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Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

3 hours of working outside (including carrying literally a ton of chicken feed in 20kg increments) in -25C temperatures has earned me almost as good of a beard as my dad, who frequently gets mistaken for Santa Claus.

Me, looking at the camera, wearing many many layers of clothes. I'm wearing a hat with a neck tube covering my whole face, a scarf over that, and a hood over all of that. The neck-tube is almost completely covered by white shaggy ice crystals. There's also quite a lot of frost on my hat, my scarf, and all around the edge of my hood. The sky behind me is bright blue and I'm in full sun.

Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

Also, the guy who delivered the chicken feed recognized my voice from local radio interviewing me about astronomy stuff all the time! "Oh!! You're the astronomer!!" (Yes there's only one professional research astronomer in Saskatchewan, so he wasn't exaggerating).

(And he definitely didn't recognize my face, because I was cleverly disguised as Santa Claus)