The Application Deterioration

It is revealed that Howard is a federal NASA employee on loan to Cal Tech.

It is declared that Howard works for NASA and is on loan to CalTech. However, Howard was employed by CalTech long before he did anything with NASA. He had his job there both before and after he went to space, as well as during all the preliminary preparation (such as his training).

CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #523

As some of you might know, I have long avoided having any social media presence. I am completely ignorant of all things Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and whatever other cyberforum the teenage cognoscenti have recently anointed. I know the pound sign is a crucial element to communicating via Twitter, but have never personally tried it. More importantly, I don't feel like I'm missing anything. My life doesn't feel lesser for it. When I began these vanity cards almost twenty years ago, I decided that they were a perfectly adequate way of communicating my personal thoughts on a large scale. Sure, they're a one-way communication, but I actually prefer that. My thinking was, and still is, that this world of ours already sends too many messages. Or perhaps consciousness, by its very nature, acquiesces to being barraged. Either way, my self-preservation seemed to demand digital inaccessibility. Or, to put it more simply, the only hater I can tolerate in my head is already in my head.

References Superman (1978)