Thursday, January 23, 2014
Breakfast: super nutty granola with unsweetened soy milk, a sliced pear. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Answered a question for Kirk H about Adobe distribution agreements. The Archive followup with Susie. Notified Eric and Susie that qb3.org was down. Updated the prospective students calendar for Cindy. Lab website content followup with Marissa L. Submitted a request to add a site to the A-Z list. Calendar management. Drupal issue queue followup. Followup for a student's change of email address. Sent a one-page microsite out for review. Lunch to go from Yellow Submarine: corned beef with swiss, Hansen's vanilla cherry soda. Walked to Golden Gate Park entering at the pedestrian entrance at 5th Avenue and sat on a park bench on MLK Drive to eat. Sent three one-page microsites out for review. Notified two students of the result of their access extension request. Intrasite planning meeting with Heidemarie and the Emerge team: Aubrey, Julian, John (CEO), and Mike. View building and ticket followup in Drupal. Patrick picked me up in the car because a package had arrived. Dinner at home: leftover red lentil soup, added a boiled egg; hot water. Installed the new toaster oven, prepped the new kitchen dish soap dispenser. The toaster oven is Black and Decker's TRO480BS. I really liked the design of Breville toaster ovens, but all their ovens were too large. We needed something with a small footprint. It was a terrible experience shopping for toaster ovens mostly because virtually all websites were awful about specifications. I don't care how many cubic feet is inside the oven (who knowingly cooks 0.4 cubic feet of food?); I want to know whether it will fit in the space I have. I want to know how annoying the timer ticking and timer bell is, but even though websites have been able to handle audio for almost 20 years no website had this information for any toaster oven. The dimensions for the TRO480BS are incorrect on Amazon's website, as found in the reviews and Q&A for that item, so it made Amazon's new compare feature useless because I could not trust Amazon to have correct dimensions for anything. My requirements list: 1. safe, 2. small size, 3. simple, intuitive, elegant controls, 4. bell or beep is not annoying. The controls on the TRO480BS don't really meet my elegance requirements, but there was no better fit for us than this one according to the information available to me. Finished watching Sting - Bring on the Night on Netflix DVD with Patrick. I loved it again. It was Patrick's first time seeing it.