That most-peculiar book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, describes in Fit the Fourth how representatives of the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries, and other professional thinking persons confronted Deep Thought, the second greatest computer in the universe, when it threatened to find the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

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Last night, as sometimes happens, I had a sudden craving to hear "Hotel California" by the Eagles. But when I got to the Eagles directory on my hard drive, I saw I had a bunch of albums of theirs that I'd pirated years ago, and never listened to. I decided to play one of them instead of hearing "Hotel California" yet again (and probably getting it stuck in my head for a few weeks yet again).

I chose this song from 1975.

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