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Doctor Who and Dirk Gently

  • Cikk

I was browsing through the Doctor Who site, inspired because ABC (Australia) are working through all the episodes 4 nights a week at the moment; we're in the Tom Baker years.

Douglas Adams was a script editor and author during this period, but the mention of this unfinished story grabbed me with the details: I ran across a mention of Shada in the plot guide for The Five Doctors, and it rang a glockenspiel-full of bells.

A professor Chronotis, at St Cedd's in Cambridge, you say? Reg, an elderly time lord, you say? A room that seems able to appear midway up a sofa-retentive staircase...?

Puts a whole new spin on Dirk Gently's as a Doctor Who novel. Sort of. A bit.

Anyway, I really enjoyed both Dirk novels the first time through, and will enjoy reading them again. I love that about Adams' work - you forget all the subtle little bits that make it not just funny, but downright weird. Increases replay value, as they say in the Games Biz.

(As usual, I did the web searching after the post, and everyone already put this together a million times - plus the City of Death plotline that I hadn't yet stumbled across - but hey, it's new for me, and you're welcome to suffer vicariously through me).

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  • Anonymous
    May 04, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    May 05, 2005
    My girlfriend has the Wireless Optical Notebook Mouse, and swears by it; I tried it briefly and swore at it instead - too heavy. And I'm suspicious of the dongle approach.

    The Battery weight is not cool - until they can run on a single AAA (or better, kinetic energy) for six months, I'm not really interested in a wireless mouse. I can't go back. :(

    Actually, I'm :D about the optical notebook mouse, so it's not so much :( as <:| .
  • Anonymous
    May 05, 2005
    I just weighed my MX518 since I happen to have a postal scale handy (don't ask). It's 110g.

    According to this page:

    http://star-techcentral.com/mouse/spec.asp?pid=11

    The microsoft notebook mouse is 50g. Dunno if that's close enough for you or not. I do like my MS wireless notebook mouse, but the lack of the thumb buttons, which I use all the time for 'back', would /eventually/ be a showstopper for me.
  • Anonymous
    May 05, 2005
    The postal scale says the MX1000, for comparison, is 168g. Which is odd because I would swear it was much heaver by feel.
  • Anonymous
    May 05, 2005
    The MS wireless notebook mouse with battery:

    92g

    without battery

    62g

    Note: I am not a freakish obsessive. I just play one on teh intarweb.
  • Anonymous
    May 05, 2005
    Jeff, just... put down the scales... slowly. I'm going to put down my scales over here. See? Now I'm unscaled. Now I just need you... to give me... your scales...

    Wonder if the mouse skates have much to do with perceived weight... My cubemate bought some special mouse skatin' tape, and it actually seemed to increase the friction from the hard plastic feet, rather than slippity.

    I like having a supermodel mouse. Wonder if I can remove part of the casing and make it lighter.

    Oh, and "Back" button? I haven't needed one since I started using a tabbed browser! Everything's a new tab, or closed. To go back, I'd need a tab tree, none of this 2D bunk!
  • Anonymous
    May 07, 2005
    The comment has been removed