Wednesday, November 6, 2013
I dreamt last night that a large earthquake had occurred and I was in a city called Oakdale which was a little south of Oakland. I was at someone's house in the back yard. I saw a nearby freeway and the pavement was destroyed for a long stretch, and no cars could pass in either direction. Rode Muni to work, had a terrible time of it because the route schedule recently changed without warning. While catching the Tan shuttle from Parnassus I encountered Rodney who was traveling to Laurel Heights to meet Chris O regarding a noisy vidconf server. Rodney and I talked on the shuttle, and I joined him for a few minutes to see the server and provide some consult. Content work in Drupal. Lunch at Eliza's: hot and sour soup, mixed vegetables with shrimp, brown rice, hot tea, ice water. Linkchecking, kiosk work. Content and styling work in Drupal. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Did some work on the spare workstation for Lisa to ensure that anyone can log in with a guest account to use the scanner. Rode UberX to the Mission. Dinner at PDDR with Danny, Drew, Phil, Romy: chinese food takeout. Afterwards I helped Danny with some business plan work, and we watched an episode of a television show called Blacklist which I found predictable yet watchable. Rode UberX home. At 9:05 AM and 1:58 PM today after encountering Access Forbidden error messages while trying to view NextBus times I ran speed tests on my iPhone 3GS via cellular (Straight Talk via AT&T) and the results were terrible: 0.00 Mbps down, and no better than 0.11 Mbps up. I thought for a while that my Straight Talk APN settings were lost and I needed to reset them, but some other things on my phone worked as expected, so I didn't. I ended up not needing to reset Straight Talk, and my phone inexplicably started working again after some time.