: Touchscreen MacBook Pro to Be ‘Touch-Friendly, Not Touch-First’ 🔗 Tim Hardwick, …
: Creating a Zip & Encrypt Quick Action for macOS I like how easy it is to right-click a file in Finder and compress it into a zip archive, but I’ve …
: The Misuses of the University 🔗 François Furstenberg, Public Books: Everyone thinks universities …
: Finished reading: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. A real slow burn, with an incredible payoff …
: Finished reading: Alien Earths by Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger 📚
: I never quite understood why multiview was important to sports fans, but here I am watching a city …
: Finished reading: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 📚
: System Data and OmniDiskSweeper Recently when checking my Mac’s storage usage, I noticed that the System Data category had ballooned …
: Finished reading: Apple in China by Patrick McGee 📚Every bit as fascinating as I’d been led to …
: Ken Burns, on Face The Nation: The pursuit of happiness is not the acquisition of things in a …
: Finished reading: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle 📚Being the first Sherlock Holmes story, I …
: Finished reading: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond 📚In college …
: Governor Newsom, addressing not only the L.A. protests, but also the situation the U.S. finds itself …
: After weeks of rain it finally feels like spring.
: Tony (or possibly his brother Dan) Gilroy, writing for the character Mon Mothma on Andor: I believe …
: Carl Sagan, in Cosmos: If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my …
: Happy 4th birthday to this pup! It was too cold to go to the dog park, but he at least got a sheep …
: My favorite part of Porchfest 2024 (oh, sure, the music was good too). Ithaca’s is the original, and …
: New door day! Which is also my way of saying, after all the work we’ve done for the last several …
: We’re done finishing our floors. Now we’re just reattaching (and in some cases repairing) the trim, …
: While we’ve started finishing our floors, the fence builders we hired removed our old chain …
: The walls are all painted and we’ve nearly finished sanding the floors. The lighter look of …
: We’ve primed all the walls in the house, next comes a couple coats of paint to finish things. For …
: The old vent hole has been patched, a recessed light was installed, and the walls and ceiling have …
: With the kitchen work mostly done, we’ll be repainting the rest of the house next. But before we do …
: With the installation of our new dishwasher, the kitchen project is more or less complete. We still …
: More progress on the kitchen renovation—We now have countertops! The new lighting has also been …
: Our cabinets arrived a little over a week ago, and are in the process of being installed. The room …
: We finished painting the walls and ceiling and then installing the new floors in our kitchen. …
: The kitchen begins to take shape The kitchen renovation project has come a long way since my last post about it. After we removed the …
: Another couple days of kitchen demoing down. We cleaned up since this photo was taken, but I forgot …
: Today we started demoing the kitchen in our new house. Excited to be starting the renovation …
: A recent visit to one of my favorite places, Cornell’s Botanic Gardens.
: We went camping in Maine this past weekend, not far from Acadia. What a beautiful place! It was the …
: I feel so lucky to be living in the finger lakes again.
: Happy half-birthday to this sweet pup!
: William Finnegan at The New Yorker: 'The Fight Over Penn Station and Madison Square Garden' I’ve always been interested by rail travel in general, but particularly in the history of rail in …
: Foggy Wallkill, November 2014.
: Square Louise Michel in Paris, France. June 2016.
: Wallkill River, August 2014.
: My new home on the internet Long story short, I’ve moved my website to Micro.blog. The path I took to get here, however, was a …
: Autumn in the Mohonk foothills, Hudson Valley, November 2014.
: These cold nights ain’t so bad
: Winter 2021 Playlist I made this playlist a little over a year ago. At the time I was getting ready to move back east, …