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Instagram connections. "Great Falls, Montana. Return after 3 wks Vacation. June 27, 1964." [Kodakrome]

Got a call from the mechanic. The Good news: that noise I was hearing wasn't a stuck brake caliper. It was a stick jammed way up into the whee well. The bad news: The -14º weather here in scenic western MA froze my car's battery solid and they had to replace it. Meh, the good outweighs the bad here by a pretty large margin.

Boston Skyline at sunset.

Golden Gate Bridge deck and south tower. Maroon Bells - Aspen, Colorado.

700 Pickering Rd, Hull by Steve Cobby.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35572838 Damn, dude. RIP the entire band Viola Beach, and their manager.

Staffordshire, UK Mussenden Temple. Bonus: Click for lol, larger.

This is so authentic to the famous scene in Office Space it's downright scary. This post is in no way an endorsement of Ted Cruz. He's a fuckface. Science proves it, his face is full of fuck. That doesn't make this ad any less brilliant. They even got the small details right like imitating the cable that Michael Bolton picks up with the computer's PSU. The only thing that's majorly different is the Geto Boys track they used, for artistic reasons. It's "Still" in Office Space, and (duh) "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta" in the Cruz ad. The latter song is prominently featured in Office Space, just not in the printer scene.

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

Look closely. Click for slightly larger.

Strap in, we're going deep here. At this point, this meme is fairly widespread. This example actually flips the script on the standard model [Bernie says something profound] [Hillary says something fake.] Also, it's an at this point extremely esoteric reference to mid-90s German minimal dub techno. Taken at face value, both statements are equal. M4 is considered a landmark release and is cited as one of the best examples in its genre. Before it was repressed (several times) and released in a proper digital format (FLAC), copies sold for an MFing FORTUNE on the used market. M4.5 is slightly less famous, but at least as lauded by the minimal dub techno cognoscenti. Some electronic music graybeards (including, ahem, this one) consider M4.5 to be the better release. Additionally, the two sides of M4 aren't terribly different. Side B is a little more dubbed out and spacey, but the distinction is (ahem) minimal. Conversely, M4.5 is practically a 1-sider. Side B is less than 30 seconds(!) Side A, OTOH, is a sprawling 13 minute dubbed out epic. It takes even longer to get anywhere than either iteration on M4, but the melody gets slightly more energetic toward the end. Whether or not it's superior to either side A or B of M4 depends on just how much one likes mid 90s German minimal dub techno. Real talk, all 3 variations on the track are not terribly different. It's good stuff, but there are far better examples of the genre that came out around the same time. My personal favorite is Porter Ricks - Port Of Transition

Shibuya Square- the busiest crosswalk in the world. Marshall beach at sunset, San Francisco .

Frozen fountain in front of the Westcott Building in Tallahassee, Florida. File under: Dissonance; Cognitive. Longyearbyen, Norway.. Click for slightly wider.

From my twitter: There are three definitions for "plowed." Two are funny, and one means "I can finally get out of my %@#$& driveway."

Discovery Park - Seattle.

Bucksport Maine Bridge Fog. Sunset at the mouth of the Columbia River.

I used to hear this song on college radio when I was a kid.

Svalbard, Norway