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

I can't get my internet connection to function at all, now. I'll have to ring the ISP in the morning, and I haven't had to do that for a long, long time. I am somewhat disturbed. It's as though I'm being prevented from doing the things that I like to do by everything around me, and everything is conspiring actively against my will.

The ISP is responding to my attempts to connect by requesting my access password, and then ignoring it when I supply it. I can only hit the ‘enter' button so many times before I tire, lose the rhythm and inadvertently disconnect the call.

What's going on...?

Some solace has been provided in the form incarnate of books by the undeniably great Linda Jaivin. ‘Rock'n'roll babes from Outer Space' is still one of the funniest books I've ever read. The original ‘Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy' would have been like it, if it talked more directly about sex. ‘Miles Walker you're dead' is also good - just as concerned with Sydney and Sydney people and places, but more topical, slightly less fantastic, and full of much better quotes, I suspect. I think a relevant quote will have to go up on the headline of my user page...

I'm not sure whether to get Umberto Eco's latest collection - anyone read ‘Kant and the platypus'?