Our niece's fiance makes the official NASA web site

Lynn with our niece, Briggs, somewhere in D.C.

Did you know that the earth really isn't round and that it is constantly changing its shape? Did you know that some people actually care about this and know how to go about measuring it? People at the National Space and Aeronautics Administration do, for instance.

Today we take a break from our California kitchen remodeling project to bring you a shiny new link to a NASA web page... featuring our niece's handsome and well-thought-of fiance. He's been a Research Astrophysicist at NASA for some time now, but they just got around to putting up his biography on the Goddard Space Flight web site. (No remarks about government projects, please.)
We're very proud that we actually know somebody who is this smart. . . even if we have absolutely no idea of what he is doing, we like to think that the familial association somehow elevates our pedigree, even if only in our own minds. It's a most happy thought for us.
Alas, there are no pictures of Lynn on the NASA web site, so we post these here, along with his lovely girlfriend, of course.
Now to get you in the mood for the actual page, we offer this bit of prose pasted directly from it:
Lynn writes:  "I started my work in space plasma physics at Saint John's University [Collegeville, MN] while working on my senior thesis [Advisor: J. Crumley]. My thesis, titled: A Theoretical Approach to Analyzing the Size and Shape of Solitary Waves, examined the possible shapes of electrostatic BGK electron phase-space holes assuming a Gaussian potential."

Ready for some more? By all means, click here, Pilgrim.

Last summer the couple took a long weekend and drove five hours to Fayetteville, 
West Virginia. "We had a great time whitewater
rafting, golfing, and eating a delicious breakfast at our
little B & B" Briggs writes. 

We just have one simple question of our Research Astrophysicist: "So, when ya gonna marry the girl?"