Wednesday, October 8, 2003

Spent much of the day documenting VPN issues. Helped Joel configure his new iBook. (Thanks, Kelly!) Made changes to the White Coat Ceremony page and sent it to Joel and Cindy for review. Joel and Kristina and I checked out the carpet installation today—only the student lounge is done. Gave Leslie Kleinberg suggestions on site architecture tasks and testing. Sent an e-mail to Tina today that went like this: "LOL! You know I can keep a secret. In fact, I often don't remember them—I'm a bad friend and a good friend at the same time. So only a hypnotist can get it out of me. Today for dinner Patrick made mini penne with mushrooms, red bell peppers, zucchini, green onions, garlic, parsley, spinach, olive oil, and Italian sweet sausage from Andronico's. For bread we had generic crescent rolls out of the can-tube! Ha ha! So bad, huh?! Good luck with the class tomorrow, though I'm sure you'll do fine. You saved a copy of Stars's balance sheet, right? :-) We're not sure about Halloween. We've been invited to watch vintage gay porn in a gay bar in the Haight called TRAX that no gay man I know has set foot in in years. The vintage porn theme is crossed with a Dracula theme to create TRAXYLVANIA—an event likely to amuse, arouse, astound, and attack the senses." Recently a prankster had been subscribing people who didn't want to be subscribed to Lodestar Quarterly, so I added code to track IP addresses and automatically protect the victims from being subscribed. I got a letter from Bilal Loubie (aka Maria Williams) from San Francisco Muni today. It was addressed to Ms. Rachel Friend and was the same form letter I received months ago when I complained about the bus driver who forced an old woman with a cane to run one block to get on the bus. Three hours after I received the e-mail, I get another one from Bilal/Maria. Here it is letter for letter: "Please, Disregard this e-mail it was sent to you by mistake. Sorry." To this, Patrick said something like, "It's nice to know that Muni is hiring the most competent people available." Set up more e-mail accounts in Outlook.