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

[MTG]

Sniffing new books is perfectly normal. Different publishers' books have different smells!

[GDZ]

What about gently kissing the cover of each new book as you tenderly welcome it to your collection?

(it does make sense David .. meaning is relative, but to a point. Meaning needs a context, so every meaning for, say, a text comes from the interaction of the text and reader, but this is far from infinite. I like the lego set metaphor)

i thought the term was bootlicker...

all right Ben?

I too loved the new Who ... it's an interesting tiwst on the show. I like the darkness. It feels like it's the same sort of slapstick comedy too, but done now.

Time lord sitting around watching TV .. classic.

I didn't have to do any photography this morning, so got home early enough to take care of my hootoo addiction.

In respect of that complainer, I've had an idea. What if we added a thread to this place for the foyer, where new people could halloo and be welcomed into the salon proper?

In MY dystopian society add the approved books will have some form of addictive substance laced intot he glue, so all the book snifferes will be hooked for life. Mwa ha ha!!

(Of course, all the banned books will smell like blue cheese and have poison on the corners -- perhaps I'e been spending too much time thinking of The Name of the Rose...)

I hope everyone does the proper library thing with their new books and exercises the spine gently so that it won't crack later...

I suspect we entice newbies when we are busy and are appearing on the front page. I have my doubts about the foyer concept because of the way the busiest conversations link on the front page works. When clicked upon, it drops you off at the very beginning of the most recently posted to thread on the parent page. Therefore, they are dropped off at post number one of one of our more active threads. Unless someone takes the time to look around, or you post the foyer prominently in the Atelier page, I don't think it will work well.

Is that clear?

Yes, I understand. Well, that could work if the foyer is referenced in the first post of every new conversation, where the traditional welcome blurb already goes.

I like the idea of a foyer, but I suspect that Witty has a good point. Perhaps in your initial posting to a thread, you could add a link to the foyer asking new people to go there, Lil.

The foyer idea is worth looking at.

[p]

I like the idea of a Foyer.

Maybe we should add a section at the beginning of the Summary specifically for newbies? Something like, if this is your first time, drop in say hi, etc? I know we already have something like that, maybe just a bit more prominent?

If there is anyone out there lurking that has an idea, it would be great to hear from you.

Courtesy

*deconstructs a large bowl of ice cream*

I was ignored when I first came here.

It didn't work .



Thre I was at 7.00am all dressed and ready to go and be a computing teacher when my agency rang and said that th bloke who had been carted off in an ambulance at close of play on friday had staged a miraculous recovery over the weekend and I was no longer required.

At 8.45am there was an emergency call and I dashed off to one of the inner city comps - I'm still picking the broken glass out of the soles of my shoes. Emergency? What emergency? I sat around for an hour while they decided what I was going to do. Then the timetables arrived and I swapped with another teacher who didn't fancy teaching year 11 top set maffs. After 20 minutes of maffs I was replaced and rushed across to another block to teach RE until the end of the period. That wasn't much fun because the kids had been without a teacher so they were a bit exciteable. I'm not sure they learned much RE. One lad learned that greeting me with the words "Hi babe" is almost certainly a mistake. A serious mistake. After that I 'supervised' the year 12/13 computer room for an hour (i.e. read the BBC News website) and then I sat on my bum for three hours on standby and got very bored.

I've no idea what I'm doing tomorrow.

*Z spies a computer with internet access, runs towards it desperately and begins to hyperventilate*

It's been nearly twelve hours since I went online and believe me that's almost a record. I've missed you guys.



I thought I enjoyed living on my own, but it seems that actually I just spent all my time talking to people on the internet. I had to spend a hour or so on the phone to A and B (separately). Now me and my Zebra Print file have installed ourselves in the computer cluster at the medschool and are busy *ahem* revising and going on h2g2. Unfortunatly my Zebra print file is doing the revising and I'm going on h2g2, which would be find, but it's not allowed into the exam.

The presentation went fairly well, though I could have done a better job, and being a perfectionist (really!) that annoyed me. Still I haven't got time to be worrying about that! I have a revision timetable to colour in then ignore.



*pats Ben's PC soothingly*

*pats Ben soothingly*

I've got a newer version of Fedora and tried to install it, (so I've already deleted all the old stuff) but I can't get it to recognise my modem, so I can't get online from home, which is actually quite useful because it does stop me working. I've got a hardwear modem, but for some reason Fedora 3 doesn't know that it exists so won't dial up. I'm just going to retrive Fedora 2 from Ben's flat and put that back on. I know I could sort it more easily and not just reinstall the whole time, but I don't have enough spare brain. It's so full of stuff about ill kids I can't manage to learn things about Linux.

I'm going to delete some of the stuff about kids when I graduate, paeds ain't for me. I don't mind children, but the parents are getting on my nerves.

They seem to fall into two catagories

1. Very very very worried about a well child.

Or

2. Not at all worried about a sick child.

I think I find (2) marginally more annoying than (1).

Agapanthus - do pop into your GP and get heartburn looked at.

*strokes Z's zebra print file*

*realises that if she stays online much longer she wont get the early night she promised herself*

*waves to all*

Ben