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Only the infinity of the depths of a man's mind can fully tell the story.
-Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s Glen or Glenda?
Here's a cool tool to show arguments against excessive electrical consumption.
Fit the Nought: For a Good Time, Call... Feeling left out? Party banter regarding LeKZ swirling about you and you haven't got a clue? Then come on over to (Link to FolKZ suppressed by TPTB because it was deemed "offensive".) (Who knew?) and be where the action is! Don't be a wallflower! Impress your date with your knowledge of both sides of the issue! Act now! It's never too late to know what's goin' on and goin' down! (The preceding message was originally provided by a Friend of LeKZ, and evidently could have been construed as contravening the policies of both H2G2 and the BBC. Thank you.)
Fit the First: O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Huzzah! Huzzah! Sound the carpet and roll out the red trumpets!! Ich bin das MUSE der Theaterlaunen und Polydactyly-herausgefordert1, und der Wächter der Geschlechtungewißheit und -bleistifte, die zum Schreiben mit zu kurz sind2. (Thanks for the Babelfish, DNA...) And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
- Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
Fit the Second: I Am Borne Hmmm. I'll need to think long and hard about this introduction business, since I'm normally pretty vague about who/what I am most of the time3. Except those times when I'm frighteningly clear about being vague. Thank you for your patience. (7x7)-74
Fit the 2.5: Use that index finger for something useful! Amaze your friends! Grease the way to heaven! Click daily! The Breast Cancer Site5 The Hunger Site6
Fit the Third: Information, Please Ok, I think I've just figured out just enough of this GuideML7 stuff to just about quadruple the amount of time I spend here just talking to myself, just getting ready to talk to somebody else. I'd say "Watch This Space!", but space is big. Really, really big. Enormous, even. And I don't want the responsibility of the lot8 of you getting a massive collective crick in your collective neck from watching this slowly evolving space thingie. A startingly fresh anomaly here or there, sure - that sort of beginner's luck is to be expected sometimes when the moon is full and it's not a Thursday. But continuous rapid-fire flashes of deathless wit dripping out constantly like a leaky faucet? Sorry, I can't anymore: I quit taking drugs9 before most of you were born. So (once again) I will rely on my inherently smartass Gemini superiority to snatch my burning butt from the fires of your expectations before you can see what kind of underpants I've got on. Therefore, I will only be so bold as to say: Watch This Speck in the Space-Time Continuum. I would like to thank Shea the Sarcastic for posting the link10 that lets you analyze the XML code of anyone's Userpage. This has made it infinitely easier to hopelessly mangle my own attempts at building this page by copying bits of code from those whose page design I admire. (See Ormondroyd) Go to (http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/testuserpageXXXXXX) and use the researcher's number [without the "U"] [Important!] instead of the X's. For example, this page o' mine can be found lining the birdcage or wrapping the fish at this link. A great boon to the HTML/XML beginner. Thanks again. Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
- Orson Scott Card
Fit the Fourth: Liking Life on My Own Account No Better, I Form a Great Resolution Well now, if I'm gonna start attempting Guide Entries like I had good sense or something, somebody might accidently wander by and look at this mess - so maybe I oughta put some [euphemism for evacuated fecal matter] here. And-a one, and-a two: Born: Yes Sex: Now? Today? Race: Hang on - still tying shoes Shave, wax or pluck: Where? Birth Sign: "Sorry for the Inconvenience" Keyword: Ooo, ain't you the clever one, then? Joints what I got membership cards from when nobody was paying too close attention: Places more fun and easier to play with than a short piece of knotted string theory
: Who I'd vote for if they ever ran for anything: The information on where I stole the idea for, er, was inspired by to create "7rob7" is in there somewhere, as well as more transparent clues revealing what I do for a living. [Really enormous clue here.] Though if I was actually making a living at it I wouldn't have time to post anything. Despite your objections, I will admit that it takes me a while to work out this GuideML stuff to the point that I can attempt these things made of light on the monitor in front of you. Eg: Poof! and Shazam!!
And now, for something completely the same, I will for your entertainment rattle off a list of interests like a porn site so I show up in the H2G2 search engine a lot and really frustrate anyone who clicks here looking for actual information. In no particular order other than the way they've fallen out of my brain: Alice; Kisekae Dolls (see Otaku World above); Anime; The American South and How It Got That Way; Bellbottoms That No Longer Fit; Guitars; Poetry and Other Marginalized Writing Stuff; Declining English; Films vs. Movies; Science Fiction; Dykes To Watch Out For; Bassoons; Patrick Woodroffe; Queer Theory; Euphuistic Punditry; Riddley Walker; Songwriting; Cirque du Soleil; Teaching; Cats, including Schrödinger's Cat; Home Design and Remodeling for Theatre Technicians; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Commercially Unsuccessful Comix; Trina Robbins; Rubber Stamps; Peter S. Beagle;
Drawing and Painting; Looking Dangerous Chilies
Straight in the Eye and Laughing At Them, Ha-ha!; Wicca; Non-nasty Humor That Doesn't Suck Too Bad; Cutey Bunny; Oceans and Cetology; Luddites Online(???); How to Keep Smoking and Live a Long and Useful Life; Promoting Vegetarianism; Oz, Oz, Oz, and more Oz (and not that 'Down Under' one, either) (no offense); Lynda Barry; Walt Kelly; and Stopping Now Before My Fingers Start Bleeding and Making a Mess All Over the Computer. | | |  | | |
And a few of the charms which soothe when my breasts are savage : ABBA,
Laurie Anderson,
Babes In Toyland,
Marcia Ball,
the Bangles,
the Beatles,
Betty,
Bikini Kill,
BIF Naked,
the Bobs,
Meredith Brooks,
Kate Bush,
Eva Cassidy,
Harry Chapin,
the late, lamented Drain STH,
Danny Elfman,
Eurythmics,
Garbage,
Phillip Glass,
James Hardman,
Jack Off Jill,
L7,
Cyndi Lauper,
Phoebe Legere,
Tom Lehrer,
Billie Myers,
Les Mystère des Voix Bulgares,
Michael Nesmith11,
Randy Newman,
Harry Nilsson,
Pearls Before Swine,
Linda Perry,
Rasputina,
the Rutles,
Jane Siberry,
the Tuesdays,
Jai Uttal, and Frank Zappa - who remains, along with John Lennon of course, among the many faces of the Supreme Being of Your Choice.
(Links for highlighted artists can be found on Ormondroyd's exhaustive Music Website Jukebox, which is precisely what this abbreviated list was in danger of becoming...)
And that's just the clean stuff I figure won't scare anyone off... Do I contradict myself?
Very well then, I contradict myself.
(I am large, I contain multitudes).
- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself (51) (You should be glad I don't feel like nattering on about my favorite films and film actors and film directors and film composers and air-popped popcorn and so on.) Mostly, though, I'm interested in my wife. And I'm very, very not interested in scaring her off.
Dial-up=Death Be back soon. See if you can tell. 1 Muse of Theatre Freakz and the Polydactyly-challenged 2 Keeper of Gender Indeterminacy and Pencils Too Short to Write With 3 Maybe I should get a digital watch. 4 Also: (1+7+9+4+0)x2=42 5 The Breast Cancer Site needs help. Go to their site and click on "donating a mammogram" - their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate (in exchange for advertising) at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. 6 Funds to provide cups of staple food, paid for by site sponsors, are generated when you click on the "Give Free Food" button on the homepage of
The Hunger Site. (In 2000, daily clicking generated over $3.4 million for the front-line hunger relief charities distributing food to the world's needy.) 7 A truly dangerous bit of information the world should try harder to keep out of my hands. 8 My British vernacular is also going to take a lot of work, I think. 9 And yes, sometimes I wonder why. 10 "I Guess I Need a Guardian Angel After All" thread; post #2 11 Personal friend of DNA and "The best songwriter you've never heard." (Rolling Stone)
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| Welcome to this Researcher's Journal. If you'd like to comment on anything they have written here, just click the relevant 'Discuss this Entry' button. Look at Them Vogons Go! Jul 17, 2001
It's getting to the point where my stomach hurts if I spent too much time here. Maybe I'll just back off and concentrate on things like sticking needles in my cat for the rest of her life.
Here Be Vogons! Jul 6, 2001
[Meanwhile, back at the ranch:]
Hey, you guys - you'll never guess what's going on over on the tributes pages at DouglasAdams.com.
It seems 'A' has never cared for the goings-on of 'B', and so let loose invective like a ton of bricks, tacitly encouraging others to BYOB (Bring Your Own Brick) and have at it as well. 'B' and friends have defended themselves with brickbats of their own, and chunks of the forum are now in flames. The pleas of (undoubtedly codependant) third-party peacekeepers have flown through the air like bricks don't. It's gotten awfully mean-spirited, and various suggestions t'wards resolution - including the banishment of 'B' (??? I thought slaughtering the innocent was how you founded religions, not got problems solved...???) - are going 'round and 'round like a washing machine spin cycle.
What saddens me most is the way the war has escalated into a discussion on the structure and goals of the forum itself. It reminds me of those teeny annoying behaviorisms someone you love starts off aggravating you a little bit in the morning with, and before you have any clue as to what just happened you're sceaming "Divorce!" and similar forms of total annihilation at each other and meaning it. (Not that that's ever happened to me - it's only something I've read of in books...)
Since it was through DouglasAdams.com that I lumbered into H2G2, it would pain me no end to see something as corrosive as this happen here. Let's keep our bricks in the air as best we can, ok? And try to make sure they hit something soft before they get all out of control and land on somebody's foot. Thank you for your time.
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First Spewings Jun 14, 2001
How much longer will it take 'till the world learns that 'Theatre' can be the solution to practically anything that 'Science Fiction' doesn't automatically fix?
Why don't Conservatives realize that fearing and trying to prevent the changes the future brings is a self-defeating activity, like wearing polyester?
These are the Absolutes: #1-Do no harm. #2-See #1.
No one can form a valid opinion about a subject without all the information. Withholding knowledge of any kind from anybody at any time for any reason is as nasty as anything I know. Teach your children well.
Meat is murder, not simply aggravated assault with intent to slaughter.
Let those you love know how important they are to you, for any second now they could be gone without having time to say goodbye.
Why do spell-checks all have vocabularys the size of gnats?
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