Knuckledragger

^ That's probably the biggest slow post I've ever made, FTR.

Tufa in Mono Lake. Sand Dunes, Panamint Valley, CA. San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, Spain. 12 August 1958 at 17 East 126th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenue in Harlem. Click for slightly barker. 12th century Byzantine Church, Chios Greece. Mt. Shasta as seen from Mt. Ashland, Oregon. Bonsai Rock at Lake Tahoe. Leukerbad, Switzerland. Winter Park-Fraser Valley, Colorado.

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Vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence's daughter casts no reflection. What could possibly go wrong? Members of Orlando's Shakespeare Theater are building "angel" costumes like these to block Westboro Baptist Church members at memorials for the Pulse shooting victims. What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? Leningrad, 1971. Milky Way and French Alps, Chamonix. Doors in Venice. 3AM in Finland. Ice Lakes, Colorado. Sunset Over the Matterhorn Summer 2015. Autumn in the Adirondacks.

A wall built around Donald Trump star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1955 GMC Universelle. 47 years ago today. Lake Tahoe, California. Portland at Night. Maple Loop Pass, Washington. Astoria Lights. Isola Bella in Sicily. Jotunheimen. Click for Mars.

I finally upgraded my Macintop (late 2011 15" MBP) to 10.11 El Capitan and it has been a bumpy ride. Currently I am no longer able to get digital audio out of my laptop. That's kind of a problem as my entire FLAC collection is sitting on a set of external hard drives that only my Mac can read. For about a dozen years I've used an Edirol UA-5 USB audio interface. It has a bunch of analogue I/O, which I have used in the past (mostly the mic inputs) and most significantly, it has optical and coaxial digital I/O. Both digital outputs are active at the same time, which enables me to feed two different DACs simultaneously (something greatly appreciated by a neurotic headphone nerd with too many DACs.) Edirol (Roland's "economy" line) has not existed in years, and they last released UA-5 drivers for OS ...10.6. Up until yesterday that was never an issue as I didn't use any of the features of the UA-5 that required drivers (hibit ADC/DAC etc.) The UA-5 showed up in my device list as a generic 2 channel USB ADC/DAC and that was the end of it. Not so since I upgraded to El Capitan. All of the above would be meaningless if the optical digital audio port on my laptop worked, but it doesn't. I haven't (attempted to) use it in years, but I vaguely recall it not doing so last time I tried. I did have a fun afternoon with 3 different DACs and several optical cables until I was satisfied that the damn thing was broken. So I'm now in the market for a box that has a USB gozinta and optical and/or coaxial digital gozouta. Either that or a new goddamn laptop. ...also f.lux is all fucked up and I have no idea why, but that is a comparatively trivial matter. I had a fricken radio show I need to prepare.

RIP Alan Vega http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alan-vega-suicide-singer-and-punk-icon-dead-at-78-w429537 Suicide were so ahead of the curve it's difficult to put into words.

Ladies drinking wine in Cannes, 1958. London's Tower Bridge under construction in 1889. Peace River, British Columbia, Canada - Dawn of Fog. Havasu Falls, Arizona. Sunset in Valparaíso, Chile.

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It's not THAT obscure a reference. Wehlnadel in Saxon Switzerland, Germany by Jens Böhme. Saxon Switzerland. Lightning Strike from Greymouth Beach, New Zealand. A 1949 Delahaye. Torres del Paine, Chile by Russmosis. Machining a Space Shuttle Main Engine injector in 1977. Neptune Statue, Cape Charles. Cassis France.

Relevant again.

It's an office key. Pew Pew Pew. Washington DC, 1960. Early Morning at Lake Tahoe. Cache Valley, Utah.

Yenisei river, Siberia. Kikuletwa Hot Springs, Tanzania. The most recurring word in each country's Wikipedia article. Star trails and northern lights, Norway.

Lake Louise 4AM sunrise.

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Malafossur in Gásadalur, Faroe Islands Mount Ngauruhoe from Oturere track, Tongariro Northern Circuit, NZ Looking at a hurricane from the International Space Station. Königssee, Germany.

Death Valley Sand Dunes Catching the First Light of the Day. A storm over The Hague, Netherlands. Canadian armoured cars from WW1. Click for slightly larger.

An abondoned Hotel in the Black Forest, Germany. Click for celestially larger.