As everyone is most likely aware by now, h2g2 is 14 years old! What fewer people may realize is that there are several active researchers who also will be turning 14 before h2g2's next birthday¹, with activity levels ranging from mostly lurking to making us wonder if they have a life outside h2g2². Now, when I started all this, I was expecting to present the interview like a panel: one set of questions, and the interviewees answering in turn. Then again, at the time, I was thinking I'd have roughly half a dozen interviewees. Then I went hunting for vict… um, people to interview. So now, The Post has a new series, and you, dear readers, will get to know some maybe-new-to-you people³, find new things to read, and maybe even find new corners of this great big world called h2g2.

I will be presenting the interviews in Unumber order, starting next week. To hold you over until then, here are some quotes from everyone⁴:

• There was a thing with meatballs…
• It was a long time ago and it feels like it was a galaxy far far away as well
• I helped colour you in at a Glasgow meet once, I think we gave you green hair (made out of lettuce if I remember correctly).
• Hmm - let me check that - my automatic answer is 1998 - but that can't be right…
• A gyrocopter shaped like a penguin.
• Wait, could I change my last answer?
• The internet was made for h2g2!
• *pokes Amy*
• How will I make my fortune?
• The present ownership, which I have every confidence in.
• The Post seemed to do a lot of encouraging writing.
• One, two, many, lots.
• I now have 42.
• I have, but I’m still quite clueless.
• That one, but I prefer the unedited version
• See, it pays to register your software!
• Darn you and your mufflewhumps!
• Oh look! Squirrel!
• One, flopped over in a puddle of beer, completely and utterly laminated.
• When I go back and look at most of the stuff I've written, it's crap.
• Why does the McLaren MP4-12C outperform the Ferrari 458 Italia so handily when they are so similar on paper?
• Not really - even SEx is slow these days.

There. A nice random list of quotes⁵. Nope, I'm not going to say who said what, nor what the question was, though interviewees may be able to guess…

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¹A lot more than I thought when I had this brilliant idea for an interview for The Post that I thought someone else would write. But you're stuck with me²Of course!³Over half of 42!⁴There may end up being more interview than quotes here: these are just from what came in before I had to submit to make my deadline.⁵I went straight down my Inbox, if you must know⁶.⁶Or even if you don't