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

http://www.materdeischool.net/Buck2005.html



B

Well done, that man!

Wow, all by yourself?

Well, I never envisaged myself as a published academic.

B

Hey, excellent

You'd better drop a note to the italics saying that it's been picked up and used as an eductional resource. This will give 'em bragging rights around the Beeb for a day or two

Oh, and did you check out the guy (the caltech link in the resource section) who did the flash version of the song? Most impressive I thought

Yeah, I like the Flash version - not as good as the Flash version of Tom Lehrer's 'Elements', though.

B

That's much better than anything I've got. A3718965

Yeah, you and 20 other people

Funnily enough, it was reading that page of yours, Mina, that inspired me to go off and Google.

And, yes fordsTonyCurtis, I was given some help, but the co-ordination of the whole thing took a lot of time. Not to mention the massive Sub-edit that I did on the whole thing, because a lot of it was either dull or badly written. Oh, and the twenty or so segments that I wrote myself. And the title page of course.

B

"a lot of it was either dull or badly written."

You ungrateful bstard!

Aw, how did you know I was talking about your bit.

B

ooh, fight fight!

"Funnily enough, it was reading that page of yours, Mina, that inspired me to go off and Google."

How the hell do people find new pages so damn quickly?

Doesn't matter whether it was my bit or not, you don't ask people for help in doing something, accept their help, and then go on to denounce their help and claim all the credit for yourself.

OK, in fairness, _bits_ of it were dull and badly written. I did major edits on at least 20 sections.

B

"How the hell do people find new pages so damn quickly?"

Stats page, dear.

B

Oh yeah. I remember that. I did think it was probably that after I'd posted that.

You think I'm not going to take a look at a page called "Hands Up Who Likes Me".

B

Regardless of the merits of the writing style, it was always going to be a bitch to sub-ed, to get some consistency both within and between entries. This is a job that B mastered admirably

And I accept that Post 9 was a bit of an over-reaction.

B

Well I did try to call it something interesting.