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

I just signed up a couple of days ago. I am a university student with an inordinate amount of free time and free access to the internet. I was bored one day whilst surfing about the net and put a search for the site in. I had heard about it after watching Tommorrow's World and thought it was a good idea. I am a small fan of DNA, I have read most of the *trilogy* and the idea of the guide appeals to me. I have already enjoyed looking for things that haven't been written about and adding my own work, as a result, I have had to physically drag myself away for meal breaks and lectures, it is becoming rather addictive .

I was 14 years old, and someone I new was reading a book that involved a rubber-ducking-playing, starship Captain who had spent almost 4 years in a bath tub. Of course, I had to check it out...

Then I got hooked...

Five years later I acquired my own computer and an internet connection. During my visits to http://www.douglasadams.com I happened to stumble onto this thing called h2g2, and thought, "Why not? Can you think of a better way to waste your time?"

So here I am....

Hi Peta
I saw Douglas Adams on an interview on this new TV-channel we´ve got here in Norway, Metropol. I was really embaresed on the hosts behalf, ´couse he kept calling the books "the Hich-Hikers Guide to the Universe"! Unbelievebly bad research! Well, Mr Adams told the viewers to check out this h2g2 page, and I did what the boss told me to! Great fun, and very handy pages!

Same as a few other people, I have just started Uni and so I am quite new on the Web. A while ago I read HHGTTG and was really taken p by the Idea of universal guide. Then I saw the article in the PC World with the interview with Mr Adams, which mentioned the website, so I checked it out, and as a result I am quite frequent visitor now.

A really strange email came...

from Ford...

Funny way to run a personnel recruitment office
}:=8

Aah, that would explain why I keep bumping into recently arrived Norwegians

;^)#

He prolly just got his thumb-wires crossed.

About 17 years ago (maybe more) I read 'The restaurant.... ' and once I'd stopped laughing at the bit with drawing out the scrabble letters, a thought occurred to me that made me laugh even more. I've mentioned it to various people since and NEVER MET ANYONE who already knew what I was talking about. I was searching the web to finally find out if it was deliberate or an accident that 6 x 9 REALLY DOES = 42 if you count in base 13

6 x 9 = 54 = (5 x 10) + (4 x 1) = 50 + 4 base 10
6 x 9 = 42 = (4 x 13) + (2 x 1) = 52 + 2 base 13

It would be somehow comforting to know that I am not the only one burdened with this awful knowledge

Yes, I've heard that from several sources--newsgroups and the like. I've also read DNA's denial that it has any significance...but we can dream, can't we?

Thank you, that's wonderful - I can finally drop the subject...


unless you're crying wolf

No, I never cry wolf...that would be kind of redundant since I _am_ one.... (do you know Latin by any chance?)

But seriously, I never kid around with people who are looking for a serious answer. Everything I wrote is true.

I mentioned 'wolf' for a lark
but I cannot leave you in the dark
yes I do know some Latin
and while we are chattin
is it true that wolves cannot bark?

Nope.

How did you put those pictures on your home page?

I've got a bitmap and I'm not afraid to use it!

For information on putting pictures on your page you can follow these links to
The GuideML FAQ http://www.h2g2.com/A187355#UPLOAD
The GuideML Clinic http://www.h2g2.com/A187229

You'll find All the GuideML news that's fit to print

Hope it helps
;^)#
PS if you need to find the GuideML Clinic in the future there's a link to it on the Front Page near the bottom

Visited your page

That IS clever

loved the dancing baby

was stunned by the music that launched itself at me
(unfortunately I didn't like it)

Guitars for me every time

will check out your advice now

I heard an interview with DNA on BBC Radio 4 a few months ago and he mentioned H2G2 then which co-incided with the delivery of our "new toy" and subsequent internet connection. (Life is just one large co-incidence!) Anyhow - I've been here more or less ever since although from time to time I've drifted to other sites I have found myself being drawn back as there's nothing else quite like this place!

Thanks - waving your mouse over the dancing baby randomly selects some music - there's a pulldown list nearby if you'd rather make your own selection

have fun
;^)#

I havn't bothered reading everything up there yet, I'll do it later.

I came here because Focus (the boffin science magazine in the UK) made a brief point about mentioning h2g2's excistance. I was bored and decided it would be a nice way to kill some time, to vist this site.

The trouble is, when you come here to 'kill a little time' you end up slaughtering the timeline.