Friday, January 28, 2005
I hit my head today on an open overhead bin. Ena inspired me to look up the word "contusion." There's no bleeding, but the skin really is broken. It's only a few centimeters long, and not very deep. Not much to worry about. Spent most of today chatting with Mark B and Kraig K. Kraig helped me migrate 2 workstations using Aelita—things worked pretty smoothly, and I was impressed. Mark B helped migrate my e-mail account from itsa (pop) to our Exchange server. Things were a little rough at first because of duplicate accounts for me in the new domain, but we sorted it out together and now it's working fine. Lunch: salad from the cafeteria, an orange, a banana. $6.41. Dinner at the cafeteria with Patrick. Patrick had a Santa Fe sandwich but they were out of bacon so he got ham in it instead. I got a cheddar cheeseburger. We shared a lemonade and a side of half onion rings and half curly fries. $14.03. The onion rings and curly fries weren't fresh and tasted pretty bad to me, but I didn't feel like complaining and Patrick finished most of them anyway. Patrick and I watched Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (film) at Cole Hall Cinema. $7.50. We hadn't been back to Cole Hall Cinema in a long time. Despite the absurd convenience of every plot turn, we loved the film, and I found it wonderfully imagined. I like that it paid tribute to science fiction and storytelling of the past while creating a new world of its own. The sound wasn't all that great, but I believe this was due to the facilities at UCSF and not the filmmakers. Some of the dialogue was muddled and I found myself frequently leaning forward trying to make out the words. Sound seemed to come only from the front speakers, and if there was stereo I couldn't detect it. We were amused, too, that reel changes weren't flawless. For this particular film, it took an extra second or two to figure out that seeing the end of a film reel wasn't really part of the movie. Sound was scratchy, too, for the first 10 or so seconds of each reel.