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

Luckily I don't seem to suffer from hayfever, although I'm still looking at my bed and thinking... shall I?

You can see your bed from your computer?

[yawn] Oh, hi there. Just saying hello. I'm coming in less often now, mostly because I'm downloading something (trial version of a game I'm intrested in). You don't care, do you?

No! (Only Jesting!)

It's a Microsoft-published game (Age of Empires), so the download is enormous-23.6 MB, (Microsoft has never heard of a thing called WinZip,so..)and on a 28.8 Kbps modem, so it's going to take awhile.

It's quicker to buy it at PCWorld. I play Civilisation and Call to Power

It's just a demo. I want to see if I like it before I buy it.
Also, a new Civ II is coming out-The Test of Time (August 1999). I may get it. Yes. I will.

We'll probably get it in about 2002 then!

Awwwwww, poor you.

Since Caleb seems to have crashed this original little duologue I think I'll join in.
I don't get Civ - i don't think i'm dictatorial enough,
but it would be nice to get stuff released here only a little while after the rest of the world.

I like Civ because it's the only game I can win by thinking a little bit now and then and isn't all shoot em up. I'm not so keen on call to power because it is obvious testosterone laden blokes got hold of it and the only way to win is to kill everything you find!

I'm quite fond of shoot 'em up games.
Mindless entertainment.
I think I should get a playstation or something for that tho.

Er, are you trying to say that Alpha Centauri isn't the real new civ2? only under a different name because of Sid Meiers legal difficulties.

Alpha Centuari was made be Firaxis (Sid's NEW company) and published by Electronic Arts. Civ 2 was published (and made) by MicroProse. The reason that A.C. is NOT, in reality, the sequel to Civ 2 (but, at heart, you know it is) is because Sid Meier no longer has the rights the the Civilization namesake. Sort of a pity, in that he created it...

I expect he made quite a lot of money when he sold it to activision though so don't feel too sorry for him!

Back to the original subject.(I know, what a new concept)A truly great poet must achieve lyricism in both thought and word. I believe this is why there are so few, and why most great ones are quite eccentric.

The majority of geniuses have lop-sided brains, and so are naturally eccentric.

The majority of talented people want to be thought of as geniuses, and so just pretend to be eccentric

I tend to think we all have individual talents, are geniuses in our own way and also everyone has eccentricities!

mmmmmm
Perhaps that's why everyone likes to think they're unconventional when actually they're not.
Sorry, been studying too much Shaw for my exams.

I wonder what my eccentricity is..

Studying for your exams? What kind of student do you think you are!