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thomasconnor

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Astrophysicist at Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics --- Runner --- Failed hipster --- Bad at Jokes

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thomasconnor, to random
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I'm listening to the soundtrack as background music for work this afternoon, and it's triggering a midlife crisis.

thomasconnor, to cycling
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I biked far too far yesterday on a bike in need of lube and with underinflated tires. On the plus side, it's back at my house, where I can maintain it ... but man are all my muscles tired today...

globepitchbot, to boston
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NY Times and Washington Post win 3 Pulitzers each. While we did not win any Pulitzers, the winner of the fiction prize did teach at these Boston-area universities

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@globepitchbot Gonna need another Pitchbot

thomasconnor, to random
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Local news websites are like

"Police brutalizing someone already in handcuffs"
autoplay next video
"Perfect spring pasta with Lisa Washington"

thomasconnor, to Astro
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One of my silliest hills that I will die on:

STS-31, the #SpaceShuttle mission that deployed the #Hubble Space Telescope, launched #OTD in 1990: April 24.

However, the astronauts didn't deploy the observatory until April 25.

My view -- which is not held by the good folks at STScI -- is that Hubble's birthday is thus the 25th; I liken it to April 24th is when Hubble's parents drove to the hospital / went into labor, but the 25th is when it was born.
#Astrodon #HistoryOfAstronomy #NASA

thomasconnor,
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@jknodlseder @kellylepo A fair question, although -- to stretch my analogy far beyond breaking -- I reckon that that is perhaps more akin to baby's first words. (And with HST you have the added wrinkle of first light or first light after COSTAR?)

universalhub, to boston
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Blue Line being kind of a dick, due to signal woes near Maverick
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/blue-line-being-kind-dick-due-signal-woes-near

thomasconnor,
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@universalhub on day 1 of their Maverick -- Wonderland closure, too

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Stopped by the Boston Public Library this morning and caught the finish line getting removed. Hopefully everyone had finished by the time they started working!

thomasconnor, to random
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Worked through the taxes for the year; now to take a break before going back to check over everything.

Dreaming of the day the government just knows how much we paid, owe, and are due and skips this whole Intuit-funded nonsense.

thomasconnor, to random
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Traffic doesn't look too bad, but you can make out where the totality was.

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Look, I love me some Edmund Fitzgerald, but I'm not sure a hotel breakfast room in Oklahoma at 8 AM is the time or place for it.

thomasconnor,
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None of the Oklahomans here are even bobbing their heads to the greatest story ever told about a Great Lakes maritime disaster. What a waste!

thomasconnor,
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@femme_mal I think I was the only one, unfortunately

thomasconnor,
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@Kevin Very much not in keeping with the Cowboy aesthetic that otherwise permeated the building.

thomasconnor,
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@femme_mal that's the rub!

thomasconnor, to random
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There's nothing quite like when a baseball player is about to step up to the plate, holds the bat straight up, looks at it, and makes a deep exhale. You know they're about to hit into a 5-3.

timrichards, to random
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I have a Logitech wireless mouse I haven't used in years, and the scroll wheel is acting weird - not working at all, then working for a few hours before stopping again. Any ideas how to fix it?

thomasconnor,
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@timrichards I'm about due to open up one of my mouses for a similar reason. The fix for me is, hopefully, contact cleaner all over the wheel.

Ofsevit, to random
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With March likely to stay below 60 in Boston, and high temperatures in Dec-Jan-Feb of 64-60-60, March (59) will have a lower maximum temperature than the three meteorological winter months in Boston.

Previous occurrences:
1916 (61-66-57-55)
1915 (62-62-61-60)
1909 (67-60-59-55)
1906 (61-68-63-56)
1900 (66-60-60-59)
1891 (56-56-62-55)

thomasconnor,
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@Ofsevit @universalhub April 2020 is basically a default outlier in almost any data set, to be fair.

thomasconnor, to random
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I have apparently missed three albums in the discography. New single slaps, though!

thomasconnor, to random
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Never would have bet that Dick Cheney would outlive Joe Lieberman.

thomasconnor, to random
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Fuck.

Cars.

thomasconnor,
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@Kevin Almost became a ghost bike on Berkeley St

thomasconnor, to random
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I try my darnedest to avoid gamer culture, despite playing video games. But I did get interested in the effort to beat before the servers shut off. It was fun -- a clear goal, an immovable deadline, teamwork -- even if it reinforced how weird Twitch is to me.

But now the whole thing ends with a fizzle because the last level to beat was just an invalid troll job, and the real victory went unremarked when it happened a few days prior.

thomasconnor, to books
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Is Sea of Tranquility good? I very much enjoyed Station Eleven, but I found Glass Hotel to be a bit too cute. I will abide by the results of this poll.

thomasconnor,
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@dctrjack A year and a half later -- I'm inclined to agree with that assessment! In retrospect, I should have planned on having more book to read on this trip.

thomasconnor,
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18 months later, I finally found the time to read Sea of Tranquility. More enjoyable than Glass Hotel, won't stick with me as long as Station Eleven, and a fun juxtaposition to then read Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions immediately after. Just don't make my mistake and bring it as your only book on a long trip...

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