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

It's Friday. Hi Unch., and other new people who came and went int he night.

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To return to an old post, I think Lake Louise is blue due to minerals as well. Only the colour changes over the year as the glacier freezes/melts and the relative levels of minerals changes.

I did wonder as a colour that blue (I've seen some pictures of L. Louise) can't be just a result of the water.

To refer to an earlier post-Montana Redhead, I don't know where you go to school, but I know many school systems that have something called "immersion programs", where children are taught different languages, and then taught in those languages. It's got some real benefits. Although it also has drawbacks. I knew a kid who couldn't do base multiplication unless I asked him how to do it in French.


LOOK AT THIS ARTICLE!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A526132

When I see an article about Infocom, I want more than info on Infocoms six or seven biggest hits and quotes from the Implementors! DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY GAMES WERE LEFT OUT OF THIS ARTICLE? DO YOU???

I need to start taking a bigger interest in peer review...I could've stopped this...BUT THERE MUST BE SOMETHING I CAN DO TO GET THIS ARTICLE UPDATED!


*Affy's Rant-O-Meter explodes. Affy glances at it, and decides to calm down*

On the other hand, it is kinda funny. The first day on the job, and already this article needs updating.

But it's still no excuse...sorry. I get very touchy about Infocom games...grumble,mumble,grumble...

In reply to Comtemplation's question. It is exceedingly easy to get normal people to do evil things. I'm not sure where good comes into it though.

Affy, I feel your pain (well, actually I don't. I know nothing about Infocom. But I'm still annoyed about the free will debacle). Have some soothing chocolate.

{WM}

*steps round Chloe, who is vacuuming up pieces of rant-o-meter and glowing green quite frequently now*

Good morning everyone, and hello Solnushka and Contemplation, welcome and thanks for condolences. It feels slightly silly to accept them for someone I hadn't seen in so long and who had gone on to a separate and complete life, but I do feel a bit bruised.

Munchkin, can you find a picture of the lake?

*goes into the library to review backlog and follow up the link Looney posted*

*returns from library after a few minutes*

Ah, I could have predicted that. I have made a suggestion elsewhere that perhaps moderators should be given threads that they have to live with, at least at long-lived fora such as this. In that way they could get to know the regulars and make more context-based decisions.

It occurs to me that the late Joseph Heller nailed it years ago in Catch-22, when he observed that the World War II was actually controlled by the clerks in charge of photocopiers. Note that I went back and edited to the previous sentence to include the phrase 'the late', so that I should not be taken to be referring to some notable person without their permission.

Although Peta wrote me again to clarify: post 503 putatively gave information about where a person might be found, and that was the specific rule that was transgressed. It was the moderator's failure to check context and realise that the person so described was dead.

And furthermore, it was good of Peta to go that second mile for me, as if she doesn't have enough to do.

Strangely, I'm having trouble finding a good picture. I got some lovely postcards and photos when there, but the web is being very reticent. Mostly there are photos that make it look like every other tarn I've ever seen.
Ooo actually, just found a reasonable one. I'll stick it on the other site, with any others I find.

That is a nice photo you posted over at'other place Munchkin.
Quite a striking turquise type colour to the lake.

I also posted some photos of Lake Louise over at the other place this morning. I'll have to go check whether Munchkin and I found the same ones.

Congratulations on the award, Marv. And speaking of awards, I think Solnushka deserves an award for reading the entire backlog. That must have take a couple of hours. If you're ever out of a job, S, you have at least one qualification for being a moderator. This would be the normal place to make some comment about the other less-than-desireable qualifiactions that you would have to acquire, but I'll let it pass.

So, when do you go for the second half of your interview, Phil?

Affy - I'm going to check that entry now.

And a couple of others. They improve as they go on, but are nothing to being there


Post ya stupid message!

And then I check, and not Garius has posted Lake Louise photos, So, I rush off to look at his.

All the pictures do show it as a very lovely place and as you say probably nothing on being there.

The second interview I guess will be on monday. I'm waiting for the manager to return to work (currently ill) so he can do the second one. Not much to do other than twiddle my thumbs, get journal entries moderated out, work and wait. Just hope he'll be impressed enough to offer me the job - technical support/maintainance/admin for in house apps at a merchent bank.

The Lake is lovely indeed! Thanks Munchers and GL.

Lil, there's nothing at all wrong with taking condolences. You may not have seen him recently, but he was still a huge part of your life.

Matina, I am having a horrible time waking up this morning. I think I'm going to have to forego my usual tea and take a instead. Thank you.

Welcome to the new posters.

*settles on the sofa with her and "zones out"*

G7

Ah well, have a good weekend peeps, I'm off to Glasgow for the Stag Night of a Thousand Star Trek videos, or some such. Hmm, cheap beer in the rain

OK, the contest is launched at http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F19585?thread=106013&post=888449 for pimlico identification. I hope my own page doesn't get moderated, for posting the by-pass route to the pictures! Thanks all for posting those pictures of Lake Louise. It makes me more determined than ever to do that railway trip across Canada. And now to get some lunch and then carry on with the taxes. But I will be checking back to see whether the pimlicos get any response. :-)

Welcome to the "zone" G7. I still think the best blue I've seen is a toss-up between skink tail blue and glacial ice blue.