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Get 27

gimonca — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:24:03 -0800

Is Get 27 available in the United States...and/or online? Brick/mortar locations in the Twin Cities/Upper Midwest, if any, would be wonderful (but I don't have my hopes up). Get 31 would be of interest, too.

Asking about this specific brand, not possible substitutions, thanks.

Turn Off That Loud Music!

czechmate — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:55:11 -0800

I have a problem with hearing bass music vibrating through my windows and walls into my home. It literally echos through my every vein and makes me feel insane. Is this a sign of age? Is something wrong with me? We live in a neighbourhood where the houses are fairly close together, and primarily Hispanic. The neighbours (and when I say neighbours, I mean anywhere within 7 houses around us) like to hold parties from time to time or they just play their music loud while doing whatever it is that they do.
My problem is the bass that I can hear through the walls of my house. The music may not be that loud, but I can still hear the "thump thump" and it really sends me into a cloudy, high-blood pressure induced grumpy mood. I can feel the thump thump going through every single vein... and I feel like a pacing tiger. I can't think, I can't do a single thing because my entire mind is obsessed with this thump thump. I literally "shut down'.

I don't think I'm so much looking for a solution on how to get rid of the thump thump (i.e. headphones, just leave and go shopping, call the cops, etc...) but I am wondering if this is a normal reaction.

Is it just a sign of age? Am I next going to yell at kids to get off my lawn? Or is something wrong with me in relation to that particular sound? I know it's an odd question, but none of my friends (or husband) seem to mind the noise.. I can hear it even when it's low and it affects me.

This only started happening to me about 3 years ago. I used to live in apartments and I don't remember ever *really* being bothered by other noises. Headphones isn't an option to "fix" it. I have a 4yr old. Thanks.

lowcarb protein weightloss fitness

kitcat — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:44:52 -0800

Half a day on a low-carb diet and I already feel like hurling. Advice? Ok, so I'm wondering if a low-carb diet - 25% carb, 40% protein, 35% fat - is a bad idea for me. It's only been half a day and I feel heavy and nauseous. I can suck it up ( I elected to do this, right?), but I could use some advice.

Maybe my feeling ill is just sqeamishness? To my mind (and palate) meat is ok, large quantities - gross. Lots of fat - really gross. Protein shakes without soy milk and fruit - gross and indigestable. Fish - mostly gross. On the positive side, I love tofu and nuts. And shellfish. Eggs are ok.

Anyhow, why low-carb then? Because despite my best efforts, I've only lost 2 pounds after 9 weeks of effort. I'm 5'2, 136 pounds, 29, female. I've been eating about 1400 cal/day, doing cardio (walk/jog/bike) 3 days a week and weight training another 3 days a week. On top of this, I also walk from work to the gym (40 min) 5 days a week. With only four weeks left to really work it before my vacation, I figure I need to switch something up. I'd love to lose 5 pounds. Is that too much to ask!!!!? So - I plan to maintain the same amount of exercise and the same number of calories, but switch to a low-carb diet. From what I've read, it's a pretty surefire method.

My question is this: will this feeling of grossness fade over the course of a few days? Advice for mitigating the yuck? Your low-carb success stories for encouragement?

Heal my flightless Thunderbird

prefpara — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:16:18 -0800

I just installed Thunderbird and added my gmail account. Thunderbird only wants to "get" about 100 emails at a time. I have many thousands of emails. Is there any way to make Thunderbird get all of my emails in one go? I don't want to sit here pressing "get mail" indefinitely. Additional pipe dream: is there any way to "get" my chats?

Holiday Celebrate. Just one day out of life...it would be so nice!

Snoogylips — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:35:30 -0800

Looking to spend a romantic get-away weekend somewhere in Texas after the new year with my husband. Possibly January or February. We live in West Texas and would like to travel somewhere nearby and stay for a Saturday and Sunday. We do not drink, smoke, and will not be traveling or lodging with pets. We would like somewhere close by preferably in Texas. We usually visit Austin, Tx for getaways but I want something closer and not so busy. Just for ideas when we do go to Austin the main things we do are eat at Rudy's BBQ, Wan Fu, and watch movies at Alamo draft house. We usually stay with friends there but I prefer something for just the two of us. Cost is a factor-hopefully something under $150.00 a night. Doesn't have to be anything fancy just away from home for a day or two. We have never been to a bed and breakfast, so i am not sure about that. Maybe a lake house that would rent for two nights for a couple? Any towns and/or ideas?

Hitting a URL from the command line

Null Pointer and the Exceptions — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:13:07 -0800

Alternatives to lynx, wget and get from the unix command line? I have a scheduled job that needs to hit a localhost URL once a day. Our servers don't have lynx or wget or get installed. Are there any alternatives? I've tried using telnet and Expect, and it works but when run through our scheduling app (Tivoli Workload Scheduler) I get a message "No environment-specified terminal type." even when I specify the terminal type. So I was wondering if there are other techniques I could try.

Proper GET/POST Design for Deleting Items on a Web Page

GregX3 — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:21:37 -0800

I'm designing a webpage that will have a list of items and each item can be deleted. I was thinking to have the delete command be link to a URL that does the delete when called. But then I realized maybe that isn't safe since a spider following links might cause things to be deleted. What is the proper design for this type of thing?

I should really wonder about other things. But I don't.

ryecatcher — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:05:10 -0800

80sTVShow/FantasyFilter: Sword and Sorcery. At the end of each episode (?), the image would freeze and covert to a painting of said image. That's all I remember. I was 7 or 8 at the time so this would make it around 1985 or so. So. Yeah. That's all you get. Go to it, Mefites. On further thought, it might not have been the end of each episode...maybe the end of each commercial break.

And maybe...just maybe it was a sci-fi made for tv movie. I don't know.

GET+POST in same form?

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:02:17 -0800

Is it possible to set the action attribute of an HTML form, such that the method is POST, but the action includes GET variables? For example, I'd like the following code:

<form name="edit_name" action=".?debug" method="post">

<input type="submit" value="Edit">

</form>

to return GET value containing debug and a POST value containing Edit.

Is this reasonable or possible?

turkey baster pregnancy movies

BigBrownBear — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:49:21 -0800

How do you get pregnant with a turkey baster? You always see in movies and whatnot people using a turkey baster to get pregnant. I figure this is some old fashioned wives' tale type thing. What is it supposed to do?

passive voice question

kenko — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:07:05 -0800

He was killed; he got (himself) killed. It was sold; it got sold (possibly out from under me). What sort of semantic difference does using forms of "get" versus "be" in passive constructions convey? At first I was thinking that "he got killed" makes it seem more like a process ("it got dark" meaning not that first it was light and then, wham!, dark, but that it gradually darkened), in which a sequence of events culminated in his death, with "he got himself killed" implicating him in the events' turning out the way they did. But I'm not sure that's right, really, especially with "it got sold". But it does seem that there's a distinction being made: "I wanted to buy it but it was sold to Jones (in the end)" and "I wanted to buy it but it got sold to Jones (in the end)" do seem different (and here I want to say that the second case is more impersonal than the first, that it just sort of magically got (itself) sold, whereas it was sold by someone). I did find this but the explanations seem inconsistent from example to example—eg, we're told that gunfire can't perform an action, much less cause itself to be heard, but books can't perform actions either, much less cause themselves to be torn.

Getting a lease with an unpleasant background

cmonkey — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:42:16 -0800

MetaFilter landlords: Please help me aquire a lease... Three friends of mine & I are looking for a new place to live. They all have low paying jobs, but great credit. I have a high paying job, but atrocious credit and no recent rental history (I've lived in houses for the last 5 years without being on a lease). My friends keep getting rejected because they're poor, so I need to apply with them. A few questions to those of you who rent property out:

1) Is there anything that I can do to convince a landlord that, regardless of my poor credit and missing rental history, I am actually a good tenant with a stable job who has never once paid rent late or destroyed a house? Any bribes that would work?
2) What services do you use for background checks? I'm curious what's in mine.
3) If a place says "no application fees" does that mean that they don't do background checks?

(This is a followup to this question, thanks for your help!)

What's the origin of the phrase "Letters, we get letters"?

stupidsexyFlanders — Fri, 14 May 2004 12:37:25 -0800

"Letters, we get letters"...I've seen that hack headline atop the reader mailbag section of too many publications. What's the origin?