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

SO anyway, I just posted a reply to something you wrote elsewhere (see juggling knives entry) and I thought I'd visit your home site to know who I was talking to.

Then I read....

The three door problem.

I haven't thought about it for *ages* and then, about half an hour ago it popped into my head and so I had to quiz my co-workers with it. And then ten minutes after that I found myself here.

Whoah. Synchronicity strikes again.

I'm babbling, aren't I?

OK, I'll go. I really *will* go and find a proper juggling site now.

tt.

Grin, coincidences are funny things...

Like the one which meant the only day I didn't have my house key was the only day I forget my school bag (duh!) and hence needed to get back into my house in a hurry.

That one wasn't particularly amusing at the time, though

Hmmm, I s'pose I should drop by your homepage and see if there's anything there *I* can call bizarre... grin...

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Yep, I'm very much a coincidence-spotter. Though I still haven't worked out whether there's anything to be read into it, or whether it's just a great example of the human brain's marvelous pattern recognition in action.

More research required, I suspect.

Now on to some random topics (I'll simply assume you're interested in this monologue and write accordingly. If you're not interested, simply pull the modem cable at this point )



Juggling:
It's funny how the dangerous stuff becomes really mundane after a time. First time I juggled flames was well scary (but enough to get me hooked, of course) but by the time I first juggled knives (in a shop with a low ceiling) it was just a matter of getting on and doing it.
- It occurs to me that juggling broken bottles might re-introduce a healthy dose of The Fear. I'll let you know how I get on over xmas. I'm sure that a suitable opportunity will arise.

Books:
I've just had a quick look at your reading list. Would it be rude for me to suggest a few authors? (I guess you've a good chance of receiving book tokens this xmas - I always get a couple and our interests are close enough)

Peter F Hamilton - start with Mindstar Rising, A Quantum Murder and The Nanoflower. They're a delightfully English twist on Gibson-esque cyberpunk. Go on to the Night's Dawn trilogy for some of the most excellent space opera I've ever read. The descriptions of battles, technology, Big Ideas, etc are just great. (This description doesn't do it justice at all. There are bound to be some reviews in h2g2 that you should read)

Kim Stanley Robinson - The Mars trilogy. High science-content SF for the aspiring Martian. Very well written and from the looks of his Thanks page, well researched.

Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash and Diamond Age are excellent first and second generation cyberpunk, whilst Cryptonomicon, though the plot is a bit tenuous in parts, could almost be a beginners guide to crypto, privacy and the history of code breaking. All three are an excellent read.



Have a good Xmas

tiptop

Yeah, I remember a time when juggling knives was scary... these days, I have to make a conscious effort to understand why people give me odd looks when I'm juggling them

I plan on trying fire at some point, hmmm, there seems a good chance I'll find that scary for a bit...

Good luck with the bottles

Hmmm, thanks for the book recommendations... I admit to usually completely ignoring such recommendations, but it does sound like you've picked out some good ones there... I might even stretch to writing them down so I can go look for 'em... grin...

Merry Christmas

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