Original artwork, not a still
Last Chance To See · 1990
I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Adams confesses to a love of gadgets, and he's proud of it. His happiest day is spent programming a computer to do what would take ten seconds by hand. The joke is the wildly lopsided trade: hours of effort to save a moment.
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