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

Hm, I seem to be entering another lazy typist cycle... Can I call you fluf'ker'? (I also once in a while decide to make up my own nicknames for folks--for instance, I called Tinkerbell, whom everyone else called Tink, 'bell If you prefer fluffy, or even your whole name, that's fine--just be warned that once I start calling someone something, they'll be that until they specifically request otherwise, which I'm sure can be confusing for others in a thread of someone's changed their name significantly)

Anyway, have a mufflewhump!

hi

you can call me any variation of fluffykerfuffle because that pretty much stays the same in my nickname... though for the life of me i can't see how adding an apostrophe to my name could be characterized as 'lazy' as punctuation is a real challenge for me... .

thanks for the mufflewhump!!



. ...dangles the mufflewhump between forefinger and thumb whilst looking at it from all angles. ... . .

. .. .decides to set it free. .. . .

fly away little mufflewhump fly away... you were born to be free!


ahem.. so what do you think of my idea i started a thread on it there at party headquarters

*tilts head* Don't think I've seen one turn into something to be set free before...

Sounds like an interesting idea, but if I were able to be there in real time, I likely wouldn't say much of anything anyway. More of a listener, me. I only really said anything in case real numbers are wanted

7 letters (and 2 apostrophes--though likely it'll just be one eventually) vs. 15? Yep, laziness It's not like I have to hit shift or anything

Do I remember right, that I read somewhere while wandering around that you live in Hawaii?

yeah

we have a fun "bananas" thread going with some great links and even a hula and slack key program that is pretty traditional. i myself had no idea how wonderful traditional music and dance here IS until i came here last year.

>>Sounds like an interesting idea, but if I were able to be there in real time, I likely wouldn't say much of anything anyway. More of a listener, me. I only really said anything in case real numbers are wanted<<

again... what an excellent opportunity to experiment with being a scintillating conversationalist!!

make me a list, Amy, and i promise to insert the most irrelevant comment whenever someone pushes your button!

Y'know, that's a timezone I've no clue about* So how many hours are you behind the Pacific time zone?

Anyway, I've a little girl to get to bed and stuff to pack (and should free up the phoneline--we've got dialup and just one line) Talk to you later.







*I used to be known for timezone conversions, amongst friends that are no longer on h2g2--mostly from here to Israel, northern hemisphere only, as the flipflops due to daylight savings and standard are just too confusing when seasons are opposite! No idea where boundaries between timezones are, though.

hawaii does not observe daylight savings time so we are either 2 or 3 hours behind the west coast of america... right now we are two hours behind... in the fall we will be two hours behind.

right now we are THREE hours behind... in the fall we will be two hours behind.

So just about dinner time then I'm so used to thinking 8 hours ahead (UK time--only confusing at time change times, because they go into daylight savings before the continental US does, as does the rest of the time-changing world) that thinking 3 (and then 2) hours behind may be challenging

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oh well... it's all relative in lalainternet land. And, also, on boards, a conversation that took a week to compile appears to have taken place in just a few minutes.. . it's like... mmmmmmagic!!

i just know the UK is about 10 hours ahead and that the westcoast is 3 hours ahead... and i use my cellphone world clock

aaaaarrghhhh <space.*

True--but it's handy to know time differences when arranging phone calls

When I first started here, I didn't realize that you could find world clocks online, so I memorized the differences. Now I rely on that, because I'm just stubborn.

the easiest to carry and access computer is our brain

True, but it's not wired for long-distance communication without some significant peripherals

How have you weathered the tsunami?

hey
hi

looks like we met once here before

the tsunami?
i weathered it much better than you i think
i am not in hawaii anymore

its very interesting why your area 'attracts' tsunamis
evidently there is a ridge on the ocean floor that runs from japan right to your area
the tsunami waves get channeled along it

Good to know that you're OK A friend of mine on Oahu said that they didn't get waves like the ones in one of the videos I linked to.

i'm sorry... i don't understand your reference to 'they didn't get waves like the ones in one of the videos I linked to'

thanks for the concern, btw

Oops, I thought you'd read



What I meant was that I'd linked to a video on YouTube, taken a few blocks from here, and a friend of mine that lives on Oahu stated that none of the waves that he saw there were as large as the ones in that video. (This one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3AFnbkLmiI )

Does that make a bit more sense? I wasn't fully awake when I typed my last post.