An internal recruiter at Apple has contacted me about a job in an area that I am very interested in, but am not qualified to do. What do I tell him?The role is mathematical and is at the intersection of hardware and lower level software. It also involves new algorithm development in a very specific domain that I've never worked in. I am good at Cocoa and OSX programming and have an applied math degree from a sort of lousy college. I have two iPhone apps in the store. I'm a decent hacker but not actually that great at applied math or coming up with novel algorithms. I've not done anything low level since my hardware org class, and that was all pretend assembler. I am not sure why he is contacting me about this role. Maybe he just needs to hit some numbers? Or maybe they need a guy on the team to do some of the easy stuff? Maybe Apple actually hires people to learn things on the job? I find it strange that he picked me out of all people, because nothing on my publicly available resume suggests I have the right background. Maybe he's simply contacted me in mistake? In any case, I would like to seize this opportunity. But how should I approach it? Should I say yes, I want to chat, but what's up? Why me? Should I move forward without mentioning any trepidation, risking completely blowing it? (I once bombed an interview badly at a gaming company, and had the same concerns about lack of background which proved to be correct.) At what point do I mention that if I'm not qualified for the main job, I would be up for doing something else on the team, even being something like the build manager? ( or even a manager?)
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How close to the cliff edge does the path go along the coastal section of the Cleveland Way?My best friend and I are contemplating walking some portion of the Cleveland Way this summer. I'm mildly concerned about having to walk along the edge of a (eroding!) cliff. I know work has been done on the path in the last few years and it's been pulled back from the edge somewhat due to erosion (and the erosion is under better control, I guess), which is making figuring out the current state of affairs from google somewhat difficult. What's it like in comparison to Bempton Cliffs? It seems like there might be fencing along the particularly alarming bits? (I have a reasonable knowledge of the coastal parts of Yorkshire for other points of comparison, but Bempton's the last particularly cliff-y place I've been, unless you count Whitby Abbey.)
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Looking for a modern, clean, professional purseMefi's! The good news is I found a purse I love (the Leather Hexagonal Cross Body Bag from ASOS) - the bad news is it's just a little too small for every day usage. I'm hoping someone can help me find something a bit bigger. I'm trying to find a new purse on sites like ShopStyle, but maybe y'all know of certain brands that meet what I'm looking for: - cross body shoulder bag: no clutches or tiny bags. Something that could take a book in it with a wallet, phone etc. - but doesn't need to be a full shoulder bag. - modern: I love that the ASOS bag is a different shape, and is clean, simple and doesn't have tassels or buckles or other frufru hanging off of it... this is the main thing I'm looking for - opening: ideally at the top with a zipper, and not a flap that goes over the top so you have to open it on the side - well made: I'm open to a leather purse, or something durable. I'm willing to spend money on something well made and classic. - black: open to colors, patterns and materials though Any ideas are much appreciated! I'm in NYC but open to ordering online too.
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Here's what Jurassic Park would look like if the raptors were cats.
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Exactly what it says on the tin -- 40 Worst Book Covers and Titles Ever These things have got to be real, no one could ever dream this stuff up. I think that these are as good as a link I remember, from here I think, a link to images of comical record albums -- do you remember that link? I'd love to see that again, too, be a great companion piece for these.
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I need to buy footies tonight for a friend who's in the hospital. Who sells them?Apparently they are like a thicker sock with a rubber bottom. I have been to Macy's, Kohls, Target, JC Penney, and Payless with zero success. I am in Minneapolis. Help?
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Comedian Aziz Ansari has posted a subreddit asking for relationship and dating experiences. Ansari and NYU professor Eric Klinenberg are using the subreddit as part of their research for a new book on modern romance in the US and elsewhere. Topics include "Has anyone done an arranged marriage? How did that go?," "Have you ever fallen in with love someone you weren't attracted to at first? How'd that happen?" and "Has anyone hired a consultant to help you put together an online dating profile or worked with a dating coach? How'd that go?" Y"ou know when you text someone you're romantically interested in and you don't hear anything back and then you see them post a photo of a pizza on Instagram?" Ansari explained in a statement. "That's exactly what I want this book to deal with." Business Insider wrote about the subreddit and the upcoming book.
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Help me find this awesome-looking women's magazine I saw in a coffee shop in New YorkGoogle was no help to me. I'm looking for a large-format women's magazine I saw once in a coffee shop. It had a one-word title (verve??) and seemed to be aimed at a cooler/older/artier demographic. This is all really vague, sorry. It may not even have been a women's magazine, but it the issue I saw had a woman on the cover and it seemed to have a lot of articles about women creators, though it did not seem to have an excplicitly feminist bent.
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Should we get married this year, or will that end up in a tax penalty, considering our incomes are similar and we would end up in a higher tax bracket?We are considering getting married this year, but first we decided to look at how that would affect our taxes. Married filing jointly would put us in the higher tax bracket, which means we pay ~$4000 more per year, jointly. Married filing separately would also put one of us in the higher tax bracket - not by much, but still. Being single, we can continue enjoying our lower tax bracket for another ~5-10 years, based on our annual salary increases. But I am wondering if I am missing something here, because why would people in our situation ever get married*? Is there some kind of marriage credit that I am not taking into account? Also, he is on the mortgage for his mom's house, so he gets a lot more money back every year thanks to interest/property taxes. Would that affect us tax-wise if we got married? *I realize that there are other benefits to getting married, but they do not apply to us right now (no plans of kids, house buying, or dying). We can really go either way as far as when to get married - it would be nice to be officially married this year from a sentimental point of view, but not if it costs us money! We can wait a few years until we need the other marriage/legal benefits if this is the case. If this is a question for a CPA, then we will go to one, but first I wanted to find out if we are mis-interpreting something from our googling, or if this is a pretty standard problem for people in the middle-top of the $36,251 - $87,850 single income bracket.
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Anonymous because I don't like to talk about my flair drugs. I've just started taking Strattera and holy jeez is it expensive. And not covered by my insurance. I can afford the US$250/mo if I need to, but I'd rather put that money toward paying off debt and other useful stuff. Has anyone used any of those drug discount cards to purchase Strattera, and if so, what's the savings? Have you managed to save money in any other way (without buying from a non-VIPPS online pharmacy, or committing insurance fraud?) I'm located in Cuyahoga County, OH, and typically use CVS, if that's helpful. And I do not qualify for NeedyMeds type programs.
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Concept artist and animator Lindsey Olivares has been seized by a vision. A vision of chicken telenovelas. (scroll past all the chicken pics and sketches for part 1). Part 2, with even more dazzling drawing and hand-lettering. Also be sure to enjoy her gif moments with Nana (or with bicycle) and her lovely student film.
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MEG - PRECIOUS is a music video. Enjoy.
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Am I saving enough for taxes from my second job? I live in the US and have no state income taxes. My main job is W2. I make around $56k and usually end up close to even on my Fed return. I now have a second job that's 1099. I get paid $150 a week and set aside $50. Is this probably enough for Fed (income/SS) taxes?
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Hey! I'm looking for movies about women who want to be high class and/or rich and famous. Not a "Cinderella" type story but one that is darker... Thanks!
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At three, Ron Suskind's son, Owen, was diagnosed with regressive autism and all but lost his speech. A year later, watching Disney's The Little Mermaid, Owen's parents heard him speak again. Reaching My Autistic Son Through Disney. (SLNYTimes Magazine, with video) Suskind previously on Metafilter. Disney and autism previously on Metafilter
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I would love some suggestions for science experiments with the Cambridge BrainBox electronics kit.I was somewhat skeptical when my daughter (7 this month) asked for an electronics kit for Christmas, but it has proven to be her favourite gift and she plays with it regularly, shows it to all her friends who come to visit, has demonstrated it to her class at school, etc. The BrainBox kit looks like this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Primary-Plus-2-Electricity-Kit/dp/B000NOY1QM (I would've liked to have bought a LittleBits kit, but they're much more expensive.) The problem I have with it is that the booklet is boring and badly written. It boasts "500 experiments" but as you can see from a typical page, it has 50 or so basic configurations, and each "experiment" is just altering one component for a different effect. Besides being boring, this makes it hard to get into because if you try to do one experiment at random, it's hard to see which diagram it refers to, and you often have to read back through the previous experiments to see which other changes you need to make first. It is also written in a dry style that seems to be aimed at teachers rather than children. Most of the fun we've had are with experiments we made up, rather than those in the book. So I'm hoping you can suggest more. To be clear: we don't care too much about the educational value at this point. What motivates her isn't learning how electricity works, just making things that do fun stuff. Here are some things we made up that she loved: - inspired by a book she read, we made a "lie detector", which has a red LED and green LED. When the victim touches two wires together, it lights either green (truth), or both red and green (lie), depending on whether the secret switch under the questioner's hand is pressed. (I wasn't clever enough to make it either red or green.) - we stick paper on top of the propeller, and draw on it while spinning, creating perfect circles or concentric splattering. - we use the propeller as a "spin the wheel" type of fortune telling, moving an arrow around a circle we've decorated with different fortunes. As you can see, most of these experiments aren't really about science or electricity, just having fun. I'm cool with that at this stage. The way I see it, if it keeps her interested, she'll learn more naturally.
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Eva Mozes Kor and her twin sister were the victims of medical and genetic experiments at the hands of Josef Mengele in Auschwitz. She recently did an AMA on Reddit.
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I have spent several hundred hours over the last six months creating A2 charts (420X594mm). They are about 50 in total, covering topics taught in Maths in Primary School. They are displayed in the Maths room in my school and I'm proud of the fact that the children constantly refer to them during lessons. I have been told by colleagues and visitors that they are very appealing. Unlike the laminated, commercial posters on the market which are rather tacky, these hand-made posters capture the essence of upper primary topics in very digestible chunks. I would love these posters to have a wider audience. How do I do this? (more inside)Having never dealt in anything commercial being a classroom assistant, I do not know where to begin. Apply for copyright? Go to educational fairs? Write to publishers? Can original hand made posters be reproduced to look like the original? Are they expensive to reproduce? I do not have money to spare, and I doubt whether I could get a cheap loan to cover this expense. If it is unlikely for much money to be earned, I would still love these posters to make it to other schools' class-rooms. I would earn goodwill in local schools and feel proud that I have made a positive contribution to the learning of a generation of children. How do I pitch it without sounding arrogant? After all, I am going to tell the Maths teachers that my posters are better than those available commercially. I am in the UK in case it's relevant.
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I have a cursory understanding of EDM, but I'm obsessed with Disclosure... yet I've played their album to death. Please help me find something new to listen to.I've been listening to electronic music for more than a decade, but I've always come at it from a headphone perspective versus a club orientation. Radiohead led me to Björk, which led me to IDM, but that's more or less as far as I got. I've made some attempts to educate myself about EDM, but I come from the World of Albums, and the Land of EDM is not necessarily album-friendly, as I've come to discover. Lately, all I've been listening to is Settle by Disclosure. I discovered it just this year, and while I get the distinct impression that Disclosure is Old News, I hope y'all can appreciate my goal of broadening my horizons, because I could really use some help in finding something new. Here's a list of some of stuff I love which is somewhat similar to what I'm looking for. Disclosure - Settle Lindstrøm - Smalhans Booka Shade - Movements Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman, Second Toughest in the Infants, Beaucoup Fish Todd Terje - Snooze 4 Love, etc. Luomo - Vocalcity Röyksopp - Melody A.M. My My - Songs for the Gentle Metro Area - Metro Area Bassment Jaxx - Kish Kash, Greatest Hits Lots of this is vocal music, which is great, but not essential by any means. I'd prefer names of LPs or mixes versus individual tracks, but I'm aware that beggars can't be choosers, so I'll take what I can get. Here's a link to my last.fm profile, so you can see where I'm coming from. Thanks for taking the time to read this and offer your suggestions!
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After years of careful consideration, I've finally decided to get a tattoo. I know what I want to get, but I don't have a specific design, and I don't know which tattoo parlor to go to. How do I find these things? I live in SF, but would be willing to travel for a really, really good artist.For the past 12 years, I've known that my spirit animal is the caterpillar. I've wanted to get a caterpillar tattoo, but I've held off for fear I would regret it. I've finally decided to go for it. The only important part is that it actually look like a caterpillar. So, fairly realistic. I guess it could look a little cartoony, but definitely nothing like the Disney Alice In Wonderland caterpillar or anything goofy like that. I want it on the side of my upper arm, facing out. I think that's the deltoid? Is it a good idea to have a design ready before I go into the tattoo place? If so, where should I find this design? Could I find a picture somewhere and print it out? What's the average "DPI" of a tattoo? Could I use any old photo or drawing as a source? Or is it better to use a drawing created by an actual tattoo artist? Is there someplace online where I can go and say, "Hey, can someone please sketch me some ideas for a caterpillar tattoo?" Apologies for the n00b questions -- I'm super new at this! As for the other part of my question : how do I pick a tattoo artist/parlor? I'd be interested in suggestions on how to find someone, as well as recommendations for specific artists. I live in SF, but I'd be willing to travel for an amazing, kickass artist. (I've heard there are good artists in PDX and LA?) In any case, I'm willing to spend a fair amount of $$$ on this; after all, this is going to be with me the rest of my life.
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Mental health problems are on the rise among UK academics amid the pressures of greater job insecurity, constant demand for results and an increasingly marketised higher education system. A recent blog on the Guardian Higher Education Network blog, which highlighted a "culture of acceptance" in universities around mental health issues, has received an unprecedented response, pointing to high levels of distress among academics. The article, which reported instances of depression, sleep issues, eating disorders, alcoholism, self-harming, and even suicide attempts among PhD students, has been shared hundreds of thousands of times and elicited comments outlining similar personal experiences from students and academics. But while anecdotal accounts multiply, mental health issues in academia are little-researched and hard data is thin on the ground. However, a study published in 2013 by the University and College Union (UCU) used health and safety executive measures, assessed against a large sample of over 14,000 university employees, to reveal growing stress levels among academics prompted by heavy workloads, a long hours culture and conflicting management demands. Academics experience higher stress than those in the wider population, the survey revealed. Previously (but not too previously) on Metafilter: On academic labor: "I Quit" Lit, Death of an Adjunct, Joining the Ranks: Demystifying Harvard's Tenure System On student mental health: We Just Can't Have You Here, Stress at MIT On changes in academia over recent years or decades: The Tuition Is Too Damn High, The Corporatization of Higher Education, How the American University was Killed, Whither the University?
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SCENE I. An Anti-Chamber in the Palace. Enter RIGDUM-FUNNIDOS and ALDIBORONTIPHOSCOPHORNIO, courtiers. Rigdum-Funnidos: Aldiborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos? First staged in 1734 by the satirist Henry Carey, Chrononhotonthologos ("The Most Tragical Tragedy That Wver Was Tragedized By Any Company Of Tragedians") is the tragic story of the angry king Chrononhotonthologos, his even angrier general, his groveling courtiers, his disaffected queen, and his titanic war with the invert Antipodeans. Any echoes of the Torey-Whig rivalry or the careers of King George II, Queen Caroline, and Robert Walpole are purely coincidental, or in any event not crucial to the plot.
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What are some original songs for music box?I'm hoping to find recordings of original songs played on music boxes. By "original," I mean a song that was written by the artist specifically for the music box- not a recording of an existing song set to a music box. Here are some examples of what I'm looking for: Ryuichi Sakamoto - Transformation Aphex Twin - Nannou The majority of the "et les boites a musique" album by Colleen
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I love this guys work, the energy and mix of topics -- and the way he segues through his routine is mind-bending. But I can't locate one particular rant he did last year.Does anyone here know where his speil on internet porn is online? Not the doughnut one (which is perfect too). But the one where he explains to viewers why they should just purchase it and not mess around with all the free crap online. We've hunted hunted high and low on YouTube and nada. Thanks hive mind.
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I'm looking for an objective history of the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina (preferably in book form, but I'll take on-line sources where appropriate) if such a thing exists. Everything I've been able to find so far is pushing an agenda and I would like to find a source of real information that strips away all of the political baggage.I'd be interested in pretty much all aspects of what happened, from the civic level to the personal.
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