelist comic books, you probably know not to take him too seriously -- after all, the threat of being thrown into a giant lake of fire by an angel isn't particularly frightening. Still, when
his new tract starts with an image of the smoldering twin towers, and ends with the words,
"Bob, now I know that Allah doesn't really love me or even care about any Muslim. But Jesus, the Son of God, does," it's difficult not to worry that this time he's bitten off more than he can chew.
posted to MetaFilter by tweebiscuit
at 7:49 AM on January 2, 2003
(33 comments)
Black Holes Merge. Massive layoffs expected throughout galaxy.
Analysts predict big payoffs for the economy, however. "A burst of gravitational waves that could warp the very fabric of space will go a long way towards increasing shareholding value," said one economist. Both black holes had recently suffered a dramatic drop in stock price, and were under the threat of hostile takeover from industry leader Black Hole 86184-B before the merger was announced, which took Wall Street pundits off guard. "Much to our surprise, we found that both were active black holes," Stefanie Komossa of the Max Planck Astro-Economics Institute in Germany, said in a statement. Proponents of big business greeted the announcement with pleasure: "This supports the idea that black holes can grow to enormous masses in the centres of galaxies by merging with other black holes."
posted to MetaFilter by tweebiscuit
at 2:43 PM on November 19, 2002
(17 comments)
In a word, Google's goal is to do important stuff that matters to a lot of people. In pursuit of that goal, we've developed a set of values that drive our work, including one of our most cherished core values: "Don't be evil." We already know that Google can deliver the goods when it comes to services -- so what do you guys think? Is it possible that a company could actually be worthy of our trust?
posted to MetaFilter by tweebiscuit
at 5:20 PM on July 23, 2002
(29 comments)
The Mailbox Bomber's band sucks
, according to
Pitchfork Media, one of the most intellectual and pretentious music review sites on the web.
"Can you feel the pain?" Helder implores on "Back and Black," a passable stab at Incesticide-era Nirvana, albeit with horrendous lyrics and a gratuitous punk-rock stomp at the coda. "Stop the game!" Helder winces, as though squeezing out a fat one, and we really can feel the pain.
Related issue: the
band's webpage (also discussed
here) has been taken by Angelfire down for "violation of terms of service." Still,
Google's cache of the page reveals nothing objectionable. Is Angelfire right to take down the webpage of a nationally known criminal (the first time I can think of that the issue has arisen)? Or do their Terms of Service really have a "no domestic terrorism" clause?
posted to MetaFilter by tweebiscuit
at 5:37 PM on May 9, 2002
(28 comments)
