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

I never got a chance to see the latest crime against editorship. Did I correctly understand that someone rewrote one of your articles and submitted it as their own... and got it approved? Was it an article you had deleted?

Hey all again, it's Io, back from that pesky RL that has kept her away for so long. It's gonna be a late night catching up with the backlog...

I still have a month and some till finals, which is a bitch, but I try to think about school as littlwe as possible.

Uh... Mike A... *stifles extremely amused laughter* think you missed something

Io?

Well I suppose it's better than being patron saint of ice cream spoons.

Glad to have you back anyway.

I'm a little confused as to what Lil is talking about one posting back. That's her second piece of dubious input in as many days. Do you think she's alright?

I'm not alright! I've spent the afternoon wrestling with the guide, trying to persuade it to let me change my registered email address. Apparently it's going to send me one of those key thingies but never does. So they still send me nasty letters (OK, they only did it a couple of times) at my tmwc address, even though I have a perfectly good stragbasher one to use. Grrr.

Oh well, this is as good a place as any to announce that I'm halfway through the threatened entry on 'Americans'. I'm having trouble getting the tone right and some input might be helpful. US citizens are invited to ensure that I don't cross the line into offensiveness, and everyone else has to ensure that I don't accidentally start defending the subjects.

I would leave the URL, but I don't have it handy. There's a link from my home page and I'm gonna go back and fix it right now.

Incidentally I emailed Peta and volunteered to sub.

Anybody want to bet on the outcome?

Subediting?! She'll have to let you. They cn't turn anybody down, not even kids...
I'd been having thoughts about this. We all know what bad sub-editors do to our guide entries, right? I think the PTB ought to make subediting sound less glamorous, make it sound like hard work. Thus, the people who want some quick respect won't bother volunterring, leaving just the die-hards.
Of course, they shouldn't make it sound -too- bad, but currently I think it's a bit soft.

Stagb, I'll check out your work, yeah.

What have I missed then, Io?
And yeah Mike, I'm with Lil. I didn't totally get that thing cos it was cancelled by the time I received my emails, and I had to delete all my new mail immediatly after.

Good morning all,
And a beautiful morning it is too.Hey Stragbasher...sorry i took a while to call in ,and i've only dropped by briefly to say hi as it is.

I have been reading this conversation and there is obviously a lot of intellect here.However i also got the impression that there is a lot of bad temper as well.Personally i hope it passes as i believe that nothing is worth bad temper.

As far as i can see this place just "is".I would say it is going to be continually changing and evolving,particularly with the rapid spread of internet.I switched on a computer for the first time in my life less than a year ago and only arrived at h2g2 because i was trying to sort out the WAP connections on my cellphone and happened to see an apparently relevant address....that was nearly a month ago and i am still here...omg!!

I need to spend more time here to be able to contribute properly to some of these forums.In the meantime i intend to cruise around some more and try to get a good handle on everything.
Be seeing you
Noname

MikA, how come you had to delete your new emails? Can I assume you looked at them first, or did you *gasp* catch a communicable disease?

Why are other researchers questioning whether I am compos mentis?

Consider what one goes through to participate in what ffMike calls "slow chat". One reads the backlog, hits the reply button, then waits... and waits... and then the reply window finally appears, and only shows the most recent post. Which sometimes is nothing but a smiley or a question mark or the words "I agree". Now do I spend the intervening minutes between wanting to reply and actually doing so just staring at the screen moving my lips as I try to hold in my mind all the backchat that I want to reply to? No. In those intervening minutes the dog senses that this is a window of opportunity for an ear scratch, or the tea cup goes empty. Or, in the past couple of days, I get up and work the pulled muscle in my back.

And then I come back to my chair and attempt to reply coherently. It's a wonder we make as much sense as we do. I suspect some of you are taking notes.

Noname, we are camped out on the doorstep of a dear friend who has a grievance. We respect his opinions but wish he'd come back anyway. In the meantime he has the online eqivalent of a flock of starlings in his front garden. In a few months this will morph into a baby vigil.

ffMike, I think it would be wonderfully symbolic if you just posted that fantastic photo of your near miss with a cliff in the pickup truck.

My, the guide is slow right now.

Noname, I find the the more intelligent people are, the more bitter, generally. Except for Buddhists.

I think we could do with a new journal entry to camp on, Mike. Cough, cough.

Hello, everyone. I'm alicat. Stragbasher, in his wisdom, advised Noname and myself to check out this forum. I've just finished reading all the entries and I am intrigued. Maybe we haven't been here long enough, or been around enough to really put a lot of hard work into submissions that are either scrapped or edited so much it bears little resemblance to the submitted entry, to be as bitter. YET. I have, however, had the extreme pleasure of conversing with intelligent, opinionated people, with diverse experiences. I am old, 41, with no children, so I don't have the advantage of talking to all age groups IRL. This is the perfect place to hear from every age group, culture, etc. I am happy to have a new place to tap into the voice of the people that matter.

OK, I started a new squat at http://www.h2g2.com/forumframe.cgi?forum=22253&thread=51042

If i was dumb.i would say that that is an insult to my intelligence,however i am sure it is not intended as such
Truly intelligent people are able to raise them selves out of the mire to see the whole picture i would say,whatever the circumstances.

Bitter(not my word)people are generally speaking,those that no matter how intelligent they may or may not be are incapable of getting what they want,in effect bad losers,and more often than not...losers.

Buddhists are not intelligent by virtue of the fact that they are Buddhists,although i would hasten to add that genuine Buddhists are clearly enlightened in areas that are inconceivable to many.

Ali,what on earth possesses you to think that you are old at 41.I am 45.i spent 25 years up until i was 40 living in various parts of the world doing what i refer to as my apprenticeship in life.One of the few things that i learnt is that everything is a state of mind,you are what you think you are,you will be what you project yourself to be.Consider yourself a child my dear,in the great curve of time you certainly are.Otherwise before you know it you really will be old.Personally i intend living till i am around 150 with all my faculties,so i still consider my self a, relatively speaking ,young man and i am sure that that mindset keeps me younger too.

I think i will go check out this new squat.

Me, bitter?

Notice Io didn't answer my q...

...am going to the new thread.