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

*bows to the wisdom of JL*

Fingers crossed then...

They've scheduled two and a half hours. Assuming nothing physically breaks, this is a reasonable target. It's a 50 minute drive from one site to another which leaves plenty of time to unplug, replug and change IP addresses. In theory.

"In theory."

We all know what happened to 'In theory' -

Does this mean the server is planning on suffering from turkey narcosis along with all the US researchers?

Good luck... from my experience with computers and changin IP addresses you will need it.. and probably loads of too!

Have I got it right or wrong that 'tomorrow' will be a Thursday?

And if that's true, is there not some significance, either directly or insiduously, in the choice of this day?

And if so, why has no one commented on it?

Perhaps, because those "in the know", know that this decision was supposedly made outside of the h2g2 sphere of influence. But if this timing really is just a coincidental factor of external BBC planning and routing schedules and has nothing directly to do with any h2g2 internal homage to the great works and is not otherwise consciously related to any hootooist tendency to make much of Thursday things, then there are those who might see this as the happy spread of a greater truth into the darker regions of the mass media.

Blessed be such a happy spread.
May the Truth infect you all.


~jwf~

Where are the simple joys of Maidenhead?



Of course, this takes a lot of imagining,
because Julie can't sing any more.

I won't be working tomorrow anyway, because
it will be Thanksgiving here in the U.S.
We could use a turkey smiley.

its kinda scary - the h2g2 ...

Milton said:

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Maybe he had a restaurant to run.
But this time, we'll be the ones standing and waiting.

Doesn't leave us much time to name it, does it?

"It's a 50 minute drive"

From where exactly to Maidenhead? It's taken me that long to drive from Crouch End to Hornsey on occasions

How did you manage that journey so quickly?

Maybe he was doing a simulation, and
never actually got out on th street?


< to a hiding place so Gosho won't
send the boys after him>

So Thursday has not yet been renamed Thingy or whatever they were attempting over on that forum?

It has been renamed Thing....


Some of the less enlightened types have just refused to join ranks with us.

Last few posts before the plugs get pulled.

* twiddles thumbs *

*waits and munches her breakfast*

* looks at clock *

Someone is late

OK. The downtime appears to be over. So what do we call it?

Did it happen? Has it been named yet? Who *was* that masked downtime?