This is a test

Apparently I should be blessed to have an internet connection at all here in the wilds of Yosemite much less expect to actually have a good one. I've been troubled by the quality of images I've tried posting to the web but when I look at my posts the images are very degraded. This also happens when I look at CNN or any other website. After much googling to try and figure out what's going on it appears that some ISPs in these rural locales participate in a practice that dumbs down image quality to preserve bandwidth. What I can't tell is if it actually posts quality images and I just can't see them or if it uploads crap and all of you get to see garbage as well.

So, I made some smaller versions of some pictures and posted them below. They still look like crap to me. What I see are images that are a bit pixelated and blurry. Let me know if you guys back in "the world" see anything better or if it still looks crappy to you.

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