Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Archived web data to portable hard drive. Graduation ceremony page updates. Flickr maintenance. SCWG meeting. More graduation ceremony page updates. Troubleshot problems with Entourage 2008. Updated current students news. Many small web updates: mailbox too full, current students news, vpn. Followup with ServInt on SSL cert install. Lunch: bento box #1 at Ebisu (415-111-2222, 1283 9th Avenue, San Francisco, California, USA) on their reopening day—I tasted delicious quality in every bite. Pricey but worth it, especially with the new pleasant surroundings. The lighting is a bit too dark in places and a bit too harsh in places, and there's too much wood or too much brown and tan in the decor—I think they need more splashes of bright color here and there. Read from Using Drupal. More small web updates: email setup for Entourage and Outlook, prospective students calendar. Linkcheck maintenance. Met Patrick, psychobauble, and Nate at UCSF Mission Bay. We drove to Axis Cafe for tonight's Ask a Scientist: The Science of Computer Graphics Animation with speakers from PDI/DreamWorks Animation: Andrew Pearce (Director of R&D), David Eberle (R&D Software Engineer), and Eric Tabellion (R&D Software Engineer). It was our first time to Axis Cafe, and my experience with the cafe was very favorable. Excellent food, great decor, friendly staff. All the speakers were pretty good at speaking and presenting and had interesting slides to share. Pearce gave a superfast introduction to computer graphics; Eberle talked about rigging, textures, cloth; and Tabellion talked about rendering and lighting. They all talked about mathematical formulas that looked pretty complicated to me. Dinner: fish tacos, golden beets.