Reading: back issues of Amazing
Music: Ramone's "Judi Is a Punk"
TV/Movie: The Critic and Law & Order CI
Link o' the Day: The Voyager Mission Home Page

And welcome to Sunday!

Pretty busy weekend in spots, but I took some time to relax as well. I caught up on a number of Critic episodes I hadn't seen before. Jeez, I forgot that this show was early-90s. It was sort of odd to see references to Bush and the first Gulf war in light of the recent Son of Bush and his Son of Gulf War. The show remains as funny now, however, as it did then.

I finished up some freelance work, did some more writing, and continued some more of the Great Apartment Purge. One cool thing that happened was that I heard from an old friend of mine--someone I hadn't heard from in something like seven years or more. Let's hear it for the Internet! Exchanged an e-mail, the first of many more I hope.

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So I was talking the other day about what man-made form of representative expression could potentially last forever. My original thought when writing it out were the plaques on the sides of the Pioneer 10 and 11 space probes. How long before either of those fall into a star or get picked up by aliens? Click here for an image of the plaques.
The second thing I thought of were radio waves. Television signals and so forth. How long do those go out before they disperse too much to be readable? Do they disperse or do the frequencies remain constant until a strong enough electromagnetic force (like sunspots) interfere? Could aliens from Omicron Persei 8 one day be watching Futurama?

So what will represent mankind long after we're swallowed up by our own sun are all ready making their merry away across the empty blackness of space. Cheery, innit?

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And while we're out in outer space, take a visit to today's link, The Voyager Mission Home Page. 25 years and still signaling!

Cheers! and Hot Jets!