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Foreign guides around Europe

vizsla — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:21:43 -0800

How does a 40ish year old male with enough money find his way around Europe without foreign language skills? Is it possible to hire guides to travel with, or at least to show them around on a city-by-city basis for this sort of thing? I'm thinking specifically France, Spain, Italy. Willing to use University students or some other creative possibility. Mostly there for a holiday but may also need to talk to real agent agents about places in France or Spain.

Help me create digital music.

flatluigi — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:52:08 -0800

I'd like to find some tutorials or general guides for editing and creating music on the computer. I'm very interested in mashups and making music out of other music, but I honestly don't know what I'm doing. I got a copy of Ableton Live from a very generous musician friend of mine for my birthday a while back and I've been using that to put stuff together. I can put together some basic A+B vocal over instrumental deals, but that's about it.

I can't do anything fancy and I'm sure I'm missing things due to my relative lack of experience with audio effects and methods. For example, just last week I discovered how to consolidate a cut-up track and make it loop without having to deal with all the pieces, which seems really obvious in hindsight.

What I'd love to find is a guide that takes me through the creation of a track, showing off what X effect does, how to do Y cleanly, ending a track successfully through Z -- that sort of thing. Otherwise, I'd like to find some general tips and methods.

Please help me climb Kili on a volunteer's budget...

allkindsoftime — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:59:16 -0800

Kilimanjaro-filter. I want to climb it. I don't want to pay $3k pp. Help, please. A friend and I are looking to do a Kili climb in mid-to-late March. Problem is we're a bit awash in the number of tour operators, options, and the big swinging price-range. We will likely be coming to Kili from Johannesburg, SA (returning to the same).

Flights right now look to be around $1k US and the cheapest climbs I've found are around $1.5k, and 2.5 is about .5 higher than my budget. I don't want to skimp on the operator we go with, but I would like to get the best deal for our money. We can't do a very long trip - only 5-6 days on mountain. I can't fathom paying $2k plus for just the climb alone.

I've seen packages from SA for under $2k US including flights, but they look to be budget-operators going up the Coca-Cola route. We're both in great shape, experienced backcountry / climbers (and familiar with our acclimation rates), and would like to do something a bit more off the beaten path, but still a relatively fast climb.

Anyone got any experience with this? I only found 1-2 previous questions on it. I'm particularly interested in what operators you went with, what your impression was of them, what route you took, and how much you dropped on the whole thing.

Yes, I know we are late season. Yes, I know our timeframe for climbing will limit our summit attempts. Yes, I know I don't want to go cheap on a budget operator.

THANKS.

Where are the bumps on _your_ keyboard?

woodblock100 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:26:40 -0800

What's with the little bumps on the F and J keys on my computer keyboard? Yes yes ... I know they are guides for touch-typing, but I'm sure that when I was learning to type back in high school on electric typewriters (pre-computer days) the bumps were on D and K. Am I mis-remembering this? Did they change, and if so, when? And did every typist go crazy when it happened?

Guidebooks for Naples and Amalfi

ubiquity — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:29:19 -0800

I'm visiting Naples and the Amalfi coast over the winter break. I'll be there a week. I couldn't care less about when to go and how to get there or where to stay, because that's all taken care of. I'm looking for the best guidebook that emphasizes history, background and things to do. Good recommendations for places to eat would be a nice plus. What would you suggest? Right now my leading candidate is the Lonely Planet guide, but in the past I've found they're not so hot on places to eat.

I'm ganna get me some alphabet soup Mommy!

thetenthstory — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:27:21 -0800

[CPA Study Filter]: So I have a choice between Bisk, MicroMash (PassMatrix), and Becker for study guides to the NJ/NY CPA, which one should I use? Also, if there’s a better one out there that I don’t know about, please inform. Price doesn't really matter too much to me. I don't really want to attend classes since I am already busy enough.

Also, if you are up to giving any personal advice/words of encouragement about the exam, I'd be down for giving out bonus points.

The Dangerous Book for Non-Boys

divabat — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:04:27 -0800

I've read "The Dangerous Book for Boys" and I generally love those kind of books (information about anything with guides on doing stuff). What other books are out there that are in a similar vein? I'm a 21-year-old girl but would rather not have a "girly" book.

HOW TO GET MARRIED?

slowtree — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:29:06 -0800

Im in town (Lousiville, KY) for two days and my Fiance and I want to get married. Whats the quickest and or best way to do this locally?

Hunting

bd — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:56:19 -0800

Where can I find a good hunting guide? I don't hunt but my dad does. He wants to go hunting and I need a guide for him.

Please give me some websites that are basically giant directories with many guides (sorted by area or whatnot).

A comprehensive review repository for books?

northernsoul — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:19:37 -0800

Something like the Allmusic guide for books? I've become quite spoiled when it comes to looking for music recommendations since there's always the Allmusic guide to look through. Is there something like this for books? I'd like something that has a large repository of books all through history, from the earliest to the latest books written, that has comprehensive and trustworthy ratings and descriptive reviews. I'd prefer that it be on the internet and free, although it would be all right if it were in some other form and it had some kind of price. Anyone?

I have three days in Tokyo, what are the must-see things?

grahamwell — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:35:33 -0800

TokyoFilter: I'm spending three days in Tokyo just before Christmas. I've never been before and I doubt I'll ever get there again, so I want to see what's important and skip the tourist traps. Any tips (including pre-trip reading)? I'll be solo so I can do what I like.

What's the best travel book series?

beatnik808 — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:11:05 -0800

What is the best travel book series? You know -- Frommer's, Rough Guide, Fodor's, Lonely Planet, etc. I'm finally getting of my duff and going somwhere (Costa Rica) and I want a reliable guide book to take with me. Something that I will actually find quite useful and not rip it into shreds out of pure frustration.