Here’s this week’s list of things to check out. It was kinda crazy weather in southern New Jersey last week: warm and humid for a couple of days, windy and cold others. Spring comes in fits and starts.

Rutgers University

Aaron has professed an interest in working in a professional kitchen since he was a child. He wanted to be a pizza chef for the longest time, and this directed him to applying to our local county technical high school for their culinary program. After four years of cooking in school for a significant portion of the day, and a couple of college tours, he’s thinking food science might be a better direction.
I remember Joey’s teachers in preschool (preschool!) professing concern that Joey, when asked, didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life. It had been many years between my graduation from college in 1997 and not knowing the answer to that question myself, but I remembered the feeling well.
One of the inherent inflexibilities in the county vocational school experience at Aaron’s school is that you can’t switch programs if you change your mind. This is not generally a restriction that one will encounter in “real life.” But it ultimately doesn’t matter. If you went to high school and took welding, auto shop, computer programming, or culinary arts classes, and learned from that that your chosen path might consequently veer to the right or left, you learned something valuable that many other people don’t get a chance to. If you learned how to fix cars in high school but became a lawyer professionally, then you possess a skill that is likely beneficial–and rare in your circle.
Anyway, we went on a campus-specific tour for accepted students Saturday, and it was a blast to stomp around the Douglass/Cook Campus and see the animals, classrooms, and more.

Rutgers-Adjacent Hot Pot

Aaron and I hit the Happy Lamb for hot pot following his Rutgers tour yesterday. We intended to try a soup dumpling joint in the same plaza, but it was packed. This was a familiar experience to our Delaware adventure, but we both agreed this place was a notch above.

Infinite Mac

Remember your first Mac? Mine was a Color Classic 2 running System 6. I had a succession of Mac after that and experienced every release from that Mac to Sequoia.
Infinite Mac lets you boot and play around in the Mac operating system of your choice, and even includes a couple of NeXT releases.
I am thoroughly happy with the state of macOS these days, but I have an unbridled affection for the old days, too (including Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and 10.6 Snow Leopard). The Mac has always been a fun platform to just play around on. And in the days before persistent internet connections, it was very much so. I could go on, but I miss the tear off Application Palette in Mac OS 9, Themes, and Window Tab. Lots of fun at this cool project.