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Douglas Adams Remembered By Those Who Knew Him
John "Widgett" Robinson writes "IGN FilmForce tapped a bunch of folks who knew and worked with Douglas Adams, asking them to share some stories of their time with the man himself. They've posted the results as an article that includes responses from Pythoner Terry Jones, author Neil Gaiman, actor Stephen Fry, Rutle Neil Innes, zoologist Mark Carwardine, and Monkee Michael Nesmith. I've never heard any of these stories before, so the thing winds up being a unique tribute to a very cool frood."
...by those who did not know him.
"So Doug,' he growled, 'We're gonna eat a little lunch, maybe take a few moments to go over the idea and the money - and then we're gonna talk about what kinda animal ya like to sleep with..."
who ever had this conversation.
The rock, the vulture, and the chain
I thought it was just a fake rumor on Slashdot!
Mmmm.. Donuts
You mean "froopy".
Clearly you do not know where your towel is.
Endlessly readable, never forgettable. There was a guy who really knew where his towel was.
They're probably doing the `dead python` sketch together!
Douglas Adams Remembered By Those Who Knew Him
Of course. He's not going to be remembered by those who knew nothing about him.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
Now there was a guy who always knew where his towel was.
So long, and thanks for all the books.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
Everyone knows it's pronounced "wuh-wuh-wuh", as in "hittip-colon-wack-wack-wuh-wuh-wuh-da-slash-dot-d a-org".
In a talk Douglas pointed out that W W W is 9 syllables, 6 more than what the abbreviation stands for 'World Wide Web' He suggested calling it "Triple-U"
If he were still alive, he'd realize that to people such as the current US president, W W W is still only 6-sylables.
"Dub-ya Dub-ya Dub-ya"
Which really isn't all the different from when he was alive.
Never mind that they're generally not paying attention to anything other than said bullshit conversation, and tend to do stupid shit like -
) Forget they're driving. This is Not Good with a capital WTF.
) Be totally oblivious that they're blocking an aisle or line in the store/restaurant/whatever.
) Talk really loudly as if they're the only ones in the general vicinity.
) ???
) Get stabbed in the face - profit!
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
I'd pay real money to see that, actually.
I don't understand why they didn't contact Mr. John Edward....er wait, is he still with us? Haven't seen him on TV in a while. (Of course, that may have something to do with his complete lack of psychic ability)
Maybe they did try, come to think of it, and he just wasn't answering the...er...phone?
http://xkcd.com/386/
He was a huge man: when he was in a house it rattled and you always knew he was there. He did the same to the Earth. It doesn't rattle anymore now that he's gone.
Amen to that.
I'm sure they could have extended the beginning of research far back into time to be able to get a comment out of him, but they simply didn't want to upset The Campaign For Real Time.
Perpetual motion device: Harness the energy of DOUGLAS ADAMS SPINNING IN HIS FUCKING GRAVE. I _just_ got back from seeing the movie, and as much as i love HHGTG, it was _horrible_. In Hounor of Douglas, let's all pretend like it never happened.
You parsed his statement wrong. He was implying that "I'm at the store, do you need something?" and "Are you alright? I'll be right over." are examples of IMPORTANT conversations, and that most conversations WEREN'T like that at all. I.e., most cellphone conversations consist of things like:
"Ohmygod, did you see what she was wearing at the party last night!? I know! Totally! Total! Skank! So Joey says, he says, hang on a sec, I've got another call - Jamie! Ohmygod, where did you get that dress last night? That was so hot! No way. NO WAY. NOOO WAAY. Wow, cool! You'll have to take me by there sometime. Listen, my mom's on the other line, I'm at the store getting her medication. Thanks babe! - So anyway, guess who THAT was? Yep. I told her I was talking to my mom. Can you believe her? I just... hold on, I got another call - Heeey, Thom... what're you doing later tonight? I dunno, Joey's out of town... I thought maybe we could - yeah. Your place? Sure. Bye. - Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod. THOM just called me. We are hooking up TONIGHT. SO SURREAL. No. No, of course not. Michelle, if you tell Joey you are DEAD. Do you understand me? Dea..."
and so on.
-Hentai [in vita non pacem est]
From tomorrow's AP newswire:
Havoc brought the Internet to its knees today with the opening of the movie "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" across the United States. Millions of fans, a disproportionate number of whom work in information technology related fields, scrambled to connect to clogged servers to change their passwords. Apprarently, upon realizing the positive press the movie was receiving, and assuming that the resurfacing of certain plot elements into the public consciousness was imminent, hordes of panic stricken IT workers simultaneously tried to change all of their passwords. One anonymous senior technical staff member of a major blue-chip company was quoted as saying "We estimate that fully one third of the passwords on our corporate intranet involved the number 42. Within hours of the broadcast of the movie review on NPR's All Things Considered, our server load and request for authentications shot through the roof." John Smedly of Sony Online Entertainment reportedly said "We received a huge number of requests for lost passwords over the past 24 hours. It seems many people could not remember exactly what their saved password was, but knew that it contained the number '42'." As a consequence, Everquest and Everquest 2, popular online game titles, were inaccessible for almost an entire day. Password issues were less common on Blizzard's World Of Warcraft servers, but their incidence among high level characters was still high enough to cause several server crashes. As of this afternoon, the internet log-jam has still not resolved itself, but signs that the torrent of password changes is abating have begun to emerge. Said one security researcher, "Now lets hope they never make any movies about Babylon 5, Blake's 7, or Doctor Who."
I was reading the article with the free version of Opera. I looked up in the top-right corner and noticed that the Google text ads were suggesting two places I could buy towels.
Redundancy is good And also good.