January 13, 2006

  • Hiding out ...

    So here I am in my office, hiding out, while the house is taken over by women!  No, the door is not locked.  But from the volume that is sometimes attained on the other side of it, maybe it should be.  Becky and Becca have three other mother/daughter pairs over and all indications are that the evening has been a success.

    A few weeks ago I told the story about an analysis I did that I got excited about.  The sequel to it is that it looks like, though it was a better way to do things, the final message wasn't much different.  The major players have to decide whether it is worth spending an extra month of spare time stolen here and there to rewrite the paper.  Based on the straw poll so far I'd guess the majority will vote for efficiency of action.  No problem.  You can't know until you try something whether it will turn out to produce a really interesting result.  It was good work.  In some sense that is it's own reward.

    Oh - and the consolation is actually that the "other paper", the one I was working on with a different colleague when I came up with the way to analyze this data, did find some neat stuff and will see the light of day.