Friday, October 24, 2008
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Walked 0.45 miles toward work, took the bus the rest of the way, chatted with students PF and LS on the bus. Downloaded and installed Chicken of the VNC but didn't use it—need to figure out how to use it with SSH. CCD work. Conferences web page work. CCD and CTS work and followup with Jilian. Helped Marie P with questions about photos, helped her print a Science Cafe web page single-spaced instead of double-spaced. Lunch in the library courtyard by myself: sandwich and fruit salad from Palio. Followup with Kirk F and Tony T about the A to Z list—we're still waiting on a one-month-old request. Scanned a document in XP—I still keep forgetting that my scanner works only in XP and not in Vista. (I never figured out how to scan in OS X.). So I now have a sticky on the scanner that says XP ONLY. Followup on submitting an RFO for iStockphoto. Sent email to Kevin C about the transit benefit. Conferences web page work. 15 items in my inbox! Break: Ate a watermelon sorbet bar on Parnassus Avenue. Was about to install Mozy Pro for Windows when I realized that in the past 3 (?) weeks they now have a Mozy Pro for Mac client—super! Had trouble during the install because one dialog asked for a password but it didn't say which password, so I kept entering my OS X password but what it really wants is your Mozy Pro account password. Got Mozy Pro set up and working. Sent feedback on that password problem to Mozy. Sent psychobauble instructions on how to create shortcut redirect URLs like I use on pharmacy.ucsf.edu. Followup with Cesar about whether he will or won't use MozyPro for Chris's laptop. psychobauble met me at work. We walked to the Haight and on JWG's suggestion we ate at Citrus Club, an inexpensive pan-Asian restaurant which we enjoyed. We then walked to the de Young Museum and I got us in with my (Patrick's) charter membership. When we received our tickets we each received a coupon for one free drink—an unexpected bonus. We got our drinks in the mural room. We didn't have much time before the museum closed, so we quickly went through the current exhibit Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970, which I later learned opened tomorrow, which explains the drink tickets. I most enjoyed Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes and seeing the results of her ability to see and create beautiful and interesting landscapes using a wide variety of spaces, sizes, and materials.