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

Welcome to the Guide! I serve the Towers as an Assistant Community Editor (ACE), who are tasked with seeking out new researchers such as yourself, and guiding them to become the famous researchers they are destined to be... or not... destiny being such a fickle deity.

Anyway, here's a couple of links that should help you get started off right:

The ACE homepage is loaded with goodies to help you discover the researcher side: http://www.h2g2.com/A214796

And for the scoop on the social side of H2G2, may I suggest you check out the Guide to H2G2 Clubs: http://www.h2g2.com/A270325

Don't you hate it when you hit the "Post" button when you haven't finished yet?

Okay, if you have any further questions, feel free to ask me or any of the other Aces. And good luck with that new brain... I've been considering an upgrade myself.




I'm done now.



Really.


*Ahem*


Oh, time to hit that "Post Message" button again.... sorry for the inconvenience...

Thanks for the welcome and the info you provided. Sorry not to have gotten back to you sooner but I've only just noticed your message. (Doh!) Never mind, I think I'm getting the hang of the set up now. I notice you've lived in L.A. I've just written a Guide entry for L.A. Of course it's written from my highly personal point of view and you'll probably:
a) Hate it.
b) Disagree with most of it.
c) Try and sue me.
d) All of the above.

I also lived in San Francisco for six months so if I get any favorable reactions to the L.A. entry I may be persuaded to recount my experience on the Golden Gate Bridge (which has to be read to be believed and even then you won't believe it) and to drop a few other pearls about S.F.


Thanks Again

Best Wishes

The Marquis of blah blah blah god I hate typing


P.S. When are they going to add a spellcheck feature to this delightful contraption?! Have a go will you. Being a ACE you must have some clout.

The Powers in the Towers are currently revamping the site, with lots of new features like skins and stuff, but a spell-checker isn't in the works. But here's what I suggest you do:

1) Write your articles offline into your word processing program of choice.

2) When completed and spell-checked to your satisfaction, pop online, go to the Add Guide Entry thing here, then copy and paste.

I'll go check out your LA article. If it is, as I suspect from your warning, rather anti-LA, don't worry... I hated the place too. I didn't actually live there, but I've lived in the Inland Empire for most of my life, which is near LA, and I worked there for several months... long enough to know that I never want to be near there again... except when the Kings are playing, of course.

Anyway, there is already an Approved Guide Entry on LA (written by myself), but if there's something in yours they can use, they'll add it, and give you a researcher credit. Which can only be a good thing, considering that all of the good bits on my own LA article ended up in the editor's recycle bin.