Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Left early for a 9:00 AM meeting, planned to get breakfast at the hospital cafeteria. The 8:08 AM bus didn't show up, so I caught the 8:30 AM bus, which got me to campus right at 9:00 AM. Skipped breakfast, did the student computing support meeting on an empty stomach til 10:30 AM. Ate an orange at my desk. Early lunch: fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn off the cob. Coded and made live a new front page news story for Susie. Lots of school plan edits for Susie, made the pages live after her review. Link checking. Chatted with Cindy about the recent Web server outage (we need to get our own server). Worked with Joel to set up a computing support session for students during orientation. Chatted with Chris about orientation. Chatted with Kirk about the Dell computer configuration. Patrick met with Jason and Aaron today. Dinner at home with Patrick: rigatoni in a cream sauce. Watched Simpsons: Bart the Fink, Lisa the Iconoclast, 22 Short Films about Springfield. The disappearing cursor problem returned with my ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 9600 graphics card. I did the same fixes as before (see April 19, 2004) and now things are fine again. Wrote a long e-mail to Debbie S in Israel who—I just found out—is recently married and is expecting a baby girl (!). ATI Eazylook Multimedia Center (MMC) 9.1.0.0—oh, such buggy software! Problem: Control buttons appear all jumbled on top of each other. Workaround: Enter Setup (Ctrl+S), on the Display tab, change Video Size to Large. Melissa is back from her vacation to Japan and brought some kind of mochi and kitschy Seiyu drip coffee (kitcshy because it comes with a cardboard contraption with a built-in filter—you set it over a cup and pour the hot water over it). I thought it would make a great gift for Michael O'Brien, but I couldn't find a way to buy it online.