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November 5

Victorian Style Night Shirt and Cap, Where to Buy?

I don't know why, but I really want an old style night shirt with one of the caps with the little ball on the end. (Okay, I really just want to walk around my house at night with a candle since I always thought that looked cool, but that's neither here nor there.) At any rate, when I look online, I find lots of places to buy "costumes", what I want is something I could legitimately wear and that would be comfortable (and warm); so, does anyone know where I could get something reasonably authentic- or if the various costumes would actually be suitable for this.Phoenixia1177 (talk) 06:58, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

I'm assuming you are male. If not, I will repeat my searches for women's night clothes:

1) Nightshirts for men: [1].

2) Nightcaps for men: [2]. StuRat (talk) 08:06, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Fantastic:-) That is exactly what I was looking for (in the wrong places apparently!). Now I just need to stir up a ghost to make noises for me to go investigate...:-)Phoenixia1177 (talk) 08:09, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome. Also, I don't think the classic Victorian night cap had a ball on the end. That's more of a "touk": [3]. The Victorian version might have a tassel, though. StuRat (talk) 08:06, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

...Nothing worse than being visited so close to xmas by ghosts and having tatty old pyjamas on... ツ Jenova20 ^(email) 09:15, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

You will need one of these, too. [4]    → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 17:05, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

I had a nightshirt like that when I was younger (early teens maybe, can't recall) and it was quite comfortable to sleep in. Vermont Country Store is near me, and though I don't shop there due to the "tourist tax" (locals know where to get stuff for prices lower than those in the more tourist-y places such as VCS), I've heard good things about them. Dismas|^(talk) 17:16, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

If you hear noises outside,it may just be a jolly visitor Don't forget to send a goose over for us poor downtrodden Wikipedians on Christmas Day. God bless us every one! Lemon martini (talk) 22:05, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Canon underwater housing

is there any underwater housing for a 70d plus a canon 50mm 1.8?? (the plastic cheap one) …and preferably under 500usd, something that can get about five or eight meters, don’t need get deeper than taht

let me add, I’m Cuban and searching in google is quite difficult to me so, I’ll appreciate that nobody send me to do a google search

Thanks in advance! Iskánder Vigoa Pérez (talk) 17:44, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

I don't know much about this, but I was bored and felt like googling ;)

I found these two sites that offer waterproof casings, both of which had some decent reviews and discussions of successful use on photography forums [5] [6]. SemanticMantis (talk) 18:41, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

You might also enjoy this discussion thread, where a user has asked a very similar question [7]. SemanticMantis (talk) 18:49, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Oh man… the guys in the last link ended it up talking about P&S

thanks for the links :)!!

Iskánder Vigoa Pérez (talk) 06:56, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Baoding, China manufacturer of hair extensions for Perfectress

I am trying to find the direct contact information for a manufacturer in Baoding, China who produces the hair extensions known as PerfecTress. Baoding Perfectress Hair Ptd. Specifically the actually facility where the hair extensions are made. Thanks for your help — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.32.107.157 (talk) 18:02, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Detailed information about a factory in a big country is difficult to locate online. It may not even be possible to find what you are looking for online so if its important to know then the best place to start might be to retain a law firm in China. See List of largest Chinese law firms for a starting point. Unfortunatelytheref (talk) 19:25, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

According to this site, their address is:

Xinxing Ingdustry And Trade District

Xinhua St

Qingyuan County

Hebei Province

China 0 1100

Tevildo (talk) 23:11, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Chart of X Files rankings

So the AV Club have got a series where they give each episode of the X Files a grade (eg: A-, B+, etc). This is an example of the sort of thing I mean. If I wanted to create a chart of these rankings, and see which series had the highest peaks, deepest troughs, or just find out the best or worst episodes ever, firstly is there a way to get this data without having to go to every single review one by one and copying them into a spreadsheet, and secondly is there an easy way to convert the letter-based grades into some form of chartable values? eg: A+ = 1, A = 2, A- = 3, B+ = 4, etc, etc. Thank you! Horatio Snickers (talk) 19:18, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

You're going to need to do a bit of programming to solve this automatically. There are around 210 episodes - it's debatable whether it would be worth writing a program to do it. Honestly, I'd do it by hand...it's painful, but doing it automatically would probably take longer. SteveBaker (talk) 03:26, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Once you've got them in a spreadsheet, you can set up a lookup table in the spreadsheet to convert them. --ColinFine (talk) 09:53, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Yeah - but the getting-them-into-a-spreadsheet is the tough part. If each episode's rating is on a separate page - then you have to surf through 210 pages and type in a number for each one...tedious and error-prone...but without writing some fancy software to download the pages and extract the numbers, I don't see an easier way. But even with programming, it might well take longer to write and test the software than it would to surf 210 web pages. Since I get bored easily and I write software for fun even when I don't have to - I'd probably program it...but I'd recognize that it probably isn't the quickest way to solve the problem! Sometimes brute-force wins. SteveBaker (talk) 23:20, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Fancy software? You mean like wget and grep? --Trovatore (talk) 03:30, 7 November 2013 (UTC)