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• Did she imagine this book?

  
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  [Obscure book filter] Anyone remember a book about a grandfather hired to make a notebook to teach someones daughter about the world, but he secretly makes two copies? My sister remembers a book from her childhood. A grandfather is hired to make a notebook or book or computer (she cant remember) for a little girl to ...
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• Name-that-Film-Filter:

  
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  Name that Film-Filter: Im trying to think of the name of a movie that Id like to buy before the liquidation of a nearby Blockbuster comes to a close. High fantasy, vignettes, made less than five years ago. Recollecting from the trailer: a girl is in a hospital (c. 1940s ???) where she begins to hear stories from a ...
  3 days ago

• 70s TV show with female, puppet hosts?

  
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  Please help me ID this American TV show/special/variety hour from the 70s featuring life-sized female puppets/marionettes - or prove to me that I am indeed halluciremembering. I have been trying for YEARS to ID this show that I swear to god I remember, but am starting to think I may have imagined or dreamt. Its ...
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• Why do we refer to Galileo Galilei by his first name?

  
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  Why do we refer to Galileo Galilei by his first name? Seems unconventional.
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• Are gmail addresses private?

  
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  gmail alerts...Through gmail alerts I try and watch which sites my son goes to. He has had some trouble. Is it possible anyone else could have the same gmail address, in another country or with a different password?
  4 days ago

• Finding an old book about teenage love and axe heads

  
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  [Bookfinder filter] Trying to find a book I read at school, in the UK, in about 1987. It was a book for teenagers, with two interweaving stories across different times: one thread involved a teenage couple in modern times, and the other thread was about some Norse warriors, including a berserker, in ancient England. ...
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• Philadelphia restaurant with ambiance?

  
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  Please recommend me a an excellent restaurant in Philadelphia. It is my sirs birthday. I would like to take him out to dinner. I want something with a romantic and lovely ambiance. I know Philly is all about BYOB, but Id prefer to not BMOB if possible (unless the restaurant is otherwise so amazing that I must ...
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• How much is that [blank] in the window?

  
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  In this photo of the Microsoft store in Mission Viejo, there are two islands of product immediately as you enter the store. On the left is various versions of Windows 7. What is the product on the island on the right? Bonus for anyone who can identify what product might be on the other three sides of the display.
  5 days ago

• Sprint pulls piping hot Hero update out of the oven

  
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  We don’t have details on exactly what has changed yet, but that minor Android 1.5-based update Sprint had announced it’d be pushing out to the Hero has now launched. The best-case scenario would have the SMS issue — which causes the phone to stay awake when it shouldn’t — get resolved, but until Sprint hands ...
  6 days ago

• Stand back! I dont understand regular expressions

  
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  How do I use regular expressions to express "at least one of each of these, but not necessarily in this order"? Im working on setting password verification for a website (ASP .NET, if it matters), but I cant wrap my head around the regex. Ive never been that great at regular expressions, but this has me boggled. I ...
  6 days ago

• Help me remember this abstract relaxing computer game please...

  
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  Im trying to remember the name of a PC game I used to play and my mind is not helping. It was an abstract game (black background simply drawn objects), in each level you floated slowly to the ground, except when you passed through an object, which catapulted you upwards. The goal of each level was to pass through all ...
  1 week ago

• Hide rows in excel if two cells match.

  
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  Please help me create an excel macro to hide rows given a certain criteria. I have an Excel 2003 spreadsheet with 2 columns of amounts (i.e. A and B) then a column with a date (C) and a bunch of other columns in between that I dont care about. Please help me create a macro to hide the row if columns A & B for ...
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• Could I be brain-dead?

  
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  Could I be brain-dead? My girlfriend and I just discovered that the gas on her stovetop had been turned on (without a flame). We dont know how long it was on, but possibly up to 24 hours. Considering that were both alive and "together" enough to type this question, can we conclude that were safe?
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• Nobody light a match!

  
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  Why do I smell gasoline when Im in my car? I drive a 2003 Subaru Forester. Yesterday I started smelling gasoline inside the car. I havent noticed any fluids or leaks under the vehicle, and the gas cap is tightly secured. My fuel needle doesnt seem to be dropping any faster than usual. Im slightly past due for an oil ...
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• Sir / Maam / ???

  
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  Whats the gender-neutral equivalent to "Sir" and "Maam"? Im writing a story (well, a game, really) that contains a character, neither male nor female, whose male/female counterparts of the same rank (captain) are addressed as "Sir" and "Maam" respectively. What mode of address do I use for this character? I imagine ...
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• What really long lists can I put my name on now to thank myself later?

  
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  Long Term Planning: I just submitted my name to the Packer season ticket waiting list, which is supposed to be 30 years long. I dont even live in Wisconsin, but life could take me anywhere in 30 years, and I like the feeling of knowing it might be an option one day. Are there any other lists or similar things I ...
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• What to do with a Wal-mart gift card?

  
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  My daughter, for her fourth birthday, was given a $10 Wal-mart gift card by a girl with whom she goes to daycare. We have not shopped at Wal-mart for more than a decade and would like to keep it that way, and my daughter doesnt seem to care about spending the money. But I really dont want Wal-mart to end up with what ...
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• Name that American folk painter

  
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  This is driving me insane. What is the name of the 19th century American folk painter, called something like Franz Vogl, Kogl, Vogel, Fogel - something Austrian sounding - who drew very distinctive landscapes featuring buildings with mildly distorted perspectives and a lot of horizontal lines, usually titled below ...
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• What was the name of this video game?

  
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  Help me remember the name of this PC video game... I played this game in late 90s I think. It was sort of a FPS. You played as a weird little creature that had kind of flying squirrel arm-wings you could snap out and use to glide for long distances. You couldnt actually fly. I recall a lot of the scenery being ...
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• iTunes keeps reordering my songs!

  
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  iTunes wont order/list/play songs in an album in the order of the track number. I have specified the correct track number of the songs in the info thing, but it wont sort according to that field within an album. Is there some way to get around this? I am downloading albums (from friends bands) to my computer, and ...
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