Ghosts of the Tsunami
Ghosts Of The Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone is a 2017 nonfiction book written by Richard Lloyd Parry, a British reporter who lived in Japan and reported about events there for years before the 2011 Japanese tsunami.[1][2] In this book, Parry examines and recounts the devastating impact of the 2011 Tsunami on Japanese survivors, communities and society at large, including years later. "It's a...chronicle of a disaster that, six years later, still seems incomprehensible."[3][4][5]
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Author | Richard Lloyd Parry |
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Publisher | Jonathan Cape (UK) MCD (US) |
ISBN | 978-0-374-25397-4 (Hardcover) |
Awards and honours
- 2018 Folio Prize[6]
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gollark: My tape shuffler thing from a while ago got changed round a bit. Apparently there's some demand for it, so I've improved the metadata format and written some documentation for it, and made the encoder work better by using file metadata instead of filenames and running tasks in parallel so it's much faster. The slightly updated code and docs are here: https://pastebin.com/SPyr8jrh. There are also people working on alternative playback/encoding software for the format for some reason.
gollark: Are you less utilitarian with your names than <@125217743170568192> but don't really want to name your cool shiny robot with the sort of names used by *foolish organic lifeforms*? Care somewhat about storage space and have HTTP enabled to download name lists? Try OC Robot Name Thing! It uses the OpenComputers robot name list for your... CC computer? https://pastebin.com/PgqwZkn5
gollark: I wanted something to play varying music in my base, so I made this.https://pastebin.com/SPyr8jrh is the CC bit, which automatically loads random tapes from a connected chest into the connected tape drive and plays a random track. The "random track" bit works by using an 8KiB block of metadata at the start of the tape.Because I did not want to muck around with handling files bigger than CC could handle within CC, "tape images" are generated with this: https://pastebin.com/kX8k7xYZ. It requires `ffmpeg` to be available and `LionRay.jar` in the working directory, and takes one command line argument, the directory to load to tape. It expects a directory of tracks in any ffmpeg-compatible audio format with the filename `[artist] - [track].[filetype extension]` (this is editable if you particularly care), and outputs one file in the working directory, `tape.bin`. Please make sure this actually fits on your tape.I also wrote this really simple program to write a file from the internet™️ to tape: https://pastebin.com/LW9RFpmY. You can use this to write a tape image to tape.EDIT with today's updates: the internet→tape writer now actually checks if the tape is big enough, and the shuffling algorithm now actually takes into account tapes with different numbers of tracks properly, as well as reducing the frequency of a track after it's already been played recently.
References
- Parry, Richard Lloyd (2014-02-06). "Ghosts of the Tsunami". London Review of Books. pp. 13–17. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
- Rooney, Kathleen. "'Ghosts of the Tsunami': Richard Lloyd Parry offers a harrowing account, deftly told, of the 2011 disaster". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
- Schaub, Micheal (October 26, 2017). "'Ghosts Of The Tsunami' Examines The Disaster That Haunts Japan". NPR. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
- Cooke, Rachel (August 27, 2017). "Ghosts of the Tsunami review – dispatch from the disaster zone". The Guardian. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
- Anderson, Sam (December 22, 2017). "New Sentences: From Richard Lloyd Parry's 'Ghosts of the Tsunami'". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
- "Announcing the Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018". Folio Prize. 8 May 2018. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
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