A Conversation for The Manifesto for the Campaign to rename Thursday, "Thing"
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GodBen (The Magical Astronomer) - 00000011 Posted Mar 31, 2004
I had made a simple program to find the area of a square, and I randomly read in 6 and 7 as the lenght of the sides. So the area of the square was 42!
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Mr Inertia - Now new, improved and mostly human! Posted Mar 31, 2004
Ah, so that wasn't rally subconcious! That was pre-planned!
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GodBen (The Magical Astronomer) - 00000011 Posted Mar 31, 2004
No! I hadn't realised that the answer would be 42. I just picked 6 and 7 randomly, at least I thought they were random. It must have been my sub-consious which knew that the answer would be 42.
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Mar 31, 2004
Hi GodBen,
Maybe this helps....
http://www.largelypro.com/camblog.shtml
Enjoy....
St. Scuttle
the mischevious....
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IMSoP - Safely transferred to the 5th (or 6th?) h2g2 login system Posted Mar 31, 2004
if the sides were 6 and 7 units long, it wasn't actually a square, was it now? 
I have often wondered though, whether the h2g2 software has a built-in bias for posts being "42 Minutes Ago" - like, that particular "minute" covers everything from 43.5 to 41.5 instead of 42.9 to 41.9 or whatever 
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GodBen (The Magical Astronomer) - 00000011 Posted Mar 31, 2004
Nope, that's didn't help at all. In fact, now the number of times that I've encountered 42 has increased!
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Mar 31, 2004
But, GB, at least by playing the "time-wasting flash game" will stop you finding any more, even though it may have increased your tally by one...therefore I have done you a favour....I think....
.....
I'll leave now.....
St. Scuttle the perplexed!
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Mr Inertia - Now new, improved and mostly human! Posted Mar 31, 2004
Does anyone have a copy of a good time-wasting game?
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AK - fancy that! Posted Mar 31, 2004
Solitaire.
or
http://www.addictinggames.com
or
many others
I think the -39 new posts thingy has been fixed. um. maybe.
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Mr Inertia - Now new, improved and mostly human! Posted Mar 31, 2004
Ta - I'll have a look later
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Don Malvado, so bitter my cat won't even lick me Posted Mar 31, 2004
I'm impressed!
I'd never even noticed it had been corrected
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Mr Inertia - Now new, improved and mostly human! Posted Mar 31, 2004
So you don't even read your own messages?
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The Gook, a.k.a. Sir Loin of Beef, the Master-at-Arms: Thingite Armoury, and his wolf Yoink. Posted Mar 31, 2004
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IMSoP - Safely transferred to the 5th (or 6th?) h2g2 login system Posted Mar 31, 2004
Well, I have a dilemma now, cos for ages I've been putting my conversation through a Perl script so that I'm not online as I load it - so that I can leave it open and it won't keep my "eyes" showing up the whole time.
But now the number of new posts thing works - but only shows up if you're online! So I can either be online the whole time, or miss out on this feature! 
Oh, and I made it put 3N in Brunel, too, cos it seems to break less often than Goo - it feels 
seeing 3N in Goo now...
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- 61062: GodBen (The Magical Astronomer) - 00000011 (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61063: Mr Inertia - Now new, improved and mostly human! (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61064: Watermusic (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61065: GodBen (The Magical Astronomer) - 00000011 (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61066: MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61067: Mr Inertia - Now new, improved and mostly human! (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61068: IMSoP - Safely transferred to the 5th (or 6th?) h2g2 login system (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61069: GodBen (The Magical Astronomer) - 00000011 (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61070: MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61071: GodBen (The Magical Astronomer) - 00000011 (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61072: Mr Inertia - Now new, improved and mostly human! (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61073: AK - fancy that! (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61074: Mr Inertia - Now new, improved and mostly human! (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61075: AK - fancy that! (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61076: Lady Scott (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61077: Don Malvado, so bitter my cat won't even lick me (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61078: Mr Inertia - Now new, improved and mostly human! (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61079: The Gook, a.k.a. Sir Loin of Beef, the Master-at-Arms: Thingite Armoury, and his wolf Yoink. (Mar 31, 2004)
- 61080: IMSoP - Safely transferred to the 5th (or 6th?) h2g2 login system (Mar 31, 2004)
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