NSLog();

I see no reason why QuickTime Player or Preview should restore their state. They're not really "editing" applications, and I rarely close windows in them before I quit the app, particularly if I have only one window open.

So, these terminal commands take care of that:

defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false

defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false

"As with so many things in my makeup, the answer derives from Charlie Nicklaus. My father taught me the single hardest thing a professional athlete has to learn, which is how to lose gracefully. Dad convinced me very early in my involvement with sports that I had to accept the bad with the good; that, however much it hurts inside, you smile and keep a stiff upper lip; that you shake the hand of the man who's beaten you, and tell him congratulations, and mean it."

chflags nohidden ~/Library

It's kind of annoying that it's hidden but, hey, whatever. Most people don't need it.

Also, holding down the option key will show the "Library" option in the "Go" menu of the Finder.

When will Lion ship? About a month, I think.

I'm not sure what I am looking forward to the most - the release of the software or the Siracusa review that will surely follow.

Update: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars.

We'll be acquiring a SAM PuttLab Pro very soon. I'm very excited to look into this. It's not an inexpensive item, but it will be put to good use in our downtown facility, I can bet you that!

Has anyone tried Nuun tablets?

They're quite tasty.

Hinging actions do not control ball flight, curve, trajectory, etc.

A ball struck with matched impact parameters will fly exactly the same whether you've employed horizontal hinging or vertical hinging or angled hinging.

Hinging actions can determine what's come before, and that is how they express a change in the ball flight - not what they do while impact occurs.

The Three Imperatives and Essentials operate to correct faulty procedures. So, if they seem elusive, it is invariably because you are trying to execute them while you hit the ball - in your accustomed manner. That must be reversed. Learn to do those things even if you miss the ball - until you no longer miss it. There is no successful alternative (3-B).

Quotes from The Golfing Machine.

The three imperatives:

1. A "Flat" Left Wrist
2. A Clubhead Lag Pressure Point
3. A straight Plane Line

Quotes from The Golfing Machine.

The three Essentials:

1. A stationary Head
2. Balance
3. Rhythm

Quotes from The Golfing Machine.

Hitting a ball is the easiest part of the game - hitting it effectively is the most difficult. Why trust instinct when there is science? The instructor can only inform and explain - the student must absorb and apply.

Quotes from The Golfing Machine.

Details here:

• Design will include a courtyard in the middle and curved glass all the way around.
• Jobs is planning on transforming an area that’s 20% landscaping to 80% landscaping by putting most of the building’s parking underground.
• There are 3,700 trees in the area at the moment, Jobs has hired an arborist from Stanford to take the area up to 6,000 trees.
• The plan is to build a four-story high building and four-story parking structure.
• The campus will include an energy center, and natural gas will be the primary source of power, using the grid as backup.
• There will be an auditorium, fitness center and some R&D buildings.
• Jobs plans a 40% increase in Apple employees going from 9,500 today to 13,000 in 2015.
• He wants to increase the campus' space 20% from 2.6 million to 3.1 million square feet.
• Landscaping will increase 60% from 3,700 to 6,000.
• Surface parking will decrease 90% from 9,800 to 1,200.
• The building footprint will decrease 30% from 1.4 million to 1 million.
• Cafeterias will fit 3,000 people at a sitting.
• The whole building will be designed with the utmost concern for employee safety.
• Apple currently has 20 buses running on bio-diesel fuel for its employees and Jobs thinks that system will work well with the new campus.
• The plan for the new design will submitted asap. Jobs hopes to break ground next year and eventually move in 2015.

Supposedly, there's "no chance" this won't be approved.

Full story is here, but the basics are that the theater made this PSA after kicking out a texter.

I posted this on Facebook in regards to "method instruction" being bad or close-minded or fixed or whatnot, and I disagree entirely. And I wanted to share it here as well, as it's important and relevant.

Every good instructor has a method. A method is "a procedure, technique, or way of doing something, especially in accordance with a definite plan." Who would admit to not having a plan for a student?

In golf "method teacher" seems to be used as a bad thing, as in "he applies the *same* method to every student." But there's a whole large swath of space between the method being very general like "good contact, hit the ball reasonably far, know where the ball is going" and "the shaft needs to twist about its axis 17.5 degrees while the left arm moves 35 degrees across the chest" (to be clear, I don't think anybody's teaching the latter). Where's the line in the middle that separates those two? Or are both of those "methods"?

Everyone is a method teacher to some degree or another, because nobody who says "no method" really means that - they're simply trying to sell themselves as "I teach the golfer" or "I just teach good impact." Their method is the "'No Method' Method!" To truly have no method is to truly have no plan for a student, and again, nobody teaches that way.

"Method" is misused. Every good instructor teaches the student they have in front of them. Every good instructor teaches "impact." Every good instructor has a "method" because to claim otherwise is to claim that you don't have a plan.

And finally, IMHO, the only way a "method" limits growth is if the "method" becomes so precisely defined that acceptable ranges shrink and cease to become wide ranges of acceptable values or components. Personally, I like generous ranges with constant prioritization so the student can improve.

To put it another way: if you ask any "no method" teacher enough questions, you'll be able to suss out their "method."