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

Aw... gosh... geez!
Thank you for your kind comments and Xmas remembrances in the Dawkins thread.
Much appreciated.



I hope the season brings you pleasures and peace of mind.
And let's look forward to another fun year at h2g2.

~jwf~

And a very crunchy crispness to you ~jwf~

And indeed its a very crunchy freezing cold glorious crackly crispness..here tonight again

I don't remember its like before so early in the winter. Records are being broken..and we haven't even got to the worst part of the winter yet Other parts of the UK are getting it far worse than London though. -17C in Worcestershire, England last night for goodness sakes...And I do worry about our wildlife because it will be decimated by this if it carries on, because its so unusual. It's not really the snow..its the very unusual cold temperatures.

But now at least we're on the way up in terms of daylength.

Where do you live in Canada?

I am in the dead centre of Nova Scotia.
About 45 minutes inland from the capital Halifax.
On Highway 14 just west of the area known as Upper Nine Mile River.

I have tried to save a google map with street view but I
still haven't figured out how to do that. The URL seems to
keep defaulting to all of North America.

If you can get googlemaps to show you Nova Scotia, search for
Upper Nine Mile River and Cheese Factory Corner. I am at the
top of the hill 1 kilometer west of that corner.

Cheers,
~jwf~

This might work:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Highway+14&f=l&hl=en&sll=45.085502,-63.658414&sspn=0.000953,0.002411&ie=UTF8&rq=1&ev=zi&split=1&radius=0.07&hq=Highway+14&hnear=&ll=45.08304,-63.663931&spn=0.001905,0.004823&z=18&layer=c&cbll=45.083088,-63.663832&panoid=4fFnFJknnor9_5BKjih0Iw&cbp=12,317.41,,0,4.82

If it does you can zoom out to put the area in perspective or
run the street view along the road to see some of my neighbours.

You should see a small rowboat near the entrance to my drive.
Although I am a couple of hundred meters above sea level and
40 miles from the coast I still believe in being prepared on
the off chance god changes his mind about another flood.


~jwf~

I think I've figured out the 'link' business.
This is a more flattering view.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=45.08304,-63.663931&spn=0.00096,0.002411&z=19&layer=c&cbll=45.083088,-63.663832&panoid=4fFnFJknnor9_5BKjih0Iw&cbp=12,288.71,,0,5

Hey thanks for that, it looks absolutely brilliant. And it's great you're well prepared with that boat Yes because we know the ark came to rest on Mount Arafat..in fact your little boat could almost be that ark...you know a bit like a tardis..bigger than one might suppose inside..

But seriously thank you for posting that. All that space and landscape and width of everything..even your house has big width...and that long empty road. So much a million miles from my living place..and even in our countryside here..it's all fields and cottages.

But having a travelled a bit, I'd say its the feeling of Russia and Australia that it most evokes for me. I've talked a bit about this to anhga..and the difference in psychology of living in a small overcrowded island, steeped in bloody history. I love that too..but actually it is getting rather too crowded for me now, but I have my secret garden to escape to, at least.

Surrounded by primeval forest though...