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

I'd say that I'd rather like to read that.... The last thing I read with nordic gods in it was... well, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.

Wotan, Loki, Thor,Frigga, Balder, Tyr, Frey, Freya, Hel, Heimball... ah.. memories... I shall enjoy them

Well the author has taken liberties with this one. Thor has a third, illigitimate son called Colbey. Who is a complete and total sword wealding nutter. Currently fighting off 3 gods at once even though he is technically mortal, and one of them is Sif!

I'm sure it is very interesting... don't spoil it for me- I plan on reading it now!

Well its about the sixth one of a set, the first is called The Last of the Renshai. I'm one of these people who have to read the set in order to find out all about all the characters.

Six? Yeesh... I best get crackin'

You are talking to someone who can read a Discworld book in one sitting. And I read the entire set in order.

I never have time to read... I'm always on this infernal pos

I know what you mean, but us inemployed have a little more time than most.

Unemployed, eh? Well, I'm a student

I only finished the student thing at the end of September, I still haven't arranged for, THE JOB.

Well, who could blame you!!? You deserve a little time off..

So, what was your major? Undergrad or ?

I degree'd in Biochemistry. And then master'd in Bioinformatics. UK uni so no majoring. I find the US system so confusing.

As does every individual enrolled in college in the good* US of A























*good, mind you, is an utter lie

WhatI can never understand is how you can major in say, software engineering but then minor in art history. And still get credits. When we do a course is it closely related to the core subject you are studying to start with.

Yes... well, Americans, thinking only of their wallets, need to condone themselves, and have something to "fall back on"... which is completely different, because when that is usually the case, people make better careers out of their minors, leading one to believe that they should have majored in their minor to begin with

We just do Masters and branch into a different direction, either that or use the Open University.

Yes... I don't understand any college system, you see... So, really, about the only thing that I understand is that you don't have minors...

We do... oh well... c'est la vie

There is one good point to minors, you get to be in totally different classes with different groups of people.

True, true

We don't do that here, in actual fact my entire course at graduation consisted of 55 people. And I knew every single one of them.