Saturday, June 14, 2008
Breakfast at home with Patrick: spinach omelette with mexican cheese for me, grape nuts for Patrick. I finished with one teaspoon of melon sorbet. Worked on Danny's website. Fixed some coding issues in my journal. In OS X (10.5.2) on my iMac at home keyboard shortcuts occasionally fail to work. For example, I have a Finder window open and type Command+W but the window does not close. If I select File > Close Window, then the window closes. Full keyboard shortcuts is on, but that shouldn't matter in this instance anyway. I'm sure a restart would fix it, but we're listening to music right now and don't want to interrupt that. At 11:13 AM Pacific time, the home page for evite.com says, "Service Unavailable - DNS failure - The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later. Reference #11.eda71645.1213467146.9158ab0". I believe I knew Yahoo! Maps indicated neighborhoods in various pastel colors with the neighborhood names—a very useful feature—but today is the first time I notice that it calls the outer sunset OUTSET and the inner sunset INSET which I find kind of cute, but honestly I think they're just making up the names. Don't trust Yahoo! Maps for neighborhood names in San Francisco—you will get screwed up! People in San Francisco don't say Outset or Inset—that's weird. The Middle Middle Sunset, where we live, is not called MIDSET by Yahoo!, however—they call it CENTRAL SUNSET which I think you could abbreviate as CENSET, but they chose not to. Chris and Nate's neighborhood is not labeled as Showplace Square. But nearby on Yahoo! Maps is labeled SOMISSPO. Other neighborhoods I've never heard of but which appear on Yahoo! Maps San Francisco: Mastro (between the Castro and the Mission), The Hub, Zion District, Lake, Vista Del Mar, Outer Parkside, Lone Mountain, Baja Noe, Pine Lake Park, Forest Knolls, Cayuga Terrace, and—the funniest one—Transmission (to describe a nebulously defined region near Mission Street and Fair Avenue)—Patrick thinks this must be where all the trannies live. I pointed out several of these to Patrick and he rolled his eyes, saying, "That's weird!" and "That's ridiculous!" Yahoo! Maps says Saint Francis Wood instead of St. Francis Wood—that's weird. They say NOBE instead of North Beach, yet they say CASTRO instead of 'STRO or STRO. Here's my personal method of describing the Sunset subneighborhoods: First think of the Sunset as a 3 x 3 grid of squares. Everything gets both a latitudinal description and a longitudinal description to describe its location on the grid. Everything north of Noriega and south of Lincoln is "upper", everything between Noriega and Taraval is "middle", everything south of Taraval to Sloat is "lower", everything west of Sunset is "outer", everything east of Sunset and west of 19th is "middle" (again). And the Inner Sunset is bounded by (roughly) Lincoln, 19th, Ortega, and 7th (but I don't know where the southern boundary would be adjacent to Forest Hill). Polly Ann Ice Cream is in the Upper Outer Sunset. Lincoln High School is in the Middle Middle Sunset. Dianne Feinstein Elementary School is in the Middle Lower Sunset. Specify the north-to-south description first, then the west-to-east description. I don't know anyone else who uses this terminology, but my made-up neighborhood names make more sense than Yahoo!'s. SoMissPo! Really! Yahoo! Maps describes Parkside as the region bounded by Ortega, Sunset, Wawona, and 19th, but if being parkside refers to Stern Grove, how can anyone north of Ulloa consider their residence to be adjacent to Stern Grove? I would allow Parkside if it's really just the region surrounding Stern Grove—say, Ulloa, Sunset, Sloat, 19th. UCSF is variously considered to be in the Inner Sunset or Parnassus Heights. In Yahoo! Maps my mouse cursor (Fx 2.0.0.14, OS 10.5.3) sometimes acts as a grabber hand and sometimes doesn't act as a grabber hand—it's very disconcerting and I realize a minute later that it's really the Command+Tab problem in OS X that's causing it. The problem is that if you Command+Tab to another application, let go of the keys, then Command+Tab to return to where you were, OS X doesn't always properly return focus to the window you were just viewing. This problem never happens in Windows. Evite is still down as of 1:06 PM—wow! Lunch at home with Patrick: various leftovers. Snack: hot cherry pie (leftover from Thursday). Worked on Danny's website. Nap. Was thinking I'd sleep only half an hour but ended up sleeping 9.5 hours instead. Patrick had dinner by himself.