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I came home to California to find eight barrels of wine in the garage. My folks give me the stink eye every time I so much as glance at the stash, and I think this may explain why my mother has switched to buying me only the half-size little red cocktail straws. (Little do they know I have aquarium tubing in my closet, muahahahaha!)

But no, really, as good as their wine generally comes out in the end, this stuff isn’t done yet. Just kinda wild to come home to EIGHT BARRELS of high quality grape. The wine from my folks’ co-op always used to be stored elsewhere - never got to witness the whole process before.

Meet ‘Stumpy’ — the resident lizard. He lives somewhere around the condo and I routinely see him chillin’ out on my way to/from the car.

I’ve been putting off writing this entry for quite a while now, but, I think the time has come. In early July, Mango was hit and killed by a car in front of Rust Op Twist. It was the second time my mother has been the first to see a family cat along side the road, and the second time she has rushed out as I scrambled for my shoes (to avoid the inevitable). We buried Mango on the beach side of the house, and, appropriately, planted a mango tree to mark her burial spot. The mango tree is doing well, and should bare (bear?) fruit as soon as next year.

Following Mango’s death, Tigger appeared quite depressed, not his usual bouncy self. So… I decided to treat loss with distraction, and brought home a kitten from the shelter. I named her Mocko, as in Mocko Jumbie. The name means “protector.” She was just a little squirt when I got her, and she really hasn’t grown much. Tigger out-weighs her at least two-to-one, but that doesn’t stop the two from wrassling and racing around the house like a herd of elephants. Crazy beasts. Tigger seems to have taken to Mocko and visa versa. The two are usually not far apart. Mocko is a little snugglepuss, she likes to cuddle up in bed and is slowly training Tiggs to do the same. And she is on her way to becoming a well-seasoned flopper — she falls at my feet, often on my feet, multiple times a day. sudden bouts of weakness, only treatable with belly rubs. she has me well trained.

Patrick (a family friend) and his buddy Kennith came to spend a week on island. Below are a sampling of pics.

We rented a bobcat to do some stump removals. Patrick knows how to operate heavy equipment, so we thought we would take advantage…

I had my fun with the bobcat too. I’m filling in the hole post-olive-tree-removal. This is also post-DPNR ’smack down’ where we got in trouble for moving some beach rocks without a permit. Crap. Potentially big fine. They had police men with guns and everything. pretty exciting…

For our rain-forest adventure, we took the windows off the jeep, safari style. Here’s Patrick posing as a tourist.

Then we paid a visit to the turtles up in the rain forest.

Happy turtles indeed.

Herds of them, in fact. Here they are stampeding.

Nap Time


Mango is underneath there somewhere

They both like exploring the Gallery.

Believe it or not, they’re sleeping.

I just got a request recently to add some features to a PostNuke module I developed for a client about 2 years ago — my first PHP project ever… I was kindof dreading the whole process. But low and behold… I’m finding things like:

Holy Cow! I commented the daylights out of this project. Yay for me.

Brief Introduction:
iTunes 7’s Cover Flow makes low resolution, older album cover art stick out like a sore thumb. iTunes won’t search for high res artwork if the track already has artwork. SO… One needs to be able to sort out the albums with low res art and strip them in order to make their library look shiny in Cover Flow. This script finds tracks with low resolution art. You can then use a script like this one to strip the artwork, and then use the built in iTunes tool to search the iTunes store for better art.

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1. Place “Find Low Res Art” in your iTunes script directory, usually ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts (where ~/ denotes your user’s ‘home’ or root directory)
2. Restart iTunes

Use:

1. Select the songs you want to scan for low resolution artwork.
2. Select “Find Low Res Art” from your scripts menu
3. Follow the Prompts
4. Sit back and relax. Scanning 6,000 songs on an Intel mac takes about 12 min using the script’s “fast” mode.

Background:
With the release of iTunes 7 we all got a nifty new music browsing shiny: Cover Flow. We can now flip through our music just as we would flip through CDs, complete with spiffy visual fade and perspective effects.

I, and (based on the number of album-art-fetching scripts available) many others have been obsessing over matching up songs with album art since the release of the iPod Photo a few years back. So the concept of viewing our album art within iTunes with shiny animation - Darned Cool. Thanks Apple.

Only one problem. Upon install of iTunes 7, I realized that my album art was Ugly. Hideous. Uncouth and Vulger. Well, maybe not all That bad… but it was still painfully obvious that 150×150 resolution art wasn’t making the grade in Cover Flow.

iTunes ever so kindly attempts to fetch Purdy art for us, BUT only when the track has NO art to begin with. And beyond manual sort and removal, there’s no way to filter or strip out the smallish art. So back in September of 2006, I created an AppleScript to do the filtering - the script looks at the artwork and moves the track to a “low res” playlist if it has low res artwork. Other people have already created stripping scripts to remove the artwork, so the next step is obviously to run one of those scripts on the low res playlist. Then let iTunes do its magic.

Took me a while to get around to releasing this… I hope it works for people. Feel free to comment if you have any questions!

My photo-organization strategy works something like this: Drag off stick, plunk in /photos/year-month_activity — viola. At this point I have about 6,000 pics. about 60% of those are duplicates, evidence of my “Well if I take 6 pics of <blah> one of ‘em has gotta turn out” philosophy. And did I ever bother to go back and sort out the one good from each set of duplicates? nah…

So I need to be able to organize my photos. I’ve got to do some purging. it would be nice to catalogue by keyword and make things searchable. This requires an organizational photo tool.

Critera:

• has to handle camera raw
• not choke on big libraries
• preferably hook up to Gallery2 and some photo printing gizmos
• playing nice with mac shinies is a bonus

I tried iView Media Pro a while ago and was unimpressed by their proprietary tagging & buggy Intel/Universal release. Now they’ve been bought by those yahoos up in Redmond, WA and I’d really rather keep my media in better hands.

That leaves Lightroom Beta, iPhoto, and Aperture (am I missing anything?) - iPhoto does kinda handles RAW and it plays nice w/all the mac-happy gizmos, but it lacks the versioning and export abilities, editing and stacking that I’ve come to like in Aperture. Lightroom has a learning curve, promises to be spendy, and doesn’t integrate with other macish shinies. Aperture is horribly expensive at $300.00 for a licensed copy, it integrates with Some mac gizmos, and it pretty much does what I need (or will do whenever they get around to releasing a camera raw patch for the D40…). Oh, and the learning curve was pretty tame. We like that. But $300… ouch. Would be nice if some selfless soul would develop a gimp media manager open source coolie. Likely too good to be true though. *sigh*

Addendum:
After reading Martin Paling’s notes about iPhoto Alternatives, I may check out Picture Arena