Stick with it. It's brilliant. Read the episode by episode blog on the Guardian website as well - it'll help unpick the madness for you:
Talking about sticking with a series, I just came away from a couple of friends, and we had been talking all evening., amongst other things, about the various films and series we'd watched recently. It was kind of a media catch-up. I now have a few other films I'd like to watch. But they both asked if I'd seen a decent series recently and I named a few, but they both latched onto 11.22.63. So, just before I was about to go, I explained the opening sequence and then they decided to watch that. I stayed while the opening episode played through that part, then I left. They texted me a couple of minutes ago. They are well into Episode 2 and thankful that they haven't got anything pressing to do tomorrow. I think some binge series watching is about to happen.
Loved the novel.might watch that.always found that good books make **** tv. Not holding out much hope for the dark tower
We've discussed the book on here before, which I loved. Still to watch the TV series, though might start tonight
It is very different than the book (obviously not the JFK bit). The book was amazing, but the story line is quite a bit different in the series, but with the same outcome.
Arrrrrrrrrrgh. BT Fibre. OMG. OMG. 50 mins of my life I'll never get back. As you may know I work in IT, so know a bit. I have two Broadband connections my main line is Virgin Media 200 meg and the secondary (backup) BT fibre 'up to 76 meg'. I have one router (stay with me), that handles both connections and if the Virgin line goes down, it automatically fails over to the BT line. I noticed that whatever I did the BT line was always syncing at EXACTLY 20,000 kbps. not 20,001 not 21,104 etc, EXACTLY 20,000. Now you would think that means they are throttling me as I have never heard of a line syncing consistently over the last 4 months at such an exact round number. So I called them. Never again. They kept asking me what the lights own the home hub were doing. I repeated about 15 times (and no I am not exaggerating ) that the Home Hub is still in the box. I use my own router. Eventually they sussed that. Then they started to say it must be a fault so they will send an engineer and if it is my equipment I have to pay £130! I kept saying can you just check there is no throttling and reset the line from your end. OMG. 50 mins later, guess what they listened to me (after I threw all my toys out of the pram) and my line now syncs at 71,341 kbps. I feel sorry for those that are not IT literate as they are dealing with imbeciles at BT. Rant over
Yeah, we've discussed the TV series on here before too. Some find it too different from the book to enjoy. The trick is, don't bother comparing. Books are almost always better than their filmed counterparts. So come into it with low expectations and just enjoy.
As you know, I worked in IT for many a year on/off, so I know my IT onions. Yeah, as I reading your text it was classic throttling. BT routinely it yet they say they don't. Anyway. I had nearly finished redecorating a bungalow for my brother-in-law, and he had had a new BT Open Reach installation put in with all the trimmings, including that mediocre piece of hardware you referred to called the Hub [see pic below]. I was there the day the engineer was in, and I remarked afterwards on the poor quality of the installation, from what I'd noticed. The relative suggested that the guy must know what he was doing. After several weeks of a very iffy and noisy internet and telephone connection, the relative asked me to come along and take a look. I stripped the whole thing down and found that the installation was worse than I'd imagined, so I re-installed all the hardware from bare wire scratch. This cured the internet connection totally, but his telephone connection was still noisy on the line, despite me being 100% confident of the installation. I went outside and looked at the external wiring. I didn't consider it satisfactory, so I called BT and told them of what I'd found and done. Their reply was unapologetic and that I shouldn't have touched anything [they were right, but I didn't care] and that if the fault was internal the cost would be £65 [this was about 5 years back]. I said that if there was any remaining fault inside I'd personally pay it. The engineer came and the remaining fault was outside. But just like yourself, I always think of those who have to take the word of the engineer because they don't know enough. They find themselves fobbed off a lot, I'm sure. please log in to view this image
Off shore. Just reading from a script. Whilst I agree 1st line should be about 1st line troubleshooting, if I give them more info than they understand then it should be escalated to 3rd line support.
I wouldn't mind, but he was so clearly not listening as he kept saying tell me now what your BT hub lights are doing. It was 15 times (i counted) that he asked it on separate occasions and each time I said I have a Draytek 2860 router, my own, then he asked what the lights were doing on that and then I told him. He then said I don't know that router what about the Home hub what is that doing
1st, 2nd, 3rd line support, etc... just means the level of difficulty or complexity of the problem. 1st line support could be making sure everything is correctly plugged in and switched on. If that doesn't solve the problem it could be escalated to the next line level. That sort of thing.
Huge lazy day today before returning to work tomorrow. Amongst other things, I've been continuing my endless task of recording my albums to decent resolution mp3 so that I can play them in the car on a memory stick. So there I was trying to get information for this album. Do you recognise it.? To me it's very familiar. It's Neil Young's Greatest Hits vinyl LP published in 1985. It was given to me by a mate in NZ while I lived there. Through odd circumstances he'd had two mint copies of it. Anyway, there I am trying to get mp3 metadata for it, so that I don't have to type it all in, but there's none specifically available. In fact, even Wikipedia and the like doesn't acknowledge that it even exists. It's because it was only issued in NZ and Aus, and for a very short time only because Neil Young didn't approve of its issue. So they pulled most of the copies. That makes it really quite rare. You learn something new and trivial each day. Have a go at Like A Hurricane. Play it loud:
I love everything by Neil Young, especially the Crazy Horse epics like "Hurricane", "Cortez the Killer" and "Hey Hey My My". Congratulations on possessing a rarity, I'm envious!
