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please compare yourself to Deep Thought Deep Thought was a fictional supercomputer in Douglas Adams’ book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” that was designed to calculate the answer ...

https://www.haibane.info/2023/04/14/chatgpt-opines-about-deep-thought/

it’s not even thursday yet, and i have to deal with this? Hulu is developing a TV series adaptation of the novels from prolific showrunner Carlton Cuse (Lost, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Locke & ...

https://www.haibane.info/2019/07/24/h2g2-on-hulu/

Space is big. You just won’t believe how hugely, vastly, mind-bogglingly big it is. But space is just 3 dimensions, there is also time, and there is also X. In Star Trek, apart from the usual t...

https://www.haibane.info/2018/06/29/star-trek-exists-in-the-hitchhikers-guide-universe/

Here’s the BBC link; more on this later, but in a nutshell I am eager to compare this to the audiobook for And Another Thing that was narrated (solely) by Simon Jones, which was utterly brillia...

https://www.haibane.info/2018/03/08/hexagonal-phase-arrives-40-years-later/

There isn’t that much new here, but more details on cast, and confirmation that it will based on Eoin Colfer’s fantastic And Another Thing… which I bought as an audiobook because Simon Jone...

https://www.haibane.info/2017/10/12/hexagonal-phase-incoming/

My initial reaction to this news was PLEASE NO – until I realized, it was about radio, not TV or movie: More than a decade since the show last aired in 2005, a new season of the sci-fi comedy s...

https://www.haibane.info/2016/05/31/hexagonal-phase-in-2017-freeeeow/

As my site archives on H2G2 attest, I am something of a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy aficionado – if I had to rate my fandom, H2G2 would stand far above even Star Wars and Star Trek in my...

https://www.haibane.info/2013/03/11/googles-douglas-adams-doodle-happy-birthday-old-man/

I am transcribing this segment from The Hitchhiker’s Guide, Secondary Phase, for posterity. The Total Perspective Votex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolate...

https://www.haibane.info/2011/04/07/the-total-perspective-vortex/

This segment ranks among my most favorite moments of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Secondary Phase, Fit the Eleventh, to be precise (the BBC radio series is the True version of the G...

https://www.haibane.info/2008/11/01/the-shoe-event-horizon/

TechCrunch had a little blurb about Google’s investment in DNA sequencing. Duncan Riley threw a little 42-based humor in there for fun – check out his suggested Google logo for the project. P...

https://www.haibane.info/2008/03/16/google-42/