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

lol i see that you've been doing table art too... i was dismayed when i found out that we couldn't upload pictures here as well, but then was inspired by sir ralph to do table art... unfortunately, it *does* take quite a bit of space, doesn't it?

I think my largest was about 80K. I was doing it by hand but eventually got fed up and wrote my own program to convert graphics to TABLE. I did the artificial horizon for Bassman by hand over xmas but the pig and the hitch-hiker theme music were done by software (although still drawn by hand into the computer).

I haven't uploaded any of my old text art yet. I never could find the disk (unless it was the one I couldn't read) but did find a dodgy printout. I only persisted in looking because someone kept moderating my space for having a pig picture and the italics were trying to say it wasn't allowed. I pointed out the hypocrisy in advertising TUITs on the announcements page and they finally decided it was OK but photos are still not allowed.

i may have missed this while reading house rules and stuff, but - why aren't pictures of pigs allowed???

80k! my biggest text graphic here is only 30x30 (columns and rows) - i don't think it even reaches 10... since i don't know enough *useful* programming to write my own graphics-to-text program at present time, i am forced to do things manually - namely, designing the stuff on an icon design program, then writing guideml based on that... sad, really

have you tried promoting your hitch-hiker theme and variations collab at the musician's guild? i'm sure people would be interested -

The whole story is a bit complicated and involves stuff you probably shouldn't know. However the simplified version is that I think someone was just being nasty but then one of my bugfinder "friends" compounded the problem by also yikesing it as a test of the rules.

I write software all the time. If anything, I do things manually for too long without resorting to another little utility. My hand-coded one for Bassman was 90x90 and a circle to boot.

The advert for the hitch-hiker thing is already in a thread at MuG. I'm not sure whether anyone is actually subscribed to that page though!

if only there were some kind of file uploading facility... we could trade midi files...

Are you bemoaning the awkwardness of the RTX format? You can certainly exchange MIDI files if you have web-space of your own. In case you hadn't spotted it, the current one for variation 1 is hidden under the name "1st Var.:". Perhaps I should have added the extended font quavers as a bigger clue.

ah, oops. methinks a new pair of glasses is needed. i'm somewhat interested in the project - i'll bring the midi home and listen to it and see if there's any way for me to make a positive contribution (as in positive=not mucking things up). btw, correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't the music start on an upbeat? of course, i've only heard the theme a couple of times, so i'm probably wrong...

The arpeggiated introduction which precedes this section is on an up-beat. The rest would only sound as though it was on an up-beat because of the syncopation (fairly heavily accented).

i shall have to dig up those audio recordings... i know they're in my room, *somewhere*...

My CD set is not the same as the original radio broadcast from which I first notated the theme. In the end I used here the pitch I'd fixed back then but could no longer check details with a transient source. I think tapes were made but I don't have them.

Talking about doing things too (as you were at the start), I seem to have been running into your articles a fair bit (quite separately from my association with Rho). I was somewhat suspicious that one on IgNobel Awards appeared only some time after I'd pointed Mina (and any one else on that thread) at them. Were you already a follower of the Annals of Improbable Research? The microbe thing also has some coincidences...

?? who's mina? yeah, i'm a big ig fan - my #1 dream is to get an ig and have paper airplanes wafted at me - and i'm a microbiologist. enlighten me please - what's this about pointing mina to articles?

(oh, and don't mind me - i turn up like a bad egg everywhere...)

Mina = U290 & U94986. I'd made a few suggestions months ago when she was bored - including AIR. Among other things, I was a microbiologist too. I'm not supposed to work in a lab though. One company said they couldn't be responsible for my health problems (probably meaning excessive insurance costs rather than genuine concern).

Bad egg? Well we know what microorganism is usually responsible for that!

heh heh... yeah, someday i'll tell you what my supervisor did with that bacteria's cousins...

are we talking about mina the italic? i'd have to tell you that if it was about the igs and microbes that you guys were talking about prior to my articles springing up, then it is pure coincidence... or you could be my telepathic time twin... hmm.

Oh no, not the ellipsis... There's already someone I suspect of being a telepathic time twin or schizophrenic alter-ego (depending on time of postings). We also wondered if one of us was merely an AI programmed by the other to believe it was the real one. That issue hasn't actually been resolved yet. The main features distinguishing between us were my somewhat more reliable spelling/typing and lesser use of ellipsis...

maybe there's three of us... or two clones and an original...

...and what about Rho?

I'd better be pootling off now. If you're bored you could help Spook with his latest bit of sillyness: 343?thread=3432" >F76412?thread=263011&latest=1

what, rho's a clone as well?

Well he might just be Spelugx's Rho-bot, but it's more likely he's the latest replacement for one of us. Which raises the question of whether one of us is due to be terminated (Red Dwarf reference).

not me - i'm a hologram!

(oops, how did that get out)