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Does anyone still read this thing?
I have a blog post brewing about a number of things, and I miss writing longer pieces, so I might start blogging again. I particularly want to write about doing applied statistics in a way that you don't have to be embarrassed about.
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Guitar
Does anyone still blog? It seems nearly everyone has moved onto Twitter/Facebook. I miss being able to express thoughts in more than 160 characters ( Read more... ) -
Physiotherapy
I'm at Elevate in Sydney CBD. For a long time, I've struggled with flexibility issues, and I began to think something must be wrong. It turned out something is wrong-I have a minor skeletal deformity in my left hip joint, and my muscles have developed in a strangely imbalanced way to compensate. Except it isn't working, I have severely reduced ( Read more... ) -
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"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was 'Oh no, not again.'" - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. -
One for the stats nerds
At USyd, we did all our stats in R. Now I'm working at the Department of Health, and we do most of our stats in SAS. SAS is pretty different to R, and so I've needed to work hard to try to learn it ( Read more... ) -
Gainfully employed
A while ago, I applied for a job as a biostatistician in public health. I made it to the interview stage, and that seemed to go quite well. They said they'd contact me in seven to ten days. I didn't hear anything for a while, but eventually I bumped into one of my referees who said he'd spoken with my interviewers, and they sounded "very positive ( Read more... ) -
British Medical Journal publishes paper on the risks of head banging
Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal
This is the funniest thing I've seen in ages. I particularly like the mitigation options: many injuries could be prevented if AC/DC would stop playing Back In Black live, and instead play Moon River ;) -
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Sometimes I feel like I'm not so much in control of my body as sending it memoes. And it responds with things like "Tough job, hip rotation. Can you come back Monday?". -
True Temperament
I've been playing a few more jazz chords and moveable chord forms of late, and my ear's been getting a little better. Unfortunately, this means I've become more sensitive to how out of tune the notes in some of those chords sound as you move up the neck ( Read more... ) -
Judo
Judo is going well. I've been working on the fundamentals a lot recently, especially breakfalling. I'm finally getting to the point where I'm losing my fear of being thrown - the people in my club are nice and aren't there to hurt people, and I've learnt that by just going with the throw rather than resisting you can breakfall more cleanly. That ( Read more... )