Day Twenty-Five: More Geometry in Astronomy

As was the case during the scanning marathon on the week of July 25th, the remainder of the week's entries, being as it is that my duties in the astronomy department seem to have entered a homogeneous trend, I assume it will be of little interest to the reader to receive a daily account of the same activity for the remainder of the week; I believe that the title of the entry will suffice to explain the nature and extent today's work enough...

It would be negligent, however, to not mention my attendance of the Master's defense presentation in the auditorium here at the Imaging Science Center today at 9:00, as this event was an impetus for much of the thought that ran through my brain later in the day as I assumed the duties of my astronomy position; it may suffice to say that although her research seemed very well-coordinated and she was undoubtedly well-prepared to discuss the extent of her work, I must say - I am afraid quite laconically - that her work showed little originality or true substance. In other words - let me clarify my seemingly rash attack - I felt that the procedure in which she engaged herself had been completed, as she herself admitted, many times before, and it seemed, although I am willing to admit to detractors that I am regrettably only minimally acquainted with remote sensing techniques, that her procedures were even commonplace. Unemendable errors seemed to abound in the work, too, as was later pointed out by one of the committee of "judges" (for lack of better term)...While my carping is not to say that her work was terrible, it is, I feel, to say it is mediocre, and mediocracy is not what I feel ought to be the objective of any branch of human knowledge anywhere...
I assume the reader will not believe me after the critical comments of the remainder of this paragraph, however, when I do say that the experience was quite enjoyable and enlightening for me in any case...

Now if you will excuse me, I am feeling a little ill and should like to turn in early today for this reason...

But before I say good day, I would like to say that today's "Classical Piece of the Day" is...
Claude Debussy's Nocturnes: Fete

Good Day,
Tyler C. Lucero