Another Year

Today is my birthday and my kids got me a cake. But it doesn't say "happy birthday." It reads "The answer to life, the universe and everything." Can you tell from this that one of my favourite science fiction books is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams (the only thing you really need to take with you when you travel is a towel)? In this book, an enormous supercomputer is asked the answer to the ultimate question of life. So over a period of 7.5 million years it churns and churns away until at last it finally spews it out: 42.

This is going to be a great year.