Hitchhiker

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the greatest books ever, written by the late, great Douglas Adams. It spawned a number of things, including a BBC movie. The book was great, but when it was put into a movie form by the BBC, following the book word for word, it just didn't seem very funny. I guess that's the typical British way, though. (And, yes, I do have this movie in VHS format.) The new movie, coming in April, seems like it will be much more entertaining. Here's the big QT trailer. I can't wait!

By the way, I also use to have an Infocom game that I played on the family's Apple Macintosh 512k. It was one of those great text-based adventure games which made you think that has been replaced by shoot-em-up games that make the mind go numb. Good news, though, the game has been rewritten and is now on the web, in both Java and Flash versions. The Flash version even has pictures, but isn't the cheating a little bit?

The actual guide is even online now...