Douglas Adams talk

[miriam_e]

I just had a wonderful breakfast listening to Douglas Adams talk about all kinds of wonderful things with that odd viewpoint he uses to illuminate things. The talk is a free download from the Biota.org site:
http://www.nobleape.com/biota/biota_adams.mp3

Do have a listen. It is well worth it. The sound quality is not great so if you are half deaf like me you might want to read the transcript at the same time:
http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/

Enjoy.

Comments

[belegdel.livejournal.com]

Thank you so very much for posting that!

Douglas Adams does (*sigh* did, I mean) have the knack of taking complicated things and smooshing them together with very common language and ideas and coming out with quite original but accessible ways at looking at very complicated things.

The transcript was interesting in far too many ways to enumerate but amongst all the other things, it's germinated an absolutely smashing idea for a short sci-fi story. I might using it for NaNoWriMo this year.

Serendipity indeed :)

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

In an odd way he still does because of a kind of immortality granted by files like this.

Great that it has helped you with developing a story idea. Excellent!