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Free Rein on Netflix.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 7:24 PM on July 10, 2018

My sister-in-law got one. Then my mom got one. Now I've got one, and I made phở bò in an hour.

IN AN HOUR.

Metafilter, there is nothing that fights off that it's-dark-and-cold-at-4:30 like a bowl of phở bò. With this IP recipe, you have about thirty minutes of prep, then you dump everything in the pot and walk away.

SO. GOOD.

Also, my parents now make their own Greek yogurt with their IP, and it tastes great. Cheap as hell, too.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 9:53 AM on November 25, 2017

Bakfiets. Bakfiets, bakfiets, bakfiets.

Bakfiets.

I love my bakfiets. I had hauled my kid around in a trailer, but I couldn't see her or carry nearly enough groceries. After researching cargo bikes, I figure the bakfiets was what we needed. I have never looked back. Until we moved from Santa Monica to Seattle. Then I had to spring for an e-assist, because hills. So many hills.

I'm a fan of Workcycles, and their latest… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 9:14 PM on September 9, 2016

My Name Is Aram, by William Saroyan
Unpossible, by Daryl Gregory
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 7:16 PM on May 29, 2016

A Stranger In Olondria by Sofia Samatar.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 8:05 PM on January 20, 2016

If you haven't practiced reading the passage, do it a few times. Get the rhythm of your reading, time how long it's going to be. Also, you might catch bits in the text that just don't sound right when read out loud. Scribble them out. Read from the book itself so the audience can see your cover.

Bring a warm, soothing beverage for your voice. Tea with honey, perhaps. I blew mine out at my first reading.

If the room is big enough, borrow or buy a… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 4:07 PM on January 18, 2016 marked best answer

The morning of the BBQ, take two heads of broccoli and cut them lengthwise to make a bunch of strips with some florets at the top of each. Throw them in a bowl with Caesar salad dressing, mix 'em up, and let 'em sit in the fridge until go time. Grill over medium until done.

Grilled oysters are also awesome. Just toss 'em on the grill until they open. Serve with lime butter.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 9:39 PM on June 10, 2015 marked best answer

Scott Lynch's Gentlemen Bastards has been great so far. Granted, I'm on book 3, and number 4 hasn't been released,
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 8:16 PM on May 9, 2015

Wait, one more! Slights by Kaaron Warren. Creeped me right the hell out.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 8:13 PM on March 18, 2015 marked best answer

When you say "fiction," you're talking "genre fiction," and not "literary fiction," right?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 2:48 PM on December 3, 2014

Just wanted to be sure. I think you'll meet a wider cross-section of writers, editors, agents, and other publishing pros at Worldcon, but it might not be that much wider. The page of attending pros from last year's NorWesCon looks pretty good, and it drew from outside the quite-deep talent pool in the PNW. If you're interested in doing a writing workshop at a con, you'll probably want to go to Worldcon, since the submission deadline for NorWesCon's workshop has passed.… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 3:16 PM on December 3, 2014 marked best answer

Or, hell, just go to NorWesCon and have a Mefi meetup with djwudi.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 3:18 PM on December 3, 2014

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson.

Afterparty by Daryl Gregory (disclosure: Daryl's a friend, I read an early draft, and buying this book will allow Daryl to buy me beer. It's also a cracking read.)

vN and iD by Madeline Ashby. Really, anything Angry Robot Books is publishing kicks ass.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 4:11 PM on June 19, 2014

When we started out five years ago, I wish we'd known right away that we would need an attorney. The agency we went to was great, but they did not tell us until the end of the formal interviews and classes that most birth mothers will work through attorneys first so they can have a little more say in where their baby is placed. If we'd stuck with the agency, it would have taken us years for a baby to be placed with us. With an attorney, we went from putting our scrapbook together to meeting our… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 1:50 PM on May 6, 2014 marked best answer

Supergrass - Pumping On Your Stereo - special puppetry bonus
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 8:07 AM on January 31, 2014

Two more from TV On The Radio:

The Golden Age

Caffeinated Consciousness
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 8:16 AM on January 31, 2014

I went to Mudd from '92 to '94, went back there many times to visit. Holy crap, is that whole place safe and boring, depending on the dorm he moves into. I'm not sure how the cultures have changed since I was there, but he sounds like he'd fit in at Case, East, or South. If he's that sheltered, West, North, and probably Linde are right out.

The area itself is equally safe and boring. i think it'll be okay.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 10:09 PM on September 26, 2013

Coming on three and a half years. Here are the things that saved my bacon:

1) Etrigan mentioned walks: oh my FSM YES. I used to sling my daughter and schlep around the neighborhood for miles and miles. Things got even better when her neck was strong enough to use the Bjorn. Bjorns are the shiz. The kid gets to see stuff, you get to see stuff, and I found the walking to be a major stress relief for me. Used to be the only way to get my kid to sleep, too. Walk walk walk.… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 11:19 AM on August 5, 2013

This site had the recipe and the Botulism Doom comment.

The belly sat uncovered on a wire rack above a baking dish for three days. Then I needed more room in the fridge (sauce and soup pots took over, so everything moved up), so I popped it into ziplock bad, squished the air out, and let it sit another four. Tonight, I rinsed the belly, dried it, and set it back on the wire rack to form a pellicle.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 12:26 AM on April 6, 2013

Thanks, everyone!

To answer some questions, first, the fridge, while not wiped down with bleach, is clean. And, yes, it's 200 degrees Fahrenheit.

I'm going to roast and smoke for this batch. Future bellies I'll stick straight into the ziplock without the open exposure, plus extra cold packs like jbenben suggested.

The one thing I'm wondering about now is that, for years, I've made pork ribs on my smoker with the water… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 7:54 AM on April 6, 2013

That is excellent, Orinda. Thank you.

And I should add that I am not opposed to using nitrites in the cure. I just picked some up from Williams-Sonoma right up the street; if I'd looked around some more, I'd have gotten it and used it last week, and we would not have had this discussion. Lesson: Google more, AskMeFi less.

And now, to the kitchen!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 12:55 PM on April 6, 2013

For follow-up, I roasted this belly, and, holy cow, was it salty. I froze it and will use it sparingly in future soups and stews.

A week later I did get some pink salt and cured a belly and smoked it and oh my God was it the best bacon I have ever had in my life.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 7:30 PM on May 15, 2013

I like the Prius better, but that's only because I've driven it more. I could learn to like the Camry. Thank you, Hive Mind!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 12:54 PM on December 12, 2012

I've been taking lessons for about as long as you (started playing in '09, took two years off when my daughter was born), and have had a lot of the same issues. I think everyone does when they start playing. Here's what's helped me:

1) Consistent instruction. It's good you're starting with a teacher this summer, and the sooner you start, the happier I think you'll be. Having someone who can point out your strengths and weaknesses as a player (ie technique, intonation,… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 6:20 PM on May 20, 2012

I've been taking cello lessons at the Santa Monica Music Center on Santa Monica and 19th for the past year. I highly recommend April Guthrie, their instructor. You buy packages of four half-hour lessons @ $32 a pop, and I think there was a try-one-free deal (though it's been a while, so I may be misremembering that).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 12:27 PM on March 31, 2010

Second for High and Low. One part character study, one part police procedural, and the whole is excellent.

The Bad Sleep Well is an interesting one. Worth seeing once.

Yojimbo. Absolutely.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 5:23 PM on December 30, 2008

And I now see that you've seen The Bad Sleep Well, so you're done there.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 5:24 PM on December 30, 2008

John Gray's "Men, Women & Relationships." Read it because my then-girlfriend said it would help our then-floundering romance. I think I threw it once, though it was after she broke up me anyway.

It is also the only book I have ever burned.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 5:14 PM on December 22, 2008

William Saroyan's "My Name is Aram" and Spider Robinson's "Callahan Chronicles." Both sound better when read out loud.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 6:26 PM on October 13, 2008

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Newly Diagnosed page.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 7:08 PM on July 15, 2008

Sorry if that felt like a self-linky, but I figured the Korean giro link wouldn't make much sense without the domain name. Next time, name without link. Mea culpa.

daninnj, all comments are turned off by default. And I have SpamKarma 2 running, so a lot of stuff gets trapped and killed.

visual mechanic, "giro" is the top search term. And while there are some referring sites with ".kr", most of them are from feelor.com, which seems to be a Chinese site.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 11:06 AM on July 18, 2006

To restate my original question: is there an easy way to divert all of this traffic to a stripped down site?

Thank you, empyrean. I'll look into the rewrite module.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 11:11 AM on July 18, 2006

Holy crap, sergeant, that must be it. Sandwiches are on me.

So, okay. I can ignore the whole thing. But now the geek in me wants to try out mod_rewrites and make a text only page with a link to giro.or.kr (and to me, if they really want to hear my melodious voice). So, it's off to tinker. Thanks for the advice and information, everyone!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 1:20 PM on July 18, 2006

Good bits in both, so I combined them into this (with one quick word change and shift):

Druzy clutched the vial, its contents still hot. She crouched in the undergrowth, breath ragged, never taking her eyes from the mansion beyond the rise. Sentries scurried about its courtyards in search of her, and – she had to squint through the dusk to make sure – yes, they made immediately for the stables. More torches lit the gloom. Now she could make out the white-robed… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 4:21 PM on June 29, 2006

If you want views of the Curonian Spit, better to avoid Kaliningrad and just go to Lithuania. Granted, I haven't been to Klaipeda in five years, but I liked it then, and the Spit is one of those beautifully desolate places. Plus, the local beer and seafood stews were great.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 12:35 PM on June 7, 2006

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson. Bought it on the way up to a snowboard trip, and I spent more time reading in the cabin than I did on the mountain.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 4:24 PM on May 25, 2006

I've never had pizza in Chicago, but the stuff at Numero Uno has the deepest crust I've ever seen in Los Angeles. Might do in a pinch.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 2:58 PM on April 5, 2006

It powers up and AM works. Got nothing on SW or FM, though.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 10:29 AM on December 20, 2005

Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica .
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 4:10 PM on November 15, 2005

Sweet! Thanks, everyone!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 11:55 AM on November 8, 2005

A hydraulic lift or a grease pit in the garage for making oil changes easier/safer than using a jack and jack stands.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 5:27 PM on November 3, 2005

Another Eagle here. I think I was one of the last batches of Cub Scouts before they came up with Tiger Cubs, but I went through the whole enchilada. Same with my younger brother.

What I remember most about Cub Scouts was good stuff. All of my friends were in my den, and my mom was our den mother, so that made things pretty easy. I really don't remember religion being part of it. While there are religious medals you can earn for exploring your own faith, I don't… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 11:40 AM on September 23, 2005

Get a cast iron skillet and learn how to take care of it.

Fail. Fail with style and gusto.

Take as many weird classes as possible. If I could do it again, I would've taken some of the ag courses offered at my university.

Start exercising now if you don't already. Find some physical activity that works your muscles and heart and that you enjoy, and stay with the habit.

Be interesting without… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 4:31 PM on June 10, 2005

I dunno. What's snu with you?

(Thank you, Walt Kelly.)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 2:58 PM on April 12, 2005

Well, why not get one of your friends to get ordained at good ol' www.ulc.org and make your own ceremony? That'll make for a much more memorable event than going to City Hall. Get your friends together for a picnic, do the thing with the stuff, and that's that.

Yo, Mayor Curley, are you ULC, too? Reverends represent!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 4:53 PM on April 7, 2005

Four moments:

In fourth grade, David Kazyne (I remember the sound of his last name, but not the spelling), who was two years older, kept taunting me on the playground. I was tossing a tennis ball against a backstop, and he kept taking it from me. After demanding he give it back, I punched him in the side of the head. In retrospect, it was an awful punch, completely lame, but he went down. I knocked a bigger, older kid to his knees. I got sent to the Principal's… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 4:35 PM on February 8, 2005

I was on a game show called "WinTuition" on the Game Show Network in late 2002. While I didn't win the whole enchilada, I did win a set of encyclopedias and a stereo which I'm using right now. It was cool to get phonecalls from friends who said, "Hey...are you tv right now?"
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 8:22 PM on July 9, 2004

Then I pretty much committed a slow version of unassisted suicide during high-school...
posted by grum@work at 12:30 PM PST on July 5

Won't someone think of the kittens?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 8:57 AM on July 6, 2004

Yes, and I plan on using the "youthful indiscretion" gambit. It's the only way to explain the pictures of me at Burning Man taking a shower with two women.

Granted, I think that something like that will only help in Santa Monica politics, so what the hell.

What I fear more are the posts and emails I've written out of anger. I'd like to think that people in government should be rational and calm, but then I think of… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 10:51 PM on June 29, 2004

Thanks for the suggestions, gang! I'll let y'all know what adventures we decide to take.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RakDaddy at 10:19 PM on June 17, 2004