The Importance of Being Idle

A Fork In A World Of Soup

Okay now this is the kind of story I like: NASA's Voyager 1 probe, at 8.7 billion miles from the sun, has entered the heliosheath (which is the bit where the solar wind and interstellar gases start to mix) and is therefore leaving the solar system once and for all. That is, to me, just mind boggling, the idea that something man made is leaving the solar system... that's pretty heavy. Now of course, ever since the first radio broadcast we've been sending signals out into interstellar space, although they'll be far too weak to get very far, but the idea of a physical object out in the cold vastness of space... like I said, heavy. I hope Bush doesn't fuck up NASA too much, and that we get to see the rest of Voyagers journey, I'd love to know what its going to find in the next fifteen or so years.
In news I like much less, a single based on a fucking mobile phone ringtone is apparently set to beat the new Coldplay single to number one this weeked, due to some hideous flaw in the music buying public. I absolutely fucking HATE the 'crazy frog', there really is remarkably little I find more irritating at the moment (just the constant TV ads drive me to distraction), and I fear if I ever heard that ringtone on a phone I'd probably push its owner under the nearest train/bus/car/steamroller/combine harvester. I mean I'm not the biggest fan of mobile phones at the best of times, although I'll admit to them being handy on occasion. I suppose its the whole 'culture', if that isn't a total debasement of the word, that comes with them that I hate. Modern life is, indeed, rubbish.
Y'know when I was walking about today I thought of all sorts of things I had to talk about, some of which were even slightly interesting, but I am so tired right now that I can hardly think what my name is, let alone anything else. Just one decent night's sleep, thats all I ask...

posted by BadMonkey @ 5:33 PM