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

Hey you - so where are you when I want you?

Actually managed - for the first time in ages - to stay up till some silly time at night GMT (and on a work night) and you're not here

Hope they are not working you too hard

Frizzzzzzzz

Ooop. Sorry, Frizz.

I was held up at the office.. I just finished an entire week of sweeping changes and I think now the flood of work has slowed down somewhat. So I should be around tomorrow. Crap. There's a hockey game on tomorrow. Oh well, I can still watch the game and be online at the same time. I'm a programmer. I can multitask.

You with the stars in your eyes...

Anyway, how did the hockey go? Lose again?

I've had a bit of a busy day today - popped into work earlier and couldn't drag myself away. Actually managed to do some college work as well

I think I shall celebrate that with a (rather early) glass of something alcoholic.

Sweeping changes - are you responsible for office cleaning aswell? *groans*

Canucks didn't win, but they didn't lose, either. They played Boston to a 2-2 tie. They play Montreal tonight, so perhaps they'll actually win this time - Montreal's not playing very well this year (thus far, anyway).

It's good you're getting that college work done. What kind of work is it?

As for my 'sweeping' changes, no, this is not a job demotion, I really did get an awful lot of stuff done. I've been rewriting some library modules. In the process of redesigning them, the libraries' interface functions were changed (to something sensible). That means that I have to go through the system and change all the parts that used the old libraries. It's painstaking, but it had to be done.

I'm writing a hash module at the moment. It's actually fun.

Well, I didn't understand any of that!

As far as I am concerned a library is a building or room full of books, so the library interface is... the door? So basically library interface functions are opening and closing the door to the library - hey, I can do that In fact, I do it several time a day at work.

Don't get me onto hash modules.

On a more sensible note my college work is very run-of-the-mill museum studies stuff. Reading loads, writing (shoddy) essays - studying museums really.

Sorry, I'll leave my job details out of it from now on.

Canucks was beaten by Montreal today (2-1). Feh.

I think you should turn in your marzipan gin essay. You'll get top marks, I'm sure of it. Maybe some quizzical stares, but still...

Um - maybe not.

I should be doing tonnes of work today - but I'm actually quite tempted to go to the cinema. The local cinema here is pretty awful - one screen, can you believe that, and one showing a day. Small towns, don't you just love them. So to go to a decent cinema is a bit of an expedition (I don't drive, and the public transport round here is atrocious.)

Major planning involved, so if there's nothing I really want to see I tend to just go to the videoshop instead (just around the corner)

Sounds like you could benefit from putting together a nice home theatre system.

Ha ha - maybe when I stumble across a large pile of cash

But for now I think I can survive with the current set-up (and not forgetting the washing machine!)

I suppose watching the washing machine exploding through various walls of your home is its own form of entertainment.

What's the name of your town? I want to find it on a map.

Have you not been paying attention?

Oh dear. I can't remember. You're not playing some mischievous trick on me are you? Forcing me to go through all the forums? Maybe I'll have another look at your home page...

Oh dear, and I thought you hung on my every (mis-spelt) word

Well, I do hang on your every word, but it's hard to remember some details when you're carrying on six different conversations at the same time. Care to remind me?

Some people - you have to do everything for them. It is actually posted in Where do researchers come from - but I guess that has become a little too unwieldy a forum to rummage through. I live in Dover. And it is a god-forsaken place. It is a small town attached to a very big port. Very little to do here, but the local pub scene can have it's moments (usually when you are too drunk to remember them the next day).

oh no, there's a wandering apostrophe on the rampage...

For a fairly accurate, but slightly rude view of Dover visit http://www.h2g2.com/forumframe.cgi?forum=15308&thread=29243 - he missed out the museum, though, in his things to do list.

Looks like I'm talking to myself - again

I haven't been able to go into the "Where are our Researchers From" forum for ages. It's too long and crashes my browser.

So. Dover. I read the "to do" list. Your addendum ups the count of things to do to two: visit the castle and visit the museum.

I didn't know there was a castle (and keep) in Dover. I've been to Warwick castle and that was quite impressive. How does the castle in Dover compare?

Never been to Warwick Castle myself. But Dover Castle is pretty spectacular - the site has been used as a fortress since Anglo-Saxon times, then rebuilt by William (around the same time he was doing Warwick - probably a bit earlier due to Dover's strategic position), and then by loads of other people - the main bits are 12th century on the whole. And it was used as a fortress for longer than any other in England (I think) - it was still being used by the military during World War II - none of this poncey stately home for the upper classes nonsense... So it has been kept in great condition for centuries

Good picture at http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/$$dm158/SOUTHEAST/CASTLES/SEDover.asp if interested. (also at http://www.dover.gov.uk/museum/history/medievl.htm - teeny-weeny picture here though...) I think you'll be suitably impressed. None of your delapidated ruin type castles here (it's also massive).