Frick! I could have sent myself to Mars!

Elvis, bin Laden and Hitler Join Mission to Mars
Elvis, bin Laden and Hitler Join Mission to Mars A NASA spacecraft is headed toward Mars and is expected to land later this month. When it touches down on the dusty red planet, so will "Adolf Hitler" and "Osama bin Laden."

That's because the spacecraft is carrying a special DVD that contains thousands of names collected online. The idea was to give the public a chance to participate in the mission.

[from NPR's All Things Considered]

I missed hitching a ride on the Phoenix lander, but apparently I can still send myself to the Moon aboard the LRO or out past Pluto with the Kepler planetary search mission.

While I was moving out of the loft last week (long story) I found my, er, graffiti notebook from 1983 or so. Me, Rob, Paul and somebody else from down the block were in a pathetically under-powered breakdancing/graf crew called HDC, which may or may not have stood for, um, "Havoc Destruction Crew." (I was 13, alright?) My tag back then was TSAR, which really makes me want to go back in time and hug/slap my poor 13-year-old self, for any number or reasons: the stubborn display of oppositional borderline-commie leanings in the Age of Reagan, the delusions of grandeur/royalty, the insistence on collapsing all my racial/scene frames (Rob despairingly wanted to know why I couldn't have a "regular" tag), the pretentious use of the Russian transliteration. I love that kid!

The notebook is packed in a box, but when I find it I'll scan some of it into flickr.