Whenever I submit a paper to the journals, I think of the line in Roger Zelazny's Isle of the Dead, of "casting jewels into the darkness." Maybe my papers aren't quite as impressive as creating new worlds, but I like 'em. This one I like quite a lot. But then I always do.

I did a naughty thing. It's been 5 months since I got the bivalent booster. Based on past data, one might expect that its powers should be waning. I'm traveling to Chile in a few weeks. So yesterday I asked the nice people at Safeway (who don't know me) for one. And here I am.

In the late 1980s I wrote some code doing assignments with the multi-fiber instrument Hydra. It clearly fell into the camp on the right in this xkcd. xkcd.com/2730/ It stopped working because I had put in a trap to exit if the date of planned observation was >=2000.

Well said.

It's another day of the balloon saga and America is on pins and needles.

Registration remains open for the "Wolf-Rayet Phenomenon in the Universe" meeting to be held in Morelia, Mexico June 19-23rd. Early registration fees are available through March 10th. Please see wruniverse2023.irya.unam.mx/web/ for details!

Heading down to Chile to enjoy #LCOLife for the first time in three years.

I'm back as Las Campanas Observatory (Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory) preparing to observe on Magellan!

Staring role in Meet an Astronomer on this cloudy, windy night.

174 weeks and 2 days, in case anyone is still interested.

I love the fact that the same actor who voices Boimier in Lower Decks is playing Feynman in the Oppenheimer movie.