Apparently it was also Star Wars Day, but you know how I feel about that. I "celebrated" (i.e., had forgot about it so this is just coincidence) Star Wars by discussing with my mother the lightyears-and-parsecs-aren't-units-of-time thing, including, of course, a short "Han Solo did what in fifteen parsecs?" tangent.
(I still don't know how you can mess something like that up. Even if you do think it's a unit of time, you're still going to look it up to see how long a unit it is, so you don't do something ridiculous like have an ordinary human do something in 15 centuries. (Speedy!) Presumably, once you've looked it up, you'll find that it's a unit of distance. *sigh*)
Moving lots of books for the betterment of our public library system is a perfectly good way to celebrate the life and times of Douglas Adams. ;)
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Date: 2009-05-26 04:05 pm (UTC)(I still don't know how you can mess something like that up. Even if you do think it's a unit of time, you're still going to look it up to see how long a unit it is, so you don't do something ridiculous like have an ordinary human do something in 15 centuries. (Speedy!) Presumably, once you've looked it up, you'll find that it's a unit of distance. *sigh*)
Moving lots of books for the betterment of our public library system is a perfectly good way to celebrate the life and times of Douglas Adams. ;)