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

Thanks for the mensh Snails!

Jab

Pleasure.

Btw, your poem about war and Iraq really got me, y'know. It's awfully good.

I can't really do the quiz. It's mostly "not applicable".

That's okay. I tend to think of you as a non-quiz-doing person anyway!

The day I met Kaz. With photographs. http://snailrind.livejournal.com/54177.html

If anyone finds the page takes too long to load, let me know and I'll hide the photos behind cuts.

Didn't realise you were shy


Jab

I like the cap! Actually, i reckon it goes well with Kaz's trousers.

Typical that you were yards away from each other without realising; reminds me of that game "am i getting warmer?"

zdt

I was at an airport and just an aisle (with dividing placards) away from someone I was meant to meet there who was attempting to phone me to ask where I was. It turned out there were two check-in desks for the same company in close proximity and we'd each chosen a different one without seeing the other even existed. So although I didn't manage to get my mobile phone out and working fast enough or well enough to hear them on it, they could hear me trying - quite possibly via the air-waves rather than the multi-bounced E-M waves!

The most ridiculous airport meeting experience i had was this:

We were working as Holiday reps for a caravan company & had been told to pick up a group of folks called Carr. So we stood there with placard labelled Carr, the passengers came though, no response. So we started calling "Carr, Carr, over here!" And lots of frustrated people queueing for taxis had to be beaten off.

Eventually the Carr's found us. Nobody had thought to tell us the family were all blind.

(They had a brill time by the way, smashing family from Ireland, they ended up hosting Ceilidhs in the caravan park.)

zdt

> So we started calling "Carr, Carr, over here!"

You must have sounded like rather strange crows, as well as pretty much asking to be misunderstood. Wouldn't it have been more sensible to call out "Carr family" instead?

A murder of crows is the image that sprang to my mind too. I was imagining them all shouting "Carr!" in high-pitched croaks, and flapping their sign.

A short, enthusiastic one with a bunch of videos. http://snailrind.livejournal.com/54781.html

I'll expect that one to crash my computer then ...

One is a YouTube video. The other two are links to videos, and there's also a link to a picture. Is that a problem? Have my blogged videos crashed your computer before?

PZ's have crashed it. I think yours only *nearly* took it down (eg/ie the entry with all the silly animals, which I then had to avoid until it went away down the stack).

I've been putting more things behind cuts since then, to reduce the number of graphics onscreen. That entry you mention is now mostly behind a cut.

There are currently two videos and two images in view on page 1 (the last 10 entries) of my journal.

I can't cope with videos either...well; i can, but the Beastie can't.

zdt