(A spoiler warning for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I suppose.) In Adams’ story, a supercomputer called Deep Thought is tasked to answer ‘The Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything’. After 7.5 millions years of deliberation, the answer it finally gives is ‘42’. Apparently, Adams himself said that his choice of number was arbitrary, but there are plenty of fan theories about the ‘true’ meaning of 42. One of them points out that in basic computer programming, ASCII 42 stands for the asterisk, i.e. a wildcard symbol that can stand in for whatever you want. Perhaps Deep Thought is saying that the meaning of life, the universe, and everything is whatever you choose it to be. I’m curious to see what happens when I put the same question to Rando. What’s funny is that I stretch the radius to cover the whole city, but what I get is my local park. And it gets me thinking just how much significant personal history is linked to this very park, and how things that have happened here have shaped my life and who I’ve become in some profound and surprising ways. 20 years’ worth of memories hit me all of a sudden and I get emotional. In terms of the actual anomaly, there are quite a lot of personally meaningful things there, too: a uni library, a community garden, a free community library, and some outdoor exercise equipment. Alfred the Owl and the Call Of Wandering cow make me laugh. All of these things tie in with stuff that matters to me. For an extra dose of synchronicity, The Creator poster and the Friendly Stranger Tattoos sticker speak directly to two things I’ve been pondering recently.