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

This week's B3ta comp is funny graphs. This is one of the few that made me laugh. Apologies if you can't see it at work...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v194/MrMoose/b3ta/MooseGraph800.gif

My home access was down this morning, please Godard it'll be back on when I get home.

*phew*

I could view that one from work. No idea what the determining criteria are for photos.

Glad to see that it looks like you're back online?

Mercifully yes. I was inordinately panicked all day, like I'd done something naughty

Talk about paranoid. I never assume outages are my fault- I immediately begin cursing the cable company. One time, it was workers cutting a tree and knocking a cable loose that took us offline, but the other incidents have all been the result of the cable company sucking.

How awful to get home from work, with brilliant plans for photoshopping, downloading, lolcatting, etc., and find you've no equipment to play with.

How awful to get *to* work, with brilliant plans for photoshopping, downloading, lolcatting...

I wish I had photoshop.

http://www.geostationarybananaovertexas.com/en.html

Now *that's* a good idea!

About time something aesthetically pleasing was found in Texas.

In the Alex Kapranos book of food essays I've just finised, he talks about meeting a cowboy in Austin, Tx - 6'6", bearded...boob tube and speedos, both well-filled. Does that sound aesthetic?

Remember the Alamo!

I'd love to go to San Antonio and check out the adobe.

...which brings us back to Photoshop.

'Welcome to my humble adobe'.

I've been to Texas, Edward, and the bearded man in the boob tube (I assume that's a tube top?) sounds about as attractive as the people there get. The historical buildings- adobe type stuff- might be nice, but otherwise the place is a hellhole. And the climate is absolutely awful... Mexico's much nicer.

Nice segue, though.

So, these people really plan to build a big banana... curious.

Maybe it's conceptual art? The *concept* of building an orbiting banana, and even having a website about their project plans, is art enough. As Immanuel Kant said,
"Which came first, the chicken or the idea 'chicken'?"

I've met a coupla lovely Texans (GTBacchus and Mikey) Lentilla is lovely too. Sure, that's only 3, but they can't all be pigf**kers, can they?

Inevitably though, the Minutemen would perceive it as a Cuban spy-banana and shoot it out of the sky.

I'm sure lotsa Texans are lovely- it's Texas itself that's so awful. Ugly cities, bad climate, filthy air, and the political atmosphere... *shudder*. It's almost as bad as Florida. But not quite.

Cuban spy-banana!

Sure, I heard Castro was in talks with North Korea on supply of enriched potassium.