User:Portlygentleman/sandbox

Thomas Polakis, or TFP as he prefers to be called, is an American Astronomer and retired engineer. TFP is well known in American Astronomy circles as the cunning old man with a sharp, but quiet tongue. After squirreling away enough money from Honeywell designing things to kill brown people, he retired to build his own observatory, the Command Module Observatory, located in Tempe (tem - pee) Arizona. A grouchy old man, TFP spends his days with his grand children doing photography, playing hockey, doing extra math, and other nerdy things. By night he can be found unnecessarily slewing his telescope to point at space rocks no one really cares about. Despite humanities lack of enthusiasm, TFP plugs away at them for hours on end, boring his friends with light curves and phase diagrams that they pretend to appreciate. TFP can be found in the comments sections of social media such as Facebook, Cloudy Nights, and in the Annals of Mattermost, where his most important education is delivered. Once a shy mole, thanks to Mattermost TFP has blossomed into the social butterfly that sometimes can't be shushed away easily enough.