A very short blog entry today to celebrate the life and works of Douglas Adams.
In honor of this glorious day I give to you one of my favorite quotes from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
""Far out, in the uncharted backwaters at the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy, lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended lifeforms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has -- or had -- a problem, which was this -- most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd, because, on the whole, it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. And so the problem remained and lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move and that no one should ever have left the oceans. And then, one day, nearly 2,000 years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone, the Earth was demolished to make way for a hyperspace by-pass and so the idea was lost forever."
Enjoy your Towel Day!
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Thumbs up (with ring in place!)!
May 26, 2010 at 7:53 a.m.Even the comments entertained me here Codearchitect!
Bravo!!!!!
(Saw the movie. Want to read the book!)
Thanks Edith Ann, tune in next week for my Happy Mankini Day blog, you won't be disappointed!
;-)
May 25, 2010 at 11:29 p.m.I don't normally enjoy reading stuff like this and I haven't read the books you all mention.
However, very interesting blog that causes curiosity. Of course I've never heard of Towel Day, but what an interesting concept for a 'day'.
Good work, Code.
May 25, 2010 at 10:20 p.m.@coraleaterlinda
Love that quote!
I wonder if anyone has also read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul?
Another set of good books by Adams.
May 25, 2010 at 4:52 p.m."There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
I got all the books in the Hitchhikers series for dirt cheap when Waldenbooks closed down, and read them all in less than a week, they were that awesome.
May 25, 2010 at 4:47 p.m.dont forget your towel !
May 25, 2010 at 4:09 p.m.LOL! And don't give me no more of that Old Janx Spirit!
May 25, 2010 at 3:08 p.m.Cheers LAHightower!
I hear drinking one is like "...having your brain smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick"
May 25, 2010 at 2:36 p.m.*Raises a toast with her Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster* Don't Panic!
May 25, 2010 at 2:26 p.m.You gotta read Good Omens. It was my favorite book.
May 25, 2010 at 2 p.m.Yes, Rebecca I find Terry Pratchett's work quite similar to Douglas Adams although I've not read Good Omens.
You are also right, I now have nonplussed rectangular pieces of plastic flying all over the place making me most unhappy! ;-)
May 25, 2010 at 1:51 p.m.I need to read that book! I imagine it being kinda like "Good Omens." I loved that.
Hey, it took me a few to get what was meant by "green pieces of paper," since we use small rectangular pieces of plastic now. =D
May 25, 2010 at 1:48 p.m.For those wondering what this is about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day
May 25, 2010 at 12:18 p.m.