subjunctive — A guilty pleasure of mine is that I like the show “Big Bang Theory”, a couple of weeks ago a scene popped into my head where Sheldon was saying “…because apparently I’m ridiculous” and rather than just try to search scripts I started rewatching the entire show… well, technically I’m not always watching it, usually I listen to it while I put my son or myself to bed. FYI, that scene is when they’re using the Cheesecake Factory freezer to prepare for the trip to Arkansas the Arctic.

inculcate — Sadly this one is lost… I think I was looking up something about MySQL?

assiduous — I decided to finally come up with an alternative to my last 32-bit MacOS app, which allowed me to update to BigSur… Post-update I saw the Terminal warning that zsh was the default shell so I swapped over which of course meant all my bash aliases stopped working. I found a post at stackexchange discussing how to convert aliases and the top answer used this term.

Listerine… I have a Mid-2014 MacBook Pro with a delaminating screen — at one point Apple was going to replace the screen for no-cost to me, but they required it be returned to them for 3-4 days I never followed up. The delamination doesn’t bother me much except that it occurred over the webcam which has lead me a few issues:

• Blurry webcams look “gross”, essentially the view of me looked like a photo being taken through a grease smeared lens
• External webcams — even really expensive “4K” versions — don’t come close to capturing as well as the built-in versions on Mac/iPhone, I think everything looks oddly pale and washed out.

I hadn’t recently searched for how to address the delamination issue, but it turns out that Listerine is said to remove the coating which causes the issue… A few YT videos claimed it doesn’t work, but I was able to use a q-tip inside the opening of my sliding webcam cover to clear just that area and it worked very well! It may sound silly but the lack of a non-greasy-looking webcam was my #1 driver to replace this machine, so with that settled (plus the 1TB SSD upgrade I did in early 2020) I don’t see any reason to upgrade quite yet (which is nice because I don’t want an early generation M1).