Sad news: Dennis Hopper dies at 74.
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker 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 vapors; you can sleep 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 (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); 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.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I am a full time vegetarian, but I like the part time approach that Graham Hill suggests.
Sunny and warm day here in HH, still managed to do 5 Km in an reasonable tempo and an average 75% load. Not easy today, but good that I did it. Btw I am keeping these records here for myself. After a bit searching I found a nice exercise journal for the Mac, called RubiTrack, it also has an iPhone app that works well. I can use this also for other activities like biking.
RubiTrack comes with visual charts and GPS enabled track features, so its perfect for measuring and analyzing my performance over a period of time. One thing that I noticed is that I do need better shoes. The cheap one’s I am using now dont absorb the shocking enough, so sometimes my knee hurts a bit. So I will have a look into running shoes next week.
Ronnie James Dio, heavy metal singer and inventor of the metal “devil horn” hand gesture died yesterday. He gave his voice to the groups Black Sabbath, Rainbow and Dio.