In which my husband tries to help with my science

My other half and I are both working from home today. I'm revising the first draft of a paper that I'm working on, and he's doing remote network engineering. Last time I sat down with this paper, I realized that, if I plotted my data in a certain way, I would be able to see whether it really did match my model for what's going on. I looked at it again today, and yes, it really is the perfect way to make the argument.

I was so pleased that I needed to share it. So I showed it to my husband. And then I tried to explain what I was modeling. After several versions of the explanation, he had a suggestion for improvement:

The graphs would be better if I used little pirate symbols on my graph.

Husbands. What would a woman scientist do without one?

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But did you calculate the arrrrrrr2 for the fit?

OK, in preview that superscript came out fine...

Your husband is clearly a genius, and a religious fanatic.

Pirate symbols send a clear message to the audience: Arrr, ye scurvy dogs n saucy wenches, the science behind this graph be impeccable, ye savvy?