Miraz Jordan

I have a folder of .mp3 files and want to be able to just play a random track.

I spent ages finding out how to make an AppleScript to count files in a folder, get a random number between 1 and the number of files. I was banging my head on how to then play that file. Then I discovered you can just ask for a random file in the folder. Then play it. Piece of cake! 🎶

-- 02 September 2023

-- Miraz Jordan, https://miraz.me

-- AppleScript picks a random .mp3 file from the Korolova folder

-- plays it with Quicktime Player

tell application "Finder"
	
	set random_file to some file of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:miraz:Korolova"
	
end tell

tell application "QuickTime Player"
	
	open random_file
	
	activate
	
	tell document 1
		
		play
		
	end tell
	
end tell

'Library rooficer': Dog captures hearts of many library goers 🐶:

at Northcote Library, there is a dog who has captured the hearts of many. … [Koko the dog] kind of calms everything down, people come in and they look around, it gives that kind of peacefulness in the library as well.

Willow didn't really want to do a selfie with me today. 🐶 😒

(No spoilers) The NYT crossword for 30 August 2023 was a particular delight — all the Across clues tell a story.

This beauty used to graze near us, now she’s further away and we don’t see her so often. 🐴

The sunrise this morning was OK down by the Strathnaver lakes, Waimarie and Te Puna a te Ora (Tranquil Waters and The Wellspring of Good Health).

I've been watching the NZ TV show Far North based on true events of drug smuggling.

If this were a fiction it'd never get to screen as it's just too ridiculous 📺 :

the show is mostly based on a true story … much of the action plays out exactly as it did in real life. … “The reality of what was happening and what they were doing to get these drugs, and the way the real life Ed told me the story, I was like ‘this was so unbelievable’.”

Yesterday and today I planted 3 Tītoki trees and 3 Manuka. I'm hoping that the tītoki will, in time, attract the kererū who seem to have moved into the area.

Hard work though — I'm out of practice at planting stuff.

Is it spring yet?:

New Zealand [has] a 2 month summer and a 2 month winter… the other 8 months are a long drawn out spring and autumn … at least from a weather point of view. … we’re in a “Goldilocks” belt of weather that isn’t too cold in winter and doesn’t get extremely hot in summer.

Heh heh. Housebroken S01E08 at approx 7 minutes in. The Hamster(?) is reading a magazine article:

It says you died.

What?!

I live in a third Grade classroom most of the year, RIP stands for "really is dead". The 'p' is silent.

For my own reference 🚴🏼‍♀️ :

• Kāpiti Coast Trails Map
• Kāpiti Coast Cycling Map

There are still very few birds around on the beach: a white-faced heron, some black-backed gulls, a pied stilt or two and a handful of oystercatchers. I could hear a skylark.

It was a very low tide and there were islands of driftwood 'mulch'. And this luminous orange shell.