Photos Tip
20:26 Monday, 11 May 2015
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I made a print of an image from Photos the other day. It's a large one, 16"x20", but I'm happy the way it turned out.
In Photos, print orders are stored in Projects, at the bottom of the left side "sources" column.
After I received the print, which took about a week from ordering to delivery, I wanted to check something on the image exif data. Since it's one of several thousand images in my new Photos library, I figured I'd just do a "get info" on the image in the Project. Unfortunately, that doesn't work. Nor is there a "Show in Library" menu item. Basically, you can just modify the order from the contextual menu.
If you double-click the image, however, you get a floating window:
(What's interesting to me is that there is no corresponding Menu item that I was able to find that replicated the double-click. Normally, double-clicking is a shortcut for a Menu item, usually "Open.")
Click on the Edit Photo button and it takes you into the basic Photos edit screen. From there you can either use the Window=>Info menu item, or right-click on the image and do a Get Info from the contextual menu.
I submitted a feedback report asking to be able to get basic exif data from the Project page.
YouTube Tutorials
10:11 Saturday, 11 May 2024
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I enjoy watching YouTube tutorials and I learn a lot from many of them. I also enjoy seeing new creators and their approach to making their videos.
This one for creating a day overview using iOS Shortcuts was enjoyable. I like how he goes through step by step, encountering unexpected difficulties, going back and making changes. I find this more accessible, in some ways, than the very smooth presentations where everything was thought out and scripted in advance. I think the "relative roughness" makes it somehow more memorable, aiding in recall or retention? And it reveals a glimpse of a problem-solving approach, I think, that may be helpful.
I also loved the idea of having it run after an alarm stops. Didn't even know that was possible and it gives me some ideas.
I've subscribed to the channel, because he doesn't come up very high in the search results.
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10:20 Saturday, 11 May 2024
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Horrible movie. The trailer was better than the movie.
On a more hopeful note, heading out shortly to join my son and grandsons to see the latest Planet of the Apes installment.
I can't say I'm really excited about the prospect. The first three films in the reboot were very good. I suspect they're just milking it as a franchise now. Similar to how the original movies evolved. I do enjoy seeing the boys though, that's the main reason I'm going.
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09:44 Monday, 11 May 2026
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David French is clutching his pearls over Graham Platner. (Gift link.)
Comments were closed by the time I got to it, so here's what I would have written:
Platner is a symptom, not the disease. And as symptoms go, I think he's mild.
French ignores the larger problem: Why don't people of unimpeachable character and integrity run for office?
Sure, politics today is a cesspool. Who wants to beg for money, endure the scrutiny, the attacks, assemble a team, track the paperwork and the endless hours campaigning? Evidently, not the people of character French would prefer. Sure, Mills didn't have the baggage, but her age was not an asset. And surely it isn't the case that the only people with character and integrity are over 60?
I'm fine with Platner. At least he has the courage to step into the ring and endure the process.
But the real problem is the lack of engagement by broad swathes of American society from whom we might expect to draw more attractive candidates.
The rot runs deep.
Very deep.
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19:34 Monday, 11 May 2026
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Mitzi's off on a five-day excursion (a perfectly usable word, needlessly sullied by our moronic monarch) to Maine. I took her to the place where they were meeting the bus at 7:00 a.m. this morning.
After that, I texted our builder to see if he planned to work on the driveway today, and did I need to move the Maverick.
No need to move the Mav, he was here this morning with the electrician to see if they could pull up the power cable from the pump. He wants to bury it in conduit before they dump several tons of shale over it. They couldn't pull it up, so he went home and came back with his excavator.
While he was working on the pump power, I replied to the design firm on a couple of issues that were outstanding from us. The design firm wanted to confirm that we wished to use parallel chord trusses in the vault, and six-inch concrete core in the basement. They also wanted to know if we wished to use their structural engineering partner, or one of our own locally. We had done some investigation, found a local architect/engineer and were convinced that six-inch cores were code compliant, given adequate reinforcement. So I gave all that to the design firm.
Well, they called Brad the Builder, and again pushed back on the six-inch cores. They said they googled the firm I'd told them we'd be using, and couldn't find much of an online presence, which I guess was a red flag for them. So they asked us to pass along the proposal from their engineering partner and ask our architect if he was prepared to provide the same level of services. And, OBTW, could he please send a sample marked-up basement plan so they could see an example of his work?
We said we'd pass the proposal along and ask for a sample, and I did so in an email to him.
Brad had spoken to the architect a few times before, but I hadn't. I tried calling him earlier in the morning, but it went to voicemail. After I sent the email, Brad tried calling him again and he picked up this time.
Whoa! Apparently he'd read my email, and was very offended that he was having to send a sample of his work to a draftsman before he'd get the job! He's got a very pronounced Spanish accent, and it was hard to follow him sometimes, but we did have a good conversation. We learned that he had designed ICF homes before, he knows the code, he stands behind his designs and his work, he's been doing this for 40 years. I think he's Spanish, because he's very familiar with European building techniques, they use a lot of concrete over there.
After that exchange, I wanted to talk to the guy Brad knows who recommended him. So we called Bob the Builder and asked him about the guy. He had nothing but good things to say, and that he'd been working with him for over five years.
So, called back the design firm and said he was our guy, and they were all "Ok, we'll make it work," and so on. They said they hoped to have the plans off to him by tomorrow morning. Yay!
While we were phoning back and forth, we got a call from the firm that will probably build the deck over the walkout basement and the covered porch. Good conversation with him. Sounds like it'll be pricey. He said their engineers almost always work with the project engineer/architect, so that wouldn't be an issue. I sent him over the most recent draft of the plans so they could work up a proposal.
That was only about two hours of back-and-forth, but it was kind of exhausting!
Tomorrow, I'm heading down to Pennsylvania to meet up with a few of my Naval Academy classmates for a "Beer Summit." (None of us drinks very much anymore, but we cling to our youth.) It's only two nights at a cabin-camping location. We'll cook out and do some local sightseeing. Last time we did it we toured the Yuengling brewery and an old anthracite coal mine. Have to come up with something new this time.
I'll be back on Thursday, Mitzi comes home on Friday and Brad should be building the driveway on Friday as well.
Then we've got to get the septic tank pumped and inspected to get approval from the watershed protection agency. We've got to get emergency services to give us an "address" for the 911 system, so they have to come out and look at the property and they're backed up two weeks. We have to have the driveway completed before the electric utility will come out, and I don't know how far out they're booked; but we won't need them for the building permit, I think. We need them eventually, but not before the permit.
Brad needs the plans to finish his quote. I'm preparing for sticker shock. Mitzi thinks we can get this done for a little more than $500K. I'm thinking it's going to be more like $600K plus. Doable, but painful. Gotta count on not dying before the thing is finished.
But the beat goes on...
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20:16 Monday, 11 May 2026
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Jacob Evans linked to the Apple Blossom post, and mentioned that he has his own Tinderbox everything bucket, called Lifebox. (Which auto-correct insists is lifeboat.)
Lifebook would be a good name too, I think. But I get the Tinderbox connection.
I suspect my "Apple Blossom" title was rather too subtle for most people. Apple's Advanced Technology Group planted a seed...
If you have to explain it, it's definitely too subtle.
The marmot is my more "personal" journal, though much of it is missing because of the years I spent in the "social media" void. And, frankly, I think on the platforms, I was never as open as I am here in the marmot. On the platforms, I always had the sense of having an audience I had to please. In the marmot, I'm largely unaware of the audience. I know there is one, but I have no idea how large it is, so it never really intrudes into what I choose to write about.
In the previous post, I deliberately omitted mentioning the name of the design firm and the architect, just because it's probably not the kind of thing that is important in the context of the story, and because it's perhaps not especially flattering to either party. Everyone is trying to do their best, so a little grace is appropriate.
If, as I'm very confident, everything works out and we're happy with our build and our experience, we'll share all the names. This has been a learning curve for many of us. Brad has never gone through an entire design process, usually just receiving a set of plans and then building to them. So it's been a worthwhile experience for him as well.
Late night for blogging. I've got to get packing.
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