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

So, not when you can show rude stuff on the telly then?

I've a feeling my professor at uni developed the watershed theory of human culture, two ticks cos I've got to take kids to the station ..

Mol

beaten to last post 42 by Two-Bit Trigger-Pumping Moron....that was over a year ago..when I think I delurked to wish every one a happy new year ect same again beaten to post 42 by Mol.. I suppose have I become a creature of habit...

Some habits are cool

I'm trapped at home by a snowstorm.

Not that I'm complaining.

*hands over hot chocolate*
I am ignoring the piles of clean laundry that needs folding.
I am also ignoring going to the shop.

3 LED's?

Three?

I must be slipping.

*heads for the backlog*

It feels like it should be snowing here, but it's not forecast to.

So I'm off to the pub

Haaaaaaapppy New Year!

Any more of that Irish Coffee going? We've been on flood alert here in East Belfast, but the extra sandbags (and the wind changing direction) have meant it wasn't a Major Disaster. I'm off oop north later, to go running on the beach tomorrow morning (forecast temps 3 degrees C), then take my Mum on one of the world's most beautiful train journies to Derry-Londonderry to see the final weekend of the Turner Prize exhibition.

The Utah border looks odd to me. The Great Salt Lake drains a huge portion of the Great Basin, but it sure seems like there is a large portion of Nevada that is included that is outside of the Great Basin. I could be wrong though. It's been a while since I looked at a map of endorheic basins.

I happened across this article about one of the challenges encountered in constructing the London Underground. I found it fascinating and want to read the book referred to in the article.

http://gizmodo.com/how-corpses-helped-shape-the-london-underground-1493312117

At least half of New Mexico would belong to the military in the new map; a good portion of the remainder would be reservation land. But I think we'd get to keep the town named Chi Chi Tah.

No sir, what bothers me is the size of Oklahoma. That New Jersey gets Manhattan seems only fair.

I'll look at the London Underground thing this afternoon. I'm getting up in a few minutes and have a visitor coming, Ellyn Medrano, wife of my friend/therapist. Pastey met her last May.

I'll take Manhattan, and Staten Island, too.

But I won't take Long Island!

Twelve *thousand*?

That Necropolis book sounds really interesting. One of the comments mentioned having heard that plague germs can live for hundreds of years. I suppose that might depend on how they are contained.

In the early 90ies, I survived a night unharmed in a former leper colony that had also served as a plague hospital. It had been made into a Jugendherberge (youth hostel). You weren't allowed to use your own bed clothes, and you had to wear felt cloth slippers to spare the floor boards.

It was situated near the closest train station to Lichtenstein (I found they had no railway station, too small). I had to take a bus from Feldkirch (Austria) which is where I spent the night.

This was during one of the travels I did trying to visit every European capital.

For some reason, I still have the capitals of Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Monaco, Latvia, Lithunia, Russia and whatever other former parts of the Soviet Union that are situated in Europe, and Albania. Oh, and Malta and Cyprus - and Dublin!

Maybe this is a project I ought to continue at some time.

More commonly used over here to mean 9pm, the time when you can start saying naughty words on the telly.

That was apropos of the watershed definitions. And I see Pastey beat me to it.

ltp, I'm so sorry, posting at 42 was an accident. I hadn't even realised I'd done it.

(Although blimey, FTTF *and* post 42 ... did the double there).

Watersheds. In the UK sense. Significant barrier between communities. Reflected in cultural differences either side of the watershed. In my part of England (which is *the* watershed area - from these hills, rivers flow to three different coasts), it's here that the short 'a' starts (so to the south they say 'bahth', to the north they say 'bath', and right here either will do). So there is an immediate linguistic change associated with the watershed. But it's probably more noticeable in architecture - building materials being particularly difficult to haul up and down hills - so there are different building styles on either side of a watershed. Old buildings I mean, and ordinary ones. Nowadays it's all duplicate housing estates wherever you are.

According to my professor, anyway. He was *very* keen on the boundaries created by watersheds.

Mol

What, watershed o'clock?