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

Now all I have to do is find out whether that's a compliment or an insult...

Now all I have to do is find out whether that's a compliment or an insult...

Who am I? I'm me.
What am I? I'm an engineer/tinkerer/fixer/explainer.

What do I get out of h2g2?

The chance to help lots of people through my entries and through answers in Ask h2g2. I fancy I'm good at given clear and to-the-point explanations.

A chance to show off a bit. I enjoy seeing those words, "Gnomon is right"!

amasgcBen,

This is a question that we ask in-house all the time - how perfectly appropriate that you ask it in Ask h2g2!

I'm assuming as a Bold Italic and a Researcher I can answer? Well here's my thoughts anyway:


>>> Who are you?

I'm male, 29, and have the most wonderfully diverse background. I've had to work hard to get where I am. I was the first of my family to go through higher education, I have two wonderful sisters, the greatest parents a boy could ask for and a separate life on a ranch in Texas.

>>> What are you?

Apart from being one of the Pisa People, I have an extensive media/journalistic background - ranging from script editing, travel programmes, radio and news rooms, newspaper/magazine articles. I have a degree in French, Spanish and Latin American politics, a Masters from Avignon Uni, and was half way through a PhD when I decided to give that up. Oh the advantages of being a freelancer.


>>> What do you get out of h2g2?

h2g2 satisfies my basic need - the thirst for knowledge. I'm not that much of a people person in real life and I love the fact that I can communicate with a global database in the written medium. My writing is often old fashioned and this would reflect the age of my parents and the mature household I have grown up in.

I love the way that people of disparate backgrounds, ages etc can all, by and large, get on. yes there are instances of upset, but I for one would hate to live in a world where everything was nice.

As I say, my two-penneth.

>Now all I have to do is find out whether that's a compliment or an insult...<

* before an arguement kicks off...*

Liam.

Surely people don't think I'm *that* argumentative?

Me. 21, single, part time IT person and full time student.

h2g2 gives me something to look at when i should be working.

*spots spelling mistake in my post*

It's not that you are argumentative - it's just when you get started you beat them round the head with reasoned argument until their nose starts to bleed. It's good stuff to watch

Liam.

Pff. you can prove anything with facts

Hmm. Thank you.

If only it felt like reasoned argument all the time from this end. Mostly it just feels like a connection of loose rants held together by baling wire.

Moi, je suis 19, single, half-Chinese female, one previous owner. I am an undercover Brummie. Am doing the sensible thing and doing a useful degree in English Language and Literature. On the side, I'm a professional painter, but when I'm doing that I tend to lie about my age.

Wheb you say your'e a professional painter, is that art or decorating?

Portrait commissions, mostly...

Wow! One of my favorite threads so far. So shall now resurrect it in the hope more shall see it!

Ok.

Who am I.

I am 18 of the feminine gender, on the wrong side of the poverty line, scratching together a novel to try and work my way up the class system (could be a story in itself!). I therefore spend a lot of time indoors. I also have cats, like food, live in Bristol, am single - no kids, and am fluctuating in my state of mind.



What am I.


I am unconventional, even to the unconventional, a little bit too harsh to others and a little too delicate in return. I like extremities, and non-entities. I am a writer, a poet, an occasional artist and musician, a media-junkie, with too many books and stuff in my head for my own good. I am somewhere between a punk/goth, a cynic, a cliche, a facist, a leftie, a serial killer, a girl, a bookworm, pugged into music, a dreamer, elaborate and all that razamatazz...

What do I get out of h2g2.

Well I reluctantly trotted over here at the start of the year, not really knowing what the heck was going on. It's taken me this long (plus a new skin) to get a hold on it all. I get : great conversation, a few people to bug me to leave the house, people to share my future dreams with, people to share my opinions with. People to oppose me, people to annoy me. Somewhere to run around in my underwear and use the warped post-modernism ironic anti-political correctness sense of humour that attatched itself to me. Somewhere to talk to people of allllll ages and still somehow find that touch of humanity you don't get much these days. And somehere to plug in and learn STUFF if I want to. Also somewhere to hide.

There. Thats all.

Ooh, spiffy.... always wondered this myself...

Who am I?
I'm twenty years old, a female, and an American. I'm in my second year at university studying English and Music, which means I get really speedy internet access thanks to the university T1. Being an English major also means I spend an inordinate amount of time in my room doing something computer related - which is why I'm here most of the day when I'm not at class or practicing. I'm romatically attached to another hootooer, and as I'm younger, no rugrats or anything of that nature.

What am I?
Well, a student obviously. But also a writer/poet/musician (deadly trio), a sci-fi fantasy fan (which is how I ended up here), an academic with a range of interests that is nothing short of selectively eclectic. (not as much of an oxymoron as it seems).

What do I get out of h2g2?
I first signed up on a whim three years ago, just to see what this was all about. I had only just finished reading all the h2g2 books, which I'd found absolutely hilarious, and was actually sort of new to the whole internet thing as well as far as talking with people I didn't already know IRL went. I can't even remember how I got attached at the hip to this place - but I know the reason I stick around is all the great people I've met. So I guess you could say I get friends out of h2g2 that I would never have had otherwise - the relationships with my closer friends usually gravitate towards a more immediate medium - at least IM programs, sometimes telephone, and then even meets and other events. Some have become my closest friends - even closer than people I grew up with. But that's not everything - I find the mission of the Guide to be one I agree with, and I like contributing to entries when I get a chance, and I enjoy reading what others have written - both in entry form and by lurking through conversations.

I also find the whole psychological aspect of this place interesting (done some reading on the hub - COOL stuff), and also I find it intriguing how such a place gets along so well. And I also love finding people hundreds or thousands of miles away (or just down the road) who share my views on things. Makes the world a bit smaller.

*waves*

Hello American Person.

Hiya... *runs to space to check - there's Bristol's in the US too* English person.

Yep I know!! Thieftng Americans.

GET YER OWN!

I jest.
There are three!

Rhode Island, Tennessee and Connecticut!

I America

Chattanooga... Susquehanna... Shenandoah... Roanoke... Mississippi...

Well. They're Native American names, anyway...

Digging yourself into a hole there.

It's also nearly 4am here, and I fear I have lost my mind ranting about intelligence in metal music.