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macOS Tahoe Information Density

Michael Tsai, writing about iOS 26: It reduces the amount of information displayed on screen, and you’ll have to scroll more as a consequence. Look at the Before and After layouts: the Before layout doesn’t need solutions to increase its clarity. You’re just injecting white space everywhere. It’s also ironic that where more space and ‘breathing room’ are actually necessary, the header (“Single…

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Pivot to Ribs

Rhonda and I pivoted from grilled chicken breast marinated in greek yogurt to chicken drums to baby back ribs in the span of 30 minutes or so Sunday morning. We’d settled on drums but she spied some previously frozen ribs on sale while we were prowling ShopRite, so we got those. My notion was to sous vide them, but that task,I learned, is better suited to an overnight bath at a low temp than a…

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Planned in OmniFocus 4.7

OmniFocus 4.7 (now in beta) offers a new feature: the Planned field. I’ve been testing this and using it liberally since updating my devices; this feature isn’t available unless you migrate your database on all of your devices to the 4.7 beta. Planned fills in where so many of us were (mis)using defer dates. Unlike defer dates, however, a planned date doesn’t obscure a task from your project…

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Sunday Serial: Grounds for Sculpture , Bellview Winery’s Gruner Veltliner, and a Watermelon Salad Trick

I converted this weekend, already long due to having Fridays off in the summer, to an extra-long weekend, using a vacation day for Thursday so Rhonda and I could make a quick overnight getaway to the excellent Grounds for Sculpture. The weekend was otherwise populated with a graduation party yesterday and hanging out with old friends last night. There are baby back ribs on the smoker as we…

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Local Vacation: Grounds for Sculpture and Sundry

Rhonda and I took the boys to Grounds for Sculpture back in July of 2019, nearly six years ago to the day. It was a scorcher, and everyone was eager to find air conditioning. The two of us always swore we’d go back one day, which we finally did. We wanted to experience the sculpture, and have a bite at the bespoke-looking Rats restaurant. I used Tripsy to plan our overnight getaway; Tripsy nicely…

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Crabs 🦀

One of the benefits of living near the Jersey Shore (and Delaware Bay and its tributaries) is easy access to blue claw crabs. I have been steaming them the same way for maybe 20 years: in a cup of white wine, a can of beer (12 oz if you’re counting), and some chopped garlic softened up in some olive oil. The crabs get a dusting of old bay before they steam. I drop a big nub of butter in when…

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Sunday Serial: Coppola Chardonnay, Superman, and Home

It’s hard to believe we’ve burnt through almost half of July already. Rhonda and I have a quick getaway planned for later in the week–more then, with pics. I’ve been shopping online for a new four-thirds digital camera but I’m not sure I’m ready to take that plunge. Maybe in a Sunday Serial in the future. Coppola Chardonnay Rhonda and I nipped out to the Maplewood for a quiet dinner on Friday. I…

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RIP Tippy

Rhonda brought a dog home just before the COVID shutdown, in March 2020. Here’s a pic of her coming come with Rhonda and the boys from January of 2020: She was probably a dog who was kept around for breeding. She wasn’t fixed when we got her. She always seemed to be in a kind of survival mode. She was sweet and gentle, and if a dog can like something, I’d say she liked living here. One of her…

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Grilled Chicken Drums

I’ve been making these since forever. I put them on the Weber over indirect heat for at least an hour. They’re brushed with equal parts grocery store bbq sauce, Bachans, and honey, during the last 20 minutes on the grill. BBQ Drums

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Buena Connection Nitro Stout

Rhonda and I stopped by the local brewery (it feels good to type those words).They had a contraption that printed their logo on the beer. I had a kölsch and Rhonda and I split the stout. Rhonda tried the West Coast IPA, which was great. Buena Connection Stout

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Flash Flood in Vineland 2025

Yesterday, late afternoon, we got hit with a flash flood in Vineland. Apparently it rained pretty hard for hours in the afternoon. I was in Williamstown, and didn’t notice extreme weather. Flood I tried a couple of routes to get home but decided to wait it out for a bit in the car, parked a couple of miles from home. Eventually, I decided to try again and devised a circuitous route, which worked…

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Superman!

All four of us took in James Gunn’s Superman this afternoon. Nothing like a matinee! David Corenswet imbues the DC icon with a jocular, joyful sense of humor which threatens, at the outset, to silo the character in the kind of boy-scoutish wholesomeness that defined Christopher Reeves’ version of Superman, and the dour, all-too-seriousness of Henry Cavil’s portrayal. But Superman reveals an…

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The Sherlocking Continues Apace

Jason Snell, waxing excited about what Spotlight can do in Tahoe: The new Spotlight also has integrated one of the most useful and unheralded features of macOS: the ability to search the menus of the app you’re currently using. You’ve been able to do this for ages from the Help menu or via the Command-Shift-slash keyboard shortcut, but if your muscle memory always takes you to Spotlight’s…

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A Couple More Ways to Search Safari Tabs

I’m oddly fixated on how much less I like Safari’s tabs search mode compared to Chromium-based browsers. The keyboard shortcut for Safari is easy enough but I can’t seem to build the muscle memory. I wrote about Tab Switcher and Tabby, both of which I like in different ways. Here are a couple of ways to skin said cat, one of which is a paid app, and the others are AppleScript-based. Witch Which…

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Sunday Serial: BundleHunt, SummerFest 2025, and Laura Croft: Guardian of Light

Work is Monday-Thursday for the summer; I get up a little earlier, but I’ve been swimming and rowing for my am workout (and maybe some meditation… I might write about that later). We got some good pool time in this weekend and I swapped out today’s prosecco (usually Cupcake or Josh) for Coppola’s take on a favorite. I smoked ribs today and took zero pictures. Anyway, here are some things for you…

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Swim for Your Lives!

I row six or seven days a week, 20-30 minutes, zone 2 a lot and intervals twice or thrice a week. I’ve been able to maintain my weight loss (80+ pounds) between rowing and diet. I learned on vacation a couple of years ago that just treading water in the pool at the hotel we stayed at in Ocean City, NJ, burns plenty of calories. It beats rowing, in fact, according to my Apple Watch. Summer 2023, I…

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Smoked Beer Can Chicken on the Weber Bullet

Here’s a great July 4th barbecue chicken recipe. My variation is a riff on the classic beer-can chicken using your smoker such that it yields crispy, delicious skin. The trick with poultry is to use the smoker without the water pan. The heat is far enough away to avoid scorching, but close enough to render any winged contender in about an hour.