17752 Ask MetaFilter answers by jessamyn (displaying 51 through 100)
Mrs Clanger and I are travelling to Florida (Jacksonville area) in a couple of weeks to attend a gay wedding. News coverage in the UK has been highlighting the rise anti-trans and anti-LBGQT+ sentiment and legislation in parts of the US and I'd like to know how careful we should be about discussing the purpose of our trip.
comment posted at 5:01 PM on Mar-6-23
Seeking recommendations (or anti-recommendations) of intensive outpatient and/or partial hospitalization programs (or similar) in Massachusetts that take MassHealth. This is for my partner, an adult trans woman who has a history of depression with suicidal ideation and PTSD and does not have substance use issues. Virtual options statewide or options in Western Massachusetts are preferred but any thoughts are welcome.
comment posted at 5:04 PM on Mar-6-23
Some folks in my local community are trying to evaluate options for establishing a local community owned ski bunny hill (like a tow rope up a hill sort of deal). Curious if anyone is aware of towns (in North America would be most relevant, I know Europe has more of a history of this) that run very small scale bunny hills with any equipment.
comment posted at 3:55 PM on Feb-28-23
I am firmly millennial, and have grown up with the internet my whole life. If you are looking for something, you find it online, but there are glimpses of the past around New York, where people still hang up paper advertising apartments for rent, or parties you might go to. I am wondering about the times before online was ubiquitous, and I know about classified ads, but I've heard legend of public bulletin boards where you would go to find out about stuff, and/or post your own bulletins.
comment posted at 9:12 AM on Mar-1-23
I would like to find a hotel in the greater Boston area that has a wonderful bathtub. It would be great if the other aspects of the hotel are on par with the tub, but the tub experience is the focus. Adequate depth and decent width/length are the main factors - bubbles and other features are nice, but not critical. I'm having trouble coming up with a search query that returns relevant results, and I'm ready to throw in the towel.
comment posted at 4:12 PM on Feb-26-23
I recently bought a new Macbook Air. I'm on a trip right now and a freelance job came in that I'd like to do. The client sent me the doc in Word. I don't have Word on this new laptop. (I do have Word on my home desktop.) I can open the document in Office 365 and read it and make changes, but I don't see how to save a copy locally and then email back the edited document. Any ideas?
comment posted at 8:48 AM on Feb-24-23
I think we’ve all seen the damage that a few inches of snow does when it lands in a southern state like Georgia - they don’t have the plows or infrastructure in general to deal with it so it clogs the roads and people die from being unprepared. But it still happens every few years and it’s generally only a few inches - and the northern states nearby are generally all dealing with the same storm. If a blizzard actually comes to San Diego and / or Los Angeles, it could be far worse - beyond the traffic issues, I don’t know whether most roofs are built to handle the weight of snow, and I’m certain they don’t have enough plows. Are the states that do, and aren’t currently in any danger, sending them? Is this what FEMA does, or are they only there to help after it’s too late? The Army Corps of Engineers?
comment posted at 5:21 PM on Feb-24-23
I've been listening to my partner's tales of a close friends of theirs who seems to be undergoing various aspects of identity theft. What can I recommend to help?
comment posted at 8:55 AM on Feb-24-23
Is there a way of doing this ? I would like to click on a word on a Wikipedia page and get shown which edit created that word. As far as I know the only way to achieve this is to look in the history and systematically work my way back through time ... not an appealing prospect !
comment posted at 4:37 PM on Feb-20-23
Why do people fold laundry? What is the purpose of folding laundry? Is it to do with using tumble driers instead of washing lines?
comment posted at 8:50 AM on Feb-20-23
I started work at a private university one year ago. Their background check did not discover I was convicted of a felony 20+ years ago and spent nearly a year in federal prison. Now I've been offered a higher paying job in another part of the university, and they want to do what they say is a more thorough background check. I'm concerned that if I quit job 1 and then fail the background check in job 2, I may not be able to get job 1 back and I'm out of the university all together.
comment posted at 11:26 AM on Feb-19-23
What are your favorite methods for returning to sleep when you wakup at at 3:30 a.m. and your mind is racing?
comment posted at 9:15 AM on Feb-19-23
comment posted at 10:35 AM on Feb-20-23
I decided to have a child with a close friend. I was enthusiastic about the idea, but it soured quickly. Should I bail out before she conceives? Can I?
comment posted at 5:03 PM on Feb-17-23
We are vacationing in Vermont in March to experience snow, plus other fun stuff you can recommend.
comment posted at 8:22 AM on Feb-11-23
Everyone’s different of course, just wondering how much talking you think is too much in a conversation between two people. (In either number of statements/stories or time.) What feels imbalanced? What feels balanced? Thanks!
comment posted at 8:35 AM on Feb-11-23
I'm running ClamXAV on my 2020 MacBook Air with Ventura 13.1 OS. It's up for renewal in a week. Do I really need this protection? Or can I safely run without some sort of antivirus/malware?
comment posted at 9:55 AM on Feb-10-23
YANMD, but I've been to several and they're at a loss. Details below.
comment posted at 9:56 AM on Feb-10-23
I've always been fascinated by the personal ads of the pre-internet times and I bet there are people here on Metafilter who could tell me more about what the practical experience of using them was actually like.
comment posted at 12:40 PM on Feb-9-23
I am trying to book a hotel for a few nights between February 17-22. My main criteria is finding a hotel with a pool that will be fun for my 6-year-old. We have had some experiences with chain hotels recently with indoor pools that are COLD and tiny and in freezing cold rooms that are not fun to hang in. I am looking for a hotel with a big, bright greenhouse-type environment with warm water that is spacious and fun for a kid to swim and play for many hours.
comment posted at 7:15 AM on Feb-8-23
I can't believe I'm wasting a question on this, but you know the idea of people who are "ingredients people" (i.e., they have eggs and butter and flour in their larder but no actual prepared foods)? Where did that idea come from? Can someone provide me a link to some writing about this? (It doesn't actually have to be the original person who developed this idea, just something that sets out the concept.)
comment posted at 9:16 AM on Feb-8-23
What are low-hassle ways of selling mildly-valuable antiquarian books?
comment posted at 11:08 AM on Feb-2-23
My on-again off-again friend has called to try to mend fences. I don’t want to. But she is the mother of my son’s best friend…
comment posted at 11:32 AM on Jan-31-23
We have a family event that takes us to Hanover NH in late June so we are planing to meet up with some favorite relatives and sneak in a little vacation. We will fly into Boston, rent a car and then spend a few nights a place A (maybe Cape Cod?) and a few nights in place B (??) and end up near Hanover NH. Where should we stay and what should we do on the two parts of this trip?
comment posted at 11:25 AM on Jan-31-23
I'm looking for song examples where the singer "speaks" over music in a more or less plain voice (possibly in a rhythmic fashion). The first forty seconds of The Butthole Surfers "Pepper" is the best example I know. I am not looking for rap or hip hop or trap unless it's very different. Not looking for people using recorded samples of speaking over music. I am looking for diverse examples of people using a speaking voice over music. It can be just a short section of a piece.
comment posted at 2:59 PM on Jan-29-23
I need help with words to de-escalate my father's REACTION to my mother's bipolar episode. She's not too manic, I believe she's relatively safe, but ABSOLUTELY annoying. Earlier my father sent frantic texts for HELP!, "She's threatening to leave him and will not see a doctor." A few hours later, I'm thinking it was mostly just a fight between two emotionally dysregulated people. I'm more concerned bout talking him down than I am about her.
comment posted at 2:55 PM on Jan-29-23
Have you experienced or heard about one of the major fast food restaurants not being able to accept cards for that day, or so? If so, is it a one off thing, so need to make sure to have cash at all times, or could it happen again, and maybe even at more than one place? What is the conclusion that different people would come to as a result of that experience? P.S Is there a better category this question should be in? I guess it would be too late to edit after a day or so.
comment posted at 2:03 PM on Jan-28-23
Looking for scripts I should have used instead of (eep, I know how bad this sounds) going silent on these people.
comment posted at 1:45 PM on Jan-27-23
I am a new pellet stove owner and other than following along with the relevant subreddit, are there other places you have gone online that have good info, or do you have advice that you gained after some pellet stove ownership time that you think might be helpful?
comment posted at 7:47 AM on Jan-8-23
My wife and I have an ongoing disagreement in the kitchen about the best way to handle tough stains and build-up on dishes and the impact water temperature has on getting cookware clean. Can you help?
comment posted at 7:46 AM on Jan-4-23
Do you have any tips, tricks, or advice, for people staying on Elon Musk's Twitter, from a liberal perspective? How to deal with trolls, data security, blocklists, or anything else is all helpful. Any apps, plugins, usage guidelines, or other ways for progressives to make the most of Twitter? Thanks!
comment posted at 8:05 AM on Jan-4-23
My job just sent out an email saying that covid is now endemic, so we can all start to spend more time on campus. Okay, but it's not. It causes severe, lifelong disruptions to health. People can become totally disabled. It makes me extremely anxious, especially when I'm in conference calls with coworkers and I can see they're in tiny rooms with each other with no masks on. Is anyone else having to work hard on suppressing their instincts to tell the truth about what's going on?
comment posted at 2:45 PM on Nov-29-22
I'm pondering _how to find_ companies, academics, foundations, granting organizations, or non-profit organizations that are doing innovative, exploratory, or results-based work to help communities, small, large, and global, build trust and communication to actually solve fundamental society-affecting problems. (I mean, more systematically than reading Metafilter and watching TED Talks.)
comment posted at 3:38 PM on Oct-29-22
What's a part of your job that you actually like? What task or part of your work day, other than lunch, do you really enjoy, to the point of thinking, yeah, this is it, this is where I fit?
comment posted at 3:19 PM on Oct-29-22
A friend in Burlington VT is has to stop using his beloved 1995 Volvo because his present garage has changed hands and the new owner will not work on the older cars. Who in this part of Vermont still works on them?
comment posted at 5:38 PM on Sep-29-22
Is it a normal thing for home buyers (who are not new to the area) to directly contact the seller (after obtaining seller’s cell # from their new neighbors) after the closing with questions about recommendations for repair people, questions about which appliances do & don’t work (when that info was clearly spelled out in the contract), & requesting other information? Especially when the buyers & sellers have never met, all details were handled by respective realtors, & the seller didn’t specifically invite questions? Is this strange, or is this actually expected, acceptable behavior from home buyers?
comment posted at 4:45 PM on Sep-27-22
I live in Vermont and am a Justice of the Peace. I perform weddings. People love getting married here in the Autumn. I very often write the ceremonies myself or make suggestions to the couple. I am looking for more fall-themed wedding-appropriate poems for my collection and would love to know what poems you like along these lines.
comment posted at 12:36 PM on Oct-27-22
My father passed away a bit over a year ago, as a result of which, my brother and I each essentially inherited a house. Both houses had small existing loans active on them that are still active. What's the best course of action for dealing with those loans, especially for tax purposes?
comment posted at 8:53 AM on Sep-27-22
There are some hygiene tasks I don’t like doing. How can I make them more fun?
comment posted at 8:43 AM on Sep-27-22
In the past, I have enjoyed getting tipsy and was a happy drinker. I can not imbibe, and I have good reason to believe I can’t tolerate other substances, either. I would very much enjoy being able to get into that spacy dreamy place again, and from anecdotes along the years I suspect that’s possible through breathing techniques or meditation or chanting or … something. Just to be hyper extremely extra clear: I can not imbibe in ANYTHING. I’m interested in music or other experiences or practices that have helped you get to an altered state without putting anything into your body or fasting. I would like to spend some happy time in the clouds without creating any clouds.
comment posted at 8:47 AM on Sep-27-22
We have two sets of very steep, polished wooden stairs in our house. Every one of us has taken a tumble down the stairs at some point since moving in. As winter arrives and I like to wear warm wool socks, I know this will get slipperier. What kind of non-ugly, unobtrusive solution can I apply to the stairs to avoid going ass over teakettle? No, I will not be putting rubber treads on my handknit socks, it’s got to be the stairs.
comment posted at 9:12 AM on Sep-27-22
Are there 'before' pictures of what pill bottles/etc. looked like before the 1982 cyanide-laced Tylenols? I am wondering how they looked like/worked before they changed it.
comment posted at 5:32 PM on Sep-26-22
Where do you buy household and hardware items online these days? Things like a carpet sweeper, wastebasket, or garden clippers? In addition to being horrible for all mankind, Amazon is also rife with counterfeit garbage.
comment posted at 7:38 AM on Sep-26-22
I dislike the phrase 'good luck' and I would like to replace it. What are your 'good luck' alternatives?
comment posted at 7:21 AM on Sep-26-22
Do you like your electric blanket/throw? Why or why not, and what brand is it? Especially curious about cheaper brands but interested in all.
comment posted at 7:26 AM on Sep-26-22
I recently read Susan Juby's delightful novel, Mindful of Murder, which is a murder mystery, whose main character, Helen, is a former Buddhist nun who has just graduated from a school for butlers when the story begins. (I know, that sounds preposterous.) I love Helen, her equanimity, her openheartedness, her interactions with other wonderfully drawn characters in the course of the story. So I am interested in finding more fiction with specifically Buddhist characters like Helen. Can you help? Preferably fairly light reading, such as mystery or other genres.
comment posted at 7:40 AM on Sep-26-22
In real life couples tend to share in jokes, slang, neologisms, tones of voice etc that they use privately and not with other people. I'm looking for examples of this kind of couple talk in novels and short stories.
comment posted at 2:20 PM on Sep-25-22
I want the most comfortable reading/watching TV in bed setup possible, by any means. what is yours?
comment posted at 3:41 PM on Sep-24-22
I've been assigned to teach an introductory 1 hour class about Google Workspace. It will be a group of 8 adults (most at a very basic tech level), all will have laptops, and I'll be sharing my screen. I have little experience with Google Workspace --what are the most important/helpful things I should cover to give participants the basics?
comment posted at 8:13 AM on Sep-24-22
[CW: medical assistance in dying] My beloved aunt, who has been a second mother to me, is planning to end her life under our state's Medical Assistance in Dying Act (MAiD) in the next several days. I am not supposed to know this. I respect and support her decision 100%, including her wish to keep this a secret. But I am struggling with the ethics of knowing the date and time of a loved one's death in advance yet not acknowledging it to them in any way. I am afraid I am making the wrong choice. If anyone has experience with physician-assisted suicide--either as a family member, a professional, a patient, whathaveyou--I'd be profoundly grateful for any thoughts you'd care to share. Thank you so much in advance.
comment posted at 8:02 AM on Sep-24-22
comment posted at 5:01 PM on Mar-6-23
Seeking recommendations (or anti-recommendations) of intensive outpatient and/or partial hospitalization programs (or similar) in Massachusetts that take MassHealth. This is for my partner, an adult trans woman who has a history of depression with suicidal ideation and PTSD and does not have substance use issues. Virtual options statewide or options in Western Massachusetts are preferred but any thoughts are welcome.
comment posted at 5:04 PM on Mar-6-23
Some folks in my local community are trying to evaluate options for establishing a local community owned ski bunny hill (like a tow rope up a hill sort of deal). Curious if anyone is aware of towns (in North America would be most relevant, I know Europe has more of a history of this) that run very small scale bunny hills with any equipment.
comment posted at 3:55 PM on Feb-28-23
I am firmly millennial, and have grown up with the internet my whole life. If you are looking for something, you find it online, but there are glimpses of the past around New York, where people still hang up paper advertising apartments for rent, or parties you might go to. I am wondering about the times before online was ubiquitous, and I know about classified ads, but I've heard legend of public bulletin boards where you would go to find out about stuff, and/or post your own bulletins.
comment posted at 9:12 AM on Mar-1-23
I would like to find a hotel in the greater Boston area that has a wonderful bathtub. It would be great if the other aspects of the hotel are on par with the tub, but the tub experience is the focus. Adequate depth and decent width/length are the main factors - bubbles and other features are nice, but not critical. I'm having trouble coming up with a search query that returns relevant results, and I'm ready to throw in the towel.
comment posted at 4:12 PM on Feb-26-23
I recently bought a new Macbook Air. I'm on a trip right now and a freelance job came in that I'd like to do. The client sent me the doc in Word. I don't have Word on this new laptop. (I do have Word on my home desktop.) I can open the document in Office 365 and read it and make changes, but I don't see how to save a copy locally and then email back the edited document. Any ideas?
comment posted at 8:48 AM on Feb-24-23
I think we’ve all seen the damage that a few inches of snow does when it lands in a southern state like Georgia - they don’t have the plows or infrastructure in general to deal with it so it clogs the roads and people die from being unprepared. But it still happens every few years and it’s generally only a few inches - and the northern states nearby are generally all dealing with the same storm. If a blizzard actually comes to San Diego and / or Los Angeles, it could be far worse - beyond the traffic issues, I don’t know whether most roofs are built to handle the weight of snow, and I’m certain they don’t have enough plows. Are the states that do, and aren’t currently in any danger, sending them? Is this what FEMA does, or are they only there to help after it’s too late? The Army Corps of Engineers?
comment posted at 5:21 PM on Feb-24-23
I've been listening to my partner's tales of a close friends of theirs who seems to be undergoing various aspects of identity theft. What can I recommend to help?
comment posted at 8:55 AM on Feb-24-23
Is there a way of doing this ? I would like to click on a word on a Wikipedia page and get shown which edit created that word. As far as I know the only way to achieve this is to look in the history and systematically work my way back through time ... not an appealing prospect !
comment posted at 4:37 PM on Feb-20-23
Why do people fold laundry? What is the purpose of folding laundry? Is it to do with using tumble driers instead of washing lines?
comment posted at 8:50 AM on Feb-20-23
I started work at a private university one year ago. Their background check did not discover I was convicted of a felony 20+ years ago and spent nearly a year in federal prison. Now I've been offered a higher paying job in another part of the university, and they want to do what they say is a more thorough background check. I'm concerned that if I quit job 1 and then fail the background check in job 2, I may not be able to get job 1 back and I'm out of the university all together.
comment posted at 11:26 AM on Feb-19-23
What are your favorite methods for returning to sleep when you wakup at at 3:30 a.m. and your mind is racing?
comment posted at 9:15 AM on Feb-19-23
comment posted at 10:35 AM on Feb-20-23
I decided to have a child with a close friend. I was enthusiastic about the idea, but it soured quickly. Should I bail out before she conceives? Can I?
comment posted at 5:03 PM on Feb-17-23
We are vacationing in Vermont in March to experience snow, plus other fun stuff you can recommend.
comment posted at 8:22 AM on Feb-11-23
Everyone’s different of course, just wondering how much talking you think is too much in a conversation between two people. (In either number of statements/stories or time.) What feels imbalanced? What feels balanced? Thanks!
comment posted at 8:35 AM on Feb-11-23
I'm running ClamXAV on my 2020 MacBook Air with Ventura 13.1 OS. It's up for renewal in a week. Do I really need this protection? Or can I safely run without some sort of antivirus/malware?
comment posted at 9:55 AM on Feb-10-23
YANMD, but I've been to several and they're at a loss. Details below.
comment posted at 9:56 AM on Feb-10-23
I've always been fascinated by the personal ads of the pre-internet times and I bet there are people here on Metafilter who could tell me more about what the practical experience of using them was actually like.
comment posted at 12:40 PM on Feb-9-23
I am trying to book a hotel for a few nights between February 17-22. My main criteria is finding a hotel with a pool that will be fun for my 6-year-old. We have had some experiences with chain hotels recently with indoor pools that are COLD and tiny and in freezing cold rooms that are not fun to hang in. I am looking for a hotel with a big, bright greenhouse-type environment with warm water that is spacious and fun for a kid to swim and play for many hours.
comment posted at 7:15 AM on Feb-8-23
I can't believe I'm wasting a question on this, but you know the idea of people who are "ingredients people" (i.e., they have eggs and butter and flour in their larder but no actual prepared foods)? Where did that idea come from? Can someone provide me a link to some writing about this? (It doesn't actually have to be the original person who developed this idea, just something that sets out the concept.)
comment posted at 9:16 AM on Feb-8-23
What are low-hassle ways of selling mildly-valuable antiquarian books?
comment posted at 11:08 AM on Feb-2-23
My on-again off-again friend has called to try to mend fences. I don’t want to. But she is the mother of my son’s best friend…
comment posted at 11:32 AM on Jan-31-23
We have a family event that takes us to Hanover NH in late June so we are planing to meet up with some favorite relatives and sneak in a little vacation. We will fly into Boston, rent a car and then spend a few nights a place A (maybe Cape Cod?) and a few nights in place B (??) and end up near Hanover NH. Where should we stay and what should we do on the two parts of this trip?
comment posted at 11:25 AM on Jan-31-23
I'm looking for song examples where the singer "speaks" over music in a more or less plain voice (possibly in a rhythmic fashion). The first forty seconds of The Butthole Surfers "Pepper" is the best example I know. I am not looking for rap or hip hop or trap unless it's very different. Not looking for people using recorded samples of speaking over music. I am looking for diverse examples of people using a speaking voice over music. It can be just a short section of a piece.
comment posted at 2:59 PM on Jan-29-23
I need help with words to de-escalate my father's REACTION to my mother's bipolar episode. She's not too manic, I believe she's relatively safe, but ABSOLUTELY annoying. Earlier my father sent frantic texts for HELP!, "She's threatening to leave him and will not see a doctor." A few hours later, I'm thinking it was mostly just a fight between two emotionally dysregulated people. I'm more concerned bout talking him down than I am about her.
comment posted at 2:55 PM on Jan-29-23
Have you experienced or heard about one of the major fast food restaurants not being able to accept cards for that day, or so? If so, is it a one off thing, so need to make sure to have cash at all times, or could it happen again, and maybe even at more than one place? What is the conclusion that different people would come to as a result of that experience? P.S Is there a better category this question should be in? I guess it would be too late to edit after a day or so.
comment posted at 2:03 PM on Jan-28-23
Looking for scripts I should have used instead of (eep, I know how bad this sounds) going silent on these people.
comment posted at 1:45 PM on Jan-27-23
I am a new pellet stove owner and other than following along with the relevant subreddit, are there other places you have gone online that have good info, or do you have advice that you gained after some pellet stove ownership time that you think might be helpful?
comment posted at 7:47 AM on Jan-8-23
My wife and I have an ongoing disagreement in the kitchen about the best way to handle tough stains and build-up on dishes and the impact water temperature has on getting cookware clean. Can you help?
comment posted at 7:46 AM on Jan-4-23
Do you have any tips, tricks, or advice, for people staying on Elon Musk's Twitter, from a liberal perspective? How to deal with trolls, data security, blocklists, or anything else is all helpful. Any apps, plugins, usage guidelines, or other ways for progressives to make the most of Twitter? Thanks!
comment posted at 8:05 AM on Jan-4-23
My job just sent out an email saying that covid is now endemic, so we can all start to spend more time on campus. Okay, but it's not. It causes severe, lifelong disruptions to health. People can become totally disabled. It makes me extremely anxious, especially when I'm in conference calls with coworkers and I can see they're in tiny rooms with each other with no masks on. Is anyone else having to work hard on suppressing their instincts to tell the truth about what's going on?
comment posted at 2:45 PM on Nov-29-22
I'm pondering _how to find_ companies, academics, foundations, granting organizations, or non-profit organizations that are doing innovative, exploratory, or results-based work to help communities, small, large, and global, build trust and communication to actually solve fundamental society-affecting problems. (I mean, more systematically than reading Metafilter and watching TED Talks.)
comment posted at 3:38 PM on Oct-29-22
What's a part of your job that you actually like? What task or part of your work day, other than lunch, do you really enjoy, to the point of thinking, yeah, this is it, this is where I fit?
comment posted at 3:19 PM on Oct-29-22
A friend in Burlington VT is has to stop using his beloved 1995 Volvo because his present garage has changed hands and the new owner will not work on the older cars. Who in this part of Vermont still works on them?
comment posted at 5:38 PM on Sep-29-22
Is it a normal thing for home buyers (who are not new to the area) to directly contact the seller (after obtaining seller’s cell # from their new neighbors) after the closing with questions about recommendations for repair people, questions about which appliances do & don’t work (when that info was clearly spelled out in the contract), & requesting other information? Especially when the buyers & sellers have never met, all details were handled by respective realtors, & the seller didn’t specifically invite questions? Is this strange, or is this actually expected, acceptable behavior from home buyers?
comment posted at 4:45 PM on Sep-27-22
I live in Vermont and am a Justice of the Peace. I perform weddings. People love getting married here in the Autumn. I very often write the ceremonies myself or make suggestions to the couple. I am looking for more fall-themed wedding-appropriate poems for my collection and would love to know what poems you like along these lines.
comment posted at 12:36 PM on Oct-27-22
My father passed away a bit over a year ago, as a result of which, my brother and I each essentially inherited a house. Both houses had small existing loans active on them that are still active. What's the best course of action for dealing with those loans, especially for tax purposes?
comment posted at 8:53 AM on Sep-27-22
There are some hygiene tasks I don’t like doing. How can I make them more fun?
comment posted at 8:43 AM on Sep-27-22
In the past, I have enjoyed getting tipsy and was a happy drinker. I can not imbibe, and I have good reason to believe I can’t tolerate other substances, either. I would very much enjoy being able to get into that spacy dreamy place again, and from anecdotes along the years I suspect that’s possible through breathing techniques or meditation or chanting or … something. Just to be hyper extremely extra clear: I can not imbibe in ANYTHING. I’m interested in music or other experiences or practices that have helped you get to an altered state without putting anything into your body or fasting. I would like to spend some happy time in the clouds without creating any clouds.
comment posted at 8:47 AM on Sep-27-22
We have two sets of very steep, polished wooden stairs in our house. Every one of us has taken a tumble down the stairs at some point since moving in. As winter arrives and I like to wear warm wool socks, I know this will get slipperier. What kind of non-ugly, unobtrusive solution can I apply to the stairs to avoid going ass over teakettle? No, I will not be putting rubber treads on my handknit socks, it’s got to be the stairs.
comment posted at 9:12 AM on Sep-27-22
Are there 'before' pictures of what pill bottles/etc. looked like before the 1982 cyanide-laced Tylenols? I am wondering how they looked like/worked before they changed it.
comment posted at 5:32 PM on Sep-26-22
Where do you buy household and hardware items online these days? Things like a carpet sweeper, wastebasket, or garden clippers? In addition to being horrible for all mankind, Amazon is also rife with counterfeit garbage.
comment posted at 7:38 AM on Sep-26-22
I dislike the phrase 'good luck' and I would like to replace it. What are your 'good luck' alternatives?
comment posted at 7:21 AM on Sep-26-22
Do you like your electric blanket/throw? Why or why not, and what brand is it? Especially curious about cheaper brands but interested in all.
comment posted at 7:26 AM on Sep-26-22
I recently read Susan Juby's delightful novel, Mindful of Murder, which is a murder mystery, whose main character, Helen, is a former Buddhist nun who has just graduated from a school for butlers when the story begins. (I know, that sounds preposterous.) I love Helen, her equanimity, her openheartedness, her interactions with other wonderfully drawn characters in the course of the story. So I am interested in finding more fiction with specifically Buddhist characters like Helen. Can you help? Preferably fairly light reading, such as mystery or other genres.
comment posted at 7:40 AM on Sep-26-22
In real life couples tend to share in jokes, slang, neologisms, tones of voice etc that they use privately and not with other people. I'm looking for examples of this kind of couple talk in novels and short stories.
comment posted at 2:20 PM on Sep-25-22
I want the most comfortable reading/watching TV in bed setup possible, by any means. what is yours?
comment posted at 3:41 PM on Sep-24-22
I've been assigned to teach an introductory 1 hour class about Google Workspace. It will be a group of 8 adults (most at a very basic tech level), all will have laptops, and I'll be sharing my screen. I have little experience with Google Workspace --what are the most important/helpful things I should cover to give participants the basics?
comment posted at 8:13 AM on Sep-24-22
[CW: medical assistance in dying] My beloved aunt, who has been a second mother to me, is planning to end her life under our state's Medical Assistance in Dying Act (MAiD) in the next several days. I am not supposed to know this. I respect and support her decision 100%, including her wish to keep this a secret. But I am struggling with the ethics of knowing the date and time of a loved one's death in advance yet not acknowledging it to them in any way. I am afraid I am making the wrong choice. If anyone has experience with physician-assisted suicide--either as a family member, a professional, a patient, whathaveyou--I'd be profoundly grateful for any thoughts you'd care to share. Thank you so much in advance.
comment posted at 8:02 AM on Sep-24-22
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