Activity from Mo Nickels

Nobody has mentioned the one thing that people who switch away from Mac laptops often miss the most: the trackpad. The Mac trackpad is a user experience that, once you are used to it, seems to be impossible to duplicate on Linux, Windows, ChromeOS,… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by Headfullofair, abraxasaxarba, blueberry, mmoncur, porn in the woods, caviar2d2, majick, ovvl, MiraK
Ask MeFi comment - Last month

It can be frozen! Try it as popsicles. Or, freeze it, then blend it, and eat it like a custard or ice cream. [more]
favorited 14 times, recently by exceptinsects
Ask MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Lots of fun. Great to see Eddie apparently enjoying himself. Happy to see lots of talented actors getting good roles. Was Eddie obviously just Eddie for a lot of the film? Hell yes. Do I care? Hell no. I also smiled like a big goof the whole… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by vverse23, miss-lapin
FanFare comment - 8 months ago

You might also look into Stenomatic, which has a half-hour free trial, although their lowest paid tier is $499 a month, which seems high to me. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by duende
Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

What I would try is to run this free audio enhancement tool from Adobe. You'll want to first export the audio track from the video file so it can be handled separately, then reattach it to the audio after cleanup. A similar but more complicated… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by j_curiouser
Ask MeFi comment - Last year

Yay! What a great ending. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Arctan
MeFi comment - Last year

How to use local transit! I can't even tell you how many cities make this opaque to outsiders. Few or no signs, guides, help, anything. You can buy cards in the station. You have to buy the refillable card at the grocery store/post office/special… [more]
favorited 106 times, recently by Superilla
Ask MeFi comment - Last year

There's a proverb attributed to the French something like "marriages begin with rings but end with drawn knives" but there are other similar sayings in other languages and cultures about war, business, and good intentions, about them all… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by mochapickle
Ask MeFi comment - Last year

Thanks to everyone who came to my talk last night! I appreciate it! [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by NotLost, aielen, kinsey
MetaTalk comment - Last year

Textra is also the one I would recommend, at least for colors. While the Google text messages app doesn't offer all the extra features of Textra and other apps, it does have one feature I really like and that you may not know about: it allows you… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by pdb, gingerbeer, anadem
Ask MeFi comment - Last year

Anatoly Liberman is a treasure. I have met him numerous times at linguistic and lexicographic conferences, and heard him present papers. He has the driest wit, which is again on display in this OUP blog post. If you're not sure if it's meant to make… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by rrrrrrrrrt
MeFi comment - Last year

Lovely bit of slang. Thanks for bringing it to light. Here it is explicitly defined just as Liesl does in a 1923 short story by Australian writer James Francis Dwyer in The Popular Magazine: "The Texas Wasp had strolled down the… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by suelac, ozgirlabroad, muddgirl
Ask MeFi comment - Last year

Not quite the same, but in the novel "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, the character Dan Forrester, a scientist, aids the post-apocalyptic society by not only hiding a cache of "how-to" books (in a septic tank,… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by lalochezia
Ask MeFi comment - Last year

Where did you live when you listened to WBBM? In the early Eighties I listened to old-time radio on WBBM, too, but I lived about 90 miles to the southwest of Hannibal, Missouri, meaning I was listening to it on skip. I don't remember the whistling,… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by lokta
Ask MeFi comment - Last year

Hey! I am one of the hosts of "A Way with Words," mentioned above. I just noticed that the radio show website was getting traffic from Metafilter (and dratted Google Alerts didn't help). I've looked into your question (the same way I… [more]
favorited 14 times, recently by LobsterMitten, BAKERSFIELD!, The corpse in the library, mecran01, goofyfoot, hollygoheavy, WaspEnterprises, polymath, kathrynm, la glaneuse, equipoise, Salamandrous, 41swans, QuakerMel
Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

Congratulations! That's a great little radio. And it's a hobby filled with people who really, REALLY want to help you! My quick tips would be: — If that radio has a "far/local" switch, put it on far. If it has a… [more]
favorited 15 times, recently by AzraelBrown, Rufous-headed Towhee heehee, sewellcm, zenon, offog, Ten Cold Hot Dogs, Alterscape, Chitownfats, cocoagirl, avocet, fuzzy.little.sock, scruss, Floydd, jkent, neroli
Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

Weaving webs to wind me
favorited 17 times, recently by Monochrome
Ask MeFi post - Two years ago

Give my show a try! A Way with Words. Let me know what you think. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by jessamyn
Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

If you go to La Jolla, the Children's Beach is fine, but my top recommendation is to look at the tide tables and find a good time to go to this tidepool area. When the tide is low, you have a huge amount of wet rock and sand to explore. Crabs,… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by whitetigereyes
Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

use AlDente to help manage my battery charging (generally don't let it charge above 80% to preserve battery health) This is no longer necessary under Big Sur, as macOS will now manage this for you if you leave your computer plugged in all… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Monochrome, BlueTongueLizard
Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

Also, the protein in all those seeds adds up. [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by bluebird, Johnny Assay, Champagne Supernova, rhizome, stoneandstar, jessica fletcher did it, Recliner of Rage, The corpse in the library
Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

I agree with everyone above! I really like this show in a strange way. Maybe it's the characters' optimism in the face of personal failings and doubts. Maybe it's because they're all fairly wealthy so it never truly gets squalid and the characters… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by armeowda
FanFare comment - Two years ago

Just to reiterate, Word Origins is not an authoritative site. It's filled with useless, fact-free, erroneous invention, and idle, uninformed, spurious invention. Notice how there are no reliable citations. Same for most of the links offered in this… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
MeFi comment - Two years ago

It was one of the things about dating in my 20s in New York City during the 1990s. It seemed like when you were embracing someone you really liked, they were always looking over your shoulder for someone slightly better. And there always was… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by Tehhund, Hypatia, Easy problem of consciousness, firstdaffodils, Iris Gambol, Melismata
MeFi comment - Two years ago

"We Are the World" is the longest worst song to sing at karaoke. It is seven minutes that feels like forever and is mostly saying "we are the world" over and over and trying to imitate the singers. Karaoke version; there are… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Ten Cold Hot Dogs, panama joe, Faint of Butt, The corpse in the library
Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

About 20 years ago I did graphics production for a small New York company. One of the projects we worked on was to make new designs for T-shirts. Our client, apparently, had the license for some of the Looney Tunes characters. But they wanted… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by JHarris
MeFi comment - Two years ago

Mekily, the "check please" gesture works throughout Europe and the Americas, and perhaps elsewhere. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

For me, they are street dance movies. I don't care how bad they are. Is she a rich uptown hottie and he's a poor downtown hunk? Do they have to save the center/the park/the school/the neighborhood/their enrollment/their family/their future? Does it… [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by kliuless, Bella Donna, automatronic, AsYouKnow Bob, catdapperling, Sparky Buttons, biggreenplant, Mitheral, miles per flower, jessamyn, Stoof, From Bklyn, litera scripta manet
MetaTalk comment - Two years ago

There a few things I do to make this work. --Turn off the cell phone and put it away. Leave it in the car if you have to. At the very least put it away in a pocket or bag that doesn't usually hold it, so you don't find yourself reflexively… [more]
favorited 47 times, recently by neematoad
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

To answer your first question, I did a corpus search and came up with some other nouns that sometimes follow "signal" used adjectivally. None of these are common, but they do exist. They are in order of frequency. "Events" is… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by SaltySalticid
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

How far can we take this concept? People explain things while needing to poop? [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by fgdmorr, jenfullmoon
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

I was on the museum end of this. For us, it was pretty like jessamyn described it. We made something like 64 versions of a very large folding laminated pass touting our museum and its exhibits. They were complicated enough that nobody would really go… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by exceptinsects
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

I love a lot of these suggestions! Rogue and rogue-alikes will let them understand the command line isn't just for work and it can even make you FEEL. There's a great revival of old-school command line stuff at https://tilde.club/. It's about the… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by jzb
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

They dance and eat as they steal.
favorited 2 times, recently by Green-eyed grenade
MeFi post - Over two years ago

The Cheese Heist Movie
favorited 36 times, recently by smich
MetaTalk post - Over two years ago

I have played with dozens of podcast apps and I do not know of one that offers this feature, in part because this information typically is not shared throughout the podcast ecosystem in a way that would allow podcast apps to do what you want, and… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by bunnysquirrel, Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Another option for the Mac is the rather lovely open source software Krita which is used by digital painters but can also be used for image editing. Its transformation method is different still! However, it is completely cost-free, though you can… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Morfil Ffyrnig, SaltySalticid
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

It's not much cheaper but Pixelmator Pro does a version of this. It's $40 for Mac. There's a 14-day trial. I just downloaded it and played with it. Load an image, go under the Edit menu to "Transform," and there are a bunch of options that… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by MountainDaisy
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

The comment is posted above. There's no more at the link; I just included it for completeness and credit. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by flabdablet
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

The first time I saw Uncle Tupelo they were playing at a fraternity party in Columbia, Missouri. 1988. The frat boys called them the "Tupesters." I was there because the older generation of college radio staff knew Tupelo was going to be… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Alvy Ampersand
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Biogeo has the best answer from a linguistics perspective. I believe the attempts here to trace the paths of spreading or popularity are mostly examples of the recency illusion. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by aspersioncast
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Is it possible he has some unexpressed preferences? There are a number of sites that let you two privately take a quiz so that if you're both a match for some kink or tweak, and you're both honest and generous, you can come up with fun stuff to try… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by argonauta
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

I've long had a soft spot for him. I listened to a lot of shortwave radio as a kid and I think I first heard his stuff on some of the Voice of America music programs. Maybe the "Sound of Soul" with Georges Collinet? But I have a stack of… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by nightrecordings
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Industry wisdom is that under 30 minutes is now the ideal length. Guests can be great! Pre-interview them a day or two before. Don't worry about them "wasting the good stuff." Think of it as practice. A guest who is a good talker but a… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by thetarium, rjacobs, ovvl
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Flug's experience is my experience re Facebook ads vs. Google ads. With Facebook, I'd also create a Facebook page for your business, but make it personal-ish (with pictures of you, and your story), so they know they're getting a professional… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Wild_Eep, Wolfster
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Thanks for the shout, Liesl. I am one of the hosts of A Way with Words. [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by slimepuppy, QuakerMel, saradarlin, Liesl, greytape, not.so.hip, telophase, DirtyOldTown, ceejaytee, zengargoyle, Miko
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

The UC San Diego copyediting certificate program is legit. https://extension.ucsd.edu/courses-and-programs/copyediting My wife was one of the instructors for a time and she's a real-life editor of books and dictionaries, which I hope says something… [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by Evilspork, Orange Dinosaur Slide, forkisbetter, bookworm4125, thetarium, dancinglamb, bookmammal, spamandkimchi
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

If it helps, the Yiddish feature you all are talking about that was borrowed into English is called "shm reduplication." I don't think it's the source of the lexical item being discussed here, though I am away from my resources and unable… [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by saradarlin, lalochezia, delezzo, heyforfour, younggreenanne, thetarium, tapir-whorf, Miko, camyram, NorthernAutumn, fiercecupcake
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

I think Sunburnt is right. I had an S7 until recently and had the same problem where sometimes Dropbox just wouldn't do anything to move my photos from the phone to the cloud. To solve it, I installed Tasker on the phone to automatically launch… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Aleyn
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

I just saw this software which turns old devices with cameras into security monitors. I have not tried it yet. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

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