Do you think your brand of (often fairly black and cynical) comedy ever threatens to tip over into despair?
Or is it cheerful and optimistic in that it attacks the stupid and pointless (e.g. town-planners-as-Vogons, or the unnecessary gadgets that go ping to tell you they've finished)?
I haven't seen the film, but if it really is just like the book, then it must be *awful*. Unless you like self-indulgent pre middle age poor-me-won't-be-young-for-ever crises.
Possibly I'm just too young, and you need to have been the age of the hero to appreciate the book, but it did strike me that him and Bridget Jones would make an excellent couple - they deserve each other.
Public subscription seems a reasonable way to raise money for this type of thing, as mooted by various groups (inc. Asimov I think), but I don't know of any actual launches on that basis.
If only all government spending worked that way, then I could opt out of nuclear spending (without being nicked).
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> The empeg-car is an in-car digital music > player, allowing you to have up to 7,000 > singles (or over 500 albums) instantly > accessible in CD-quality, in your > dashboard.
Comes as default with 4Gb for about $1000. Can be upgraded to 28Gb. Includes all the usual car-radio stuff, RDS etc. Runs Linux and Python on a StrongARM.
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Do you think your brand of (often fairly black and cynical) comedy ever threatens to tip over into despair?
Or is it cheerful and optimistic in that it attacks the stupid and pointless (e.g. town-planners-as-Vogons, or the unnecessary gadgets that go ping to tell you they've finished)?
andy.
PS Huge fan, nice one on the books.
I haven't seen the film, but if it really is just like the book, then it must be *awful*. Unless you like self-indulgent pre middle age poor-me-won't-be-young-for-ever crises.
Possibly I'm just too young, and you need to have been the age of the hero to appreciate the book, but it did strike me that him and Bridget Jones would make an excellent couple - they deserve each other.
andy.
Do we? If we do it like that, no-one's told me.
Public subscription seems a reasonable way to raise money for this type of thing, as mooted by various groups (inc. Asimov I think), but I don't know of any actual launches on that basis.
If only all government spending worked that way, then I could opt out of nuclear spending (without being nicked).
andy.
Incinerated in the explosion presumably. That's if the spurious-legs-unfolding-signal scenario is correct.
d -it-up scenario.
Personally, I find one of the other explanations rather charming, the it-landed-perfectly-well-but-the-parachute-covere
andy.
You may already have seen this, but empeg.com make a car-radio-size mp3 player.
> The empeg-car is an in-car digital music
> player, allowing you to have up to 7,000
> singles (or over 500 albums) instantly
> accessible in CD-quality, in your
> dashboard.
Comes as default with 4Gb for about $1000. Can be upgraded to 28Gb. Includes all the usual car-radio stuff, RDS etc. Runs Linux and Python on a StrongARM.
http://www.empeg.com/
andy.