h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You mean, we could nic.... ummm.. borrow a silent one?

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Intersting questions......

Not even sure of the answers myself!!

Maybe something will come in due time.

If is the answer, who cares what the questino is?

There may be someone who cares, but he's probably on some small island that we're never going to be able to get to anyway.

Some lonley hermit? Like the man who rules the universe.

Powerful isolated hermitlike people can be kind of dangerous, can't they?

Yeah, too much time to think.

That's part of it. The rest of it is "but not enough to think about."

Yeah, you can tell the people that probably should be getting on with something else when they keep suggesting stupid stuff for you to do or daft ways to change things.

That puts things in perspective where I work.

There's always someone with big ideas or who likes trying to keep on changing and improving things just to see if it can be done or in the name of efficiency. Even if things work fine the way they are.

I usually figure that these people are careerist. If the changes pan out, they can put them on their resumes and be off to a better job before you can say "I give 110%."

Scarey.

Scary? Maybe, but this tendency falls well within the normal range. Most people have to wrestle with two conflicting urges: the urge for familiarity, and the urge for variety. If a store always has the exact same merchandize, eventually people will have gotten all they need from it, and stop coming. if this happens enough, the store may fold. Therefore, most stores change their stuff regularly. It's the same for libraries. If they don't buy the latest new books and display them prominently, a sizeable portion of their borrowers will go somewhere else.