BTW, and if you haven't read the 4-book Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy then: 1) Sorry for this posting which will make you go HUH? and 2) GO GET THE SERIES AND READ IT RIGHT NOW!

1) Did the Vogons get so cranky and mean because they were forced to use Mordorsoft software?

2) Is the little Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy device actually an super advanced OSX-running Newton? (with "DON'T kernel PANIC" written in large friendly letters)

3) Will Aqua eventually become that multidimensional hyper-intelligent shade of blue?

4) Do peril-sensitive sunglasses turn jet black around peecees?

5) Is bistromathics optimized for Altivec? (If not, would that make the ship go faster?)

6) Is the Sirius Cybernetics company actually the interstellar successor to Microsoft Corp? (those doors with "Positive People Personalities" sure remind me of the help wizards/talking Mac/talking paper-clip of MSoft apps)

7) Does the Restaurant at the End of the Universe have an Airport network so that Mac-using patrons can surf the universe-wide-web while waiting for the show?

8) Do really cool froods use their towels to help carry home liberated Macs?

Anyhoo, there's more of these stored in the old wetware, but I gotta get some work done. And I'm sure others out there will have their own penetrating/bizarre/funny/incomprehensible mangled mergers of Douglas Adams and the Apple Macintosh

See ya in July,

G4From128k

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I've heard rumors of both a final (unfinished?) book in the Hitchhiker series, and a new movie/tv series based on the Trilogy... anyone else heard about this?

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Wonko The Sane
Engineer-in-training
3 Macs Liberated
"You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool."- Wonko The Sane

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Didn't Retromac68k used have a copy of the old "Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" video game?

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Wonko The Sane
Engineer-in-training
3 Macs Liberated
"You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool."- Wonko The Sane

the hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The restaurant at the end of the Universe
Life, the Universe, and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for all the fish
Mostly Harmless

Salmon of Doubt is the new book, which has all sorts of essays, speeches, notes and partially finished works of Mr. Adams.

I play the old Infocom adventure on my OS X box useing Frotz, the Z file interpreter. I also own the HHGGTG floppy disks (for DOS 3.0, 5.25" floppies)

I will answer your questions, although this is not gospel.

1) Did the Vogons get so cranky and mean because they were forced to use Mordorsoft software? Most likely, yes. It also looks like their ships were built in a garage.

2) Is the little Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy device actually an super advanced OSX-running Newton? (with "DON'T kernel PANIC" written in large friendly letters) ... It's more like a eMate, running a super-advanced Newtion OS, with wireless Sub-Ethanet.

3) Will Aqua eventually become that multidimensional hyper-intelligent shade of blue? Only when our monitors use a giant prism to refract it.

4) Do peril-sensitive sunglasses turn jet black around peecees? Only if Windoze is running on it. If not, they stay clear so you can install Linux.

5) Is bistromathics optimized for Altivec? (If not, would that make the ship go faster?) Well... I would say that flying around in a giant sausage is a RISC.

6) Is the Sirius Cybernetics company actually the interstellar successor to Microsoft Corp? (those doors with "Positive People Personalities" sure remind me of the help wizards/talking Mac/talking paper-clip of MSoft apps)... t's Genuine People Personalities, and that would explain Marvin... He was smarter than any of the other systems, and thus could recognize just how dreadful his OS was (being Mordoor based) and was thus depressed.

7) Does the Restaurant at the End of the Universe have an Airport network so that Mac-using patrons can surf the universe-wide-web while waiting for the show? If so, I'd suggest that you power down before the actual moment of death occurs... otherwise your poor Mac might get a "DEATH!" signal over the network and you'd have Sad MAcs for (after) life.

8) Do really cool froods use their towels to help carry home liberated Macs? only if you sass how, but other hoopies might look at you funny if you start sucking on the corner of the towel when you get tired of carrying a Q950 in it.

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