I wasn't aware anyone had actually hacked the semaphore telegraph system, but there are a couple of fictional accounts of interfering with it. "Hornblower and The Hotspur" and "The Count of Monte Cristo" come to mind.tggzzz wrote: ↑Tue Nov 11, 2025 9:20 am Telecoms hacking for fun and profit, 1836 style.
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Current playlist; all of the HHGttG read by the original Marvin. Thankfully, he only reads Marvin as Marvin.
I loved the radio plays, and the TV show... but there's a lot of "little bits of business"... Adams' stock in trade... that don't make the cut because you'd never advance the plot in a "performance" of the work. This is a nice way to enjoy the unabridged works; Moore has a delightfully rich, brown voice not unlike aural mocha cappuccino.
mnem
mostly harmless.
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https://www.youtube.com/@Physicsduck
This guy is smart, uses colorful speech, and has fucked up and fixed his life pretty publicly. He is mad passionate about bringing science and applied physics to everybody, and describes himself thusly: mnem
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Loved the radio show; the aural and mental pictures are unrivalled.
Disappointed with the TV show. The graphics were superb, but distracted from the pictures. Zaphod's animatronic second head was laughable.
Liked Ken Cambell's stage play. He was appropriately anarchic, e.g. his Zaphod was good: two men in a single jumpsuit.
Haven't bothered with the movie. I assume all the irreverence has been ironed out by a committee.
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I bought the radio series on six CDs on the same day I bought my first CD player. The original radio series was by far the best and the television version was a severe disappointment for the reasons you mentioned. I didn't like the TV Marvin either. No idea what Marvin should have looked like, but that wasn't it.
The film was terrible. Except... And it's a big "except", the Vogons. The Vogons were absolutely superb. The rest of the film is dreadful. Arthur Dent with a successful love interest? Come on! Arthur Dent is the quintessential bemused no-hoper where women are concerned. Any female association would be entirely accidental and neither noticed nor understood.
I bought the Eagles' LP having "Journey of the Sorcerer" on it because I enjoyed THGTTG's theme music. It was a disappointment. Not often that a cover is better than the original.
The film was terrible. Except... And it's a big "except", the Vogons. The Vogons were absolutely superb. The rest of the film is dreadful. Arthur Dent with a successful love interest? Come on! Arthur Dent is the quintessential bemused no-hoper where women are concerned. Any female association would be entirely accidental and neither noticed nor understood.
I bought the Eagles' LP having "Journey of the Sorcerer" on it because I enjoyed THGTTG's theme music. It was a disappointment. Not often that a cover is better than the original.