It took me a bit, but this is art. :)

You absolutely nailed it. Crispy outside; airy inside.

Like you, if I had to pick one album, it would be Master. (Black album is special as that is where I discovered them in high school. Imagine my shock when I discovered that Justice sounded so different! lol.)

There is something about those first few notes of One that just makes you stop whatever you are doing and lock into the song.

One of my colleagues has in his office a small framed quote from his graduate advisor. It reads: "Writing a dissertation is not fun; having written a dissertation is fun." :)

You made me try to approximate how many times I typed that key. Surely it wasn’t thousands, perhaps several hundred. Nope…easily ~1000 or so (I managed a university computer lab).

I must find out who this “mat” is and why he is now my new best friend. :)

Similar to those couples that share an email or Facebook account. Always throws me, if for no other pragmatic reason is that I often don’t know to which one of them I am talking!

Baby demand!! :)

I think about this a lot. Writing is so central to our sense of personal identity that it is quite vulnerable to put it out into the world and criticism will always be painful, so matter how much we tell ourselves "our words are not really us" because they are.

I was unaware of the existence of this publication....but now have read three articles and am enthralled! I may actually subscribe!

...and doing so for *decades*.....decades! :)

@astrokatie.com's book is the one that allowed me to really understand (at least at a non-professional astronomer level) what was really going on with the expansion of the universe. It was the first time I really felt like "Oh, I get it now."

"'self-working card trick' of language probabilities" has now surpassed "stochastic parrot" as my best LLM analogy. :)

It is valued. I received a lot of *really bad advice* as an undergrad (like "There is always room at the top!" type stuff). Thankfully, I was able to move in grad school to a less academic masters. Sometimes I wish I had pursued my career in English Literature, but not at the economic cost.

I'm south of a very large city, so targets in Ursa Major are often difficult, but I've gotten decent results from M81/M82, so I think I'll see what I can get. Like with anything in a light polluted area......hundreds of subs. :)

What a fascinating pair and it does look like you are starting to capture the "bridge" between them. While galaxies are small, I've found that I really like the typical smart telescope field of view (I have an S50) does capture pairs or multiple galaxies quite nicely. I need to give this one a try!

Carrots and guac.....that actually sounds like it goes together quite well. I need to give that a try as I am getting a little tired of other dips. (Also like how it appears you've got your carrots cut into planks!)

Babies say we clean now…pls feed us. :)

The design of this is so incredibly clever!!

The two data tables in their article are quite telling. Just wow.

I don't think it was..... I think it was a Radeon R9.

I wish I knew why I never could get Mint to work on my 2015 MBP. Just display issues constantly. Kubuntu worked just fine, or at least relatively fine (some sleep issues and would occasionally drastically mis-read the battery life).

I completely believe you. We had a visitor, that after having her first HEB tortilla, bought a second small suitcase and filled it with 20-packs of them to take home. :)

This is easily in my top five songs of the '80s. It's just perfect.

That is a gorgeous box set cover. For me, however, the “extended” edition is my favorite. Still, I absolutely recognize how the director’s cut tightened everything up and is probably the better version from a story standpoint.

Is best potato. :)

Is itty-bitties!!! :)

May yall and everyone who worked on this mission — even to the smallest contribution — not come off this high for a very, very long time. :)

Good capture of the colors. Historically, I always thought these were either a processing artifact or something introduced by refraction in Earth's atmosphere, but no, they are very, very real.