Still at it

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Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:53:40 -0600
From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
To: tass@tass-survey.org
Subject: Still at it

High everyone,

I am still here and still working away on software.  I am writing code
to sort through all that data, and output all the data on interesting
stars in a form where it is easy to process the data by other code.
Then I hope to be able to look at these data packets and find
interesting stars like "shooting fish in a barrel".  It is very
tempting to make very simple cuts and to find things right now.  The
simple cut on V-I > N quickly gets lots of good things.  But I am greedy
and want to look at not so obvious things around mag 12 where the noise
from various things makes it hard to work.

I don't recommend writing software under the influence of various forms
of opiates.   One tends to see what one wants to see.  I looked at a
$$variable in perl for a couple of days before I could see the $$.
Sigh!  Other people want this poison, but they can have it.  It really
warps one's thought processes.

Tom Droege
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  Thomas F. Droege
  droege@fastmail.fm