I'm getting good enough at ChainRxn to want to brag and issue challenges to beat me! So far none of my Facebook friends (that I know of) have accepted the challenge. You're missing out on a great game - not much clicking involved. I only started playing a few days ago and today I hit a new...

Yowie wrote: For Christmas, my parents were given a Mensa calender with a puzzle for each day. They haven't opened it yet, but the sample question was: A toy shop prices toys on the whim of the owner: A doll is $12, a kite $15, a skateboard $34, and a ring toss $24. How much is a...

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Just reminding the geeks out there that the transit of Venus is tomorrow (the 8th of June) No-one alive has seen one, because the last one happened in 1882! Its how Australia got discovered by Captain Cook in 1770 - he was trying to calculate the distance between teh earth and the sun by timing...

Today I removed almost all the e-mail addresses on the Catslaves mailing list that remained unresponsive to the repeated requests to "check in". I may have made a few mistakes and deleted you accidently (oops!). If you are find you are no longer getting e-mail from the catslaves list and/or can't...

We have a fox terrier by the name of Jasper. He came to us in the summer of 2001 from the fox terrier rescue program. For those of you, who are unfamiliar with this type of adoption, imagine taking in a 10 year old child whom you know nothing about and committing to doing your best to be a good...

I posted this link in another thread, but thought people not reading that thread might find this useful too. Here's a link to the US's National Hurricane Center's Tropical Prediction Center. Lot's of information is available, including current information, updates, and path projections. I've found...

No. Not for Joel, for me. I've grown my hair for 6 solid years, getting only a yearly trim to be rid of the dead ends right at the bottom. I'm very proud of my long, wavey, natural coloured hair. I can do the "lady Godiva" thing with it, its that long it can cover up my boobs. I love my long hair...

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Have nearly got the Christmas shopping done, but I'm stuck for a gift for my mother. I thought perhaps a computer game. So, can anyone think of a game that has lots of problem solving, fairly simple (if any) hand-eye coordination parts, and has repeatable playability. My mother, like many of...

The wheel turns, and I find myself look down the barrel at being 40. Those of you who have long past this significant milestone will no doubt throw back your heads and laugh 'why, young lady, you are just a pup, a whelping, a mere whipper snapper", but actually, I am into the second phase of...

Just a quick note to let you know that we're back from not-so-sunny Cairns and I will be uploading the photos shortly. Even though the weather wasn't sunny, that wasn't such a bad thing as it kept it cooler. We had lots of fun anyway, and what is a rainforest without rain anyway? I don't think...

I was one of the people honored at the annual appreciation luncheon today because I have been on the faculty for 40 years (yes! that's right! *40 years*). I usually don't enjoy luncheons and banquets of this type, but this one was exceptionally nice. The meal was wonderful (starting with...

OK, this is probably totally inappropriate for this group, but other rants are allowed and this one has been building for some time now. I'm getting tired of America bashing. I'm getting tired of Americans agreeing that we should be bashed. Are we, as a nation, perfect? Of course not. Have we...

Artist Tim Patch - also known as "Pricasso" - of Australia, has an unorthodox method of painting: http://tinyurl.com/ggd4s

"What is better, a dolphin or a cupcake?" Why my The Yowlet felt it necessary to wake me up with such a quandry at 5am this morning, I do not know, but clearly it was bothering him. I couldnt give him an answer he was satisfied with, so he didn't go back to sleep. *Yawn*

I was offered a better job. It pays more, enough to pay for the $20 - $25 a day gas and tolls going into the city - and the roads I have to take to get there are not as bad as the roads I have to take now (which are all under contraction). I'm going to be the principal executive assistant,...

Cary demonstrates what to do (or maybe not) when you encounter your first vegemite sandwich. There are 5 pictures, starting he http://au.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/yowie9644/detail?.dir=ec62&.dnm=97a6.jpg&.s rc=ph or

He's not here yet. I"ve been in the hospital since 3pm this afternoon. They made us wait a fair while because there was a lady in a bad way after giving birth here, so I can't blame them, but the prostaglandin gel, which starts the inducing process was supposed to be applied at 4pm but actually...

yup, me again, witht he insomnia. Ok, the insomnia started about 3am and hasn't really let off. I've thrown up once, and as a consequence I now have water cracker crumbs in my bed. They do make for an "interesting" lie down. The panic has set in. I go to the obs later today, and I am pretty...