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

Hi,
My frame of mind is great. Just hang on while I plick my self up off the floor from laughting.

It was a customer who asked me about obfuscating, he thought Barry Humphries might have made it up, but Lewis carroll is better.

I have just spent the morning working now I can get back to seriously obfuscating. , which is how I spend most days

I woulde love to read your poem.

David Conner of US got the gold
and Andrew Hoy got the silver
Bummer

Hi Moondancer,

I have absolutely no idea where this came from, it just kinda poured out.

The h2g2 persona

This is not what I intended
when first I came.
I came to play,
to disengage reality
from me.

To dally as I please,
to dawdle, to gaily flit,
to alight briefly
here, there, wherever,
but never to dwell.

'Tis a harmless deception,
or so I told myself.
Masks, actors, illusions;
flights of fancy
between life and me.

Hide, conceal, disguise.
Be anyone at all
except myself.
Do not let the light
expose me.

Do I delude myself,
or do you delude me?
One the fool,
the other playing it,
disregarding me.

That image I project;
Am I seen as I would be seen?
Do others see me,
or another me;
How do I see me?

Illusion must pass
and reality return.
If it ever left.
I am. No, I am not.
Do I any longer know?

Truth and illusion,
Tyresias sees.
I prefer the illusion;
which do you prefer?
No! Wait. I prefer me.


Walter.

That is really great Walter.

I know how you feel.

I come inside this box to escape from reality, I use to do it with books, but I can't sit and read a book if I have to work where I can sit at a computer and obfuscate (I'm using your spelling chancing it to be correct).

I like your poem,
I like the way it flows,
and the structure the five lines,
I haven't written one with five lines.

I don't normally purposefully have my poems rhyming but that is how yours came out. Nor do I know where they come from they usually arrive in the early hours of the morning, yours arrived at 1.30 last night after Roy and HG. and I just had to get up and write it down.


Moondancer

Moondancer,

Thank you. Five lines? I hadn't realised. I'm really at a loss to know how that got out. Perhaps there is poetry of some kind in all of us, it just needs someone to come along and rub the lamp and out will spring the genie. I rather think that the real trick is how to get the genie back in the lamp. My cousin, the one I told you about, she said that she just woke up one night, in the wee small hours, and started writing. She had never done it before.

The poem. It is a gift to you (says he, bashful, blushing).

Walter.

Thank you

Hi Moondancer,

How was the soccer quarter final? I'm in at work, trying to kick-start a stalled uni assignment that is due next week. It ain't easy. Still, it is a cold, wet day, so at least I'm not pining to be outdoors.

Walter.

Hi Walter,

The soccer was a bit pathetic, lucky you didn't come across for it. I think I will stick to Aussie Rules, much more interesting. I can understand why people throws rocks or what ever at the players, anything in order to wake them up.

I have my mum and a pile of kids staying in my flat with us, she comes to stay with me and have a rest hahahaha. And brings 3 kids. Chaos. We took them all to the soccer, and they had a ball.

I don't think we were pushing hard enough on the weekend, there were two rowing medals that we should have got gold for. It's up to our Cathy now.

I read an article on Vikings and why they did what they did. My opinion on them and their times have not changed. It made them look like a bunch of bad mannered hammer wielding oafs. Moreover, I do not think I would like to be around them. Have a read up on the Minoan's or Mycenaean's in Create or I will send you some if you cant find any. I think it was a high time of discovery art and culture.




Moondancer

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Hi Walter,

Did you have a chance to look around that site I found? It also had some stuff on the Minoans. They were not a warlike people cause there were no walls around their homes, I think they were somewhat number crunches, if they dig deep enough they will probably find a first putter along with their drainage and maze of corridors.
But what I did like about them was that they used art for the sake of it. to decorate walls and not just kings walls everyone's had painted walls. Paintings of people doing everyday things like walking in the street or talking to others. Being an island in the middle of everywhere, they were a trading people. I just find them interesting.




Moondancer

Hi Moondancer,

Thank you for all the info, but no I haven't been able to catch up on it yet because work keeps getting in the way and my end of year uni essays are more or less due. In fact yesterday the uni sent my enrolment stuff for next year and I thought, s**t, can I please just get this year out of the way first if it's all the same to you? Did you see that your poem is up on my 'home' page? When I have some idle time I want to post a couple of pictures on there. Take care,

Walter

Hi Walter,

Thanks I saw that I'm delighted you like it. I had a couple of slow days and there did not seem to be any one to talk to. Today looks like it will be a bit busier, thank heavens and I wont be left wandering around cyberspace with more time than energy.

I longingly read the books of next years courses, and know I cannot do a thing until this is sold, but the TAFE catalogues are well thumbed and drooled over. Until then, I will just kick around in limbo.


Good luck with putting your pictures on you front page. I have a great picture I want to put on, It only works on one computer and obviously, no one else would be able to see it. Because it is not in, the Internet just on this computer. hahahah works for me and no one else. I have to work out how to put it on the Internet, do you know who I could ask. Kumabear put the painting on the Internet for me, I suppose I could ask him. Any way if you find out first could you please tell me.

Thank you

Moondancer

Moondancer,

I know absolutely bugger all about computer-techno thingys. There must be heaps of our h2g2 friends who do know this stuff, but maybe I would start with Loonytunes (you can catch him on the SYDNEY OLYMPICS forum) who I think would be able to give you the ducks guts.

As for your studies, have you thought at all about maybe having a go at uni as a mature-age student? I reckon you would be a natural. I guess it would be difficult while you are tied to the business, but after that perhaps your options would open up.

I am shortly going to take a break from all of this work and go into that Rome forum you told me about. Last year we had a visiting Classics Professor from the U S of A who had just produced a 'virtual' video of the Forum and other ancient Roman landmarks. It was pretty good, although a bit gimmicky, and 'reconstructions' do tend to lessen the magic that comes with using your own imagination.

Walter.

Hi Walter,

You dont have to know anything about technology just who to ask. I have never had any trouble finding loony, I also enjoy his writing.

I asked enough people and I did get an answer and IHAVE DONE IT.

PLEASE CHECK OUT MY PAGE .



MOONDANCER

Hi Moondancer,

I gotta rush, but that picture is a GAS. My immediate reaction was ..... well, I'll tell you tomorrow, when I look at it again. Yes I know, that's not the same as my immediate reaction but I'm thinking womb and eye here, and that could get profound, I need to draw breath some. I hope my mind isn't disintegrating.

Walter

Hi Walter,

The picture is amazing isn't it. I can't see your womb or eye, to me it is just moon and sky and so Gothic and dark and mysterious and magic. I was just amazed by it. I hope it doesn't disappear, I think I stole it. I'm not sure if it was there for the taking or if I was suppose to pay for it.


Moondncer

Hi Moondancer,

What do you mean, you THINK you stole it. Are you a kleptomaniac or something (Walter locks his latest photos away in top drawer of desk just in case light-fingered tea leaf passes by).

Walter.

Hi

the reason I don't know if I stole the picture is, I was surfing around the internet and I just came across this great picture. It probably wasn't lost only I was lost, I could not find my way back to the site. But there didn't seem to be anything about paying for it and it was easy to pick up even for a computer nunce like me. I suppose that is being a tealeaf.

"I'M SORRY WHOEVER I STOLE IT FROM, I WILL TRY AND REMEMBER NOT TO DO IT AGAIN"

Do you think that will help, I do usually ask before I take things (redfaced grin)

Moondancer

Hi Moondancer,

It would certainly mollify me, but then I'm not the owner of the pic. You should have told me you were looking for something, I could have let you have the cutest photo of my puppy.

Walter

PS is it just my computer, or have both of your pictures disappeared? I thought something was odd when your Kumebear painting was in two pieces, then three, but now it seems to be gone altogether, along with the picture you nicked. What is going on, or have I entered the Twilight Zone?

Hi,

It could be your computer, cause they are both there now. I did find they disappeared on me earlier so I logged out and back in again and they were back. Sometimes these thingies are a bit fickle.

You need to put your cute puppy on your own page. What sought of cute puppy do you have. If I didn't have to spend so much time working I could get a lot more time on here. There is always someone trying to mess up our fun.



Moondancer