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Nighthand posted:Does anyone have experience with Border Energy? They're one of those companies that go door to door and sign you up for a lower natural gas recovery cost or whatever, and claim you get a lower price with it.
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A friend of mine is running a charitable event where several teams each start off with a given item and must travel around the city trying to trade their item for something better. At the end of the day the items will be sold off and the proceeds will go to charity. My friend wants to be able to track the teams in real time so we can periodically update how everyone is doing. Any ideas on good methods to track several groups of people? This is all going down in New Zealand, so anything specific to the States won't be helpful, unfortunately. Thanks.
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I have no clue, but please post details of this once formalised in the NZ Goonmeet/gen discussion thread cause it sounds cool e: serious response: give each team a twitter and a hashtag and make them update every 20m? Big Bad Beetleborg fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Oct 4, 2012 |
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Oct 3, 2012 23:50
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Lost Covenant posted:My friend wants to be able to track the teams in real time so we can periodically update how everyone is doing. Any ideas on good methods to track several groups of people? If I understand what you're asking for correctly, I've seen wikis used by teams of people for this sort of purpose.
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Oct 3, 2012 23:59
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Lost Covenant posted:A friend of mine is running a charitable event where several teams each start off with a given item and must travel around the city trying to trade their item for something better. At the end of the day the items will be sold off and the proceeds will go to charity. My friend wants to be able to track the teams in real time so we can periodically update how everyone is doing. Any ideas on good methods to track several groups of people? If you just want to know where the teams are, there are all sorts of gps trackers that will automatically update a map with the gps's current location. If you want to know what item they currently have; Twitter seems like the easiest way to do this to me too.
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Oct 4, 2012 02:06
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DrBouvenstein posted:If you want coffee milk, just buy coffee milk syrup. I'm not familiar with this product, but Wikipedia tells me that it's water and sugar strained through coffee grounds, so I'm not sure what the advantage to that would be. For one thing, it has sugar in it, so that would actually make it worse from my perspective. And even if you do want extra sugar in your flavoured milk, you can just add sugar yourself. Plus, having instant coffee in the house is handy if you don't normally drink coffee yourself so that when people come around can offer them coffee. Also, from the perspective of the person asking how to acclimatise themself to the taste of coffee, if you make coffee flavoured milk from instant coffee you can gradually alter the amount of milk you're putting in until it's just a normal coffee.
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Is there a way to tell if a book is hardcover, trade paperback or mass-market paper back from the ISBN? I'm looking at ordering some stuff from bookdepository and want to ensure they're all the same size.
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mirthdefect posted:Is there a way to tell if a book is hardcover, trade paperback or mass-market paper back from the ISBN? I'm looking at ordering some stuff from bookdepository and want to ensure they're all the same size. My wife the librarian says "maybe" -- sometimes different formats get different ISBNs, sometimes not. The ISBN doesn't encode size at all. She suggests plugging the ISBN into Amazon, click the title and scroll down (quite far) and there should be a "physical description".
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Oct 4, 2012 06:20
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The thing about instant coffee is that it tastes like poo poo, and thus it is not very well suited for getting used to the taste of coffee. Also, generally, the more expensive the coffee, the less bitter it gets, so unlike whiskey, it's actually a good idea to start with the good stuff.
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I'm one of the Splenda-and-cream pansies in the thread's coffee discussion, and I don't know where "Illy" brand espresso fits into the coffee snob hierarchy, but it gets the approval of a Turk who is eternally, vocally disappointed ( ) by almost every coffee brand in the United States and I still think it tastes like a cup of misery. Black coffee falls somewhere between licking an ashtray and eating burnt toast for me, and I'm on the fence as to whether I should keep striving against all of my senses to be a proper adult or just submit to my kiddie preferences on this matter.As an aside, Lavazza has the reluctant Turkish stamp of approval, too, so maybe Lance Streetman can consider trying a tin of that if he's got $6 to spare and no one else vetoes the suggestion. \/\/\/\/Edit: Maybe you have a point on the Turk. I'm not exactly well-traveled but of the different nationalities I've gotten around to the subject with, each of them were dead certain their people were not only the biggest consumers of coffee but the most discriminating. Israelis, Finns, Swedes, Turks, et cetera. Coffee and capsaisin are inevitable bragging points, I think. David Mitchell had a good grasp on How to Cope with Coffee that makes me feel pretty okay with just doing a little Seinfeld cringe and excusing myself from the audience. 
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I only use beans from local roasters, so I wouldn't know what's in those, but generally speaking, espresso blends are a mix of arabica (the good bean) and robusta (the cheap and bitter bean). This makes for a stronger and more bitter taste, which some people may like, but still isn't the most accessible. Try to find 100% arabica coffees, preferably a light roast, that way you can actually taste the nuances of coffee instead of just caffeine. For those of you who actually drink coffee already, try getting a 100% robusta and a 100% arabica and brew them the same way and taste the difference. It's quite a lot of difference. Also, I wouldn't trust a Turk on coffee, what with Turkish coffee often being with cardamom.
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Tiggum posted:I'm not familiar with this product, but Wikipedia tells me that it's water and sugar strained through coffee grounds, so I'm not sure what the advantage to that would be. For one thing, it has sugar in it, so that would actually make it worse from my perspective. And even if you do want extra sugar in your flavoured milk, you can just add sugar yourself. Plus, having instant coffee in the house is handy if you don't normally drink coffee yourself so that when people come around can offer them coffee. t  > gently caress YOU JUST gently caress YOU   How would you like it if I offered you a Coke or some tea and then came back with some powdered Coke or powdered tea? And then you had to drink it and thank me for my hospitality? Please nobody ever buy instant coffee unless you actually like drinking it yourself.
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Nighthand posted:Does anyone have experience with Border Energy? They're one of those companies that go door to door and sign you up for a lower natural gas recovery cost or whatever, and claim you get a lower price with it. Did he quickly show you his ID, and then ask to see your most recent bill? Yeah that was so he can get your account info to switch you over whether you decided to sign up or not. I also live in SW Mich and had one of these guys show up to my door the other week. Lucky for me I already knew about this scam and told him to get off my property before I call the cops. He actually asked why I would call the cops and then told me it wouldn't matter because they already know he is here.  You are going to want to contact Consumers or DTE or whoever and tell them about it.
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greazeball posted:How would you like it if I offered you a Coke or some tea and then came back with some powdered Coke or powdered tea? And then you had to drink it and thank me for my hospitality? Um, fine? At home I buy a particular brand and variety (several actually) of tea and make it the way I like, but if someone offers me a cup of tea I'll drink it any way it comes. And if you really don't like instant coffee, you just say "no thanks" when offered. I occasionally drink coffee myself but really only keep it in the house for other people, who are free to drink it or not as they choose.
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I've had powdered soda mixes before and they were perfectly fine, same with for tea. They're not the ~very best~ but it's not like they tend to be bad.
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Trastion posted:Did he quickly show you his ID, and then ask to see your most recent bill? Yeah that was so he can get your account info to switch you over whether you decided to sign up or not. I also live in SW Mich and had one of these guys show up to my door the other week. Lucky for me I already knew about this scam and told him to get off my property before I call the cops. He actually asked why I would call the cops and then told me it wouldn't matter because they already know he is here. That's pretty crazy. I've turned down other people before from companies I knew were going around with the fixed-rate plans, but this whole deal was new. I usually don't even have a paper bill to show (I do it all online) but happened to have one on hand because of the issues I had with my account last month. I've sent a contact e-mail to Consumers so I guess I'll see what they say. It would be pretty neat if it turned out to be legitimately 10% less than the standard rate, but I don't have high hopes. Randyest: I didn't sign anything, but it looks like I didn't need to, they just needed whatever information they pulled from the aforementioned bill. If they send me the terms and conditions like they said they would, I'll definitely be reviewing them, but I won't be waiting very long for them. They said there's a 30 day period to cancel before cancellation charges apply, so if the t&c isn't here within a week I'm not about to wait up for it. Thanks for the input, hopefully this doesn't turn into a huge clusterfuck.
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Is it common for left-handed kids who are just learning their ABC's to write words right to left and "mirror" their letters?
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I found a check that was issued in December of last year that was never deposited (moving). Can I still deposit this check? It's from a big company that I don't work for anymore and probably can't get another one re-cut.
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Oct 5, 2012 03:14
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Is all the music sold on itunes completely DRM free? Or are the tracks that cost 1.29 DRM free while the 0.99 cent ones are DRM’d? Sorry for a dumb question. I’ve never had a reason to use itunes until now.
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Oct 5, 2012 03:44
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FCKGW posted:I found a check that was issued in December of last year that was never deposited (moving). Can I still deposit this check? It's from a big company that I don't work for anymore and probably can't get another one re-cut. My bank will accept a check up to a year old. I imagine it depends on the bank, have you asked them yet?
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I think a year is legally obligated but I might be wrong. Also illy is quite good, but check out the white chocolate mocha I mentioned its a gateway coffee I swear
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Giant Squid posted:Is it common for left-handed kids who are just learning their ABC's to write words right to left and "mirror" their letters? I copied and pasted your question word for word into Google and seemed to get reasonable results. I don't know much about the topic but the resources seemed alright.
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Wedemeyer posted:Is all the music sold on itunes completely DRM free? Or are the tracks that cost 1.29 DRM free while the 0.99 cent ones are DRM’d? Sorry for a dumb question. I’ve never had a reason to use itunes until now. All music is completely DRM free. Movies and TV and apps are DRMed. I'm not sure about audiobooks but they are probably DRMed.
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 Coffee snobs.
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Giant Squid posted:Is it common for left-handed kids who are just learning their ABC's to write words right to left and "mirror" their letters? Why would they? right-handed Arabic kids don't write left to right either. There's no reason to assume a connection between what way you write and what hand you use. Cakefool posted:
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Suppose I have a state map (like that found here), where I color each county in a different color based on some particular metric (for example the population of that county). Is there a term for maps of this type, i.e., how would I refer to such a map in a paragraph? EDIT: Apparently it is called a Choropleth map. Jose Cuervo fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Oct 5, 2012 |
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FCKGW posted:I found a check that was issued in December of last year that was never deposited (moving). Can I still deposit this check? It's from a big company that I don't work for anymore and probably can't get another one re-cut. Some checks will say something about having to be cashed/deposited within 90 days. I would think if it does not say anything like that on it then you should be good to go.
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mirthdefect posted:Is there a way to tell if a book is hardcover, trade paperback or mass-market paper back from the ISBN? I'm looking at ordering some stuff from bookdepository and want to ensure they're all the same size. No. ISBNs will indicate country and publisher, but there is no "format" portion within the code. To do what you want, take the ISBN of the item you're looking at and find a library's website that allows searching on ISBN and includes a physical description of the item. Worldcat will most likely work for this. AARP LARPer fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Oct 5, 2012 |
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On Wikipedia you can find this animation of the shifting of the continents over the past 600 million years. I want to turn this into a 3D animation. What software should I use to translate this flat Mollweide projection onto a sphere and produce an animation?
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Oct 5, 2012 17:24
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Baron Bifford posted:On Wikipedia you can find this animation of the shifting of the continents over the past 600 million years. I want to turn this into a 3D animation. What software should I use to translate this flat projection onto a sphere and produce an animation? A lot of things could do it, it really depends what software/languages you're familiar with. I'm pretty sure it could be done relatively easily in Mathematica (if the projection is known), but non-scientific-computing programming languages/graphics libraries could do it too.
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Never mind.
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I've noticed that men, as they grow older, tend to develop thicker, meatier hands. Is there a reason for this?
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Meat Recital posted:I've noticed that men, as they grow older, tend to develop thicker, meatier hands. Is there a reason for this? Overall body fat increase?
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Meat Recital posted:I've noticed that men, as they grow older, tend to develop thicker, meatier hands. Is there a reason for this? My best guess is that it has something to do with (as noted above) body fat increase, decreased circulation or arthritis. I've seen a lot of old guys with frail little hands, though.
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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I've been using ear drops in preparation for a syringing and when I put them in my right ear it crackles and I can feel it moving around and there's a very slight burning pain on the outside of the ear (probably because I can't help but wipe it with tissue afterwards), and my left ear has no similar effects. Wax kind of comes out the right ear with a bit of encouragement, but the left is mostly just letting some of the drops back out and feeling even more clogged. What should I be doing to make it work properly? I'm kind of a gumby when it comes to ears.
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Say I'm applying to a data entry job. My two most recent things were an internship that was basically souped up data entry, and a little under a year working in an ice cream store. I can either put just the data entry on it because it's what's relevant, but it also makes for a very empty resume—or I can put both data entry+ice cream job, but the second isn't relevant and may look like like I'm trying to make my resume not look empty. What should I do?
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Put both. Shows you can keep a job and weren't just loving off for however many months or years.
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buttopticor posted:A lot of things could do it, it really depends what software/languages you're familiar with. I'm pretty sure it could be done relatively easily in Mathematica (if the projection is known), but non-scientific-computing programming languages/graphics libraries could do it too.
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Baron Bifford posted:I don't know squat about 3D animation, or graphical design for that matter beyond casual experience with GIMP. This is an opportunity for me to learn - what would you recommend to a noob? It depends on your goal.
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I want to know if this is bullshit or not. My aunt says leaving the fish tank lights on in the day will help slow down the evaporation of the water. Is this true?
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