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

Bet you'd watch it if it started like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z25t-PQDn5A

Will watch from home, l8r

Ditto. No can look at You Tube or b3ta from w*rk computer.

I like the Carrie Fisher. Onehelluva dame, she.

I might actually watch it if it started like that... if the typo wasn't there.

What is this? Some kind of starwars abstinence society?

I especially liked the jumpy zoom on the minimalist death star at the end: it was very exciting.

>>What is this? Some kind of starwars abstinence society?

Yes.

I knew you followed the "No Starwars until the end of the universe" rule Edward, but I didn't know these guys were into it as well.



I wasn't allowed to watch it as a child because the excitement would give me nose bleeds. I obviously sought it it out at all possible times. I was banned from a few friend's houses in nose bleed related incidents. Some of them were A-team or Knightrider or Air Wolf instigated though. And there was one for trying to hoover up poo.

I have never, as of yet, seen a single Star Wars film.


But I'll 'fess up to having liked the A-Team and Airwolf when I was a kid.

I don't have a problem with Star Wars. Except the prequels, which are an abomination. Airwolf was great though.

Working on my own this week. Bizarrely, someone has seen fit to send us a broken -

- sphygmomanometer. I wonder what I should do with it.

With any luck my theremin *should* arrive today or tomorrow. The first one got lost in the post apparently. How do you lose something like that? I mean, it's *designed* to tell you when you're getting warmer.

Obviously you should meter your sphygmo.











(Just kidding. I *do* know what one is. Happy pumping! )

I'm never surprised by what gets lost in the post. It's been years since I've had anything stolen (AFAIK), but I have had things "go missing", including a small shipment of Zapatista coffee that arrived four months after the replacement order.

Zapatista coffee? If civet coffee is coffee that's been passed through a civet cat (no - really! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak ), I'm hoping that Zapatista coffee isn't coffee that's been passed through Subcommandante Marcos.


(Ignore me. I'm in a surreal mood today. You might have noticed.)

And I thought my coffee tasted like shit.

Ooh! Ooh! I've just read this wonderful sentence:

'Kopi Muncak (also Kopi Muntjak) is a similar type of coffee produced from the feces of several species of barking deer.'

Suddenly I'm not sure I'll ever have Rooibos again.

Oooh, I hate rooibos. It tastes the way the cedar chips used for landscaping smell when it rains.

Don't think the Zapatista coffee I got had been passed through the Zapatistas... just grown & picked at a couple of co-ops in Chiapas: http://tinyurl.com/2azeqh .

Barking deer? I've got to hear that.

I rather like rooibos. It's the only 'hippy tea' I do like. Apart from mint. Or fennel. Maybe you're drinking the wrong brand?

I loved rooibos in the morning on the verandah at Victoria Falls lodge, with warthogs snuffling around for breakfast scraps. Guess I'll never do that again.