What blood glucose meter can be reliably carried in a pocket, handle the wear of being jostled around, and avoid being activated when not actually in use?
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posted by scottreynen
on May 18, 2013 -
11 answers
What are some good soul songs in 6/8 or 12/8 meter? Ideally, I'm looking for stuff from the 60s and 70s, but stuff from later that's in that style is fine too.
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posted by Jon_Evil
on Feb 8, 2012 -
13 answers
I need a Firefox or Chrome extension that tracks my bandwidth usage.
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posted by Zozo
on Dec 16, 2011 -
5 answers
We have purchased some new flooring and would like to rent/borrow a surface moisture meter before we install it. We've checked several tool rental places (home depot, aurora rents, etc.). We've been able to find the "pin" type meters, but really need one of the "surface" variety.
I know it's a long-shot here, but does anybody have a source that I might try?
thanks.
posted by jimmereeno
on Dec 20, 2010 -
6 answers
Looking for anecdotal data: when you switched to a time-of-use electrical meter for your
residence, what happened to your bills in the first year, and what changes did you make that seemed to have the largest impact?
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posted by davejay
on Oct 25, 2010 -
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I just bought a Gardner Bender GET-3213 Voltage Tester. It doesn't seem to work...what am I doing wrong?
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posted by randomstriker
on Oct 20, 2010 -
11 answers
In high school (early-mid 90s), a textbook gave little two line ditties for various meters. I remember the one for anapestic tetrameter only:
I would like to be serious, but lo I cannot /
Anapestic tetrameter makes the verse trot
Which book was this? (It might have been yellow.) Even better, what are the other poems?
posted by jeather
on Sep 24, 2010 -
7 answers
What are the options for monitoring our household electricity usage using Google's PowerMeter service?
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posted by SueDenim
on May 1, 2010 -
2 answers
How can we present instantaneous stats on our energy consumption and generation in a site with a windmill and possibly other forms of energy generation?
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posted by advicepig
on Sep 18, 2009 -
3 answers
How accurate are the pinless moisture meters when used on drywall?
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posted by j
on Sep 10, 2009 -
6 answers
I'm building a bit of performance art that involves testing people for their hug level. I need some kind of funky device that I can use to 'test' people for this.
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posted by diode
on Jul 18, 2009 -
9 answers
What are the best options to measure the electricity usage of common area in a condo?
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posted by coust
on Jun 16, 2009 -
8 answers
I'm looking for a freeware Windows bandwidth monitor that can be minimized to an icon sitting in the taskbar that displays a graph (think Process Explorer-style) of the up/down bandwidth.
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posted by griphus
on Jan 23, 2008 -
5 answers
I understand that there are three different ways to adhere postage for bulk nonprofit mailings. Permit imprint, pre-canceled stamps or a postage meter. However we are getting conflicting information from our local post office and the USPS. Can we print postage with the meter at the non-profit rate and not use the permit imprint number?
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posted by mac-way
on Nov 17, 2007 -
9 answers
I just found out that I'm paying for another tenant's electricity usage (and have been for the last 4 years). What now?
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posted by NYScott
on Oct 3, 2006 -
20 answers
How do electric meters work? How do they measure the amount of charge you used? I suspect they must know the amount of charge that enters the home, and then they have some way to measure the amount of charge that leaves the house, but I'm really not sure.
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posted by willnot
on Jul 3, 2006 -
18 answers
I got a ticket this morning on my car in Boston on Newbury Street. Do I have to keep paying the meter all day or does the ticket allow me to just keep my car there for as long as I need to? It's 25 bucks for another ticket, and its 25 cents for 15 minutes on the meter. Im out of quarters, im lazy, and I want to go back to bed.
posted by pwally
on Jan 3, 2006 -
19 answers
Today, in my graduate linguistics class, we studied Gerard Manley Hopkins' "sprung rhythm." It seems an interesting experiment, but I'm now curious: do any metafilter literary types know if a poet (or poets) since Hopkins has used sprung rhythm in poetry?
posted by rockstar
on Oct 25, 2005 -
9 answers
How did people learn how to write poetry back in the days when rhyme and meter were standard? [mi]
posted by nebulawindphone
on Feb 1, 2005 -
15 answers
Dave Brubeck, Radiohead, Juliana Hatfield, Weezer, and Ben Folds write music in a variety of odd time signatures-- 3/4, 5/4, 7/8, etc-- and are some of my most favorite acts. Can anyone introduce me to some new music that also features songs written in odd times?
posted by trharlan
on Jan 17, 2004 -
39 answers
