MERLIN
As of this morning, I possess a magical tool. It is not a wand or goblet of fire, but it may as well be. Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Merlin bird ID app is an astonishing thing of terrifying accuracy. It also happens to put me out of a job (if jobs are things you do really well that don’t pay. At all).
How’s this for lemons: you have a mysterious, random…