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

Right, so it's a notebook.

Fine, I understand that. I too have a note book. It is made by some company called Banner, and is filled with sheets of paper. Price, about £2

For me:

Phone book
Calendar
Notepad
College Notes
Calculator
Portable gaming station (Lemmings!!! ADVENT!!!)
Portable Word/Excel Document Editor
Dictionary
Alarm Clock
Photo Album (65,000 colours!)
Psuedo-random number generator
Doodling pad
To-Do List
Chess Opponent
Formula-1 keeper-tracker-ovver
Mini MIDI composer
Oracle
Pinball Machine
Metronome
Alien Scanner
Electronic I-Ching Calculator (Doesn't do the suffusion of yellow thing )

So it was well worth the £179 I gave Cash Converters for it!!!

Nice simul-post!!! Worked out the right way round too!!!

Lifson - can I just confirm how many of those you find _genuinely_ useful on a day-to-day basis?

B

All of them - except the F1 thing, which only is useful every other weekend.

right...


* backs away cautiously *

I'm with Lifson on this one. If I had a life, most of those things would be useful. Even without one it doesn't score badly.

I don't actually time F1 cars or follow racing at all (unlike some ex-colleagues and a current friend) but I did program one once and on another occasion I had to reconstruct and decode the black box data from a fatal karting accident.

I don't have a life - just lots of meetings, exams, work, paperwork, 20 minute bus journeys (hence the games!) and having to do stuff for OFSTED at the moment, because I'm the Admin person for the outgoing Student Exec, and I wrote the constitution!!!

You programed an F-1 car? Cool! Which team? When? Wow!!! Not so cool about the fatal accident - but a neat job none the less. Can I ask exactly what it is that you do for a living SEF?

Volunteering for an admin position is always a bad idea!

I was probably the one person in the office who didn't care which team. I think it was the McLaren one (of a few years back). I was offered a trip to the track to help test it but declined - as I did with the American stuff, the helicopter to oil rigs, the flight simulator, the underwater cable tracker and just about everything else. I never did think much of real life. It's scary out there.

I don't do anything for a living now - I'm retired. I did some cunning financial algebra when I was 8, followed this plan later and made enough money in relatively few years to support itself and me. Re your journal, Lifson, I now hang out with some OAPs at ballroom dancing and they keep on dying too. Some were particular friends/partners of mine but I don't believe I had anything to do with the inevitability of their deaths.

Admin: I know that NOW!!! If you'd have said that a year ago I wouldn't have run for election!!! It's not always the admin that's the problem though. It's that I was doing everyone else's jobs too. Lazy G*ts

F1: McLaren - In the red and white days? Not bad - bet they paid well for it!!! Go Kimi Raikkonen!!!

Job: Ah - My Mum keeps making me do plans about where I see myself I 5 years time. The piece of paper just says "Out of here" all over it at the moment!!! Nice if you can get a plan together that works though.

People dying: I know - but at least they've all got some other common link other than you!!! I also know some not so old people who have died over the past two years too - and again, the only link any of them have to each other, is me. I know it's inevitable, but it's the quantities that are going that worry me!!!

I can remember my first phone number - strictly speaking, the phone number of my grandfather's pharmacy above which we lived when I was a toddler. The number had two digits... God, I feel old...

I used to know someone way out in the depths of Sussex who had a two digit phone number - the same person incidentally, on whose tv I first saw Dr Who and The Voords Parrfers

Regarding Lifson... I have about 5% of the of the utensils and thingymabobs on that list. If I did buy them I'd just loose or break them. I tend to rely on my memory, however as my short term memory resembles a bucket with a hole in, I rarely remember what i'm supposed to be doing on any given day. But then again, its not worth remembering if you forget...

I don't have a memory either - which is why I have it all in a nice small handheld computer which does everything for me!!!

I can't remember where I left my palmtop.

B

Well I've got a spare m515 if you want to replace it

Hmmm...seriously, how much?

My m105 is getting a little bit tatty.

B

About £150 + postage. (I need the cash to pay for a college trip) Includes disks, charger/cradle, PSU for charger, manuals, box, and I'll chuck in a disk with some other apps I found useful/fun.

My e-mail is on my PS

Hmmm...do you take American Express?

B