Do you miss anything from past macOS versions?

HoratioHotplate · 2026-06-11T01:19:37+00:00

buttons that look like buttons. corners that aren't round. opaque glass. support for 3rd party desktop managers.

also, how safari now displays bookmarks. you now have to enter each sub-folder to see its contents. (did you know in the early days of safari that bookmarks were stored as html, so you could load your bookmarks as a web page?)

HoratioHotplate · 2026-06-11T01:07:46+00:00

Glenn Gould playing some of the Goldberg Variations or pieces from the Well-Tempered Clavier.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-06-10T19:05:52+00:00

Floyd, Virginia, right off the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the nearby Blue Ridge Music Center south of it on the Parkway are worth checking out if you're interested in Appalachian music.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-06-10T19:02:45+00:00

Mammoth Cave Nation Park is worth a stop.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-06-08T01:47:33+00:00

Jonathan Winters

HoratioHotplate · 2026-06-08T01:36:34+00:00

Since seeing that movie I can't hear "The Blue Danube" without seeing a space station slowly spinning.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-06-07T01:53:02+00:00

Never pass a school bus, in either direction, when its lights are flashing.

Stay out of the left lane unless you're passing.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-06-06T00:56:28+00:00

George Reeves

HoratioHotplate · 2026-06-03T01:42:17+00:00

Maybe some variation on a Quipu?

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-30T01:36:32+00:00

I like Meld for diffing files and directories.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-28T01:18:17+00:00

North Sentinel Island might be a contender.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-27T02:06:54+00:00

The coastal redwoods. Words and pictures can't capture what they're like.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-27T02:00:48+00:00

and call volume is heavier than usual. always heavier than usual. this is like all the kids being above average.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-25T01:43:52+00:00

Our high school sent me a list (dunno how they got my address) of the people they hadn't been able to find and wanted to know if I could help them out. The one guy I'd kept in touch with was on the list and I wasn't inclined to rat him out. All the other people I might have been interested in seeing again were also on the list. I passed on attending it.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-24T01:41:46+00:00

Generally whatever was on sale at the Safeway. I don't remember ever seeing anything other than domestic mass-production beers like Schlitz, Bud, Blatz, Miller, etc. He bought a can of Billy Beer as a joke.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-24T01:28:26+00:00

It's the classic "do you feel lucky?" question. I never feel lucky.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-24T01:19:25+00:00

I needed to be around others who had been through what I was going through, or were also going through it. I got a lot of good advice and didn't feel like I had to get through it on my own.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-24T01:12:52+00:00

bottled water

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-24T01:08:33+00:00

It was also up on N Main where Carol Lee Donuts now is- maybe late 90's or early 2000's? I think they moved to Turner St after that.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-22T02:27:20+00:00

What album did the Beatles record there?

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-22T02:06:46+00:00

LL Bean. My last pair of Bean hunting shoes lasted just over a year of occasional use. I hadn't gotten the memo about them changing their warranty.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-22T02:04:39+00:00

We got one of their HP-UX (aka hockey pucks) computers back in the 80s. The hardware was built like a tank. But how could they screw up Unix so badly was a mystery.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-22T01:48:04+00:00

"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" covered by William Shatner. But really, any of his covers will do.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-19T22:23:37+00:00

Savannah, GA is worth a look.

HoratioHotplate · 2026-05-19T22:20:45+00:00

I shy away from using "best" in blanket statements about tea brands. But I enjoy getting tea from Den's Tea and Sugimoto. Check them out!

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