There's no call to be quite so personal.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Peter, Paul, and Mary
Amsterdam Concertgebouw
Peter Schickele (x2)
San Francisco Symphony (2 seasons in grad school at UCSC, until I realized that I always drove the carpool)

Figure out that combination, folks!

(Have we mentioned that ADS now shows 208 citations for this paper, so it was eventually worth the grief?)

To maybe finish that thread off - referee seemed suspicious of something but wouldn't say what, wanted to see (a) raw + reduced FITS files and (b) even more detailed + documented narrative of data treatment + calibration. Ref complained that 11-page document (b), for their eyes only, was too long.

The 1954 meteorite ricocheted off a big console radio before striking Mrs. Hodges. The radio is on display (with the rock) at the Alabama Natural History Museum. We saw a gleam in the director's eye at the thought of an Exhibit but told him to leave poor Annie Hodges where she was.

From my experience writing one of these some years back, there are immigration attorneys who specialize in this kind of contact and do literature searches to find who's in the field and has stature to write such a latter. The attorney contacted me; I can't picture navigating the process solo.

"I don't care, I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me."

A measurement or classification (along with information on how those were done). So everything from enormous born-digital surveys of the sky at multiple wavelengths/times to artisanally handcrafted microdata verging on anecdote. (Anecdotes may be data, albeit with poorly known provenance+scope)

Since the original Voorwerpjes sample, @galaxyzoo.org volunteers have identified more than 40 additional galaxies with confirmed AGN-ionized clouds >10 kpc from the AGN themselves, sometimes in companion galaxies. (Not even counting candidates from JWST or first-look Rubin data). They're everywhere!

I'm pretty sure that whatever Chris is about to tell, it was worse.

I know, right? I can't let it go. (BTW, the later "Voorwerpjes" usage was completely my fault and deliberate). Couldn't help myself having a look with 15-cm Celestron Origin a couple of nights ago from a dark site - and there it is, hanging right below IC 2497.

I seem to recall an impression of John Faulkner doing an impression of Professor Kingsfield.

Opposite. Grouching on ZTwitter back in the day got me a refund from Delta for twice putting me in a blank-fuselage-wall seat after paying the window surcharge. I'd make a note of this if United had any significant presence at the local airport.

Could you elaborate? I don't see what's unusual.

Is it keyed to your email address or something? I mean, you could answer with someone else's name. Maybe even a real one.

- Signed, someone with 35 years' experience in the environment

That's long gone in the rear-view mirror...

With all that detail, I neglected to actually tag DragonCon @dragoncon.org