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

We loved Firenze - were sorry we'd only arranged to stay there one night as we could easily have spent a lovely few days there. Did you go to the Science Museum? Brilliant museum, very well-done and welcoming to foreign visitors - unlike the very disappointing Museo Archeologico in Naples...

Lbclaire

This is all very strange - I've no idea why opening my page would be a problem for some people...

Lbclaire

well color me blushed.

Astro-logica nails it. The original picture was larger (much larger) and the sub-chapter heading was readable. Long story short, I bought the t-shirt from a web-comic site, which had a cartoon about dorks (like me) thinking they were cool because they knew data compression algorithms.

Is that a humpback whale on the t-shirt, or just an orca/killer whale?

ps. The book is called "Numerical Recipes in C" 2nd edition, by Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling and Flannery. Admittedly it's an odd place for a data compression algorithm (as stated by the authors) but I'm not a computer scientist, so it's the only one I have

So kind of ironic that it's been squashed to the point of illegibility, huh? Actually, fotki just automatically rescales them unless you tell it not to.

I like the shirt, though And it *is* an orca...

orca: http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/images/orca.gif

humpback: http://www.linkandpinhobbies.com/Graphics/kc_fm102%20humpback.jpg

Traveller in Time searching the cabinets
"I definitely should have recognised the page
Got it somewhere in my 'C/CBuilder/C++/CPP' filing cabinet. "

I wouldn't recognise every page in every book I have

Good picture of the Orca, M- including the saddle patch (usually used as an identifying mark along with dorsal fin nicks). Pity about the steel post up the humpback.

I was worried we had maxed out the pics, it's good to see some new ones!

Didn't you know about the humpback's pole? They drag it along the ocean floor and it stirs up the squid...

They make good ice lollies that way, too - one feeds the whole family

You must have a _really big_ family!

So I do

I was worried I had referred to it as a Humpback on "that other thread".... relief... I referred to its generic "whaleness" rather than a specific type.

Er, where's the photo gallery please?
Nother

Try post #1 of the thread

Or here: http://public.fotki.com/azahar/h2g2_friends/
or here: http://azahar.fotki.com/h2g2_friends/ (some servers won't allow you to access the first link)

>> ...just been to Rome too, but unfortunately got food poisoning...<<

Hmm... so the old saying is true, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do".


~jwf~

Yes, feel free to have a look around and also join us in the photo gallery if you'd like to Nother .

Thanks kelli and Mudhooks for passing on that info - been out all day, mostly getting more plants and stuff.

Plant obsession journal entry on my new weblog - for those of you who haven't seen my blog yet it's over here (Noggin has started one too) http://azahar.wordpress.com/


az

az, my list has two errors and I can't find them. Your gallery has 385 pictures and my list has 387 links.

What about the two photos you removed?

az