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

If we don't have an attic, where do we keep the bats?

In the caves, of course.

need smiley for bats in cave eating mosquitoes that cause nine mile virus

[Munchkin, definately not here, so must be a kin]
MR, so why do they think you are "transient" and what does that mean for you?

[still not here]

We don't have an attic because the Atelier is situated on the second floor, just above the CLI (Crater Labs Inc.) A258167

...and I definitely advise against searching for bombs in the labs unless GL or Affy are there... (which they aren't - yet)

[Not here]
That's right, T. Neither of us is actually there, in this particular story line, anyway. But if you went down there, you'd find that our bots (and other security measures) wouldn't let you past the public rooms. But never fear, they wouldn't let a bomb in there either. If there is a bomb around, it must be in the CLI public rooms, or up here. (The roof is also unlikely, since there is nothing up there and it is constantly scanned by our security cameras).

Perhaps I should radio up a clean-up team from downstairs.

Ummm. Did they say what *kind* of bomb it was?

[not here]

Ah - but then I've always been wondering if the security systems that won't let you past the public rooms would accomplish their task without accidentally causing you harm...

Oh, they don't worry about causing harm if someone is trying to get past them.

{[caer csd] *wonders if these jello types could have trained pigeons to plant bombs in a similar way to dolphins*}

Tick tick tick

Has anyone checked the dumb waiter?

How could anyone with a permanent residence be transient?

Dumb waiter? Ampton can be a little taciturn at times, especially when Matina is nearby for some reason ...

Anyway, he's not a waiter, he just looks a bit like one.

Plan: http://www.asterlil.com/h2g2/aplanbig.htm
Other stuff: http://www.asterlil.com/h2g2/

[{Courtesy}]

Definitely not here, but if he was would be leaving for the day, which he isn't because he's not here.

[here, but made of cardboard]

If it will detonate when Lil returns, it must be able to sense her return somehow. It could be under her bed, or planted in her paint brushes.

/* Looks sternly at Zeppo */

Cardboard cutout dogs should not eat mbougatses. Look, they've just fallen on the floor behind you where Ripley might find them.

/* Tries to hide the mbougatse that has fallen on the floor behind himself. */

[c]

How does sea get the handle inside the cup like that?

Black-belt origami?

[H] totally confused and wondering why Zeppo doesn't just sniff out the bomb.

Excellent idea, Hypatia!

Apparently, Munch, students at UCI are considered transient by the school district. This allows them to make life hard for us. Things like registration....they require two different varifications of your address, and one of them MUST be a gas or electric bill. Since we in married student housing don't pay our own utilities, this sort of makes it hard to have a gas or electric bill. So that's the first hurdle.

Also, the Irvine Company, which owns most of the land around here, built a new development of million dollar+ houses close to my daughter's school. These houses are getting their own school in 2004, yet they want to move all of us "transient" students to another school to make room for the rich folk. They want to take our kids OUT of one of the best schools in the state and put them INTO one of the worst. This is after they promised not to do this, and after they told the new rich folk that for this year and next, their kids would have to go to a different school, but that in 2004, they would get their own school. The developer is building it, but now the school district doesn't want to staff it.

Now I ask you, if it takes an average of 4 to 5 years to finish a PhD, and most of the children who live in married student housing have parents who are PhD students, how transient does that make us? Seems to me that the people who buy houses and sell them two years later when the value goes up are much more transient than we are.

What it boils down to is this: students, on average, don't make a whole lot of money, and thus, can't write huge checks to the PTA, or (as last year) bail out the school by giving $200 per student. So they want us out. They forgot, though, that if our lower income goes, so does $200 thousand in Title 1 funds (which are given to schools based on the number of economically disadvantaged students, and fund things like special ed teachers and music programs). OOPS.


Whew! Sorry that was so long!

[lil]
if she were here she would thank Amy for reminding salonistas of the floor plan for the atelier