Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Student computing committee meeting. Spent most of the day working on the student directory project, finally got the new site ready and announced for test users. Lunch: Panda Express. My fortune: The respect of influential people will soon be yours. Chatted briefly with Ena, set up lunch. Made live reg fee changes for James. Posted updated class schedules for Lucia. Helped student LT with a question about VPN. Dinner at home with Patrick: tostada bowl salad, Relax tea. I discovered this video today which I really like: Dove Evolution. Here's another: Revolution. Fixed formatting problems from yesterday (CSS). Sent Corinna her first review summary. Backfilled a number of journal dates for May 2000. Archived documents. Patrick said he wandered into the karaoke bar called The Mint today and sang about 6 songs in a row since the place was empty except for him. The DJ offered him free recordings of 2 of the songs he sang since the place was so dead. Normally the charge is $5 per song. So Patrick now has a cd of him singing "People" (Barbra Streisand) and "Killing Me Softly" (The Fugees). Recently Patrick has been working on his music more than his writing. He created a MySpace account and has uploaded his first album. You can hear 4 songs in their entirety or 30-second clips of each track. Check it out: The Mode Fascist (http://www.myspace.com/themodefascist, defunct as of October 19, 2012). We need to spruce up the CSS and graphics on his MySpace page—it's on the to do list—but he's perfectly happy to have people see the site now and give him feedback on his music. He composes everything himself on an Edirol PCR-30 keyboard using Reason software.