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Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever!

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I had a stroke of inspiration last night: add tangerine zest to the chocolate chip cookie recipe.  Wow.  I don’t think I’ll ever make cookies without doing that again.  Just the zest of one tangerine.  Why didn’t anyone tell me?  Why doesn’t everyone do that?

The mockingbirds are back

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Last night one of our local mockingbirds returned.  It sang all night long.  I don’t mind – it’s one of the things I like about the area.  Did it know that it was February 1st?  Or maybe it was welcoming the first full moon of spring (though February shouldn’t be spring, it’s already in the upper 70’s)?  Wikipedia indicates that they aren’t much for migrating – and the climate here couldn’t be more mild.  So I wonder if it was just keeping quiet, or if it went somewhere for a vacation…

In any case, I like having them back and singing.

How to use AppleScript to launch several Terminal windows at one time with different commands on OSX

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I looked around for this and had a hard time finding it.

tell application "Terminal"
	set myTab to do script "cd /some/path && run command one"
	tell (first window whose selected tab is myTab)
		set the position to {0, 0}
		set the number of columns to 80
		set the number of rows to 24
	end tell
	set myTab to do script "cd /some/path && run command two"
	tell (first window whose selected tab is myTab)
		set the position to {570, 10}
		set the number of columns to 80
		set the number of rows to 24
	end tell
	set myTab to do script "cd /some/path && run command three"
	tell (first window whose selected tab is myTab)
		set the position to {0, 390}
		set the number of columns to 80
		set the number of rows to 24
	end tell
	set myTab to do script "cd /some/path && run command four"
	tell (first window whose selected tab is myTab)
		set the position to {570, 390}
		set the number of columns to 80
		set the number of rows to 24
	end tell
end tell