Wednesday, February 26, 2014
At home a lot of my mail rules stopped working since I updated my mail settings a few days ago to use a more-correct mail server than I had been using. I am planning to remove all my rules and recreate them anew. Installed Sidecar Ride and Lyft on my iPhone. Created new email aliases for these and GroundLink. Breakfast: a banana, 8 ounces of hot water. Rode UberX to the doctor. Learned that there was a miscommunication and my appointment is tomorrow instead of today. Walked to UCSF Mt. Zion. The wait for a shuttle was a long time, so I got a breakfast burrito with tortilla chips and water at El Burrito Express. UCSF shuttle from Mt. Zion to Laurel Heights. Continued prepping an email to respond to feedback from Esteban's team, and this work consumed most of my day. Responded to a request from Joe C about a small edit to the Walgreens story. Met with Rodney and walked him through creating pages for the IRC microsite. Helped Cindy retrieve a file. Filed pcard paperwork for La'Trece. Comm team meeting: prep for Friday's meeting with Joe G. During this meeting, I encountered an interesting behavior with Google Drive that I did not know about before. In a Google document, if you undo many commands then make a selection and then copy (e.g., Cmd+C or Ctrl+C), everything in your redo queue is thrown away. This was surprising to me because every other time I have done this in other (mostly desktop) applications, copy is not considered a command that alters the undo/redo history and I have been able to redo all of the undone commands while still holding the thing I had copied in my clipboard. I said at the time, "I will never trust Google Drive again," which is an exaggeration. I lost all the changes I had made and had to redo them, and in a small sense I am less trustful of Google Drive now. Not to mention that it still can't paste bulleted text copied from the same Google document in an expected manner. Susie gave me a ride home. We talked about photo consent forms and the television show called The Americans, which just started its second season tonight. Dinner at home with Patrick: I made a veggie burger with white cheddar cheese, we both had boiled spinach with boiled egg. Red wine for both. Dessert: I ate part of a large cookie from Monday. Configured my iPhone with Lyft and Sidecar. Patrick and I continued then finished watching Wadjda (2012) on Netflix DVD. We had started watching a few days ago and got through maybe an hour before pausing for several days, and now we were somewhat dreading the remainder. While watching this time I was hoping for an out-of-nowhere plot twist like a car chase or a sudden death or a murder or an earthquake. Patrick suggested aliens. Anything. (Someday, perhaps when a large collection of 20th century films are in the public domain, I predict that people will create film mashups with eccentric juxtapositions of this sort and that they will be received enthusiastically.) After watching, we were both surprised that it has 7.7 stars on IMDb because we did not enjoy it that much. The film is only 98 minutes but it seemed like 300 minutes because there are many scenes and parts of scenes that make you wonder why are they there. There are subplots that don't go anywhere. The denouement is not satisfying. The film claims to be the first feature-length film by a female Saudi director and the first feature-length film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia. It was for these groundbreaking reasons I was interested in it. I also found the cultural differences interesting, comical, and occasionally shocking. It has its merits in its pioneering qualities, and it's not unwatchable, but ultimately I was not particularly entertained or moved. Still, I admire the director and everyone else involved in the film for the courage to realize the film. Today I finished rereading via ebook in iBooks Karen McGrane's Content Strategy for Mobile, an excellent work. I started rereading via ebook in iBooks HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith.