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Absolutely. All the cats screaming why their food is late. :)

Very well could be; I’m much closer to the coast. It has been a few years since I’ve planted peppers but I want to be more deliberate on what I do. Really wish I could do herbs inside but CATS. :D

Hatch peppers! That is what I need to do! Almost scared to do jalapeños again….those things can grow faster than I can eat them.

I recently started putting spanish chorizo on my pizzas. It is so good and I like the texture contrast with traditional pepperoni, which are often much thinner.

Tramontina....I got their 8" and loved it so much I picked up the 10" a month later. I've had them for over two years and the nonstick is still, well, nonstick. My only quibble is that those rivets can be annoying to clean as food really sticks to them.

When I was very young, I was obsessed with the Arecibo message to M13. I knew it would get weaker with distance, but I was too young to really understand how. Your article is a thorough and wonderful answer to my wonderings of so many decades ago. :)

Indeed, I rewatched it not so long ago and was shocked that I completely zoned out on it….and I probably hadn’t seen it in a decade and purposefully wanted to rewatch it!

Do you get HEB's Texas Heritage ones? Those are my favorite. It's like a dollar more over the standard beef ones, but I think it is worth it.

I just had a flashback to every article idea that I've had for two decades and thought, "Nah, no one would ever publish something so simplistic." What a fool I was. Leaving money on the table, as it were. :D

This would be something @gaghyogi49.bsky.social's eagle eye would be useful in spotting in the films!

This is fun. I sent this question out to my astronomy club and for the answer I pointed them to your article. :) (I never would have gotten the sixth one....I thought it was in a permanent polar orbit around the sun.)

I remember their biorythems programs! I never quite understood what it did/was supposed to do, but I was utterly fascinated by it as a seven year old on our 2068.

Is big baby!!!! Also…is strange baby…. :)

I rewatch COSMOS about every eighteen months and episode 13 is always a poignant reminder of the threat.

Writing is the most creatively-fulfilling thing I have ever done. And, while I suppose I get to do a lot of it in infosec, it isn’t the same as losing oneself in writing prose.

Very cool….glad the clouds cooperated long enough to snag some galaxies!

Baby has cave. :)

The Japanese version is getting more readily available. What's your opinion of it? I like it, but sometimes find it a bit too MSG forward. (It's $6 for the 500 g bottle at my local store.)

What an evocative photo. As much as a visual astronomer as I am, I can't argue against the practicality of a smart telescope here...someone inexperienced will experience so much more. What were some of the targets from last night?

I like the way you phrase that. My colleagues and I play this silly game in which each of us tries to see how long we can go in a day without inadvertently anthropomorphizing an LLM when talking about them.

Babies!!!!!! :)

I will never fail to be shocked that such small things can be identified six decades later!

You nailed the crispness of the bacon on the jalapeño poppers (something I never can seem to get quite right....even with using thin bacon).

My first computer.....1983. Never did have any of the cartridges for it, just loaded everything from tape. I had a flight simulator of which I was quite fond.

I often wonder if this decision was in the shooting script or a decision by the director. It certainly was the right one, for the reason you mention.

Do you prefer cherrywood or hickory? Wait…hold on…lemme start over… :)

That mission patch, as the kids say, is fire. :)

This is so exciting! I really enjoyed First Light. (The title difference between the UK and US versions....is it just a different publisher?)

I understand that fully. Thankfully gliders.....1/2 the price of powered flight. (It still is expensive...) I really did enjoy your article. I was into flight sims growing up in the 90s and as my job needs me to travel several times a year, I developed a love for commercial aviation as you did.

I think you got Mercury's half phase!