There is a not so huge cluster of bees clinging to a trellis in my back yard. The cluster is about a foot tall, 9 inches deep and wide. They have a regular flow of bees coming and going.
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posted by snsranch
on May 3, 2013 -
11 answers
I have an old laptop I'd like to send to my relatives in Poland. How would I go about this? Does this even make economic sense?
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posted by echo target
on May 3, 2013 -
8 answers
DH says the dealer charges too much but we haven't a clue where else to try. It's an older car and we've gone to the dealer for most things.
posted by R2WeTwo
on May 3, 2013 -
8 answers
Our Dad passed away last year, leaving his house to my siblings and me. Dad's defacto partner is interested in buying the house (she has no financial stake in it currently), so we need to get it valued. The house is in a town approximately 7 hours drive from where the nearest siblings (myself and my sister) live. There are are a couple of registered valuers in the area, so that's not a problem, but my question is: is there any particular need for us to be there when they come through?
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posted by Broseph
on May 3, 2013 -
8 answers
I'm trying to find the title of an early 80s British hacker movie, and Google is no help at all. You'd think this would be simple. Everything I remember is inside.
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posted by Leon
on May 3, 2013 -
12 answers
Folks I know get published! Yay them! Go them! But shamefully,
it.. the ...the flames, flames...on the side of my face...breathing...heaving breaths. How do I tame my inner envy monster?
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posted by angrycat
on May 2, 2013 -
24 answers
I want to buy a cap for summer. Five panel, fitted, snapback, whatever. Something like
this, this, this, or
this. I'm in Los Angeles this week and Portland next week. What streetwear shops should I visit?
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posted by Juliet Banana
on May 2, 2013 -
4 answers
Came across this track and I'm unsure how to categorize it, or even search for more like it other than with vague descriptions like "drum-heavy instrumental." Could someone a little more experienced in drum-based music like this tell me whether this is part of a genre or just a certain sound? (link inside)
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posted by BlackLeotardFront
on May 2, 2013 -
5 answers
Okay, so I am a community college faculty member who is supposed to wear my academic regalia to our graduation ceremony next Saturday. I've got my gown and hood, but I can't find my stupid mortarboard anywhere. My wife has hers, but as her noggin is significantly smaller than my enormous melon, when I put it on it looks like I'm being sucked into a wormhole head first. So what I need is: a) a basic shiny black academic cap and tassel, b) that fits giant heads, c) at low cost, d) delivered in the next eight days. I've found places on line where I can do this for $45. Is there a way to do it for $20?
posted by Pater Aletheias
on May 2, 2013 -
14 answers
A friend of mine has a 15 month old son who was diagnosed with anaplastic ependymoma (brain cancer). He had a complete surgical resection of the tumor, and the next step is proton beam therapy. She has her choice between pursuing therapy at MGH in Boston, or in New Jersey at either Procare in Somerset or Robert Wood in New Brunswick. The New Jersey facilities would be more convenient for her and her family, but if the Boston facility is better, she'll make it work. Can you give me any information about how these three facilities compare in terms of both effectiveness of the therapy and patient experience, particularly with very young pediatric patients?
posted by KathrynT
on May 2, 2013 -
14 answers
Put aloe plants outside, they turned brownish and don't look happy. Can I save them?
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posted by zadcat
on May 2, 2013 -
5 answers
I live in (and am a citizen of) Canada, and have recently mailed important tax information to the US IRS and Treasury Department via the regular Canada post. Should I re-mail that information to ensure that it made it to the proper destinations?
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posted by mbarryf
on May 2, 2013 -
5 answers
A friend of mine is trying to remember the name of a documentary they once saw and Google has failed them. I'm forever touting the skill and speed with which the AskMe community solves dilemmas like these, so don't fail me now! Here's what she asked me:
I saw a documentary about a man who was representing himself in a lawsuit or series of lawsuits -- I think the government had filed them against him for sending threatening letters. Something about defending his land and eminent domain... He had a wife that he met in a foreign country. She was a lot younger than him and she moved to the US and married him. They were both chain smokers and used a plastic fork as a cigarette holder. They lived in a trailer that was a mess and full of document boxes of his "research" for his case. And they had a few big dogs.
posted by ErWenn
on May 1, 2013 -
2 answers
I can print fine using a app from my Ipad 2 -- I just installed the printer app on my work PC, which is linked to my printer, and on my Ipad 2. Voila! But I can't figure out how to print to my work printer from my beautiful Macbook Pro.
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posted by bearwife
on May 1, 2013 -
7 answers
I've been organizing and running a
vegan bake sale in my city twice a year for the past three years. It's a pretty manageable affair; over the course of five bake sales, I've raised just over $5,000, met some wonderful people, and had a lot of fun. While I am lucky enough to have an incredible standing venue and an amazing group of regular volunteer bakers, I keep getting stuck on one thing:
PRICING. I've run into problems with every approach I've tried to use so far!
Can you help me figure out a solid, reasonable pricing method for homemade vegan baked goods that will be 'sold' at a fundraising event?
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posted by divined by radio
on May 1, 2013 -
28 answers
[Regex-and-stack-overflowfilter]: Can you help me identify abc a.b.c. a.b.c a_b_c ab_c a_b.c. and any permutation of those characters? More below the fold.
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posted by Nanukthedog
on May 1, 2013 -
11 answers
Putting an egg in your coffee: is this a thing?
In Havana the other day I acquired the
Us Two Cook Book, by Jennie B. Williams, published in Toronto in 1924. The recipe for "COFFEE" begins "For each cup of water allow one heaping dessert-spoonful of finely ground coffee; put coffee in mixing bowl; add one egg (or half egg)..."
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posted by londongeezer
on May 1, 2013 -
16 answers
I'm mailing out a copy of my tax return and W2's to my employer's tax accountant, so he can take a look at them and do an adjustment. Do I send him the real W2's, or a copy?
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posted by Xere
on Apr 30, 2013 -
10 answers
Please help me pronounce this formula related to projectile motion as it would be spoken out loud: L = v0^2 sin2θ / g
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posted by misozaki
on Apr 30, 2013 -
15 answers
I'm working on researching undergraduate University policies on sexual abuse and hitting a wall. Ideally I'm looking for the highlights and lowlights of
Canadian university policies and how they respond to sexual abuse committed by students and/or to students. Is there a school out there that is really getting this right? Does anyone know where things are desperately wrong? I need some reliable sources to draw from, because what I've been finding has mostly been hearsay or dodgy.
posted by Glambie
on Apr 30, 2013 -
6 answers
Last night, when I was eating my spaghetti, I found a worm! It was light green in color and about the size/shape of a meal worm, but with little claw type things towards the head.
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posted by parakeetdog
on Apr 30, 2013 -
33 answers
My tween daughter recently had a minor but serious accident that required a visit to the emergency room and a few days on narcotic painkillers. During this time she missed school, skipped homework and other normal activities, and basically got a lot of attention and concern from relatives and friends, and of course me, her mother. Now, having recovered, she's articulated that she misses all that special attention and has explicitly said that she wants to get hurt again.
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posted by marionett gjorda av strumpor
on Apr 30, 2013 -
19 answers
Is this from a movie or something? I've encountered it online but can't track down its origin. It's an animated gif of a man's shoes, and they have mouths with teeth opening and closing and tongues flapping.
You can see it here.
posted by RobotHero
on Apr 30, 2013 -
8 answers
My DrawSomething addiction has coaxed out of me a desire to illustrate without getting bogged down by a writing process. My recent draws are cartoonish, bright and friendly, and other players keep asking if I'm an artist. Where can I find cartoon or childrens book writers in need of artwork that might tolerate my lack of portfolio and professional experience?
posted by jayCampbell
on Apr 30, 2013 -
17 answers
I have a close male friend and our closeness bothers my husband, which bothers me because I care about how he feels. Happy couples, what are things you think are okay and not okay for your spouse to do with someone else?
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posted by stellathon
on Apr 30, 2013 -
59 answers
Two nights from now I will be back living with the parents on the other end of the country. Help me turn this into a positive experience. What worked for you?
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posted by signondiego
on Apr 29, 2013 -
9 answers
I reply to a fair number of L.A. travel questions here and many of the answers (including mine) often contain dire warnings about traffic. This happens even if traffic isn't directly related to the question being asked.
So, visitors to our fair city, how bad was the traffic
really, and what information/advice can I give to newbie LA tourists who drive?
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posted by Room 641-A
on Apr 29, 2013 -
60 answers
My parents are seem to lack trust in my ability to manage my own life. They are controlling, have a strong tendency to emotionally overreact. How do I tell my parents I am taking a break from school with them overreacting? My mother is currently undergoing cancer treatment and I am concerned she will “worry herself sick” over me taking a break from school.
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posted by lovecricket
on Apr 29, 2013 -
13 answers
Has the phrase "you so famous" and a list of artists including Willem de Kooning. Thanks.
posted by tizzie
on Apr 29, 2013 -
5 answers
In the 90's I borrowed a demo-CD from a friend, who had a car combat-like game, where you drove around in a futuristic environment. The game was a demo, so it only had one level and only one car. The only mission that was available was where one had to collect two pieces of a device located in two different parts of the map. Most of the stuff was blue.
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posted by madcow20
on Apr 28, 2013 -
18 answers
I want to mount a monitor stand on my desk, but there's a vertical lip that gets in the way of the clamp. What's the best way to get around this?
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posted by Wossname
on Apr 28, 2013 -
12 answers
My best friend is dating a new guy and is currently in the "floating in the clouds" stage. He's all that she talks about, texts me about, emails me about, mentions, quotes, you name it. I'm happy for her, but I am quickly reaching "who cares" stage. She does this with everyone she dates, but this guy might become permanent, so I'm not brushing it off as "just wait until this passes". How can I politely tell her that we need to have conversations about OTHER THINGS? She can be very sensitive, and I don't want her to feel that I am not interested in the relationship or not happy for her. More details inside.
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posted by ElectricGoat
on Apr 28, 2013 -
26 answers
Can you translate this Italian phrase into English? "Nun so' fesso ma faccio o' fesso perche' facendo o' fesso te faccio fesso."
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posted by ataxia
on Apr 28, 2013 -
9 answers
Halp! I can't think of the song by a guy talking about different ages in his life; he names several ages like 15, 24, etc., throughout the song and for each one talks about how he feels at that time. It's has a slowish melancholy feel to it.
Thanks Mefites!
posted by michellenoel
on Apr 28, 2013 -
12 answers
Hi!
I´m planning to move from Uruguay to the US around the end of the year. This will probably be the preface of many questions to come (as these two countries couldn´t be any more different). I still have to decide exactly where in the US to live, so please help me decide.
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posted by Fermin
on Apr 27, 2013 -
16 answers
Our house is entirely plumbed in copper. Even the ginormous pipe that leaves the house to go out to the sewer.. whenever people see the maze of pipes in our basement, they comment on how valuable it is. But really? I mean, besides all the work of tearing it out and dealing with the weight, etc etc, how would a normal person like me turn it into money????
[Not that I want to; I just ponder these things sometimes.]
posted by Tandem Affinity
on Apr 27, 2013 -
15 answers
I have recently acknowledged that my aimlessness has kept me trapped in retail and unable to find better for myself. My goal from several months ago - to find a double-digit hourly position by the anniversary of my graduation from college - is far from accomplished. I am not giving myself another year to mess up, but I'm having some trouble discerning where I should go.
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posted by Ashen
on Apr 27, 2013 -
16 answers
What's wrong with my corn plant? The tips are all burnt and dead. I definitely do not over-water it ever since
this happened - am I simply under-watering it?
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posted by kthxbi
on Apr 27, 2013 -
6 answers
XLD was working fine unless I have too many albums (such as 30 folders/albums apiece). I am not figuring out the interface on MAX for a batch conversion with several subfolders. I basically am using VBR to compress my music to smaller mp3 format. On XLD, there is Preferences-->Preserve directory structure-->subdirectory search depth "0", which makes it work on a small scale, like 10 folders or so, before crashing. So, if anyone can tell me what I am missing on MAX's menu or if they had the problem with XLD and fixed it, I am good to go. I like XLD's interface but it won't process my whole iTunes at a go.
posted by chicaboom
on Apr 27, 2013 -
5 answers
Are there options to add internet to a place that isn't wired for cable/broadband and doesn't have a phone line?
The marina where I keep my sailboat does not have cable or telephone lines installed at the docks. I want to be able to use the internet while I am staying on my boat. Are there technology options available so that I can make this happen? What is the general connectivity speed of those options?
Many thanks!
posted by matrushka
on Apr 27, 2013 -
10 answers
We are making a rare trip to IKEA tomorrow in part to get a table and chairs for our one-year old. What are other IKEA items that we should look at for him?
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posted by Xalf
on Apr 27, 2013 -
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