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

Random stuff to talk about which I've thought 'Hm, maybe I should mention that on hootoo', but not much of a pattern to it...

CDs explode! One of the guys in my classes was working on a computer just a couple of seats down from me in the lab, and I heard a loud bang from his computer... I thought he'd closed the CD drawer with his CD sticking out a bit, snapping it in two, but no apparantly it was in fine, and he was reading MP3s from it... it just randomly exploded in the drive! Must have overheated or something; it was a cheap warehouse peice of trash, but even so I didn't know they would do that!
It took him ages to get the drawer to open again, and a whole lot of shards fell out; tech support is going to have to clean out the inside of the computer.

I had a couple of strange dreams last night; the first was similar to the recurring 'night terror' involving alien abduction, but at least it was only a nightmare this time... much less terrifying. Still left me wide awake at 4am, again, wondering if I should give up trying to sleep and get up instead.
The other dream was much cooler; I was walking around the lounge of the house I want, and looking closely at the waterfall coming out of the wall (this isn't a new feature; I've wanted that for ages). I now know exactly how I want it to look... while I remember it I'm going to say it here. If you don't like it, bite me.
It's taller and wider than I'd previously imagined; perhaps a full ten feet high and six feet wide. The top part is fake rock, on an angle for the water to run over... about eight feet above floor level it becomes an underhang, so the water just runs off in a sheet, down to the rocks underneath, up to about a foot above floor level. These rocks form a stepping-stone form of walkway. If you walk from the floor itself onto these rocks you can follow them under the waterfall, but a hidden trigger will stop the waterfall before you get there, revealing an entrance to the next room (the swimming pool room - thus walking on the rocks to get there is essentially the same as dipping your feet in those little basins to clean them so you don't get grass or whatever into the pool...)
Also, the pond at the base of the waterfall, before it runs off in a stream across the lounge (under perspex, at floor level, and with a small bridge over it. ) is large enough for a person to fit... there's even an underwater tunnel leading off under the wall somewhere... can't quite remember where it went in my dream, but probably into a pond in the garden courtyard formed by the walls of the pool room, the lounge, the ballroom, and... some other room...
Some thoughts on this tunnel (again while I remember them I might as well write them down...) -It has to be safe, meaning that as soon as possible the top of it rises so people can breathe the air above the water. -If the pond in the garden courtyard is in the closest corner, which makes sense, that would be about eight feet maximum to swim. Also that's far enough that if the bottom of the tunnel is relatively reflective, then the sunlight outside would come up from underneath the waterfall, which would look cool and magical. -How would I stop birds or other nuisances from swimming into the lounge from outside, without hindering my own access? -Underwater lights would be necessary. 'Coz they're cool.

Interesting social experiment: Pretend you're in love while walking down the street. It's relatively easy to fake if you know what to look for, and most people you see will smile just 'coz you are. Some will look twice 'coz they can tell you're faking it... these are the people I want to meet.

but , a waterfall in your lounge
how do you pretend you're in love
I have a vacant dreamy look most of the time anyway

Gee you read fast!

I'm an empath, I can fake almost any emotion fairly easily. With love, you have to smile with your eyes, and have the right kind of walk, and look at specific parts of people's faces...

ah, I can't do that
also pretty bad at reading other peoples emotions face to face

Trust me, /not/ being an empath is a blessing in disguise.

(kitty, just think about )

I think its working
darn, none here

I wouldn't say I was an empath, but I am more empathic than I would like to be...it can be quite draining...

Kitty...maybe yuo should htink abuot how makes you feel

I shall think about I think, doesn't have quite place in my affections, but at the moment would be a welcome companion

You could always go the double

given how I feel after last night I'll give that a miss until Friday
you are a bad influence on me Tanzen (I'll admit it doesn't take much to influence me)

Yes I know...I'm a terrible corrupter of innocents

And you were such an when we first met

absolutely an , perhaps a somewhat fallen 1

"...an angel who didn't so much fall as saunter vaguely downwards..."

...and twirling, twirling all the way...

Jerms, great dream! I have dreams about my desired pool too. Never thought of a lounge waterfall, but it's a good idea. Most of the time it's my dream bathroom though. The jacuzzi bathtub is it's most important feature. But sometimes it has a foot bath or one of those oversized shower stalls with multiple shower heads and automatic doors. And a wet bar.

Hope this post makes it past the server.

Wow. Cds. I knew about fairy lights and helium and oxygen and forks and petrol and soap in microwaves but not cds in computers. Sorta defeats the object really.

wow! i didnt know that cd's could explode! wow!

and i didnt know that soap did in the microwave either.... well i suppose that you learn something new every day...


jerms, is that the waterfall that goes in the castle?

I like jacuzzis, too... There should be a description of the bathroom I/we want, somewhere around...

Hmmm... "...fairy lights and helium and oxygen and forks and petrol and soap in microwaves..." Consecutively or concurrently? That could make a hell of a bang! Let's not try that in /my/ kitchen...

"Jerms, is that the waterfall that goes in the castle?" Well it depends on how quickly I can get rich... but the answer's either 'yes,' or 'yes but it'll go in the house first until I can afford a castle'.
I guess I could call the house a prototype? It'd suck to find out how /not/ to do it when you're talking about renovating a castle.

The fairy lights seperatly to everything else, helium or hydrogen (prob hydrogen) and oxygen ballons with a fork in seperate to everything else, petrol seperate to everything else etc.