Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

Feeling optimistic after having had Minnaloushe out of cat jail for most of a week, thinking of retiring the cat jail gate to the attic for now. Also getting the litter box and food and water out of my office, which will be very nice

Belated #caturday #cats - man it's hard to take a good photo of a black cat

Also, this game Utopia Must Fall looks pretty cool on our TV

But, these days, I'm finding it really cool to reduce the number of cables and crap I need to deal with in the living room. That, and game streaming over my own house network seems pretty cool.

And the dorky-ass laptop shelf atop a mic stand replaces a dorky-ass DIY VESA-mount monitor atop a mic stand that I built many years ago https://blog.lmorchard.com/2017/01/09/diy-monitor-v12/#version-12---mic-stands--laser-cutters-ftw

This is also kind of a weird end-of-an-era, because I've had a living room gaming PC at the couch for over 13 years now https://blog.lmorchard.com/2013/01/21/gaming-from-the-orchard-house-couch/

Also GeForce Now works pretty well on both TV & laptop. Still trying to decide if I want to keep paying for that, since my basement gaming PC is basically a private version of that. But, the GPU in that machine is 6 years old, so GeForce Now has that beat as long as the net connection works

So I moved my gaming PC into the basement, finally. We got a Google set-top box for the TV. And I got this dorky-ass laptop shelf on top of a mic stand. Both run Moonlight and the basement gaming PC runs Sunshine. So I can play streaming video games over the LAN from the couch on either my laptop screen or the TV, depending on whether we're watching a show. Performs surprisingly well #gaming #moonlight #sunshine

Now they're playing "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield and the crowd is singing along... 🎵 Feel the rain on your skin 🎶

My neighbor is hosting a summer block party. He hired a brass band. So far, from what I've recognized, they've played: "Killing in the Name Of" by RAtM, "Hayloft" by Mother Mother, "The Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance, "Sweet Dreams" by The Eurythmics, "Abracadabra" by Lady Gaga, "Barracuda" by Heart. Then there was a bunch of stuff I didn't recognize that was still pretty good. And then there was a watermelon thigh-crushing contest.

screw a "historically correct" AI-generated rendition of The Odyssey. let's get a historically correct version of Dan Simmons' Ilium/Olympos kickstarted. (i have no clue whether this toot will make any sense to anyone at all)