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

1) A lovely lunch with my friend (first) and colleague (2nd but valued), F. We give each other pep talks and the occasional cuddle. I introduced her to here: A536546 - which is not at all as described. *Wicked* Desi food. We had to keep looking around furtively for eavesdroppers. Our conversations aren't usually quite so...frank. . And we've hatched a cunning plan to **** with our colleagues' heads...

2) We got a new baby Guinea Rabbit, Peppers. We were wondering if it would get on OK with Mittens. But they seem to get on well. Brokeback Pig.

3) My new object of lust and craving is an eee. They appear to be awfully good. Everyone speaks highly of them. And cheap! And they work on Linux.

Oh. eee:
http://eeepc.asus.com/global/

Oh! And did anyone see the *superb* 'Alexei Sayle's Liverpool' on Beeb 2 last night? It was great to get a proper left-wing perspective on industrial unrest at Fords, Kinnock's betrayal of Militant, The Liverpool 8 Insurrekshan...

I missed it, drat.

that eee thing looks good - I want something for the Gruesomes, but I want them to learn Word Excel and PowerPoint too. Can it cope with stuff like that?

As for Brokeback Guineapigs - they are sooooooooooooo gay it's not true. I think there as bad as bonobos, to be honest. My GPs were constantly rogering each other, regardless of age, sex or number of GPs taking part.

iPlayer:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2008/01/11/alexi_sayle_liverpool_feature.shtml

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that eee thing looks good - I want something for the Gruesomes, but I want them to learn Word Excel and PowerPoint too. Can it cope with stuff like that?

It can run XP. BUT: It comes shipped with a Linux OS and the Free Open Source equivalents (OpenOffice). All fully Bill compatible.

Basically, Gate is dead. Might as well get your kids working in OO. It's the future. And it works just the same anyway. I think you can even add OO skins to make it look and feel *exactly* like Micro$oft.

the thing is they need to reinforce their learning at home on the programs they have at school which are the Office lot. When they are bigger and they can work out that if you know how to do it in one thing, it is usually fairly similar in another, I wouldn't mind

But they really need to get savvy. And what they really really want to do is write their little stories on the notebook. Like I do. (or not due to my current inability)

and no iPlayer for us furriners.

I hope to hear details in regards to this cunning plan soon.

Congrats on the new guinea pig. I didn't know that they were insatiably horny. Or indifferent as to gender as long as they're gettin' some. My grandpa (maternal side) used to raise them but I haven't seen him since junior high or so, so I never noticed their humping habits.

Mine used to try and boff my (three times his size) male rabbit when he couldn't get GP action. His name was MacKenzie, it should have been Caligula.

hehe

But he was so cute. A free range little beast, he lived in the garden - he had the whole garden to play in. But mornings when I had my breakfast he used to come and whistle at me, and evenings when I had a cup of tea he used to come and whistle. So he got a carrot, and I had tea, and scratched him behind the ears. He was probably trying to get in my pants.

>>I hope to hear details in regards to this cunning plan soon.

You shall. Speak Momday.

Where was I?

Went to get another Guinea Rabbit with Emil. Called 'Cupcake'. Not sure about this one. I'd have chosen the chocolate one.

There was a Roma girl outside the pet shop sellin Big Issues. To get change, went and bought her a big, healthy roll at a good bakers.

Radio 4: Britain 1968: Sex, TV and something. Any programme that features Zappa, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Tony Benn can't go far wromg. Also my mother's favourite TV play, discussed bt David Attenborough (Controller of Beeb 2): 'The Year Of The Sex Olympics'. Bery Prescient about Reality TV. ****, I wish my mum had lived lomg enough for me (and she) to have been mature enough to discuss sex.

Took the kids swimming. The local pool was closed, so I took them to Gorbals. That area's become amazingly multi-kulti. The pool doubles as the hamam for the nearby mosque (I reckon). And te African MILF in the blue swim cap...mamaaa!

Stopped on the way home at thye Desi shops in Govanhill and bought samosas and kulfi. And Pakistani women in their finery did nothing for my problem.

At home...salad with chargriled courgettes and shave pecorino and a insarecyclinglate tricolere wit Italian bread.

Nice walk down to the recycling. Kept on going around the neighbourhood to watch the *amazing* sunset. Vonnegut said that when we see a good sunset, we sould take the time to say 'Isn;t this nice? Does life ger better than this?' Basically...released my immer hippy (not that it's ever very inner ). Probably the Danish walking to the recycling helped.

Discovered I have BBC iPlayer on cable. Currently watching 'The Book Quiz'. Cor! I'm quite literary. I certainly know more about poetry than the semi-finalists.

Ain't life sweet?

recyclinglate?!!! WTF? insalate!

It's one of the great tragedies of my young life that the "Britain 1968" programmes aren't available for overseas listeners. Hell, I'd pay a license fee to get all of the BBC online.

This one is, surely? It was a 30 min prog:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/sextellybritain/pip/t26in/

That's weird. I've tried listening to other ones in the series in the past, and all I got was a message telling me the programme wasn't available outside the UK. I'll have to listen to this, then.

I can't get any of the radio iPlayer things to work, I keep getting a message that I don't have some realplayer jobbie plug-in. But I have no idea what that is and when I go to the page everyone tells me to go to, I just get a form to fill in with all my details.

I want to listen to the radio not sign up for spam so I have to miss out on the archers...

As ever I'm jealous of everyone's easy access to multiculti food. I have to make do with pretending German food is exotic! Although last week Lidl had their "offers" as: British specialities!

Not sure who the company are who branded this stuff but these things are, apparently, British specialities: Shortbread, millionaire's shortbread, picalili, sweet pickle, mint sauce, mustard, cheddar cheese, blackcurrant cordial, crisps, salt & vinegar chipsticks, dark chocolate mint sticks, frozen fish & chips, baked beans, a turkey ready meal, a roast beef ready meal, frozen fish in batter, frozen fish in parsley sauce* and (wonder of wonders) malt vinegar.

When I got there at lunchtime all the mint sauce was gone, and there wasn't much other stuff left (but I got lots of cheese, shortbread and the blackcurrant stuff as well as picalili, "branston" and biscuits, so we were happy). Apparently at 8am there was a rush for the Brisish stuff.

How strange to think that salt & vinegar chipsticks are exotic

* not since the 70s, surely?

The first flavours of crisp? S&V...and Baked Bean. Desi snack food is to die for: 'Bombay Mix' doesn't cover it. You can also make your own Bel Poori with rice crispies, onions, chilli, coriander, tamaind pulp and 'chaat masala'

Yup. One person's exotic is another's ordinary. The Polish section of Tescos now has all sorts of 'ecotic' juices (Sour cherry; Apple and Mint; Carrot)...and jars of 'sandwich fat'.

From Swedeland I brought back sugar-free smoked licorice pastilles, pish-flavoured licorice fish containing ammonia, Jasmine Tea flavoured dental chewing gum (a revelation!) and Norwegian brown cheese. All 'kin to me, but all on sale at the Pressbyran newsagents chain.

And see my Flickr Streams for the DVDs on sale at Danish station concourse newsagents.

>>I want to listen to the radio not sign up for spam so I have to miss out on the archers

Worry not, sho. The plugins etc will work, and you'll not have to put any money into a Nigerian bank account. I mean...how are they meanmt to help you listen to their radio if you won't download their 'kin software?