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

Dear Anna!

I would like you to consider me as an option when you next start recruiting sub-editors. I´ve got some webworky/editing experience, am capable of using capital letters and punctuation, but only when it´s appropriate. When I grow up I´d like to be like Dancing Tree, or have Dancing Tree be like me. Either, really.
I am
Researcher 199022
Name: ismarah

Best, Ismarah

Hi ismarah,

Great! I've added you to the list So, do you know Dancing Tree then, or have you come across his work on site?



Anna

Thank you kindly!

I know Dancing Tree- he´s my house pet/partner
News of Dancing Tree- he´s moved from the UK to Iceland to be with moi... Blissfully happy or so he assures me...

Ooooo - brilliant news. Please do remember me to him. He was a marvellous Sub. Can you drag him back into the fold, or is he busy familiarising himself with all things Icelandic?

Heh! I´ll give him your compliments, but he´ll probably just refer you to me instead... He´s moved on to be a full time writer and just lets me sub for him. He´s too kind, really

Really? How exciting What's he writing?

He writes tech articles and tutorials for mags, such as (?)Mac User, Internet Advisor, CreateOnline and T3.
Then he´s contributing to a few techie books too, doing makeovers for websites and designing sites.
He´s a busy little bee

Ooo. Good stuff. I saw his email just after I read your message here. He speaks very highly of you

He better... I´m the cook...

Ah, what's Icelandic food like? Or do you specialise in something exotic, like Thai?!

Icelandic food used to be all meat and potatos, fish and potatos. Well, that was when I was a kid...
Now it´s all international, with italian, spanish, mexican, thai, chinese, japanese, greek, indian and so on.
Traditionally, icelandic food was sheeps heads, soured rams balls, brown bread, fish, haggis and sausages, shark, whale, sheep paté and other wildly interesting stuff. Once a year, in february, the old traditions are revived and restaurants serve smorgasbords with all old food. If you´re adventurous, come here in february - otherwise, I´d stay well away!

I am reasonably adventurous with food. The only thing I've tried and didn't like was sheep's brains. Sheep pate sounds good, though, and I've had shark ahd haggis before. Why is the food revived in February?

I´m pretty sure you haven´t had shark like we do it: it´s fermented(!) and served with a liquor similar to akvavit...
We used to have our own calendar, in fact we still celebrate some days according to that, where the coldest, hardest days of winter were usually rather famished and therefore named accordingly. The things served then would be the dregs of what we had, with everybody trying hard to make do. Over the years that evolved into a food fest at that time of year - February...

It's true, I haven't had it like that!

So pop by in february- I´m sure we could sort something out...

Now that would be good

Thang ya, thang ya verra much- we´re here all year...