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I like geotagging & mapping photos. This wee AppleScript finds the location of a photo in the finder & opens OpenStreetMap showing where it was taken. Easily changed for other map webpages. Needs the wonderful exiftool. I run it from FastScripts, also wonderful.
Read: Stations by Louise Kennedy ★★★★★ 📚
Broken Irish kids escaping to 80's London squat. Emotional misunderstanding last for decades. Great 'period' detail. Brilliant story with no easy endings.
Read: Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson ★★★★ 📚
Great fun as the author plays with the conventions of the country house mystery. The characters in the big house are particularly awful and often laugh out loud funny.
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Read: Ashland & Vine by John Burnside ★★★★ 📚
Now I was beginning to wonder if she had just been bluffing. Maybe there wasn't even a Wes, though I'm not sure about that. She'd had a look in her eye, a mix of apprehension and pride, like you see in certain types of pit-bull owners, and I really didn't want to test her story.
Film student Kate, bit of a mess, starts listing to an older woman Jean's stories of her family and life. American history, WW2, Vietnam, culture & counter culture is only a bit of it. Relationships, death, grief is another. Tempted to re-read this immediately.
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I am also not exactly sure which models I should be using. From that perspective, it was a useful reminder to be clear about what my purpose is. Ironically, having waited an hour for a response to a task associated with a series of documents, I was left wonder if this is what it felt like using punch cards?
Not sure where this will take me, but it is interesting to at least tinker.
I got quite confused trying to hook up llama with WordPress studio. Gave up in the end.
Read: When will there be good news? by Kate Atkinson ★★★★ 📚
A complicated multithreaded mystery. A delightful, unbelievable young girl mixed with characters from previous Jackson Brodie novels weave stories that somehow come together. Unlikely coincidences mostly. Great fun on lots of levels.
Read Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel ★★★★
In Yupik, a language spoken by the Inuit along the Bering Sea, there is Ellam Yua: a kind of spiritual debt to the natural world, or a way of moving through that world with some measure of generosity, of grace, or a way of living that acknowledges the soul of another human being, or the soul of a rock or of a piece of driftwood; sometimes translated as soul, or as God, but meaning neither. In a Mayan language, K’iche, there is the Nawal: one’s spiritual essence but separate from the self; one’s other, not exactly an alter ego or merely an avatar but a protective spirit that cannot be summoned.
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How deep in our genes is the longing for flight embedded? We always were a species of nomads. Eli found it easy to imagine an instinct passed down generation to generation, a permanently thrown breaker on a genetic switchboard: flight or fight, and a switch jammed permanently in the flight position, the limitless longing for travel pulled down by hooked genes.