Not so foolish after all: ‘fool’s gold’ contains a newly discovered type of real gold.
@variablepulserate It was a small satellite suburb, at the end of the electrified rail line. Trains further east were regional service or freight only, running diesels. People kept moving here as housing was cheaper than in areas closer to their workplaces.
@variablepulserate When I moved here 21 years ago, its population was barely 8,000. Now it’s closer to 80,000.
There was an incident involving speed in which a brown fox overtook a lazy dog.
This town has three major railway crossings, all of which will be replaced with an overhead rail line. The existing railway station will also be replaced and a new one built to the east of the town. Further east is a new complex where 32 of 64 new Melbourne trains are stored & maintained. In some of the recovered space will be a small public hospital to ease the load on the major ones in the outer east. All done by 2024 allegedly.
Date & costs will inevitably blow out, of course.
With all those railway works plus the duplication of the southern section of a major (if somewhat neglected) arterial road, it’s going to be traffic hell. The duplication work is scheduled to end in 2025.
1480 photos imported, PowerPhotos app found 420 duplicates. And a manual scan revealled 278 more. So I imported 1480 photos & trashed 698 duplicates.
The plan is to convert the consolidated iPhoto library to a Photos library & import its content to Photos on the MacBook Pro. Hopefully, most will already be on the MBP but I know some are not.
Fired up the old 2003 G4 PowerMac to do something about it having 12 separate iPhoto libraries. I used iPhoto Library Manager to consolidate those 12 libraries into a single new one. It contains 1491 photos & took 8 minutes to export the 1.9 GB file to an external CF card via Firewire 400.
I’m copying the same file to my MacBook Prousing Firewire 400 cable connected to a Firewire 400/800 adapter, a Firewire 800/Thunderbolt adapter & a Thunderbolt 3/Thunderbolt 2 adapter. The copy process, according the the Finder will take 27 minutes.