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

I must admit, I did glance at the clock and wonder ...

Trouble sleeping? Or simply hootooed up and raring to keep going?

Well it was hootooed up and raring to go, but my body is beginning to seize up and I keep looking at the clock going "GO TO BED" and remembering how crap I'll feel in the morning (or more likely afternoon).

It's probably also because I've had two early nights this week and both times I coudn't sleep So this is me being perverse I guess

It's 3.47 now and I did have a deadline of 4am...

Sounds like a Lou Reed moment to me ...

bing bing bong

(Hey, if you haven't seen 'Spaced', you would *love* it, btw - got Bill Bailey in it too)

*Hypnobeam* sleepysleepysleepysleepy

*finds self getting ready for bed, boiling the hottie water, brushing teeth, adding Spaced to the DVD to get list...*

*... and another set of bookshelves?*

Have to fill the latest one first

I did manage to go to the Warehouse yesterday (cheap imported goods store) for something and get distracted into the DVD section. I picked out 3 really cheap (under $10) dvds, wandered around for a bit and then put them back in disgust. The only reason I was buying them was because they were cheap. I'm sure I would have watched them all but did I really need to own them? (two of them I'd seen already, and third was an early Audrey Hepburn film I'd never heard of which I must admit was quite tempting. I did feel good when I left the store

I've just gotten up - had a good sleep last night and woke to the wonderful pastoral sounds of chainsaws and lawnmowers.

What are you doing still up?

>>What are you doing still up?<<

Ooee! Hark at old 4AM-and-still-going-strong over there!

I don't know really. I was going to read a book and drift off, but I got stuck on here. It happens

>>then put them back in disgust<<

Oo, I *hate* that - the point at which you put them back is horrible. once back on the street is nice though. Curse you, bargain bins!

Rats - must've just missed you Brekkie time, I'm assuming. Might attempt a midnight snack myself

Hey

Yeah I was in a seriously bad mood this morning and had to get offline before I took it out on someone. I'm better now though (well relatively ). Tossing up whether to have a go at the is racism wrong man...

Just finally managed to get my broadband set up. What a lot of f*cking around. I can't believe how many electronic things I have in my house now. The really worrying thing is that I tend to think I am at the lesser end of the scale compared to most* just because I don't have things like a cellphone or PDA etc but I suspect I am sadly mistaken. I feel I am surrounded, literally, by technology and there's all these extension cords and plugs *everywhere*.

Well I actually really like technology (when it's intelligently applied), I just don't like living with it

*I'm going to start thread on Ask as a reality check.

How's your weekend? 7.22pm here, you should be up soon yeah?

Up fed and watered

>>lesser end of the scale compared to most<<

Not me - still dialling up and drumming my fingers waiting for pages to load I do have a new mobile phone though. After a few weeks with it, I think I've worked out about 5% of what it does.

Trouble is, it does so many flashy add-on type things, it's actually not all that brill at, you know, taking phone calls "I ham a very hadvanced piece of kit - think I've got time to trouble meself with your calls?" "Just answer the phone, phone" "Ho no - I'm far too busy WAPping me jpegs (or whatever)"

>>Tossing up whether to have a go at the is racism wrong man<<

Go go go - Broadband him to bits!

Oh dear, and here was me just about to go to bed.


>>After a few weeks with it, I think I've worked out about 5% of what it does.<<

You should have a talk to 2legs then


>>>>lesser end of the scale compared to most<<<<

I've just seen Hoo's list (in my Ask thread) which cheered me up. The other respondents had too much stuff to write it all out

I was talking with a friend today, who doesn't spend any time online really, and she was saying isn't it weird how people spend all that time online talking to people they don't know and have never met

>>Go go go - Broadband him to bits! <<

I think I have to wait until I'm in a foul mood again - can't really be bothered otherwise. I mean it's not as if anything I say is going to make a difference there. However I'm also a bit concerned that my Ask binge of a few days ago has led to naught. No-one really wanted to talk to me I guess I'll have to go back the the Forum and stir things up there


We've had part one of Sex Traffic here tonight. I taped it and haven't decided yet if I'll watch it. Definitely need to be in a cheerier mood to start with (although I guess I could watch it before posting to racism man ).

I did watch The Girl in the Cafe last night. I really liked it and found it moving, beautifully made, complex...then I read the Brits' reactions to it (h2g2 and BBC)

The only bit I thought at the time was too obviously preachy was when Bill Nighy compared the Tsunami numbers to a normal month in Africa. Otherwise the politics didn't bother me. I didn't really see it as being abour Africa so much as being about these two people in pain and how their personal pain was reflected in the bigger situations they were both in. The capacity of their emotional lives moved them (and in the case of the girl enabled her to act) and I think what was meant to move us. But then I'm not really into the whole watch a TV programme and feel inspired to save Africa thing (although yaay for the people who learnt something and realised this).

People said that there was no characterisation, and that it was hard to see why the girl went for the guy. I thought that was all incredibly obvious even at the start, although I can see that it was played too subtlely for alot of people. Maybe people don't have well exercised imaginations any more.

Ken Stott was great too.

I didn't know it was made by the Notting Hill guy so maybe my expectations didn't get in the way so much.

I taped it so it'll be interesting to see what I make of it next time I watch it.

You've started quite a thread there Most of the posters seem to have quite a lot to write about, so I'm plucking up courage (as I type, my knackered stereo has just started to play the wrong CD again )

Sex Traffic - ah, yes, small confession, still got it on tape myself in fact I just never found the time and it's been sitting there for months! It even won a BAFTA for something and I thought "I really must watch it now" ... and then didn't. Poor show.

Shall we synchronise our watches?

I did watch The Girl in the Cafe for the second time last week (sister hadn't seen it and it was being repeated - she gets a kind of recent Brit culture primer every time she visits: got all three series of Black Books pencilled in for the weekend! )

Well made, certainly - pretty much flawless, technically (I'm a Stott fan too). Maybe it was just the timing, the fact it was right before the G8 set it up to seem didactic ... which maybe it isn't.

I'm frankly a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to Richard Curtis: there's very little he's done that hasn't made me laugh or moved me in some way. But the head still says there is something a bit dodgy going on in his films. The really peculiarly *white* Notting Hill - i.e. no relation to the real Notting Hill - caused a lot of stir in London when it came out, concerns over whether one of the world's most diverse cities is best represented by a film in which anyone who's not a twittering Anglo-Saxon oxbridge graduate appears to have been airbrushed out.

I got that from Love Actually as well. That it's Curtis's social milieu is fine, that he's writing about what he knows is fine, but, for no fault of his own exactly, any of his films is *going* to be that year's biggest British film export and it's a really oddly *dated* view that the rest of the world is going to get.

(I understand many French people had the same problem with 'Amelie' - huge hit basically returning Paris to the 1950s because the export market, especially the American market, loves that stuff).

And I did get that from Girl in the Cafe too - there's just something a bit unreal about the whole thing well beyond the fantastical nature of the story itself (which is fair enough). This may sound weird, but I don't think Gordon Brown would have been as stodgy as the Chancellor Stott was playing, for instance - I like to think Brown would have sat down with the Kelly Macdonald figure and talked things over with her. Or is that me being naive?

'Types' is the problem, I think: it's necessary for the Chancellor to be bigbad here, so bigbad he is - the characters proceed through an experience but don't necessarily go anywhere or become real.

Done a lot of serious posting today. There must be a thread about something really silly around here somewhere ...

>>You should have a talk to 2legs then<<

Ah ha!

Now - are you up incredibly early ... or incredibly late?

I got woken up at 2ish by an annoying dream. I lay in bed for a couple of hours (quite patient I thought), and then thought bugger it I'll get up and have a drink....and somehow ended up here

I've also got a sore stomach, a very rare event, from eating cr*p ice-cream (the kind with anti-freeze and a list of e numbers in it) and chocolate chips last night (also a very rare event) .


I've only just seen your previous post about The Girl in the Cafe etc. I thought you must have missed my post and I hadn't gotten round to bumping it up again

I do seem to be missing quite a bit these days.


How's the speedy BB?

Funnily enough, I've had a couple of pretty tossy and turny nights in a row: strange bed in a strange room, perhaps. Feel a lot better than I should. That's probably because I'm eating so well *Hides fifth scone with jam and clotted cream under the desk, next to the eclairs*

Speedy BB is fab! But this computer's still driving me bonkers. It's my teenage cousin's and it keeps signing me into MSN messenger, whereon I receive lots of popups from people telling me 'U R Fit' and 'Up L8? lol' and so on. And it doesn't matter how many times I sign out or try to close it all down, it keeps signing me back in automatically whenevr I'm least expecting it

Sorry about the stomach. Have you considered the medicinal qualities of scones? Natures little helpers!

Ah ha!

Do you remember, a few weeks ago, there was some discussion of the little dots getting all squished, you know, the ones over there *nods towards the right hand side of the screen* - I think you started a thread on it (though I've had a dig around and I can't find it ).

Well, I've now noticed that because they're squished and broken up into little blocks, the threads that are thousands and thousands of postings long take next to no time to load for those of us on dial-up, where they used to take ages before.

Someone out there is looking out for the dinosaurs!

I'd been wondering that too. I had been hoping it was a temporary thing, because I like to see how big a thread is, but I'm sure there is another way of doing that technically without making the loading slow.

Did I just see your lights on and just miss them?


You've probably already seen, but a certain researcher is back with original name intact

Makes me wish Hoo was back too...

Nope, still here

I *nearly* took the bait on a piece of spectacular (and, in her case, 'vintage') stirring - she found a day old argument and started insulting all and sundry well after the point that everyone else had apologised and it had all died down.

Have you been keeping up with the Master B goes ballistic and he and Wolfie get put on pre-mod thing? It's been great!

I didn't know about that

Where's best place to start? B's PS?