Douglas Adams epic stories under the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy stories featured the loudest band in the history of the universe Disaster Area...a band so big on a galatic scale that their guitarist had to spend a year dead for tax reasons. But they had a problem with their drummer... Which is a very roundabout way to say that one of Norn Iron's finest, Residual Effect is ...

From the YouTube description: Sue Cook interviews Douglas Adams on the live, early evening BBC 1 magazine format show, “Nationwide”. Adams appeared on the programme during the dinner break of the studio recording for episode ... the Galaxy” TV series. Is it my imagination, or is young Douglas in flirty mode here? Maybe that’s why, towards the end, a slightly nervous Sue ...

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. - Colin Powell Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. - Douglas Adams The trouble with normal is it always gets worse. - Bruce Cockburn

... up the stellar quality of the "Children of Earth" mini-series. + Do you have a bathtub? Would you like a new one? Or rather a slightly used one? Well, you're in luck. Douglas Adams' bathtub -- the one in which he apparently soaked when he needed ideas -- is up for sale on eBay. You still have one day and a few hours left in the auction, ...

... And Another Thing, the sixth book in the increasingly misnamed Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Can Eoin Colfer fill the frood shoes of the late, great Douglas Adams? Then, Aaron and Kristen dive into uber game nerdality with their reviews of Modern Warfare 2 and Left 4 Dead 2. Only on GeekintheCity Radio! This ...

So, um, Justin and I put an offer in on a house yesterday. Today the seller counter offered. As of 3PM today we are officially contingent. I guess I should back up a little. We’ve been dappling in house hunting roughly since the time we got back from our honeymoon. We’ve gone back and forth a lot about what we want, where we want it,what all we want in it, and how much we want ...

"...he also had a device that looked rather like a largish electronic calculator. This had about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million "pages" could be summoned at a moment's notice. It looked insanely complicated, and this was one of the reasons the snug plastic cover it fitted into had the words Don't Panic ...

Not only do we have a President who's from Betelgeuse Five (he has just the two arms and one head and calls himself "Barack", but he's definitely Zaphod Beeblebrox), but.... Apparently contemporary paleoclimatology is based on Total Perspective Vortex technology. To explain--since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in ...

... on auction, and it's going for 565 pounds, or about $930. The ebay listing says that Adams would always take baths when he needed ideas for his books, and this is that bath -- I can't find any corroboration for that, but I swear I remember reading an article with Adams once where he mentioned the bath thing, so I'm saying it's true. And $930 for the bathtub ...

“Of course, it would be unfair for me to comment. Douglas told me in the strictest confidence exactly why 42. The answer is fascinating, extraordinary and, when you think hard about it, completely obvious. Nonetheless amazing for that. Remarkable really. But sadly I cannot share it with anyone and the secret must go with me to the grave. Pity, because it explains so much beyond the books. It ...

“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!” - Oscar Wilde I'm going to try and be more upbeat. I'm going to try, I promise. It'll be interesting to look back on this and see what transpired (although I'm sure we both suspect that much like a dead apple tree, or a man with scurvy, it will be ...

Here are a collection of random pictures from my family's visit to Phoenix.  The top two pictures were snapped at Tortillia Flats.  The next two were at Canyon Lake.  The one that is really too dark is IPG, Bey, and SD looking at Christmas Lights.  Then comes my aunt and uncle with Mickey.  Then my mom and dad at the country club.  Then my mom and dad with SD.& ...

... Bible Lessons of John Quincy Adams for His Son $19.90 Author: Douglas W. Phillips Format: Paperback (91 pages) ... Historian David McCullough has described President John Quincy Adams as one of the most principled and certainly most intelligent men ever to occupy the ... are secondary to his role as father. Though a busy man, Adams made it his priority to study the Bible and to train ...

Rehashing Musings from the Sponsor- which is what we do when we are strapped for content.  C. W. Buechler discusses the influence Douglas Adams had on him.  Don’t Panic Monday’s post will be new and hopefully exciting if Bittorrent works for us on Sunday.  So with little or no fanfare our reblogging of a three

... 41. Kidkanevil (First Word Records) 42. Willie Evans Jr. (The AB's/Rawkus 50) 43. Vanderslice (Low Class Productions) 44. Rashid Hadee (Chapter 13/A&R) 45. Douglas Martin (Fresh Cherries From Yakima/5 O'Clock Shadowboxers) 46. The Kickdrums 47. Kankick AKA Kanzulu AKA The Funky Asthmatic 48. Entity Starr (SwAsHo Productions) 49. Roddy Rod ( ...