Friday, July 12, 2002
Read more about procmail and Linux hardening—fun! Updated vacation messages for Cindy and James. Patrick went to Jumpin Java to write. He's working on corrections starting from chapter 1. He also went to Harvest market for groceries. Started on my performance evaluation self-appraisal. Read documentation for linklint. Patrick today reported that an 18-year-old Asian guy hit on him on the MUNI on the way back. I set up linkchecking for pharmacy.ucsf.edu as well as our internal development site using linklint. It's really great to have this software as it automatically checks our site for broken or missing links and generates reports in HTML that I can refer to easily to make corrections. Dinner at home with Patrick: squiggly pasta with marinara sauce with port wine, pine nuts, garlic, zucchini, and mushrooms. Hung out at Brian and Kelly's. It was an impromptu house party. Jesse and his co-worker friend Cole stopped in and out and back in again. Other friends of B and K's dropped in as well: Nico, Brian, and Adrian. Eric and Brian also stopped by. We all talked about silly things and smalltalk while playing with Play-Doh. Adrian and Nico made roses. Patrick made Mr. Bill. Powerpuff Girls, The Movie. Iron Chef (Kelly read the Iron Chef Drinking Game). Brian and Kelly gave the Homeless Weather Report—an overview of the dynamics of the homeless people around their home. Different ones come and go or make more noise than the others and so there's more to talk about them then, so it's like the weather in that way. It's not easy to be both ridiculing and compassionate at the same time, but Brian does it indescribably well. Tourette's lady. The lady who sings Madonna and Nelly Furtado loudly at night while listening to a Walkman. Brian opened the Bubbles Powerpuff Girls activity kit that he got last Christmas. It was a plastic mold in the shape of Bubbles with small (rainbow flag) crayons and puzzles and games stuffed inside. We looked at old baby photos of Brian that his mom brought this past week during his family's visit. We passed around Orville Redenbacher's Natural Unsalted Popcorn, which I bought from the corner liquor store and popped in their secret microwave. Brian told of their trip to Guerneville last weekend and of his painful striped sunburn from a visit to the beach earlier in the week.