fortytwo

There is a theory which sta­tes that if ever any­body dis­co­vers exactly what the Uni­verse is for and why it is here, it will instantly disap­pear and be repla­ced by some­thing even more bizarre and inexplicable …

… There is ano­ther theory which sta­tes that this has alre­ady happened.

Dou­glas Adams, 1980

How many drugs do you have to take to come up with lyrics like this? Pro­bably many! It comes from the song »The Weaver’s Ans­wer« from the 2^nd wei­ter »

After all, ran­ked 29 of the »500 grea­test albums of all time« of the Rol­ling Stone maga­zine, the debut album by Led Zep­pe­lin was a suc­cess. wei­ter »

On Novem­ber 22^nd, 1968 — that is today 42 years ago -
the suc­ces­sor to the pre­vious con­cept album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Bandwei­ter »

Oh my God, it’s full of stars!

Much more could Dave at the end of the, in my opi­nion, best — and tim­e­l­ess — wei­ter »

What does Octo­ber 10^th, 2010 (42day) has to do with for­tytwo? It’s sim­ple: When I look back on my com­pu­ter sci­ence degree, I remem­ber how to con­vert num­bers from deci­mal to the binary sys­tem. This is alre­ady wei­ter »

In Cap Fer­ret on the ter­race, I’m wait­ing on the Towel Day 2010 — in per­fect »Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s clot­hing« — that, some­where to be wei­ter »

To prove that Erik Spie­ker­mann, Erik van Blo­k­land and Ralph Oli­ver du Car­rois in 2009 kindly – wit­hout kno­wing it – named a font after wei­ter »

Today, Peter Gabriel is cele­bra­ting his 60^th birth­day.
Con­gra­tu­la­ti­ons! He gives him­self a new album cal­led Scratch My Back, wei­ter »

The ori­gin of the num­ber “42” was explai­ned by the aut­hor Dou­glas Adams in a Use­net pos­ting from 1993. When asked why the ans­wer is “42”, he wrote:

The ans­wer to this is very sim­ple. It was a joke. It had to be wei­ter »

11. Februar 2010 09:42 Uhr | Axel Becker

On Decem­ber 5^th, I’ve uploa­ded the forty-second video on Vimeo. My HD chan­nel 42seconds (42 seconds (almost) daily, whe­ree­ver I am. Fil­med with Kodak Zi8 (1280×720 px / HD video material">wei­ter »