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

So, here I am.
A freshborn member of h2g2.
In some people's eyes, the single greatest site on the web.
Well, it definitely ranks up there.
I've been looking it over for about a week now.
I find no flaw.
I find enlightenment and exceptional joy from reading it.
As it should be.
More later.

Hello there Kangus, and welcome to H2G2

It is the job of the ACES to welcome everyone new. Can i suggest you put something in your home page and you will find yourself visited by other Aces, Guardian Angels and who knows what else.

I should be pointing you in the direction of all sorts of wonderful places but being a bit slack i haven't got all the info with me atm.

If you've got any questions, feel free, ask away

Linus

such nice people you are.
under section 539 of the slacker code, most slackers are nice people.
I like slackers.
-Kangus
what are these guardian angels you speak of?

hello Linus the ACE,
where are you from? I am a student going to college near chicago in the US. I'm studying lots of stuff, but my major is supposedly psychology. I think I'm going to change it. Sociology sounds nice.
whatever.
thats all for now.
-Kangus

I live in Sydney Australia and its a long time since i went to school

As for being a slacker...Absolutely, thats why i am typing this from work

The guardian angels are similar to the Aces - Assistant Community Editors - in that they help new people to find their way around, the only difference being they are not 'official'. Makes no difference to the service.

You can usually find out a bit about people by clicking on their name as that will take you to their home page.

Gotta hate those time differences ;-(

Linus

Ah, a true slacker.
Doing work for one thing while you are supposed to be doing another.
That's how I got through high school.
I once had a pen-pal in australia. Long long ago.
He never put a return address on anything though, and one day I lost my only copy of his address. Thats why e-mail is great, you just hit reply and the address is right there.
I'm writing to a nice girl in England now and have been for nearly 3 years. All thanks to the internet.
I've got a last minute paper to write now.
-Kangus

You will find yourself talking to people from all around the world once you have been here for a while

Ive got friends through here from the US, UK, Holland, Denmark to name a few...

eh, quit yer braggin'!
That is yet another joy of the net.
talking to people around the globe w/o ever leaving your room.
communities such as h2g2 make finding these people so much easier.
since the blue screen of death ate my paper earlier, I must rewriote it now. teach me to save early and often.

Ive always found autosave to be a good idea...

Unfortunately I have been reduced to using wordpad, which has no autosave what so ever.....
I need to find my MS office CD....
grumble, grumble....
I saved in a very paranoid state of oftenness this time through. Once every 3 sentences or so. I almost wanted a blue screen to pop up so I could laugh at it and say "hah! I've outsmarted you this time"
well, one paper down, many more bigger ones to go....
grumble, grumble....

it's enough to drive someone to drink...

I sometimes do think these papers would go a bit easier if I were at least a little tipsy...

yes...until you read them again the next day

at least they'd be done.
besides, I'm 5 times better at video games when I'm drunk!
So why not writing papers?

You've convinced me now all you have to do is convince the person marking the papers...

maybe I should wrap my paper around a six-pack.
Graduate students grade these things, not rich professors, so fortunately I'd not have to invest in fine wines as a bribe and/or essay enhancement utility. A six-pack would do just fine, me thinks.

It would work with me

Not a big fan of American beer though - sorry

I'm not a big fan of it either.
especially with the cheap crap we normally have around here.
If using a six pack as a bribe, I'd try a bit harder than cheap american beer though. some Guiness perhaps.

Ah, now you're talking

If you ever feel like a virtual beer go searching for the Forum and Firkin, the latest conversation is 40 (you will find it in the latest conversation entries on my page)... a good, if somewhat mad, group of people.

is a pint of beer and is a Guinness