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How about solving this with an adjustable shower head that slides up and down a rod. My sister is barely 5 ft tall and her husband is 6'4", that's their solution.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mareli at 3:16 PM on November 7, 2017

The cleverest bit of problem-solving I ever did was repairing our clothes dryer with two note cards and a pair of scissors. The start button was going in but not starting the machine, and after pressing it a few times I realized that pressing it actually felt different in some way I couldn't quite explain, so I took the back off the control panel at top and found that there's a long flat board-like thing inside, the entire width of the control panel, and that the electronics were all attached... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack at 4:17 AM on November 5, 2017

We are matthowie's bunch of physics students in this situation.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by maryr at 2:02 PM on November 7, 2017

I listen to Radio Paradise at home almost exclusively now. Almost every song they play is a good song, half of what they play is new to me, and on the rare occasion they play something like Led Zeppelin it's some obscure deep cut that I've never heard before.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bondcliff at 10:07 AM on September 14, 2017

Sometimes I miss the colossal amount of cargo room I had in my 2004 Element. The seats folded up and to the sides, at the expense of having a center rear seat, but the floor was completely flat all the way up to the front seats. The rear seats were also removable. You could fit more cargo in the Element than you could most larger SUVs, aside from some of the full sizers.

It's a myth that it could be hosed out, but it was very easy to clean, which was wonderful when we... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Fleebnork at 6:57 AM on September 1, 2017

I'm one of the 800,000. I'm not a child, I am in my 30s and was brought to the United States when I was 7. Since I was 7, even in an area where the demographic was always majority Hispanic I have been hiding the fact I was undocumented. At the community pool, on playgrounds, and at the blacktop in elementary the threat of being deported was more of a tease to bully kids; it didn't feel real. No less marginalizing, mind you.

Perhaps it felt especially shameful to me... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by di11ihd at 10:24 PM on September 4, 2017

Here we #GLOW again... Season 2 is coming.
posted to FanFare by Etrigan at 8:07 PM on August 10, 2017

Thank you, Mathowie, for creating such an incredible site, and thank you, too, Cortex, for taking it on so it can continue. And all the moderators and others who make this just terrific.
posted to MetaTalk by etaoin at 11:24 AM on August 26, 2017

Macho posturing has done a lot to make car design worse. From 1997 to 2008, the Ford F-150 had this nice sloped hood that was good for visibility. But they had to put a huge grill out front to compensate for their insecurity about their manhood, and now you almost need a *front* camera to avoid hitting stuff. The same thing happened to the Toyota Tundra.
posted to MetaFilter by Monday, stony Monday at 2:18 PM on August 31, 2017

Fun fact: Miranda July's birth name is Grossinger, and her grandparents ran Grossinger's resort.
posted to MetaFilter by pxe2000 at 9:12 AM on August 31, 2017

It's a lot harder than you think gurple. It's not just crop and zoom, you have to precisely match the lens focal length, the lens distortion, the perspective. If the camera is tilted 1° wrong in any of three directions the photo will be slightly different in a way you can't correct later.

See also perspective control lens.
posted to MetaFilter by Nelson at 9:10 AM on August 31, 2017

What a shame that more of the materials in these building has not been salvaged/repurposed.
Around here (PNW) reclaimed bowling alley wood gets a pretty price at salvage yards - I've seen some awewome countertops made from it!
posted to MetaFilter by dbmcd at 8:09 AM on August 31, 2017

UNDER NEW MENGERMENT
posted to MetaTalk by Kabanos at 10:10 AM on July 31, 2017

Oh, also, which of you want to join my "I have a lower user number than then guy who owns the place" club? We meet on alternate Tuesdays for tea.
posted to MetaTalk by bondcliff at 9:56 AM on July 31, 2017

Can we take a minute and appreciate just how amazing mathowie is for making this happened? I can't even imagine how difficult it must have been to hand over your self funded business AND amazing community to one of your mods and not sell it to some content sweatshop. I am in awe, Sir, in fucking awe. #mathowieUP #weNotMe
posted to MetaTalk by Foci for Analysis at 9:54 AM on July 31, 2017

Speaking of great small moments, props to Captain Holt's husband on Brooklyn 99 for his brief but delightful turn as Bash's mom's doorman.

"Choose life."
"I did."
posted to FanFare by showbiz_liz at 3:49 AM on July 2, 2017

After binge-watching it last weekend, my only disappointment was that there weren't more episodes ready to watch.
posted to FanFare by drezdn at 5:28 AM on July 1, 2017

Matt Haughey wins Fields Medal for proving that 3705 is the randomest number

It has been announced that amateur mathematician Matt "Hematics" Haughey has been awarded the 2017 Fields Medal, one of the most highly-regarded prizes in the world of number-wrangling.

Haughey is being honoured for creating an entirely new way of proving mathematical theorums: he constructed a web-based computer application called "MetaFilter,"... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by the quidnunc kid at 6:10 AM on June 23, 2017

I still haven't randomly gotten to the thread, but what I love about it now is how mathowie just magically shows up to give the first answer. Yeah, dude; just like you had no idea how all those people got their cats wedged in their scanners.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 9:20 PM on June 21, 2017

People shouldn't be "punished" for their developmental disabilities, right?

Right! But what if people with developmental disabilities feel like they are being punished when in fact they are dealing with the consequences of their actions?

I remember some of your previous questions. I have a not-dissimilar mom right down to the "She is telling other people that me not being around is making her sad" stuff.... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jessamyn at 4:41 PM on June 14, 2017

Update: As of today, my friends still haven't been paid.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 1:04 PM on June 14, 2012

Oh, and they never got paid the $500.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 8:50 AM on July 11, 2011

My best friend and his wife were on an episode of House Hunters last season.

I can't speak to the International version, but in the domestic version, it really has nothing to do with reality. They were actually contacted by the show after they closed on their current home. About a week after they signed the papers, the show reached out to them and asked if they'd be interested in doing it, and they said they'd pay them $500 for the troubles,... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 8:49 AM on July 11, 2011 marked best answer

And Elmo, and Cookie, and others are "monsters," whatever that means in the Henson universe. They are, to some apparent extent, different breeds, or species: Elmo says the "red monsters," like himself are ticklish.

I presume Abby is an actual fairy, so we've got monsters, magical beings, anthropomorphic frogs, etc. We may have all sorts of origins to deal with.

I'm cancelling my meetings for the rest of the day.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Admiral Haddock at 7:53 AM on April 20, 2017

accidentally gets in bed with Mother

Are we not doing "Phrasing!" anymore?
posted to FanFare by banshee at 8:50 AM on April 7, 2017

Yes, both awful. Classic dysfunctional bullshit hustle.
posted to FanFare by Miko at 8:20 PM on April 3, 2017

Andy Daly is one of the funniest people alive.
posted to FanFare by rhizome at 11:27 PM on March 17, 2017

Jesus, how was this ten years ago.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 9:46 AM on March 29, 2017

At first I was team Tyler, then I was team Rita - now I think they both sound awful.
posted to FanFare by bunderful at 4:58 PM on April 2, 2017

* WTF, Faye? Did you call anyone or NOT? Fishy indeed.

My read on that was that Faye knew that John B. was gay, and didn't want to call a list of strange men, who were possibly ex-lovers, to tell them he was dead. Some small town people have the wildest imaginations that jump to the most scandalous scenarios. I'm not surprised when presented with a list of men who were friends of John B.'s, but not from around there, she "forgot" to call... [more]
posted to FanFare by donajo at 9:14 AM on March 30, 2017

what a weird way for the website Glitch dot com to turn out. I don't know how to feel about this.

We're gonna have the same conversation in ten years about how flickr dot com is now a vintage fluorescent lighting retailer.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 9:50 AM on March 27, 2017

Well for those who like the true crime podcast genre there's also the CBC podcast Someone Knows Something.

Season 1:
"In 1972, five-year-old Adrien McNaughton vanished while on a family fishing trip in Eastern Ontario. Despite an intensive search and investigation, no sign of Adrien was found, no clue as to where he might be. The case has hung over the area like a dark mass ever since, especially in the small town of Arnprior, where the McNaughton family... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by GuyZero at 4:44 PM on March 23, 2017

The Big Ask
posted to Ask MetaFilter by prewar lemonade at 11:05 AM on February 1, 2017

In both the real universe and the Star Wars universe, the creation of successful artificial wombs would have as profound an effect on women's personal freedom and autonomy as the birth control pill did have in our real world history. Women would no longer have to choose a surrogate birth mother or choose to undergo the health changes, sacrifices of time and activity, and loss of bodily autonomy necessary to give birth. And the existence of the Clone Wars in the Star Wars universe proves that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nicebookrack at 8:39 AM on January 4, 2017

Ask your friend why a 13-year-old living in poverty in South Dakota is more or less deserving of help than a 13-year-old living in poverty in California.

Or even more specifically, why a 13 year old living in poverty in Nevada is more or less deserving of help than a 13 year old living a mile away in California.

At some level this is about what services and rights you think people deserve at a baseline level for being... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jessamyn at 7:31 AM on December 28, 2016 marked best answer

what is this site and why is it so blue
posted to MetaTalk by bondcliff at 9:17 AM on November 29, 2016

Played the long game well there.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:32 AM on November 14, 2016

Wow this ad is terrible. It's literally nothing but shots of attractive twenty-somethings ignoring the real world in favor of their portable console. I mean there's some nod to sociability with bros hanging out staring at the screen in their hands in the same room. And apparently it will help you meet a pretty girl at the airport. But the pitch is entirely the opposite of what was so brilliant about the Nintendo Wii, a regression. It's unappealing.
posted to MetaFilter by Nelson at 7:30 AM on October 20, 2016

I want to say a brief thing: that I think the surprise at the low number e.g. comments or posts or other measurable on-site contributions is an interesting, and basically heartening, aspect of the nature of the relationships we end up having with each other online. Of the reality of those relationships, as a repudiation of "online" as something lesser or not meaningful.

govtdrone wasn't a high volume user on MetaFilter by quantitative... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 10:28 PM on October 19, 2016

What $50 buys you at Huaqiangbei

I'm really struggling to make this work, you guys, but the best I've been able to come up with is, "¥336.48, same as in town".
posted to MetaFilter by The Tensor at 2:07 PM on October 14, 2016

Here's Bloom, her co-creator, and her music supervisor breaking down five of the songs from the first season, including The Sexy Getting Ready Song, which was in the first episode and what sold me on the series. When the rapper comes in to do the breakdown, sees what's going on, suddenly gets woke and nopes out I about died laughing ... and then (small spoiler!) he appears later on in the episode still calling ex-girlfriends apologizing for having bought into patriarchal notions of beauty... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Eyebrows McGee at 4:33 PM on June 30, 2016

Rachel Bloom was the subject of a long-ass interview on Bullseye which among many topics covered the problematic nature of a show called "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and Rachel made such an eloquent case for it I'm not even going to try to summarize it and instead just recommend blocking an hour out of your day some time this week to listen to the whole damn podcast episode.
posted to MetaFilter by ardgedee at 12:33 PM on June 29, 2016

Matt Haughey is 100% guesser

Explains so much!
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 6:42 PM on May 26, 2016

Hi, I'm frimble. I've generally been a lurker over the past couple of years. I've been trying over the past bit to get up to speed as quickly as possible, but as with most things, the transition is going to take some time.

I can't promise to be a replacement pb. Not only are we different people with different personalities, he's done a lot of great work, and I'm infinitely thankful that how the site works actually makes a lot of sense. While I hope to be at a point... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by frimble at 11:05 AM on May 27, 2016

Waikiki Beach in the morning. And Venice the week after Carnivale.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jillithd at 7:38 AM on May 18, 2016

Interesting read. I guess my question is: are non-scalable, labour-intensive businesses truly sustainable?

This is why not-for-profit profit models exist, and why they outlast for-profit businesses by a big margin.
posted to MetaTalk by Miko at 6:30 AM on May 4, 2016

Interesting read. Hindsight is so much clearer than foresight. If you are relying on one basket full of eggs, control the basket or you will have scrambled eggs soon enough.

There is a lot to be said for putting the risk onto someone else and just ride your bike, drink your beer, hug your kid and go to work for someone else's business who is taking the risk.

There is also a lot to be said for making a lot fast, banking it, then ride your bike,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by AugustWest at 10:40 PM on May 3, 2016

Congratulations pb, excited to hear what you do next.

I say this as a colleague: Paul is a remarkably talented and capable engineer. Metafilter has been incredibly lucky to have someone with his skill and maturity making the engines go. Best of luck, and may your next job not involve ColdFusion ;-)
posted to MetaTalk by Nelson at 9:57 AM on April 26, 2016

When it comes to MeFi's ability to pay the mods I think it's really a unique situation where AskMe was the right content at the right time to work really well with Google AdSense at a time when that was viable at the page view volumes Ask generated. AdSense has changed, Google's search indexing has changed and I don't think it's really a situation for comment-driven revenue that's likely to ever be replicated.

Quora is essentially burning VC money to moderate comments,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by GuyZero at 8:36 AM on April 10, 2016

A lot of people who began reading Metafilter many years ago are becoming increasingly influential within important organisations. I know Mary and I'm pretty sure she's read Metafilter for a long time; she wasn't always Executive Editor, Audience at the Guardian, but now she is. When I joined Mefi in 2000, I was 17 and wasn't in charge of jack or shit. Now I run a games company, and I always mention this site as a great example of community-building and moderation when it comes to moderating our... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by adrianhon at 5:29 AM on April 10, 2016