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Farewell - 2006-03-15 |
2003-06-17 - 7:03 p.m. First off here are the answers to some of the trivia questions: 4)A towel is useful because "it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jahlan beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can slee under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft 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 avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly 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 (nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, 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 hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker 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 know where his towl is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with." 5) Wayne Gretski, of course!
And now here are last weeks questions, though slightly late because I went to WI to pick up James (which was a marvelous time! Lots of fun! Video games, tickling! Great! Wish you could have been there! Well... not really, but you know what I mean). 9) On the same day two inventors applied for patents on the telephone. Who were they? 10) In 1973, 20 years before Real World, a PBS film crew followed a suburban family around for a year. What was the name of this twelve part miniseries? 11) Paperclips were invented in 1899. Who invented them? For bonus points what was his nationality? And because technically it is next week for these last week questions. This entry will also have the answers to these questions as soon as I rant a little bit about work. I've been demoted. Yes, me! Diana (sub boss) doesn't like me and was very annoyed when she found out Lisa (real boss) gave me authority to do grade recordings while she was gone. So to get back at her and/or me she went ahead and authorized the new hourly to record! I'm very upset because this was suppose to be a very special position and it was the only thing good about my job. "Well at least I'm not the new hourly who has to file all the ERFs," I would say to myself. But what happened!!! I was asked to leave the FX recording today to make stupid freaking ribbons for diplomas. I will also be making stupid freaking ribbons for dimplmas tomorrow and the next day and the day after that until the thousands and thousands of ribbons that have to be made for the graduating IU students are done. AHHHHHHH!!!! And since none of you probably really care... which is understandable... here are the answers: 9) Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell
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