mcnees,
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Department Chair: I found something you did online.

Me: Uh oh.

Chair: No, why are you- never mind. No, it was your github project for plotting the positions of nearby stars, with Mathematica.

https://github.com/mcnees/Solar-Neighborhood

video/mp4

_thegeoff, (edited )
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@mcnees
"YOU! PUNY HUMAN! Give me the coordinates to your home system or DIE!"
"Really? OK. It's 0-0-0."
"But that's OUR home system!"
"Ah...yeah...I think I see what's happened here..."

#MicroSF

cschrader,
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@mcnees wow, this is cool

terri,
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@mcnees lol, I had a similar experience where one of my PhD committee members pulled up a chair in front of my seat before class and in an ominous tone he says, "Terri, I found you on the Internet."

It turned out he had some questions about GNU Mailman and since at the time I had written mot of the current docs, he had noticed my relatively uncommon name at the top of the file.

But he was also absolutely intentionally trolling me, something I learned to appreciate a lot when he later used his skills to manipulate my entire thesis committee into being too ashamed to suggest that my writing was "too informal" (aka, too easy to understand).

#OpenSource #PhD

mcnees,
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@terri lollll

zappaszep,

@mcnees the “we need to talk” of academia

Lironah,

@mcnees I built a model like this image in Second Life once, ages and ages ago. I had completely forgotten that project. 😲

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