h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

To be honest I have no idea...

I just realized I have herb teas though...

*puts on a pot of orange spice tea for Dr. A and pours herself a nice ini*

thank you,

anphetamine, or some varient will keep you awake.

Bit quiet in here isnt it?
Just helps self to a and sits at the bar waiting to see if anyone else comes in today..

I leave the bar for a few day and people start serving ! Outrageous!

How is everyone? Anyone gonna join me for an ?

I could do with an , although to look at the way I was just playin Othello you'd think I'd been on the pish all night.

Ah, Othello, my favourite Shakespeare play...

Have an on the house...

I did a bit better tonight. Won all but two games, again i lost because I made stupid, rookey, mistakes. Oh and thanks for the

There's an Othello *game*? Tell me more!

*Plies him with *

It's a Japanese varient of an old English game called Reversi, circa late 1800's, which modifies the rules enough to allow it to be copyrighted.
You have a board of 64 squares, 8x8, much like a chess or draughts board and 64 discs, black on one side, white on the other. You start the game with four discs layed out on the four center squares thus

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where = white side up
and = black side up

One player takes black, and the other takes white. Black starts and you take turns placing discs of your colour on the board, but only under the following conditions.

*finishes and takes another*

You must make an un-broken line of your opponents colour, flanked by two of your colour. Then all you turn the disks you have flanked over, to reveal your colour, if you cant do this you must give up your turn, and let your opponent another go.

The winner is the person who, at the end, has the most discs of their colour on the board.

*finishes second and takes yet another*

My best score so far has been 56-0





PS the game of Reversi which comes with windows is, in fact, Othello. The games QtHello, Darwersi, Desdemona and Rhino are versions of Othello for Linux. wZebra is my favourite off-line version though.

PPS, someone remind me I must renew my membership of the British Othello Federation.

I have Othello at home. Haven't played it in ages.

heathen swine. Oh and I got my best score wrong, it was 58-0.

Hello all.
its late but happy new year to one and all.
This round is on me.

x what ever it takes

War in Iraq, international terrorism, political instability, resurgence of SARS, new Harry Potter movie!

And you call this happy?

hey, I'm happy...


..-er than I was towards the end of last year. I'm making possible progress on the job obtaining front, and I'm in a relationship with someone wonderful.





PS I'm also doin ok in my gaming.

Oh sure. You're happy so all the worlds problems just go away, don't they?

no, e.g. there's still a moron with the power to push the big red button marked Nuke, but they don't seem quite so bad. Any way, an unhappy me would be a problem for the world. After all I have an above, way above, average IQ and I know how to make weapons, including WMD, and I regularly plot/plan crimes as an intellectual exercise.





PS can I have another ? I've finished this one

I'm not the barman!