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Father's Day Toy Show

Father’s Day Toy Show Yesterday I took the boys to the Father’s Day Toy Show in Mullica Hill, NJ. It’s a nice switch from the usual shows we’ve gone to, as it’s outside. Sure, it was a little hot in the sun, but almost all of the vendors are in shaded pavillions. Toy Show Chips Copter This show is one of many put on my ToyShows.org. I got to wondering about the first show I ever took them to, and…

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Sunday Serial Amarena Cherries, Toy Shows, and Hanger Steak

Here’s this week’s list of things to check out: Amarena Cherries: We’ve tried Luxardo, Starlino, and now Amarena. They are the least good, but plenty good, for cocktails and desserts. The juice is thinner than the other cherries, and they have more of a confection taste than a plummy, jammy taste. Toy Shows: I’ve been taking the boys to toy shows operated by Richard D’Amico for years now. They…

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Dinner This Evening

I risk spoiling Sunday Serial but hey.

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The Correctly Sized Travel Mug

A cup of coffee, American style, is about 250 grams of brew. That’s a regular mug of coffee. Much bigger than that, you’re not gonna finish or it’s gonna get cold. That’s about 8 ounces, or…a cup. Travel mugs, for some reason, run larger: 12 oz, 16, more even. I’ve been taking coffee to work in a too-large travel mug forever. My most recent attempt at a reasonably sized mug was the Yeti Rambler,…

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Limerence Lyrics

I was at our weekly guitar lesson last Thursday and working on this song while my son tuned up, and our teacher perked up, hearing the riff. He pulled together a quick tab and we ran through the song a couple of times. I listened to the song a bit more closely in the intervening days and got hooked on the lyrics. They are a good example of limerence at its finest: Getting hard to sleep, blood is…

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Short Shorts are Still in This Summer

Whew. I got a few pair. Feeling Hot: The Definitive Men’s Summer Fashion Guide For 2024

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Short Shorts are Still in This Summer

Whew. I got a few pair. Feeling Hot: The Definitive Men’s Summer Fashion Guide For 2024

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"Mulching is an Activity Where You Injure Your Back"

@the_leighton_show Anybody remember this one? It’s that time again #mulching #funny #husband #mulch #yardwork ♬ original sound – The Leighton Show I was pretty sure that’s what I was doing to myself Sunday.

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New Maraschino Cherries

Finished up the can of Starlino Hotel cherries. Trying these Amarena cherries tonight 🍸

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Sunday Serial: BBB, Fresh Clean Threads, and Local Joints

Sunday Serial: BBB method, Fresh Clean Threads, and Local Joints Here’s this week’s list of things to check out. 1. BBB Method: We bought a pool back in 2011, and one of the concerns I had, outside of the cost of the pool itself, was the cost and trouble of maintaining the water. I in short order found what was then called the BBB Method; BBB stands for bleach, borax, and baking soda. With this…

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Why Comedy Matters

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Our Mulberry Tree

This tree is on the side of our house; it reliably bears nice sweet mulberries every spring. The groundhogs like it. I do too. Joe still wanders out there once in a while and eats them off the tree. Mulberry Tree Mulberries

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Serial Sunday: Autohotkey, Sazerac Rye, and Franklinville Inn

Autohotkey: Autohotkey is a keyboard macro utility; if you use TextExpander or Keyboard Maestro on the Mac, you have a good idea about what this app is about. I found it way back in the day when I had a Gateway at work and wanted to set up something like TextExpander. It’s a more manual affair, setting up Autohotkey, but it’s an interesting experiment and a bit more technical to get set up. It…

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Spark Email App Now Has a Calendar

I’ve written about Spark a bunch here on Uncorrected. It’s been my iOS and iPad OS email client of choice for many years. Spark recently moved over to Windows, which was fortuitous because I was already a subscriber. The Windows version was unveiled alongside the 2.0 Spark for Desktop release, which was a marked departure from the original, and widely loved, Spark on the Mac. For one thing, it’s…

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Laughter

Like most people, I like funny things. I like to be funny; I delight in cracking people up. But I’ve always wondered about it, and more broadly in the context of why we like comedians (because I really enjoy a good comedian, thinking of Dave Chapelle and Tom Segurra especially). The notion that the chorus of the Greek tragedy was a subject of serious philological debate. predates my curiosity…

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Serial Sunday: Memorial Day 2024 Edition

Weber Smokey Mountain 22": Outside of sous vide, my taste towards cooking runs decidedly analog. We bought this smoker maybe 10 years ago and while we don’t smoke meat often, it’s always a revelation. I make spare and baby back ribs tonight and they were slammin. The Virtual Weber Bullet: My dad pointed me to this website back when I got the aforementioned smoker. It’s pretty much the only site I…