bits and pieces

I worked on my fitting-a-line document, including some re-structuring. I spoke with Wu about job applications, her thesis, and her thesis schedule; it is due in May. I talked to Bovy about various referee reports. I spent a long time talking to Lang about the tweak and verify problems, for which we both think proper specification of a good objective will go a long way towards solving the problems in general. It is a nice point, and very Sam-like: Specify your objective carefully, and everything else is just clever optimization. Just.