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My Cat Sucks1 I'm The Apprentice2 - or just plain old Paul. I aspire to a career in writing4; preferably something more engaging than the business designs I currently concoct on a daily basis. In truth, I feel rather like Kevin (on the right), constantly feeling my presence, wherever I work, somehow sits at odds with everyone else.I have written a roleplaying supplement5 for the PARANOIA role playing game - called 'The Underplex' - as well as contributing to half a dozen other books in the range6. Alas, in the last few months I have found a few copies migrating into the 'Sale' and 'Clearance' section of local game stores. On the upside, this appears to have happened to the whole range, so I don't feel so singled out! h2g2 launched on April 28, 1999. I wrote my first article for the Guide in May 1999, having joined a little after Douglas Adams appeared on the BBC's Tomorrows World programme7 promoting the launch of the site (largely due to the fact that my Internet connection was ultra-slow and the site was deluged with visitors throughout the whole programme). I have since written many many articles, subbed many more - and hope to one day have my very own '50 Edited Guide Entries' tag8. I have made a conscientious effort to get two articles subbed every month - as well as ideally writing one of my own. Where the Muse remains allusive, I thoroughly enjoy digging little underdeveloped gems out of the Flea Market and giving them a new lease of life. What Am I? Under circumstances stranger than this I would be inclined to say that I was one of those people who feels trapped in someone else's life. Not in all ways... but, certainly trapped in someone else's career path. I have a creative tendency that seems to be singularly dampened by my decision to pursue a career in financial support systems... whatever that is. My h2g2 Code is... Once upon a time I generated this...
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What Do I Enjoy Doing? I spend a lot of time setting up, maintaining and tweaking web sites. I have an unhealthy fascination with web logs and journals; as a result, I have about half a dozen of them, or more, all gathering dust at the same time.I enjoy reading roleplaying rules and supplements; watching Stargate and Doctor Who; playing Magic: The Gathering; levelling up in an online game called Gothador; watching the squirrels in my back garden; spoiling the family cats; spending time with the rest of my family; and, making concerted efforts to improve the quality of my writing. I've recently decided I might quite like hanging around with the h2g2 Who fans and those who enjoy Random Quotes... Entries Trying for The Guide In Peer Review:Currently in sub-editting or waiting for frontpage air time... Looking to complete soon: Looking to have updated soon: Entries in The Guide12 | | |  | | |
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1 ...it's tail. A lot. Actually gets quite disconcerting. Looks like the cat equivalent of sucking your thumb, leaving the end of it's tail a moist and withered wick of straggly hair.
2 The name followed me here from the Starlightlines Employee Forum, an interactive celebration of the Starship Titanic concept (rather than specifically the book, the game3 or the high profit merchandise).
3 Which, I might add, I have not yet had the time to finish.
4 I would drop my current job in a moment for a career in writing, if only they paid as much as I get now... which they don't.
5 It took me more than a year to turn out something that fit in 32-pages, which on the face of it seems like a lot of effort for very little output. In truth, I spent much of the time pulling my hair out attempting to rein in my wayward English grammar.
6 As a result of which I can find myself not only on a Google search, but also on Amazon... which is nice.
7 Which I miss, by the way. Somehow The Gadget Show on Five doesn't quite cut the mustard; nor does the brief slot on technology they occasionally have on the BBC morning news.
8 I'd really like one of those Challenge h2g2 t-shirts, too9.
9 And, if I could finish my entry on 1 Canada Square I might just have one of my own!
10 My video copy of 'The Olden Days' has, quite bizarrely, gone missing just when I played to sit down and watch it to finish this article... I await arrival of a shiny new DVD copy.
11 Should be able to update this one through simple Editorial Feedback, I hope.
12 But, in no particular order.
13 I wrote this article shortly after watching a fascinating, if mildly disturbing, TV documentary on the act of trepanation. I can also recommend the equally disturbing film Pi, which also features acts of skull-drilling to relieve cranial agonies...
14 I understand, following an update from the QI Elves, that you simply can't get eaten by a whale, because they don't have the throats for it. Evolved to survive by sieving huge amounts of krill out of the water, you couldn't squeeze down most whales' gullets even if you wanted to. Ah well...
15 While a rescued topic, the original article (A267112) contained so little information, I consider this a valid solo entry.
16 One of the most enjoyable periods of research in my life! I watched and re-watched the episodes over several nights17... and I can safely say I never tired of any of it. Classic brilliance no child should go without.
17 Not for research, but some kind of comfort instead, I can recommend 'Spaced' - feel good comedy for geeks. I managed to struggle through a particular grim period following the death of a family member on a nightly dose of 'Spaced' before bedtime.
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Sep 17, 2009
After too much time away from the fold, I have returned for some active subbing duties - largely because they always seem to get me in the mood for some more serious writing efforts. I do, however, have to get my subbing into gear, which sometimes can be a problem as well - the world contains too many distractions by far for anyone to do anything seriously for more than 5 minutes at a time. Oooo... shiny...
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Jul 13, 2009
I find your lack of recent Journal entries disturbing...
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Hahahahahahaha-ha... TRUMPET!
Jan 20, 2009
Most of the time I dislike adverts. People out there get paid a huge amount of money, presumably, to come up with an advertising campaign for soap powder and it stinks. The advert that is, not the soap powder. There are sparks of genius sometimes, but by and large ads suck.
Sometimes, they don't. Sometimes the spark of genius or breath-taking simplicity shines through. I loved that cage football thing Nike did a while back with Eric Cantona as the referee; and the recent one with the cake car. I don't like the condescending one about exercising more and eating better with the animated Morph-a-like people; nor do I like the fact Cillet Bang has toned down the volume of Barry Scott's voice.
Favourite right now is the Natural Confectionary companies sweetie advert with the jelly snake and the sugary, sour bear who keeps inexplicably shouting 'Bring on the Trumpets'. I loved that. It makes me grin bordering on wetting myself every time I see it. That's good advertising...
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Dec 12, 2007
Oooo... it's cold in the UK at the moment. Yes, I know it's the middle of December, and therefore I should probably be expecting these sorts of temperatures - but... Anyway, I have extracted some warm gloves and a huge, multi-coloured scarf from the communal 'Wicker Basket of Woollen Things'. They provide some measure of protection, but something always gets cold. My belly normally. Brrrrr...
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New Target for Taxation
Oct 9, 2007
I watched the Prime Minister giving his monthly Press Conference yesterday morning. The TV sits in the coffee shop at the front of one of the buildings I work in, so they have the volume down and subtitles on. I appreciate what a tough job it must be to handle subtitles on a live broadcast - I mean, my typing speed, using only two fingers, sucks.
Anyway, the subtitles stuttered across the screen as Gordon Brown spoke and one of the journalists asked a question:
Basically, what were the PMs thoughts on the big win raised by the Conservatives of charging a number of missiles for their special tax status.
Missiles? I chuckled. I mean, even the Conservations aren't daft enough to levy taxes against pieces of military hardware. In the rush of live broadcasting, the journalist had said 'non-domicile' and the subtitler had interpreted, in an instant, a somewhat skewed perception of fact.
Anyway... made me giggle.
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