MM 7 — Day 9: Sal’s Savvy Leopard Session and Two Timeouts
MacMania classes with Sal “Mr. AppleScript” Soghoian promise to be at the geekier end of the scale, and his “The Other Side of Leopard” session this morning did not disappoint. Here’s Sal’s list of the top ten most overlooked new features in Leopard.
1. Expanded Open/Save File dialog Similar to the windows in the Finder, the standard Open/Save File dialogs in Leopard feature a sidebar and three different views (icons, list, columns). Additionally, the Open File dialog also has a new “Media” section in that sidebar for accessing photos in your iPhoto or Aperture libraries, etc.
Here’s Sal’s recipe for quickly creating a photo browser that is available system-wide: create an Automator workflow and add the “Ask for Photos” action. Save it as a plug-in for the Script Menu, naming it “Photo Browser”. By launching this workflow from the Script Menu in the menu bar, you can now access, and search for, all the photos in your iPhoto and Aperture libraries without having to launch either application first.
2. Multiple Partition Dismounts When unmounting (aka “ejecting”) a volume from a hard drive that contains multiple volumes, OS X will now ask whether you would like to eject just the selected volume, or all volumes on that drive.
3. Text to Image To convert text or special characters into an image with a transparent background, choose Print in the respective application (TextEdit, for example), and select “Open PDF in Preview” from the PDF menu, which will create a PDF file of the phrase or character(s) and open it in the Preview application.
In Preview, crop the text as needed by selecting (part of) it with the selection tool and choosing Crop from the Tools menu, and save the PDF as a PNG image file, after which Preview will reload the fresh PNG file.
Click on the Select button in Preview’s toolbar, and a menu should pop up. From this menu, choose “Instant Alpha” and click — and hold down the mouse button — in the area you would like to make transparent. With the mouse button pressed, move the cursor to adjust the sensitivity of the “Instant Alpha” tool. As soon as you let go of the mouse button, that area is now transparent. Don’t forget to also make transparent the areas inside characters, e.g., inside a “D”, etc.
Save the file, et voilà: an image of the text with a transparent background, ready to be used as a sub-title on a photo, a caption for a photo greeting card, etc.
4. One-click User Switching Switching to another account on your Mac is as easy as a single click with the help of the Account Switcher applet.
5. Automatic screen sharing You can remote-control another machine by selecting it in the Shared section in the sidebar of a Finder window, clicking the Share Screen button and logging in. To automatically share another machine, run the “Create Screensharing Link” application (sorry, can’t find the link right now [no pun intended — really!]), create a link on the Desktop and add it to your startup items.
6. Browse Full Screen Place the “Browse Full Screen” AppleScript in the Finder window’s toolbar: click it to maximize the window to full-screen, switch to Cover Flow view, and hide the Dock. Click it again to restore the original window settings. Note that your file selection will be preserved when toggling back and forth between both views.
7. Fast Folder Access The icons for special folders like Applications, Documents, Movies, etc., make it difficult to differentiate between them, what with their subtle new gray-scale design in Leopard vs. the colorful icons in previous versions of Mac OS X. Resort to the Quick Folder widget for a menu of all of those special folders. (Alas, I could not find this widget, but a subset of those special folders is also listed in the Finder’s Go menu.)
8. Hierarchical Replacement for Stacks From the system-wide Scripts Menu, select “Open Scripts Folder” > “Open User Scripts Folder”, and inside that folder, create a new folder “Shortcuts…”. Place aliases to applications etc. in this new folder, so they show up in the Scripts Menu.
9. Automator 2.0 New features in Automator 2.0 include variables, loops, about 50 to 60 new actions, and also an action recorder (welcome back!).
Here’s an idea for a fun screensaver for a party (required Automator actions listed in order with required settings in parentheses):
- Ask for Text (set question to “Enter your name”)
- Set Value of Variable (new variable “Name”)
- Take Video Snapshot (Save as: “Name” variable; Where: new folder “Party” on the Desktop)
- Start Screen Saver
- Loop (Loop automatically; stop after 100 minutes)
Save the workflow as an application to the Desktop. Open the Desktop & Screen Saver preferences, select the “Party” folder via “Choose Folder…” and close the prefs.
Before your party kicks off, place the computer near the door to your house or party hall, launch the workflow, and now, whenever a new guest comes in, make them touch the keyboard, have them enter their name, and add a photo via the Mac’s built-in iSight camera. As a result, you’ll have a cool animated display of every guest’s photo and their names. Makes for great introductions when you have invited guests who haven’t met each other yet.
Another Automator hint: if you often switch your Mac’s startup volume, create a new workflow, and start the Action Recorder by clicking on Automator’s record button. Then, open the Startup Volume preferences panel, select a drive, and click restart. Save the workflow as a self-running application, calling it “Restart from [volume name]” or somesuch, and place it on your Desktop. Once you have created worflows for every startup volume you use, you simply double-click on the respective workflow application whenever you want to change the startup volume, instead of diving into the preferences.
10. Auto-Conversing iChat Create an AppleScript that sends out text messages along these lines:
“Hey there. Just a moment. Will be with you in a sec!”
[short’ish delay]
“Sorry, just got a phone call from The Boss. This might take a while.”
[longer delay]
“Oh man, totally forgot about the marketing meeting. Gotta run. Talk to you soon.”
In iChat’s Alerts preferences, define to run this AppleScript when a Text Invitation comes in. (Think “Eliza’s Evil Twin”.)
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After Randal Schwartz presented “Amazingly Cool Utilities” on our first cruise day, I had a little chat with him about Quicksilver, and if it wouldn’t be a neat idea to introduce this eclectic geek utility to the more experienced Mac-heads on our cruise.
So, I nagged him and Neil Bauman long enough to eventually give me the opportunity to teach that introduction myself (nibbling away a chunk from today’s Ingenious Bar session. Sorry, Sal!). So, with Randal as my co, who contributed the occasional insight and tip, I presented a 45 minute overview and intro to Quicksilver with some 25..30 people in attendance.
While there was at least one specimen of the infamous almost-falling-asleep-guy (well, this was right after lunch…), most people in the audience paid close attention to what we demonstrated, and they came up with a bunch of very thoughtful and interesting questions. Of those questions, the most unexpected and amusing one was asked right after I got started: “So, who are you?!” Come to think of it, I guess with Mac luminaries like Jason Snell and David Pogue on board, I shouldn’t really consider that question “unexpected”…
Giving this talk was great fun, and it was especially rewarding that a few of my “students” came up to me afterwards, asking for additional info, and some requesting more entry-level explanations of why they should start using Quicksilver on their Macs. I’m sure this session found a few new friends for this great utility.
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Rough seas were still with us all through the day — even in the pool.
But so were the gorgeous dramatic skies.
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Ever heard the songs “Don’t cry for my Cupertino”, “The Girl I met by Email”, or “I wrote the Code”? No? Well, make sure you attend one of David Pogue’s spoof song “concerts” if you get the chance, like we did tonight in “Timeout with David Pogue.” Hilarious. (Some of his songs are available on David’s website.)
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Tonight will be our farewell dinner (already? we’ve got another full day and night to go! sheesh), so bring on those cheesy songs and that whacky sparkler-spiked Baked Alaska desert already, will ya!
MM 7 — Day 8: Pulling the Emergency Break (Again)
During last year’s MacMania 4.5, I had canceled the final shore excursion, as I felt that I had packed too much into my schedule, and that having a bit of slack instead was a good idea. Nevertheless, I basically fell into that same trap again this time, having booked an excursion for every stop along MacMania 7’s course. But now that we’re two thirds into the cruise, I do need some peace and quiet to digest all that I have seen so far.
Hence I have canceled the final excursion on this cruise, just like I did last time. That excursion would have been a promising visit to a sloth sanctuary, but I feel as though I need to hit the emergency break now. You know, it’s just what you do when you realize that you are approaching a corner at speeds that would only allow for straight-ahead motion.
Instead of going ashore, I have spent an idle day to muse on all the events of the recent days, and to get in shape for the classes still awaiting us during the two sea days on our way back from Costa Rica back to Fort Lauderdale.
On a side note, we have had pretty rough seas ever since leaving Colon. Combined with the grayish skies, today’s weather reminded me of what we are used to from the North Sea during this time of year: strong winds and cool, very “agitated” waters with rolling waves. That stark contrast of familiar sights and sounds — sea, air, skies — vs. unfamiliar ones — vegetation and buildings of Costa Rica — made for yet another (very welcome and enjoyable) surreal moment.
To be frank, seeing a bit of Costa Rica and those unusual creatures would have been interesting, but it was the right decision to remain on board and waste away the day, as it did wonders for recharging my batteries. And that renewed energy came in quite handy for tonight’s party in the Crow’s Nest.
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Following that party, we were treated to “an evening with Richard Dreyfus.”
The award-winning actor was our very own Geek Cruise celebrity guest, who said that he came on the cruise because it combined two of his passions: the Macintosh and Shakespeare, and he expressly admitted to being a “crazy nuts-o Apple geek.”
Another of his hobbies is studying history, which, as he phrased it, is the “story of the haves against the have-nots.” In his speech tonight, he made a passionate case for teaching civics and clear thinking in schools.
According to Mr Dreyfus, a major problem of our times is that, in many of our communications and especially the news media, images have largely replaced text. And these images — “primitive, which text is not”, says Dreyfus — are now immediately available all around the world. What’s more, time has been removed from decision making, that is, there is no more rumination, contemplation, thoughtfulness, or thinking things through, before taking a decision that may have wide-ranging consequences.
Relating to the example of the attacks on the World Trade Center Twin Towers, he said: “We see the towers fall, and we react, and if we don’t react, we are called cowards or worse.”
This problem is exacerbated by computer industry, which has “become addicted to speed and can never be fast enough,” while it has done relatively nothing to help rumination and thinking things through, “even though we need those values now more than ever.”
Pointing out his own love for his Mac laptop several times, he hopes for the computer industry to leverage people’s love and passion for such products to enhance their ability to think clearly and to comprehend, stressing again the importance of teaching such abilities as well as the topic of civics to children so they can grasp these concepts at an early age.
To support his endeavors in this area, Richard Dreyfus plans to create a website called Common Senselessness. Let’s hope it’ll go online soon.
MM 7 — Day 7: Panama Canal by Ship, Rain Forest by Gondola
When I woke up at around 5:30 this morning, I quickly dragged1 myself out of bed to peek through my curtains, but we were still waiting for our time slot to enter the Gatun Locks, the Eastern entrance to the Panama Canal. Excellent! Some more time for a few extra precious snores in bed.
When I woke up next, we were already inside the locks, so I got dressed, grabbed my camera, and went out on deck to watch this spectacle.
Pulled along by diesel locomotives, the MS Volendam traversed through all three steps of the Gatun Locks and into Gatun lake. In front and in back of us, other ships made it through the locks, as well, and to take in the sights of these huge vessels from this close — stunning!
Just as stunning was the green color of the lush vegetation surrounding Gatun lake. This being my first trip to the rain forest and my first trip to South America in general, I was amazed by how warm and soft tropical rain was that accompanied us all the time during our maneuver through the locks. And which did not prevent any of my fellow-passengers from getting up, getting out, and getting all excited about the whole thing, as well.
After we made it through the locks, the ship anchored in Gatun Lake next to some other “parked” ships, and we were taken ashare by tender boats — which made for a fun roller-coaster-like experience — to board the buses that would take us on today’s excursions.
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Never having seen the rain forest before, my choice for today’s excursion was clear as soon as I saw the words “45-minute treetop gondola ride” in the brochure, and I was delighted to have my newly-found-on-this-cruise friends Chris and Jill, as well Jonathan (a “fellow-Aruba-Jeep-tour-survivor”) share this experience with me.
That gondola ride would take place at the Gamboa Rain Forest Resort, and a “short” ride in a minibus would take us there. This ride turned into a little adventure in its own right: the lush vegetation, the reddish-brown soil, the decrepit lumber trucks on the road, the “typical” Latin American scenes, houses, people. So new and exotic were these sights and sounds that I felt like a kid in a toy store, taking it all in with wide-open eyes and mouth agape. And due to a few roadwork sites on our route, as well as heavy overall traffic, I had ample time to do so.
All during the ride, our guide gave us lots and lots and lots of information on Panama by handing out countless info sheets, showing local animals, fruits, vegetables, flowers, foods, etc. — you name ‘em, those sheets listed ‘em.
Eventually, we arrived at Gamboa which felt as though it was located right in the middle rain forest nowhere. Once we all safely disembarked our little Toyota bus, we got in line for the gondola ride, and having the Pogues directly behind us in the queue added some serious entertainment value.
When I prepared for this excursion, I had decided to leave my camera on the ship, because, first, Chris did bring his high-end SLR, and him being a pro photographer, I’d be able to get the finest photographic memories from him anyway; and second, I often have this urge to take as many photos as I can to make sure I don’t miss anything. Which has the annoying drawback that, just as often, I am not really enough “in the moment,” bothered with taking pictures instead of really letting myself become immersed in the actual experience.
Turns out, I made the right choice, since Jill had also brought an SLR, and I gladly helped her find some interesting motives to capture (while selfishly offloading to her the burden of actually photographing them).
Back to the gondolas: they looked like gondolas from a kids’ ride on the fairgrounds, felt like a kids’s ride on the fairgrounds, and provided the exact same feeling of safety as — a kids’ ride on the fairgrounds. But, man, was this some awesome ride!
Slowly “flying” through the dense foliage of the rain forest canopy towards the peak of a hill, most everyone fell silent with awe, gazing at the trees and brushes and breathing in the humid, even tangy air.
And this ride was even topped by what expected us at the top of the hill: an observation tower whose peak cleared the tree tops, so we could gaze out over the forest and part of the Panama Canal. This was, so far, easily the most moving sight of the whole cruise. And it reminded me of a quote by Albert Einstein:
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
And pause, we did; and stand rapt in awe, we did; and so alive we were, and our eyes so open!
When we returned down the hill, it felt as if we had experienced something big, transcendental. Something that cannot be put into words, so I won’t even attempt it.
During the ride back, it was pretty quiet on the bus. But the sights were just as interesting and exotic as when we came in, so, although I was drained, I couldn’t help stare outside the window and observe all the details of this strange, exciting, different world.
As scheduled, our ship had already left Gatun Lake, going back through the Gatun Locks, and was now docked in Colón. Our departure was late by about 30 minutes, because a landslide had delayed the return of the bus of another excursion. How “exciting” that must have been.
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Two-thirds of the cruise are now behind us, and tomorrow’s stop at Puerto Limon in Costa Rica will be the last one before two consecutive sea days that will take us back to Fort Lauderdale. The excursion I have booked will leave at 6:30am tomorrow morning (read: “middle of the night for a geek”). Well, at least we will all gain one hour tonight, as we are moving into yet another new time zone, setting our clocks back one more hour.
Still, I will skip “fine dining” tonight and meet Jill at the bar for a snack, a few brewskies, and for basking in the “sustain” (for you non-musicians out there, feel free to substitute “afterglow”) of this fabulous day.
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For someone with my sleep rhythm, “quickly dragging” is not an oxymoron. ↩
MM 7 — Day 6: A Slow Day Out on the High Seas
Today is sea day number two. Unfortunately, it’s the first day of the voyage with not-so-sunny weather: deep clouds are resting on a plush bed of gray haze, and my mood has taken a minor hit, as well. It happens.
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With most of today’s classes covering iLife, iWork, Lightroom, Aperture, and Photoshop, I decided to skip ‘em all and make it an enjoyably slow day. I did, however, opt to to follow David Pogue’s “Inside Leopard, pt. 2″ session. Same concept as last night’s, same entertaining jokes, and more “do try this at home”-style tips.
But also a little anecdote about how even the attention to detail usually demonstrated by Apple’s developers can’t prevent the odd little mishap. In the Services menu (found under the application menu, e.g., Finder > Services), there is a submenu titled Preview with two items, Open images and Slideshow. David had noticed that, no matter what you do, these two menu items are always disabled.
So, having pretty good access to the powers that be in Cupertino, David asked one of the OS X engineers about why those two menu items were never available. The surprising answer: that submenu was not supposed to be in the Services menu in the released OS. Makes you wonder how many future versions of OS X will, nevertheless, tag along that menu…
It’s true that many experienced Mac users will already have trodden some of the ground that David covers in his presentations, but the way The Pogueman does his thing, and those little anecdotes like the one above that originate from the connections David has, make for some entertaining Mac geekery.
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Tonight, we’ll have to set our clocks back as we will be entering another time zone on our way to the the undisputed highlight of this cruise, the Panama Canal. And what sweeter way to be informed about this than via a little greeting card that is accompanied by a piece of chocolate.
MM 7 — Day 5: Exploring Curaçao’s African Heritage and Checking out a Virtual Big Cat
There is something special about the early morning light in the Caribbean, and I was glad to wake up early yet again, and well in time to observe our docking maneuver in Willemstad on the island of Curaçao.
And also in time to see another spectacular cloud formation in the sky.
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Today’s shore excursion started quite a bit earlier than I had planned: instead of 1:00pm, the “African Heritage” tour departed from the pier at 8:30am, as I was informed last night. The excursion brochure listed both times, and I am sure they were combined into one. We were barely enough people to fill every seat of our minibus — there don’t seem to be too many people eager to learn about the gloomy history of the slave trade while on a cruise in the Caribbean. And a gloomy topic it was, indeed, as witnessed by the exhibits at the Kura Hulanda museum.
Once a neglected and decaying neighborhood of the Otrabanda part of Willemstad, a Dutch entrepreneur started investing in, and rebuilding the area in 1995. Today, dozens of houses in this part of town have been restored to splendid condition, and the cheerful colors, gorgeous architectural details and numerous works of art make for an amazing site, deservedly earning it place Unesco World Heritage Site status.
The central hub of the Kura Hulanda neighborhood, which means “Dutch Courtyard”1, is a resort hotel and a museum. This museum not only tells the history of the Western Passage slave trade, but also puts into focus the diverse cultural heritage of peoples of the Western Africa, who were abducted to serve as “human resources” in the worst possible sense of that phrase.
The inner courtyard inside the museum grounds is graced by a sculpture of Mother Africa, showing her face when viewed head-on (no pun intended…), and the outline of the African continent when viewed from the side. Just a few steps away from this piece of art, the museum confronts its visitors with the barbaric cruelty that was at the core of the slave trade.
The exhibits encompass old etches, photographs, and documents, as well as original “tools of the trade” like chains, shackles, and whips. The part of the museum I found most disturbing — if you can actually sort such a place’s exhibits by “disturbingness” — was a recreation of the lower decks of a slave ship that you could climb down into, and which demonstrated how their “masters” viewed the black people they had kidnapped: as wares which would have to be stowed away in as little room as possible to maximize the profit of each ship’s load. Never mind that a not-so-small percentage of the product did not make it to the destination in usable condition…
After leaving this section of the museum we went over to some other buildings that housed innumerable art and crafts objects from the Western African nations, and the richness and variety of these objects is a great source of inspiration and admiration. I wish we would have had a bit more time to browse this collection, as you don’t often get a chance to see such a large collection of African artifacts in one place.
The second major destination on this tour was a former plantation-turned-special-education-school called Groot Santa Martha. On our way there, we stopped by a little slave hut, which looked rather idyllic, reminding me a bit of those cozy cottages found in English villages.
And yet, the thought that the former inhabitants were bereft of most every personal freedom we take for granted nowadays, made for an odd contrast between what one saw, and the image in front of one’s inner eye of what it must have been like for those who lived in it a few centuries ago. And yet, it was lightyears away from the miserable “lodgings” we had seen at the Kura Hulanda earlier.
After a quick stop, we continued on our way to Groot Santa Martha. Here’s an excerpt from their info brochure:
In 1696 the Groot Santa Martha Plantation was already famous for its cattle, sugar mill, indigo, distillery and fresh-water wells. Dividivi pods were also exported and in 1797 there was still one working sugar mill.
Towards the end of the 19th century, the sale of fruit and cattle for slaughter turned a handsome profit, while Santa Martha also produced 90% of the island’s salt which was then shipped to the United States and the Netherlands.
The heavy work in and around the landhouse and in the saltpans was done by slaves who lived in huts on the land. At that time, the plantation consisted of 554 hectares, now reduced to only 17 hectares.
Today there is still an orchard, nursery garden, vegetable and herbs garden, and a farm with cows, goats, sheep and horses. In all these departments handicapped people work under supervision.
The plantation’s gorgeous, serene location is embedded in lush green surroundings and close to a saltwater lake, nicely setting off the cheerfully bright-yellow main houses. In some of the buildings on the site, mentally handicapped people were being trained in arts and crafts, e.g., in a furniture restoration workshop, with the aim to prepare them for an independent life once they have completed their education here.
The way the place was presented to us, however, felt somehow awkward and inappropriate, as our group was led to some of the buildings and allowed to freely look around. Although the director of the place, who led us around and explained each building’s purpose and the overall concept behind the Santa Martha foundation, assured us that “meeting” other people this way was part of the training they provided to their students, I couldn’t help but compare the image of watching these people and taking photos of them, to images from circus freak shows from the early 20th century.
And I was glad to find out that I wasn’t the only one who had reservations about this, as I talked to another person from our group, who also shied away from entering every building and basically disrespecting the students’ privacy, and he shared the exact same feelings about this visit.
It’s not that I object to visiting places like Santa Martha per se — far from it. But, generally speaking, if the expression on another person’s face indicates to me that they feel uncomfortable when observed in tactless touron2 fashion, I respectfully retreat and leave them alone. Grabbing your camera and taking a close-up shot of that person instead, should not be an option in these situations.
During the drive back to the ship, our guide provided us with some insights into what life on Curaçao is like today, bringing our thoughts back into our modern times: how the housing market develops, what the school system is like, how the island is debating independence from the Netherlands, and many more interesting tidbits.
Before being taken back to the pier, we took a little detour to the Tula memorial. In 1795, a slave named Tula organized a revolt against a plantation owner, and even though the revolt was violently put to an end and Tula executed, he is still revered as a hero, and that reverence is also expressed in the monument which shows Tula breaking the chains of two other slaves with a hammer and chisel.
In a way, today’s excursion was the opposite of yesterday’s fun off-road ride: more serious, deeper, and thought-provoking, and I returned to my cabin tired, mellow, and even a bit emotional. But that’s exactly what makes an excursion worthwhile.
Being shown a close-up of such a disgraceful phenomenon in our “civilized” nations’ history is not a carefree ride, but it can, and should, give us pause to reflect on which values define us as human and humane beings — both through confronting us with events and actions that we don’t want to ever occur again, but also through inspiring and empowering stories like that of the slave Tula who was brave enough to put his own life at stake to stand up against his and his fellow-men’s oppressors.
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The Volendam left Curaçao at 6 in the evening, so there was only time for one class today: part one of David Pogue’s two-part mini-series “Inside Mac OS X ‘Leopard’” in the ship’s Wajang Theater, promising to cover all 300 of the new features found in this release of the OS. Well, that didn’t “quite” work out as promised, but, given David’s entertaining presentation style, it was well worth attending despite the “somewhat” less comprehensive coverage.
David’s first topic — after pointing out the “halucinogenic box” that Leopard ships in — was Time Machine. When asked who could rightfully claim to have a complete backup of all the files on their Mac “right now,” only three people in the room raised their hands (thanks to SuperDuper! and a bus-powered Iomega FireWire drive, I could rightfully claim membership in this exclusive club). Which, according to David, was in line with what Apple claimed, namely that only 4% of their user base have a system in place that creates automatic, regular, and complete backups.
To demonstrate the importance of backups, Pogue used the one example that I think is guaranteed to work every time: pictures of your family, especially of your kids. The very idea of losing any photos that document moments in peoples’ lives that they can never ever re-live or re-create usually gets even those to consider implementing a reliable backup system who never cared about backups before. Which makes it all the more surprising that David himself admitted to not backing up!
Despite having three kids, a massive supply of cool camera gear (and not just way-cool review loaners, either, I’m sure), and, thus, tons of media files portraying his children, he says he has not backed up by making backup copies on DVDs, or somesuch. Why not? Because he just does not have enough time to do so. Or, rather, did not have enough time, because, with Time Machine, backing up becomes a no-brainer.
Other topics covered in this session was slightly less important, yet useful faire, including Spaces, QuickLook, Cover Flow, etc. Watching David showing off these new-to-Leopard features was especially fun to me, because I have not yet installed my own copy of Leopard, which I had received just a few days before leaving for the cruise, and now my “Me Want!”-levels are at a new high.
To round off this session, David presented five of his ten “Dave’s Faves:” 1. The “Mosaic”-style photo screen saver; 2. Data detectors in Mail.app; 3. searching for menu commands via the search box in an application’s Help menu. With addressing data detectors for adding events to iCal and addresses to the Address Book, as well as using the Help menu search to also find bookmarks in Safari’s history, that does make five faves total.
The other five will be covered in the second part of “Inside Leopard” tomorrow night. For now, though, I’ll focus my thoughts away from the feature menu Apple has created for their latest Big Cat to the menu that lists what’s for dinner tonight. Aye!
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Curaçao is a former Dutch colony and, as one of the Netherlands Antilles islands, still part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. ↩
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touron = tourist moron ↩