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

Mmmmmm, gewurztraminer

{Montana} <note the frilly edges...how valentine-y

MR is showing her frilly edges.

Don't go there.

I will not comment in frilly edges.

Ah yes, Valentine's Day. Just February the 14th in my book.

h2g2 was acting up a few minutes ago. It looks to me like the new DNA engine hasn't actually been fully installed yet. If you look at the error pages we get you'll notice the server doesn't actually know what to /do/ with the URLs it's getting.

[Amy]

Morning all - it's going to be a sweltering 38ºC (about 100ºF ) here today...sunny is nice, but sometimes it just goes overboard...

That's been happening a fair bit, Chris - the other day the stats page was telling me that there were -1 researchers!

hmmmm....

Chapter Two of my story, "The Quest" is now in the Post! this week's stars are Garius Lupus, the "tall, dark, and wolfishly handsome", and Red Dog, the "red-haired ex-military man that looked like the-boy-next-door"!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/thepost

The immune system is actually extremely complex, far more than two parts. I work with a microbiologist, and she has told me all about it. Over lunch. Vaccines are too specific to be detrimental in the way you describe, GL, but antibacterial soap, antibacterial shampoo, antibacterial toothpaste, antibacterial onion rings, etc. can affect the immune system by depriving it of something to target. There is some evidence suggesting a link between the overuse of antibacterial items and auto-immune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, asthma, thyroid disease, and so on.

And so I refuse to clean my house, for health reasons.

Hi guys, been lurking around. Is it the new engine? I have had 0 researchers, been fooled to believe that my page was wiped out, and just now, an entry that or which I replied to showed up but didn't register as registered, and yes, I did refresh. MD

Is today Thursday? We should have had a Downtime to apply some "Service Packs" to the database server. It was on the <./>Announcements</.> Page.

There was supposed to be a "Hello Mediocrodane" in that last posting. I blame a temporal distortion. I'm sitting too close to Affy and GL.

/* Moves to the other sofa */

That "hello" will probably turn up sometime, maybe in one of the pre-Rupert threads that is still awaiting moderation.

That happened about 12 hours ago...I think this one was just "oops, where's that darn database gone?" again...

d'E, if I didn't know better, I'd get the impression that you thought that temporal rifts and spatial anamolies followed GL and myself around.

*Glances suspiciously at a green wormhole hovering just outside the window. He waves it away, and it starts hiding again*

Sea, why do you leave us in anticipation like this! I wanna know the quest! Darn it, I'm hooked now!

Hello assumed, thanks. I'll be around. MD

I enjoy wathcing the sun, the sky and the clouds - as long as they don't form an even layer - as you might have noticed from my occasional descriptions...

Yesterday I saw one of the oddest clouds I've ever seen... it was very thin, almost transparent, so it had a shade of blue. In the middle it looked very curly, like lamb's wool, but towards the edges it looked like fur (no, not feathers, fur!) and I could even see the separate long hairs in the fur...

I've heard that you can foretell the weather by looking at the clouds - but what would a cloud like this tell you?

*drifting off to search for a picture*

[Sol]

T I think the things to note when reading clouds are what shape they are, how high and how fast they're moving.

Here it's bright and sunny again. There does look to be a frost overnight and it'll probably be cold in the wind but it still is nice to look at some blue sky for a change

If you cant see a cloud, its because its raining, and if you can see a cloud, its going to rain soon!

[Munchkin]
Had the same problems posting yesterday as I tried to crow about being in a winning scavenger hunt team. Obviously an ego suppression device