Faces

Apple's iPhoto scans your photos and looks for faces. Then it asks you to name the faces. Here are some faces I'm naming.

This is Canyon Wall[1].	This is Dr. Drainpipe[2].
This is my best friend Snow[3]. I like Snow.	This is S.U.V. Wheel[4]. I don't like S.U.V. Wheel.
Here's a fun bunch. They're called Trees[5].	I don't know this guy's name, but he rocks[6].
This is River[7].	Here are some more Trees[8]. I have lots of pictures of Trees.
This is Bolt Hole[9].

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Here's something that iPhoto doesn't think is a face^[10].

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I know that you can do things in iPhoto like tell it where there are or are not faces, which supposedly improves its performance (it's probably using some crappy^[11] neural net). If the interface wasn't so shitty, or if it did anything useful^[12], I might care. As it is, I'll be manually storing my photos in a simple directory tree organized by date^[13] and categorizing with symbolic (or perhaps hard) links, unless I find something better.

Notes
1. ^ Little Bear Canyon, NM
2. ^ It's behind the retaining wall I built.
3. ^ Heavenly Valley, CA. It's US snow, which is not as good as Canadian snow.
4. ^ I don't normally take pictures of motor vehicles, especially not evil SUV's. It was parked next to something I was photographing. We needed SUV's to haul our piles of equipment over some difficult terrain.
5. ^ Banff National Park, AB.
6. ^ I sincerely apologize for the horrible pun. The rock is on the ground next to the retaining wall.
7. ^ Kananaskis River, AB.
8. ^ View from Heavenly Valley, CA.
9. ^ The hole is drilled through some MDF which has a black poly-something surface. It sort of looks like it's drilled all the way through, but it's not; you can see the head of the bolt in the base of the hole.
10. ^ I think it's a spiny lizard, probably Sceloporus olivaceus. Little Bear Canyon, NM.
11. ^ That's redundant.
12. ^ Why does iPhoto call every upload of photos an “Event”, and why does it call them “Rolls”, and why are the default names “Roll 1”, “Roll 2”, etc.? Yes, you can edit them, but it would be nice if the default was at least half useful, like the date.
13. ^ That's how an older version of iPhoto did it. The newer version stores photos in directories named something like “Roll1” and buries the whole thing inside a “Package”. (This is on a Mac. I don't know, or care, if iPhoto is available for PC, and if it is, how it organizes.)