Some people just can’t keep from boasting about their technology and gadgets. Next time a friend or acquaintance is battering on about how many megapixels their new camera has, why not remind him (or her) that the ‘Megacam’ at the 6.5-metre MMT Observatory near Tucson, Arizona has 350 megapixels, and that it takes pictures of things a little more interesting than astronomers goofing around with their cats?