So Long and Thanks for All the Words: A Toast to Douglas Adams

A Toast to the Frood Who Really Knew Where His Towel Was Today marks what would have been Douglas Adams’ 73rd birthday—or depending on which timeline you’re accessing this from, his 3042nd, or perhaps his perpetual 42nd in the universe where time loops infinitely around that particular number. Regardless of your dimensional coordinates, we at The Multiverse Employee Handbook wish to raise our electronic towels and digitally frosted Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters to the man who taught us how to laugh in the face of existential terror. In a universe of infinite improbability, Douglas Adams somehow managed to be the most improbable hero of all—an eternally procrastinating writer who nevertheless produced works of such staggering genius that they continue to ripple across realities decades after their creation. Like a literary version of the Total Perspective Vortex, Adams showed us our insignificance in the cosmos but, in a magnificent twist, made us laugh about it rather than be driven m ... Read full article.