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ABOUT THIS RESEARCHER

Created: 16th May 2000 
Me
Can I have my money now please ?

Douglas wrote so many words in the four part guide trilogy. I would hate to be another copycat, but I might otherwise copy in a dogg'ed fashion. My skin colour is pale and not without blemish although I am happy about it. Thank you oh great body painter in the sky.

I sympathised to the Adams stories of Dirk Gently and the Holistic Detective Agancy also, but my foundations of fantasy were firmly X generated in the 70's upon the Hitch Hikers Guide. Staying calm through traumatic childhood and battling with emotionally vicious adults I am now more or less honed into an ok, kind, generous, un assuming 30 plus year old bloke. If I could have my way and design something created by Mr Adams I would love to have a go at the improbably driven Heart of Gold. A symbolic craft which could be everywhere while traversing during the fitted drives operation but would stop at the most improbable (or unpredictable if you like) point or place. Don't hearts of gold do this sort of thing ? Funny that, and plausible to me. Perhaps I'll change that last paragraph, parhaps not. I can't decide.

My favouritest favourite of favourite things in my favourite pile of things would be a black piece of vinyl. It would look like a record and sound like someone falling down the stairs when played. On it is written Malcom McLaren / The Largest Picture House In Paris. The only album to truly stick in my mind and released in '94, because I like the French, British, US composed and inspired crossyness of it all. Love me or love me not, I love this place and what I feel that it stands for.

All the very best.

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CONVERSATIONS
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Time doesn't existh2g2May 23, 2000Nov 9, 2000
Greetings Flooph2g2Aug 13, 2000Aug 13, 2000
I need more typing practiseh2g2Aug 13, 2000No replies
Timeh2g2Jul 18, 2000No replies
Beware of the Dogh2g2May 23, 2000Jun 23, 2000
Opinion on Poole, Dorseth2g2Jun 1, 2000Jun 13, 2000
Scrutiny of typoh2g2May 28, 2000No replies
Welcome, Floop!h2g2May 23, 2000May 27, 2000
Today being Mondayh2g2May 23, 2000No replies
Some kind of educationh2g2May 23, 2000No replies
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Greetings FloopAug 13, 2000
Welcome, Floop!May 27, 2000


JOURNAL
I need more typing practise
Aug 13, 2000

I'm really annoyed at myself for writing that the other week. Whatever I say now, you will still think that I did indeed need more practise. And I won't be able to prove otherwise will I ? The only real answer would have been to not write anything at all after that but unless I wanted to get another page it wouldn't be practicable. And I couldn't see the site powers that be buying my reason either, unless I started telling porkies. I don't like telling porkies, so I'll just have to be wrong....

Summer here has been non existent. We had a hint of sunshine for a while a couple of weeks ago but it kept fading away behind the clouds, those oh so regular clouds. Right now its still dull, and it will probably continue to be dull for a good while yet. Today on the box is the Hungarian Grand Prix, and in my most fanatical style I succeeded in missing the first 30 odd laps. A feat which allows one to almost forget there was a whoosh of the so long passed start deadline 30 laps before... One of DAdms's lines I thought funny as seen in his own site. That being the reference to the whooshing of passing deadlines being a sound that he liked. I wish I could like it like that.

How do drivers in the F1 World Championship manage to be so inconsistent ? I say that as an enthusiastic race driver of saloons here in the very grey UK. And that there are so many reasons to be consistent in this hugely spendthrift game that it almost makes me want to jump up sometimes and shout at the top of my voice `I could do better than that with square wheels'. ? And I really feel that I could, but I'm not sure if my back would agree afterwards, if that were to be the actual case. Scottish driver David Coulthard was harrying Michael Schumacher with great gusto at the time of writing this. In fact I'd say that David has been driving the best season in his F1 career so far.

Summer is rolling steadily away and there are still no beautiful ladies in my life (no, no, no put your violins away), alas tis far more likely down to me myself and I being the party at fault. Because I am a complete shagpile to look at might have something to do with it. I've reached something of a catch 22 situation with the fairer sex. It seems that the longer I go without girlfriend, the longer it appears I've been without a girlfriend to girls, and thus it seems to be phsychologically snowballing. I have a gap tooth smile, a crooked walk and nobody loves me... I admit I can live with the guy inside, but not the current guy on the outside! Time will have to be the teller as to what happens, but I'm not bitter as I do have plenty of time to plough into my work. And money is such an issue these days... Well `here' it is for some reason.

I'll be back.

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Time
Jul 18, 2000

I can't believe its been six weeks since I last wrote / updated my humble journal. Which leads me to the age old question. Doesn't time fly ? Which in turn leads me to think, or try to, of just how this question came to be. Since in the old days (like more than 6 days ago...) we regarded flight or flying as something that would be fast. But if time flew by like a hang glider things would get a little tedious although one might peruse the view, especially if one was the hang glidee. Unless the hang glidee was to be flying unlike time past my sitting room window, in which case the glidee would more likely be considering just how to unstitch the glider from the porch at the front of the house. And just why be flying so low. Am I going on ?

Without grace I guess I should accept that things will always be flying about, as long as the winds of the UK remain as strong as they do ! I hate to be maudlin about the past but sometimes I can't help myself. Revelling in a rather morose state pondering the memories of Poole, Dorset in 1989 whereby I made probably the biggest sequance of screw ups in a very short and concise succession. I was a spotty teen with a bike and desperately seeking tha answers that most of us do at that age.

All I am going to say is - `Nicky, sorry. Don't know what happened but sorry'.
Ok thats it. Maudlin over for another day.

Perhaps I'll tell you all about it sometime. winkeye

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Scrutiny of typo
May 28, 2000

Madly rushing about like a very mad person rushing about is tantramount to inapropriate detail. What I think by that is that there are only a couple of ways to make the detail things that one writes, draws, says and does are to review them or have another person review them when they get five minutes.

Asking the other party to have a look when they get five minutes tends to pre-dispose thier own thoughts in a sense. The other party will be subject to thinking that it will take about four minutes and twenty seconds to do what you have asked. In actuality, the reality is that there tends to be more in the way of errors in this than just that of the request to have another party look at your doings. When they find doings that are wrong it is firstly wrong in thier mind but not nescesarily wrong in the your own in other owrds thats the first thing that will add another five minutes or so to the `correction' time allocated by the do'er.

But if youre one of the luckier ones who can probably get things more or less right first go, then perhaps the former might not apply as the person who you may have reviewing your doings is probably aware of your superior ways, and thus the added time for correction might be null.

That leaves the option of reviewing on your own. Of course if you do take on the responsibility of reviewing your own doings it should go that you will not be letting a `different thinker' analyse the product of your thought. By reviewing things yourself you will be providing your own time to make amends at your own risk, and expense. So I would think that perhaps that is why some doings just don't get done. Nonetheless things when they do finally get done, they will have errors in somones mind whether you are spot on or not. Thats typo scrutiny.

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Today being Monday
May 23, 2000

Its typical isn't it. You find a terrific place like this site and suddenly all those good ideas that you had in mind before you found anything like this. Before you had the chance to make statements and stuff, the words are gone. There's something to be said for that isn't there, but I cannot think what it might have been.

I did just post something about the seventies on the main topics forum and feel upon reflection that there are sometimes still not enough words to summarize or describe things. I say that because I left the piece feeling there were so many other bits and pieces I failed to mention. Like that of my best primary school friend Stephen Smith who attended the same Sheringham (North Norfolk,UK) school as me, and the fact that his mom and dad had a really nice Triumph 2500 TC in bright yellow. In 1978 it looked wonderful.

Culture is so far far different now. For the better and for the worse, law struggles to keep up its repayments on its new helicopters and technology, while lacking in dedicated career staff.

I need a new PC already and only had this one 16 months. I hate to get caught up in this tech race but being the graphics, web and print designer person that I am I have to. Its partly down to me for sure because I want to remain competitive and all that. But its also progress, progress which, rather like that of a cup of tea goes that if you put the ingredients together quickly and serve in good time comes out terrific. But if you fail to stir in any sugar or leave it for a few moments too long before adding milk an irremovable film forms on top which will remain until either consumed or that film is removed with a straw.

If I write more here, it will most likely be because I need typing practise.

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