Posted: 16^th July 2012

And the Beat Goes On

My apologies for mentioning a catchphrase from a song written in the 1960s. Some of you may mistake this for a classical-music reference. Be that as it may, there seems to be a drumbeat driving h2g2 writers lately – although, as always, they're all marching to a different drummer. (I know I am.)

Over at Create, they're urging us to get fit, and tell all about it. Deke's been kayaking, so he's starting us off. Since some people's idea of fitness is that it's a spectator sport, and there's soon going to be a lot of it on your vidscreens, we're also bringing back the earlier results of the Olympic Haiku Challenge. Read the poems and get inspired – if you come up with haiku of your own, perhaps while watching somebody else exercise, add them to the mix.

Some people are still putting the grey matter through its workout, exploring inner worlds and the world around them, like Pastey, who's been speculating on human behaviour. (In church, no less.) Willem's still looking at wildlife. The Discovery Channel seems to have run out of wildlife, and has started making it up. We speculate on that, as well.

This week, the Post is proud to welcome a new contributor, Ramya Krishna Mulugu, who has a poem to share. See? Sometimes people show up, and actually like us. So there.

As Sirius Cybernetics says, share and enjoy. But don't expect the page to talk back to you¹.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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  Kayaking


Deke's inspiration.

• More Kayaking


Deke learns to paddle
a kayak.

• Olympic Haiku Challenge I


MVP asked, they versified.

• Olympic Haiku Challenge II


You can't have
too many haiku.

HISTORY HAS TURNED THE PAGE, UH-HUH

• 
  The h2g2 Poem:
  A Programmer's Prayer


Who's praying to whom?

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  Thoughts at a Christening


Pastey in church.

• 24 Lies a Second


Awix: Spidey's back.

• Writing Right with Dmitri


Apologies to Darwin.

WILDLIFE FILMS ARE NOW THE RAGE, UH-HUH

• 
  Gheorgheniplex: Alien Mermen


The ratings go up.

• 
  The Post Oddity of the Week


Mermaids: Fact or Fiction?

• The Post Quiz


Mythological creatures.
What else?

• 
  Colours of Wildlife: Lion


Real animals are so much
more interesting.

• Duck Tails
  


Ice cream time.

• 
  The h2g2 Poem:
  Intergalactic Journeys


We welcome
Ramya Krishna Mulugu.

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