dear max,

dare i ask what "mareikura" means? and thank you for the delightful preview of the HHG; it arrived in my Amazon order yesterday as part of "The Complete Hitchhikers Guide", along with Ex Libris (thanks, D), Professor and the Madman (thanks Geoff, Anna), Bringing Out the Dead (thanks, sue-em), Guns Germs and Steel (thanks, PMB), and Annals of the Former World.

as for the names, the jury is still out. AAMOF, just yesterday i had to gently break the news to them that they are not Hyla Regilla (Pacific Tree Frogs) as they had been led to believe, but rather Hyla Cinerea (Green Tree Frogs). i'll let that sink in awhile before the final name assigments are issued.