Will wonders never cease?

A party working on a source Word document decided to reinvent the wheel and individually highlight each insertion and deletion in the document. So far, so good, as this simply mimics Word's revision mode, and the result is actually more readable than previous essays by this same party to use revision mode in some kind of mathematically valid (yet unreadable) manner that, moreover, ignored Word's paragraph autonumbering feature.

The new twist is the addition of a third highlight color, reflecting the revisor's comments. This, too, actually works pretty well, given the context.

I suppose what really burns me is the usual stuff. There is text in each document that has no analog in the other, and in some cases, such text contains revisions, suggesting that it is not some johnny-come-lately chunk of prose, but one that has been around long enough to be revised!

I am one-third of the way through the job and have entered nearly 60 comments, about half of which are mine, and the other half the translated comments of the revisor. Once I get halfway through the text, I can consider knocking off for the day, as this piece is due Wednesday morning, and I am already thoroughly exhausted being thorough, if you get my drift.

Cheers...

Southwest sky at night...

It rained last night, and it's been raining on and off today. The sky is still overcast. This bodes well for the sprouting of mushrooms.

On Friday night, I took a series of 15-second exposures looking to the southwest and then submitted the whole lot to a program called DeepSkyStacker, which analyzes the images, registers them, and then "stacks" them, doing some cool things along the way, such as get rid of unwanted "noise." Here's the result:



Not bad for a first attempt.

Cheers...