Weblog on the Internet and public policy, journalism, virtual community, and more from David Brake, a Canadian academic, consultant and journalist

Archive forMay 15th, 2001 | back to home

15 May 2001
Filed under:Uncategorized at8:29 pm

The Douglas Adams I knew

Well – I didn’t know him very well, alas. We met twice – once when I went to a book signing and once at a Mac-related event. He was a fanatical Mac bigot and I used to work for Mac User magazine in the UK. For a time he had an occaisional column.

What do I remember about him? He was tall, friendly and had a notoriously poor attitude to deadlines. In fact, my favourite Douglas Adams saying was, “What I like most about deadlines is the whizzing sound they make as they go past”.

My exposure to him as a man was all too fleeting but I was delighted by his HHGTTG work and I was saddened to hear of his premature death. Had he lived I’m sure his genius would have brightened the days of millions more people…movies ever scariesttaboo movies incestthai movie tgpthe longest movie yardtop ever movies 10 scariestwife movies masturbatingmovies raimi xxxteen masturbating movies youngamateur sex moviemovie sex animepayment deferred loans alabama student401k loan formulaallan sloanjumbo stated stated 90 loanloss lease allowance for and loancar loan addlinkmortgage loan 100 closing no costsmortgage amortize loan Map