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

*Shakes head*

I like the bit about the end of term though. Only 2 more days of getting up at 8 o'clock!

i'm impressed when i came back on monday with only a week and a half remaining i thought i'd be rushed off my feet with things to do before the end of term but what i have needed to do has turned out to sort itself out quickly and now looking forward to a calm (ish) last few days

Not long now till i finish...

12:55pm precisely tomorrow afternoon for me

a bit longer than that for me...

11 seconds is the average time someone

Methinks that sentence is perchance not finished?

You are, of course in that respect entirely correct

And what, if I may enquire, would it have said had it not been so ruthlessly cut down in the prime of its life?

sorry! would have been something like:
11 seconds is the average time someone looks at a book whilst in a bookshop before deciding to purchase, or not to purchase it. wasn't really worth the wait was it?

Oh, I don't know. I would've said more like 13, though.

People, eh?

Tsk.

Well, it was on a radio programme, BBC radio four... and 11 is the average, some much longer, some shorter i guess... I mean all those books you look at the spine on, and then move on somewhere else...

I spent 7 minutes looking at a book in a bookshop today. And I didn't even buy it.

let me guess: It was a very short book, or you are an incredibably fast reader, and within that time you had read the whole book, so why bother buying it if you had already read through it in teh shop? The thing that made me laugh about the 11 second thing, is that I normally spend longer than that just figuring out which margarine to buy when I'm in the supermarket.. So, i was very sceptic over it I guess Hmmm, 500 G, or 250 G, Hmm, well, the 500 G saves me 3 pence over buying the 250 G in the long term.. But, that also means its twice as expensive... Oh, this brand is 30 pence more expensive than this for the same weight, Hmmm, i wonder why, ahh, low fat, ultra low fat, extra buttery taste, specially scientifically proven to reduce cholesterole, hmmm, but, I don't normally buy that brand, Hmm, and its more expensive, Hmm, but If i were to buy the smaller extra low fat extra vuttery tasting cholesterole lowering one, hmm, no, hmm oh i hate descisions... ahh, I know, I'll buy butter there are fourteen different butters... Oh, heck, the shop is closing i'll have this one!

Actually it was an extremely large and weighty tome with the zippy name of "Introductory Functional Analysis With Applications" (fun for all the family!). It had an equally hefty price tag so I was giving it a thorough investigation. I eventually decided to hang on to my hard applied-for money because of its unsatisfactorily light treatment of Hilbert spaces.

As far as margarine goes, I buy the one with the least number of unlikely claims. Unless you live on the stuff a few grams of fat either way makes no difference at all. Of course it helps if your mum works for the Food Standards Agency and so you know which ones the unlikely ones are...

Will we spill the beans? Will we discover the truth of all these eronious health claims, which quite frankly i don't trust as far as i could make a really great white sauce with?
Don't I normally get either Flora, (regular not the low fat thing), or the one i can never remember the name of but which is olive oil based and tastes nice, but is more pricey.. Well, yes, I (when i still had a kitchen), would buy a pack of butter also, mainly for toast and chease sauces...
two weeks to go and I'll have a kitchen for the first time in a year

*carefully peers into the thread to see if there is something dangerious which has put people off from posting for a week

What happened to your kitchen? Did it leave you because of some flaw in your treatment of it? Or was it just off on a Sabbatical?

I've been living in halls, the only halls i've ever been to which doesn't have kitchen.

just a posting to let people know i am still alive and here but am reduced to dial up every now and then rather then the continuous free connection that i had whilst in college.

Ditto from Wednesday, I leave horrible halls, with its loverly Internet LAN connection thing... And back to a ultra slow, connection shared witht he telephone, that my Father uses for his bisuness a lot of the time...