While it may be ok if you’re streaming or such with a source outside your network, 50% on 802.11ac is far less than so-so and cripples your throughput if you’re doing any internal transfers on your LAN. Your channel width is going to almost certainly be 20 MHz at that point and in general you’ll be lucky to max out at …

FNL...wow. Good people. Gaius Charles was and remains the polar opposite of Smash, and Brad Leland cracks me up. Aimee Teegarden has definitely grown up.

Since pretty much none of these things have a chance in hell of being proposed by an airline, let alone implemented, I’ll toss something out that COVID-19 provides political cover to do: have Congress properly tax the airlines.

Mostly have been reading history, but started S6 of Bosch and made it through the first couple episodes. So far, it remains consistent with what I’ve said elsewhere when AVClub got snarky about it: nothing groundbreaking or boundary pushing, but it remains the usual solid and well-acted show we’ve come to enjoy over…

Wow, I’d almost forgotten that one, but yeah - his Groves was by far the best of the three Manhattan Project movies of that era, which considering he was up against Richard Masur in Hiroshima and Paul Newman in Fat Man and Little Boy is pretty good praise.

In case you wanted to read the actual article mentioned, it’s now open access.

In case you wanted to read the actual article mentioned, it’s now open access.

I was the soul of the piece, the heart of the show

The other aspect of movies on television in that time frame was that brief period in the mid 80s where censorship restrictions got dropped on broadcast TV. I don’t think my parents ever noticed, but I certainly did.

For me it was the salt monster episode in Star Trek TOS at about 7 or so. Freaked me out for months.

I finished up the last 5 episodes of The Magicians - first time I’ve had time to sit down and binge in over a month.

As I commented during the article when he passed, Hauer and Miranda Richardson shined despite the substandard adaptation of the book. The two scenes that still jump out at me are the one with the old, vain actress explaining to Richardson’s character that the Jews ‘went up in smoke’ as she imitates a chimney with her…

On my time travel bucket list for shows, the late 1970s B-52s are definitely prominent.

I’ve been wondering when AVClub might write on this again. Marginal spoilers ahead if you’ve not watched this season.

Yep, this has long been a bone of contention among my friends who, like me, read the books.

I’ve had a number of inspirational events for improving my cooking. One I’ve told before is the 50-something senior enlisted roommate during a TDY who stocked our freezer full of Hungry Man breakfasts and dinners since his wife cooked at home and the service generally did so when he was deployed. I definitely did not…

Even during normal times Costco seem to run out of bacon for a few days - the lower sodium version has gone out of stock at the ones around me for a week at a time.

It’s a definite and welcome throwback to Mark Russell, although his chops remind me a bit of Stephen DeRosa’s Eddie Cantor in Boardwalk Empire.

I’ve described the first season to others like this: you’ll love the opening, be bored stiff once they get bogged down in the middle (both literally and geographically), and then the last two episodes will blow your mind - I mean, it’s not just that a show is crazy enough to argue for a scenario where Hitler’s…

Finished watching McMillions; what a great documentary.

I went to an Asian supermarket last weekend - I needed Shaoxing wine and sesame seeds to make the asparagus recipe posted here - and the woman in line in front of me was complaining to the cashier that she’d been trying to get Jasmine rice every day for a week. No dice.