The Galactic Patrol

I saw an email recently - someone was asking about making a 50th anniversary web site.  It got me thinking - I know such a web site would be up and updated briefly, some friends and family would visit for a while, and eventually the site would sink into obscurity - and eventually decommisioning.  But people like permanence - they like monuments.  What would it mean to create something permanent on the internet?  Nothing today is, or at least very little.  Certainly nothing dedicated to anyone's 50th anniversary.  Could something be created?

 

It would have to have a site to live on, for the forseeable future; and you'd need updated content, or nobody would come look at it.  Paying for that stuff, forever, means a pretty big investment.  So it would be expensive.  In a way, that's a good thing - a monument should be expensive.  You could hire college interns to write interesting prose, argumentative essays, breathtaking interviews - the content should, I suppose, depend on what is being memorialized.  If a particular author is no good, that's ok - there will be a different college intern doing it next year.  Just keep the content fresh, and keep people coming to see the monument.

 

So, who is volunteering to go start *that* business?

I'm playing the XBox game 'Oblivion' last night, and its getting a little late.  I'm looking for a good stopping point to save and quit - my first-level character just has to go fetch some guy named Martin first.  All of a sudden, the sky turns red, a dimensional portal appears, and I'm off on a crazy ride through another world!  It was engrossing - needless to say, by the time I got around to saving and quitting, "a little late" had turned into "way too late".  But hey!  My character made it to level two...

Scott has challenged me to come up with pictures of my mis-spent youth as a geek; here you go:

 

Me and my not-so-geeky sister:

 

Got the glasses - my geekdom is in full bloom!