Tag: H2G2
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H2G2 Theme on a music box
This is what I am here for. As advertised the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (H2G2) theme (aka Bernie Leadon of Eagles fame with ‘Flight of the Sorcerer’) on a music box with added illustrations on the score by Luminous J aka Andy Riley. Wonderful.
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RIP Marvin (Stephen Moore)
Life? Don’t Talk To Me About Life…RIP Marvin – he’s finally gone to silicon heaven. Stephen Moore who voiced Marvin The Paranoid Android in Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy TV and radio series (and thus is the only Marvin to me) has sadly died aged 81. Marvin is and was a hero of mine, I…
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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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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)