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

For Sol Nice photo Lil . Quicktime don't talk to me about quicktime I am having problems with mpeg-4 .[ see here ; http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F62787?thread=6050830&show=20&skip=0#pi13 ] Even worse than quicktime I have run out of angostura bitters for my G & T

Sol, here's to getting pampered!

I hadn't thought about the pampering angle. Pampering is a good thing.

Yet another tornado headed our way... How odd - tornadoes in Texas? Next thing you know they'll have floods in Louisiana.

I've been busy getting my studio back in order. I never have time for it when I'm getting ready for a festival, so I was having a serious problem moving around in that room - too much stuff! Getting rid of two computers and a workbench will help considerably.

*Carefully tucks another cushion under Sol's ankle*

Not even a millionth as dramatic as a sprained ankle, but I now have a very very thin bruise on my right arm, exactly like someone drew down it with a blue biro. I waved a book I had just found at a fellow librarian. I forgot I was standing right next to a pillar. On the pillar, a sort of frame for putting posters in, with its 'lid' of glass taken off, so the sharp rim of the thing was standing proud of the felt backing by about 4 mm. I must wave more vigorously than I realised. I wouldn't mind, only two people told me later I had pen marks on my forearm, and then laughed heartily when I explained.

I WAS going to say something else *goes off to rack brains*

Well that was an interesting day.. I ended up being the medical reg (which is basically the most senior one around)with a very very very sick person, who I just couldn't stablise.

Never mind that I hadn't got the exam results, it was a crisis situation - yes I hate people who call in sick without time to get a locum.

But it was good fun - and they were all still alive when I left.

*reads backlog*

*applies a tubigrip to sol's ankle- and also a bag of frozen Peas*

Work was nightmare today. That happens when the network goes down and you have what seems like 20,000 calls come in in the space of what seems like 30 seconds.

::wonders if some lettuce, butter and scallions would go well with Z's frozen peas::

Are we treating Sol, or eating Sol?

i hope we are treating her.

Why does my guitar have cheesewire for strings, My fingers are rather sore, but the sense of acheivement i get when someone tells me i am doing well with learning is worth it.

mini

[GDZ]

* Sol*

Music is important, mini.

*sips *

>>> Come on over to my house for dinner, everyone. I've got a lamb and lima bean stew in the crock pot. The place smells divine.

I had to swallow several times to preventfrom falling onto my keyboard, FG.

Question for Todaymueller: What is builders tea?

>>> I must come up with a suitable name for my workplace , like 'The dungeons of disenchantment' ...

Den of Iniquity
Soul-Sucker Towers
Micro-Management Managerie
The Sweatshop
The Undercompensation Station

>>> I wonder why Americans don't name their houses like the British do--or did.

Do all houses in Great Britian have names or just the really enormous ones? And does the post office deliver mail addressed to, for example, The Dougherty Den of Iniquity, or should letters addressed to the Dougherty family still have a street address?

In college my housemates and I named our house Wormwood after The Screwtape Letters. But bills and letters still needed the regular street address.

I love my new t-shirt, Lil, and would be glad to scribe this conversation posts 1-250.

*sips from bottle of Eye of the Hawk* Really I should pour this in a pint glass. IIEM, can I have an empty pint glass, please.


HN

I almost volunteered for 250-500, then I realized that I don't know when we'll be moving to our bigger place

I think I may actually get a chance to get tired of Christmas carols this year--Faith's going to be performing at church on December 21, and since she's not old enough to learn all the words by reading the songbook ('cause she's just starting to learn what letters say what) we'll be playing a certain CD over and over and over and...

I definitely have to invest in a set of Peril Sensitive Sunglasses with built-in HUD and voice-activated Wi-Fi interface. Otherwise, there's no hope of me ~ever~ making it First to the Forum. Heck, I can't remember the last time I was on the first LED of the Forum.
{he glances around and chuckles}
At least I won't have to worry about the Blue Mohair suit...

While I still have the thought to hand, I'm going to scribble a note about the HUD, then catch up on the backlog. I'll...see y'all...in a while...
{he grabs a snack off a serving tray as he passes, and disappears around a corner}

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>> Question for Todaymueller: What is builders tea?

Very strong. Often also very sweet and very milky. "English Tea" and "English Breakfast Tea" sold outside the UK, Eire, OZ and NZ tends to be brewed for drinking black or with lemon and is nowhere near strong enough or bitter enough, but that's another rant.

My big bro claimed my Ma drank "sargeant major's tea that would kill most sargeant majors".

Another variation on the theme is "tea so strong the spoon stands up".

If you think of brown alcohol, you've got Guiness lined up at one end of the bar, glasses of stout, beer and ale (this is an English bar), then cans of lager and bottles of American beers (some with limes in the neck of the bottle), and then on to balooons of calvados, brandy and tumblers of whisky with the palest and most delicate malt whiskys with a small jug of water beside them at the opposite end of the bar. Sargeant Major tea is the equivalent of Guiness. Strong, dark, bitter, sustaining. China tea or green tea is at the malt whisky end of things. Light, perfumed, delicate, worth it.

>> Do all houses in Great Britian have names or just the really enormous ones? And does the post office deliver mail addressed to, for example, The Dougherty Den of Iniquity, or should letters addressed to the Dougherty family still have a street address?

Older and more rural ones tend to have names. They may also have numbers imposed on them since. That said, a lot of villages had ros of new houses built in the second half of the 19th C, either as farm cottages in the agricultural boom then or as miners or mill-workers cottages when industry was more rural. These are more likely to be numbered. Whereas the house I lived in which dated from the 1980s was named. A lot of village house names are functional: "the Rectory" "the Forge" "the Mill House", etc, etc. I live three doors from "The Old Post Office".

Letters should be delivered to the address and not the person. This law was established after a woman was murdered by her husband because her lover's letter was delivered to their home and not to her friend's house. That said, a good postie knows where you live. I've certainly received letters addressed to Ms Surname, Village. In the UK the post code system works at street level so in theory all you need for an address is the house number and post code. I think that's cool.

Ben
*Drinking *

Ben, dearest, you need to come to *my* pub. Irv can attest that we don't do those "American" things. We pride ourselves on not serving macrobrews (Bud, Miller, Coors, etc). We got rid of Newcastle this year, because it had become too big, and was no longer truly Newcastle. We still serve Guinness, of course, but really push real, honest to goodness beer.

OOh, beer lesson: there are two types of beer, ales and lagers. Ales are brewed hot and quick, lagers cool and long. Stouts are ales...in fact, most beers, with the exception of some Chech brews (Pilsners) are ales.

Mornin All

Overcast but bits of clear sky trying to dawn.

On the subject what about bright beer i.e. when my lamdlord brews a batch of beer it is put into barrels, to store, before connecting to the pump on the bar.

Now that is interesting, MR. And you are right, I should come to your pub!