iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'd like to explain sidereal time to you but I must first explain right ascension and I feel like you have already stabbed me in your mind five or six times. 🔭

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If I could brainwash students I would get them to read the syllabus.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The pull of earth's gravity on the moon is 45% of the sun's. With every other moon in the solar system the planet's pull is greater than the sun, many are 1000s of times greater.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I show the bowl of candy and say "you're too old for these treats" and then give them the full size candy bars.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My wife took my graph paper. I think she's plotting something.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

After my astro class a student says during roll call you said (girl-name) and I forgot it was me because I go by (boy-name) now. So I said okay, and I crossed out the old name and wrote in the new one. If I were teaching a course on gender there might be more to the story but no.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nothin says lovin like somethin from the coven.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So begins my 32nd year at Spanel Planetarium. 🔭

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That's one handsome critter there. So sorry.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hang on, I'll check the cushions for loose change, sell some blood, rob a bank...

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

At one point they had us stop for a moment and turned off the lights so we could experience just how dark the dark could be.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The sky is filling with the stars of Autumn, telling their tales of the old gods. 🔭

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Iliad wasn't written by Homer. It was written by another guy named Homer.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My wife enjoys hearing me talk about my wood working tools until I get to the boring bits.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"If Andromeda wants to rumble, we'll rumble." ~ The Milky Way 🔭

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's starting to make sense, sort of.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Living in or near Seattle for 70 years means I say things like "sunbreaks" and "the mountain is out" and "no-room medium drip."

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Mine looks almost just like yours and I'm a Washingtonian for going on 70 yrs. I was raised by Okies. Grade school was where I learned it's not Warshington.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I feel you. Last night our Xbox passed quietly in the night. Services to be held offline.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Sometimes I have a terrible need for, shall I say the word, religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars." ~ Vincent Van Gogh

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Oh, Mother Night! Fold your dark arms about me. Protect me in your black embrace."

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You get the funniest looks from everyone you meet.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I feel the caffeine but I'm still waiting for the pumpkin spice to kick in.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If it is okay with you I'd like to add this language to my syllabus for Intro to Astronomy.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I have found one way my Bible can be useful to those seeking truth. I let short people stand on it so they can see through my telescope.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Perfect for songs like Can't get no stratisfaction, Tried to keep you stratisfied, Stratisfaction guaranteed, and others.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It looks like if someone tied your ankles together you couldn't play.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I went to school many years with the guy who painted that. Last time we talked he was teaching art at CWU in Ellensburg.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

That time I safely used my Jeep to view an eclipse. Aug 21, 2017 Independence, Oregon, USA. 🔭

Pinhole eclipse images from the breaks in tree leaves on the side of a white Jeep Wrangler.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I think this galaxy is where the aliens say they are from on the show 3rd Rock from the Sun.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I don't know why I love the coat hanger so much. In space you can hang your clothes anywhere.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

One of these oh hell I don't know what this is.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Whatever you have that will hurl a rock big enough to make it through our atmosphere with much leftover is a far more fearsome weapon than the rock. The math is left to the student.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Planetarium fan mail. Note: I don't actually have a blue skull shirt, green pants, and pink shoes. But I should. 🔭

Child's sketch of me with a laser pointer in the planetarium.

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Brad Snowder 🔭 @bradsnowder.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don't know how many times I've seen Waking Ned Devine but I could watch it again right now. Also Jojo Rabbit.

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