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

[Ivan]

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*shuffles in again*

I'll call the biker chick doctor tomorrow and see if there's a known pattern. Several of us, including my landlady, are enduring multiple encounters with this virus, or the same virus expressing in several episodes.

Somebody ring for the gardenrbot, please? We have quite a heap of calling cards.

And speaking of viruses, Yahoo has a problem. I've received about 75 infected emails today, addressed to me as owner of a group (not associated with hootoo), all with a subject header that says "[spam]" followed by a range of messages -- delivery error, whatever... all infected with the netsky virus. I would stop delivery from this group if I could, but I keep getting DNS errors when I try to access certain pages belonging to that list.

The Community Artists files are also behaving erratically.

*rings for gardenerbot*

Lil, could it perhaps be the water?

The boy s are making me crazy tonight. Just out of control racing around...knocking stuff over, etc. I think it's because we weren't home all day today...

Someone was mentioning wedding costs... Since I am a new expert about this, I thought I'd throw in my $.02...

The average wedding in the US costs $20k. I'm told my budget is half that. Upon hearing this, I tried to talk the fiance into eloping and spending the money on our honeymoon, but darn him, he wants a wedding. We looked into Las Vegas, NV but the fiance kind of got his heart set on the Bellagio, which is EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE! Plus we disagree on a whole lot of the details for the reception, and were having difficulties deciding what to do...

So now I'm trying to talk everyone into a very small destination wedding. Somewhere gorgeous and tropical, I'm thinking... Anyone have any suggestions for good places to go to have lots of gorgeous pictures and beautiful memories? I'm thinking New Zealand/Bahamas/Tahiti/etc and Africa for the honeymoon...

After our week in St Lucia in the Windward Isles, I can't rate it highly enough, it is a beautiful island and the trade winds temper the temperature and humidity. But as with all tropical destinations, they aren't called rain forests for nothing and forests also lead to insects. Mossie repellent is vital and check up on health requirements well in advance, none for St Lucia as long as your basic vaccinations are up to date. November to April is their peak season as the winter is more insect free and the humidity is lower.

*hiding from the backlog*

Not actually a quiz, so no feedback. But academic research so you do at least get the warm glow of a public duty done. And it ain't onerous.

http://www.luckfactor.co.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects/BornLucky.woa

B

Ben, are you a parcipator in the project? I'm tempted to sign up, but am wary of being bombarded with endless emails.

I just filled in the online research questionnaire and didn't give them an email addy, but I am quite interested in signing up.

I am bombarded with endless emails as it is...

Lucky me!

B

I don't really feel lucky all that often. Things that go well are usually based on preexsisting conditions, things that go badly are often the same.

sea: If Caerwynn's photos of the get-away are any indication, St Lucia is a marvelous destination. Have her post the link again, or backtrack to where she posted it. Once you see them, you'll want to show your significant other to over, as well.

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Arrrgghh! Instruction leaflets! Something in the Swedish version of an instruction made me suspicious, so I checked the English version, which was different in a couple of details, so I checked the German version (since it's a product made in Germany) and that version differs in details both compared with the Swedish *and* the English version! I hate sloppy translations! Now how am I to know which version that is the most correct one?

In the instructions for a well-known brand of hair colorant the English instructions tell you to leave the conditioner on for two minutes but the French instructions say 5 minutes. Are minutes different in France? Is French hair more in need of conditioning?



Has anyone seen Sporky recently?

I haven't seen d'Elaphant around either. Are a lot of people away on holiday?

I drew a little friend for Zeppo . It's on the front page today . The A number is A2116450.

I don't know about French and English minutes, but there is the well known concept of the Irish Mile (which is a vague distance, probably longer than the English one), and then there are Swedish Miles which really are longer than English ones, since a Swedish Mile is 10km, and an English one is about 1.6km.

French babies take longer to gestate than English ones though. The French calculate pregnancy at 41 weeks, and the English calculate it at 40. Or is it the over way round?

Plus la difference, plus la meme chose.

Ben
(Awed by Titania's linguistic abilities. And humbled too.)

Oh, and then there is the infamous hootoo "3 minutes ago"!

B

40 weeks gestation is the UK standard, allowing for week either side of ovulation.

Amy, I love the Airedale

Ack! A day where so far I've managed to get half a job done
I started upgrading one of the servers this morning and got part way through (and was having a little spot of bother as well) when the engineer came along to fix one of the other servers in the same rack in the machine room.
Oh well. Hope I can rememebr where I was up to when he's gone...