I barely thought about the Olympics leading up to today. My ears registered the news announcing the countdown; my mind let the info slip in and out. Since I wanted to continue trying out my new ASUS laptop, I decided to stream the Opening Ceremony in the background. Yesterday, I’d connected my monitor to my laptop in mere seconds without any hiccup!
I thought I could have the browser on my monitor, having achieved such a simple connection task in mere seconds with Windows 11 Pro — one Windows 10 would sometimes frustrate — and as an American friend told me the Pro edition is the only one to get — the Home edition is the one that drives people bonkers. So as I worked on my laptop, CBC’s livestream played on my connected monitor. I barely paid it any attention.
I haven’t been all that amazed with Opening and Closing Ceremonies of late.
And then the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony began. Wow, just WOW!! Energy, every sense stimulated, innovative, creative. Best ever!
I hastened to turn on my TV. I tuned to NBC because it uses ATSC 3 broadcast standard at 1080p, while CBC remains at a ridiculously out-of-date 720p resolution on ATSC 1. But I kept CBC streaming because NBC’s idea of commercial-free live is, well, strange. And when the USA athletes entered, they kept focusing on them instead of the wild, spectacular show.
And that endeth my Paris 2024 Olympic Bluesky posting…for day one, anyway. I don’t know if I’ll continue watching the Olympics like I usually do — all day, every day — for I have writing stuff and getting-to-know my computer stuff to do. But we’ll see how it goes.
