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750W home space heater. I don't understand Australian politics at all. The Lauterbrunnen Valley, Switzerland. Glacier National Park from Logan Pass. Mount Fuji from a Pagoda, Japan. Click for hilariously larger.

1978 Lamborghini Faena. Fishing Port in the Mediterranean, Marsaxlokk in Malta. Sunset on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Click for slightly larger.

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Bang & Olufsen Beolab 90 at Yodobashi Camera, Akihabara.

what could possibly go wrong? Treehouse at the Lions Sands Game Reserve. Sunburst Peak, Mt. Assiniboine Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. Click for slightly larger.

The Cars were inescapable in the 80s. Especially the first half. RIP, Ric. OTOH he was married to Paulina Porizkova so I can't exactly pity the dude.

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My local transfer station (we called it a dump in my day) has a new "swap shop." Last night I carefully packed up a humidifier my father bought in the 1990s (I still had the original box) as well as my ca. 2013 3 PCI slot 275W TDP video card, and a Drobo I bought from ...one of you Head-Casers. I managed to get my ca. 1996 LaserJet IV+ working with my current MacBook Pro (it's got a network card, so it's just an IP and some Gutenprint.) After years of buying one shit-tastic inkjet printer after another, I love my dorm-fridge-sized-black-and-white-only-it-works-every-fucking-time-without-fail laser printer. New ink is like $150, but it lasts half a decade. Real printers make your lights dim when they power on. I used said LJ4+ to print out descriptions and basic instructions for the Drobo and the video card, because I knew no one at the dump would have a blinkered clue WTF they were. The attendant was quite pleased because he didn't know a GPU from an IED. Given how well the whole exchange went, I'm going to be divesting myself a lot of more things like it in the next few weeks. I did consider putting the Drobo and GPU on Craigslist or sodding Facebook marketplace, but given the horror stories I've heard I'd rather just be rid of them than try to extract $50 out of them at the cost of (what's left of) my sanity. Related: Anyone need FOUR Yamaha NS-1000s speakers? Late 80s vintage, they have a midrange driver that sells for like $250 bare.

My sainted mother turns 78 tomorrow. I spent an hour today on the phone guiding her through the process of updating the firmware on her her AirPort (one I bought from HC's own Salty IIRC.) After a repeated error message, having her reboot the AirPort three times and her cable modem twice, we were successful. The updated decided it was automagically applied after appearing to fail repeatedly. Apple discontinued the AirPort a number of years ago at this point and didn't make a replacement. I don't know what I'm going to do when it's time for a replacement. I really appreciate the UI and bulletproof nature of the AirPorts.

RIP Daniel Johnston. https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2019-09-11/austin-songwriting-genius-daniel-johnston-dead-at-58/

Shut the FUCK up, Donny! Rave mixing is a crime! The cat that thought it was a photographer, November 1909.

Tekton M-Lore, Rythmik FV18s.

This one. The synth tone in question will be pretty obvious when it arrives.

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Woke up to burst pipes (again) and a flooded basement (again). This time the water got into the wiring. The good news is I'm not dead and the house didn't burn down. The bad news is more or less everything else. I've already shop vacced up maybe 100 gallons. There's parts of the basement I can't easily get to (FML) and two outlets are dead. One is a ground fault and it won't reset its breaker. My first reaction is DON'T FUCK WITH IT. Luckily I ran a lighting business for 15 years and I have some big, fuck-off extension cords. I'm running on fumes right now, but I've got more work to do this evening. Did I say FML? FMMFL.

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