Mike

@Laura Whitaker Ha! I read colony and thought state! (But the states didn't exist when he was born.) Too smart by half. :-) Thanks for helping me wake up today.

@Vaer Ditto. I was totally stumped by RE_EA. I completed the puzzle with a brute force alphabet run. I got the gold star, but I couldn't figure out what a resea was. I had to read here to learn it was a rebus.

@Dan I started out with afk as the answer here. (Away From Keyboard) But, irl can work, too.

@Jane Wheelaghan Tralfaz?! Yuck!