He was there, you know, that guy . He was wearing a black button-down shirt, tucked into his bootcut jeans over a paunch, and yes, boots. Probably cowboy boots. He has small black sunglasses on and collar-length hair. He is rather too ready with his rather too strong opinions and tries voicing them rather too loudly to make friends with people that are much younger than him. You know the guy, he hangs around music shops, comic book stores, and anywhere that sells anything to do with jazz. He was there, and he needed a breath mint. I think his name is Richard, but most people shorten it. Would this have been funnier if he hadn't become that guy?
A frayed and ragged transmission which is in aspect a modulation of the static of the microwave background. It's either a half attempt or a wildly over-successful attempt at a tightbeam that runs at 45 degrees and reflects/deviates perpendicularly to present as a squared spiral in the direction of travel. Net effect seems to be wave/particle containment and amplification with amplitude peaks at the corner plots where the reflection takes place. It is difficult if not impossible to say whether the peaks are caused by the directional change, cause the direction change or are simply corrollary. The spiral containment accelerates the packets, maintaining full internal consistency and regulation, to the point where the data may in fact, rather inconveniently, arrive at the target destination shortly before it left its point of origin.