Ah, if only we could use necromancy to raise dearly departed Douglas from the dead. He should be writing the sixth Hitch-Hiker book, and no one else.
As to the meaning of life, I feel it has to do with the most efficient application of wit under the pressure of living.
To digress, I am now 1337 in terms of post count.
EDIT: Wow, my post count actually reads leet.