When I was in third grade, I read a book of scary stories. It was certainly a book for children. On the cover was a humanoid monster with black and blue fur. It was snarling in front of a green sky over a green field. The field may have been a graveyard. One of the stories was about a house in which a murder occurred. I don't remember the title. Does the description sound familiar to anyone else?
posted by Rustic Etruscan
on Feb 15, 2013 -
4 answers
I was watching this film on my previous laptop via TV-Tuner card and right then my laptop had crashed. I didn't check channel name and newspaper for the film name at the time, and now I can't remember it. It was at least before May 2010(I was watching the film in college and this when I left college - jic it helps though I am not sure if the film released recently at the time)... It was a train scene in the wilderness.
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posted by amar
on Feb 12, 2013 -
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In the past two years my short-term memory has gotten terrible. I forget where I put items, I forget names which I wouldn't have in the past, and I am not good at all in keeping short lists in mind. I have searched for solutions but have found no real answers.
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posted by Lugos
on Dec 16, 2012 -
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What's the real world difference between CAS 9 and 10 for modern dual channel memory? For the last six months DDR3 1600 has been roughly double the price for CAS 9 v. CAS 10.
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posted by mzurer
on Dec 5, 2012 -
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How do I train my brain to remember the interesting movements that my body comes up with when the music plays?
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posted by sb3
on Dec 2, 2012 -
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In the past 4 days I've had 4 major-ish lapses in memory. Otherwise I'm 100% fine. Is this a problem?
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posted by Chorus
on May 20, 2012 -
27 answers
I am getting the following error when trying to save in .doc format in Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac (v. 14.2.0): "the save failed due to out of memory or disk space". I can open .docs, but can only save as .docx. This happens with brand new documents and old ones.
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posted by DiscourseMarker
on May 9, 2012 -
18 answers
I have a memory of Captain Picard announcing personnel transfers to Deep Space Nine at what might've been a press conference. Was it a commercial?
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posted by WasabiFlux
on Apr 17, 2012 -
6 answers
I have some RAM that is (apparently) bad. However, it passes a memory test just fine. Why?
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posted by neckro23
on Dec 27, 2011 -
14 answers
An elderly relative, once technically savvy, now goes into fugue states where, in his confusion, he dismantles computer and A/V setups, with no one in the household to reconnect them properly.
I'm looking for a way of securing A/V and computer connections while leaving the function of the devices still accessible. The alternative so far is spending endless hours with the cable company to get them to send someone to help, or paying someone else to come by. Phone instructions are no good, and there is no one in the household who can help.
posted by oneironaut
on Nov 21, 2011 -
20 answers
My Nexus One keeps hitting a low space wall lately and doing everything the Internet suggests isn't helping :\
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posted by Calzephyr
on Aug 7, 2011 -
13 answers
OK, Batman, riddle me this: If an iPad the size of a writing tablet can hold up to 64GB of stuff and my iPod Classic that fits in the palm of my hand can hold up to 160GB of stuff, why can't an iPad hold up to 160GB or more of stuff?
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posted by skitchen
on Jun 13, 2011 -
19 answers
I am about to embark on a massive technical book reading escapade. Please share your information retention methods.
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posted by Sentus
on Mar 1, 2011 -
7 answers
I'm diagramming the history of visual arts in my city. I need a "database" -- I use the term loosely -- to help me keep the connections straight. Does such a thing exist?
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posted by fritillary
on Feb 18, 2011 -
9 answers
I've had
this image of a face stuck in my head for a few weeks now, and I'm sure that it's from a TV show I saw as a child. I believe the image may have come from a skit about a sketch artist trying to identify someone, and that -- within the skit -- pieces of that face were erased and re-drawn. Maybe at some point, a hat is drawn onto the top of his head? I want to say this skit may have been on Sesame Street. Can you tell me what skit I'm thinking of?
posted by Greg Nog
on Feb 3, 2011 -
1 answer
Please tell me all the versions of "Here Comes the Bride" that you know - the sillier, the better.
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posted by peagood
on Dec 7, 2010 -
13 answers
Wasn't the song 'O Siem' around before Susan Aglukark recorded it in 1995? I feel certain that I heard it in the 70s. In case it matters, I lived in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a child from 1971 to 1979, and it was during this period that I believe I heard the song on the radio. The
Wikipedia entry for the song credits Aglukark as one of the writers and mentions no other versions. I also can't find any earlier reference on allmusic or via a Google search. Could it have been spelled differently? I think the lyrics were the same. I remember the title phrase being pronounced "oozy-em" and the inclusion of at least some of the same lines as in the chorus of the Aglukark song: "O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same". I'm an amateur musician and have a very good music memory. If this is a false memory, it is an incredibly convincing one, and I have not previously (knowingly) experienced anything similar.
posted by dopeydad
on Oct 20, 2010 -
4 answers
I've come across an unusual USB flash memory stick. What's going on here?
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posted by chmmr
on Sep 25, 2010 -
10 answers
[bookfilter] Help me remember this non fiction book I read as a teenager about "mind power" (if I remember correctly)
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posted by patheral
on Sep 21, 2010 -
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I'm trying to remember a movie in which a woman was chained to a wall or ceiling, and an unattractive bald or blond man approached her with a worm-looking growth emerging from his forehead toward her face. What is the movie?
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posted by mchorn
on Aug 30, 2010 -
7 answers
One Hen, Two ducks, radio test/memory trick VS. alternate version - Are you a Turtle?
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posted by bartleby
on Aug 17, 2010 -
6 answers
Looking for fiction books, tv shows, movies, etc, that have something interesting to say about memory-- e.g., why we remember some things but forget others, the quality of memories, anything like that.
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posted by dino might
on Aug 12, 2010 -
45 answers
Please help with my writing project on the kinds of memories that visit you over and over again and annoy, non-plus or disturb you. I’ve got my own examples and some of the most common (e.g., irritating songs). What involuntary memories do you have—that you wish you didn’t?
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posted by brynnwood
on Jul 25, 2010 -
16 answers
Apple support told my mom 3GB of memory in a
Late 2006 MacBook (1.83GHz C2D, Snow Leopard) could overload the processor. What could they have meant by that?
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posted by 6550
on Jul 23, 2010 -
11 answers
What's the term for a never-to-be-forgotten memory of an important event (e.g., when the space shuttle Challenger exploded), when you remember when/where/what you were doing when you heard of the event?
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posted by StrawberryPie
on May 24, 2010 -
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Homo sapiens can memorize The Iliad, and I can't be that far removed from my ancestors, right? How can I improve my ability to remember things very precisely? I'm particularly interested in textbook definitions, chemical formulas, and mathematical formulas.
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posted by edguardo
on May 22, 2010 -
24 answers
I'm ready to buy a new desktop PC with Windows 7, and I can't decide whether to spend more money on a faster CPU or more memory, if either. Which would be better in the long run: i7-860 (or even i7-920) with 6 GB RAM, or i5 with 8 GB of RAM? Considering the CPU alone, is an i7 instead of an i5 worth the extra money?
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posted by Tin Man
on May 7, 2010 -
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UNIX. There's /usr/bin/time to measure how much time a unix command needs to finish. What's the equivalent for spitting out how much memory a unix command needed to allocate to finish it's work?
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posted by Mozai
on Apr 22, 2010 -
5 answers
When does "forgetfulness" transition from annoyance to full-fledged clinical illness?
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posted by ®@
on Feb 22, 2010 -
15 answers
I'm trying to find a short sci-fi story I read over 10 years ago that I barely remember. It may have involved some or all of the following: bicycle repair, ripe banana smelling bacteria used as deodorant and anti-libido medication.
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posted by jrishel
on Nov 19, 2009 -
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How is memory typically mapped to the different chips on a DIMM, and what are the typical timing characteristics, broadly speaking? For example, are bytes/words whose address is i mod 8 typically on chip i? In the case of reads, are results returned first from chip 0 (after the RAS and CAS latencies), then promptly on subsequent cycles from each of the next 7 (or 15) chips? How about from other DIMMs on the same motherboard?
posted by espertus
on Nov 15, 2009 -
3 answers
Needed: Memory hacks. I have trouble remembering names. How do you do it?
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posted by ASM
on Oct 20, 2009 -
22 answers
What might be the cause of sudden amnesia? Pregnant but healthy woman, two days suddenly completely erased from her memory. And she won't go to the doctor.
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posted by sively
on Jul 19, 2009 -
16 answers
I'm in the middle of grabbing all the parts to build a new PC for myself. I have pretty much all the components, but I can't figure out which kind of memory I need to go with an Core 2 Duo E8500 (3.16GHz) and ASUS P5Q-E. I've looked at both Intel's and Asus's websites, and of course the Google to no avail. Details on what I'm looking for inside.
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posted by arcolz
on Jun 22, 2009 -
8 answers
Decrepit PC RAM question - I am trying to figure out what kind of SDRAM is supported by my K7VZA Rev 1.0 motherboard.
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posted by mzurer
on May 18, 2009 -
5 answers
Which is better, one 4GB stick, or two 2GB sticks of DDR2 RAM in my Laptop?
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posted by brenton
on Apr 20, 2009 -
8 answers
I have some sort of strong, almost visceral feeling of memory related to the word "Vero", as in Vero Beach, FL. Can you help me figure out why? May be related to a story or song from my adolescence...
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posted by booknerd
on Apr 8, 2009 -
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