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

>> You really could not make that up. <<

Too right!

At the time of course it was all very serious and confusing.
And now it all seems so long ago. Thanks for having a much
clearer memory than I.


~jwf~

Funnily enough, I was telling a colleague about LeKZ today. We were discussing the wisdom of keeping your Instant Messenger logs. The first time I really wished I did that by default was in a conversation with LeKZ. One of the many astonishing things about LeKZ was that she was only legally on the site for 6 weeks.

What amazes me about that episode is how many hours of my life were spent on it. I even set up a 'survivors' group off site so that people whom she had tried to turn into multiples could compare notes and agree that they were in fact sane.

I think LeKZ did real harm to Tefkat. I miss Tefkat.

Tefkat is a name i've seen in a few postings, what happened?

I don't know what happened to Tefkat. The squiggly one might. She may have just faded away. She was a funny, clever, gentle person who'd had some very damaging times in her life but who faced forward and preferred to enjoy life than wallow in misery. However, she was also very timid and afraid of every kind of violence, and LeKZ scared her.

TEFKAT still is a very much a funny, clever, gentle person who enjoys life to the full.
Her youngest boys have just entered Uni, one thru the officer training program.

When he came home in his uniform, she sighed and said to him, "OK, but just don't come running to me if you get your legs blown off!"
It took him about four seconds to get the joke.

She was just Trillion when we first met here at h2g2 and I was still such a grumpy newbie pedant I pointed out to her that the character in HHGttG spelled her name Trillian and that trillion was just a number, a big, obscure, unlikely number. Y'see, back then I didn't always get the joke either.

My comments, as I have since learned to my sorrow, are often taken too seriously by folks and she was among the first I upset, changing her name to TEFKAT - The Entity Formerly Known As Trillion.

In the early days of the recent economic downturn we suddenly started hearing about Trillions being flung around everywhere. I took the opportunity to apologise once again to TEFKAT, saying how much I wish she had remained Trillion and how prescient that choice might have been.

She continues to be a regular and valued friend on the n2g2Yahoo Group where time and emotional demands are less than here.

There are only about six or seven of us left at n2g2, the Yahoo Group set up during the GVD (Great Vogon Detour aka Rupert) for h2g2 refugees. As of today we've reached over 44,000 posts in 9 years.
Yes, we could use some new blood but we've gotten awfully fussy about type. And since I'm the 'owner/moderator' judge yourselves accordionly before hitting 'Join This Group'.


~jwf~

'Twasn't *that* long ago that n2g2 got some new blood, though I don't tend to say much

I think the Della Wars were at their height shortly after I joined the site. The first conversation I got properly involved in was the infamous "God thread". (Yes, I know there are many conversations about God here, but there is only one "God thread". It's at F55607?thread=192835 and has a lot of newbies because of its location.) That was where I got to know azahar, Noggin the Nog, Hoo (later SoRB), Matholwch, and a couple of others.

I missed Steve the Programmer. A pity, because that must have been hilarious.

TRiG.

Blimey..... I think I must just have a inbuilt filter to miss stuff on the site... I might have had a luckly escape then: I can't remember when it was but I do vaguely remember very* nearly* having a ... weekend in a hotel room in London with Saturnine... but it never happened ... or was that... no I'm sure it was... it was... some time ago... I think

>>TEFKAT still is a very much a funny, clever, gentle person who enjoys life to the full.

Give her my love, ~jwf~

What's the Steve the Programmer story, TRiG?

I miss GTB. He came round once and introduced me to the joy of Tom Waits, for which I'm forever grateful. Didn't realise he'd met Miss Iterative 2001. That must have been fun.

So the potted history of h2g2 is articulate trollbaiting, in a nutshell?

There's a lot more. What about Nikki, the transexual, who was persuaded not to commit suicide by her friends on h2g2? Or the various romances on site, where people met up through h2g2 and ended up married or 'partnered'. What about the Thingites? What about Aviators? The Post?

<>



A827237 ??

ah yes ..

Should there also be some mention of the memorial postings on U42 for when Douglas passed away?

And the writing side of things:

The first fiction areas - fiction central? AGG/CAC etc - the Underguide, PROD and other attempts to bring some flexibility into PR.

the various Peer Review threads - The nothing thread (Spook...), Lucinda's thread on that game, FM's ranting on the song entries,

Plus social epiphemonena - the Leisure District invasion, reaction to Italic decisions...

sprout

I've obviously had a pretty sheltered hootoo existence - the only thing that's been mentioned so far that I was really around for was Lord Wolfden.

italics - yes - the ebb and flow of italics would be worth mentioning.
Who there has been, how many, where they went too, when they came back, how much we confused them during their time here.

And of course the various moderation forms and companies used.

>> ..social epiphemonena..<<

That one sent me to an online dictionary.
And assuming a typo I found epiphenomena:

"A secondary phenomenon that results from and accompanies another:
'Exploitation of one social class or ethnic group by another [is] an
epiphenomenon of real differences in power between social groups.'
(Harper's)."

Yes!
Expanding my vocabulary is high among the great blessings of my h2g2 experience.

And because online dictionaries are so easy to use (no lifting of large tomes, no paper cuts,
no easily torn tissue thin pages) it has become a good habit that has resulted in my much
improved spelling over the past 9 years.

Now if I could just find a way to drop epiphenomena into a conversation somewhere.
Oh yeah, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/n2g2/ is an epiphenomenon of h2g2.
Come say hi to Trillion.


~jwf~

Steve the Programmer dropped by to apologise for the behaviour of his AI experiment, Justin the Preacher. It was, as I said, before my time, so I know little more of it. I believe Steve was actually Hoo, poking fun in a brilliant way, as usual.

I used to spend a lot of time lurking in dank and dusty corners of hootoo, but I don't recall ever seeing Steve in action. I've seen him talked about a good bit. And I once saw such a conversation actually as it was happening. Someone gave SoRB a link to Justin's YouTube account, and congratulated Steve on his graphics rendering skills.

(I think everyone here knows that SoRB = Hoo = HVL = Hoovooloo, don't they? I'm using the names I think he was using at the time, but my chronology might be out. HVL and Hoovooloo were before my time.)

TRiG.