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

This is getting out of hand.

Some of us are posting at the same time and practically tripping over one another in our conversations. (You know who you are )

Perhaps we should set up an H2G2 addicts mailing list? I'd be willing to take care of the list mechanics (pretty easy with OneList) if anyone is interested.

Of course doing this would require email addresses for you currently-anonymous folks. If anyone is interested, leave me a message here, or drop me a line at [email protected].

Hi, ffmike, nice page.

Six researchers led by vegiman are in the process of setting up a newspaper called the h2g2Post. It lives at http://www.h2g2.com/U54963

We are looking for other people to join us Reading your page and some of your posts you appear just the sort of person we are looking for.

Please check out the newspaper's home page and a couple of fora at the bottom of the page.

If you require further info you can ask questions on the page's forum. Alternatively you can reach me at [email protected] or ICQ17498302

You mention sending out emails. h2g2 is planning to send out monthly email newsletters in the future. We hope to send weekly ones from the h2g2Post. Researcher Pastey who is setting up the h2g2 Post's "mechanics" would, I believe, be interested to hear about OneList.

Are your chickens free-range?

Loonytunes

I'll pop over and have a look at the newspaper. Sounds like another interesting project.

There's a difference between email newsletters & a mailing list, of course. But as the idea of a mailing list hasn't generated any interest, it's a moot point.

The roosters have a yard about 10' square, and sometimes we let them out to free range. The hen yard is about 25' square, which seems adequate, so they stay in the yard. Less worry about coyotes that way.

Point taken about the emails.

Here in New Zealand there are no coyotes. Large domestic dogs aften attack our sheep though.

So far we haven't had much trouble with coyotes. We've got two dogs, a horse, and two llamas, all of which tend to keep 'em away (not to mention a shotgun). On the other hand the bad weather is just starting. A couple of the local farmers claim the mouse population is way down this year -- in which case the food pressure is going to be heavy on the coyotes and they might get more desperate/daring. We'll see.

I see you haved posted a reply on the h2g2post page. Vegiman, being a Brit usually comes on at night their time. (It is 5am now)

He is busy being a vegetable vendor/trader (surprise/shock) at other times.

Sounds like exciting times down on the farm. Have you named the llamas?

Yeah, I'm used to the strange time zones on the internet. I dunno why everyone doesn't stay up 24 hours a day just to amuse me, but oh well.

The llamas have names: Tango and Scottie. You can see their pictures (and all the other animals, for that matter) at http://www.larkfarm.com/critters.asp if you really care.

And yah, it's exciting times. But then, isn't it always? One thing about having land and stock, there are few dull moments and no mornings of sleeping in late. I got up before dawn today because I suddenly awoke with the solution to a programming problem I was working on last night, but presently the sun will be up and it will be time to feed and water everyone.

I checked out the llamas. Nice animals. Any plans for a female one?

Llama wool fetches excellent prices in New Zealand and is, I understand, in strong demand worldwide

We might some day get a female llama and start breeding. Or we might get out of llamas entirely. They're proving somewhat hard to really tame, even if they are fun to watch.

Llama wool goes for about a dollar an ounce in the states -- say US$75 per llama per year.

Is that a good price?

A friend of mine has a few llamas mixed with his sheep flock (over 5000 sheep). They prove effective at seeing off dogs and he gets a kick out of watching them charging at trespassers/visitors

I thijnk being 'ornery' is part of their nature

Whooee, I certainly walked into an odd one here... . I was going to say that a mailing list would void your non-participation in a clique, group, etc., and I'd join just to get you to the Dark Side, but I guess you've given it up, eh?

Ahh well, I'll leave you to your odd llama stories then.

Naw, as long as I don't become one of the Secret Masters of H2G2, I'm OK...anyhow the chatty folks I was chatting with seem to have all wandered elsewhere, and the mailing list idea fizzled...so it goes...as long as the servers here keep up with the load at least moderately well it's ok.

No, wait, don't go!

I've been sick.

And now that I'm capable of short bursts of concentration, I'm baaack.

I'm all in favor of a onelist-based thing (I already belong to the-kraken on onelist) if it will make protracted conversation easier. Marv's book club is a good example; it gets long so quickly that the download waits just get out of hand.

But yknow, I'm still meeting interesting people here. Nowhere near 30,000, but lots. Crickey. When do the other 29,750 log on?

Lil

In the 25th hour of the day, when the rest of us have finally expired our caffine sources and collapse nto such a deep cataplexy that we don't recognize the passage of non-existant time.

*starts to reply but bursts out coughing* help help I'm going cataplexic and I don't know what it is

Interestingly enough there has never, as far as I can asertain, a case of a llama struck down with cataplexy

Oops, blush "has never been"

Well, now you've gone and done it...shown some interest. Anyone interested can now join the H2G2 community at OneList by going to http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/H2G2 ... who knows what we'll talk about on the mailing list...but only those who join will know

OK, I'm in as soon as you utter the appropriate moderator word of approval.

Apropos of nothing in particular, I checked out the web page of a newbie who calls himself the Social Anarchist and discovered that there is something out there called online ordination. You can be ordained a minister without human contact. I wonder what y'all think about this.

Lil

You mean about the top secret plans to take over the Discovery Channel and run shows about llamas 24-7? Whoops...did I just let people who aren't joining know?