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posted by falsedmitri to Home & Garden at 12:56 PM - 5 answers

Hi, so I did an image search without results. Basically I need a few of these bracket/shelf supports that hold the shelf to the inner wall of the cabinet. [more inside]
posted by watercarrier to Home & Garden at 7:20 AM - 7 answers

Can you help me find the extruded aluminum do-it-yourself art frame kits I used to be able to buy in brick-and-mortar stores? [more inside]
posted by sandra_s to Media & Arts at 7:32 AM - 7 answers

Hello! I am wondering about the logisitics of getting a new sim card. [more inside]
posted by aetg to Computers & Internet at 6:41 AM - 7 answers

My children learnt a humorous short poem in primary school (UK) about the chaos that ensues when a bee enters the classroom. I'm unable to find it on the internet. [more inside]
posted by snarfois to Writing & Language at 3:52 AM - 5 answers

I'm in the long address list of an email string that's trying to set up a dinner for an alumni event. I feel I need to stay on the thread because the same address list will be used again in the future, and because it might even contain pertinent messages about the dinner. However, some of the alumni feel that this is the forum to verbally attack each other for their ideas, or their agnosticism, about what people in the Middle East should or shouldn't do, and what the university officers should or shouldn't do. [more inside]
posted by JimN2TAW to Computers & Internet at 2:13 PM - 12 answers

I'm about 2/3 of the way through the first episode of Fallout (no prior knowledge about the games) and the story is interesting, but it's unbelievably violent. Is this a "brutal inception of the hero", or is it like this the whole way through? I can handle some violence but the story has to be the main thing. For reference, I enjoyed the Last of Us but thought the final rampage was stupid, and I would have enjoyed something like Game of Thrones way more *without* the HBO sex and gore corporate mandate. Is this show just for gun-totin' bros? Thanks!
posted by caviar2d2 to Media & Arts at 10:37 AM - 14 answers

I have sets of 10-20 individual TIFFs that I need to convert into single PDFs - so far, I'm stumped as to how to do this seemingly simple task. [more inside]
posted by ryanshepard to Computers & Internet at 8:33 AM - 8 answers

I want to track some simple medical data over time: cholesterol, blood pressure, AHI, PSA, and the like. Is a spreadsheet the simplest way to do this, or is there some purpose-built tool? [more inside]
posted by wenestvedt to Health & Fitness at 8:18 AM - 5 answers

Four books have really opened my eyes to the details of exactly how capitalism and imperialism transformed parts of the world for the worse: Sweetness and Power, Coffeeland, Late Victorian Holocausts, and The Making of the English Working Class. What I appreciated about them was that they told a historical story about a specific place with lots of detail, but also tied it to larger actions being taken to transform the world economy. What should I add to that part of my bookshelf? [more inside]
posted by clawsoon to Writing & Language at 8:11 AM - 19 answers

I want to send someone photographs and some pinboards and have them tell me how to rearrange or Ikea-budget improve my living room. We have the DIY skills but not the spatial spark to make the room feel cosy and colourful for us. I see a bunch of websites offering this and people on Etsy - recommendations and advice on how to choose someone? [more inside]
posted by dorothyisunderwood to Home & Garden at 11:43 PM - 6 answers

Where, in the continental U.S., could one find a cabin or bed and breakfast on a river where it is a certainty one could watch beavers at work, either directly from the place or a short hike away? I do not want to disturb the beavers.
posted by tiny frying pan to Travel & Transportation at 5:14 PM - 20 answers

I use jog.fm to find new songs based on BPM to add to my running mix, but the website is annoying to use on a good day, and recently seems to be out of commission. What other websites serve the same function? [more inside]
posted by tentacle to Media & Arts at 4:38 PM - 2 answers

I'm trying to improve my morning routine.(Which right now consists of coffee and doomscrolling...) I'd like to incorporate a 10-20 minute meditation, guided or otherwise, but I keep striking out. Largely, I think, because I struggle with anything that focuses on breath and with certain kinds of visualization. I'd really appreciate ideas. [more inside]
posted by jeszac to Religion & Philosophy at 9:01 AM - 20 answers

She is perplexed by talk of "nonbinary" and "transgender" and says she wants to learn more (I'm her token liberal she goes to with these kinds of questions). She specifically wants a book to read. Any recommendations? [more inside]
posted by dede to Society & Culture at 8:58 AM - 20 answers

In Google Docs, I have a list of dozens of words that runs down the page on the left-hand margin. How can I easily "spread" these words out horizontally as well, effectively making several columns of words? [more inside]
posted by zardoz to Computers & Internet at 1:57 AM - 8 answers

Presumably it was blue with a white insignia. Present day, the hat has the white insignia of an overlapping “CD” in block letters. In the 1992 movie Mr Baseball, the white insignia was a script “D.” But what about 2002? I care because a character wore one in the 2002 Haruki Murakami novel Kafka on the Shore. I want to buy the same hat.
posted by glenngulia to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation at 5:10 PM - 3 answers

I'm looking for stories where one or more significant characters are some kind of builder(s): a plumber, a carpenter, a pile driver, an engineer specializing in building construction, a general contractor, etc. Bonus points for stories that center autistic, neurodivergent, queer, and/or disabled characters, as well as women and BIPOC builders. [more inside]
posted by cnidaria to Media & Arts at 12:40 PM - 22 answers

This is a bit beyond my expertise with networking and certificate signing. I want to create a template that replicates a prod environment. Keeping this a bit abstract, I want to have a monorepo or polyrepo for dev, a way to test dev, push it into a private git repo, use build actions on pre-commit, then on post-commit run the equivalent of a "GitHub Action" to push the resulting OCI image to a private image repository, then eventually into a K8s cluster. It obviously doesn't have to be accessible outside my machine, but I'd like to add a host entry for each "workspace" using certs and a daemon for the various services to talk to each other. More details inside. [more inside]
posted by geoff. to Computers & Internet at 12:35 PM - 6 answers

Does anyone know commentators with a similar tone, approach, style etc. to Bloomberg’s Matt Levine? Not looking for additional folks covering his topic area, but rather writers who have a similar vibe writing in other areas. [more inside]
posted by dredge to Media & Arts at 10:02 AM - 10 answers

In 'Seize the Day' by Saul Bellow, Dr.Tamkin says to Wilhelm, " If you was humble enough, you could go back." Why does he say ' was', not 'were'? What's the difference between these two if I could say 'was' ? Anyway his sentence doesn't look grammatically correct to me. Please help me.
posted by mizukko to Writing & Language at 5:31 AM - 13 answers

Hi I’m new to this and made an account after seeing posts about breakups but they couldn’t answer my question. The story is, my boyfriend and I broke up months ago after being together for several years. We’ve been through a lot. However, while we were dating, resentment grew and we argued a lot until we eventually grew apart. There was a lot of blaming. [more inside]
posted by bosqueencantado24 to Human Relations at 6:16 PM - 10 answers

I'm looking at a baseball box score on ESPN's site. At the bottom of the pitching section there's a line for "Game Scores" with a number for one (but only one) of the pitchers for each team. I can't even guess what the number is suppose to represent. [more inside]
posted by ctmf to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation at 5:21 PM - 4 answers

Who was the physically strongest President of the United States of America, and would he be stronger than Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson? [more inside]
posted by TheophileEscargot to Law & Government at 10:01 AM - 28 answers

Ok, so this crazy simple brisket recipe is both the easiest and tastiest I've ever made. But now I need to do it for an 8lb brisket instead of 3lb and I'm not sure what the proper timing should be. [more inside]
posted by gwint to Food & Drink at 8:59 AM - 4 answers

I’m on the part of my home recording journey where I’ve started looking into GarageBand plug-ins. How do I use a saturator and/or spring reverb? [more inside]
posted by pxe2000 to Technology at 1:16 PM - 3 answers

Are the at-home laser hair removal devices any good? [more inside]
posted by greta simone to Clothing, Beauty, & Fashion at 9:33 AM - 11 answers

What is it called, when you have a process/method of doing something, that gets passed down, where it turns out that part of that process/method was due to limitations/situations at the time, and is not important to actual process of doing the thing at all? [more inside]
posted by lizjohn to Writing & Language at 8:37 AM - 29 answers

The source of the photo is this article at the CBC [more inside]
posted by mrgroweler to Law & Government at 8:23 AM - 22 answers

Did a Hofstadter write an essay satirizing "Ms." versus "Mrs."? [more inside]
posted by It is regrettable that to Writing & Language at 8:10 AM - 7 answers

This objet d’art fell and the wings broke off. Curious as to what material it is so we can use the appropriate glue. It’s not plaster, is heavier than you’d expect. Is it resin? Zoom in for better detail. It glints in the sunlight. Link to photo
posted by TWinbrook8 to Grab Bag at 8:06 AM - 10 answers

We'll be travelling from Seattle to LA in July-Aug, as per this question. Where in LA should we donate the gear we'll be buying for the trip and can't bring back to the UK? [more inside]
posted by melisande to Home & Garden at 6:52 AM - 6 answers

I'm travelling to Kathmandu for a three week stay in June. I've never really travelled to this part of the world and my health anxiety is starting to kick off in anticipation. Looking for some advice for things I can do to prepare the best I can to avoid sickness, especially of the stomach kind. [more inside]
posted by sxtrumpeto to Travel & Transportation at 5:16 AM - 13 answers

I have been looking for Assisted Living homes for my mother. How concerned should I be about the dingy external appearance of a location? [more inside]
posted by purplesludge to Grab Bag at 2:36 AM - 8 answers

I have vague memories of a song we sang as Mariner Scouts (the branch of Senior Girl Scouts that learned about sailing) in southern CA in the late 90s/early aughts. I can't find any record of its existence and it's driving me crazy. Lyrics fragment below the fold. [more inside]
posted by potrzebie to Society & Culture at 5:21 PM - 6 answers

The plastic hair clog removal tool I was using, similar to these, broke off in the bathtub drain. I believe the stopper is called a lift-and-turn type. How can I get the tool out? [more inside]
posted by La Gata to Home & Garden at 4:35 PM - 6 answers

Mr. DrGail and I have an international trip coming up in January, and should probably have travel insurance of some sort. Beyond that, I haven't a clue. [more inside]
posted by DrGail to Travel & Transportation at 2:00 PM - 9 answers

Today, quite out of the blue, my grandboss strongly implied that he didn't like my personality. I have to work in close proximity with this dude on the regular. How to proceed? [more inside]
posted by RoseyPosey to Work & Money at 1:23 PM - 19 answers

I wake up with a numb arm and hand. I sleep on my side but it's the top arm that's been going numb, not the one I lay on. [more inside]
posted by Frenchy67 to Health & Fitness at 10:12 AM - 15 answers

I need to get a couple replacement brackets like this. Is this possible?
posted by falsedmitri to Home & Garden at 9:16 AM - 4 answers