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While you're beating up on Apple hardware, @matigo, can I just add that Apple Maps still lags horribly behind.

I say this because on my recent trip, I used my iphone to take pictures more for the geodata than for the images, so I can figure out afterwards, where I was. If you open an image in Preview, osx very snazzily will read the location data and open it for you in apple maps, but in apple maps there's no way to measure the distance between two points, and there's not nearly as much contextual detail either.

If I peek at the EXIF data and enter the latlong into Google Maps I have all sorts of options for measuring distances, seeing what else is around and so on.

But as far as I can tell, there's no easy way to go from the JPG with geodata to the location on Google Maps without either giving Google your image, which I'm not quite ready to do.

I haven't bothered to check yet whether the Flickr map data has the same options for measurement, or whether it can be used privately, as it were.

Of course, if I didn't have to finish this job in a right hurry I could spend the next three days writing an Alfred Workflow that might be able to do the job for me.

Speaking of which, I better get back to work.

@indigo Hmmmn. Now there's an idea for a taste test.

Seriously, I think there would be differences in taste, just as there are, for example, between feedlot beef and grass-fed beef. There are also differences in taste between different breeds, and it may be that Paraguayan DNA is different enough -- leading to a different enough biochemistry -- to be noticeable.

// @matigo @variablepulserate

@matigo Apparently so, especially among young people, who used to see sake as a "grandparents" drink. But all this was pure assertion. I have no idea whether there are supporting data.

@matigo Why not. Unless you're talking about persistent toxins like heavy metals and so on, pigeons are probably efficient converters of garbage into potential food.

Finally caught up with the BBC Food Programme on sake of a couple of weeks ago. Very interesting, even though Sheila Dillon seemed way out of her depth when they talked about koji and the need to convert rice starches to sugar before the yeasts could get going. People said that the revival of sake in Japan began after the 2011 'quake, as young people found drinking sake from the most affected regions was a good way to support reconstruction of those regions. Sounds fascinating. Has that been documented, I wonder?

@matigo Squab is a young pigeon, possibly one that has not yet fledged. Grown-up pigeon is good too, especially given the long, slow treatment.

@hazardwarning Heh. I am avoiding this because it is so much more fun than what i am having to do.

@matigo It's enough, for now.

Just checking in (i've been lurking and reading the inanities about sweeties and Android) to let you all know that I am making good progress in my write-up.

That is all.

@streakmachine Be great if there actually is a twin who knows nothing about the job.