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

Welcome, welcome, welcome, to the modern world.

Well, I'm not doing that again.

I wasn't at all involved in the buildup to the festival. I just joined in on the weekend itself. So I didn't really know what I was doing, and I didn't really know the other stewards. If I help next year (and I probably will) I'll do it properly.

Now exhausted, having been on my feet for most of the weekend.

TRiG.

That was A54511986.

TRiG.

It was worth the weekend.

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I wondered what this meant, so I looked it up:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tl;dr

TRiG.

What do they say?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX5WavWy2t0

TRiG.

A sort-of hootoo thing which I picked up on. People were saying who they are, and that they thought the site was AWESOME. I joined in, but neglected to mention who I was.

TRiG.

Couldn't be bothered to change my name for Haloween. And then couldn't be bothered to change my tag for quite a while after Haloween.

TRiG.

All sorts of horrible stuff has been happening. I kept this name till I was shorn of it by the switch to BBC iD. (A painless switch for me, though some others are still having trouble.)

TRiG.

And, after the switch to BBC iD, I gave myself this informative but ridiculously long name tag.

As far as I understand: Under BBC iD, all names will be no longer than thirty characters. But h2g2 has a tradition of long names, so they'll make a special exemption for us. But they haven't got the details of that worked out yet, so, as a compromise, they've expanded the BBC iD name to fifty characters for everyone, till they've worked out how to do a site-specific name tag. And BBC iD doesn't like special characters. ~jwf~, for example, was bereft of his wings.

But there's some hole in the implementation which allows all sorts of stuff in the name, as long as you use the Plain skin to put it in. What fun! (I think it was kea who found that.)

TRiG.

BBC iD cut me down to TRiG Ireland, without my parentheses, for a while. Then I chose this tag, which was a reference to F19585?thread=8097081.

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A line from a song in An American Tale. It was stuck in my head after being referenced in the comments on this blog post:

http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2011/04/practical-issues-philosophical-musings-and-the-paradox-of-tolerance.html

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(Bah. I hit post instead of preview.)

This Douglas Adams line is my tag line on those sites where my tag line doesn't change. That's the CARM Forum, when I posted there, the Walter Martin Ministries forum, which I pop by occasionally, and Facebook*. I thought it was time I used it on this website.

TRiG.

* Yes, two of those are right-wing American Christian messageboards. They're interesting.

Ankh-Morpork's daily newspaper, The Ankh-Morpork Times, tries to use a famous Biblical line as it's motto, but always manages to make a misprint.

Terry Pratchett, The Truth.

True. I believe he's an actor of some kind.

If you want to know what the whole Tony Curtis thing was about, ask someone else.

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Woohoo! Taglines are working again on hootoo!

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A obscure reference to Tim Minchin.

Well, not that obscure. It's the name of one of his songs, but it's a song which hasn't been released yet. I saw it at his shows in Dublin and Galway.

TRiG.