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

I just read your post on the BFG thread Very nice recovery - I think that you are getting the hang of this place beautifully

BTW - you can subscribe to a conversation without posting there (we call it "lurking" ) just by hitting the "subscribe to this conversation" button. I'm subscribed to the BFG thread cause I get a good giggle from it, but really don't have the time to participate.

Do you ever have time to discuss world veiws, political science, and environmental issues ? I am looking for a perspective outside the US. If you allready have to many Irons in the fire, I quite understand.
Thanks for looking out for me. I appreciate all the tips and info you've passed along.

Kelly

Sounds too deep for me

Why dont you pop over to the University of Life at http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/C573
and check out the threads there - to be honest, at the moment, with all the new researchers I really don't think that I am up to it

Hope that you understand

Hey thanks for the link, I realy appreciate the time you've taken codling me. All I have left to learn now is if I can break a section off my prickly pear cactus and start a new plant from it.

Thanks

Kelly

I'm not coddling you - I am here to help and happy to do it.

I'm just not into long philosophical discussions (at the moment) - by the time I get home from w*rk I'm a bit too brain dead to indulge in anything more than chat.

Yes - prickly pear cactus will grow from a broken piece - just stick it in the soil (broken side into the dirt) and wait

Anything else you need help with

If you're looking to address those issues, check out Ask h2g2 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A148907). All sorts of issues pop up there. There are other discussions that address them throughout the site. It is interesting to see the opinions of people from other countries. American online communities are always so conservative. A lot of the people here are unapologetic socialists. It's pretty cool.

I've come across a few gems when I've searched on gun control and rights. I think there's a political discussion area around here somewhere, but I forget where it is.

You may want to check out Colonel Sellers site. Y'all seem to have some similar interests.

Also, since you're a vet, you may want to swap stories over at the Barracks (http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/U49720).

I got my prickly pear going today. I learned a new lesson. The spines on my cactus are a secondary defense. My plant is covered with many small brown nodules. These nodules , about as big as a nice pimple, are tightly packed clusters of stickers. Individually they are small , pokey , barbed about the thickness of a hair. I have about a thousand in my skin, and I tell you it's no picnic.
I put something my mom called "Rooting Hormone" on the nub end before I planted them. She said it would help the little bits I planted take root. I hope it does. I won't be to quick to handle that plant so closely again. Momma said I should try somthing simple like a Philadandrine (spelling?) next time .

Ouch! cactus. we have some of that stuff growing wild here, (not prickly pear, though ), and those spines sure do hurt. and so do those little hairy things.. I use sticky tape to help get them out, btw.

and there are two kinds of rooting hormone - one for softwoods (cactus included) and one for hardwoods (rosebushes) and I think that it's philodendron, but I could be quite wrong

but that's not why I dropped by. I just wanted to ask you if you had ever seen 'Enemy of the State' with Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington.. great movie.

Good luck with the prickly pear

I haven't seen it. Is it a good movie ? I wanted to see it the other day when I went to rent a film, but it was checked out. The town I live in is only 6,500 people. It's three hours driving to St louis, two and a half to Memphis and two hrs to Little Rock. SO , I am always renting movies , I'll reserve it tomarrow, unless you were going to tell me to not bother with it. I love Gene Hackman, I think it was the French Connection, he was in , it was a wonderful film. I like all the old cold war, action/thriller/dramas. Day of the Jackal was a good film, What was that one with Sylvester Stalone, Billy D. Williams, and Rutger Hauer ? It was a counter terrorist drama. I long for the days of the Warsaw Pact with a smidgeon of Action Direct thrown in for color.
LOL

Here's a sample bit of dialogue from the movie, (one of my favourite bits!)

'What happened?'
--'I blew up the building'
'Why?'
--'Because you made a phone call.'

Yeh.. It's pretty good. A friend once met Gene Hackman. Said he is a real gentleman. Hmm, I can't remember the Sly, Billy D., Hauer film, altho it sounds familiar.. When you go to pick up 'Enemy of the State', take a look and if that one is in, jot down the name

I like Hauer, altho he has been is some fairly awful junk, too - but then, so has Hackman Did you ever see 'Blind Fury' with Hauer? And 'Ladyhawke'? and 'Split Second'? Why the hell don't the networks air these movies anymore? All I seem to get is silly teeny/yuppie trash flics

Ah, well, it means I can spend more time on h2g2, anyway

Let me know what you think of 'Enemy of the State'