I have learned many useful things recently:
It is harder to organize a birthday party for a dozen munchkins, then it is to organise a four day festival for several thousand people (the previous limit of my organizational reach)
Both "Average Angry Professor" and "Angry Average Professor" would be Great Blog Pseudonyms
Blog pseudonyms are not reliable for anonymity (but we knew that from Ye Olde Days on the Net)
If you want people to read and comment on blogs in large numbers you should say something outrageous about string theory, or cosmology, or religion, or politics, or war, or medicine, or evolution. Or something gratuitous about sex.
Yer boring old stars and planets and shit are of minor interest.
Not enough people appreciate Billy Bragg. But apparently Lisa Randall does.
More people than I realised appreciate 80s ska.
Some of us blog about third-wave ska at length, too...
We were sorry we missed the munchkin party. The wee beastie was quite upset with us about it, she rolled over when we weren't watching in protest.