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

looking forward to the chocolate cake entry..

btw: the links- in GuideML go like this:

"Our live is frittered away by detail.... Simplify, simplify." Henry David Thoreau

Ah... the cake recipe... I put that on my page ages ago and now seem to have misplaced the recipe.... hmm, let me search through all these left over crumbs and stuff... Ill get back to you on that one.

The links are still no easier.....I know you were trying to help, but i am fairly computer illiterate.... any easier intructions???

(no need to really look for the recipe!)

as for the links:

go to 'edit page'

make sure it's not on 'plain text' but on 'guideML' (I think it is - the headers + smileys)

change
I'm a member of the procrastinators society and the church of weekendism

to
I'm a member of the procrastinators society and the church of weekendism

'update introduction'


-> unless of course it's ironic... (would fit the procrastinators nicely..!)

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for external links (that should work on your userpage, but not in threads) :

for ex. if you wanted to place an external link on 'tab' at the end of your intro:

change
tab

to
tab


ciao ciao

sunny

Thank sunny, that makes it a bit easier.. will try and get around to that at some stage... when Ive finished doing all these other terribly important things........
(spoken like a true procrastinator).
cya
tab

I'd rather not post this in the 'each day..' thread - hope you don't mind.

- So where are you and what are you doing that has you so 'stuck'?

(the ps first: I don't expect / need an answer to this. I'm fine. This is just part of what led me to my questions.)

I'm working as a librarian, Computer Department. the job is a nice mixture between things I already know and some new things almost every day. No need to run from here. But on the other hand not the feeling 'this is it!'.
I'm planning to go and see what postcard editing is like - maybe I'll see that's nothing for me - but I'll only find out if I try (+ I can do that for some weeks + decide afterwards if I'd like to change).

What has me stuck is that my partner has a brain tumor. Everything under control for the moment - but you still live from one medical result to the next. If he's very lucky the intervals of the checks will get bigger (it's a year since they found out. he had 3 operations in the meantime, the last one two months ago). We hope of course the treatments will stay as successful as they were up to now.

So actually I couldn't leave here for the moment without being extremely selfish. And it's NOT that I have a strong urge to get away - I would follow this all the same, having MY life to live and my own decisions about it to make. As it is we just live on more or less from day to day (he's 47 and has a son of 17) - which sometimes begins to get to me a little because in a way it misses perspective (or: the perspectives there are aren't pleasant at all).

so, that's that for the moment.

pps: the color I see when I close my eyes depends on how bright it was just before. usually it's a mixture between green and red, which stay distinguishable (so it's not brown, just brownish) - speck-like in a way.


have a brillant day!

sunny

I can see now where you were coming from and am slightly dumbstruck...
I know you said you didn't need / expect a response, but I thought Id write in support anyway - not that I have any idea what it would be like, but it sounds like you're sorting it all out an dlike you said, sometimes just thinking something through enough to formulate a question, makes it much easier to find an answer - not that its really answers that you're looking for but anyway. If you ever in need someone totally anonymous to 'vent' to... then consider me here and waiting....

cya
tab

thank you!

it really can help a lot - pinning down a situation to explain it to somebody can already bring you to see it from a new angle - AND being able to ask 'what would YOU do??' often gets surprising results because things can look astonishingly different from the outside (I also know it as being the person to BE asked - it is very clear that what I can contribute is MY way of seing it - but it can still help the other person to get away from his/her 'stuck' perception..)

luckily at the moment all is quite well [ - back to no. 1: is 'quite well' good enough? ... ]

have a gorgeous time!

sunny

don't know if this meets your sense of humour - I find it very charming. enjoy


This was apparently nominated "best e-mail of 1997." It's a true telephone exchange between a hotel guest and
Room Service at a hotel in Asia, which was recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review.


Room Service: "Morny. Ruin sorbees"

Guest : "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service"

Room Service: "Rye. . . . Ruin sorbees. . . .morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??"

Guest : "Uh. . . . yes. . . . I'd like some bacon and eggs"

Room Service: "Ow July den?"

Guest : "What??"

Room Service: "Ow July den? . . . pry, boy, pooch?"

Guest : "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please."

Room Service: "Ow July dee baychem . . . crease?"

Guest : "Crisp will be fine"

Room Service: "Hokay. An San tos?"

Guest : "What?"

Room Service: "San tos. July San tos?"

Guest : "I don't think so"

Room Service: "No? Judo one toes??"

Guest : "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo one toes' means."

Room Service: "Toes! toes! . . . why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we bother?"

Guest: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine."

Room Service: "We bother?"

Guest : "No. . . . just put the bother on the side."

Room Service: "Wad?"

Guest: "I mean butter. . . . just put it on the side."

Room Service: "Copy?"

Guest : "Sorry?"

Room Service: "Copy. . . . tea. . . . mill?"

Guest: "Yes. Coffee please, and that's all."

Room Service: "One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we
bother honey sigh, and copy. . . . rye??"

Guest : "Whatever you say"

Room Service: "Tendjewberrymud"

Guest : "You're welcome"