Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Usual oatmeal breakfast. Stretches. Weight training: one-arm dumbbell row. Stretches. Returned one box of graduation flowers to Claire by way of Jason. Installed TechTool Deluxe on the shared office laptop, but it won't start—it appears in the dock and then bounces once in the dock and then nothing else happens—weird. I don't know why this happens. Listserv management. Chatted briefly with Terry about the ICRD process for fall. He will check with Doug C about some questions and get back to me or the committee if necessary. Prox lock followup. Installed Fusion 1.1.2 on the shared office laptop. "Error 1606. Could not access network location." when attempting to start Fusion. This was because I logged in as domain admin which has my profile pointing to a network folder but Fusion doesn't have the network drivers installed the first time you launch it so this error appears. You can work around this problem by logging in as local admin or using the regedit workaround described in Microsoft KB 886549. Helped Eric V with mail merge and labels just by walking over to his desk. Ordered a new printer for Cindy—hers lasted an unusually long time—over 7 years! Reset password for student PT. Made live new homepage changes to pharmacy.ucsf.edu - new Flickr thumbnails and Flickr pages. Flash image slideshow forthcoming soon. Lunch: bun bo xao and vietnamese coffee from Minh Tri. It was an exceptionally warm day, so I got food to go and sat in the library courtyard in the shade to eat. Installed Office 2004 11.4.2 and Office 2008 SP1. Chatted briefly with Claire. Prox lock: Cindy and Chris authorized, so I followed up with (the other) Frank F and informed Rodney. Printer shopping—Hubert notified me that the LJ1022 I tried to order for Cindy has been discontinued. Helped student AP set up Outlook and understand working with Parallels and Fusion in OS X. Computer maintenance for Scott: turned off morning autostart, turned lower power mode on in the BIOS, installed XP SP3, then shut it down. Computer maintenance for Eric V: defrag. Completed UPS setup for Carol: added stickers explaining how to disable beeping. Down to 7 items in my inbox! The Millberry Union scavenger hunt answers are: 1897; 37; $14.99; City CarShare; 3; Cafe Bellini, Panda Express, and Carmelina's Taqueria; $1.50. Updated my listserv settings so that I don't receive mail for lists which have RSS feeds. It seems that the only ones that have RSS feeds are those that have archiving turned on. Now I just need to get in the habit of checking the feeds in Sage on a regular basis. This will cut down significantly on how much email I need to process as well as how many email filters I need to have in Outlook and Entourage in order to deal with the traffic. Regarding the usage of the word e-mail, I have been thinking lately that we are probably at the point where we can start saying email instead of e-mail. Wired Magazine a long time ago advocated the stylistic use of internet and web rather than Internet and Web, and although I didn't adopt that right when they said it, that style did grow on me and I find it acceptable and preferred now. Home. Finished taking apart one PC. Dinner at home with Patrick: pig chops, green beans, leftover rice, bread, Smart Balance Light. Patrick and I watched Doctor Who borrowed from psychobauble. I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as he did, and I couldn't tell if he was laughing with or at some of the scenes. There were certainly many ridiculous ones, and I couldn't understand how others can go along with it when the science and story are so wrong in so many ways. I know it's not meant to be hard science, but they didn't even bother to explain how the air stayed in the room after explosions aboard a spacecraft blew 3 giant chunks of the ship away or how the ship didn't explode upon those impacts or how the engines were reactivated at the very moment they were needed again. At least Anakin frantically flipped switches to provide some semblance of direct cause. Patrick says, "You just have to go with it" and gave some explanation involving the word camp. Weight training: superslow front raise. Late meal: yogurt, chunky soup, hot nonfat milk.