Well, desjardins, I'll just say what everyone else is thinking but is too afraid to say.

You see, desjardins, you were banned. That's right, banned. Two days after you stopped checking the site, people started asking after you. Is she okay, omg what happened to her, etc. We were worried, quite frankly. But then some people pointed out that maybe you'd moved on to a better site. Maybe we weren't good enough for you. Then someone correctly noted... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Pastabagel at 2:14 PM on July 7, 2008

I guess Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus! LOL!

The problem is that the women quoted in the article, who are quite obviously insufferable hens, confuse men's conversation filters with being boring. But these women would never want to have the conversation that would ensue if men simply said what was on their minds. For example:

F: My God, you're so boring!

M: What?

F: Boring! You... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Pastabagel at 8:21 AM on June 19, 2008

> l

You are in front of a small cottage. It is clear that the occupants are very poor people.

> i

You are carrying:

- Your wallet
- A Zippo lighter

> l in wallet

Your wallet contains:

- A ten dollar bill
- Your credit card
- An unused condom purchased in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Flunkie at 4:57 PM on June 11, 2008

Just tossing this one out there (we don't use a style guide at work, although we should):
O'Reilly Stylesheets and Style Guide

It's focused more on the low-level elements of style, but might be what you're looking for. I've always found the O'Reilly technical publications to be pretty easy to read.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kadin2048 at 12:19 AM on June 13, 2008

If your system has lost its refrigerant charge, your compressor will not cycle, thanks to a low pressure switch; this is to protect your compressor. Usually, the compressor clutch is prevented from engaging by a control circuit which turns the clutch on and off as needed, normally. When the low pressure switch says there isn't enough refrigerant, the control circuit is simply not ever allowed to energize the compressor clutch; the drive belt will look like it is turning the compressor pulley,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by paulsc at 9:56 PM on June 6, 2008 marked best answer

Wikipedia entry.

Seeds are people who have the whole file, peers are those still grabbing it (i.e. they have part of it, and since you are downloading parts from multiple sources, you can be getting the parts a peer has from them).

As for optimising - keeping an eye on how many sources your client is set to connect to is the best way. I find that some torrents will seem to bog down my incoming connections, and others I am getting less data in... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by opsin at 7:13 AM on March 28, 2008

Okay, I just ordered this from Amazon. I'm very curious what it will sound like.
posted to MetaFilter by popechunk at 8:22 PM on March 15, 2008

Word sucks but it's what your using. I've recently reconciled myself to using Word, mainly by slavishily using styles always, and this. Word's one redeeming feature is that it's a pretty nice environment for doing tables.

Use headings captions and cross references religiously. Read this.

One document per chapter and knit together at the end.

Consider moving from Endnote to Zotero.

Never... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by singingfish at 4:09 AM on March 6, 2008

There's a great website out there with tips on using Word to write long documents -- e.g. using Styles to format your document template instead of weighing the document down with repetitive codes.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rdn at 7:53 AM on March 6, 2008

Being in Seattle, I don't really know where you could go to walk into a store and buy a micro pc out of the box in NYC, but I do know you'd pay about twice as much as you would if you bought online and snapped it together yourself.

Also, Shuttle cases are larger than HTPC (Home theater) cases, and more expensive, so if you want something of comparable size and price as a Mini, go for the HTPC.

Anyway, here's what I priced out on Newegg in about 5... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Hildago at 12:23 PM on January 19, 2008 marked best answer

First heard about former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination here on MetaFilter. She was the first woman prime minister of an Islamic nation. Immediately called a friend in the know to discuss the fallout and the fears inherent in the situation, from nukes to sticky wickets...like:

Could or would Pakistan now nuke India? Could or would a faction/splinter group created because of this assassination get hold of some of Pakistan's nuclear arms and nuke... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nickyskye at 3:15 PM on December 27, 2007

Thank you for your metatalk post! Your metatalk post is important to us! All of our vituperitive assholes are currently busy but your metatalk post has been placed in a queue and will be dealt with by the first available snide, arrogant harpy! *TALL AND TAN AND YOUNG AND LOVELY THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA GOES WALKING AND WHEN SHE PASSES EACH ONE THAT SHE PASSES GOES AH! WHEN SHE WALKS SHE'S LIKE A SAMBA THAT SWINGS SO COOL AND SWAYS SO GENTLE THAT WHEN SHE PASSES EACH ONE-* Thank you for your... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by the quidnunc kid at 7:53 AM on December 11, 2007

READ CAREFULLY. By [accepting this material|accepting this payment|accepting this business-card|viewing this t-shirt|reading this sticker/mefi post] you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies ("BOGUS AGREEMENTS") that I have entered into with your employer,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by remthewanderer at 12:42 PM on November 27, 2007

i cant beleiv he thought he culd rplace babby
...in teh cornr

nobuddy rplaces babby in teh cornr
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:31 AM on November 8, 2007

*takes picture of scrotum*

This is just like XBox Live!
posted to MetaTalk by eyeballkid at 2:22 PM on November 2, 2007

Dear metafilter,

I have some sort of issue with something somewhere over there. Please stop, or continue to do it.
posted to MetaTalk by spaltavian at 10:05 PM on January 13, 2007

You can limit autosync to specific playlists.

Yes, this is how I manage to squeeze a 40GB library onto a 20GB iPod. My "iPod Worthy" smart playlist is pretty simple: exclude songs that are 1 or 2 stars, limit to 15GB, selected by highest rating, match only checked items. So a 3 star or higher rating will guarantee a spot on the iPod, while unrated songs get randomly selected from. Add to this my other playlists like Added Today and whatnot,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by good in a vacuum at 11:39 AM on October 7, 2007

Most of the teaching (echoing what has been said) works best in face to face settings.

How to Help Someone Use a Computer by Phil Agre.

http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/


Computer people are fine human beings, but they do a lot of harm in the ways they "help" other people with their computer problems. Now that we're trying to get everyone online, I thought it might be helpful to write... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mecran01 at 7:07 AM on September 29, 2007 marked best answer

I'd first suggest setting the containing folder to have Administrators/Full Control, with the setting for child objects to automatically inherit permissions. Then look to see what the owner is.

If the owner is correct, then you just need to set up permissions. What I usually do is create three local (machine) groups for any given share.... I call them Share Name RO, RW, and Admin. Then I put organizational groups from Active Directory into those local groups, and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Malor at 4:00 PM on August 30, 2007

People will favourite a comment consisting of random letters and numbers so that isn't a valid metric of anything in the first place.


12XU


*waits for the favorites to start pouring in...*
posted to MetaTalk by dersins at 1:02 PM on August 27, 2007

12XU

None of those letters or numbers seem random. Instead, I can detect concentration involved in selecting them. No doubt you went to school for this, likely studying under the great Du Champ given your preference for numbers before letters. Your intensity, particularly in the way X is used, evoking both kisses and treasure, is to be admired. U is sublime as always, but then I've always been a big fan of U since it was featured in the '92 spread by... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by robocop is bleeding at 1:20 PM on August 27, 2007

I did a lot of production work on the voiceover (recording sessions, script/plot cleanup, most voiceover 'take' selection, take compositing, multi-character sequence compositing, tons of voiceover workflow for English & localized versions, etc.), and I'm currently nearing the end of some vacation time, waiting to see what people thought.

The critical response to the game has been nothing short of humbling.

I don't really know what else to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Ryvar at 10:41 PM on August 21, 2007

I"ve been keeping one of these for more than ten years - here are some of the things that made their way in. Please do leave room for your bro to make his own notes, both on the page with the saying, and at the end.

The cognitive distortions.

no matter what you do in life, someone important to you isn'tn going to like it.
Every choice means giving up something else.
There are no quick fixes taht can permanently... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by b33j at 8:37 PM on May 28, 2007 marked best answer

HI I'M ON METAFILTER AND I COULD OVERTHINK A PLATE OF BEANS.
posted to MetaFilter by solistrato at 2:29 PM on April 2, 2007

It is time now to talk about The Wheel.

Growing up, my parents had obviously read all the studies about praise and punishment and their effect on a developing child. My father came from a distant, reserved family and was the middle of three brothers. My mother grew up in a close-knit, church going family as an older sister. He went to gradschool for plasma physics and she was the secretary that typed up his thesis.

They obviously disagreed on how... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by robocop is bleeding at 9:15 AM on February 13, 2007

This is so terrible, I pulled out my credit card and bought a membership to MeFi, just so I could say how terrible it is. That's right: five dollars of terrible.
posted to MetaFilter by bicyclefish at 11:59 AM on November 27, 2006

Tightness is often caused by the label being pasted slightly off-center. I use an Exacto knife or a sharp pocket knife to trim off any overlapping area.
posted to Ask Metafilter by KRS at 10:51 AM on October 3, 2006

Here ya go, Divine_Wino

###

mathowie's community weblog
(with apologies to Arlo Guthrie
and mathowie
and pretty much everybody else)


This song is called mathowie's community weblog, and it's about mathowie, and the community weblog, but mathowie's community weblog is not the name of the community weblog, that's just the name of the song, and that's why... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by False Dichotomy at 4:18 PM on August 31, 2006

i used this guide recently and by week 6 i could do the 30 min run. which with my pace puts me at over 5km

Week 1 Run one min, walk 90 seconds. Repeat eight times. Do three times a week.
Week 2 Run two mins, walk one min. Repeat seven times. Do three times a week.
Week 3 Run three mins walk one mins. Repeat six times. Do three times a week.
Week 4 Run five mins, walk two mins. Repeat four times. Do three times a week.
Week... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by moochoo at 12:58 AM on August 13, 2006

First, be smart from the very beginning. Pulverize all teeth, burn off fingerprints, and disfigure the face. Forcing a DNA test to establish identity (if it ever comes to that) might introduce the legal/forensic hurdle that saves your ass down the line. An unidentifiable body can, in a pinch, be dressed in thrift store clothes and dropped in a bad part of town where the police are less likely to question it. I don't reommend that disposal method, I'm just saying an easily identifiable body is an... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic at 6:27 PM on June 13, 2004 marked best answer

George Musser wiped the tears from his eyes as he stood before his New God. Constructed of aluminum chair frames, old circuit boards, and an old one horse merry-go-round George 'liberated' from the local K-Mart, the New God was a thing of almost sublime beauty.

Checking the control panel for what felt like the sixteenth time, he wondered if he should call Brenda and the kids down to his basement workshop to let them marvel at the salvation of mankind. He'd worked so hard... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by robocop is bleeding at 10:59 AM on August 4, 2006

"Hmmn, I don't think you can really argue with that list - those albums all did change music, to varying degrees."

So did Metal Machine Music, but I don't see it listed. And Nurse With Wound's debut, along with the famous NWW list, did more to change listening patterns on the whole than claiming the Stone Roses are anything more than a middling band remembered fondly. No Happy Mondays?

Albums they missed:
Suicide—... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by klangklangston at 9:36 AM on July 19, 2006

Why not book a route? (said the vicar to the actress).
posted to MetaFilter by strawberryviagra at 9:49 PM on July 15, 2006

Given that even in the US, some strip clubs are tacitly prostitution fronts I don't think anyone will be able to answer the question unless they went and experience the club personally. That said, I don't believe you will find the answer you are looking for by looking for evidence that Mexican strip clubs cater to prostitution. Even if girls offered extra services beyond stripping, there is no way anyone can prove your boyfriend engaged in such activities.
posted to Ask Metafilter by geoff. at 10:18 AM on July 3, 2006

Making Me Nervous is still one of my all-time favorite songs.
posted to MeFi Music by mathowie at 8:57 PM on June 29, 2006

Then there's the "revolutionary" idea of shifting desktop applications to the browser. The whole Microsoft Office suite has multiple analogs in the so-called Web 2.0
posted to Ask Metafilter by Hildago at 8:58 AM on June 29, 2006

I'm really tired of people abusing MeFi to make their point. You are protesting an earlier post I didn't see yet (you assume that means approval), so you purposely make a shitty post to prove your point.


Don't disrupt MetaFilter to make your stupid point. Flag something. Email me if you want to. Start a metatalk post, but don't purposely shit in the middle of the room and then point at it and say "look, this is just as bad as what happened earlier today!... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 2:00 PM on June 28, 2006

I hate kids just as much as anyone, but that doesn't mean they're not right sometimes

Oh really? Well I've only got two words for you: go fuck yourself.

Right ... that's actually three words. So try these two words on for size: bugfucker. And by "bugfucker" I mean YOU.

OK - "you" is obviously only one word, not two. But the point here is that my two words are "bugfucker =... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by the quidnunc kid at 7:52 AM on August 12, 2005

Can we call it a quagmire yet? How about "Yet Another Vietnam"? Can we call it Vietnam yet?

Fuck, man. Mission fucking accomplished, you heartless, greedy, chickenhawk motherfuckers on a stick of pure, unadultrated stupid.

I'm fucking talking to you, Middle America, listen up. I'm talking to you, you supposedly religious and godly fundamentalists. I'm talking to you, you stupid, stupid voters that were swayed by Bush's totally ingenuine... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 8:17 PM on June 1, 2006

This reminds me of a time at work when a coworker was TRYING to cite Murphy's Law, but ended up naming Occam's Razor instead.

Which led me to invent (of course) Murphy's Razor.

"All things being equal, the simplest explanation is that whatever could go wrong, did."

It really does explain everything.
posted to MetaFilter by InnocentBystander at 10:51 AM on May 17, 2006