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

On the h2g2 scale, I'm approaching sixty.

If as you say you are 60 on the way to becoming an h2g2 octogenarian.
Could I ask how long you think it will be before you make it and will it be celebrated it be on your real life or h2g2 birthday ?

My combined real age and h2g2 age will total 60 some time in June this year, which is neither my real birthday nor my h2g2 birthday, but half way between the two. I'll become an octogenarian exactly 10 years later, if I survive that long.

Sorry Gnoman we must work to months in this exercise.
Whilst I am a few months older than AR80 in real life. She has been a researcher a few months longer that me. To recognise her as the reigning Queen and the oldest in h2g2 terms I combined real life age and time with h2g2 to give her the title by a few months.

Oh my goodness, gracious, me, Ancient Brit

AlsoRan80 A virtual Queen

What joy! What bliss!

And all because I am as old as Methusalah.

Thank you

That makes you a King.

I curtsy to you oh Virtual King



I am absolutely enchanted,

Never been anything in my life, except a mother and a swimmer and a gardener, and a wife (several times) and a cook, and - well always happy.

Alsoran80

1/III/2010 17.15 GMT

Let's not celebrate a coronation too soon AR80, someone may yet challenge our seniority.
Gnomon may well open up another generation of researchers, the h2g2 O.A.P's. although he seems to be unsure of his virtual life.
The earliest indication of his entry to h2g2 seems to be 1st September 2000.
This would make him 9 years and 6 months in h2g2 terms to which he must add his real life age in years and months in order to determine the month and year in which he will become an h2g2 O.A.P.

I wonder if we have a 42 year old researcher ?

I don't know why you think I am unsure, Ancient Brit. I have it calculated down to the nearest day.

Sorry Gnomon I should have taken more care in reading your post 23.
With two birthdays a year it's easy to miss a true annual occurrence.
I suppose we could got to days if for any reason the need should arise.
As a matter of interest how did you establish your h2g2 birthday ?

I did it using a spreadsheet which allows dates to be manipulated easily. The first thing to work out is the day half way between your birthdate and the day you started posting on h2g2:

Special Day = (Birth Date + Start Date) / 2

If your spreadsheet doesn't allow you to add dates like that, you could write it as:

Special Day = Birth Date + (Start Date - Birth Date)/2

Then to find out when I reach 60, I calculate:

60th Birthday = Special Day + 60 *365.25/2

The final /2 is because birthdays by your reckoning happen twice a year.

Mine is 28-June-2010.

Very Ingenious.
How did you establish 'start date' ie. the date that you started with h2g2.

Well, it's at the top of my personal space: Created 1 Sep 2000.

There also used to be a page giving the user numbers of the people who joined h2g2 each week and I was able to track it down from that - it was the same date. But I don't know now where that page has gone.

Ancient Brit - your page says

"Created: 2nd July 2002"

The page I was thinking of was <./>NewUsers</.>.

At one time, you could use this to see when anybody joined, even if it was years ago. It seems to only store the new users for a month now.

There was another page, that some researcher had created showing all the new users for the first few years, and that's probably around somewhere if we could find it.

Peta's page U24 says created 27th. Sept 2006. This does not even cover her BBC/h2g2 time

Dear Ancient Brit.

Too true - I was getting carried away.

Anyway, these Higher Mathematics are too much for me. I shall just do as I am told. !!

At the moment I am gardening on my balcony - at least trying to rescue plants that have not been properly watered and this is putting a great strain on me as I cannot bear to see plants dying through lack of water.

you are representing the cause of the OAP wonderfullly well my dear friend.

sincerely,
Christiane.
AR80

2/III/2010 11.25 GMT

A1155566

Thanks, TC. That's the one I meant. If I'm reading it right, then the page we want is A1154288. It shows that users U197641 to U197698 joined h2g2 on 2-July-2002. This range includes Ancient Brit, so that means that he registered on that day.

My goodness dear Trillians child,

What an enornous amount of work. is there really someone who is a 103> or am I reading the table wrongly?

This is all too much for me. It is just like advanced mathematics - and I never was good at M<aths. !!

Go well,
Kind regards

Christiane
AR80
DOB 23/05/1928

2/III/2010 12.25 GMT

2/III/2010

I'm 54 and I've been here almost 10 years, which makes me not far off a hootoo Octogenarian.

My father was a true Octogenarian and even has an entry in the Edited Guide, but he's no longer with us physically. Tomorrow he would have been 92 years old, and I still can't think of not getting him a birthday card.

Without doubt G.B you're an h2g2 O.A.P