The Blame Game
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
Douglas Noel Adams is credited with these words.
Who was he?
1952 - Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, England on March 11, 1952.
1958 - Adams first attended Primrose Hill Primary School in Brentwood. He took the exams and interviewed for Brentwood School at age six.
1959-1970 - Attended the Preparatory School from 1959 to 1964, then the main school until 1970. He was in the top stream, and specialized in the arts in the sixth form, after which he stayed an extra term in a special seventh form class, customary in the school for those preparing for Oxbridge entrance exams.
1971 - Adams was awarded a place at St John's College, Cambridge to read English. Adams attempted early on to get into the Footlights Dramatic Club, with which several other names in British Comedy had been affiliated. He was, however, turned down, and started to write and perform in revues with Will Adams (no relation) and Martin Smith, forming a group called "Adams-Smith-Adams." Later, on another attempt to join Footlights, Adams was encouraged by Simon Jones and found himself working with Rhys Jones, among others.
1974 - Adams graduated with a B.A. in English literature.
1979 - Adams and John Lloyd wrote the scripts for two half-hour episodes of Doctor Snuggles: "The Remarkable Fidgety River" and "The Great Disappearing Mystery" (episodes seven and twelve). John Lloyd was also co-author of two episodes from the original "Hitchhiker" radio series (Fit the Fifth and Fit the Sixth (also known as Episodes Five and Six, see explanation below)), as well as The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff. Lloyd and Adams also collaborated on an SF movie comedy project based on The Guinness Book of World Records, which would have starred John Cleese as the UN Secretary General, and had a race of aliens beating humans in athletic competitions, but the humans winning in all of the "absurd" record categories. This latter project never proceeded past a treatment.
2001 - Adams died of a heart attack at the age of 49 on Friday May 11, 2001, while working out at a private gym in Montecito, California. He suffered a narrowing of the coronary arteries which led to a myocardial infarction and a fatal cardiac arrhythmia.
Author of books:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) Life, the Universe and Everything (1982) So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish (1984) Mostly Harmless (1992) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul (1988) The Salmon of Doubt (2001) The Meaning of Liff (1983, with John Lloyd)
49 Years Old – dead!
His quotes that I discovered again is a kind of for warning for me.
He also stated…
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
I am looking at Retirement. And if there is any set of words that makes perfect sense – these are the ones.
But – God is the one that has it all in his hands.
This is going to be one huge adventure! I hope yours is as well today! I am praying and pulling for you.
~ Pastor Murray Lincoln ~
Resource:
http://www.s9.com/Biography/Adams-Douglas-Noel
Douglas Noel Adams is credited with these words.
Who was he?
1952 - Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, England on March 11, 1952.
1958 - Adams first attended Primrose Hill Primary School in Brentwood. He took the exams and interviewed for Brentwood School at age six.
1959-1970 - Attended the Preparatory School from 1959 to 1964, then the main school until 1970. He was in the top stream, and specialized in the arts in the sixth form, after which he stayed an extra term in a special seventh form class, customary in the school for those preparing for Oxbridge entrance exams.
1971 - Adams was awarded a place at St John's College, Cambridge to read English. Adams attempted early on to get into the Footlights Dramatic Club, with which several other names in British Comedy had been affiliated. He was, however, turned down, and started to write and perform in revues with Will Adams (no relation) and Martin Smith, forming a group called "Adams-Smith-Adams." Later, on another attempt to join Footlights, Adams was encouraged by Simon Jones and found himself working with Rhys Jones, among others.
1974 - Adams graduated with a B.A. in English literature.
1979 - Adams and John Lloyd wrote the scripts for two half-hour episodes of Doctor Snuggles: "The Remarkable Fidgety River" and "The Great Disappearing Mystery" (episodes seven and twelve). John Lloyd was also co-author of two episodes from the original "Hitchhiker" radio series (Fit the Fifth and Fit the Sixth (also known as Episodes Five and Six, see explanation below)), as well as The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff. Lloyd and Adams also collaborated on an SF movie comedy project based on The Guinness Book of World Records, which would have starred John Cleese as the UN Secretary General, and had a race of aliens beating humans in athletic competitions, but the humans winning in all of the "absurd" record categories. This latter project never proceeded past a treatment.
2001 - Adams died of a heart attack at the age of 49 on Friday May 11, 2001, while working out at a private gym in Montecito, California. He suffered a narrowing of the coronary arteries which led to a myocardial infarction and a fatal cardiac arrhythmia.
Author of books:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) Life, the Universe and Everything (1982) So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish (1984) Mostly Harmless (1992) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul (1988) The Salmon of Doubt (2001) The Meaning of Liff (1983, with John Lloyd)
49 Years Old – dead!
His quotes that I discovered again is a kind of for warning for me.
He also stated…
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
I am looking at Retirement. And if there is any set of words that makes perfect sense – these are the ones.
But – God is the one that has it all in his hands.
This is going to be one huge adventure! I hope yours is as well today! I am praying and pulling for you.
~ Pastor Murray Lincoln ~
Resource:
http://www.s9.com/Biography/Adams-Douglas-Noel
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