A Home Called Earth

What is Earth?

Earth is the name of our home, in Oxford. We began living there in June 2010, and launched this website to commemorate the occasion.

Earthlings

The following specimens have been observed in their natural habitat, on Earth:

JTA

The book geek.

http://www.electricquaker.co.uk/

Ruth

The computer geek.

http://fleeblewidget.livejournal.com/

Dan

The web geek.

http://www.scatmania.org/

Paul

The film geek.

http://www.pacifist.co.uk/

Complete History of Earth

In reverse chronological order:

• 8th September 2010 - Heard at A Home Called Earth, a quotes database for Earthlings and their friends, launches.
• 29th August 2010 - Welcome To Earth, our housewarming (global warming?) party occurs, featuring Murder at the Magic College, a Murder Mystery adventure for our guests.
• 27th August 2010 - Paul arrives on Earth, and says a few words.
• 14th June 2010 - Dan has a few things to say about the challenge of getting to Earth.
• 12th June 2010 - Paul's flat is empty as his posessions fly by Raptor to Earth.
• 6th June 2010 - JTA touches down on Earth, and realises that he's brought twelve colonies worth of posessions with him.
• 4th June 2010 - Ruth finds fault with Earth, enthuses about it anyway.
• 30th May 2010 - Paul announces that he'll be moving to Earth soon after 26th August.
• 30th May 2010 - JTA bids farewall to Aberystwyth as he prepares to leave for Earth.
• 19th May 2010 - Paul realises that Earth will have exactly the right gender balance to re-enact scenes from Father Ted.
• 18th May 2010 - Dan attempts to reach escape velocity to escape from his former homeworld and head for Earth.

Earth's Resources

Aside from ample supplies of iron and silicon and a dwindling supply of complex hydrocarbons, Earth provides a number of online resources as shown below. Some of these resources are protected such as to be accessible only to residents of Earth - these resources are marked with a padlock icon ().

• Where is Earth? - come visit us!
• Floorplan of Earth
• Murder at the Magic College - Earth's first Murder Mystery
• Murder... Way Out West - Earth's second Murder Mystery
• Heard at..., a collection of quotations by Earthlings and visitors.
• Resources for residents:
  • In Search Of..., Earth's internal wiki.
  • Mail For..., a webmail service for the residents of Earth.
  • Write About..., the shared document library of Earth.
  • Orbiting..., a means for Earth's residents to quickly get content "out there".