Software

[Tom Droege <droege@wwa.com>]

Looks like I have heard from almost everyone on the software.  It is like 
herding cats.  I was hopeful that I could get several of you working 
together so that each did not do everything in a different way.  Two 
pipelines would be nice for checking the data, but 7 or so are sort of 
redundant.  Oh well, that is life at tass.  I hope there is one of you that 
I can glom onto and copy the whole process.  The impression that I get is 
that the process is not so difficult that each of you cannot do it 
solo.  Else there would be more effort to get together.

I am busy making spares of everything so that I can go out to AZ with a 
complete set.  This is pretty well done.  I have set up a big 
table.  Everything on the table goes to Arizona.  Slowly it is filling up 
with stuff.  In the next couple of days I will take ARNE apart and bundle 
up the pieces.

I am planning one more modification to my house.  The plan is to expand the 
little greenhouse at the end of my work room so I can put a Mark IV there 
for test and look up at stars through a window.  Not ideal for measurement, 
but OK for testing everything.  I should of made a better plan for testing 
the Mark IVs.  I am used to setting up electronic tests, and built the 
stuff needed for that.  But I did not think enough about the mechanical 
testing.

BTW, my computer seems to be dying.  Something about a bad long file 
name.  If I disappear for a few days that will be the reason.

Tom Droege