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Wow. I learned that J. Saul Kane died. He was only 55. JSK was a fascinating character. In the early 90s, he played a huge role helping produce legendary rave tracks like EON's "Spice" JSK was best know for his solo work undfer the name Depth Charge where he combined elements of rave, breakbeat and house with kung fu samples. He was also a serious photographer, working mostly in his native London. JSK's other notable characteristic was his pure "no BS" policy. He neither gave nor took it. This made him an odd fit for the music industry, but he had so much raw talent he got ahead anyway. I was Facebook friends with him (ya rly) for like 15 years. He was one of the people whose activity where never not interesting, whether he was him excoriating some fevered ego like David Guetta, showing off his street photography, or some new piece of musical kit he had acquired. This only begins to cover how cool his studio was. Also JSK wasn't just a gear hoarder. He did amazing things with it. John understood sequencing, synthesis, mixing and mastering. John had the distinct aura of brilliance about him, which came through in everything her pursued. He's a man gone far too young, and completely irreplaceable. He will be missed. Rest in peace.

A guy on reddit got this stack for $1500. Not a bad price per pound.

"Working as intended." (I'm running the newest MacOS and iOS.)

I, too, took a picture of the moon. Of course, it's not entirely in focus because a bird got in the way. Stupid bird!

New Mac Mini Has Modular Storage, 256GB Model Will Have Faster SSD. I do not know what to make of this information. 256GB is entirely too little space. I can make do with 512GB because I use so much outboard storage. 256GB won't even hold slsk, my torrent client and download folders.

I just bought the XIII remake. It was $2. When it came out (4 year ago) it was universally panned. Not only because it was a ruinous remake a of a beloved original, but also because it was plain bad. Apparently it's had a major patch since then and I'm morbidly curious enough to try it out.

Catchy tune!

It was 100% the corgi.

I put this image in my Slow Forum folder last June and I haven't the foggiest idea as to why.

I've done a lot with photography over the last few months, from re-editing a bunch of shots I took of a car show in a Walmart parking lot (ya rly) in the summer of '07, to mucking about with my 300mm Nikkor to completely missing the aurora borealis we had here. I also got divebombed by a flock of honking Canada geese.

I have questions.

Valencia, Spain has experienced some biblical flooding and mudslides.

Obligatory.

Y'all know the phrase "Not the flex you think it is?" None of these are Photoshopped.

RIP Teri Garr.

A guy on reddit rented a Canon 800mm F/5.6 RF and took a bunch of exposures of a rocket launch to make this composite: I actually had to resize OP's original, because it was so high resolution it made imgur and discord FTFO. The full size version is in the reddit link.

This is going to be a long walk. 4AD is a storied indie record label that released a ton of works by post-punk and indie rock artists in the 1980s. At that dawn of that decade they put out a bunch of releases by the Bauhaus, The The, Modern English, The Birthday Party and a host of other contemporaries of that era. I have a few 4AD Bauhaus records that I've owned for 35+ years. At one point in the late 80s, I had a The The T-shirt in spite of owning none of their music (I thought the name was funny.) Among the early 4AD releases is a one-off that is the only release by the band Rema-Rema while the band was active (there's a been a number since they broke up, but that's not really relevant.) Said release is an EP called Wheel In The Roses. I've heard it, but not any time recently. The EP's cover art has its own story at least as famous as the band. While not intentionally or historically so, the image has an enduring legacy due its homoeroticism. In the 90s I knew a gay house DJ who had a copy of the original 12" framed on his studio wall. The back story of the photo is wild and dark one. The subject of the photos is two wrestlers from the Nuba tribe in Africa. It was taken in 1948 by photojournalist George Rodger. Rodger took the photo on his tour of Africa. He set out on such a journey post-WWII to deal with the horrors he'd witnessed. His photos of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were some of the first images of the holocaust that were seen internationally. Here's where the story goes off the rails. George Rodger's son is Peter, who is a successful documentary filmmaker. Peter's son, George's grandson is ...was, Elliot Rodger, the incel mass murder.

RIP Paul Di'Anno, the original vocalist for Iron Maiden.

Here's a bit of history, the original HeadRoom Max Balanced Headphone Amplifier prototype: It sold for $850 apparently, which seems like a bargain to me.

There's a place on MV called the "Dumptique." The purpose is to keep reusable items out of the landfill. I drove up there with a car load of stuff I just couldn't keep (going from a 5 bedroom farmhouse to a 1200 square foot cottage is ride, let me tell you.) It was not my plan to take anything back, but I did peruse the media shelf. Apparently I arrived at the right moment. Mixed in with Sex in the City Season 3, Disc 4, some megachurch propaganda and a box of Christmas music missing disc 5 was this stack: Goddamn. It's like a Gen Xer died or gave up all their physical media. All of it is interesting, but that Bauhaus disc is legendary. It was almost more or less impossible to find in the late 80s when I was obsessively collecting their music. The only downside is that the Stranglers anthology is missing my favorite song by them. Of course, I've always been partial to the cover version by Prong.