Book debugging

S. told me to prove the lemma "A iff B" (from his soon-to-be published book) for practice. "A only if B" was really easy, but the other direction was not clear. I tried it many different ways, and reduced it to several different statements C, D, E. I did not know whether C, D, or E was true. So I asked S. in our meeting today "is it the case that C?" and he said, "of course not!" This was befuddling, and I lost my way for awhile, so we talked about it. After both staring at it for a long time, I figured out that "A if B" was false by coming up with a counterexample.

Book debugging: a story of triumph!


This post's theme word: keming, "the result of improper kerning."

Crooked

Yesterday marked three weeks since my surgery. I'm down to only one crutch, but yesterday this crooked crutching gave me a wicked full-body crick from being twisted asymmetrically. Two crutches, though preventing both hands from carrying items, are a symmetric mode of transport. There is a crick in my neck, in my shoulders, in my back, in my hip.


This post's theme word: strigil, "an instrument with a curved blade (used esp. to scrape sweat/dirt from the skin)."