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

You are watching Evangelion TIM? Awesome series, I loved it.

Yeah, I just finished the third volume I've got this nagging in my mind ordering to go buy the box set, I just can't leave it hanging! (cos three volumes is all they have available to rent at the local video shop). I love Asuka!

Someone loves Asuka? Blasphemy. Now Misato......

Sorry folks, I am sort of an anime freak. I return to the regularly scheduled conversation.

I've been reading the Philip Pullman "His Dark Materials" trilogy and find it interesting. It's not really my speed, but I am enjoying it nonetheless. I sort of like the idea of havign a daemon around.

Heh. Thanks Marv for finally reminding me what I keep forgetting to share with the Atelier. Sporky loaned me his entire collection of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. They arrived in a great big box while I was on vacation in the Southwest. I'm reading them in order and I am halfway through Pyramids. Very funny stuff. Of course, I read one or two at a time then turn to something else--fiction or non-fiction--then go back to Discworld. I tried to start Russell Banks' latest, The Darling, but I didn't get very far. It starts with a description of a massacre of chimpanzees and I hate to read about animal abuse, no matter how good a mood I'm in. I couldn't get past that and had to return it to the library. He's a wonderful writer, I just couldn't deal. Call me a literary wimp.

[mr]

[ltp]

I actually liked both Misato and Asuka.

[Ben]

[Rosemary] 3 essays to do before fri

[Teuchter]

*scribelling assiduously

It seems my mechanical pencil (that I've toted around for several years now) has also disappeared! Ink ~and~ graphite gremlins? This is getting "curiouser and curiouser." I hope Phil is correct in his assessment that the computer printers will survive this debacle...

This whole thing is kinda creepy in that so many of us are missing our writing implements. Or is it just that, now someone's mentioned it, we've all begun to notice how scatter-brained we can be by mislaying our pens and pencils? Perhaps the same thing's happening as what occurs with all the unused letters "R" in the New England states, where a sentence like "I pawk my caw in the Hawvawd Yawd" is commonplace. We can see they all float away and fall into the mouths of Southerners, who know "it's a durn good ideer ta warsh that squarsh a'fore ya eat it."

My guess is that they've all gone to the same place that onesy and twosies of my matched socks go after I put them in the washing machine--they rise into the stratosphere and dissipate into "the hose-zone layer." That's why I buy multiples of the same style black sock or white sock; so if one of a pair is MIA, another like item takes its place beside the remainder. Still, there always seems to be that ~one~ extra...

Which is almost totally identical to though completely the opposite of what happens to my paperclips and coat hangers. I start with just a few tucked into a drawer or hung in a closet (by their respective kind). I go away for a while, sometimes a day, sometimes a week or more. When I return to get one of the few to use it, there are three to four times as many! I believe they like to ~multiply~ in those dark areas. Now if my calculator would only do that...

B4ihave2takeoffmyshoes2countthemall

*limps in*

I went gaster over antennae on a bit of rough playground today and had to be taken to hospital in an ambulance. I lost half a day's pay and my knee is a mess. I also hit the floor with the side of my head so I have a big bruise there.

Anyone know anything about accident and injury claims?

I have no pens. The little sods have nicked 'em all.

for Amy, and for the knee

At least you know where your writing utensils went...

B4 - I had a few good s off that posting...:

The fate of the R's ...
(note: I once said to a Scot that I had some problems with Scottish pronounciation. "I seem to be unable to roll my R's" Dri wit reply: We usually don't discuss that in public..." )

Socks:
A Danish newspaper ("Politiken") ran a service over summer where they offered to match readers' stray socks. Actually, a handful or so got a match sent by mail to a lone sock they was on the verge of dumping

And then wirehangers:
Already at the Tech Uni (some 14-15 years ago), a friend of ours put forth the theory that wirehangers have sexual reproduction. Now, it's rarely seen as they're kinda shy and only can fulfil their mission in life in absolute dark and quiet in a wardrobe...

For one of his birthdays, we duly gave him three wirehangers nicely arranged in a large frame...

*off to do some ironing *

You OK Amy?

Amy:
Hope you knit back together quickly. I hear chitin is dang near indistructible, though I see now it can get a bit scuffed.
for your head
for your knee
Here, have a bit of and a slice of to help speed the healing process...

B4allthein-lawscrawlroundtosharethetreat

I believe that bit about the wirehangers. Every time I hang up my clean laundry, there seems to be more of the buggers in the closet.

[p] I certainly hope all the printers I have domain over (MMMMMMMWWWWWAAAAHHHHHHHAAAAAAA, I am lord over all I survey, well in my little cubicle anyways ) will still be working at the end of this. We're planning on moving them into the new building we're getting for the IT labs.

[Hati]

Amy! How did it happen?

Wasn't there something in the original series of HHGTTG about the planet where all the blue biros go?

I am exhausted after a day of sitting in the public meeting of the County Commission at Carrizozo, but at least we have preserved the Historic District intact. Despite the ideological machinations of the chairman. And all our terms have been extended till January because the commissioners didn't feel like selecting anybody till then.

So after I feed the cats and heat up a pizza, I am taking the night off to catch up on my magazines. And have a nice cozy fire and very likely fall asleep early.

Amy! Sorry to hear about your accident. Yeah, sue the s - they deserve it if they dock your pay because you're injured.

FG - you lucky thing! I remember when I discoverd Pratchett for the first time, and read the s one after another. You've got some real treats to come: 'Reaper Man', 'Soul Music', Carpe Jugulum', 'Night Watch' and 'The Truth' to name but five personal favourites.

Rosemary - you and me both. I've only got one essay to finish, but it requires me to sum up the history of liberal thought, from the seventeenth century to the present, in 2,000 words.