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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Started conversation Apr 15, 2001
Welcome to H2G2, one of the most friendly places on the web! My name is Amy, and I'm an ACE, an Assistant Community Editor, one of the official meeters and greeters here. To help you get started, here are some helpful pages:
The ACE hompage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/Aces , where you can learn about my fellow ACEs.
The Guru homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/Gurus , where you can go for help on just about any subject. These people know *everything*. Really.
The GuideML Clinic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/GuideML-Clinic , where you can learn all about GuideML, the markup language of the Guide. It's a bit like HTML, but in some ways easier.
Smileys: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/Smiley -- learn to emote with the best of them!
If you need anything, either respond to this message by hitting reply, or go to my personal space by clicking on my name above and leaving a message there in one of the forums. Enjoy!
~Amy, ACE, Keeper of Wolves, Muse of Procrastinating Novelists, High Priestess of Thing
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The Oppressed Pipe of Great Magnitude(Home of 'The Adventures of Wesley Pipes') Posted Apr 15, 2001
Thankyou for your cheerful welcome. I declare you to be the champion ACE of the world. My page will hopefully improve and grow from the apathy that now consumes and emits from The Oppressed Pipe of Great Magnitude. Thanks again.
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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Apr 15, 2001
"ACE champion of the world"?? oh, you needn't say such nice things...
But glad I gave a cheerful welcome. And glad it made you cheerful, too.
Now apathy... what's that (as a high school senior, I've *never* heard of that... *sarcasm*)?
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The Oppressed Pipe of Great Magnitude(Home of 'The Adventures of Wesley Pipes') Posted Apr 26, 2001
Ah-ha. My page is now slightly better than awful. Please indulge in my 'Pipe Trivia' and maybe join the Straight Hedge movement (a blatant parody of the straight edge philosophy).
Anyway, how are you?
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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Apr 28, 2001
I'll have to check those pages out.
(oh, I'm sorry about the overtly "newbie" welcome-- I noticed that thread on your page with Mr T that you actually had been here before; in that case, a formal welcome back!)
Anyways, I'm doing pretty good. About as good as a high school senior with 28 days of school left can be. How are you?
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The Oppressed Pipe of Great Magnitude(Home of 'The Adventures of Wesley Pipes') Posted Apr 29, 2001
I did register in the first week of conception but, due to the threat of phone bills and heavy doses of school work, I never really got going. Then the ultimate nasty happened - my hard drive broke down, necessitating a new one, so I lost all my cookies and couldn't get back on. I was Marvin T Robot - its still there but "pending moderation." I recently signed up to an unlimited free access package (for a flat monthly fee) so, when I heard h2g2 was back up, I rushed for my keyboard. So, I'm a newbie at heart.
I know Big Mad Mr. T simply because he is a friend in that place laughably known as the "real world."
I'm doing fine though I feel I should be panicking more. College (the British equivalent to senior high school) finishes in around four weeks but then I have huge exams to deal with. How I wish I was a babel fish.
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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Apr 29, 2001
Hmm... sounds familiar. I am in my last year of state-required education, and I graduate in a month (it would be a month exactly, except April has 30 days and May 31... graduation is the 31st). I actually feel rather relaxed and all, even with my squeezing in the writing of a 15+ page paper today (so if I'm here, that's what I'm avoiding the finishing of!) and having exams in about three weeks. It's such a nice feeling, though... Good luck on your exams.
Hmm... I remember Marvin slightly (your old name, not the character)... I don't know where from, though.
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shrinkwrapped Posted Apr 30, 2001
That's probably due to the large number of people who register under HHGTTG names - as many did to begin with. As though only a few people would think of calling themselves 'Zaphod' or 'Arthur'!
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The Oppressed Pipe of Great Magnitude(Home of 'The Adventures of Wesley Pipes') Posted Apr 30, 2001
Pipe down Mr. T. My previous monicker was quite clearly taken from the Radiohead song Paranoid Android and I pity the FOOL who THINKS otherwise.
High Priestess, ah the old cram-a-huge-piece-of-very-important-work-into-one-day trick. Mr T and myself were recently made to hand in computing coursework (worth 30% of the whole mark) that was set 25 weeks ago. We still left it all to the last week. Never again, I said after that but I'm pretty sure I'll be proven wrong.
Are you planning to go into any further education, or do you have a career set up already?
Good luck in all your exams and be assured that if I catch you on here when you should be producing your paper then you will receive a stern ticking off, young lady.
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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Apr 30, 2001
Yay! My paper's done!! But boy, am I exhausted... Wrote it in three days-- research took about a week and a half all toll, but there was a lot of random stuff in there (say, my other six classes...), so it felt like longer. But it's done, and I'm rather pleased with the result. Even went out and bought a three ring folder to put the sucker in, just to score extra points with the teacher. Glad it's all over... Anyways...
I actually remember a specific "Marvin T. Robot"... there sure are a lot of them (and a lot of Arthur's, and a lot of Ford's), but rarely do I get them mixed up.
As far as my future plans, I will attend Radford University (southwestern Virginia) this fall as an English major (yes, I like writing and analyzing and all that stuff people complain about!). I don't know exactly what I'll do with a degree in that, but I've realized I'll probably end up teaching at some high school. Although, if I *had* to teach, I'd much rather teach at a university as a professer. They get paid better and make their own rules...
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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Jun 8, 2001
*wakes up*
Uhhh? Whoa, are we still even around here?
(nice talent I have for finding old conversations...)
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shrinkwrapped Posted Jun 9, 2001
I'm not sure where Pipe-boy is, what with our exams I expect he's doing that thing we're supposed to do... wossname... "revibing"? Something like that, anyway.
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Amy: ear-deep in novels, poetics, and historical documents. Posted Jun 9, 2001
Exams are over and done with for me... and I graduated!!! Not that there was any doubt I would, it was just where numbers would fall.
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