tags: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2001
January
- 2001 Jan 17
- Before I Lay Me Down to Sleep
More Calvin and Hobbes. Crackers and script-kiddies. More music. Princesses and unicorns.
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April
- 2001 Apr 27
- Average Wait Time—15 Minutes
Standing, stations, status….
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October
- 2001 Oct 10
- Bits and Pieces
Totally random shit.
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- I Read the News Today, Oh Boy
TV really does rot your brain. Shouldn’t capitalism be subservient to democracy and not the other way around?
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November
- 2001 Nov 21
- Fragged and Shagged
Bits and pieces of me keep passing out.
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2002
May
- 2002 May 1
- Mayday, Mayday
A disjointed meditation at 3 a.m.
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June
- 2002 Jun 27
- Typical Scenario
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again
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November
- 2002 Nov 4
- Annum III in Exilio (What the Hell Am I Doing with My Life?)
Oh, no. Not again. (Very famous last words attributed to a bowl of petunias which I will quote again and again incessantly.)
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December
- 2002 Dec 21
- The Longest Night
And all the world’s weight is on my back and I don’t even know why.
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2003
June
- 2003 Jun 5
- Voices in My Head
Bits and pieces of me keep passing out. Random quotes and song lyrics that happen to be very appropriate commentary on my life. And, once again, I need to take a break, but, once again, I am probably not going to.
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July
- 2003 Jul 8
- Rivalling Vogon Poetry
Keep the violins going, damn it.
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2005
September
2015
August
- 2015 Aug 12
- Advancing in a Different Direction
Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.
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October
- 2015 Oct 12
- So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
On the 36th anniversary of the publication of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the first song my iPod played this morning was "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish".
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November
- 2015 Nov 13
- To Boldly Go
The Internet was abuzz earlier this month with the announcement from CBS that they were working on a new Star Trek series as the flagship of their streaming service.
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- World Building Fails
As someone who has long aspired to write science fiction and fantasy short-stories and novels but who has instead spent hours upon hours on end inventing imaginary landscapes, countries, histories, and languages instead, I am wholly sympathetic with any advice that warns about the pitfalls of world-building.
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2016
January
- 2016 Jan 14
- God's Final Message to His Creation
They rounded the foot of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains, and there was the Message written in blazing letters along the crest of the Mountain. There was a little observation vantage point with a rail built along the top of a large rock facing it, from which you could get a good view. It had a little pay-telescope for looking at the letters in detail, but no one would ever use it because the letters burned with the divine brilliance of the heavens and would, if seen through a telescope, have severely damaged the retina and optic nerve.
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