Timewaster's Guide Archive
Departments => Books => Topic started by: stacer on January 10, 2005, 10:48:27 PM
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You'll all be so proud of me. I've actually started to read the book. The strange looks I got at Cheers when I thought you guys were talking about a car are burned into my memory. So far I'm only through Chapter 1--sorry, 24 has been distracting me!
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I think that officially makes me the last person on earth who hasn't read them. Thanks a lot, Stacer.
;D ;D ;D
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Fish, they read fast, and they're oh so worth it. Please take the time!
Oh, and Stacer, welcome to the party. One of us! One of us!
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I think that officially makes me the last person on earth who hasn't read them. Thanks a lot, Stacer.
;D ;D ;D
Nope, I haven't read them yet. Heck I didn't even like the BBC minniseries.
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So there's two of us. However, you're still ahead of me, because I haven't even seen the BBC miniseries.
They're on my reading list, but they're always checked out at the library when I go. I haven't checked BYU's library yet though...
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Douglas Adams' whole trilogy there is one of the best ive ever read - How do you fly? Throw yourself at the ground and miss. (but you must not be thinking about it)
how true.
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Yeah, I need to read them solely for the reason that then I'll have a clue what people are talking about when they say things like that, which is often.
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6x9=42 Ms Fish, 42!
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YAR! and thats the secret to the universe.
I suppose now that you know.. your free to perish
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Beware of falling whales
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Ms. Fish, from personal experience I believe you will have an easier time finding them at the BYU library than a public library. I'm not sure if it's the fact that college students are generally too burned out to read for fun or they don't realize that there are fun books at the HBLL as well as serious ones, but the fiction is usually there. Even if it isn't though, you can put it on hold and the library computers will email you when it is returned. That's how I read the third Harry Potter for the first time.
(You probably already know this, but you pick up the book you put on hold at the check out desk).
And Sprig I think you have to be British to understand/enjoy the BBC version. What did you think of it Entropy?
The books are great.
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I loved the BBC version, but I basically grew up on British humor. Which I suppose explains Blacker Darkness.
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I loved the BBC version. and the radio broadcasts, which were the first incarnation.
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Don't ask me. I think i've read one of the books, once, a long time ago. I seem to remember thinking 'is that it?' after I finished it.
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"Oh no. Not again!"
MsFish, I have a paperback copy that you can borrow . . . once you've read my Dragonriders of Pern and returned it to me.
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Douglas Adams was one of the most incredibly skillful humourous writers I have ever come across. Everyone needs to have read HHGTTG, or they have not yet lived.
My obsessive comment for the day.
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I think he just got an asteroid named for him, or something like that...
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Yeah, I saw that story on slashdot. Apparently they submitted the proposal to do so about 18 millenia ago, but it only just got through the committe mess.
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...the committee mess.
Camel = horse designed by a committee
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I thought that was a moose. Or a platypus.
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No, the playpus is proof God has a sense of humour.
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The platypus will crush you all
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Well, no, they actually only weigh a few kilograms.
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A few what?!
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they will crush you with their psychic might!
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after they sting you with their barbs of evil!
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Which raises the question, why do they call it a duckbill platypus,... I mean are there so many other Platypus breeds that the Word Duckbill actually differentiates them from another?
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actually, as far as I know, there's only one breed.
But there are two species of Echidna.
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From MSNBC:
"...an asteroid given the provisional designation 2001 DA42, discovered by the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research project, or LINEAR. It's a relatively unremarkable space rock, orbiting 224 million miles (358 million kilometers) from the sun in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. But its name held triple significance.
Not only did it memorialize the year of Adams' death (2001) and his initials (DA), but it also referenced the number 42 "
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I was about to ask what the heck that had to do with a platypus. But then I remembered what the thread is really titled
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In any thread discussing Douglas Adams (or platypi for that matter), do the posts really have to make conversational sense?
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Post Nazi!
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Which raises the question, why do they call it a duckbill platypus,... I mean are there so many other Platypus breeds that the Word Duckbill actually differentiates them from another?
Maybe the name "platypus" was too undescriptive, so they decided to add "duck-billed" just to make it clear. Or maybe someone wrote down a description w/ the name beside it and then got confused. Or...something.
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I read all the books they were very good interesting but good. ;D
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From sci-fi.com wire:
Walt Disney Pictures, which is producing the upcoming feature adaptation of Douglas Adams' SF spoof Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has announced a contest to find the most dedicated Hitchhiker's fans in the galaxy, the Dark Horizons Web site reported. Contestants are asked to submit an essay of 250 words or less on why they became fans and how they live their lives according to the titular fictional guide.
Six winners—a number derived from the addition of the digits in 42, which is hailed as the answer to "life, the universe and everything" in the Hitchhiker's series—will be chosen to have their profiles featured on the official Web site for the film. Entries must include name, age, city and e-mail address and may be sent to [email protected]. The deadline for the contest is Feb. 25.
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wait... you write them an essay... and they link to you..
If it was a site visited any less than Disney I'd say that's a cop out. I still think it's a cop out, but one worthwhile for boosting traffic. Everyone write an essay and have the profile link to TWG.
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I go there to register my DVDs.
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Something's weird, cause this thread always shows up as new even though there's been nothing new here for
days weeks. ???
Edit: // Except not as of *now*...
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Forum bug, happens every so often because Tage hates us all. I often get the stickied topics showing up as new posts. Just use the 'mark all posts as read' button down bottom.
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actually, the software clears what is "read" every once in a while. If you go in and look at the thread though, it shouldn't come up as new again until that's cleared again.
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/me ignores saint
Like I said, Tage hates us all.
:P
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actually, the software clears what is "read" every once in a while. If you go in and look at the thread though, it shouldn't come up as new again until that's cleared again.
Actually, it still keeps coming up as new. And Ent, I've never noticed the stickies not coming up as new.
Must be those evil ninja space monkeys of doom again *sigh*
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ninja monkeys are trained to kill, not to screw up the web.
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I was referring to ninja *space* monkeys.
Them thar evil plans of doom... planning to starve all we noble nerds of our daily bandwidth fix, they shall conquer from the top down...
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actually, I think SE is just trying to lull us into a false sense of security by telling us what his ninja monkey task force is and is not doing. His real plan is to use his elite hacker monkey team to take over the world, which is why he hasn't told us about them.
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He's at it again, eh.... We'll see about *that*
*weilds anti-ninja-monkey-conspiracy device*
Anyone interfering with MY world domination plan's gonna get Gophered.
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That sounds more kinky than scary.
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Only to you, JP, *only* to you.
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JP loves his bestality.
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I said it was kinky, not that I liked it.
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Your conception that what you say has any real relation to what we interpret is an illusion you should move on from.
Edit:// I'm sure there's a better way I could've put that sentence, but hey, I've had no coffee. :(