Wandering through a government website today, and noticing that there are official certificates available for government recognition of gender reassignment ( Read more... )

Friday was singing again, and the third singing teacher in three weeks. Oddly enough, I really like this - I respond well to learning the same thing in multiple different ways at the same time, and that includes from different people with their own approaches. My strengths lie in synthesis, integration and catalysis more than raw repetition ( Read more... )

Thinking about getting a newer car sometime in the next couple of years (as the current one is over a decade old), I was considering fuel efficiency ( Read more... )

There's some kind of shindig going on in one of the nearby houses. Seems to be quite popular, as the music and chattering have been going on for some hours now. At least someone around here knows how to throw a party ( Read more... )

Oooh, there's a couple of JRX/Rail Racer auctions on Ebay at the moment with BIN prices of $US50.

I'm tempted - Rail Racer's supposed to be one of the better combiners. I suppose it would depend on the shipping costs.

House prices in USA down to $3500.

Whoa. For that price, I'm sure there are lots of reasons to buy. For starters, the Australian tax system allows you to deduct the cost of travel to inspect the property or to collect rent from your tax ( Read more... )

I wonder how skewed the sleep study data gets purely from having to wear the sensor packs? I found a couple of positions couldn't be slept in as easily simply because the ventral boxes pressed against my chest and side, the sensor wires became easily tangled, and the line out to the oxy sensor on my finger wasn't as long as the arm, preventing full ( Read more... )

Want enhanced hearing or stereoscopic night vision in your animatronic mask?

Took a walk today, for exercise if nothing else. There's a minipark down on Andrews Place that showed up as a noticeable patch of public land in the middle of residential territory on the local council's land-use map of the suburb, but despite having grown up within a couple of blocks of it, I'd never heard of the place ( Read more... )

See which x.0.0.0 addresses on the internet respond to pings, and who's on the other end.

[3.0.0.0] n003-000-000-000.static.ge.com ( Read more... )