Knuckledragger

As I mentioned a while back, I've been getting more familiar with the combination of my D200 and 300mm F/4. Taken through my kitchen window, which often results in a hit to the contrast. In this case it wasn't so bad. The same two deer, two days in a row. Quack, quack. A very technically flawed photo, but a rare case where I caught the great blue heron with his wings open. They are giant birds.

Base model Mac Mini for $499 (click the coupon box) and possibly another 5% off with an AMZN Visa: https://amzn.to/3V6uZNd I just bought one, in spite of my objections to a 256GB system drive.

By the blue lagoon.

Not on the Icelandic news site:

Bose buys McIntosh, storied maker of high-end luxury audio equipment.

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.