COUNTER may look complicated, but it's going to be what librarians want, and as a librarian who sometimes has to dig up those stats, I'd strongly suggest going that route. It allows us to compare stats across publications. Otherwise, we get some publishers saying "1000 hits" and they define "hit" as "your user downloaded a pdf of an article" and others say "1000 hits" and they define "hit" as "your user loaded the index of our... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 7:41 AM on September 5, 2008

It was a short fiction piece called "Fossil News", by James Stevenson. May 11, 1987, p. 36-37. God bless The Complete New Yorker.
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 5:59 PM on September 4, 2008

Oh, and it's absolutely the drawings that make it funny. Not only is there a map of the fight path, but there are skeletal renderings of each paleoanthropologist, with locations of various blows carefully labeled "A", "B", etc. I got a partial screenshot, but getting complete things out of Complete New Yorker isn't as easy as I'd like it to be.
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 6:13 PM on September 4, 2008

The most important romantic relationships I had during my teens and early twenties centered on spelunking hand-in-hand through used bookstores looking for copies of rare and out-of-print Harlan Ellison books.

Oh my god! Palmcorder? Palmcorder Yajna? How the hell have you been? It's been years, you haven't changed a bit. I thought of you last time I moved, packing all those copies of Dangerous Visions... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by donnagirl at 5:37 PM on September 1, 2008

As I scrolled down her page, I saw the hit counter and suddenly felt really bad. What if she gets email from Black Planet - "Hey, itsmefi, 200 people visited your profile today!" and thinks to herself that surely, with 200 hits, this time it will work out and someone's going to come along that wants to garden with her, and go to comedy shows, and hang out with her and the three kids. And then, it's just...metatalk. Except she won't know that, and will just wonder what it is about... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by donnagirl at 4:17 PM on August 20, 2008

Hey, thanks to everyone! It was really helpful for my friend just to hear there were other people like her out there, and she's feeling a lot less stressed about her decision. Y'all are awesome!
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 6:45 AM on August 20, 2008

OK, no luck with the myspace contact, either he doesn't know or he doesn't answer myspace messages. I'm still looking, marking this stumped in case an art expert is around.

The image I linked is gone, check here for the original on myspace, you may need a myspace login to do so.
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 12:28 PM on July 20, 2008

-t, there haven't been a lot of Kansas City meetups, but the Lawrence KS crew is decently active and it's more fun than KC anyway. Lawrence is on your route, just about 2 hrs east of Salina, which hellojed has described with frightening accuracy.

Also, as someone who played host on the Meatbomb US Tour 2007, I strongly urge anyone who may be hesitant to open your home to a random mefite to go for it. It was way randomly cool.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by donnagirl at 8:55 AM on July 11, 2008

Do you by any chance have the CookiePie extension installed in Firefox? For whatever reason, it made my gmail really buggy, especially gmail chat. I know it works for other people, but it just wouldn't play nice on my computer. My GTalk client continued to work without any problem - your mentioning that made me think it might be a possible contributor to your troubles. There are reports of similar gmail problems in the CookiePie thread over on Lifehacker. I have no clue how it would cause IE... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 8:58 PM on July 6, 2008

Do you think, realistically, that all the bugs can ever been ironed out? It's a web service, after all, and with the variety of browsers and kabillions of ways you can customize and configure those browsers, it's unlikely that any setup, ever, will seem "not buggy" for everyone at once. Yeah, my gmail reacted like crap to CookiePie, but I think that's my fault for installing a brand new, untested extension, not gmail's.
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 10:07 AM on July 10, 2008

Sounds like you're good, but just as another data point, I use gmail to read all my mail that goes to the Groupwise server at work using POP. It picks up the appointments, too, and gmail automagically recognizes them as calendar items and gives me a little "add to google calendar" link with each appointment. I don't think you could set it up to only pull appointments, but if you can find some other way to deal with/ignore/delete non-appointment emails in gmail, you'd never have to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 10:44 PM on June 17, 2008

B. Scrolling is evil.
posted to MetaTalk by donnagirl at 7:54 PM on June 17, 2008

No-bake cookies, if you can stand some oats with your chocolate and pb.
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 7:39 PM on June 15, 2008

I promise not to poke it with a stick! I was pretty close taking those photos, though, and I don't freak out easily, especially about nature. The bees not clinging to the other bees were flying in a really lazy fashion, and seemed almost sleepy. It was almost dark when I found it; I'll see if they seem more riled up in the morning.
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 8:30 PM on June 10, 2008

OK, I found a list of swarm catchers in my area and I'll call tomorrow to have someone come take a look. That article is from Wichita, which is significantly south of here, so I'm not too worried about a scary Africanized swarm. Thanks, everyone!
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 8:54 PM on June 10, 2008

Hey! Don't fight in my happy bee thread! Just an update, a swarm catcher is coming by later today to collect them. I described it to him, and he called it a "small" swarm, maybe 5000-8000 bees.
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 9:32 AM on June 11, 2008

It happens later on the page, too, for melissa may and sleepy pete, so more confirmation for Plutor's idea.
posted to MetaTalk by donnagirl at 8:47 AM on June 10, 2008

I am a librarian, which makes me by default Your Librarian. What was your question again?
posted to MetaTalk by donnagirl at 11:42 AM on June 4, 2008

The difference in pay can be substantial. In my fairly typical academic library, starting pay for a classified position is half that of the positions requiring an MLS (low 20s vs mid 40s) for someone with little to no experience. Relatively speaking, jobs requiring an MLS are far, far more interesting than paraprofessional jobs, which often involve highly routinized work with little or no room for self-direction. There's also little room for advancement, as those without the degree cannot... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 5:58 PM on May 26, 2008

You can bring anything you like, as long as you carry it in a laptop lunchbox. Its bento-ish style encourages you to bring a variety of food, it's easy to rinse out and reuse each night, and if you get the "system" with the carrying case and drink bottle you can really get a nice complete lunch in an attractive and easy to carry package.
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 6:05 PM on May 24, 2008

puke & cry, your song is "Madcap Tears" by Rogue's March. There's a sample in the iTunes store, or on emusic. Presto!
posted to MetaTalk by donnagirl at 8:20 PM on May 22, 2008

Yeah, I can't really take much credit, though. There was a much much much later response posted in the adtunes forum thread that looks like it was started by p&c. Of course, that's really librarianly of me, isn't it, to defer and say he really did all the work himself, I just helped pull a few things together that were right there all along...OK, fine. I'll own it. Hi, my name is donnagirl, I'm a librarian, and we RULE.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by donnagirl at 8:38 PM on May 22, 2008

Why don't you ask netbros how he manages it? (Not a call-out, just impossible not to notice his posting frequency has ramped up in the last month or so.)
posted to MetaTalk by donnagirl at 11:31 AM on May 22, 2008

Wow, I'm really sorry that my comment gave WalterMitty occasion to snot at you, netbros. Not my intent. I don't share his sentiment, nor his tacky way of expressing it after you said something that seemed self-aware, generous, and community-minded. Stay classy (and lurky), WalterMitty.
posted to MetaTalk by donnagirl at 3:02 PM on May 22, 2008

One of my great-grandfathers was called Bumpy (just Bumpy, no last name) by my mom, her siblings and cousins, all born in the 1940s and 1950s. They lived in Pittsburgh PA. My great-grandma was "HooHoo", so I always thought it was just a weird family thing. My whole identity shifted just a little seeing all these other Bumpys.
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 8:42 PM on May 14, 2008

I've posted 3 good library jobs, no direct applicants that I know of, even with a really cool mention in the podcast including an assertion from Jessamyn that my library is full of awesome people. I'm in the middle of Kansas and assumed that was part of the problem, but I was kind of surprised to get nothing, given the dense population of librarians on Metafilter.
posted to MetaTalk by donnagirl at 2:08 PM on May 12, 2008

Try contacting Footprints (Lawrence, KS). They're a lovely and awesome store in person; I've purchased Birks there and had shoes resoled there. They have a solid online store (they even run ads in the back of the New Yorker, so I think they're ready for remote customers) but I can't find anything about sending shoes in for repair on the website. They have a toll-free number so you could call and ask about rates/procedures. Totally worth your time to check out; they're good people.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 7:10 PM on May 5, 2008 marked best answer

Echoing that IE isn't required - I use Firefox 3, songs download fine. Are you having trouble downloading the downloader itself, or downloading songs with the program? Once it's installed, it's not about your browser at all - it's a separate program.
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 9:29 PM on May 4, 2008

Wow. This made my night. Thank you so much.
posted to MetaFilter by donnagirl at 7:51 PM on April 26, 2008

Range is right, your library/university would have to make such a thing available, since there are so many variables involved with licensing academic resources. LibX is what we use as well. You might try setting up your preferences in Google Scholar to include your school's name. If they're using a link resolver like SFX, you may have some luck going from the citation in scholar to the real deal. Your profile doesn't say where you are, if you want to mefi mail me the name of your school, I... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 7:39 PM on April 25, 2008

Looks like you're in Lawrence - if you're affiliated with KU, their library subscribes to Readers Guide Retrospective, which indexes lots of stuff, including Life Magazine up through 1972, and you can search it online from their databases page. I just tried a few searches, however, using 1971-1972, and Life Magazine as limits, and got nothing for "miller", "vern miller" "lawrence" or "kansas" that appears to resemble a drug bust.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 8:02 PM on April 21, 2008

You sort of suggest in your framing that the only problem is the three summer holidays. If that's really the case, then try this - one family picks a holiday. The other family gets the two remaining holidays. You can decide which family does which by a simple coin flip, or maybe one family would prefer to choose and the other would prefer to have two holidays. This way, everyone feels like they got something.
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 7:36 PM on April 21, 2008

You might try the Gardenaut planner. It's certainly customizable, but I don't know how much info you keep getting once you're past the initial set of recommendations. It's associated with the Gardenaut blog, which you can also customize with your location info.
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 3:24 PM on April 14, 2008

See, alby, not only did you not fail, but you also happened to create a delightfully geeky and self-aware metatalk discussion about Highlander entirely by accident. Complete success, I'd say.
posted to MetaTalk by donnagirl at 4:31 PM on April 9, 2008

I have a friend with a minor oatmeal obsession. I chatted her a link to this thread so she could try all this stuff, and she says "Tell them to put canned pumpkin in it" to which I said "what???" and she said "i use anywhere between 1/8 and 1/2 cup, depending on how much i want to bulk it up. then, cinnamon and cloves, and also you have to have some kind of sweetener. brown sugar or honey". So, there you go. Jenny says pumpkin.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 11:09 AM on April 9, 2008

2nding LibX. It should work for other sites, too, not just amazon. Ours is configured to link any ISBN-type number on any web page to our catalog search, and that includes librarything.
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 12:13 PM on April 7, 2008

OK, I'm going to agree with BeerFilter - this is self-linky smelling. Ebray has made 3 completely pro forma comments today, then this post. I flagged, and was going to move on, but decided to poke around instead.

According to his profile, Ebray is Evan Bray. Evan Bray commented on an unrelated post on Gothamist saying he is a building and zoning consultant for an NYC real estate group. On the 475kent site linked in the post, there is a forum. You have to register... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by donnagirl at 3:07 PM on March 30, 2008

Well, it's certainly annoying, but I think I found a way, if you're comfortable editing your registry.

I'm going to pretend like you are - if you're not, you should ask someone more knowledgeable to help you with these steps.

1. Run regedit
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WIA\WiaAcquisitionManager
3. Look for RootFileNameMru - you'll see your list of group names next to it.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 6:44 PM on March 27, 2008

Questia is a big online database that doesn't specialize in art per se; it sounds like you're looking for something more art-specific. Are you a student at a university? Does your library offer any online databases? Ones to look for would be Grove Art, or Art Full Text, or ARTstor for actual images. You might also ask at the reference desk to see if your library has a librarian specifically devoted to Art - if they do, that person could definitely show you resources your library... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 6:04 PM on March 27, 2008

Since you mentioned tuna...I'm reminded of something my mom used to make; we called it tuna a la king. I know it bears scant resemblance to actual "a la king" recipes, but nevertheless. It was hard boiled eggs chopped up, tuna, peas, carrots in a thick white sauce, and she served it over biscuits or sometimes toast. Maybe your mom was making a non-tuna version of that? Googling finds several recipes that are close to what I remember, so we weren't the only ones calling it that,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 2:38 PM on March 27, 2008

GOMLYP = Get Off My Lawn Young People??? damn 5-digit kids with their acronyms and such
posted to MetaTalk by donnagirl at 10:13 AM on March 27, 2008

Wow. I found the black and white part in the middle, where he sits in a coffee shop, looking normal, but signing the same lyrics, really kind of subversive and wonderful. Totally unexpected and cool, thanks, FunkyHelix!
posted to MetaFilter by donnagirl at 9:57 AM on March 27, 2008

Awesomely lovely/creepy post! Seeing the automaton that writes brought back a fuzzy memory of a book I loved in grade school about a girl and a mystery she solved using clues from several automata. One wrote words, one had something to do with music...I can't remember any more, and I can't find it in Worldcat with such sketchy details, but I'm seized with the desire to find the book and read it. If it doesn't sound familiar to any of you, I'm headed to AskMe.
posted to MetaFilter by donnagirl at 10:24 PM on March 26, 2008

The system has to be called something, and different naming conventions apply to the names mentioned so far. Often the name arises from an acronym, as in the case of HOLLIS. Some of the names mentioned above (Horizon, AquaBrowser) are merely the names of the software the library uses for its catalog - like calling a spreadsheet "Excel". "Thomas" is for Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Library of Congress.

More to the point of your question,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 11:13 PM on March 24, 2008

you guys must have ocean-like depths of patience

Well, at least 3 of us are librarians - that may explain a thing or two.
posted to MetaTalk by donnagirl at 8:00 AM on March 21, 2008

Yes, it's our very own truth window.
posted to MetaTalk by donnagirl at 1:24 PM on March 21, 2008

aww, thanks, Plutor. If we could tag metatalk posts, we could add "apology" and "redemption" to this one.
posted to MetaTalk by donnagirl at 9:11 PM on March 24, 2008

I think a lot of answerers are missing the poster's parenthetical after point #1 - he has invited his friend places, and she has agreed to go. That sort of puts the "she doesn't want to date you" and "you should ask her" responses in the realm of not really to the point.

One possibility is her social circle is closed and in-groupy - they may be nice, but they prefer to do things without anyone else. If that's the case, it's not... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 9:06 PM on March 24, 2008

You mentioned smells. I would suggest opening the windows in your room every day, regardless of weather. It will make a huge difference having completely fresh air. Make it part of your routine - draw back blinds/curtains, open the windows, then do something specific - make your bed, go make coffee, go brush your teeth, whatever - then come back and close the windows. This is a trick I learned from Home Comforts; it may be overkill for you now, but would serve you well in the future if... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 8:47 AM on March 24, 2008

This is all good advice; I'm just chiming in to emphasize that you can't substitute a plastic baggie for paper - the fruit needs oxygen to ripen, and plastic seals that out. Plastic also encourages mold growth, so you may end up with unripened yet moldy fruit.
posted to Ask Metafilter by donnagirl at 2:57 PM on March 22, 2008 marked best answer