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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)
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)
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)
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)
I love that the modern definition of "software innovation" is "the same app, but runs 10% slower and all the buttons are in different places"
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)
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
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)
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/
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)
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/
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)
The Artemis splashdown livestream starts in a couple of minutes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhDuOHMp0A
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)
Hey let's do a #FakeBookTitleFriday in honor of JD's new book coming out!
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)
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
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)
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.
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)
My latest optics paper just got published! https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-34-7-12319
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)
A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image
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)
Just realized you can sing "Cthulhu" to "The Love Boat" and now that's all I will do for the rest of the night
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)
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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)
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
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)
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)
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'm going to carry over here, about classic D&D stuff!
