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

Any kind of flowers welcome here, except Gennifer.

In the first picture, the flowers are radiating messages in light, which then attract small alien spacecraft. Perhaps.

Could the spacecraft be enlarged so as to accommodate a certain red-haired guy with a comb-over? I think that he should go back to his original planet. ?

I think Gennifer is definitely responsible.

Who? For what? I know not. Who's Gennifer?

heheh, yes the second picture is a mistake, so I kept it just so I could call it Illuminated Flowers Colonising A Design Flaw.

I like to give titles to artistic mistakes. I like my mistakes, so sometimes I spare them from the place where deleted things go.

Where do deleted digital things go? Like photographs? Do they get re-pixelled and repackaged and reincarnated?

The reincarnated photograph. My photograph of a wasp on a jam sandwich was in fact once a photograph of a landscape, where people sing to rivers.



What?

Messages of light! Yes! I love that, messages of light. mvp, forever poetic, naturally.

Gennifer Flowers had an affair with Bill Clinton (yes, he was married at the time). When the "legitimate" press refused to publish her story, she went to the tabloids. I'm not so much interested in the merits of her story, but that seems to have been a turning point for press credibility. Once the tabloids published her story, the "legitimate" press began running articles about it as well. Since then, it has become harder to trust the mainstream media.

Very nice images

Gracias FWR luv.



Oh right, Gennifer. . Hah, yes, trusting mainstream media, hmmm.

I'm a bit lacking when it comes to understanding things mainstream, I lurk in my own inner world, eating cheese sandwiches beside peculiar bubbling streams of consciousness, thinking about imaginary apples.

I seem to have a robust inner world as well. I hope your cheese sandwiches are toasted so that the cheese is soft and gooey.

mmm hungry now. .

Its good to have an inner world methinks. Me does think. Sometimes. . I don't think I would have survived this far without it, the other world gets too much with me.

The world is too much with us. To quote Wordsworth methinks? Me thinks again.

Well, the so-called "real world" is full of random noise, suspect "news," logical fallacies, unscientific scientists, salesmen with something to sell, and on and on.

The best definition of introversion that I've heard is that of someone who needs to recharge his/her batteries after being around people. An extrovert, on the other hand, draws energy from meeting people.

A rich inner imaginative life should help buildup your (and my) energy levels.

Yes!Energy levels.

Interesting what restores our energy levels.

I guess everyone has their own wellspring, a source of power and energy.

Good word, wellspring.

I expect that if you smell these flowers it is best to disconnect the energy source and let them cool down.

Interesting pictures.

My favourite way of recharging is getting into a skiff early in the morning and glide through the mist.

You could put a drop of essential oil from your diffuser collection (don't you people get these things as Christmas gifts?) on your bulbs to make them smell like flowers. Although our collection might yield frankincense flowers....

Ah that sounds good, gliding through the early morning mist in a skiff.



(heads out to sprinkle frankincense oil on her flower lights. Might I regret this? Especially as they're called frangipani lights. They're the ones in the pics.)

The air was full of the scent of frankincense frangipani electric flowers. Interesting start to a story.

"My favourite way of recharging is getting into a skiff early in the morning and glide through the mist." [Caiman Raptor Elk]

Just thinking about that makes me feel better already.

MY spellcheck flags "favourite" as a wrong spelling. American spellchecks are not kind to British spelling .

What?? Ah, favorite. Favourite.

Funny thing, my spell check puts a red squiggly line under favourite also.

This explains my marvelous, yet marvellous question.

I have an American spell check running here. Going to keep it. . Prefer it to British.

Hence colour and color.

Gottit! (gottit failed all spell checks).

The marvelous alphabet where all letters have colors, except zee is zed to rhyme with red so that's not my favorite. Zee is free to be .. wait a minute, I now have a red squiggly line under zee.

Even Zuiderzee, which is a legitimate but historical name for an inland salt lake in the Netherlands.

In my opinion, the important thing is to choose one version of English and stick to it. I chose UK. As non-native speaker, I am still allowed to make mistakes though.

Zuiderzee is now changed to the IJsselmeer and not salt anymore (I checked)

I always wonder how people in New York pronounce 'Zuiderzee' and 'Tappanzee'. I suspect it doesn't come out sounding like Dutch.

I wonder about these things because the first time I needed to go to Dubois, Pennsylvania, I pronounced it in French and they wouldn't sell me a bus ticket until I realised it was 'DOO-boys'.