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by Steve Gibson, Aug 19, 2004 9:21am PDT

My birthday present to myself was a bunch more sleep! Was up a bit late fussing with the CS:Source server I've put up temporarily. Cant seem to get the server password option to stick which makes me cry. Sure looks like that Google IPO managed to be all kinds of confusing. Sadly management there will only be able to buy 30 homes this year instead of 45. :(




































  • Fuck the shack is giving me problems tonight.
    In case anyone is curious.

    I think my audiobook was missing some chapters.

    7. Can someone explain the ending to "Dirk Gently's Holistic
    Detective Agency"?

    Here are two postings which explain it best:

    From: bhack@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Brendan Hack)
    Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1991 23:08:13 GMT

    First of all you need to know something about Coleridge. There was
    never a second part of the poem _Kubla Khan_. Yet, at the end of
    Chapter 6 when The Director Of English Studies is reading _Kubla
    Khan_ the book says `The voice (that of the director of english
    studies) continues, reading the second, and altogether strange
    part of the poem.'

    In the book, _Kubla Khan_ has a second part. The book is not
    actually set in our existance. It is set in an existance in which
    the second part of _Kubla Khan_ exists. This second part of the
    poem tells the ghost about the existance of the time machine and
    how to travel back and stop the ship from exploding. As we well
    know the explosion of the ship is what caused life to begin on
    this miserable little planet of ours. When Dirk and Reg realised
    this they simply went forward in time to when Coleridge was
    writing the second part of _Kubla Khan_ and stopped him. Dirk just
    interrupted him and talked so much that Coleridge forgot what the
    second part was going to be about and therefore could not finish
    it! This change of history sent reality back into our perspective
    and the human race lived on (Yay, yippee!).

    Quite simple really.

    From: Torsten.Lif@eos.ericsson.se (Torsten Lif)

    The second part of KK was written by Coleridge *while possesed by
    the ghost* and is the ghost providing info, not the other way
    around. I think the info is about the ship that is still in orbit
    around Earth.

    By confusing Coleridge (and introducing the albatross that then
    appears in the Ancient Mariner), Dirk got rid of the directions to
    find the orbiting spaceship (which they also sabotaged, but not
    until Reg had stolen some music [by bringing Bach there?]). Since
    they aparently had access to suitable explosives (the spaceship
    blew up in such a spectacular fashion that it could be seen from
    Earth), maybe it was also they who sabotaged the ghost's shuttle
    so that it all got started, too?