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

What with having the whole day off today, I think I'll go across the street to Two Parrots and enjoy a delicious Guilt Burger. I shall return presently.

You have the day off, do you Nick? I never would have guessed

Correct me if I've got this wrong... you have the day off - but were surfing around h2g2 at 8am?

Have you checked into one of the many addiction clinics around this place?

Well, I went to bed early wednesday night, which is odd, because I normally don't do that when I have to work the next day. Possibly because I wanted an early start to my day off.

So I woke up early, as expected, made coffee, started watching TV, and there wasn't much on, so I thought I'd surf for a while. But I'm lying on my couch and my laptop is over on my desk, so I went into my closet and pulled out the box that my subwoofer was originally packeged in and set it up as a little table right in front of the couch. Then I put my laptop there. This way, I could lie on my couch, watch TV, drink coffee and surf all at the same time (Oh, Bliss).

Anyway, I surfed around a bit and then settled in at H2G2. What a day that was.

Is that what's called multi-tasking?

Well, 'single-processor' multi-tasking, yes.

Oh, you always have to go one better than me, don't you?

Are you going to be around later tonight (i.e. past midnight my time?)

Oh, undoubtedly so. I just picked up a DDD CD of Beethoven's Ninth (Nikolaus Hanoncourt), and I'm eager to give it a spin. Also picked up some Mozart, but I'm more excited about the Beethoven at the moment.

Good good good, nice to hear.

'Dazed and Confused' has just started so I think I shall give that a watch and shall be back hear later. (about an hour and a half or something like that) - hope to cath you then,

Frizz

(ooh, classical - dead posh)

Appalling spelling mistakes / typos - please accept my abject apologies.

Hubert.

Oh dear, excuse time for Nick. I'm afraid I wasn't actually around when I said I'd be. No sooner had I got home from work than my brother showed up to watch the hockey game (Canucks won again, yay), and then I got a call from work and had to telecommute for the next hour or so (and will likely have to spend more time on the problem over the weekend off and on). So, I got a bit tied up. Now it's just after midnight, my brother has left, and only now have I finally managed to listen to my new CD.

I would have loved to chat. You seemed in such a chipper mood today and all. Perhaps later today (Saturday)?

Go Canucks Go - my soccer team are bound to lose today - I have sort of stopped checking the results and fixtures as the last time I looked they hadn't won a game in 8 matches - oops

I shall undoubtably be popping up here during the day and evening - catch you later

The Canucks came within a single game of winning the Stanley Cup and since then I've had to put up with them not making the playoffs and finishing in the bloody basement. It's about time they started doing well for a change.

Oh, and despite being 34, I've still got both eyes.

What did that last bit mean, exactly?

I was poking fun at my age in a silly manner.

I should have mentioned that the Canucks came within a single game of winning the Stanley cup back in the 1993/94 season. Since then, feh.

The Alex didn't lose today - because they didn't play (the only time when they are safe from humiliating defeat) - and I still don't get the eye thing - am I being more than usually daft?

(sub-plot to that last bit "or is it just really lame?")

(Oh dear, aren't I in a playful mood today...)

I'll explain, and then you can decide whether it was funny at the time or just daft. You know how some people lose their hair when they get older (sometimes other things as well)? Well...

There, now you must get it. Isn't it stupid?

So you're saying that although you are quite old (hee hee) you still have both eyes - but are actually as bald as a coot?

I _could_ be bald. I mean, how would you know? Just how bald is a 'coot', anyway?

maybe you could grow your one eyebrow so it's really long, and then comb it over your ambiguous baldness.

OK - states of baldness :

a. a touch receding - your forehead mysteriously reaches further back thatn it used to - but there is generally hair everywhere else

b. a bit of a bald patch - normal hair , but the beginnings of a slightly thinning patch over the crown - nothing you can't ignore - you can't see it anyway.

c. going bald - a combination of a. and b. - offereing that crux of cut it short and flaunt it or grow it long and become captain Three-Strands

d. as bald as a coot - absolutely no hair at all - totally bald. Not quite sure where the expression comes from, but that's what it means.

And I wouldn't know if you were bald or had a flowing head full of hair - do you think it important?