towel day

the 25^th of may was is the international towel day, it commemorates the late douglas adams, the author of the hitchhiker´s guide to the galaxy. on this day, his fans all over the world carry around a towel wherever they go. why a towel, you ask, well, a towel is probably the most important item a galactic hitchhiker can carry:

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

i was also proudly carrying my towel around, hoping that people would ask me about it so i could tell them how awesome douglas adams is. but apart from a few inquiring glances on the bus, nobody asked me anything; this might have to do with the fact that i work in an underground lair (read optics lab) and don´t meet too many people. nonetheless it was great fun.

on robi´s blog (link is on the right side) you can see some friends of mine wearing their towels in a bar in cluj, now there are some froods who really know where their towels are.

the 25^th of may is also the nerd pride day and the universal day of the jedi (bleh-desu...)