Oh, nothing, I just found out that there's now an actual minor planet with my name on it, and I am (literally!) over the moon about that fact:
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/01/12/a-minor-planet-a-major-thrill/
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@scalzi Congratulations, John! This is ace!
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Congrats to you and Ms Kowal!
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That's pretty awesome 😎. Congrats!
@scalzi We have a couple of rooms in our house named after you and all. 😁
Well, now you •do• know how to get a space potato named after you: just put in [how many decades?] of consistent work on producing very popular & successful science fiction! Easy peasy!
@scalzi Conversation between two rocks: "Hi, I'm Splrgla! Named after the Goddess of Fridge Magnets and Protector of Lichen!"
"I'm Johnscalzi."
"God of...?"
"I'm not sure. Something to do with bacon, I think. Or guitars."
Seriously, though that's awesome. I think you have officially Made It.
@scalzi That's a pretty huge potato, to be fair! Now all it needs it to appear in one of your stories. You could use it's number—nobody would work it out.
That is cool as fuck! Congratulations!