A friend asked for some help translating some Asian characters (phonetic and meaning I suppose). The poor guy thought that I could help him. I cannot, and I hope one of you can.
posted to Ask Metafilter by thirteen at 11:52 AM on March 8, 2009 (12 comments)

I have been PWNZORED by Russian spammers!
posted to Ask Metafilter by thirteen at 11:32 AM on October 28, 2005 (7 comments)

I am looking for a Mac based solution to a transcription problem. I want to have a set up where a Mac could play an MP3 file of an interview (possibly recorded on an iPod with a voice recorder), capture the sound with some sort of voice recognition, and give me back a raw text file. Is this possible, or am I still 5 years too early to be hoping for such a thing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by thirteen at 2:13 PM on July 12, 2004 (8 comments)

My house was completely rewired a few years ago by a previous owner. In doing so he put in the power, but left some rather large openings in the walls around the plug boxes. I have not repaired these, as I thought I would eventually get around to running some Cat 5 cable and phone jacks to every room. My question is, is it worth doing anymore? I can think of a few places I might want a hard connection to my network, but my WiFi set up makes me think this is no longer worth the trouble. The land line is not going away anytime soon, but it no longer seems worth the trouble either. Is there anything I should consider installing before I lock down the walls and lose my easy access?
posted to Ask Metafilter by thirteen at 7:47 AM on December 30, 2003 (12 comments)

I have an old house with lathe plaster. There are rooms that have had peeling paint that just got painted over a few times in the distant past. I do not much like the way it looks, and I would like to expose the bare plaster and start fresh. Is there any way to remove all this paint? I do not want to sand the ceilings of such large rooms, as I feel I will get tired of that real easy. I have not seen any solvent that lists paint on plaster as an appropriate use. I am quite confident that the plaster itself is sound and uncracked. Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you are my only hope.
posted to Ask Metafilter by thirteen at 9:07 AM on December 22, 2003 (15 comments)

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