Monday, December 16, 2019
Breakfast at home with Patrick: egg and colby jack on toasted everything bagel. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Built a content inventory for TRANSPERS. Siteimprove work: mostly linkchecking. Began reviewing new year greeting work by Robin. Lunch: one naval orange. D8 planning meeting with Eric and James. Minor content work on the GEECS pages for Kathryn and Michael D for TRANSPERS. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Yan-Kit's braised beef with garlic, jasmine rice, San Pell for Patrick, hot water for me. Finished watching Tomorrowland (2015) on Netflix DVD with Patrick. Our consensus is similar to most of the reviews for it: visually exciting, entertaining to a point, and ultimately sadly unsatisfying particularly due to the weak story and weak character development—something I did not expect from a well-funded Brad Bird effort. I enjoyed the tie-ins to Disneyland and Disney World, the originality of a variety of elements (the swimming pools!), and that for a few brief moments we again got to see what the tomorrow of yesterday looked like. Finished reading and enjoying Malcolm Gladwell's Talking to Strangers.