I was one of the first to use the online medium as a way to talk about celebrity news in as close to real time as possible. . . . I was lucky to be one of the first. I also worked hard, and put in the hours - probably 16 to 17 a day.
To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams] mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle.