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Michael Z

Trying to use this more since Elmo seems to be putting the last nails in Twitter’s coffin.

Hi. I love , , , , , .

I started off in (with side passions in and ) and currently work in a public library.

I was a early adopter and am still getting used to all the age-related diseases it sped up the onset of.

I have a good sense of humor, am loyal to my friends, and am vicious to my enemies.

I played a lot of in my youth and uni days, starting with D&D but not staying with it long. I spent a lot more time with these systems: FASA Star Trek, Victory Games 007, and 2e and 3e. A friend dragged me back into D&D (5e) in 2023, and we use LEGO for minis and maps, because that’s how we roll.

My uni gaming group was a mix of physics majors and comp sci PhD students.

My current group is a mix of and model train geeks.

I have also been dabbling in last couple of years, when I have time.

I am also responsible for a meme of sorts at the production offices.

@fizzixrat

responsible for a meme? instant follow

@fizzixrat
One thing I'd suggest, if you haven't done this yet:

Either search for hashtags you are interested in, or click on a hashtag you're interested in in a post to search for it, and then, in the search, hit the plus at the top. That'll follow the hashtag, so new posts with that hashtag show up in your home.

Bear in mind that with Star Trek, you might want to follow hashtags for individual series, too...

@fizzixrat Nice to meet you. The X was like giving us the bird, me thinks. Babylon 5 was awesome. Also like DoctorWho and Star Trek. Did you like Torchwood?

I volunteer at an observatory most summers. Did you ever work at one?

@mpax Torchwood, of course. :) Also Sarah Jane Adventures and even Class.

I did some volunteer work at the uni planetarium and observatory end of undergrad and a few more years. Mrs and I got married in that planetarium, in front of a Zeiss VI. I spent a lot of time there watching the Voyager press conferences and JPL feeds as a lad. (A selling point when I asked about volunteering a few months after the Neptune encounter - they remembered me hanging around answering science questions.)

@fizzixrat Cool. I got to meet the guy that wrote up the material on Neptune. I volunteer at Pine Mountain Observatory, which is part of the Univ. of Oregon. Central Oregon has grown a lot, which is ruining the dark skies.

@mpax Alan Stern was a grad student and postdoc near me when I was an undergrad. He had his eyes on Pluto then. It was fun to see New Horizons come together.

Co-discoverer of the F ring of Saturn was one of my profs and I first met him when I was in high school. Discoverer of the first discovered T rex footprint was also one of my profs too. (Had class with him the day of the press conference.)

Connections to the 2001 Nobel Physics Prize too

@fizzixrat Cool. They're awesome people to know.

@mpax Mrs has some interesting connections as well.

Francis Collins was one of her profs. He left shortly after to run the Human Genome Project and eventually NIH.

Also an interesting childhood connection to the inventor of the blood bank and a weird familial connection to the Unabomber

@fizzixrat Wow. The Unabomber is a scary connection.

@fizzixrat Star Trek, B5, and physics?

And bunnies to boot!?

*Swoon*

I mean, added.

@book I used to use clips of one of Garibaldi’s Starfury maneuvers in the classroom, to demonstrate Newton’s Laws in space. 😉

@fizzixrat love books and libraries. Welcome

@fizzixrat Nice to find another B5 fan out here. It's my favorite show and I don't plan to do it I wind up rewatching it once every 2 years or so.

@DavidGoldfield I’m pretty much on an annual rewatch cycle. :)