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

Yes. I have a few optimisation chips back there, minute little things...

I've also got a pair of sunglasses that...*takes them out of one of his any pockets in hhis infamous green jacket, and puts them on*...will analyse anything significant that coes into view, and will display statistics on it...
They also help me aim my Watch, and other such things...

Ah, I see... handy little tings, those
*checks Lil's fridge for beer, finds a six-pack of Frydenlunds Baier*
My favorite dark beer! Want one?
*waves a bottle towards Big C*

*ducks, as beer is streamlined towards sporky's forehead, as all things are...*

Watch yer aim, BB

[GL]


Will rescue you from pizza bag, Amy

Ah, thanks BB...
*glugs it down...*
*coughs...*

Ah, nothing like Earth beverages...

Alcopops and cider!

Don't suppose anybody's thought about moving threads?

we've thought about it, but we couldn't find any prime real estate.

How about a brownfield site for redevelopment then

GR, I think Lil is planning on moving the thread soon. She keeps hinting at it when she comes into the salon, but the Billy work is keeping her tied up a lot.

Righto, fair enough.

Change threads Lil! (not that anyone reads backlog)

I had thought about changing posts after 1000 because I was never in 4 figures before.

Big C, get your sunglasses to restore the 'm' on that keyboard. You have my sympathy, though. Why are the m's the first to go??

Kasia, I have a sign for you. It is at
[Broken link removed by Moderator]I made it extremely traditional, and with a limited colour range to speed loading, although I think it spoiled the logo a bit. Is this the kind of thing you had in mind? Oh, and what colour background? I have not yet troubled to learn how to make transparent GIFs yet ... but I ~hate~ that aliasing you get when you don't feather into the background colour.

I miss Odra. She was starting school about now, you know, so maybe she has moved off to a place with no net access ... like Antarctica, or some Pacific atoll.

QMike, where are these two new guide entries?

It's a sign! And a great sign, too.

Nice sign.
As for places with no net access, antarctica does (or at least one US base does), see http://www.h2g2.com/U119367

It's alright now Lil, thanks...I'm back home in RL, so my keyboard's OK...

oooh...nice sign...

Oh, if you want a program for doing really, truly amazing graphics, and making the background colour for GIF's transparent easily, I know one...
I don't want to advertise here without your permission though...
All I will say is that I know ways around paying for it...

*releaved to discover that the ground beneath her floating feet now seems stable, and that her vision is not blurred any more*

Hi all!

Lil, how nice to see you outside the studio!

Matina, a Y please!

*gets champagne bottle from fridge, still self-refillable, but only through great efforts due to Loony's imbibement*

Big C, I have the software (and I believe in paying for it ), but I simply haven't taken the time to sit down and study at how one does it. Mainly for the reason specified earlier...

OK, we'll have a tex-mex dinner tomorrow. Anybody here unfamiliar with burritos and tacos and chimichangas? Chili, of course, but there's also a range of excellent southwestern cuisine that a lot of people don't hear about.

I tried to post here last night, incidentally, but I had those XML errors that I have overheard the rest of you talking about. They seem to have gone...

Lil: Yes! Post 1000!
And guide entries are ALWAYS on your homepage

Hmm....OK Lil, if you're happy with your software...
And I do intend to eventually buy the software, but I don't have the money right now...I'm just, ahem, extending the evaluation period...
The software you have, would it be FW by MM?

[P]

Lil and I both use Painter (now owned by Corel). I usually have to tidy up transparent gifs in GraphicConverter before publication. GC is a shareware programme available for the Macintosh. I don't know what the PC equivalent is.

*floating in from veranda, putting bottle back into fridge*

Got to go, good night all!

*drifting off, in her usual v.e.l.manner*