dbsalk, 8 days ago to escribiendo

As I noted right here in this feed, this past Saturday was Towel Day. That inspired me to check out The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy from the library to re-read it for the first time since 2000. It still holds up! What a delightful classic.

Also worth noting: Douglas Adams basically described an e-reader device almost 30 years before Kindle came on the market.

#FridayReads #AmReading #Fiction #DontPanic #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Excerpt from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: "...he also had a device which looked rather like a largish electronic calculator. This had about a hundred tiny flat press-buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million 'pages' could be summoned at a moment's notice. It looked insanely complicated, and this was one of the reasons why the snug plastic cover it fitted into had the words DON'T PANIC printed on it in large friendly letters. The other reason was that this device was in fact that most remarkable of all books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub-meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in."
Sign, white text on red background: "DON'T PANIC AND CARRY A TOWEL"

lanartri, 14 days ago to dontpanic

happy #towelday and #dontpanic

diyelectromusic, 14 days ago to dontpanic

The sun is truly glorious on this Glorious 25th of May and Towel Day.

#RiseUp #TowelDay #DontPanic #GNUTerryPratchett

https://makertube.net/w/3wJUQJ9oHBgNRPo5XE5L6W

cookingroffa, 15 days ago to dontpanic Dutch

Happy towel day to those who celebrate #dontpanic

wariat, 15 days ago to dontpanic

A wiedzieliście, że Ziemia została zaprojektowana przez myszy w ten sposób, że w wyniku jej ruchu obrotowego z ponaddźwiękową prędkością liniową poruszają się punkty położone pomiędzy 42°N a 42°S? Przypadek? Nie sądzę! xD

#TowelDay #DontPanic #TowelDay2024

Ręcznik z napisem DON'T PANIC rozwieszony na lokomotywie. Obok jakimś cudem ten sam typ w okularach.

TarkabarkaHolgy, 15 days ago to dontpanic Hungarian

Packing my bag this morning. Happy #TowelDay! 😊 #DontPanic

izzyamar, 15 days ago to dontpanic

Hey, all you hoopy froods - I hope you know where your towel is! #TowelDay #DontPanic #DouglasAdams

_json420, 2 months ago to 420

Happy #42 day!

You know, it's kinda like #420 except it happens on April 2nd 😉

Like I always say, I like 4.2 in all orders of magnitude.

Yes, this definitely should be a thing. Please boost!

#DontPanic

punk, 3 months ago to dontpanic German

#OnThisDay Publication date 1978-03-08
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy was the first time on the radio

Topics: #DontPanic, #TowelDay, #DouglasAdams, 42, #h2g2, #BBCRadio

Don't forget your towel ;)
https://www.royal-plus.de/dna/indexE.html

altlife, 3 months ago to Quotes

#quotes #floorart #lifelessons #douglasadams #mostlyharmless #dontpanic #love

JoBlakely, 6 months ago to art

Don't Panic!

A quick morning sketch. in ink and Molotow acrylic marker. I've been a fangirl of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy books and original BBC radio and TV show for so many years. I felt like drawing Arthur Dent today.

I think I am telling myself to not panic.

I do love making messy sketches.

#art #sketch #HitchhikersGuide #sff #portraitart #fanart #ArtAdventCalendar #dontpanic #portrait #acrylicmarker

angelus_04, 6 months ago to dontpanic

How Gory is DON'T PANIC?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGIeAkabqjk&ab_channel=TheHorrorGeek
#TheHorrorGeek #MikeBracken #SickFlicks #DontPanic #RubenGalindoJr #HorrorMovie #HorrorMovies #HorrorFam #MutantFam

Jorsh, 7 months ago to dontpanic

Twitter is to social media what Vogons are to poetry. #HitchhikersGuide #DontPanic #FortyTwo

xela, 8 months ago to drupal

10 years ago #BackdropCMS was forked from #Drupal! 🎉

In Sept 2013 Nate and Jen announced their fork, named Backdrop CMS.
Short after that, mid-September, they published the manifesto.

Today, with release 1.26 coming out soon (stay tuned), it's time to celebrate! 🥂 🍾

Nice idea, BTW, to start a fork with the words #DontPanic. 😉

https://backdropcms.org/news/dont-panic

jennybdaly, 8 months ago to dontpanic

It's my birthday today, and a beloved cousin has been waiting years to make a very specific age-related joke. #DontPanic #DouglasAdams