Skulls in the Stars

drskyskull@mastodon.social

<p>Greg Gbur; Professor of optical physics, blogger of physics, history of physics, and pulp fiction. Opinions are my own (and, of course, mighty Cthulhu's)</p>

Posts

Post #4297797
Book blog 23 of 36 for the year: Queen of the Cicadas, by V. Castro! https://skullsinthestars.com/2026/07/31/queen-of-the-cicadas-by-v-castro/
Post #3808448
Me, watching people struggle to avoid leafy greens in their meals: well well well looks like my eating habits aren’t so shitty after all *proceeds to get explosive diarrhea for completely different reasons*
Post #2252958
New plan: everyone on Twitter just tweet a random location they think Mush is at, and we’ll know who’s correct based on who gets suspended
Post #1893806
So when I got my tenure approval letter some 15 years ago it was dated April 1 and to this day I’m not completely sure if I have tenure
Post #1845345
I love that the modern definition of &quot;software innovation&quot; is &quot;the same app, but runs 10% slower and all the buttons are in different places&quot;
Post #1637111
New book blog post -- book 11 for the year! The Lost Village, by Camilla Sten. https://skullsinthestars.com/2026/04/23/the-lost-village-by-camilla-sten/
Post #1637106
I feel like my life goal is to be like that Islamic Golden Age scholar who died by being killed by a pile of his books collapsing on him, but LEGO
Post #1481636
Will be looking for lots of #DungeonsAndDragons folks in the near future! Been playing ever since 1st edition, and have been playing a lot of 5th edition lately. Also been doing #OldSchoolDungeonsAndDragons threads on twitter that I&#39;m going to carry over here, about classic D&amp;D stuff!
Post #1184714
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
Post #1091371
Book 9 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year! Dead Astronauts, by Jeff VanderMeer https://skullsinthestars.com/2026/04/11/dead-astronauts-by-jeff-vandermeer/
Post #1071055
The Artemis splashdown livestream starts in a couple of minutes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhDuOHMp0A
Post #934089
Hey let&#39;s do a #FakeBookTitleFriday in honor of JD&#39;s new book coming out!
Post #840211
I am still amazed that my cat Rascal trained me to give him an ice cube in his water and I have no idea how he did that.
Post #840210
My latest optics paper just got published! https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-34-7-12319
Post #532133
A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people&#39;s attention to this image
Post #371052
Just realized you can sing &quot;Cthulhu&quot; to &quot;The Love Boat&quot; and now that&#39;s all I will do for the rest of the night