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

Yo Ottox, my buddy & pal

I seem to recall that you were once able to tell researchers, when they first posted on h2g2. am i right, and if so, can you tell me when I had my debut?

Oooo... I know the answer to that - can I reply? Can I?






I'll reply anyway - Ottox has beaten me to other things, so...

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You're soon-to-be 4 years old!

thank you, this makes me feel so young

which is a good thing at my age, you know

Good thing Titania is lurking here when I can't be bothered to log in myself.

Not that she actually answered the question, but that might be because it's (almost) impossible to answer.

Anyway, I think her answer was right and that it was the question that was wrong.



No! I can't tell you when you first posted. But it's true that you registered 27/1 2000 (a Thursday) - so happy belated birthday!

To be more precise, you registered a few minutes past 11 in the morning, and about three quarters of an hour later you activated your userpage, A254242.

Don't ask!

of course the question was wrong. this is hootoo, right?

the day titania answered i was able to "find myself" by activating "her" link and stepping back a few times. now it seems inmpossible

doesn't matter though. i've made a mental note to myself about where to find the note where i wrote when i was here first

thank you both - and i won't ask

If you use Titania's link and then click on the links for older and newer registrations, you can work your way through a list of people who have registered the last 48 months. As you're now a bit more than 48 months old, you would have to change the URL to be able to find yourself. At the moment <./>NewUsers?unittype=month&timeunits=49&skip=600&thissite=1&Filter=haveintroduction</.> shows you, but it might only be a few hoursbefore you'll have to use the 'Older Registrations' link to find your name. And in a month you will have to change 49 to 50, otherwise it won't work.

I won't work either!

But I have to, so I better go to bed....

will you be in geneva next week? i will

I guess I won't.

that's what i call a qualified guess

i thought you were living in geneva. wonder where i got that idea from

anyway, geneva was fine - as was lausanne and vevey plus annecy and chamonix in france, so all in all it was a great week

sorry i didn't get the chance to meet you and sunny. maybe some other time? who knows? maybe this summer in estonia?

now that i think about it, i'll never get the chance to meet all the researchers i know in real life anyway and we've already met once. then again there are some researchers that i have already met twice (shazz, towelmaster, kheldar and bossel to name a few)

oh well

"i thought you were living in geneva. wonder where i got that idea from"

Maybe because I'm so good at French?

Not!

But then I'm not especially good at German either.

maybe we should swap cities? my german isn't what it used to be, but i can still understand it

on second thought: nah, i prefer living here. 20 years in germany was enough

I'm not sure how much you'd be able to understand the 'German' they speak in Switzerland, Pierce!

you've got a point there, but then every german south of - say, hangover - can be pretty darn hard to understand

i get by though - as any other north german