Speaking of gaming, the basement also hosts the Friday Night Follies LAN party. Typically, we have four or five players (including me), and generally have a great time. We play shooters, real-time strategy games and the occasional driving sim. What we like best are co-op multiplayer games, though Blood Bowl has been consuming our spare gaming time recently.
Friday Night Follies Lives Here
Now let’s check out the work area. I’ve been hooked on multiple displays for a long time, so it’s no surprise to find two displays present. You can also see a stuffed Catbus sitting on top of one of the AudioEngine A5 speakers (any Miyazaki fans out there?) The Star Wars poster is an original Rev C that I picked up at a science fiction convention in the mid-1980s. Alas, it does have visible folds.
Here's where I attempt to be productive...
Of course, I need a fair amount of storage. This particular basement room was apparently intended by the previous owner to have a wet bar, but he never finished the plumbing. It does make for a nice storage area, however. In the left, upper center you can see a movie poster from the Lovecraft Society’s excellent silent movie version of The Call of Cthuhlu.
A whole (small) room for storage.
So that, in a nutshell, is the basement, with a short side trip to the garage. It’s a good space, that lends itself well to the way I work and play. Let me know how you set up your space…
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killerplat
August 17, 2009 at 9:54 pm (UTC -7)
lloyd. I thinik you need a new book case, or atleast bold a few of the heavy shelf to the wall.
No wonder your house works so well with your new solar panel installation. You have so much light comming into your house, amazing. Its an amazing setup for general work areas, but i wil have made it into a home theater although the windows will have to go in that case ( id ont generally work from home so i guess thatst why i will have done that).
All in all, this is an impressive setup. wish i could be more organised like you, my electronics is aall over the place i use my closet as my server space, the wires comming out of the closet makes it look like i have a matrix setup behind the walls. lol
killerplat
August 17, 2009 at 9:55 pm (UTC -7)
Ohh. Sorry, i have to start reading my post before i post them. I meant to say you should ‘bolt’ the shelves to the wall
Loyd Case
August 17, 2009 at 10:05 pm (UTC -7)
Actually, the bookshelves are bolted to studs in the wall, just in case of earthquakes.
vern
August 17, 2009 at 10:26 pm (UTC -7)
This is sweet. It’d be cool if you could describe your hardware a little bit more in a future post.
Dimatteo
August 18, 2009 at 4:19 am (UTC -7)
Wow geek hevean! We have books, cables, hardware and more … luckily for you and and all us geeks who have an understanding woman in our lives!
Great basement Lloyd,
Dimatteo
Charles
August 18, 2009 at 8:09 am (UTC -7)
Not sure if you are doing this on purpose but your RSS feed only includes the first page (in Bloglines at least, using this url http://www.improbableinsights.com/?feed=rss2). I like reading your stuff but it’s pretty annoying to have to click through.
Loyd Case
August 18, 2009 at 1:06 pm (UTC -7)
Thanks, Charles. Not intentional at all, so I’ll look into it when I get back tomorrow.
Moggraider
August 19, 2009 at 4:40 am (UTC -7)
This post is useless without pictures.
Anyway, I hear you on being capacity-limited. My family’s garage didn’t like it so much when I spent a summer with them and brought three consoles, two monitors, and two PCs.
Loyd Case
August 21, 2009 at 6:54 am (UTC -7)
You did read pages 2 & 3, right? Lots of pictures!
Max Heim
October 13, 2009 at 5:35 pm (UTC -7)
I dig the blue rad glow through the windows — didn’t realize Sunnyvale was a hot spot.
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