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wait is Krikket England?

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2023.06.07

Somehow a story line from the Douglas Adams "Hitch-hikers" books popped into my mind this morning. In it, a race called the Krikket live on a sheltered planet under perpetual overcast. The overcast is actually the pulverized remains of a super AI system. The AI encourages the people of Krikket to launch a space ship and see the great vastness of the universe beyond its planet-shrouding particles.

The Krikket take one look and decide "it's got to go."

It's only now, 35 years later, that I wonder if he's talking about the English and their place in history.

rand()m quote

On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong