My superpower is the ability to rapidly attain competency in skills and processes with an absolute minimum of instruction or oversight, with an additional secondary power of optimizing processes. My kryptonite is doing the same thing twice. For what careers might I be perfect? [more inside]
posted by Netzapper on Jul 17, 2009 - 22 answers

LanguageFilter: Having a little bit of a few languages under my belt, I'd like to add more/get better at the ones I know. [more inside]
posted by ikahime on Sep 17, 2008 - 6 answers

What is the best way one could learn the basics of electrical and mechanical engineering? [more inside]
posted by saraswati on May 11, 2007 - 21 answers

Kendall Hailey wrote a delightful book and was a talented stage actor in Pasadena a few years later. It surprises me immensely that she seems to have done no writing or acting since then (or at least none that I can find out about). Anybody know what she's been up to?
posted by bac on Apr 28, 2005 - 1 answer

Help set my feet on the road to math geekery [+]. [more inside]
posted by Ritchie on Jan 17, 2005 - 22 answers

I want to learn (nothing's that simple, keep reading) [more inside]
posted by evilbeck on May 16, 2004 - 31 answers