Thursday, March 20, 2003

Today I am SETI@home's user of the day. By midnight, several thousands of people all over the world will have browsed my user profile and taken note of my heretical stance on unidentified flying objects and greenhouse catastrophe, not to mention possible Martian architecture. There's even a photo of me taken with my computer's camera; I look dreadfully serious and forbidding.

Another gray day. The garish juxtaposition of bursting artillery against the mossy green of night-vision Baghdad; Dubbya "talkin' smack" on TV, gazing wincingly at the teleprompter...

Somewhere, in a terminally abstracted parallel universe, people die.

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