Dear #ZZ9 ers - the latest #MostlyHarmless should've reached your email earlier this week. Ping me if it's missing!

MH174 includes the next part of #IanGibson 's draft sketches for a comic of LTU&E, plus a great summary of the upcoming Curious King fine press edition!

My fave 5-book trilogy. Earth:mostly harmless. Deep Thought explains 42 in the movie at 42m. Agrajag is reincarnated in different forms eg petunias & killed each time by Dent. When the Infinite Improbability Drive interacts with 2 missiles they become a whale & bowl of petunias; odds were 8767128:1.

Prayer for the day

"Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen."

Part 2

- "Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen."

Most of the trouble people get into in life comes from missing out that last part.

#humour #prayer #scifi #mostlyharmless #douglasadams

Douglas Adams

AGI Risk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZjmZFDx-pA - Connor is a smart guy, but this AGI path is a null set. core risk is the combination of {human agency * (ai + robotics) efficiency} circa 2030 - AGI with current substrates is like worrying about your Alexa ordering stuff from Amazon for itself ;> @npcollapse #ai #agi #mostlyharmless

Finished my pair of socks using the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy yarn set.

https://www.eleventyonewindmills.com.au/product-page/hitchhiker-s-guide-42
https://www.ashandevedesigns.com/

#yarnClub #makealong #handdyedYarn #socks #sockClub #knittingSocks #handdyedYarnAustralian #neverNotKnitting @knitting #knittersOfTheWorld #knitting #knittingAddict #knittingLove #knit #knittersOfMastodon #fibreArts #crafts #handmade
#42 #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #massivelyuseful #mostlyharmless

(Stolen from the Imgur, I don't know who made this or took the photo.)

Passable Vogon cosplay by seal.

#introductionpost

Hello, I'm an #EarlyRetired #GenX former #Unix #Linux #Storage #Networking etc #SystemAdmin residing in #Lethbridge #Alberta #Canada

This is my self hosted #iceshrimp instance for me, myself, and I.

Related, I have a self hosted #vernissage instance where I post things I find while wandering around with the cameras. You can find those at @another

I intend to post via short handwritten notes, using fountain pens and whatever paper is at hand. (attempting to anyways... A keyboard is a bad habit that is hard to give up.)

My toots are ephemeral and might be deleted at any time.
(I run irregular sweeps of my posts and zap them when I feel like it.)

I prefer to stay away from politics, when possible. I may boost or create a #shitpost or #meme about them from time to time. Those are more likely to be deleted sooner than other posts.

Here is a pile of hashtags related to me :

#GenX #MostlyHarmless #EarlyRetirement
#Retired #Unix #Linux #network #storage #SysAdmin
#SciFi #B5 #Babylon5 #BSG #BattleStarGalactica #Firefly
#Photography (See @another)
#FountainPens #Handwriting #BadHandwriting #MostlyScribbles
#YQL #Lethbridge #Alberta #Canada

#HitchhikersGuide fans and especially #zz9 members should be aware (as of this toot, or perhaps reading your email already) that our quarterly magazine #MostlyHarmless is up to issue 172, to catch you up with the latest in #DouglasAdams related news and trivia, and future plans)

nice to see old friends, forgetting their geopolitical differences, election pressures and just going out for a fun night on the town ;> @potus @kremlinrussia_e #mostlyharmless #friendship #parody

Vogon constructor beams devastate the Earth. 2024.

But not before ZZ9 covered the event in the latest #MostlyHarmless!

Members - it's time to check your inboxes

Nonmembers - you can do that too, but you'll need to sign up at zz9.org to start getting MH issues!

#MostlyHarmless

What a wonderful world.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/elite_game_retro/