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.
The Advance Readers’ Copy of Lois McMaster Bujold‘s latest Miles Vorkosigan book is available for purchase at Baen’s WebScriptions.
I don’t suppose it’s usual for the other cubicle-dwellers to watch a large man bawling over his keyboard at the end of his lunch break.
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