Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

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  • 6 hours ago
    Content warning:Children of Strife spoiler Like, this part actually made me a little weepy: Ships need captains. Worlds and stars and seas Require explorers. If eyes don’t see such things, What are they for? It's a spoiler, but you really need to read the whole book to fully understand what's behind the character issuing that declaration and how they got to that point.
  • 6 hours ago
    Just finished reading Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky, snarfed it right down as fast as I could. Man... his Children of Time series, in between all the cosmic strangeness and body horror and high concept sci-fi, somehow ends up being as optimistic and sensawunda-ful as the best of Star Trek.
  • 1 day ago
    A fun part is since I bought this album and I have the FLACs on my home server, this playlist will play those copies when I switch it over to navidrome
  • 1 day ago
    Though, I think I need to turn on hyperlinks in playlist description, and the Bandcamp purchase buttons next to songs didn't work
  • 1 day ago
    Little experiment in turning a Bandcamp album into a mixtape playlist - I think it worked! https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-covers/all-i-ever-wanted-a-tribute-to-depeche-mode/
  • 1 day ago
    Meanwhile, this hunk is enjoying the breeze #cats
  • 1 day ago
    Cosmo woke up a few minutes ago to fight his own tail. He caught it. Now back to sleep #cats
  • 2 days ago
    Also, I just added a thing to my blog: The background pattern is a port of `10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10` and it's different every reload. Seems to perform not-so-great in Firefox, so I might not keep it. But I think it's kinda cool https://blog.lmorchard.com/
  • 2 days ago
    A problem is that my lmorchard.com points at an AWS cloudfront CDN to serve up my "About me" page from S3. To do anything more fancy, I'd have to point that domain at a spendier computer. But, I do rent a handful of dirt-cheap cloud VMs that only cost like $12/year that might just be good-enough for the task since my website ain't exactly facebook-dot-com
  • 2 days ago
    dang it, do I need to set up a #finger server?
  • 2 days ago
    I almost can't believe how tickled I am by the idea of Star Trek with Puppets
  • 2 days ago
    Prestige TV has largely robbed us of the musical / animated / puppet episode trifecta and it saddens me greatly.

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