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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 23/09/2026

What was your first computer growing up?

A Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8 computer.

Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 20/09/2026

Just got my "The Rest is History" Roman Empire soccer (that's Latin for "football") jersey. Love it. #therestishistory #ancientrome #history

A Roman Empire soccer jersey with the player name "Virgil" and the number "X."

A Roman Empire football jersey with The Rest is History podcast as the main advertiser.

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 23/08/2026

Rudy would like an answer as well…

A little brown dog looks up expectantly.

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 23/08/2026

When the dog (vicious beast pictured here) runs into the woods and come back with a big ol' rib bone!

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 02/08/2026

Rudy, at 6:01 PM requesting his horrifically overdue supper.

A cute, little brown dog looks up at you expectantly.

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 15/07/2026

My wife had a late eighties Sentra and we used to joke that it was "very car shaped."

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 26/06/2026

If you see this, post an archer.

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 02/06/2026

Received this beauty today. A Casio G-Shock BX5600 with "high" resolution Memory in Pixel (MIP) display. Imported from Japan! watches Casio #BX5600

A Casio G-Shock model GW-BX5600-1JF watch on a 7.5-inch wrist

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 07/04/2026

With #Artemis on the rebound, it seems like a good time to post my Jim Lovell autograph. Some guy named Neil signed it too...

A magazine page with Neil Armstrong and Jim Lovell's autographs.

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 07/04/2026

I'm reminded that I have autographs of Jim Lovell, and Neil Armstrong... On the same freaking page!

A page from the EAA Oshkosh airshow magazine from 1988 with Neil Armstrong and Jim Lovell's autographs.

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 31/03/2026

The oldest photograph ever; at the Harry Ransom Center in #AustinTX

The oldest photograph. Displayed in Austin TX

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 22/03/2026

Fun fact: The FAA still lists the visual reference point as "Wang Towers" even though Wang went bankrupt in 1992.

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 25/12/2025

Happy Christmas to me! (Casio Mens Duro Blue Mdv106b-2av, 44mm case, 50mm lug to lug, modeled on a 7.5 inch wrist)

A blue Casio Duro watch on a 7.5 inch wrist.

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 10/10/2025

Costco! (in Nashua NH anyway)

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 25/08/2025

The Abominable Dr. Phibes. Look it up.

The movie that traumatized me most as a child was __________

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 20/08/2025

@aussiastronomer.bsky.social to be pedantic, this was the original orientation of that photograph. Still awesome.

"Earthrise" from Apollo 8 photographed by astronaut William Anders in the original orientation.

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 12/08/2025

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is: Back when I still worked for the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Headquarters:

The Smithsonian Institute headquarters in Washington D.C. a.k.a. "The Castle"

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 21/07/2025

The old Harvard Square theater used to have giant screen double features. “Fail Safe” and “Dr. Strangelove” was the bomb ( did you see what I did there?).

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 14/06/2025

Hundreds line the main drag of small town Groton, MA in the rain to protest for NO KINGS! #nokings #grotonma

A large crowd in the small town of Groton, MA protests against the current US administration.

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 19/04/2025

I'll bring my Gropius house pictures.

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 13/04/2025

I got really into Bauhaus and Brutalism and am lucky enough to live near some famous examples of them.

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 25/02/2025

Grand Canyon National Park, from the South Rim. I think I see you!

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 10/01/2025

Exterior of the Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA Fujifilm GFX 100S; Fujinon GF 35-70mm f/4.5-5.6 WR lens Acros +R film simulation #photography #fujifilm #GFX100S #bauhaus #gropioushouse

Exterior shot of the Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA

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Matt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 10/01/2025

Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA Fujifilm GFX 100S; Fujinon GF 35-70mm f/4.5-5.6 WR lens Acros +R film simulation #photography #fujifilm #GFX100S #bauhaus #gropioushouse