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A Long Weekend In London

London, From On High — I spent a long weekend in England last weekend.

A brief stop in Windsor. — There was a brief stop in Windsor, where Katie was finishing up a work trip.

Hotel life. — But we were largely in London, staying at the Mondrian on South Bank.

What Are We Gonna Do Now? — We visited some excellent bars.

"Chico de Ganso" at Callooh Callay — And we drank many excellent cocktails, like this “Chico de Ganso”: Ron Zacapa rum, black cherry emulsion, chocolate, orange, lime, Orinoco bitters, yoghurt powder.

Crab Salad at Bob Bob Ricard — We ate many things.

Happy Parents — We even managed to catch up with my parents, a quarter of the way around the world.

And we explored. — And we explored a great city that I have steadily grown to love.

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Cutting The Cord: Thoughts On Playstation Vue

Post author By Dan Dickinson
Post date February 15, 2016
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I still have faint memories from around age six of the day we first got cable. Mostly because I refused to go outside, watching every game show I could that afternoon on USA network, to the point where I got my television privileges removed for a week.

For about thirty years, I’ve had fairly consistent access to cable TV, even though I tend to not binge watch much of anything, and the onslaught of technological advancements over the last decade (everything from iTunes selling TV shows to streaming solutions like Netflix) have made it easier and easier to just not utilize it.

Three months ago, triggered by the sweet combination of “needing to get rid of the phone line we never use” and “Comcast jerking us around about previous item”, we decided to cut the cable, and try and make due with just streaming solutions. Front and center in this plan was Playstation Vue, Sony’s internet television service. (We already had heavily used Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime accounts.)

Three months later, I have no regrets, and only minor quibbles.

Tags playstation vue, review, tv

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When I Was Done Dying

While most everyone became rather obsessed with the Adult Swim short “Too Many Cooks”, it was the quasi-follow up “Unedited Footage Of A Bear” that resonated with me more, It’s considerably more nightmarish: a pharmaceutical ad that goes completely off the rails and never considers coming back.

A stand-out part of this was because of Dan Deacon’s excellent – and unnerving – music. I wasn’t a fan previously, I did check out his most recent release, Gliss Riffer, and became more than a little obsessed with his 3/4 time metaphysical sea shanty, “When I Was Done Dying”.

Adult Swim, being the sort of people who will bring strange things to life, assembled the Off The Air team and put together a video for it, which is about as fitting as it gets.