Amazing to me that this Griffin PowerMate still works.

It does require another oldie-but-goodie, USB Overdrive, to work, but hey. The build quality is amazing.

Although it’s in beta, Universal Control on macOS Monterey has been working well for me. One of the most delightful touches is how you interact with the setting to control how the Mac conceives of your iPad’s location. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Apple bakes this feature into the Displays setting in System Preferences.

Here’s my setup in Displays: Mac, attached display (extending the Mac’s display), and the iPad to the right:

Clicking on each device’s tile allows you to drag it into the space you’d like it to occupy relative to the main device:

Each device’s name is shown on hover. Nicely implemented, building on your previous knowledge.

We’ve been attending the ToyShows.org shows for years (since our first show in January of 2011), and now that the pandemic has worn off a bit, we were able to attend today’s show at the Nur Shrine Center in New Castle, Delaware. Some whimsical finds:

The boys don’t really go in for the older toys, but they make for good pics.

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The boys at the first show we attended in the winter of 2011