?Happy? Douglas Adams Death Day.

I was once actively involved in organizing an extremely cool, brain-candy conference called the Camden Technology Conference (now Pop!Tech). I was on the Program Committee for many years. In April of 2001, we successfully secured Douglas Adams to come and speak at the October conference. I was ecstatic, as Adams had always been a favorite of mine and held at least two places on my rather short list of "people I'd like to meet before I start rotting".

Three weeks later, on May 11, Douglas Adams had the unmitigated gall to die...denying me and countless others from the pleasure of his company. I was toying with writing a pithy tribute, but find I am just too depressed. I'm going to go reread HGttG and sulk.

A great bio and far too much trivia can be found here.