Friday, September 19, 2008
Woke at 3:30 AM and couldn't go back to sleep. Got up at 4:30 AM. Downloaded and installed VMware Fusion 2.0 at home. Answered a question about a broken link on the School of Medicine website. Email migration followup for student GL. Partners in D domain registration followup—we're good through 7/31/2010. Took some great photos in Dick Shafer's physical chemistry class. He found a way to display molecular structures in 3D to a classroom using 2 projectors and ordinary PC laptops and certain inexpensive software. The paper 3D glasses are about 50 cents each and use some kind of polarization to create the 3D effect. The class oohed and aahed as the molecules were displayed on the big screen and then rotated. Helped Nate arrange dinner tonight with others. Hunted down domain reg info for Partners in D—we're good through 2010. Listserv work. Management work. FTP connection help for Karin A. Posted an announcement to students for Kimberly B. Management work. Helped JT with configuring a computer for campus wired and wireless connections. Helped student JY with setting up wired and wireless access. Fetched an old Apple keyboard for Eric from the storage room. Western Digital Passport portable hard drives arrived, so I started moving web archive files to them and tidying up the last DVDs of archives. Email account closed unexpectedly for exiting resident DS—I submitted a ticket to OAAIS and ccd a whole lot of people. Email migration followup with grad-turned-fellow RK. Web updates for graduation, sent to Cindy for review. Reviewed headshot photos Eric D took—they look great, and we'll hand off next week to Eric V for further processing. Scott showed off his brand new iPhone. Lunch: welcome picnic was a bust, so Joel and I got Carmelina's instead. Home. Short nap. Dinner at Tara (415-348-9977, 123 2nd Street, San Francisco, California 94105) with psychobauble, Nate, Danny, and Patrick. Danny went home to change and freshen. Patrick went home by Muni to sleep. I went to psychobauble and Nate's. We played on the Wii for a while and then I took a nap. Club Dragon, which I didn't like because I didn't enjoy the music and I couldn't get away from the cigarette smoke. Nate and I left, attempted to help a lost visitor from Tennessee get to the Castro, then a few minutes later drove to the Castro ourselves and found a parking spot right outside of Cliff's. We went to The Cafe, I dropped him off at home.