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

... and welcome to h2g2.

I'm one of the <./>ACEs</.> (Assistant Community Editors) who volunteered to help show people around the site. I suspect you don't need any help but, since it is possible this is not simply a duplicate identity of someone already on h2g2 as first appears, I thought I'd drop by just in case.

If you have a question, click on the reply link below and I'll be back. Otherwise, feel free to ignore this message.

Howdy! How yah doin? Albus Dumbledore is actually 2/3 ACE. I'm the non-ACE third, but I have applied.

That sounds a bit like the h2g2bugfinders. We were something like 6/7 guru until the final member applied and was accepted. We decided against trying to get the group persona accepted as a guru in its own right.

Right now I'm trying to build the school for Hogwarts. Wanna Join? we could use more proffessors and at least one more House master.

What would I be expected to do? I'm probably already into too many things to be able to spend much time on the project. I can profess to quite a lot but am less convincing at mastering a house.

Craxus (ACE) knows more about the requirements than I do. Here's his U-# so you can ask him: U210828

Indeed, ask the Craxus you should

That sounds very Yoda-ish.

If you join now you can have a higher rank in the school than others would....

Ooh - high pressure sales tactics. Naughty.

Well I did finally bimble over for a look. The post for which I'm probably most fit is Tech Support. I have made an amulet/talisman in real life (I know quite a few languages and symbol systems) and seem to have some divination skills. I mostly avoid potions these days but haven't quite given up spells (= poetry/translation). As I said before though, I'm too busy/apathetic to play an active role and tech support when required is much more my thing.

If you happen to be looking for a master of the dark arts, try this picture blob: <./>B1540371</.>

Thank you, and you are always welcomed to join the Hogwarts School. We are still in developing stage trying to get it as best and enjoyable as we can. We still have an opening for house leader for Hufflepuff

I really don't think I'd make a good house leader. Lead is poisonous and my house is too heavy to be led anywhere!

However, if you nip over to my test page at A1019684, you'll see that I've prepared a Quidditch demo for you. You could add more broomsticks by not nesting the marquees and just letting them take the default height but all travel left at different scroll speeds, for example.

Can you copy that picture on your link for me? And post it here...so I can add it to the Quidditch Page.

You should be able to use <./>Test1019684</.> to get the code yourself. Anyhow, here's the original alternating one:










Here's another one with 2 broomsticks racing each other in the same direction as if they are circling the observer:












You can just add more broomsticks at various speeds in this one or even put more than one in any MARQUEE (ie on the same level) using the space smiley to separate them.

Oh, I almost forgot - I found a blob which might do for your potions class: <./>B1552133</.>

I had another look at the broomsticks and decided that the background image was dark enough to warrant the use of the goo smiley:

? what's it look like?

That's just the code to force the goo version of the zoom smiley:
Antialiasing leaves pale or dark pixels around images. So it helps to be able to choose which for a given non-standard background. Normally the skin code does this for you in conversations or if you use the SMILEY and PICTURE tags. See my tests at A1019684 for it in action...