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Ten years and counting...
Posted May 1, 2009
This week has been amazing, but busy. I mainly wished everyone Happy Birthday with my h2g2Editors hat on, but belated congratulations to everyone! Just wanted to recap on what has been a very busy but fun week.
The smileys worked (eventually)...and they're absolutely fabulous (A155909) I might be wrong, but Ican't think of any other site with a 
or 
smiley. Certainly there can't be many 
s kicking around elsewhere on the Internet. What I do know is that our Community are the most talented users around - in this case Malabarista, Dr Anthea, King Bomba and Fluffylump were responsible and we are so grateful to them. (Not to mention in awe).
We're getting some excellent postings in the Talking Point, which was meant to be out-and-out nostalgia but has turned out to be very instructive and enlightening to us. Thanks, and please do post if you get the chance: A50368313
Finally - our Announcement was sort of drowned out by the sound of our party poppers, but you should see some changes around these parts soon(ish), as h2g2 is getting a 'sympathetic refresh.' We're going to consult you and ask for your help as we go along so please 
Anyway - it's lovely to be here, even after all this time! Thanks to all for making it such a pleasure. 
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what a week...
Posted Nov 18, 2005
I can't help but think I should record this as it was rather memorable.
I bought a theremin, made from a Marmite jar, on eBay.
('What's a theremin?' the investigator asked. 'Are you familiar with the track 'Good Vibrations', by the Beach Boys? It's the bit that goes oooOOOOOoooooOOOOoooo').
On Wednesday it got intercepted by Gateshead CID (who were naturally quite concerned about unearthing a parcel containing a Marmite jar with a switch, full of wires and a circuit board) and was taken apart by an army bomb disposal squad. It was looking a bit touch-and-go for a while. At one stage the anti-terrorist squad were going to come round and look at all my emails. That would have been interesting for them, I'm sure.
I felt very very scared. Then very silly. 
But thankfully it's all sorted now, which I'm glad about as my whole life was started to look pretty dodgy (though I was looking forward to appearing in court with Brian Wilson as the first expert witness). I felt particular regret about my recent decision to start flying lessons.
The poor bloke making them had his house under surveillance and has now been banned from making theremins. All very sad. I only wanted to rock 'n' roll...
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Latest reply: Nov 18, 2005
On Reflection:
Posted Sep 16, 2005
'Totally Wired' was a mistake. Luckily managed to restore order with ELO.
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Latest reply: Sep 16, 2005
It's...
Posted Sep 15, 2005
Paully's birthday today and we're all a-gathering to celebrate in a marvellous pub where we all get to choose five tracks to play. But which?
I mean, which is the danciest Fall track? Is it 'Totally Wired' or 'How I Wrote Elastic Man'? Or could '15 Ways' steal it?
That's without mentioning the dreaded ELO minefield...
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Latest reply: Sep 15, 2005
h2g2 journals
Posted Sep 6, 2005
...are such a lovely thing, and I'm ashamed that mine is still a tribute to Christmas 2003. I mean, what was wrong with the last festive season?
Lived a lot since:
Rediscovered Cheddars. 
...er.
Went to a writing class last night and was plotting my escape from the minute I was forced to free-write about 'races.' One lady explained that her grandad ran in the 1936 Olympics... in contrast, I was forced to recount the permanent mental scarring experienced when my hair bobble anchored me to the net on the 1982 North Walney Primary School obstacle course (natural home of the irreversibly obese and inept).
I was baring my soul yet all seemed rather trivial in comparison. Initially I was convinced that the two-hour ordeal would have a toilet break and that was when I was going to make good my escape...but the interlude never materialised.
I began to entertain ideas of setting my phone alarm off and theatrically dropping everything in order to attend to one of my patients. 
I then remembered that only BBC employee/doctor I've encountered was a faintly terrifying physiotherapist. Dashing off to attend to a chronic case of RSI...unconvincing. So I was forced to tackle my fears head on and write and...read it in front of a group. URGH. 
Currently I'm thinking I'll be brave and go back next week, but I would like to have a stack of excuses at hand in case I feel the need to make myself scarce again.
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