Wednesday 09/13/2023
A nice low-pressure day. I took the standard walk first thing, and it was ok. I rebuilt the C&W video for what I hope is the last time. I helped Sandy figuring out how to make a page magnifier work in the CH library. Somebody had donated this thing, it has a 15-inch CRT monitor (“hey the 80s called, they want their TV back”) on a stand with lights under it. You put a document on the tray and can roll it around and the TV shows a magnified image. She hadn’t figured out how to hook it up. It wasn’t hard. Afterward, it was ugly, but it worked.
Dr. Margaret is back from her summer at her place in Tahoe. I’d been saving my old blu-ray player for her at her request, and I installed it. In fact she already had a DVD player and didn’t know it. It was in the bottom of her media cabinet and not hooked to the TV. Somebody gave up early, I guess, when moving her stuff back, in 2019, from the upgrade. Well now she has a better one which actually works.
Today was the monthly 6th floor meeting and dinner. Nothing special from the meeting. While I was sitting in the dining room having supper, David G came by. He’d been setting up for the evening’s speaker, and couldn’t make the ceiling camera work. Well, it worked, but it wouldn’t zoom or pan. I suggested a couple of things to try. He came by a few minutes later and said those hadn’t worked. Then he went to another table to have his own supper.
Since I was done with my entree, I got up and went into the auditorium. I verified that the camera was on but wouldn’t pan or zoom. Those functions are controlled by a little box. I power-cycled the little box. Pan and zoom now worked. I went back in the dining room and told David G. Score one for the old “have you tried rebooting it” ploy.
The lecturer was Dr. Lerone Martin, currently in charge of the MLKJr. Institute at Stanford, where they are collating all of MLK’s papers. Couple of penetrating questions from the audience. “What would he have thought of our intervention in the Ukraine-Russia war?” Ans. MLK was all about non-violence, but struggled with non-violent responses to evil violence. “What did he have to say about discrimination toward women?” Ans. In many ways, socially, economically, he foresaw a future that didn’t yet exist, but in matters of gender, he was a man of his time.
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