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ABOUT THIS RESEARCHER

Created: 31st May 2005 
Buna seara, sojourners on this planet!
Ogham Alphabet

When the Moon Is Full, or Even When It Isn't

You will find us here. Some of us, anyway, as the planet turns on its axis, or whatever it does that makes that unfamiliar big yellow ball in the sky seem to go round...

I have given up trying to introduce myself. I just thought I needed to update the page, since it's been quite a while. The following is just an indication of where I might be hanging out, if you care to drop in for a chat.

Beta, the RPG That Won't Die

BETA RPG

The planet Earth.
Now I Know Everything

The Beta RPG: A Massively Miniplayer Online Roleplaying Game has been going on for a little over two years now. To the relief of the hamsters, we are slowing down (some of us actually have jobs now). The scifi cybernovel is now into its seventh volume. We expect the Starship Mariposa to reach the planet Remulad any day now...

The question as to whether the world was ready for this has yet to be satisfactorily answered...but the usual offer still applies, if you read the drivel, you are welcome to the above badge. We aren't proud, as you can tell from our jokes.

Still My Proudest Accomplishment to Date

I am proud that - with the generous help of the hootoo UnderGuide editors - I have now succeeded in adding a new word to the google lexicon. Google it, and see - hootoo does make a difference to RL, folks!

'hic'

cheers

drunk I spoke to O'Flaherty drunk

Sar'nt O'Flaherty

We miss you, mo buachaill, and we wish you well. Write us from wherever in the universe you are.

Fact and Fiction

I am infamous for committing prose, including the occasional Guide Entry. To give a sample, there is the story of Mary Toft, the Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits. I will leave you to find the rest yourselves, if you're interested.

Of fiction there is a-plenty, both on and off the UnderGuide. (If you write, send us your stuff - we are like surgeons, cruel to be kind.)

For more prose and poetry, scroll down, as they say, and more power to your mouse finger.

When Dialogue and Sweet Imagery Agree

The ultra-talented Malabarista is drawing us a comic, for which I am providing the storyboard. Anarchy Gordon, the first Scotsman in hyperspace, appears in a new adventure page every two weeks in The H2G2 Post. The Gordon tartan boldly goes where no plaid has been seen before...

Malabarista's other webcomic can be viewed here. Check it out.

I have been committing cartoons - I will not call them art, nobody would call them that. They exist mostly to fill up space, torment the artistically inclined, and annoy the good people of Brightling, Sussex. View them at your peril. You have been warned.

If you are new to h2g2, welcome. Please browse, make yourself at home, leave a calling card here and there.

Happy journeying!

smiley

ceci n'est pas un smiley



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The Beta RPG – A Massively Mini-Player Online Role-Playing Game
Mary Toft - The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits
The Phoints - A Colonial Tragedy (UG)
The Anarchy Gordon Archive
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Malabarista - considering the aesthetics of variable-altitude livestock

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The Worm Turns - Well, Orbits
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Breaking news: More Brits in space. Lots more of them.

Obviously, the Brits intend to outnumber everybody else in space, thus making the Beta rpg look prescient. (I have nothing against looking prescient. It goes well with my complexion.)

The fact that these Brits are called C. elegans is not bad, either - adds a touch of James Bond coolness to the whole space-trip thing.

They fact that they are also called, er, wormonauts, all 4,000 of them aboard the shuttle Atlantis, might be less, well, elegant - and might make Beta fans wonder where Jamie is hiding with those vermin-removing bagpipes of his.

Aweel.

Years and years ago, Elektra and I had a picture book we used in Germany for what 'Cabaret' called 'making ze English converzation, yez?' This book was published by an academic press in the UK, and featured a page of 'science fiction' - astronauts, a spacecraft, an alien planet with odd creatures, etc. We loved it.

I used to ask my German students what the oddest thing about the picture was. They would reply, 'The fish in the trees? The birds in the lake?' No, I insisted.

The Union Jack on the spaceship.

Okay, wormonauts, you win - 4,000 x 4.5 million miles. Wow.

On drugs yet. All that's missing is Keith Richards.

I love it.

Oh, for more info:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091116...h-worms-small-step-for-3fd0ae9.html



Discuss this entry - 2 replies - Latest reply: Last Week

Hardly anyone will read this...
Sep 6, 2009

...and why should they? I haven't been anywhere interesting lately, except in my head. I have no news to report.

As will have been suggested (a la Dr Streetmentioner) in an entry for thepost , I finally got my new DVD player unpacked last night. (I was afraid of the diagrams.)

To test it, I started watching an old favourite film, 'White Nights', with Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Why do I like this film? Besides the beautiful dancing, which I could never do to save my life...

The film creates a tiny miracle. It manages to talk about complex social and political issues without allowing the viewer to glitch off into facile mental shorthand. It shows complex emotional relationships. It tells you more about what the situation in the world was like that year than any documentary. (I remember, it was like that.)

Oh, yes, and you get to watch two of the greatest dancers in the world create space-time as they move.

What does that have to do with the price of tea on Twitter?

Nothing. Nothing at all.

Not until there's a little more thinking in the world. And a lot more mutual respect.

You can't build that in a day. And you can't do it by buying a t-shirt that says 'I Hate Intolerance' in the discount store.

End of musings - sorry for the interruption. We now return you to your regularly scheduled webchat.

Discuss this entry - 13 replies - Latest reply: Oct 15, 2009

Intolerance
Sep 2, 2009

Believe - or don't believe - anything you like, this will not bother me. Believe that the world is hollow, or that it will end in 2012, or that human beings evolved from goat droppings...

But attempt to put me in a box because you believe that ALL people who, say, read a certain book and get something out of it are 'good guys' or 'bad guys', do or don't belong in your club, and, well...

It's unsub time.

I'll back off, suspecting just another form of intolerance.

I've read most of Alastair Crowley's work, and I find him a fun sort of avant-garde philosopher. And a rather endearing person.

He writes that as a child, he summoned up the devil by singing 'From Greenland's Icy Mountains'.

That always made me chuckle. I suspect it made the angel chuckle, too, in his Hallowe'en costume.

Of course the Plymouth Brethren in his family were arrogant hypocrites. They didn't own the territory.

Neither do people who replace one sort of lazy mental shorthand with another, one intolerant guru with another.

'As you read your Emily Dickinson,
And I my Robert Frost,
We note our place with bookmarks
That measure what we've lost...' - Simon and Garfunkel, 'The Dangling Conversation'

Why bother to ban books when you have a world of people trained to read only until they find the reflection of their own thoughts?

Discuss this entry - 5 replies - Latest reply: Sep 2, 2009

A Thought on the Confrontational Approach...
Jun 7, 2009

It might be good to do a little public-opinion research ahead of time, viz:

During a revival meeting near Pittsburgh once, I was sitting in the congregation (captively. I had been dragooned into piano duty, and my college friend Dave was sitting next to me - Dave was a Catholic from up in St Mary's, PA, and curious about the rituals of foreign cultures.)

The guest speaker was a Jewish gentleman who had become a Baptist preacher, but had considerable Talmudic experience behind him. He was certainly interesting.

When the last strains of 'When the Sweet Bye and Bye' had faded, he turned on his audience accusingly.

'You think Moses was a wimp!' Dave and I looked at one another in alarm. Did we? Had the thought of Moses-wimp-hood ever crossed our minds? We shrugged at one another, mentally absolving one another of this unfair accusation.

Everybody knew Moses looked just like Charlton Heston, who was a gun owner and certainlz no wimp. He probably voted straight Republican (Heston, not Moshe Rabbeinu, who would have voted any way the Lord told him to, although he probably would have argued for a good hour and a half first).

We settled down, as pianists and their guests sit on the front row and are visible (and the little old lady behind me knew my parents' telephone number).

The preacher went on, thundering: 'Moses was a tough guy. Moses was tougher than Genghis Khan! He was tougher than Attila the Hun!!

He was tougher than...GUNGA DIN!!!

With faster reflexes than I knew I had, I kept Dave from falling off the pew. (I had practice, being more used to revival preachers.)

What's the moral of this story, children?



Discuss this entry - 6 replies - Latest reply: Aug 11, 2009

The most useless piece of artistic advice I have ever received...
Jun 5, 2009

...came from an elderly Dutchman.

It was back when I was playing in a small band, a sort of combo paying tribute to the Big Band era. Piet (not his real name) had been in a big band, you see, back in the day, played in Amsterdam during the Occupation...humorous, talented man. Piet taught music appreciation at the community college - probably for fun, he was over 70. The good old boys decided Wagner was even better than Heavy Metal.

Our drummer quit, as drummers so often do, and I took up the drums for the nonce while Piet did the honours on the piano. I am not very good at it, but I can keep the beat.

After one run-through of, I think it was 'Little Brown Jug', he turned to me crossly.

'I don't like what you're doing on the drums.'

'What should I be doing?'

'Something else.'

I often think of this advice, and ponder on its Zen-like fatuity.

I wonder if the angels have an 'Earth's Funniest Home Videos' with clips of the stupidest things we've ever said to another person?

If so, one hopes all the flatscreens are broken come Judgement Day.

Keep searching for the blue flower...and if you don't know what the blue flower is, then that remark is elitist and absurd...

...but you could always ask a German, because it's just school stuff to them...now Mala will post me a Youtube with a song about Schiller...and I will enjoy it, again, because Schiller makes me laugh, too.

I also like Eichendorff. As he said, according to that august authority, Babelfish:

'Whom God wants to render right favour, sends it into the far world.'

Well, at least if you go far enough, you might find out that not everyone prays to the same idols you do. Or watches the same television. Or plays the same sport...

Discuss this entry - 7 replies - Latest reply: Jun 6, 2009

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