Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Douglas Adams ... would have liked the fact that, on 29 April, Apple is releasing the latest iteration of its Macintosh operating system: version 10.4, code-named Tiger.

We would have talked a lot about Tiger. We would have got Tiger. We would have pre-ordered it, and installed it the moment it arrived, and then extolled its virtues and excoriated its shortcomings and told each other how it was built on BSD Unix, and tried to break it, and would have broken it, and it would have made us very, very happy. Now I'll have to do it on my own. And it will make me happy. But not as happy as it might have done.

The Apple [was one] of the most significant things in Douglas's life and, in a way, even more important than the [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] film ... Die-hard Hitchhiker's fans will flock to see the film, of course. Will others go? I don't know.

But this I do know: this is the last I, for one, will write, either about Douglas Adams or about his work. Film, schmilm. He was my friend. He's dead. I'm not. I miss him. The end.