Knuckledragger

Mt. Hood during sunset. Abandoned control room of a astronomy observatory, UK.

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

I did reset the PRAM and the SMC. Traktor is the main culprit, but it's hardly the only one. I sometimes play an idle/incremental game called Crusaders of the Lost Idols. It's a 2D game, but it's fantastically unoptimized. It will happily chew up 100-200% CPU. When I run it on the Macintop, the machine will fail to keep its battery charged as well. I have not done a clean OS install. That's the one thing I've thought of but have not tried. Reinstalling MacOS is comparatively trivial vs Windows (kill me now) but it would still leave me with sufficient down time that I'm not doing before my radio show. I might try it this weekend, but seeing as I'm headed to the Apple Store anyway, I just as likely might not. ...and yes, I back up the everything.

Bob Carver Amazing Line Source prototypes

Vintage Luxman system.

Dunes of the death valley, CA. Click for slightly larger. Lofoten, Norway.

My 2015 MBP is continuing to have two major issues: (1) it can't keep the battery charged when using taxing applications (like Traktor) and (B) kernel_task consumes 500-2000+ % CPU when I do something silly like run Flash. k_t doesn't cut it the fuck out even when I exit Chrome. I did some googling and apparently it's an issue related to the failure of thermal sensors. I've just gotten off the phone with AppleCare and I've got an appointment at the nearest Apple Store (still an hour away) on Monday. This most likely means there will be no Test Tone next week, but I can't say for sure.

Nnnyeeeaaah...Where’d ya get the monkey suit, doc? The Blue Forest - sunset.

The Watchman at Zion National Park.

The Milky Way over Longs Peak, Colorado, 2019.

Pure acoustic iPhone amplifier.

Stars Over Osceola Mountain, NH.

...and this is why I can't find a good point and shoot. Currently looking for a clean used PowerShot S120, which came out in 2013.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/3/18646424/apple-mac-pro-redesign-new-specs-features-photos-wwdc-2019 Cheese Grater returns! Starts at 6 grand. Tim admits the 2013 MP was hot garbage.

Thanks. It's been a slow process getting back into it. Currently I'm trying to figure out what is the current iteration of the Canon PowerShot S series. I found the really nice S120, which has a lens that's F/1.8 at the wide end. It was released in late 2013. There's also 2014's S200, which is a step down from the 120 (wat.) I'm worried that SMRT PHNES have killed the premium point & shoot market. 17-40L at 17mm F/7.1, 1/100, ISO 50. 35mm F/2 at F/5, 1/200, ISO 100. Converted to black & white with a blue filter and then duotoned. 17-40L at 29mm, F/6.3, 1/4, ISO50. Converted to black & white with a high contrast filter, then duotoned in Photoshop. 17-40L at 25mm, F/5.6, 1/60, ISO50.

I love the Mac G5 as a media server.

17-40L at 17mm, F/5, 1/60, ISO 100. 17-40L at 19mm, F/6.3, 1/180, ISO 50. Pure silliness at this point. I attatched my Nikon 75-150mm F/3.5 E to my IR-modified 5D and did a "macro" shot of a plant growing in my front yard. The lens was wide open and I shot in aperture priority mode (as one does with fully manual lenses most of the time.) I then processed the image in Photoshop ...twice. The first time I did some basic contrast adjustments. The second time I converted the photo to black & white using a high contrast filter then duotoned it with a quad tone. Then I did some further levels work (I can't really call it "correction" at this point.) Finally, I combined the two images at about a 25/75 ratio. Why? I dunno, it's just how the work flow went.