wander and synthesize

There was supposed to be a storm but it wasn't too bad, so things were proceeding as usual.

So many things happened this week (i'm sitting and typing this from a new keyboard and monitor that i love), but I haven't been good about posting daily notes, so here's a big weekly dump to try and make up for some of it.

Met Curt Dodds today and talked a bunch about computing at IfA and at the university as a whole.

Admin day today - putting together the IfA computing survey, and talking to my financial admin to set up things for my office.

Still shopping for computers, replying to emails, and generally not being very productive.

Another low-science day, with most of the day spent in admin stuff or in trying to get quotes for desktops (why is ram so expensive!?

Lots of fun little things scattered amongst the tedium of admin and forms.

An update on the selection function analysis - I was trying to go from an r-band selection to a K-band selection (which is less impacted by dust and therefore easier to convert into a selection function in physical property space, with the naive intuition…

Finally had a couple of science meetings today and got to work on some science!

Not much research today either, mostly just going through trainings and forms.