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I just finished “A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear” by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling and it is one of the most entertaining nonfiction books I’ve read in a long time. My god. Just…my god.

I’m glad to see he’s published a new book. I’m a new fan.
09:58 PM - May 15, 2024
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I’m writing a bio for myself and I’m at the part where I say what I enjoy doing in my down time and I DON’T KNOW.
02:46 PM - May 10, 2024
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I think my website is pretty OK for someone with no design skills whatsoever

https://www.ad-astra-per-e...
02:08 PM - May 08, 2024
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My job was much easier when there was a massive astronomical event that everyone was interested in and wanted to know about 😂😂😂
10:48 AM - May 08, 2024
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Ok, everything is officially booked for AAS. I’m mostly excited to go to Madison, which is my former office mate’s favorite American city.
10:59 AM - May 07, 2024
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but I don’t WANNA do my grant report
09:27 AM - May 06, 2024
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How do runners who wear glasses handle the rain? Don’t your glasses become completely unusable? All fogged up? It can’t just be me.
10:50 AM - May 05, 2024
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I streamlined my webpage.

https://www.ad-astra-per-e...

(Ironically, nothing under “outreach” yet. I’m working on it.)
04:11 PM - May 02, 2024
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Because I can’t seem to find a place that sells photographic paper anywhere near me, I’m forced to pay $12 in shipping on a $50 purchase of 25 sheets.

Please, if anyone knows of a photo supply store in upstate NY, let me know. I’m dying here.
10:44 AM - May 01, 2024
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I don’t want to jinx it because it’s extremely useful, but I seem to have developed an instinct for how much information I can impart via a lecture in an hour.
11:57 AM - Apr 30, 2024
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Today I realized that I don’t normally hike in deciduous forests. Related, I also discovered the Universe’s only frictionless surface: a rocky incline covered with a layer of leaf debris.
08:46 PM - Apr 27, 2024
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I feel like this cloud formation should spell something.
07:40 PM - Apr 25, 2024
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I know my website is trash but I added a media page so it’s at least up-to-date trash

https://www.ad-astra-per-e...
07:08 PM - Apr 22, 2024
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“If a coral reef is worth saving, if some pristine mountain stream is worth saving, then so are the Flint Hills.”

https://www.kcur.org/news/...
02:42 PM - Apr 22, 2024
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thread 3 Threaded Spouts
Yesterday I found a large wooden stake on the ground that is perfect for mounting my pinhole cameras. So I took it and this morning I taped a camera to it and hammered the stake into the ground by a little pond in my apartment complex.
09:32 AM - Apr 22, 2024
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I just want to live in a small to medium-small city that has a hippie vibe. I don’t think this is too much to ask.
03:51 PM - Apr 18, 2024
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Companies didn’t give me the option to opt out of Mother’s Day emails this year, wtf
08:17 AM - Apr 18, 2024
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Hi, I’m obsessed with a new town.
05:08 PM - Apr 14, 2024
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I didn’t use Acme enough when I lived in Lawrence. Do you know how often I want to just design and print one shirt, or just a page of stickers, that I could just pick up in like 2 days?

I had no idea what I had at my fingertips.
10:56 AM - Apr 12, 2024
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I only like crafts that let me stab things many thousands of times.
01:47 PM - Apr 09, 2024
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The great thing about being an outreach astronomer instead of faculty is that I worked really hard in the weeks before the eclipse and yesterday and now I can take a day off. No classes for me! Just Taskmaster, a long walk, and ice cream.
12:40 PM - Apr 09, 2024
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Out of the 6 pinhole cameras I put out yesterday, these are the 2 that I think can out really well. The grey one is a pretty decent shot of the observing deck, and the blue one *might* show when we hit max phase (although it could be evidence of clouds, which tragically was at about the same time).
10:33 AM - Apr 09, 2024
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Trying to go against my nature and ignore the (very minor) things that went wrong and focus on the 1000+ people who had a really good time viewing the eclipse today.
08:43 PM - Apr 08, 2024
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Students on the bus to totality. Now time to focus on making my on-campus event not a disaster!
06:35 AM - Apr 08, 2024
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I have like 90 seconds in this 45 minute WNYT doc on the eclipse. My name is on the screen and everything.

Me around the 25 minute mark.

https://youtu.be/ysEjTtv-t...
The Darkest Hour: Looking ahead to the solar eclipse - YouTube

NewsChannel 13 looks at how the Capital Region is preparing for the April 8 solar eclipse.

09:01 PM - Apr 04, 2024
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I’m a complainer and I know this but…I just really feel like where I live in the northeast should be better at weathering snow.
08:22 AM - Apr 04, 2024
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Today my therapist asked if anything had made me happy in the last couple of weeks so I talked for 5 minutes about my pinhole cameras and how cool the sun trails I was getting are and when I was done she just shook her head and said, “You academics.”

🤯🤯🤯
03:20 PM - Apr 03, 2024
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Why do I always have to yell at the sports people in emails? Literally all I want is for people to be able to *hang out around the sports fields* during the eclipse, and these people are kicking and screaming every step of the way.
11:26 AM - Apr 03, 2024
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I have had multiple people during my eclipse blitz insist to me that they saw a lunar eclipse in the middle of the day and - don’t worry - used eye protection to view it.

I…am I missing something important about lunar eclipses?
06:43 AM - Apr 03, 2024
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I’m almost done watching 3 Body Problem and my main takeaway is that maybe I don’t really care for sci-fi.

I get why people like it, but they’re launching a head into space, man.
07:56 PM - Mar 31, 2024
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