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avant garde theatre

Palmerpoodles — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:18:09 -0800

Im looking for sites showing videos of avant garde,fringe performances. YouTube is OK. Thanks

Hard water stains

hardbop — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:27:57 -0800

How do you clean hard water rust stains from plastic and rubber? The fridge front door where you get water and ice has nasty brown stains on the rubber levers and plastic drip tray.

American working in Canada

kestralwing — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:47:09 -0800

What does an American who wants to look for work in Vancouver, Canada need to know? What steps are necessary and what's the best order to do them in? If you get a job, what is the usual way to handle questions like health care, American Social Security payments, currency you're paid in? Other questions I can't even imagine. (details below) My son-in-law is an architect with extraordinary computer skills. He has been working for a software company, sent around the country as a consultant to companies who purchase complex architectural software. He's just been laid off. He lives in Bellingham, Washington which is a 20 minute drive from the border. He'd like to stay in his (newly purchased) home, and Vancouver seems the best bet for having jobs and being within commuting distance. There seem to be jobs that would fit his skills, he has a great work history and excellent credit. But he knows nothing about the process of cross-border employment, and would rather not learn the hard way.

Any suggestions to make the process easier will be appreciated!

The sun and the clouds are a wavy sea, and Foltin sails on...

GrooveStix — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:04:50 -0800

Musicfilter: Help me find similar music to the sounds of this or that album. More heartwrenching info follows... I've been going nuts over these 2 albums so much, so I need every classic/jazz/ethno audiophile to help out me on this. I've been scouring music rooms on IRC, Soulseek chat rooms, music forums, friends and random strangers but I still haven't found anything that sounds similar or as an influence to the sounds of these albums.

Bands that I've discovered while searching which I liked:
Flanger
Marc Ribot & Los Cubanos Postizos
New Klezmer Trio
Jimmy Giuffre
Triosk
Leon Redbone
Glover Gill & Tosca Tango Orchestra
Accordion Tribe
Dancas Ocultas
Sansévérino
Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band

I wanted to ask this question on askMefi for so long, but I always put it off since it seems like I am spamming everyone. I assure you, my Foltin fever is real...

What is the best paid dating website with ACTUAL results?

wildrain2008 — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:52:36 -0800

What is the best paid dating website with ACTUAL results? So it's sad to say that the dating scene for an average Joe has been virtually eliminated. Unless you have fantastic looking body (Bruce Lee's, football player, or Antonio Banderas [for guys] / supermodel or a twig-thin [for girls]), you're in for a slow let down.

Having said that, I'm diving into the online dating scene. For a few months now I've been using Craigslist, Plenttyoffish, and OKCupid sites. Not much results there either. By that I mean that 95% of personal adds on CL are carefully generated spam/email-hunters, the women that I have met for dates on Plenttyoffish turn out to have serious issues, and OKCupid has produced 0 responses.

The next step I figure is to try a paid dating website. I'm currently testing out Yahoo Personals. Anyone has any other suggestions that have worked for them and won't leave me broke?

banking on banksy

kidsleepy — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:30:17 -0800

I'm looking for a photo of Banksy-style graffiti involving rabbits fighting each other. I had it as my desktop image a year or two ago, and now I can't find it. I don't recall too many details, but it did somehow involve rabbits and violence. I think it was stenciled graffiti, very similar to what Banksy does. Does this image ring a bell to anyone? Know where I can find it online?

(ps - I looked through his book back in January and this image wasn't included, so that leads me to believe it might not be his)

I spy with my little eye

wittgenstein — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:15:44 -0800

What do you look at/notice, as you wander through the world, that I probably ignore? The origin of this question was my teaching students how to recognize the seven border patterns (sometimes called "frieze patterns"). After I taught this the first time, I suddenly realized that there are border patterns all over the place; I just never noticed them.

This made me wonder what people who are different from me pay attention to as they wander around. If you are a designer, what do you see that I ignore? If you are a plumber, what do you see that I ignore?

I think this isn't chatfilter, but delete if you think it is.

rock rock the planet rock...dont stop

neilkod — Tue, 15 May 2007 12:44:50 -0800

I'm riding the Salt Lake Century this weekend and am looking for some good full length electro mixes for the shuffle. Electro seems to be a lot better than 4/4 music to ride to. It gets even better when mixed with its offshoots (bass, jungle, freestyle, etc). I've already exhausted my DJ Fizz collection. Bonus for pre-90s electro and miami bass.

Help me look at good looking women without guilt.

convex — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:58:14 -0800

Why do good looking women make me nervous and guilty when looking at them? I have been noticing that speaking or interacting with a good looking woman makes me nervous as hell. While if they were average or even ugly I don't get nervous! Even looking at a woman in a certain setting, makes me guilty if she was good looking, but if she was average I don't have a problem.
It is almost like looking at a disfiguered person, I try not to look in order not to make them feel bad. Same guilt comes to me when looking at a sexy or cute woman! Maybe for different reasons that I don't know.
Is this something common or a well known behavior? And how do I get over it?

Looking for a

johoney — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:16:08 -0800

8 unit condo in Jersey City needs an energy (HVAC, heating) consultant to look at our boiler and heating system and advise us on how to lower our heating bills. We are keen to consider green options but economy is the main criterion. Thank you for your recommendations and advice. In our building we are currently collecting $$ to replace the oil boiler that fires our central heating. I'm a little concerned given the price of oil and want to be certain that our building is optimized for energy conservation. Do you know any consultant/expert who can survey our building and heating system and make recommendations?

Its an old building, the thermostat is in the hallway, the radiators are vertically integrated with no control valves. Which means that in Winter some apartments are overheated and leave windows open and some are cold.

We'd certainly consider going as green as possible and (before you mention it) have already looked at revofuel though its a bit young at this point in terms of available resources. Thanks for any recommendations on where to find the expert we're looking for.

Crawfish crises!

Ugh — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:29:21 -0800

Um.. now that I have 20 pounds of crawfish, what do I do with them? Friends were going to have a crawfish boil but had to go out of town unexpectedly so they just dropped twenty pounds of live crawfish on my door. I've never had a boil, never even been to one, and have NO clue as to what to do now. I've found some recipes online, but they all differ so much and all of them start from when you're ready to cook them. There's no way I can cook them today so a friend said I had to get them on ice to keep them alive until tomorrow. I busted open the sack, put them in a cooler, left the drain open, and poured ice all over them. Now what?