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

All my unresolved postings from the tag end of last thread (6DXth Convo)…

All:
About the birthday posting…in triplicate. Sorry about that. I was obsessing the ‘look’ of the subject line and why my "-->" kept winding up looking like "—&lpt"…

From WordCount:
Blue 973
Eyed 11950
Bipedal 54361
Bookworm 78961
From 29
Betelgeuse (N/A)

Lightning:
600 strikes in one hour! Almost as good as a Pink Floyd stage show!

[Notice how I deftly combined two topics into one reply?]

B’s date:
Glad to hear it went well and that he may become a good acquaintance. BTW, have you ever watched the movie, "When Harry Met Sally"?

Quiz:
Darth Vader. Hmmm… Well, that’d be cool in a weird power-mad sort of way…

Prince of Persia:
I have ~got~ to find my copy so I can play it. It was in the ‘book room’ the last time I saw it. {starts heaving debris from one pile to another} It’s ~gotta~ be in here somewhere!

Flossing:
Teuchter, you’ve made a believer out of me…from just one little statistic. Never considered it before. I can effectively clean 60% of my teeth’s surface area, but I’ll bet the hidden 40% is where all that nasty stuff’ll grow and cause my teef to fawe oud…

Amy:
What is this fascination your relatives have for burying their dead in the open? Remember the PS posting about the tetherball pole I installed for my little girl. Well, since the cement dried, I’ve witnessed an amazing ritual—all the letters and numbers I etched into the cement are being systematically filled with myrmecoid carcasses! Now I can clearly read all the scrawl because it’s been filled with little black bodies.

Nederlanders:
On holiday, they ~will~ pull over along any stretch of road and ‘go potty’ if there’s not a facility in sight. No shame; no pain. Or was that just a way to ‘get back at the Germans’, since that’s where I noted them doing so…?

Money matters:
Z, you’ll survive. Then you’ll get a well-paying job and make an extended career of it. You’ll get richer the further along you go, as long as you live within your means and don’t buy into the ‘deficit spending / credit / debt-by-any-other-name’ scam.

B4thenextrollingblackoutshutsoffthepower2mycrystal8ball

Z, as a currently-unemployed-with-two-degrees person, who finds that through a tiresome tax-related she still has to pay her own NI contributions and do tax returns, I empathise with you utterly and totally. Some GOIT in the supermarket the other day was whining about not having a new pair of shoes this week and the other new pair didn't go with his his new shorts and he was planning on getting those fancy spinning hub-caps for his Merc and meanwhile his trolley was full of £20 bottles of wine and luxury deluxe versions of all the ready meals and there was I with shoes I've had since 1999 and clothes my sister gave me that used to belong to some friend of hers in an anarcho-collective (and therefore the seams probably contain more illicit narcotics than I've seen in my life and all my money-trouble would be solved if I auctioned it to the students up the road... but I digress) and I walk everywhere and in my trolley we have solely those veg on special offer... A red mist covered my eyes for a while and in my ears I could dimly here a massed chorus singing 'the Red Flag'.

Yeah, the shoe woes of the rich, I'm with you, Teuchter. That's why I'm so excited about the auction of my antique clock (Item #3740423782) on eBay, because it looks as if it will pay next month's rent. And maybe the phone bill too.


question: Can anyone tell me what a subdomain is and what you use it for?

[GDZ]

Lil, an example of a subdomain is marvthegrate.afraid.org .
marvthegrate is the sub domain, afraid is the domain and org is the top level domain.

Usually used to distinguish different servers or services on a particular domain (mail.example.com ftp.example.com etc.) it can also be used just to seperate website headers.

Yup, like what Marv says there.
Here at work the top domain is mmu.ac.uk
The faculty I work in has it's own subdomain (and servers and workstations etc) as sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk Other faculties/departments have different subdomains of mmu.ac.uk
(there, some more info about where I work for ya!)

Oh, I forgot. I am getting new eyeglasses in a few days. I went to the eye doc yesterday and was pleasantly suprised at teh coverage that my unsurance affords me. I get the frames and lenses (which are going to be photochromatic as well) for $15. I also can go back in Janurary and get another pair.

I have this crazy tan line on the top of each foot--a "z" pattern caused by the type of sandals I wear. It's quite distinct because I can easily obtain a very dark tan while my natural skin tone is quite translucent (you can see blue veins everywhere). Otherwise, you can see my bathing suit straps and neckline, with a good smattering of sun freckles (i.e. skin damage) on my shoulders and the tops of my knees.

I've never used the tanning cream or gone to a tanning salon.

I have a farmers tan and lines from my Tevas. I've also got tan lines from my rings and watch. And some quite faint tan lines from my sunglasses. But the native american in me helps me tan somewhat easily, and it keeps me from being badly burnt.

I wonder if my Canadian grandad had Native American blood sometimes. When I get a tan I go distinctly coppery brown, unlike the olive or cafe-au-lait tones of other people with similar colouring to me.

(Sentimental bit coming up) I'm getting a ring tan-mark for the very first time this summer

That's very sweet, Agapanthus, and congratulations. But I must say that it seems odd to find everyone discussing their tans on the day when, starting a new one-day-a-week voluntary job at a theatre, I had trouble getting there in the morning because all the subways were flooded. It's dry here at the moment, but it's also very dark overhead at 6:50pm, and I'm going to a match tonight. I just hope that neither I or my team are going to get drowned...

Anyway, the day's work went well. The place used to be a cinema, and I spent the afternoon cataloguing a big collection of old film magazines from the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties that they're hoping to sell. Fascinating stuff - it was hard to stay focused and not just keep reading.

Teuchter, you might like my favourite single of the moment. It's a brilliant bit of epic Phil Spector-ish pop by a new British duo called Johnny Boy, with a rather pointed lyric about dumb consumerism. It's snappily entitled 'You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve'.

I have a tan-line from my ring and glasses and also from the shorts I am always wearing. My arms are tanned pretty well all over.

I would happily take the credit for that witty posting about shoes and over-monied twots moaning about nothing in supermarkets - but Agapanthus' name is at the top of it

I do love your postings Agapanthus and wish I could write as well as you.
And - awwww - for the white ring mark on the left hand
I can't get my wedding ring off my porky finger now and dread ever having a hand injury as that will mean having the ring cut off.

We're back to temperatures and humidity again so another restless night is in store.
We were awoken by torrential rain in the middle of the night. The burn at the foot of the garden broke its banks and the lane was completely flooded. I half expected to see Noah out rounding up the animals. Such a strange climate.

I've often thought too, Agapanthus, that there are other ancestors hiding in my genetic woodpile in addition to some dull and solid Germans for many reasons. Some physical clues: my tan is deep and dark and I have really near-black hair and almond-shaped eyes. Others pick up on it too. The other night, when myself, MR and some new friends were at a downtown bar this guy hitting on me asked if I was Slavic. He also asked my sign, why I never smile and why I look so cynical but was unsuccessful in his ultimate quest.

[B]

B4, I can't think what's going on with those ants. I'd love to know. Have you seen live ants dragging dead ones onto the concrete? Or are they flying in, colliding with the post and dropping dead?

Thanks for the support, I have to admit it will be interesting to see if my revolutionary tendancies continue when I'm a taxpayer - my parents give it three weeks.

I did buy a cheap notebook in a sale and some glitter pens - making revision much more appealing.

I do wonder if we're started to get Indian weather.

Teuchter, I remember quite a number of years back where my mother had to have her wedding ring cut off because of injury. I seem to remember (I was littler then) that it took a long long time before they could afford to get it fixed but it is back to all it's lovely gloriousness again

Glad it's dried up as raining for most of the night and most of the day is depressing. Now can I stay up late enough to catch some of the perseid meteor shower (due to peak in a couple of days-ish)

Which bits of indian weather do you think we've got Z? All that's happened so far is that we've been hit by the tail end of what was a huracane over the other side of the pond and diminished a bit while travelling the atlantic. Still I'd rather have it dry for a bit (the extension roof still needs to be done).

Phil, well we've had a heatwave for weeks, and now we've got a monsoon.

It's not just me! I was in clinic with a who trained in Madras and he said it was Indian style weather as well. Then we started comparing curry recipes. None of the patients had turned up because of the rain.

Do you know that in Madra they make Japenino(?sp) chilli Bajis?

Phil, would the Persieds be the shooting stars I saw last Wed? I was not sure and just now remembered to ask.