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

Getting out is not all its cracked up to be.

[Flopsy] Easy for you to say!

Flopsy, you do not /literally/ live in a hutch.

[Flopsy] Oh! Okay! So it's a 50x50 meter hutch, filled with all sorts of technology, including seven toilet facilities, and a master tactical observatory, that I share with a Chiss lord!

Well I agree with some point someone brought up somewhere.<-(details are fuzzy) that there has got to be something good about the places where we live. Just try to think about it. I mean seriously though Arkansas isn't to great I have to admit.. when I move I'll miss it. And sorry, Happy, for my bit of confusion. I was in a little bit of a cranky mood.

Ah cranky your not the one who worked a 30 hour shift then got home to find that his flatmate had managed to delete half of the O/S on MY computer - as you can see after many hours of fighting the PC I'm back.

I live in London, one of the most happening city's in the world, I can go out severn nights a week and know that I'm on a guest-list somewhere. So why am I currently spending my time sitting in front of the PC wired up to H2G2 ? (My own theory is that after spending 16 years with my life organized around clubbing I'm getting a tad bored of it all).

Or perhaps you felt like taking something over, and the H2G2 seemed as good an entity as anything?

There is that too

In my case, however, I live here 'cause I have to. I'm only a high-school sophomore, y'know, and I don't have any way to pick-and-choose where I live. Southern California's not so bad in general...just this boring part of it where I live.

Wish I could have lots of stuff to do here. But no, I'm reduced to terrorizing innocent websites with alter personas.

And getting in trouble in real life, of course.

relly I'm a sophmore too, but I live near DC so there are lots of fun things to do, such as watch the Gang fights. My latest plrank was when me and The Jeff! got up onto the roof of a school with a microwave and set it on the edge with the door open for all to see. Then we shut the power to the gym off. It was fun

[sea] i'm a senior. IRL of course. and, well, my night life is nonexistent because i'm straight edge (no drugs, alcohol, tobacco) and i don't like parties... but really, i'm not boring!!!

[evillene] ha. so she says...

I'm a senior, and there's enough chaos in the center of the world without my contributions...

Because of the numerous personalities with which I am burdened, or rather, the large number of people who share the same personality with me*, I must refrain from revealing my nature IRL.

[*This isn't entirely accurate as Ancba has a different personality from the rest]

Why am I suddenly starting to feel old again ?

Who knows why anyone feels old. It even happens to children younger than I. IRL I just don't get many things about people's thought processes (stereotypes, hatred, etc.). I've gone from geek to nerd to popular. Neither state is all that it's cracked up to be. Which is why I've chosen to be a nerd. You get all of the cool gadgets that geeks have, and you can publically be friends with people in the popular crowd, without having all of the social demands that can be very boring under the wrong circumstances.

yeah, but nerds all know their friendships with popular people happen to be on a "you help me on the test, I'll make you look cool" relationship. Which is why I've become a type of dilettante; knowledge of just enough of everything to make people think I'm the smartest person in the school... and witty too...

plus, on this level, I can be exceedingly lazy and procrastinating, and put it off as being "clever", and people will take it as "oh yes, he must be right"... I've created a nice little social spiral in my favor...

Ha I've been useing that ploy for years

Fascinating idea...

No, NYC, you're still talking about a geek. The friendships I have are mostly with kids who don't need help, or who sit to far from me for them to help 'em out anyway. For a terrible school system, there are some very bright students at my school.

Anyway, here's a basis you can use to define whether you or someone you know is a nerd or geek. Steve Urkel: geek. Stephan Urquel: nerd.

People who spend all day staring at a computer are usually geeks, but people who spend lots of time on a computer and spend other time running sound systems or lighting systems are usually nerds.

What about people who spend most of their time at school and only get on a computer at specific intervals during the rest of their time?

[sea] sound or lighting systems? what do you do, KL?

Computers are my only escape from the extremely bad chaos infecting my life. My patience, thanks to the last few days, is down to nil, and it's nice to have a place like this to vent, so I can keep my sanity (or what's left of it, anyway).

Here's a riddle for you:

What's the difference between Los Angeles and yogurt?



(I'll post the answer tomorrow, just thought it might be fun to insult the area where I live)

And it now appears that high school students are far from a minority at h2g2. My mistake. However, it did seem that only one person I've met here so far has a name which makes his age obvious...
...as well as his position on the map.

Ok, rant over.