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Today is Towel Day

360 点作者 Patient0将近 9 年前

30 条评论

overcast将近 9 年前
I'll probably be burned at the stake for this. I'm about 3/4 of the way through the entire Hitchhikers Guide series, and I'm just not enjoying it at all. I understand it is supposed to be humorous, and full of satire. But the scatterbrained events, nonsensical plot, and one dimensional characters, just ruin it for me. I don't get the appeal, and I watch a fair amount of British comedies, and movies.
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mbrundle将近 9 年前
I know I&#x27;m hanging out on the right site when a link like this gets promoted to the top spot. : )<p>A quick note to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy newcomers, your mileage may vary depending on your background. I read all the books when I was a kid, and absolutely loved them. And when the most recent film came out, a bunch of engineer friends and I went to see it. Me and the other British friend howled with laughter throughout, but the two other (from India and Brunei) looked utterly baffled. So, it may, based on this limited sample, play better to those with a British sense of humour...
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studentrob将近 9 年前
My favorite line is the one about British sandwiches.. [1]<p>&gt; There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.<p>&gt; “Make ’em dry” is the instruction buried somewhere in the collective national consciousness, “make ’em rubbery. If you have to keep the buggers fresh, do it by washing ’em once a week.”<p>I ate some sandwiches in the UK. They were dry and rubbery<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;norighttobelieve.wordpress.com&#x2F;tag&#x2F;douglas-adams&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;norighttobelieve.wordpress.com&#x2F;tag&#x2F;douglas-adams&#x2F;</a>
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Slackwise将近 9 年前
If you want to keep track of similar geeky events, I maintain and curate a &quot;Geeky Events&quot; Google Calendar:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calendar.google.com&#x2F;calendar&#x2F;embed?src=9t07jqib63if4kecndchr1nk74@group.calendar.google.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calendar.google.com&#x2F;calendar&#x2F;embed?src=9t07jqib63if4...</a><p>Let me know if there&#x27;s anything I&#x27;m missing.
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mdip将近 9 年前
I&#x27;ve been a huge fan of Douglas Adams since I read the Hitchhiker&#x27;s series in High School.<p>My personal recommendation is to grab the audiobook version that&#x27;s read by the Douglas himself. As an American, there&#x27;s a little bit lost between British&#x2F;American English and some of the humor is missed (sometimes changes are even made -- in the American version of the book that I have &quot;Biscuit&quot; is replaced with &quot;Cookie&quot;). I&#x27;m an audiobook junkie (speed reading has killed reading fiction for me) and I usually stay away from books narrated by the author because the quality of the narration suffers. Such was not the case with Adams&#x27; narrations -- they&#x27;re excellent and I picked up on several things that I missed from my original (several) readings.<p>I was very sad when he passed -- a heart attack while working out that was probably complicated by his legendary drinking. It was almost sadder when the latest book came out as evidence that nobody could pull off that series but Adams.<p>The books and the author are endlessly quotable (and recognized by nearly every programmer I&#x27;ve ever worked with), but my favorite of his -- from the Dirk Gently series -- is &quot;Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.&quot; I use it every time a project is proposed that someone thinks is &quot;nuts&quot; or &quot;impossible&quot; and it sits on the background of my Visual Studio code editor as a reminder. :)
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cyberferret将近 9 年前
Way back in the day when offices had &#x27;on hold&#x27; music on their phone systems, we had the Hitchikers Guide radio show on regular rotation on our hold system for years. Customer would actually get angry when a worker took them OFF hold and ask to be put back on so they didn&#x27;t miss the next bit. Others were completely mystified and ask us what the heck they had been listening to.<p>Alas, our office was broken into one day, and about the only thing the thieves took was the little CD player hooked into our phone system next to the reception desk that played the series which we had on CDs (the thieves also took the CD boxed set after smashing one of the discs on the floor - making the stolen set basically worthless). Sad day.
mjlee将近 9 年前
Douglas Adams on David Letterman (14 February 1985): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SF2fZ2iOXhk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SF2fZ2iOXhk</a><p>The interview contains a version of one my favourite stories of his starting at 2:55. The whole video is worth watching.
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d99kris将近 9 年前
I didn&#x27;t know the origin before - as in why May 25th - but the Wikipedia article provided the background, and even the original proposal via Web Archive: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20020424065309&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;systemtoolbox.com&#x2F;bfarticle.php?content_id=46" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20020424065309&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;systemtool...</a><p>Edit: To save the unknowing a link click, May 25th was two weeks after Douglas Adams&#x27; passing.
Sarkie将近 9 年前
Douglas Adams&#x27; grave has bouquets of pens &amp; is often strewn with tiny gifts: #TowelDay<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;peachesanscream&#x2F;status&#x2F;735421735433076736" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;peachesanscream&#x2F;status&#x2F;73542173543307673...</a>
haikuginger将近 9 年前
H2G2 is interesting to me - in general, over the last decade, there&#x27;s been a growth in the popularity of &quot;nerd culture&quot;. A lot of this has led to &quot;nerd content&quot; actually becoming less targeted (see: Big Bang Theory, recent seasons of Doctor Who). I find H2G2 fascinating because, as far as I can tell, it remains known only by those who were or would have been participants in nerd culture before it became a big thing.
smhenderson将近 9 年前
Well I&#x27;m just glad it&#x27;s not Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays...
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CiPHPerCoder将近 9 年前
Remember how 42 is the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? And how everyone&#x27;s searching for the Ultimate Question? I think I&#x27;ve figured it out.<p>According to Prak, it is impossible for both The Answer and The Question to be known in the same universe; should someone know both the question and the answer, the universe would cease to exist and would be replaced by something more bizarre and inexplicable. The narrator teases the reader that another theory states that this has already happened before.<p>I posit that the Ultimate Question is, &quot;How many times have the Ultimate Question and Ultimate Answer been known, and thusly the universe been eradicated and replaced by something more bizarre and inexplicable?&quot;<p>Answer: Forty-two.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scott.arciszewski.me&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;ultimate-question-douglas-adams" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scott.arciszewski.me&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;ultimate-question-...</a>
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cyberferret将近 9 年前
Damn, missed it again. I am only glad that Towel Day falls on a Thursday next year... then at least I will have an excuse to not get the hang of it...<p>As upsetting as the recent death of great musicians and authors have been, no one&#x27;s death hit me as hard as DNA&#x27;s did. The thought of no more Svlad Cjelli stories always fills me with sadness.
imgabe将近 9 年前
I recently started carrying around a handkerchief. It&#x27;s more useful than I would have thought, like a miniature towel.
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jpa5n将近 9 年前
Its worth remembering Doug Adam&#x27;s book on endangered species he wrote late in life: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Last-Chance-See-Douglas-Adams&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0345371984" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Last-Chance-See-Douglas-Adams&#x2F;dp&#x2F;03453...</a><p>Fondly remember meeting him briefly at the big bookstore near ULU in London to sign it when it was released.<p>Sometimes I regret I gave it to my then-girlfried ;)
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Patient0将近 9 年前
I&#x27;m very much enjoying listening to the original radio series: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.induceddyslexia.com&#x2F;hitchhiker.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.induceddyslexia.com&#x2F;hitchhiker.htm</a>
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JustSomeNobody将近 9 年前
I never, ever travel without a towel. It is the first thing I pack. Not a large towel, mind you, but a towel nonetheless. It has been used countless times while on those trips.
Aelinsaar将近 9 年前
Always... and I mean ALWAYS know where your towel is. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com&#x2F;736x&#x2F;91&#x2F;9d&#x2F;2c&#x2F;919d2cc01ef766a4ce93bd9e29cf4766.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com&#x2F;736x&#x2F;91&#x2F;9d&#x2F;2c&#x2F;919d2cc01...</a>
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lernerslaw将近 9 年前
I did not know about this. It immediately made me think of South Park.
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thebigspacefuck将近 9 年前
My coworker has had a towel hanging from his cubicle for months. Today I ask him why.
yoodenvranx将近 9 年前
Douglas Adams is pretty much the only &quot;celebrity&quot; whose death really touched me.<p>I am a big fan of his work and thinking about all the books he did not get a chance to write tears me up even now.
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jim-greer将近 9 年前
My kids don&#x27;t quite get Hitchhiker&#x27;s Guide to the Galaxy yet, but they enjoyed making a Don&#x27;t Panic towel to take to school.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jimgreer&#x2F;status&#x2F;735497227183919104" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jimgreer&#x2F;status&#x2F;735497227183919104</a>
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qwertyuiop924将近 9 年前
Funny. Today is the day Pratchett fans wear the lilac. Actually, I&#x27;m wearing one right now.
okket将近 9 年前
Indeed: &quot;Celebrating towel day at #RIPE72 !!&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nnimpuno&#x2F;status&#x2F;735400708967665664" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nnimpuno&#x2F;status&#x2F;735400708967665664</a>
candeira将近 9 年前
Silly brag. I often work out of a local library where the blinds don&#x27;t work, so I always carry a towel in my bag which I use to block the sun.<p>I always know where my towel is. Every day is Towel Day for me.<p>Thank you, Douglas Adams!
imrehg将近 9 年前
Also from the Hitchhiker&#x27;s Guide, &quot;Don&#x27;t Panic&quot; is pretty much one of the most helpful advices ever. Remembering it saved my ass multiple times in a hectic trip just last week...
sandebert将近 9 年前
Not that it&#x27;s super important or anything, but Sweden and Switzerland are different countries. :-)
igl将近 9 年前
You wanna get high?
aft42将近 9 年前
aft42 checkin&#x27; in - towel in hand :-)
kolapuriya将近 9 年前
Belgium says : deal with it, you hoopy froop.<p>French : Fait comme, espece de heuapy freaup.<p>Nederlands : U bent een froopy hoop.<p>Long live the King - Long live Belgium.<p>I&#x27;m sorry : I&#x27;m talking complete bollocks. It is friday night.+