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Moved onto...other pastures
Posted Sep 16, 2010
Because the H2G2 pastures were always pretty green...especially in Classic Goo.
Since last writing here on H2G2 I've embraced and denied Facebook, scoffed at Twitter for being a waste of 160 characters and used up all my free photo downloads on Flickr. My home online is now my blog:
http://www.miztres.wordpress.com
As for H2G2, I'm now putting on my Lurker hooks on via RSS feed (and the ocassional visit) keeping in touch with all that's important.
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Choose your own adventure books
Posted May 18, 2005
As a kid I use to love Choose your own Adventure books where you chould dictate where the character went and did, often resulting in gruesome and unforeseeable death. They were sizable books that took minutes to read as you flipped from the beginning of the book to the end to the middle in a sucession of decisions that could lead you to sovling the puzzle that the story represented or being lost forever to the world in one of the afore mentioned grisly endings.
I'd love to hear from anyone that use to read these books and what they thought about them.
I know the Goosebump series had a spin of set of choose your own adventure titles there for a while, but I was wondering if anyone out there in cyber land knew of others.
The story never ends...
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Babel fish lives
Posted Jul 20, 2004
And this is its home:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/?url=www.iplan.nsw.gov.au/planconnect/startup/launch.jsp
Check it out. You can put in any phrase in any language listed and it will write that phrase into any language listed.
Does this mean that like Tardis, Babel fish is now a standard part of the English language? We can only hope.
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Latest reply: Jul 20, 2004
Working quiet nights
Posted Apr 15, 2004
I do love working night in the library. The pressure of everyone wanting everything from you at once ceases, and you're left with a few die hard clients that brave the dark and cold to see you and your collection.
Outside the window that is normally a continually evolving picture of hussle and bussle a blank darkness lays stilly, an empty blackness muffles. There could be a world outside that window, but our most important sense can't tell us anything about it. As far as our sight is concerned, the whole world is the carpeted confines of the library, foyer, reading room and general collection.
It's something akin to being snug and safe in your cozy home while the world outside is buffeted by storm, high winds and hail. For that short time you are cut off from the "rest of the world" and the room you inhabit becomes "the whole world".
I love working nights in the library.
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..-;~Holidays~;-..
Posted Jan 30, 2004
I'm am on holidays for a month 1 1/2 hours from now. At this present moment I am in what is commonly called "holiday mode", doing only the bare minimum of work. Why is it that we do this? I'm not setting off for any great holiday, just four weeks of more work at home, so I can't blame my scattiness on anticipation.
These holidays have hit suddenly, like a ball to the side of the head, I only just see them coming; and I'm in the same sort of daze.
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