Introduction to Tass - Not

[Tom Droege <droege@FNAL.GOV>]

I have been looking at the home page and the tech notes.  It has 
been slow as Michael is obviously working.  Keep up the good 
work, Michael.

OK, there is no nice document that is condensed to simple reading.
We wrote the S&T article for that.  It was hard work.  I still 
think I have said it right in "How to play the tass game" which is
available on the home page in the technical area.  To get tuned 
in to us, you have to read the stuff on the home page.  I particularly
recommend the technical note section.  This more than anything 
gives the flavor of what we are doing.  I would also recommend 
Glenn Gombert's tass page.  There is a lot of stuff there and he goes
into some detail about how he computes things.  Also lots of light
curves there so you can get a feeling for the "end product".

This is science at work, folks, on a day to day basis.  I know of
no place else (except if you are inside a scientific collaboration)
where you can observe what goes on.  You get pretty much the same 
treatment here that you would get if you were in a big collaboration
at Fermilab.  No one really gives you work to do.  You are expected 
to figure out how to help.  Well, (at Fermilab), if you are really slow
and wait for someone to give you work to do you can be sure it will
be the s____ work that no one else wants to do.

Tom Droege