20 May 2015: If you have not been at a Crawfish Boil, you have to try it. This Cajun celebratory cuisine is so curious. The Crawfish are not fish. They are spiny lobsters, and are boiled with corn, potatoes, and perhaps onions and seasoning and then eaten by hand (peel the crust to get to the flesh). And oh, you are not supposed to eat the dead ones. They are dead when you eat them, but if they were dead before being boiled, their tails are supposed to be straight. I had a few to remind me of the experience from a decade back. The locals can, and do, eat a few pounds.
The occasion was indeed celebratory. This was the meeting dinner at LSU, Baton Rogue, for Arlo Landolt's 80th year, over 55 of them dedicated to defining and observing standard stars (spanning 2300 nights allocated at observatories). Many names encountered while calibrating data were present in flesh. History and lots of discussion on filter systems and standard stars.
After the dinner got to climb to the top of the Astronomy building which houses the Landolt Observatory. The lunar crescent was our target. Here is wishing many more years to Arlo ...
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