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

Some friends of ours have gone to the US to see the eclipse. They will be at Yellowstone park when it passes them. Sounds fun.

I am not sure what the ad now showing wants me to do. It seems to want me to go to Tyrol on holiday, or maybe just to pledge allegiance to it. Sorry, I'm not Austrian. I'm not even German, although I suppose I ought to be considering it, as some of my friends have.

NFL [National Football League] pre-season games. This is American football, which I don't watch during the regular season. I'll passo n the pre-season.

These ads are getting oracular.

I updated the page, and got a huge banner that pronounced, 'FINISH WHAT YOU STARTED.'

I'd hit the refresh button before I saw what it was actually supposed to be advertising...

Brigham and Women's Hospital, which is in Boston. I think was there for a few days in 2012. I must have been a Brigham, since I'm not a woman.

Maybe it's one of those hopitals where you arrive as a Brigham and leave as a woman

Hebrew National Franks

There's that Lattice 'O Coincidence.

I just heard mention of Brigham and Women's University on NPR's Science Friday (I'm listening to the podcast on a Monday). One of their guests was a professor there, speaking about the ethics of testing drugs.

They answer to a higher power...

Snoop Dogg?

I'm sure there are many ethical concerns in testing drugs.

I was only half listening.

Here's that particular segment.

http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/does-faster-drug-approval-lead-to-better-medicine/

Sorry. I was referring to Hebrew National hot dogs...that's their slogan.

Snoop Dogg is a *higher* power.

I'm not sure what the shochet would say about that.

Speaking of ads, have you seen this one about the Apple job ad?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40999316

Jublia topical solution 10&

Toenail fungus? What's that?

Get gutter guards now!

heaven forfend that I should allow any one to steal my gutters!

'Communicate with Impact', it says.

What do they think I've been doing on the h2g2 Guide Twitter feed all day?

Foster Grant sunglasses. A little late to sell me on them. The eclipse has already been and gone, not that it was noticeable here.

ebay – love your curves this season.

Make Ireland Yours from just £79 – Irish Ferries.
£79 for all of Ireland, eh? Sounds a good deal to me. I'd've thought purchasing a whole country would cost trillions and I'd need the people of Ireland's consent first

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