Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

went to watch The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy last night.. i really liked it, but that was cos i hadn't read the book.. while i watched my three HGTTG-purist friends sitting next to me wince at every change to the original book! i'd love to make this post as ironically humorous as the book really is.. but then that would render Douglas Adams quite useless, the improbability factor of which is 2 raised to the power of 17165102505 against one.. which happens to be the phone number of a buffalo apartment where a really interesting party was taking place after the movie.. but hey! i digress!!

so we had a post-movie party.. got the regular large pizza & buffalo wings and lots of booze.. it was nats, sank, arul and i.. gaurav (aka gpRX100) and bhavna came as well.. and dan came too with his friend laurie. dan had burned a CD of the original BBC TV series of Hitchhiker's Guide.. which was truer to the book, but not quite as slick as the film, though i have been since reliably informed that the audio books are excellent. so the story thus far is that in the beginning the universe was created. this made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

anyways, won't bore you with the details.. but we pretty much did what (old) grad students do.. sat around and ate, drank and talked.. conversation was pretty funny though.. and i think we had one of our better small parties for a looong time. and so to close this post, i'd like to finish with a very famous line from the book: "so long, and thank you for all the fish", but i won't, because that will be as incredibly cliched as ships hanging in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.. and of course, as we all know, the answer is NOT always 42.. cos if i ask you if you are really an idiot, and you answered 42, i will be compelled to think that you really are an idiot, which is marginally better than being a politician, since anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. which is why news of George Bush's election and subsequent re-election spread very fast because as you well know, nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. and when he proceeds to let us know that we are safe, i really wanna say ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that i wasn't previously aware of.

NB: Marvin, the chronically depressed paranoid android was hilarious!! totally stole the show! i could tell you more about him, but you would not like it.. so Don't Panic!