I tried uploading episodes 2 and 3 to the idrive account, and itappears that episode 3 has made it. if anybody wants to attempt to download it, please feel free. I have zipped them all up, since every K counts on a dial-up connexion. I can email episode 2, and will then continue trying to upload the rest ot theidrive account. There is room in there for around 5 at a time, so once evrybody who wants them has episodes 1,2, and 3, I can upload the rest in two blocks, leaving each set up for about a fortnight to give time for everybody to download them.
Probably one of the most moving tributes to Douglas Adams I am likely to see - and which was completely unexpected - occurred yesterday when I mentioned that he had died to a room full of colleagues, all computer geek/nerd prototypes. Most of these people would have only been 10 at the most when he began writing the series.
Some knew already; but everyone knew who he was. And one fairly hard-boiled sweet young thang - who, I suspect, pulls the wings off flies for pleasure - began crying quietly. That completely stunned me. Still, she returned to true form fairly quickly. She recovered from the display of emotion by saying that he wasn't all that young anyway. When I said that he was only a year older than me, you could see from the look in her eye that she was measuring me up for coffin size ...
Max Quordlepleen>>>> On a related note, I enjoyed reading this today http://www.edge.org/documents/adams_index.html
Max, There should be a word coined just for you, for an even higher level of thanks for all the gems you have shared with us. Richard Dawkins and Douglas Adams as pals? That is truly awesome! Thanks again, Max.
On a related note, I enjoyed reading this today http://www.edge.org/documents/adams_index.html
Well, I didn't. Not a bit. Before I read it, I was only vaguely sorry that a good author whose work I have mostly forgotten was gone. Now that I have been made aware that an outstandingly unique and wonderful person has died, and that a once-in-a-lifetime relationship can be no more, I am truly sad.
But thank you anyway, my sweet Max. Wordcrazy, you are right: our Max is a gem of the highest order.
Dear Max, Thanks for the link to the Dawkins piece. When I read "He laughed at his own jokes, which good comedians are supposed not to, but he did it with such charm that the jokes became even funnier. He was gently able to poke fun without wounding, and it would be aimed not at individuals but at their absurd ideas." I couldn't help but think he would have been an incomparable member for AWADtalk. Also thanks to Bingley for the Economist link.
Now, when we first see the appearance of a being from another planet, carried "live" on TV, we must look very carefully to see if he/she/it is carrying a book with the friendly logo "Dont Panic" on the cover.
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