A question for fellow Astro-people when reviewing a paper for a journal that has a catastrophic issue that the hole paper is built on like a house of cards. Do you stop your comments on that one issue or outline each subsequent and resulting issue?

One galaxy from a cosmological simulation plus 3+ million Cloudy simulations and a lot of super computer time gets me this rather pretty galaxy image

The last few weeks I feel down the rabbit hole of Jack Reacher (audio)books. After the first 3-4 I realised that they have a lot of similarities to the Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories.

One off the most frustrating things about using HPC and moving to code to a new machine is the uncertain when your code breaks. Did I break something in the code or it’s a driver/module/library/compiler difference or something else? 😩😩😫

There is something both reassuring and terrifying finding out the issue with a simulation is due to an moi command and not everything else!

I’m jealous of Elminster Aumar’s beard. I can never grow one so long and think. #BaldurGate3

The super computer I need for running my next set of simulations is down for maintenance, Sonia the not quite-super computer I need to analyse my current sims… I guess I’m catching up on arxiv today…

Just like the battery in my laptop the capacity of my social battery has significant decreased: two one on one meeting snap two bus ride are now enough to put in the red. I use to be able to handle working in a office with other people. Now I can’t handle the sound then walking in the corridor.

My office is hosting a meeting this week which has the name of “ThunderKat”, which means I’ll have the Thundercats theme tune stuck in my head all week… 80s carton had good themes!