Tag: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Future
I’ve been listening to Douglas Adams at the BBC which has clips from various series he was involved with, and it pointed out how much of a futurist and technologist he was (although one that realised the down side of technology – as he quotes Bran Ferren “”Technology is a word that describes something that…
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Marvin The Philosopher
After this saying from Marvin the Philosopher – ‘Life, Loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it’ (I have the t-shirt with this the real Marvin on it saying that): My second mantra is this:
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Hitchhikers
Not the Douglas Adams one, but very appropriate animation by LISAA as I’m reading ‘Dimensions of Miracles’ by Robert Sheckley at the moment, which shares a lot with Hitchhiker’s Guide, although not the ‘complete rip off’ that some catfishy Amazon reviewers contend, and Douglas said he hadn’t read it anyway… (via Counter Sparkle)
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A personal mantra
Well apart from Marvin’s “Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.” which is a mantra I repeat almost daily and should tell you a lot about my approach to life, this Douglas Adam quote is one that has stayed with me since I read Hitchhiker’s as a small kid.This one is from…
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Happy Towel Day!
Today is Towel Day in honour of Douglas Adams and it’s one of the 6 Impossible Things To Do Before Breakfast to try and describe how important Douglas Adams writing was to me as a child, and especially the TV series and books (my love for the radio series came later). I would write differently,…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide on Coffee
https://vimeo.com/23492673 A fan of Douglas Adam’s H2G2 (as fans call it) has created this guide entry for Coffee – great use of Keynote, although I doubt the Guide would run on anything as lowly, bulky and normal as an iPad. Still I’d love a whole encyclopedia of this kind of thing. (via Lumpy)