Things that are awesome
There’s a great couple lines in Douglas Adams’s Mostly Harmless, the concluding fifth installment in the unaptly named Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. It’s from a scene where the series’ protagonist Arthur Dent is coming to grips with his place in the universe now that Earth has been destroyed:
The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn’t, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn’t do it. Left to his own devices he couldn’t build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it. There was not a lot of demand for his services.
In that spirit, I’ll pass along this link, containing a .gif that shows you how a sewing machine works. Look at it! How amazing is that!
Tags: great ideas in action, Hitchhiker's Guide, Kottke, rudimentary sandwich-making skills
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October 2nd, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Now is not the Rhyme. » Lead Story » Demand for his services says:[...] my buddy over at Dangerous, Dirty, and Unfun wrote something recently that’s got me thinking a lot, he posted a couple lines from Douglas Adams’s fifth [...]