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

Don't you mean "ergonomically"...

I have the explorer.... it's nice and glowey....

I'm not going to list all my gadgets... that would be to much like having pride ....

Oh I see....
My mouse is cordless; because I've worn out several mice's cables, they keep on breaking up inside and I have to cut them shorter. Oh and I can use this one from bed which is fun too! It's got two scroll wheels, and a third button on the side, and a useful program thingy makes them do clever things, like zooming in on the screen or scrolling horizontally as well as vertically.

Ooh and I've got a Darth Maul mousemat which my friends from halls of rez gave me when I left

See even the smiley can't raise it's eyebrow

No he meant aerodynamically, if they alledged to be ergonomic then they have the measurements all wrong on most...
*realises this is wandering into the realms of GCSE graphics so shuts up*

I have an explorers compass from when I was about 8?

Ooh..I have Darth Maul Light Saber!!! It's so cool and goes "schoooom, schooooom" and lights up and everything Although I did get shooted at for cheering on Darth Maul in that last film but admittedly he was the coolest

I bet your keyboard can't sing and dance

Most things seem to fit me quite well... I've never had any problems with mice, keyboards, joysticks, gamepads, wheels.... Maybe I'm just odd....

I can almost do the eyebrow... But not as well a Peregrin...

My mouse is cool! it has LOADS of usefull buttons and is nice and comfy...

He (Ray Park aka Darth) is going to be in the next one... just not as Maul...

I have an R2D2 mug...

*looks confused*
Can it do the Macarena?
*starts dancing round the room*

Maybe you just have a better mouse than me as mine's just a simple thing as anything else would be overly complex and I'd spend even more time mending my computer

*smiles reassuringly*
It's a very good Bond eyebrow Fish, maybe you could be Bond's 'until now less well known brother' who can also do the eyebrow thing?

Not as Maul? That's not good, he was the best character...I keep being laughed at as I have a large model of Darth Maul and teeny tiny Luke Skywalker which is apparantly the wrong way round...

Ooh we have such fun free gift which is C3PO voice recorder and R2D2 alarm clock projector thingy...both are highly tacky but so amusing

It sure can!



It has a little infra-red eye that looks where it goes... and a nice wheel, and some Back/Forward buttons for your thumb to play with...

Is that the one that can talk backwards? BB has one of those...

Peregrins eyebrow is better and I'd make a better Q... Me and him were wondering which character you were most like..

Who can I be? You two've taken the best roles.

I'll get one of the Ministry's penguins to be Moneypenny

I'd like to be the Evil person since I'm the Muse of Evilness and all...

My mouse is very cool, because although apart from the optical movement tracking it's the same as a normal IntelliMouse, it doesn't have any silly pointless buttons that only work in Windows, so I can happily use it in Linux, with the scroll wheel mapped to button 2, so I don't have to press both buttons at once anymore. Why Windows didn't use three-button mice I'll never know, as they're good... I just need to sort out mapping the scroll wheel's scrolling to mouse buttons 4 and 5, because some Linux apps actually use the scroll wheel now - including Mozilla, so I hear. I just can't make it work yet...

It does use 3 button mice... You just have to know how to get it to...
And there's nothing wrong with M*cr*s*ft Hardware! It's just their OS's that are pants

Yeah, their hardware is generally OK, but extortionately priced.

I bet it can't...not with all the right movements and everything...
*thinks*
How about Britney dances? Has it been trained in the fine art of "Oops I did it again" ?

My mouse has three buttons...I don't think this is relevant but I thought I'd at least make the effort to contribute...and on the left button it has a nice blob of nail varnish

Yes it reverses stuff, it currently has...
*recalls the strange ramblings of her best mate, decides this would further endanger her fairy image so declines to comment*
I can't quite make out the words backwards...it's all so jumbled up but it vaguely relates to our theory about "The Matrix"
*giggles*

To be fair I've not seen your eyebrow pose so I can't really be sure but Q never really did anything interesting...
*grins*
You've given this discussion? Ummm...
*smiles slowly*
I'm not really sure...who was the girl with the motorbike in one of the most recent ones?

I started work for the hospice today, I'm being let loose on the Christmas market next week to

cool what work are you doing for them?

The girl with the motorbike? Ummm.... The Chinese agent, in Tommorow Never Dies? Yes she was cool... I thought she was a great Bond girl. Not like whassername from The World Is Not Enough, who was completely pants.

Microsoft's hardware is generally great - and the IntelliMouse with IntelliEye is surprisingly cheap (only £22.50 from wherever it was I got it from). But I still think they made a mistake with two-button mice. Not as big a mistake as on the Mac though... I mean, one button? Come off it!

I like Logitech stuff as well, their wheels and their Joysticks are far superiour to Mic's but I like explorer... Hmmmm..... my sister used a 12 button mouse for a CAD machine at foster wheelers, a while ago...

Macs are silly.... ok, they're brilliantly designed and run beautifully.... but no decent games run on them!!!

The Matrix....?!?!?.... aren't they making a sequel....

Q did loads of fun stuff! Just not AS fun as Bond

Hmmm.... what have they got you doing for them? I've been considering doing something voluntary... as it is, I'm just wasting time and chatting on h2g2...

Yeah, if you think about it, Q got to play with all the gadgets way before Bond did.

Not only that, he usually tested them all aswell.. and he got to build them, which is the fun part!

Especially things like that phone box in GoldenEye...