Balafon

Almost ended up bouncing off the hood of a car this morning. Said car had suddenly felt the need to cross 2 lanes of traffic and turn right in front of me. Luckily I have been practicing my quick turns.

Ten years ago I signed up for the Canadian bone marrow registry. Seems like a no-brainer, especially since a nephew-in-law of mine has recently survived leukemia by means of a bone marrow transplant.

This morning I got a call saying I was a potential donor. But it seems that a bit of atrial fibrillation in my medical history may prove a deal-breaker. I offered to sign a waiver; I should have just lied…

Update: October 14: the transplant centre rejected me. They didn’t tell me the reason, so it was either the atrial fib or the malaria.

Went with Andrea & Emily to the Regent College all-campus retreat over the weekend. Andrea of course was working hard, leading the music for the sessions in her usual thoughtful and accomplished style, but I actually had a pretty lazy time, hanging out with Emily at the playground and putting her to bed early. This was nice, since I had a ferocious cold.

There’s nothing like your own bed after a trip away.

We took a road trip last week, first to Sun Peaks (very nice — thanks, Airmiles!), and then to Calgary to visit Andrea’s parents.

Emily did extremely well with the driving, apart from blowing chunks all over the place on a winding section of road. Goes with the territory, I guess.

I have made a new release (v1.0.3) of the Neurocognitive Linguistics Laboratory software.

The program is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux at:
http://bitbucket.org/kulibali/neurocogling/downloads

PLEASE NOTE: if you used the v1.0.2 Windows installer to install v1.0.2, please uninstall it before installing v1.0.3.

This update contains a few bug fixes and some internal improvements:

• Link rendering is more friendly and efficient.
• Plugins can now be loaded on OS X.
• Bug fix: fixed crash when loading files containing self-links.
• Bug fix: fixed crash when creating new items after multiple items were selected.

Please see the changelog for further details:
http://bitbucket.org/kulibali/neurocogling/wiki/Changelog

The Neurocognitive Linguistics Lab (“NeuroLab” for short) is a program that allows you to experiment with the relational networks of Sydney Lamb’s neurocognitive linguistics model using a convenient GUI, and record the results of your experiments in tabular form.