friday updates!

[alexr_rwx]

I tweaked my back (again) -- perhaps taking up kung fu when I thought I was "pretty much better" from a unicycle-related muscle-pull-thing was not the best idea. I'll be back up and rolling pretty soon; I took the day semi-off for being horizontal and the application of ice.

I've been to visit the chiropractor twice; she seems really helpful, except I'm not totally sure I believe in this metric of judging how well my back is aligned by checking where my blind spots are. Actually, I'm doubtful for two reasons. First, the idea that back-alignment has a direct relationship with blind spots seems suspect. I asked, and she said something about a particular brain section that I should remember, and that having to do with integrating sensory input. Which, okay, maybe that's how it works. IANAN. Granting that there's something useful and measurable there -- the experiment that she uses to judge where my blind spots actually are is pretty suspect, in that she moves a pencil along a sheet of paper and has me report when I can see it again, asking me to focus on a dot in the middle of the sheet of paper. I can see where the previous marks were, it's hard to know exactly when something comes into focus if you're trying to look at something else (did it really come into focus, or did my eye dart over to look at the moving pencil tip?), and I can tell she's slowing down the pencil when it's getting towards the area she expects me to report.

That aside -- she pops my back right into place, helpfully diagnosed me as having an irritated disk, and suggested that I take some time to lay flat and apply ice. And that sitting in chairs is not a great idea for me right now, and that walking is probably preferable to cycling, what with the bent-over bicycle posture.

I'll be fine real soon :) Kung fu dudes, watch out.

Lindsey lindseykuper is finishing up her last day at work before Summer Vacation, as I blog, and she's coming to hang out in Atlanta for a while, hooray! We're going to do the ICFP programming contest in a few weekends, so ICFP dudes and dudettes had best watch out. We've been Scheming, and we're not afraid to map/reduce. Although we will probably not MapReduce.

And this weekend, Martin samarin and Lauryn yourusername and I are popping (gently, in my case) to Valdosta to visit that Andrew sault character.

OK. That's all I've got. I should write about learning R and futzing with my OLPC over on that other blog.

Comments

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Lindsey likes DrScheme; I typically use mzscheme with the cmuscheme mode in Emacs.

How about you? What would you recommend, O Stevie?

[sstrickl.livejournal.com]

I eat my own dog food :)

Though I'm an Emacs jockey outside of it, I do tend to use DrScheme for my PLT hacking. Some of the features (Check Syntax, the Macro Stepper, etc.) make it a godsend when they're needed. I resisted at first, but I guess by now I've been assimilated!

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

When I was doing stuff in Common Lisp, I got used to Emacs-with-SLIME -- but yeah! There's all of these DrScheme features that I should be learning and using...