Knuckledragger

Steinway & Sons Model B

Paradigm Personas.

Sunrise over Mount Hood, Oregon.

Okay, executive decision time. I'm doing my show tomorrow night, same time (10PM Eastern.) I need to spend tonight both ironing out technical issues and preparing a show. I'd rather go on relaxed and ready.

Probably going to do a show tonight. I've mostly got the Macintop up and running (though moments ago I discovered that Time Machine is not working and of course is now being a complete PITA about inheriting the old backups.) I have NO FUCKING IDEA what I'm going to play.

Dynaco ST-70 driving Zu Omen MKIIs.

Jonah Sharp and David Moufang's live rig.

Got the machine back yesterday. It took nearly 13 hours to restore my data from the Time Machine backup. I'm slowly getting apps up and running. Oddly, Traktor didn't want to re-registers. Less fortunately, Nord VPN doesn't work at ALL now. The client flat out refuses to log in. I'm going to investigate that further tonight. Weirdly, I spent longer in the Apple Store picking up my laptop than I spent dropping it off. I did have some time to peruse the peripherals they sold. The thing that impressed me most was this thing: CalDigit TS2 Plus. It's over $300 on AMZN, but only $250 in the Apple Store. It powers the laptop and provides a really thorough hub, via one connector. I don't even have a USBC equipped machine, and I kind of want one.

5/8 Democrats were present and the ones missing were: Eric Swalwell Sylvia Garcia Victoria Escobar 2/6 Republicans were present and the ones missing were: Louie Gohmert Jim Jordan Guy Reschenthaler Kelly Armstrong

Spoilers!

Tannoy DC8Ts taking over.

10K composite of the moon.

Focal Aria 948s driven by a Mark Levinson 27.5

The showreel is one of the best parts of Mixlr. My sainted mother goes to bed like 2 hours before my show airs, but she always listens the following morning (you know, right around the time *I* go to bed, but I digress....) I've been listening to last night's show as I install the new 27" monitor I bought (see other threads) and well... it's a good thing I DJ such chill music. I have been cursing and yelling at inanimate objects as I wrangle various computer hardware.

Mt. Hood during sunset. Abandoned control room of a astronomy observatory, UK.

Test Tone @ Home live right now: http://mixlr.com/illuminator/chat

I did reset the PRAM and the SMC. Traktor is the main culprit, but it's hardly the only one. I sometimes play an idle/incremental game called Crusaders of the Lost Idols. It's a 2D game, but it's fantastically unoptimized. It will happily chew up 100-200% CPU. When I run it on the Macintop, the machine will fail to keep its battery charged as well. I have not done a clean OS install. That's the one thing I've thought of but have not tried. Reinstalling MacOS is comparatively trivial vs Windows (kill me now) but it would still leave me with sufficient down time that I'm not doing before my radio show. I might try it this weekend, but seeing as I'm headed to the Apple Store anyway, I just as likely might not. ...and yes, I back up the everything.

Bob Carver Amazing Line Source prototypes

Vintage Luxman system.

Dunes of the death valley, CA. Click for slightly larger. Lofoten, Norway.

My 2015 MBP is continuing to have two major issues: (1) it can't keep the battery charged when using taxing applications (like Traktor) and (B) kernel_task consumes 500-2000+ % CPU when I do something silly like run Flash. k_t doesn't cut it the fuck out even when I exit Chrome. I did some googling and apparently it's an issue related to the failure of thermal sensors. I've just gotten off the phone with AppleCare and I've got an appointment at the nearest Apple Store (still an hour away) on Monday. This most likely means there will be no Test Tone next week, but I can't say for sure.

Nnnyeeeaaah...Where’d ya get the monkey suit, doc? The Blue Forest - sunset.