I’m rereading Terry Pratchett’s “Night Watch”, and was poking around at some of Sir Terry’s historical inspiration

Def done that for a meteor shower

Would you believe that I met Alexei Leonov in the 1990s, at a Planetary Society event? I was a high school space nerd. His wife had a big bag of Payless Shoes

Mel knew that you would be fine

Please tell me it was the provost’s cat walking on the keyboard

That was our conclusion, too!

A whole bunch, on the second and first floors. Labeled as “Core”, with C prefixes on room numbers. It’s a whole different world from the offices

But I needed to spend 3 hours sending rec letters. It really is the dumbest possible process

How many of our brilliant colleagues spent hours clicking radio buttons to certify that each of their dozens of students is in the top 10%?

Resurrecting a dead windsurf board as a “drag board”: a land simulator to practice windsurfing tricks, to build muscle memory. Sawed off the nose so it will fit easier in my car, and refresh my epoxy skills. Here’s the world’s best coach explaining why: encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn...