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

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I don't know if you noticed that you've inspired something: A82116227

Hi anhaga,

I just came here for the first time in a week. Nice to seen a message from you

Stuff is doing well in the garden and seeds germinating indoors. Had some nice times with a few people in real life.

I'm so bored with the more interesting discussion threads getting totally stamped all over with the tedious mark of tiggy. Christ that man knows how to destroy all possibilities of creative and pleasurable exploration of ideas.

Every discussion looks the same. Tastes the same. Stinks the same...stuck in sterility..that's his aim. I feel the same as I do with the likes of warner. Engaging in communication with certain people merely is to collude with their enjoyment of destructiveness and ruination. Having been away from here for a week, make it seem all the more horrible to come back and read that 'hand clap' cr@p thread...well I read a bit since I last posted..and soon gave up.

My aim is to just post here now again in journals and chat to others in theirs.

Good on you for that beer thing. It's very cheering.

But seriously I absolutely can hardly stand this place sometimes. I felt so much happier being away from all that excreta. But really excreta is at least productive..I'm going to dig a fair bit into my veg patch soon. It's not so much the excreta as everything getting turned to dust.

I'll certainly aim to stay in touch with you whatever happens to h2g2..I don't much care really. Maybe if I get used to just posting a bit in journals and having fun again on h2g2..I regain a bit of proportion about the place.

Hi!


I've moved away from most of the threads and have been concentrating on the beer thing (after all these years, even though we live just a few blocks apart, j_z_d and I still haven't met in real life. It's a little sad, really.) and on a couple of entries I've been putting together while picking ~jwf~'s brain.

I feel like the intellectual side of the place is holding its breath. There's been very little news, Peer Review has gone very quiet. Everyone seems to be marking time.


I've certainly been enjoying the beer thing, however.

Hi

Well I've already broken my resolution and just posted in an 'Ask' thread.

I really should have given you a bigger pat on the back for the piece you're doing with jazz about Canadian beers. You know I had wanted you to become the new rising star of BBC Canada...but I suppose this will have to do..

One day I hope to try to do a guide thingy again myself. Maybe something about my attempt to make my small garden in se London into a nature reserve....I do hope the first person rule is relaxed in the newtoo..I like the idea of articles being a mix of 'persons'.

But I don't feel able to get involved with all the discussions about newtoo really.

I've also avoided the discussions about what hootoo should be. It strikes me as remarkably pointless. Someone will probably buy the thing who has their own ideas of what should happen and those who don't like it will simply have to lump it or leave. If I were a web professional who had just dropped a chunk of coin for a domain, I'd be pretty annoyed by a bunch of amateurs trying to pull rank and tell me how I have to operate the thing.

Yes I did initially get involved. But it does really feel a bit like a house built on sand until we know the reality.

Good on those who are putting in lots of effort, but I don't have the heart for it. Plus I find it hard dealing with all the cross currents of ideas essentially operating in a vacuum.

And some stuff I've read is very detailed bureacratic type of thing. I can't see a new owner being much interested in that..it will hardly attract flocks of people.

But really to be honest I still haven't got over the whole way we've suddenly been dumped by the beeb. I just can't feel much trust. And of course the joke of barlesque.

Time will tell... and other assorted hackneyed cliches...

I just thought I'd update you on our Springtime weather . . .








Still snowing pretty regularly.


Pretty much everyone is commenting on the particularly long winter, and, on the little critter front, I just noticed that the neighbour's crab apple tree, which usually has two-year-old apples hanging on it at all times, is virtually bare. It seems the squirrels and others have been scrapping the bottom of the barrel.