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Attending Wilco's Solid Sound Festival in North Adams MA. Billy Bragg opened proceedings and it started raining about three songs in but nobody cared much. Gang of Four soon and then Wilco with Billy Bragg who will perform music from their 1998 Mermaid Avenue album of Woody Guthrie songs live for the first time ever.

Naturally a few days after doing the major software upgrade the server had a drive failure, it's been restored from the latest backup but it may be missing several hours worth of data. My apologies!

Hey! Sorry I didn't mean to go missing for so long, it just kinda happened. I have a little corner of the house with a bunch of fun music things. I recently commissioned a calligrapher to make some artwork to go with the box and can't wait to show you what they look like together.

Also, for me, everyone appears as Brent...

Finally have local AI downloaded and running. So ... Yeah, I can do that, now. EDIT: And I got GLM-5.2 running! Abysmal speeds but when I need it, I got it!

Be more like Robert -- 🤘

We've thought about that over this weekend but one critical difference is that all of the stages here point away from the sunset so we get to look into the sun rather than the performers. The other is that he is king here so it should be harder to get grumpy.

Butthole Surfers - Psychic.... Powerless.... Another Man's Sac Mad genius album! Lady Sniff makes me chuckle hard every time.....

Beautiful landscape! Also I'm sure a nice Distagon. I can't choose between, but did you debate about shooting at f/800? So Light Lens Lab is probably most known for recreating old Leica lenses, but they've produced three non-Leicas also - The Cooke Speed-Panchro II (below), the Angenieux S21 (previous page), and the Dallmeyer Super-Six (I should resist, right? Being a completest is expensive.). Sometimes this is in a new mount, occasionally a new focal length. Anyway, they're often compared and I had Monday off, so swung by The Cantor Art and Anderson Collection Standford spaces with a dusted off SPII with the SL (typ 601). Isn't much of a comparison with the Jaq show, as their subjects are so different, but fun to shoot close together. Mostly at f/2.8. You may recognize the Richard Serra sculpture Sequence, shown here many times, along with a Nick Cave Soundsuite and Deborah Oropallo Patrol.

Is Marinwood Ready for The Hot Takes? Well, the younglings enjoyed the mosh pit!

Always great in used lens ads when they include a photo of the "flawless optics".

R6mII + RF800 ISO800, 1/800, F11

With the Big 4th of July approaching these were a fun listen. The New Yorker Radio Hour interviews The Rest Is History hosts Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook on the American Revolution from the British perspective. Apple PodcastsAmerica at 250: A View from Britain, with “The Rest Is Hi...Podcast Episode · The New Yorker Radio Hour · June 26 · 49m or The four part podcast that lead to that interview was also great. It starts with George Washington... And a bonus one on The Star Spangled Banner...

Just finished up the latest season of For All Mankind. iI's such a damn good show!!

Even if not the top of its game, still the best thing on television.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaHPQIBs10m/?igsh=YzNmYml2NGttMW9i I know the forum software does not embed Instagram links, but I came across this in my feed this morning. Bob James playing, Angela, with Wilco. {aka Taxi theme}

Far better than I've ever managed, so I approve!

I’m still testing the R6 Mark II against the 90D by taking photos of the moon. Last night I used 90D + 2x extender + 100-400 f4.5/5.6L. ISO 800, 1/800, F11 What do you think?

Rick's wide angle images made me want to look at some older images. Here's one with a 21mm Zeiss distagon from 2015.

Thanks Ric. I'm going to watch 4 and 5 then.

Star City next? We lost my response this morning with the site going down. That’s a good thing as I said five is easily the worst season. I was halfway through. Now that I’ve seen the second half, the doors open episodes and wrap up to the whole show, it may be my favorite season. Man, it was a really beautiful show.

That's a new feature 🤣 I haven't seen that, but I do agree that the missing forum icons are taking a lot of space, I'll see what options are available to hide those, etc. I am not sure what caused some avatars to disappear, I haven't seen anything that points to a specific bug for the time being re-upload them if you have them.

Now I know what they were singing.

Todd, as always thanks for holding this all together for so long. Just one suggestion if it’s even an option - on mobile web the non-existent category forum graphics take up most of space, any way to disable?

That was my first Butthole Surfers album. I was looking for their cover of "American Woman" and because the tracks aren't listed, I bought two others before finding what I was looking for. Instant Butts collection!

Thanks, Nate!

That’s permanent dust on your viewing screen. The lens is clean.

Thanks Todd! For those with avatar issues - try using the Internet Wayback Machine to pull your old avatar. That's what I just did to restore mine, which was all of 4kb.

My avatar is gone. When I try to load a new profile picture, it fails because it's over the (new) 104.2 kB maximum. Since all my avatar pics have been from my phone cameras, they have all been in the 1mB to 2+mB. I suspect that the members, who lost their avatars, had avatar photos over the 104.2kB max. I'll eventually get around to making and uploading a thumbnail version.

Luaka Bop: Zero Accidents On the Job (10th Anniversary release - now an additional 26 years old... we're getting up there). The CD is labeled "advanced" and "promotional only" so tracks not perfectly aligned to what I'm seeing elsewhere. Anyway, a blast to revisit and hear remixes & inspired by for those who took the journey with David Bryne through South (and eventually Central) America. Ex. Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow

In the home page the icons of the forums won’t show and they display in a very horrible mosaic way. I can’t find the “mark forum (or sub-forum) as read” button Found it, it’s in the top of the page under the user’s name-avatar menu. No birthdays Besides that it seems faster loading.

Quite funny!

Don’t let the title get in the way. At least halfway through its limited run (all watched yesterday) DTF St. Louis (HBO Max) is really rewarding. EDIT: Quality continues through all seven episodes. Kind of wonderful.

Polar Opposites(?)

A millennial friend of mine is touring .ca and got multiple free upgrades with his rental. I said "I got a Benz too and it's black like that." He gave me a blank look. SMH kids these days.

Giving the soundtrack a try. Mother Mary’s “Greatest Hits” Ex.

Or, from the source

Today I became an official 'Old Fart'. In reality that happened on my Birthday in February, but since my local SS office was too backed up to do my Medicare application at that time, it became official today with a Medicare phone application. I'm now the proud recipient of Medicare part A. Since I'm still employed with medical insurance, I don't need to apply for Medicare part B until I retire or stop receiving outside medical insurance. I believe at that time I can have the part B cost pulled directly from my Social Security payments. I do believe full heartedly that I've absolutely earned said 'Old Fart' title. My Doctorate in wood remains 'til the time of my demise, so it's Dr Wood Old Fart from hense forward. Can I get that official title posted under my avatar please?

Finished the right channel today. Feedback as suggested by Justin. Bias servo as suggested by Kevin. Red smoke – Super Symmetrical mode. Green smoke – Zero Feedback mode.

I should do a second post on 2009 at some point. With that said, Couple Finds Trove of 2,000 Cameras and Lenses in Storage Unit. Right here in MA.

Yo La Tengo -- Electr-o-Pura

Coltrane Nice box with 5 cds.

It just occurred to me. I uploaded my current avatar in 2008. I don't have a local copy.

The Russia/Ukraine war just passed a milestone of running for longer than WW1