Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Usual oatmeal breakfast. Telecommute day. Listserv management. Diversity project: added student MB. Downloaded and installed Office 2008 for Mac. Upgraded Fusion to 1.1.1 (72241). Helped various students with various computer issues. Minor web edits: list of accounts and other pages. After upgrading to Fusion 1.1.1 (72241), sound started working again in my Windows XP VM. The problem was inconsistent so I don't know for certain that this version of Fusion fixes the problem, but so far so good. Science vision web edits for Susie. Pathway web page edits for Carol. Lunch: leftovers. Dinner at home with Patrick, Chris, and Nate: marinated mushrooms, olives, pocket bread, hummus, tzatziki, tomato fritters (domatokeftedes), sweetened sage iced tea (faskomilo), baked chicken with yogurt and spinach. Dessert: The recipe that Patrick tried for semolina pudding (halvas) didn't turn out correctly, so we instead served assorted sorbets. It was Chris and Nate's first time at our place after I had set up the new iMac, and they marvelled at the size and quality of the screen and the overall elegance of the hardware (except for the Apple Remote which didn't match the silver-and-black color of the computer and also lacked the magnet which previous iMacs had to hold the remote on the side of the computer). We explored the built-in Apple mosaic screensaver until it crashed. Nate borrowed William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.