Macs, Milestones and The Ultimate Answer

This is a very special post, my Tender Lumplings, for a couple of reasons.  The first of which is that this is the first installment of A Night In The Kingsbury Run to be composed and posted on a Mac.  Yes, I have joined the dark side and bought an Apple.  It's not that bad really.  Actually, it is pretty darn cool.  I'm digging it a lot.  I bought it for one specific reason, to make music.  Everyone said if you want to record music you should have a Mac so I broke down and got a used one.  But now I'm digging it so much I might just switch to it for everything.  Maybe.  We will see.

The second thing that makes this post so special is that it is post number 42.  And I shouldn't have to tell you why that is important.  But I will explain anyway just in case some of you are not in on the secret.

You see, 42 is the most important number in the galaxy.  It isn't the funniest number, that is 37.  And it isn't the loneliest number, that is the number one, or so I've heard.  No, 42 is the most important number because it is the answer.  The answer to what?  Well, everything.  It is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.  The only problem is... we don't know the question.  You see, when the great computer Deep Thought was created they asked it what the answer was.  So it did as it was asked and found the answer: 42.  But without the question, the answer was a little hard to understand.  So another computer had to be built to figure out the question.  But it was destroyed before it could complete it's program.

So I think we should help.  What do you think the question might be?  Let's play the ultimate game of Jeopardy.  We have the answer, now let's find the question.

You may, and should, recognize all this as the work of the late Douglas Adams.  The author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series and other wonderful works would have been 60 years old this year on March 11.  He passed away on May 11, 2001.  And each year he is celebrated on May 25 with a holiday known as Towel Day.  He was a visionary writer, a charitable man dedicated to preserving disappearing species, and a guitar player.  And it is fitting that this post be written on a Mac, Douglas was an aficionado.

So, don't panic, just grab a towel and have a good day.  Until we see each other again my Tender Lumplings.