Damn. Was just headed here to post the news. The circle is now complete.

Now that you can have a 60’ 4K TV or 100’ projector and screen for about the cost of ye olde living room 27” Trinitron, and you can pick up a secondhand surround receiver and speakers for pocket change or free, you can have that view-filling, high-res, gut-punching experience at home. You’re no longer just pretending that it’s just as good, it actually is pretty much the same at this point, just with the field of view optics swapped for the smaller audience size. And you always get the best seat, are never late, and can pause the show when ya need to pee.

That said.

Had to be in a giant group of people who confirmed that it wasn’t just me to watch Cats.  So maybe there’s a future for comedy or other shows that rely on a level of audience mass participation?

I did a coat of sealant on the floor rail yesterday, and installed it today.  Also did a little front porch of cement pavers in front. Got some stuff moved in.  Did a layer of reflective bubblewrap insulation on the north wall.  Tomorrow's agenda is to fill the pots with soil, get the composter inside and filled, and get a water barrel going.  I've been trying to get a read on the temperatures inside and outside, so I bought a little remote wireless thermometer and put it in the greenhouse, with the remote outside.  The low seems accurate enough, and shows that without any thermal mass it makes a poor shelter from the cold.  Precisely no shelter.  Low readings inside and out were basically identical.

The Hi is another matter. 

The outdoor reading seems to match local thermometers, but the indoor thermometer is off the chart.  The first day, I came in to find it reading 136F. I was warm, but needless to say, I wasn't actively cooking.  The culprit turns out to be the black plastic enclosure for the device.  It absorbs any and all heat from light shining on it.  I've embarked on a quest to shield it, while still allowing it to a)communicate with the wireless station ouside, b) not receive any direct sunlight {in a greenhouse} and c) be present in the ambient air volume.  Currently it's sitting at the bottom of a planter pot.  We shall see tomorrow, if the black plastic of the planter has its own absorption issues.

Been thinking about getting one to do one off car mods, but haven't pulled the trigger yet.  Resin printers are more accurate than FDM machines, and getting less expensive so there's a lot of makerporn of them swirling around lately, but keep in mind that you have to handle and store the resin which can be a pretty big hassle.

See Also Spec Ops: The Line. Though, as Boter says, it’s used sparingly, and it’s set in a genre that is specifically about dehumanizing people and ignoring any external effects to your actions, so again, a little different visavis a game that the creators say is specifically about choice.

Fiiiiiinally hooked up the rest of the speakers and got everything tucked away. Tuned up the system, and fired up ROTJ on DISNEY+.  Was not impressed with the sound coming out during the BOY. Tried Rey In the Takodana Basement instead, and was rewarded. Lots of swirling voices and lightsabers.  #BuildingAPlagueTheater

What’s up with the surround mix of ROTJ?

The Witcher 3, and Outer Worlds both sound great.

Youtube just served me this video of Alton Brown having a tipsy meltdown with his spouse Elizabeth Ingram.  He seems... drunkworried.

I'm just now wrapping my head around the fact that we're gonna hafta get tested MULTIPLE times.

Like, a positive test tells us you had it in the PAST (and if you recover; huzzah you can't get it again!) Gotta get tested and figure out who you might have added to The List. But, a negative test only tells you you don't have it yet, but you could get it at any point during the 'demic going forward. So if you get exposed again, back you go for another round.

My sister doesn’t have it. Thought she did, did the self quarantine, found and talked to THE PRESS, got tested, got a negative result.

https://kuow.org/stories/diary-of-a-may … get-tested

IAAAAAAN  you're always just dropping this stuff on the internet with zero warning.

One of those things caused one of the biggest disasters of all time in Seattle just a couple years ago.  Google "Bus vs duck".

Oh, weird.  Where is Doc going?