Knuckledragger

I'm trying to decide between two machines. Both are late 2012 Mac Minis. Refurb'd 2.5GHz dual core i5 (MD387LL/A), 16GB Memory, 512GB SSD $572. Refurb'd 2.3GHz quad core i7, 16GB Memory, shitty 500GB spinny HDD (I have a spare 256 GB SSD) $650 It is worth the extra $78 for the quad core i7? The machine is going to function as media playback box (HTPC, more or less) and possibly a Steam machine for light 2D gaming (something I talk about but never actually do.) Actual internal storage is irrelevant as I'll have an ext HDD enclosure attached.

Last night's show is up: There's a good number of atypical tracks in it.

After a two week hiatus, Test Tone @ Home live right now: https://mixlr.com/illuminator/

Accurate.

(Audio Snob coughs nervously.) Click for slightly bigger. meow_irl #1 fan! Turquoise Hexagon Sun. Hopstretch is an alien confirmned. me_irl Happened right here in scenic western MA. STC Executel. Fake but neat. An aerial photo from 1967 shows plumes of industrial waste flowing in the Cuyahoga River and emptying into Lake Erie. Cleveland, Ohio. Key bridge Washington DC at sunrise.

Endured 2 1/2 days with no power (because of freak storm and record incompetence on the part of National Grid) while all three of my neighbors ran their generators (cannot blame them.) Also lacked running water (because well and electric pump) and had minimal contact with the outside world. What Apple does to older iPhone batteries via their malicious code should be illegal and punishable by death. What T-Mobile does to "unlimited bandwidth" customers after the first 2GB is punishable by hanging in more civilized countries. What they claim is "speeds up to 128lkbps" but in reality what they do is limit all data for periods of time. This becomes a might frustrating when one is furtively trying to load, say, an electric company's outage map page in Chrome. Also, there's a bug where iPhones won't display the "trust this machine?" dialogue when connected to a Mac and instead go BONG BONG BONG BONG forever. This means they iPhone won't even charge off the Mac via USB. They dance on both side's of Hanlon's Razor over there at 1 Infinity Loop. I ended up charging my phone with a car battery and an adapter. I was (and still am) not so secretly praying that Fat Donny presses The Button in a roid rage.* *This couldn't actually happen even if he wanted to do so. Every day the POTUS is given a card with a bunch of launch codes on it. Only one is real and the rest are fake. I'll be you a wooden nickel Trump doesn't remember which one is correct 5 minutes after receiving the card. Ironically, we're safer from nuclear annihilation under his tiny, cheeto-stained hands than any other president since WWII.

Wait, you don't have six pairs of in-wall speakers to switch between? Can you ever call yourself an audio snob?

R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen(!) https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-10-06/eddie-van-halen-guitar-dies-65

Wales, MA. Console was made in the late 60's around mid 66' private bar in East London.

Crocheted cat couch. I didn't particularly like Obama and this got a chuckle out of me.

Milla Jovovich answers fans questions in an online chat on AOL, February 13, 1995. ISS crossing in front of NEOWISE. Once-in-a-lifetime shot. Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry jamming at Madison Square Garden. New York, 1972.

Last night's set is up:

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

Absolutely cursed.