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

Do I know you?

Yo, Tefkat! It ain't me. But it might be Mycroft. A helpful but terse interjection of info (in this case a definition of procrastinate) is more his style.
Now me, I'da gone on to give examples and anecdotal evidence to support the definition .
Truth is, I get the impression Brother Maynard is exactly what he says he is on his homepage. A perfect dinner guest, quiet, informed, helpful ..see I'm doing it again ..running on and on..and on.


jwf

Yoo follerin me mistah?

It may well seem so.
But as we have often discovered that we share a similar intellectual 'bent', it is not surprising that 'curiosity' about a new voice like Bro-Maynard's should find us both wandering over here for a peek.
ojo

Curiosity!
That stuff'll kill ya!

Damn cats. *Thhssspppttt!*


How - ooooo!

Now there is somebody who does 'follow' me around!

jwf

Well, dogs do tend to do that.
Hey I think I'll adapt that email I sent you yesterday and pop it on my user space

(Or p'raps I'll stick it on someone else's user space and see how long it takes you to discover whose )

...and just whoo are you calling bent?

I think Bro Maynard is (wisely) ignoring us.
ojo

Turn your back for a minute and a whole conversation appears! thanks to all of you, this must be my housewarming (pity I was out though). I haven't dropped by this space recently and would not deliberately ignore anybody, especially not such recognisable and honourable names...

So who am I? Not Mycroft and not anyone's alter ego (apart from my own).

Perhaps the inebriated dinner party guest who listens to the hubbub of conversation with interest, occasionally jolting from semi consciousness to add a few words. Maybe the person who is always about to offer an opinion when someone else just gets there first. Or both.

What is sure is that I have a million Guide Entries waiting to be written and none written down.

And I offered the Concise Oxford Dictionary definition of Procrastination (although it is a concept I am experienced at practising, see 'Guide Entries' above). The lack of discourse was mainly due to lack of time.

That's all I've time for at the moment...do drop by again...

Oh, and I haven't sussed how to use smileys yet [one day, one day]

Well as you've shown yourself to be the helpful type I'll respond in kind.

This is a smiley -

Click on the smiley.

Now there should be a whole page of them.

Print 'em out for reference if you can (about 9 pages).
Or just look thru and make notes of the ones you might like. Just write out a list of their 'names'.

To put them in conversations just type the 'long code' version of their name that appears beside each picture. It's a bit confusing because there are two columns of instructions. The first is a kind of shorthand for clever ducks who know summat about 'pooters and the second column shows the full longcode name for people like me. Just type the long code name of any smiley between a pair of "< >"s.
Like 'biggrin' but surround it with a < and a > instead of quotes and you get a


jwf

Thanks! Never realised it was so easy.

Off home now, things to do - speak again some time.

.....or you could keep it open in another window and bounce between the two, copying and pasting madly

It can sometimes be a bad idea to turn your back on this lot. And for goodness sake don't leave the warming of your house in jwf's hands. You could come back to find a very large backlog (or was that backlit log cabin John?)

Can someone else help me blow up these balloons please?

And throw another on that fire.....

lining them up, there's plenty more where these came from

and for my kids

This where the housewarming is? Any for a cold and hungry researcher (waves towel to prove identity and to dry it out having used it as a handy thing to remove rain from hair...)
OH...those look like the ballons from my B-day party......

Need any help?

Zantic

Oops. Someone catch that flan please - I've got no spare hands.

Oh hi Zan . I didn't realise you were an EVIL . Can we expect a cure for life soon then?

Brother Maynard, do you have three kids or 1½ very thirsty ones?

*catches flan with skillful positioning of face...Uses handy towel to wipe flan back into it's cast-iron pan*

Of COURSE I'm an EVIL scientist...what other kind is there to be found in a Genetics department, Tefkat????

There is only one cure for life, though most people don't like it....

Life. Don't talk to me about Life.

(Um, d'you think that'll get modded on the grounds of being copyright?)

Hey....you brought up the subject Marvin...
Talking of that, I'd better go an feed my cells, or they will be attempting the alternative to life..

You know, I think I ought to go and feed MY cells too...
(why isn't there a smiley? )