Todo mundo está cansado de saber que uma toalha é exatamente o que devemos levar para uma ilha deserta. (Ou qualquer outro lugar, óbvio.)
E hoje é o dia da toalha. Mostre que você realmente acredita nisso aparecendo com uma toalha (ou de toalha, se preferir) em um lugar público.
Se quiser, aproveite e tire uma foto, e mande para o cara do dia da toalha.
Don't talk to me about life sem o seu amuleto predileto.
Relembrando um pouco do Douglas Adams, que foi embora da galáxia exatos 7 anos atrás, um quote de outro fã, Neil Gaiman.
I learned that Douglas had died the morning after it happened, in May 2001, from the Internet (which had not existed in 1983).
I was being interviewed on the phone by a journalist (the journalist was in Hong Kong), and something about Douglas Adams dying went across the computer screen.
I snorted, unimpressed (only a couple of days before, Lou Reed had gone onto Saturday Night Live to put to rest a round of Internet rumours about his death).
Then I clicked on the link. I found myself staring at a BBC news screen, and saw that Douglas was, quite definitely, dead.
“Are you all right?” said the journalist in Hong Kong.
“Douglas Adams is dead,” I said, stunned.
“Oh yes,” he said. “It’s been on the news here all day. Did you know him?”
“Yes,” I said.
We carried on with the interview, and I don’t know what else was said.
The journalist got back in touch several weeks later to say that there wasn’t anything coherent or at least usable on the tape after I learned that Douglas died, and would I mind doing the interview again.
E se preparem para o dia da toalha, dia 25.
Don't talk to me about life: sempre acaba.
A série de rádio, que virou livro, série de tv e filme fez 30 anos ontem.
a trilogia de seis livros predileta por todos, (até por ser a única) conta as viagens pela galáxia do Arthur Dent, logo após a Terra ter sido destruída para construir uma alça de acesso da via hyperestelar.
A frase mais famosa deve ser a resposta da vida, do universo e tudo mais, respondida pelo supercomputador Deep Thought:
Depois de 7 1/2 milhões de anos, o supercomputador gigante respondeu: "Eu vou anunciar a resposta à pergunta fundamental, mas vocês não irão gostar: Quarenta e dois."
Don't talk to me about life in numbers.
It's all absolutely devastatingly true - except the bits that are lies.
Comprei a biografia do Douglas Adams, e essa é a frase da contracapa... Demorei para comprar esse livro, além do que foi escrito pelo Neil Gaiman. Esperem mais episódios inóspitos da vida do inspirador do blog enquanto eu continuo a leitura...
Don't talk to me about life biografada
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
Don't talk to me about death
The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked. But it's not true that I would rather write than read. I would rather read than write. To be honest I would rather hang upside down in a bucket than write.
Douglas Adams era um daqueles autores que sofria para escrever. Não sei se por preciosismo, ou por bloqueio, ou por achar minhares de coisas melhores para fazer do que ficar sentado na frente de uma tela branca.
Don't talk to me about life
Como vocês sabem 42 é um número importante na vida de todos nós. Mesmo quando não percebemos, ele está entremeado na na vida, no universo e em tudo mais.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Don't talk to me about philosophy.
Em lembrança ao jantar de ontem:
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Don't talk to me about vida sem pais.
Um apanhado de diversas entrevistas com Douglas Adams, a respeito do mochileiro das galáxias.
Q: How did Zaphod manage to cut bits out of his own brain without killing himself?
DNA: By being fictious.
Q: I am wondering if you have any advice to give to writers who are trying to write a novel, or trying to get their book published?
DNA: I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there.
Q: Did you ever think that you would be so successful, or that what you wrote would cause all of this?
DNA: Bzzz bzzz. Meaningless unanswerable question alert.
Q: What is the origin of the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster, and how would you make one on Earth?
DNA: Unfortunately there are a number of environmental and weapons treaties and laws of physics which prevent one being mixed on Earth. Sorry.
Don't talk to me about bzzz.
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
Douglas Adams
Esse povo que deixou o Renan continuar fazendo o que ele está fazendo. Vergonha Nacional.
Pelo menos meu relógio é de ponteiro.
Don't talk to me about life digital
Segundo Douglas Adams, os maiores vilões do universo são provenientes do planeta Krikkit. Esse planeta era tão cercado de poeira e os habitantes não conseguiam ver o céu.
Por conta disso, achavam que eram a única coisa na existência, o motivo da criação. Até que a nuvem foi embora e o céu se abriu. Eles ficaram tão nervosos de descobrir que não eram o único planeta que declararam guerra ao universo.
Como boa parte dos livros do Douglas Adams, a partir de coisas fantásticas e impossíveis conseguimos internalizar conceitos como se fosse uma fábula do Esopo.
Basicamente, quanto mais estreito o horizonte que conseguimos ver, mais xenofóbicos ficamos.
A tese desse artigo do New Yorker é que nós estamos indo pelo mesmo caminho, pois daqui a pouco não conseguiremos ver o céu do nosso planeta por culpa da luz emitida pelas cidades.
Lembrando que Galileu, com um telescópio feito em casa conseguiu ver as montanhas da Lua e os satélites de Júpiter, além de verificar que a Via Láctea era formada de estrelas individuais.
Don't talk to me about life sem céu.
Saiu no Google Discovery:
A google já descobriu o calculo fundamental na sua calculadora:
Grande piada interna de quem leu Douglas Adams.
Agora, o google calculator pode ser útil também para aquelas contas difíceis, quando você está sem um excel, nem uma calculadora: é só digitar a conta na página central do google. (tipo 2+2)
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Don't talk to me about 42
Saiu um post no Boing Boing do Artificial God, aquele speech que o Douglas Adams deu 9 anos atrás.
Eu já postei diversas vezes sobre ele, mas nunca coloquei o ponto específico do título:
So, my argument is that as we become more and more scientifically literate, it's worth remembering that the fictions with which we previously populated our world may have some function that it's worth trying to understand and preserve the essential components of, rather than throwing out the baby with the bath water; because even though we may not accept the reasons given for them being here in the first place, it may well be that there are good practical reasons for them, or something like them, to be there. I suspect that as we move further and further into the field of digital or artificial life we will find more and more unexpected properties begin to emerge out of what we see happening and that this is a precise parallel to the entities we create around ourselves to inform and shape our lives and enable us to work and live together. Therefore, I would argue that though there isn't an actual god there is an artificial god and we should probably bear that in mind. That is my debating point and you are now free to start hurling the chairs around!
É isso aí.
Don't talk to me about artificial life
Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.
Douglas Adams.
Don't talk to me about Porsches...
Nessa terça feira corrida, segue uma frase bacana do Douglas Adams para vocês.
I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.
Douglas Adams
Don't talk to me about life vs. religion
Agora, com toda essa fanfarra com a Web 2.0, o Joost revolucionando a TV, o iPhone ampliando o acesso a Internet, e o Surface da Microsoft vindo para me lebrei dessa frase do DNA.
Ao contrário do que o Bill Gates contou naquele seu livrinho (que já está velho), continuamos imprimindo... e os livros não morreram.
Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.
Douglas Adams
Don't talk to me about life sem livros.
Don't talk to me about life! Douglas, o mundo perdeu a graça sem você.Amanhã, sexta feira, é o Dia Internacional da Toalha. Para quem gosta do Douglas Adams, é a chance de mostrar ao mundo o que a vida, o universo e tudo mais nos reserva.
Towel Day: A Tribute to Douglas Adams
Clyde ponders the passing of an incredible mind and proposes a "Towel Day" in tribute.
Friday morning I went to breakfast at Big Boy's (mmmm, Breakfast Bar); oddly enough, we sat in booth "42" and had a good laugh about it being the answer to "Life, The Universe and Everything". Later that day, headlines flashed the news that Douglas Adams, creator of the longest trilogy in history, had died. I was stunned; it was reminiscent of the loss I felt when Jim Henson died.
Douglas Adams will be missed by his fans worldwide. So that all his fans everywhere can pay tribute to this genius, I propose that two weeks after his passing (May 25, 2001) be marked as "Towel Day". All Douglas Adams fans are encouraged to carry a towel with them for the day.
Make sure that the towel is conspicuous- use it as a talking point to encourage those who have never read the Hitchhiker's Guide to go pick up a copy. Wrap it around your head, use it as a weapon, soak it in nutrients- whatever you want!
Most minds in the universe are constrained to the laws of Physics; let us remember those who broke the law and got away with it.
So long Douglas, and thanks for all the fish!
– D Clyde Williamson 2001-05-14
Então, para todos os que lembrarem, vamos levar nossas toalhas para a rua, e se possível tirar fotos do momento!
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
Douglas Adams
Don't talk to me about opinions
