Jen heard on the grapevine that the Forest Diner was closing at the end of this week, so we drove out on Sunday evening to have one last bite before the doors close. Talking to our server, the story is that the whole property will be converted to a strip mall, and the adjacent ice cream stand has bought the dining car. Hopefully they’ll leave it alone and keep it intact.
I want a small Applescript or Automator function to do one thing, very simply. I want to be able to drop a folder full of images on a workflow and have it generate one page of HTML per image, each one linking to the next, all in the same folder. Easy peasy. I don’t want to have to run a fucking shell script or remember how to program in Perl; this is 2012 and I should be able to use the tools supplied to build my own standalone app.
I spent about three hours this afternoon looking for a script I could hack apart, an automator function I could repurpose, or a forum explanation that I could start with. I had no success. Apple seems to have deprecated their support for Automator and Applescript (go look for it on their site right now; I’ll wait) to the point where all I can find are 4-year-old third party sites focused on scripting iTunes playlists.
God, I hate it when I can’t figure something like this out.
Update: As noted below, Jason is on the case. It’s a Ruby executable script available here.
I’m not a huge baseball fan, but I at least keep an eye on the home teams. This article describes perfectly why I haven’t given a shit about the Baltimore Orioles for, oh, 15 years.
I don’t usually read Gizmodo, because, well, it sucks. But this article is very good: How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet.
“That is the reason we bought Flickr—not the community. We didn’t give a shit about that. The theory behind buying Flickr was not to increase social connections, it was to monetize the image index. It was totally not about social communities or social networking. It was certainly nothing to do with the users.”
That right there is the telling quote. I still use Flickr as a CDN for all my photos, but I’ve considered moving them all in-house (something I’m, frankly, dreading) just in case they decide to pull the plug one day.
Update: Equally interesting is the response in this comment thread on Metafilter. As a community who identifies strongly with the old-school internet, the pro/con mixture seems split roughly down the middle.
I read about this on a WWII message board a couple of weeks ago, and couldn’t believe it then: British WWII fighter found in Egyptian desert. Hopefully they can get it out and into a museum before people start scavenging bits from it.