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

YAY! Glad for ya Wes..how ya doing? Start a smiley campaign yet?

I've been doing pretty fine...not too much on h2g2, just hanging out in the Freedom From Faith Foundation forum. (In fact, I think that's about the only thing I do on h2g2, aside from write journal entries on my love life that no one really wants/needs to hear...)

Nope, no smiley campaign yet. I think it looks better in text, actually. To turn it into a picture would be...wrong.

s and s,
~Wes

I was thinking of starting there again. I dropped all large convo forums awhile back for time management (still alot of convos..a few pages a day)...maybe I can get back in the swing of it all. I read the last few posts about phlig...haven't gotten much farther than that. I even recommended it to a lad name Hogster.
Aww of course we want to hear it I've now read them all I think.
That would be a bit of a ...queer turn of irony.
amd

Hogster....haven't seen him pop up yet. We *do* have someone called dogster.... But I don't think he's new. Oh well.

s and s,
~Wes

Yeah I sw him..and the dogma post I don't know if he'll actually go or not. I'm talking to a 'god' in some of my postings as well. He's rather funny

A God? Like Self-Paradoxical, an h2g2-proclaimed god of some domain?

Or some other entity?

as in the 'God' but more grown up and less egotistical so he lost the 'G' and made it 'g'..least that's how he explained it..

So this god fellow is on h2g2, then? Sounds like he has a sense of humor.

Yeppers...he does indeed!

What's his name? Or is it just 'god'?

just 'god' somewhere in my postings...no idea where!

I'm getting confused. 'god' is his nickname on h2g2? Or he's just a figment of your post imagination?



I think I'll go do a user search now. I'm getting to the bottom of this god mystery!

His nickname on hootoo is 'god' and I am talking to him, hence the conversation is in the 'my conversations' thing..

I get it now.

Reading Red Mars now, as recommended by my sf teacher. (It's his personal copy, actually.) Pretty good, although the author skips over some stuff. "The colonists landed and did a lot of stuff. Ten years later more stuff happened." Still a good read, though, and it has sequels!

and s,
~Wes

The sequels are Blue Mars and Green Mars, aren't they? The skipping over bit Terribly hilarious-wonder if they'll fill in the 10 years later in the book? I'm reading Sword of Shanarra on and off...

Yes--Green Mars and then Blue Mars. All right, I have to admit that the quote wasn't very accurate. The book centers around one character at a time for maybe fifty or sixty pages, and since all of the characters are a bit self-centered, the reader doesn't hear much about what goes on outside of the character's sphere of influence. And the author has this habit of making time pass quickly between sections but NOT TELLING YOU, so you start to wonder how all those buildings were raised so rapidly.

Shannara?! (SHANN-ar-ah, not shu-NARR-uh, if you can believe that. I saw Brooks at a book signing and he corrected everyone who mispronounced it.) Don't get too deeply involved in that series--you'll never escape. Terry Brooks needs some new stories! "Sword" was great--for a first novel it turned out very well. "Elfstones" and "Wishsong" were fine as well, but he didn't originally intend for there to be a trilogy, so you know how THAT goes... From here Mr. Brooks sort of went crazy on sequels. Four books, then one book, then a "World of Shannara" collection, now three more books...most of them centering on the same basic story: "The Elfstones are lost! Oh no! Let's round up some random Ohmsford descendant to go find them!" (Don't worry, that's not much of a spoiler.)

The first one was good, though. Panamon Creel rocks, as do the nuclear waste trolls. (Hee hee! Well, that IS what they are...)

OK, sorry about that. I get worked up about fantasy sometimes.

and s and s and s,
~Wes

Bit of a fiddler Brooks...he's a lawyer though, so that explains it
The likeliness that I'll get through the book is slim...no time
Quite ok !

Well, at least read far enough to get to Panamon Creel and his buddy the nuclear waste troll. I can't stop laughing about that--Brooks' trolls are products of nuclear radiation! Hee hee...apparently his fantasy world is set far in the future of our own. Not that it makes any difference to the story...until the characters decide to visit an ancient city, I guess. Oh well.

s and s,
~Wes

I swear I'll get there eventually..if the evil teachers would stop working us to death, but holidays coming up so only half of them should be spent on schoolwork
The nuclear waste troll sounds hilarious!