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

>>> "Now that the Fortean Times has finished crashing my browser..."


aha - the old Fortean Times table formatting bug, eh?....

1 x 14 = 14
2 x 14 = 28
3 x 14 = ...... CRASH!

Exactly. I think. It goes all fractal on me and opens too many windows.

I have a request: could you give me the link to the Guide Entry you were reading on Feynman diagrams? I'm not finding it, and we should link to it, it's sort of the 'done thing'.

oops, apologies Dmitri! i did wonder if i should cross-reference, but i thought that since this is AWW material rather than a Guide Entry, it may make it look too 'heavy' - like a factual entry Pliny appears to be crashing when i tried to search for Feynman, but i've found it thro' the index for Science & Tech category i'm not sure how you'd like to ref. the other item(s) the main item i read initially is at: http://www.h2g2.com/approved_entry/A260506 (but this doesn't mention the book) and the following thread is where the Researcher gets accused of plagiarizing the book - and the book details are mentioned http://www.h2g2.com/approved_entry/A260506/conversation/view/F32938/T51951 in that second thread, the original Researcher makes it clear that he has discussed the issue with his Guide Editor(s) and they find no problem so, i see now that at the end of my story, i've referred to the book as being associated with a (Guide) entry, whereas in fact the book is only mentioned explicitly in a post *about* a Guide entry would like me to rephrase that para near the end to remove any suggestion that the book is connected with a GE?

oops, apologies Dmitri!

i did wonder if i should cross-reference, but i thought that since this is AWW material rather than a Guide Entry, it may make it look too 'heavy' - like a factual entry

Pliny appears to be crashing when i tried to search for Feynman, but i've found it thro' the index for Science & Tech category

i'm not sure how you'd like to ref. the other item(s)

the main item i read initially is at:
... A260506
(but this doesn't mention the book)

and the following thread, below the entry, is where the Researcher gets accused of plagiarizing the book - and the book details are mentioned
... A260506 conversation ... F32938/T51951 (This article: plagiarism !)

in that second thread, the original Researcher makes it clear that he has discussed the issue with his Guide Editor(s) and they find no problem


so, i see now that at the end of my story, i've referred to the book as being associated with a (Guide) entry, whereas in fact the book is only mentioned explicitly in a post *about* a Guide entry

would like me to rephrase that para near the end to remove any suggestion that the book is connected with a GE?

..and also apologies for the incomplete links!!!

Pliny seemed to be unhappy with me C & P ing the full links into my reply!

hope i've given you sufficient to ID the refs

I'll find them, and make that small correction. Thanks for that!

In the meantime, I've just been reading an interview with Rupert Sheldrake, and I am over the moon. (So is Nigel, since we got a cartoon out of him. )

Where can I find that interview Dmitri?

LOL - i hope Nigel has a better grasp of where the dividing line falls - between Real Life and Fantasy - than *i* do!!!


BTW i see that you've got your Post Ed sleeves rolled up already - i didn't mean to scupper your weekend by submitting an offering!

i thought that i'd need to do plenty revising to get it even near the start-point of being considered - this is after all my first attempt at a purely prose item


can you let the cat out of the bag? does Nigel get the better of Mr Sheldrake?

...i guess i'm just going to have to be patient (sigh)

Nigel is in love. Sheldrake appears to be saying things I've been trying to tell people for 42 years.

Did I mention that I am constantly trying to get a tinfoil hat smiley?

Nothing wrong with your prose. Great stuff. Just a few typos.

The 28th is going to be a great issue, I can tell - hobbies and wonderful Stuff.

No objection to editing at the weekend, as long as the Post is already in the bag. Although now I will go and be lazy at the pool.

Uh oh.. ...and good evening geniuses ...... these postings are shimmering with a luminosity which is curing the ailments of my soul, as if they were a balm or soothing essence .... ...and I haven't even read them yet ... my sixth sense is tellling me I need a drink ...

Rupert? Ah Rupert. Poor fellow was stabbed in Santa Fe.

I will return.

Willem - here's the interview:

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fbi/6421/the_science_delusion.html

(Elektra pointed out that I missed your post, sorry. )

Thanks a lot Dmitri I'm going to read it right now.

Read it, thanks a lot! Sheldrake has some great ideas. I wouldn't say he's right about *everything*. I've been reading his stuff for a couple of decades already. Cactuscafe, you might enjoy his work as well (and you too probably ALS).

I doubt anybody is right about *everything*. Where would be the fun in that?

thanks Willem - i'd started to read the article - until my PC hung half-way thro'!

i remember studying some of Sheldrake's Morphic Resonance writings when i was part of an informal philosophy group who met at a colleague's house, back in the late '80s - it was interesting to consider the ideas, but i think at the time it seemed a bit inconclusive (we covered a lot of different work in a short space of time)

i'd be interested to look into it again - in the last year or so i've read a little of some other areas of work which might overlap with Sheldrake's - really starting to build a bridge between the physical and the metaphysical

thanks for the link, Dmitri

>>> "I doubt anybody is right about *everything*. Where would be the fun in that?"


as i read somewhere, recently...

"you can fool some of the people, all of the time...

...these are the ones we must find - and exploit!"

Yeah. Especially at .

http://www2.crayola.com/coloring_application/index.cfm?referrer=/ECE/ece_display.cfm&mt=digicolor

nearly a doodle

yay!!! Chelsea!! ... just been watching Chelsea winning the Champions League ... ...


Now then, what on earth is going on around here, in the sargasso sea of inspiration??? heheh. I love it, I feel I am witnessing the creation of worlds beyond worlds...

Think I had better read in reverse order ...

That's amazing Prof!!! I love that crayola colouring pad, this will keep me quiet for hours!!!



Rupert Sheldrake eh?? Fine fellow so I understand. People around here where we live were very upset when he was stabbed. He does talks at the Schumacher College which is nearby, but I never went to one, I must learn more.

Schumacher is the fellow.

I am soo intelligent tonight. . ...

Last week, in Brighton, there was this interesting looking guy with a long white pony tail sitting in a cafe reading The Science Delusion, and I was like ooh eh Rupert, wonder what that's about ...

OK, onward and backwards into the next postings .....

>>>>>> see you in a minute >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

What??? (deep into the sargasso sea of inspiration, which is now kinda like the Fortean Times mixed with something entirely other) ..

I used to subscribe to the FT. Haven't read it in a while....

mister ALS my friend, you amaze me, so the inspiration appeared as a vision from out of the sargasso waters and zapped you in the third eye? hahah. no previews??? what's the piece? I must know now now now I can't wait. what you writing about??? so you are venturing into prose? even though it knows not to which Tavern its mummy has pushed off, , I think it will be just fine there in , 'course it will ...

now I have go and do a manic spidery doodle on Prof's crayola pad link, before venturing even further backwards into the creation of the world ...

you guys ....

back in a minute >>>>>>>>>>>>>>