Most cats love boxes… climbing in them, sleeping in them, squeezing into boxes that they shouldn’t be able to fit in…
But Nyx just likes to tear them apart:
Category: Home
Home Arcade
Setting up a home video arcade…
Spoiler (click to reveal)
My brother’s response when I sent him this recording was fun:
Is that YOUR LIVING ROOM??!!!
Followed soon after by:
Oh! Faker! I was still watching this when I sent the first message.
I thought you’d bought a full cabinet game!
Pretty cool though. Although ExciteBike would be even better
If you don’t know already, this is Retrocade, as seen with the Vision Pro. (It’s also available on iOS and iPadOS but then you don’t get a full size game cabinet in your living room!) The cabinets are really the best part – they’re so well crafted and detailed. Note the simulated reflections from both the game graphics and from the windows and lights in my house reflecting on the cabinets and the “glass” screens.
Ah, but they need to allow placing more than one cabinet at a time and they need to let you leave them in place in your house while you use other apps, like how the VisionOS spatial widgets work.
Meanwhile… what do you do if a portal opens up to Half Life’s City 17 in your house? 🤓
Cats in the House Again
Yay! We have cats in the house again! We adopted Sabik and Nyx from the local animal shelter in late October. They’re brothers and they were eight months old and very skittish when we adopted them but they’ve quickly grown quite comfortable with us and their new home. They’re both very sweet and affectionate but still have some strong phobias about being picked up or held that we’re slowly working through.
Nyx is the tabby and the rambunctious one, tearing around the house and making a ruckus. Sabik is more calm but still very playful. They’re strongly bonded together and get along well, though Nyx tends to be overly aggressive in their play brawls. Sabik is learning to fight back though.
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More Wildlife in the Yard
An owl dive-bombs and kills a snake:
Turkey fight:
More bears in Tahoe:
And more deer, bobcats, coyotes, skunks and foxes in Santa Cruz:
Another Fine Halloween
Indiana Jones and the 101 Dalmations…
This year we got together on Halloween night with friends at Rachel’s and we hosted a gaming day at our place on Saturday.
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Mountain Lion in the Yard
Just four days ago, I set up a new dual camera in a better location for spying on wildlife in the back yard. (The old camera died a few months ago.) Usually it’s deer, turkeys, coyotes and the occasional fox or bobcat, but this morning a mountain lion ambled through the yard. That’s a first! We know they’re around in the Santa Cruz mountains but I’ve never spotted one before.
The video quality isn’t great in the dim pre-dawn light, but it’s both super-cool and a little freaky to see it in our yard:
Bobcat Hunting Ground
We’ve got a new bobcat neighbor who’s been hunting in the front yard lately:
Mama Bear Visits
My brother didn’t fully secure the bear-proof trash bin cabinet while staying at the Tahoe house recently and a mama bear and her cubs managed to get into it. That wasn’t caught on video since their truck was blocking the camera, but you can see mama try the door to the truck before moving on. She was back again a couple of days later to see if anything more was to be found. Secure your trash!
