Author: chris

Hannibal Finale

This past season of Hannibal was… different.

This post may contain spoilers so read at your own risk. But it probably doesn’t contain much.

This third season moved quite a bit more slowly and didn’t contain the same awesome cooking that Hannibal had done in the previous season. The slow mo, artsy, scenes that made Hannibal beautiful on TV and on Blu-Ray were gone and replaced with pretty lame slow-mo shots. It just wasn’t the same without Hannibal being Hannibal. It was nice seeing more of Gillian Anderson in her role but her logic for sticking around didn’t make a whole load of sense. But why the heck didn’t anyone who saw Hannibal teaching.. walking around.. whatever.. and tie him to the FBI most-wanted list that I’m sure Hannibal was on? It just didn’t seem right that he was able to travel so easily without setting off red flags. Then the face-off scenario didn’t make any sense at all. In any event, the final episode was a bit of a let-down, especially the cliff scene at the end — they should have just parted ways. In any event:

But I’d still watch the next season! Lets hope Netflix or Amazon pick it up.

Physics Joke

Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Ohm are in a car.

They get pulled over. Heisenberg is driving, and the cop asks, ‘Do you know how fast you were going?’

‘No, but I know exactly where I am,’ Heisenberg replies.

The cop says, ‘you were doing 55 in a 35.’ Heisenberg throws up his hands and shouts, ‘Great! Now, I’m lost.’

The cop thinks this is suspicious and orders him to pop the trunk. He checks it out and says, ‘Do you know you have a dead cat back here?’

‘We do now, asshole!’ Shouts Schrödinger.

The cop moves to arrest them. Ohm resists.

Very Strange DNS Issue

I have a unique setup at my home with fios, I have the fios router connected to a netgear 600 with dd-wrt installed. The speed is perfectly fine but for whatever reason DNS is unbearably slow. I’ve configured the Google DNS servers to try and speed things up but those appear to be slow. Sometimes it can’t even resolve to Google.com. Right now I’m on a VPN to Denver and pages are resolving and loading wicked fast! I’m going to have to investigate this more but its a weird issue nonetheless.

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My Chunkhost server got all messy

For some reason I had an issue with my Chunkhost server that hosts www.technobadger.com, my empty forum. So I had to restart the system a couple of times to get it working again. I took the opportunity since its mostly a graveyard over there to upgrade the vBulletin on there to the latest patch and get ssl setup correctly. I still would like to find a nice theme to put on there which I think I will soon to hopefully attract some folks.

I lost my camera in Japan :(

I lost my Sony RX100 M3 in Japan today :(. I left it on the train from Kansai International Airport when I transferred to a slightly faster (blue) train at Izumisano station I believe. On the camera is a picture of my passport, which features a really bad picture of me. If you find my blog please contact me. My full name is Christopher Easton and that’s on the passport. There are also some photos of Shanghai. I’ll be here until the 17th and then back to Shanghai for a couple of days and finally out to home again. If you find it I would be very grateful to get it returned. If you can either call me to leave a message below -or- call me at +1 (805) 300-3487 -or- e-mail me at chris@ (i.e. @chriseaston.com to stop spam) I would really appreciate it.

Just a speed test & some thoughts on internet access in the USA

Netflix internet streaming is finally good. I watched a movie two nights ago and it streamed to Super HD within in a couple of seconds. It stayed nice and swell for the entire thing too. Today I decided to see how much an internet upgrade would cost me. After trying to do it myself online with Verizon I hit an error where it wouldn’t let me do an internet-only plan without a bundle. So a couple of minutes in a chat later I get some idea of pricing for me as a current customer. I currently play $69.99/mo for 50/50 internet access. Today I upgraded to 75/75 internet:

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Verizon FiOS and Netflix are playing nice together!

I upgraded my HTPC from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 to try and get access to the Netflix app that is part of Windows 8 to get some 1080p streaming and 5.1 surround sound. I also decided to try out Storage Spaces for some parity/redundancy of my media collection but that’s for a different post. The good news for this post is that Netflix and Windows 8 are now playing nicely together, within 30 seconds HD streams are coming through to my home without a VPN required. Works across my PS3, Windows 8 App, and Firefox on a Windows 7 box. Hopefully they’ll continue to play nice together.

It looks like the deal Netflix made with Verizon has been implemented, but hopefully the FCC will enforce some rules so that peering agreements for last-mile ISPs don’t get bogged down so ISPs like Verizon can extract money from web companies to deliver content (i.e. internet fast lanes).