Thursday, January 27, 2005
My favorite breakfast (but with 2 extra sausage) at the cafeteria. My office is a few degrees cooler today! Now it's only 74 degrees! But James and I don't think our thermostats show temperatures accurately. The other day mine said 78 but it felt hotter than that. Supp app e-forms: removed the option for transgender in section A4 because I've been told that UCOP isn't ready to accept that data yet. Answered questions about setting up a website for students. Migrated my home directory from our old development server to our new one. Julie B helped out again. Went with Joel to see ethicist and science historian Alice Dreger, PhD speak about intersex conditions. Lunch with Joel at You See Sushi. He showed me a new cookbook he got which I liked but I also called it "food porn" because of the gigantic too-perfect glossy photos of dishes. Helped Chris get Meeting Maker to resync with his Palm. Investigated why the UCSF e-mail server was not working (again), distributed news via web and (after e-mail started working again) by e-mail. Tried chatting with Travis, but he wasn't available. Set up a time to chat with Kraig K about new server migration tomorrow. Chatted with Mark B about e-mail names for the forthcoming e-mail migration and how to do some common tasks after the migration. Snack: a banana. Chatted with Joan M about an e-mail account under my name which had gotten too ful—turned out to have been delegated to another person. Chatted with Debrah and James about getting preferred first names for students. Dinner at Cafe Asia with Patrick: New Delhi Chicken Curry for Patrick, Chilled Soba Noodle Salad for me. I didn't realize the soba salad had wasabi vinaigrette until after I got it, so Patrick ate most of it instead and I had some of the chicken curry. Iced tea. About $20. Visited the Siu Jianguo exhibit called The Sleep of Reason and Fakes, Copies, and Question Marks: Forensic Investigations of Asian Art. Watched 2 Simpsons episodes. Just fyi—the code I wrote yesterday for frankfarm.org's single day view doesn't work exactly right in all cases. And the block-level CSS (full cell width and cell height on background color on hover on th and td) in the journal doesn't behave exactly like I like, but unfortunately I have a suspicion that in this case IE is displaying it correctly and Firefox is not. I'll work on all that later. Almost done with Kit Con. I actually finished it, but I skipped the part about Tokyo, so I'm going back to reread that part. This book is such a treasure—I had no idea! Next book shall be The World of Normal Boys by Karl M. Soehnlein which I should have read a long time ago but just didn't get to it. After that, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket by John Weir and then One Last Waltz by Ethan Mordden. Patrick watched AVP—Alien versus Predator—on DVD which Sam let him/us borrow. I told Patrick, "I'll only watch it if it has a rating of 6 or higher on IMDB," and so Patrick ended up watching it by himself today while I was at work. He said it was really awful, and I wasn't surprised. Neither of us knew the history of the story until we read the review on IMDB, though. Rain today on our way back from the museum. My old Adobe umbrella is a little bent out of shape.