Private Message to Professor Siz, Evelyn, Jeremy

[alt_linus]

Now that the fluctuations have settled, I have been applying rough approximations based on tonight's data to the results of Scansell's sheaf analysis, Wrdjeman's patterning application, and Kantorowich's Least Worst regressions, run by myself and analysed by Evelyn, and according to everything I have tabulated, the wards may possibly remain at least partially up for a maximum of one hundred hours. That, however, represents the absolute outside of their viability.

The part of the news where Dame Fortune smiles upon us is that according to this model, there are no earthquakes, no tsunami, no rains of frogs, and no herds of spectral erumpents or anything of that nature. The remaining wards, tattered as they are, will simply vanish softly and silently away.

It's what the model suggests, at least. We shall of course find out whether practice matches theory. As the old saying has it:

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

Comments

[alt_sinistra]

Thank you, Linus. Very much.

[alt_sinistra]

I've reported that out. Staying at Dover to help coordinate messages.

Evelyn, Linus, if you can be helpful at Hogwarts, stay there and help. If there's no specific need, I could use someone to help here, we'll want to keep very good summaries so we can pass information along promptly. Short timetable and all.

[alt_jeremy]

I can stay as long as it takes. Sounds like I'm of most use here.

[alt_sinistra]

Ta. That's a great help. I'm in the - well, Cedric's desk, making sense of his notes.

Private message to Jeremy

[alt_sinistra]

Sorry, didn't mean to leave you out, but I officially get to tell Evelyn what to do, and if I don't give Linus things to do, he's more than a bit prone to inventing problematic ones.

You're rather more a free agent.

Re: Private message to Jeremy

[alt_jeremy]

Right. Happy to help right now, though.

Good point about Moon. He was telling me about his grand hopes for the future, which are apparently still on. Think Oxford can survive him?

Re: Private message to Jeremy

[alt_sinistra]

Historically, I understand Oxford has been awfully resilient and understanding of eccentricity. I hope that continues.

Linus is a vast amount better than he used to be. I think the trick will be finding him someone there to keep an eye out, and we can't do that until we're sure who's teaching and all that.

Right. I found the list of who's associated with which government, organisation, mutual society of interested parties, grudging collaboration of interested parties who don't like each other at all but have common cause for some reason, and a few stray people defying category.

If you take the incoming messages and sort them accordingly, I'll work out who we need to talk to first?

Re: Private message to Jeremy

[alt_jeremy]

Right. Sounds like a plan.