Thursday, March 7, 2013
Woke at 4:30 am, couldn't return to sleep. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with cinnamon and blueberries with flax milk; hot water. Rode my bike to UCSF Parnassus. Encountered EB on the way in, said happy birthday. Linkchecking, kiosk work. Followup with student SK about reported problem with email. C3 conference call lasted only about 10 minutes. Listserv management. Followup with many about similar-or-same name issues. Followup with John M about meeting. Walked to Park Chow with Michael, Rodney, Greg, and Eric. Changed a label on my laptop to have a different phone number than I had specified before. Lunch at Park Chow with Michael, Rodney, Greg, and Eric. Eric had a lamb burger and fries with an iced tea, Michael had linguine with clams with an Arnold Palmer, Greg had spaghetti with meatballs with an iced tea, Rodney had linguine with clams with lemonade, and I had a veggie burger with fries with a chai tea latte. Greg had to leave early. Michael, Rodney, Eric, and I walked back to campus. Helped Joel set up a laptop with a Vizio display in 936. They also wanted audio but I didn't have the right cable. Met with Eric very briefly, resolved local development environment problems on my iMac. 1-on-1 with Cindy, interrupted by a student, I rescheduled for next week. Tested audio through HDMI in 936—it wouldn't work for a variety of reasons. Labeled cable connectors in 936. Uploaded Online Presence graphics assets to The Archive, notified the team. Helped Shirin work around a problem with video not playing in slideshow mode in PowerPoint 2010. It played in preview mode but not in slideshow mode. My workaround: take a screen snapshot of the video, then link it to the video file stored in the same folder as the presentation. Press F11 after the click to start. Press Alt+F4 when done to quit Windows Media Player. Removed permission to comment from anonymous users in the SOP IT wiki due to spam. Followup with Tran about my PGPed external hard drive that has been unreadable on Mac for the past 5 weeks. Rode my bike home. Dinner at home with Patrick: vegetable curry from scratch over steamed white rice, hot water. Dessert: dulce de leche Girl Scout cookies with whipped cream from a can and blueberries, pieces of dark chocolate with almonds and cherries. Watched Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) on Netflix DVD with Patrick. Work for craigslist sale items.