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

Greetings, greetings, d'Elaphant! You and I are near neighbors, according to the researchers map. You're in New Brunswick, and I am down Easton Avenue and up John F. Kennedy Boulevard in Somerset. Pleased to make your acquaintance! Please stop in at the Ash Grove, which is the name of my space at H2G2.

That's not far at all - I'm just a block off of Easton Avenue myself, two blocks from the border of Somerset.

Nice to meet you. So did you find me through the Researcher's map, or through some conversation on h2g2?

I was reading some other message board, and the subject of the researchers map came up. I immediately went out to that map, curious about how many researchers we might have in New Jersey, or better yet in central New Jersey. I also have envied the English researchers who could go to the yearly get-together in London. We should keep checking the map, and see if there be enough unless for a picnic! Verbally, in print, we are an interesting bunch, and it would be interesting also to link up faces to online personalities.

How did you find Hitchhiker's Guide? Maybe I should have asked: do you remember how you found Hitchhiker's Guide? Looking back, I have no idea how I ever found it.

I found it the way a lot of other people found it. I bought a game called "Starship Titanic" and sent in the registration info. Then one day, I got an e-mail from Ford Prefect directing me to fordprefect.com and then eventually to h2g2.com. I managed to register, but then the site was so busy that I couldn't actually see what it was about and I promptly forgot it existed.

About a year later I did a google search on something, I think it was some sort of vegetable, and the top result was an entry at h2g2. I was kind of surprised to find that I was already logged in to a site that I had no recollection of. And I've been logged in ever since.

The problem with the map is that not many people know about it, so it doesn't really represent everyone in the region. I know I came across a student at Cook College on the site once, I can't remember who that was though, and he (she?) is not on the map. There is a "Northeastern Researcher's Group" somewhere, I'll dig up the link.

Here it is: A565940