Is there really anything more else I need to say at this moment?  Rhetorical.  Some of you have been here and the comfort is that all you young whipper snappers WILL join me… eventually.

Been around three decades and all I got was This lousey t-shirt!   Wisdom now etches my newly forming laugh lines… *cough*…  Now I can sit back in my rocker and curse at the top of my lungs “Hooligan!” and “Pull up your pants!”  *hack* .  Of course the one I’ve been waiting to say all my life “When I was your age….”  “… there was no Wikipedia!  We had to go to a library and look up books with the Dewey Decimal System!”  Now don’t get me started if you don’t know what that is… go Google it!!!

Lots to look forward to, Depends, walkers, Prune juice; it’s just to bad it also means becoming deaf, dumb and blind.

Yeah, this is what you get to look forward to, son…..  Don’t say I didn’t warn ya!

To quote from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical
value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you – daft as a bush, but very, very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

This year I actually remembered. Yay! Usually I am a few months to late. Which kind of sucks because this is one of the few ‘holidays’ I really get into and look forward to. It is such an amazing way of celebrating Douglas Adams’ life and his wonderful creations. It’s astounding that something as beautifully silly as “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” has touched so many people. It makes me bubble over with happiness just thinking about it. Well almost. I am not quite the bubbling personality type. It is something that I can only dream of that I would one day I would get such an awesome tribute to my life as this.

The origin of the towel joke

The full version of this story was first found in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts and reprised in The Salmon of Doubt, but the short version is as follows: Adams had gone on holiday in Greece, but every time he had decided to go to the beach with his fellows, he discovered that his towel would disappear, and could be found only after hours of searching.

After the holiday had ended, he decided that anyone who really had their life in order would always know the location of such a useful item, hence the fictional aphorism “A hoopy frood always knows where his towel is”. He had no idea that this towel joke, which first appeared in the seventh radio episode, and subsequently in the first book, would catch on so thoroughly.

He assumed, after learning that so many people liked and understood the joke, that he was not the only one with such an experience. After his death, Towel Day was established on May 25 as a tribute (two weeks after the date of his death).

Happy Towel Day Everyone! And remember, don’t forget your towel!! ;-P

Digg’theists, MySpace aficionado’s, and Twit enthusiasts have found the secret to ultimate happiness and complete well-beingness and they are taking a step away from their computers long enough to share it with the rest of the world. This is bleeding edge D.A.T therapy (Data Aggregation Treatment Therapy).

After 9 years of faithful appointments to my therapist, we agreed to try this D.A.T therapy as a sort of last ditch effort to bring happiness and contentment into my life. I am so ecstatic with the results and success – with the permission of my therapist – I would like to share this treatment with everyone, as I believe it can change peoples moods, outlooks and beliefs on life and how they interact with the world around them.

- First step, sign up for and obsessively use every web 2.0 service you can find. Del.icio.us, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, Tumblr, and All consuming to name a few.

- Secondly, and this is crucial, find a blog platform you are comfortable with and create your very own blog. I recommend WordPress or Blogger – you have the most customizability with these I think.

- Thirdly, aggregate all your data form those web 2.0 services that you signed up for through plug-ins, rss/atom feeds and widgets, etc. straight into your blog.

- Lastly, blog about everything, to the most mundane timestamped lists of your bathroom breaks to epiphanies about the number forty-two.

Now all of this may seem a bit trifle at first but let me assure you that all the time and effort you are going to put into this will be worth the results ten-fold. After the months and months of setup and tweaking I did it took only about 3 months for me to finally see the change in myself and my life. I hope it does the same for you.

Please feel free to leave a comment or question straight on my blog. Or if you’re a little embarrassed you can contact me privately through my contact page. I’ll try to help out any way I can.

A student at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair. He was attempting to show how conditioned we have become to alarmists practicing junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment. In his project he urged people to sign a petition demanding strict control or total elimination of the chemical “dihydrogen monoxide.”

And for plenty of good reasons, since:

1. it can cause excessive sweating and vomiting
2. it is a major component in acid rain
3. it can cause severe burns in its gaseous state
4. accidental inhalation can kill you
5. it contributes to erosion
6. it decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes
7. it has been found in tumors of terminal cancer patients

He asked 50 people if they supported a ban of the chemical.

• Forty-three (43) said yes,
• Six (6) were undecided,
• Only one (1) knew that the chemical was water.