Thursday 06/19/2025
First thing I took care of some bookkeeping for the Treasure Trove, documenting the items we had put on sale. Then off for a standard walk. Edited another chapter of Cecil’s biography and was so impressed I sent a couple of dramatic paragraphs in an email to the Fam.
Then at 1 down to the Museum to lead one of two, 2pm tours. It was Juneteenth and they expected a lot of people, so doubling up on the tours. In fact, the first tour went with 20+ and then I had another 20 when I started at 2:20, so yeah.
Took a tech squad call in the afternoon. Person complained that their Mac’s keyboard had gone nuts, when they tried to type a @ (upshift 2) they got a double-quote instead. I suspected an issue with keyboard mapping. MacOS lets you map your keyboard to the layout for your country. I did some deep research… ok, no, I asked Claude.ai. Literally asked: what MacOS keyboard mapping replaces @ with “? and got an immediate answer, probably the U.K. English keyboard, maybe the Australian English one. AI takes all the challenge out of researching tech questions but it sure is quick.
Went to the lady’s apartment, checked system settings, keyboard, and sure enough. I can’t explain how she managed to do it, it isn’t a single function key thing, you have to take some pains to change your keyboard mapping, but her iMac had been set to U.K. English keyboard. In and out in under 4 minutes.
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