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Hitchhiker's Guide Quandary Phase Starts May 3rd
MilenCent writes "Time to grab your towels once again! BBC Radio 4 is set to begin the Quandary Phase (that is, the fourth) of the radio version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on May 3, covering the events of So Long And Thanks For All The Fish. Once again you'll be able to listen to it on the web from Radio 4's site. There's a production diary on BBC Radio 4's website that discusses the Quandary and Quintessential Phases, which will each be four episodes and will deviate further from the books than the Tertiary Phase did (it may not end the same way it did in Mostly Harmless), as well as tie up loose ends from the first two phases. In other news, their illustrated version of the Hitchhiker's text game won a BAFTA! They also have an interview with the game's co-creator, Steve Meretzky, who also created Planetfall."
In case anyone's wondering, BAFTA is the The British Academy of Film and Television Arts. They give awards sort of like the Oscar, only without quite as poor a sense of judgement.
I'm not sure why an 'academy of film and television arts' thinks they're particularly qualified to judge interactive media though...
HHGG is really a parody of science fiction, or at least, science fiction written primarily for comdedic effect... or... really it's comedy that happens to be science fiction.
Ok, listen, it isn't really any of those things. It's a deep parable of man and his nonsensical attempts to control the uncontrollable universe.
And it has some good bits about robots and artificial inteligence.
Oh, fark it, just read the damn thing. If you've are somewhat intelligent and a sense of humor, you like it.
DO NOT DISTURB THE SE
What should I tell them about the Babel Fish puzzle?" He said, "What should you tell them? Tell them to f*** off!" So the puzzle stayed... and its very difficulty became a cult thing.
Damn, that was a fun game that sucked up weeks of my life.
-Charles
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Adams is the seventh Python. He wrote a number of the sketches for the original Monty Python series, as well as being a close friend of the Pythons themselves, having attended Cambridge together. Terry Jones even wrote Douglas' Starship Titanic novel for him.
If you like Python, you will love h2g2.
1) Grab RA WAV Recorder
2) Open this location with it, at the appropriate time: BBC4 radio feed. Last September, it played Tuesdays at 10:30AM on the west coast (US).
3) Convert WAV, if you want to (or put right to CD for the car).
4) Profit (no, not really)
Just tried it again, to make sure the address hadn't changed, and it still seems to work great!
"Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased. Thus we refute entropy" - Spider Robinson
42!
Radio 4's 'listen again' feature will generally do it...
Maybe I'm missing some sublety of the Queen's English, but I thought the fourth in a series is the QUATERNARY and the fifth is the QUINARY.
Please enlighten me if I'm missing the joke or something. They do identify the previous phase as the TERTIARY.
You're missing the joke. A quandary is a "state of uncertainty or perplexity", and something that is quintessential "[represents] the perfect example of a class or quality." They're puns, in other words (ahaha).
Combine with "mplayer -dumpstream", or Mimms .
Here's the collectors box-set CD edition. By the way, it's TWO extra CDs, as well as the COMPLETE radio series from the original master tapes.
It is meant to be a pun -- they're quite popular in British humour ;-)
I'm hoping someone has MP3s of the album versions - I have them on vinyl and cassette, but no working kit that'll play those formats :(
Never mind Spamassassin. When's Spammerassassin coming out?