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Wasn't the first made for netflix series Lillyhammer? Not that it matters.

I love binge watching. I hear a lot of people talking about how it is self indulgent and that is ridiculous. I work long, long hours and seldom if ever get a opportunity to watch anything as it airs., Being able to sit down and watch a season of something while I clean my kitchen or just relax is great. Being able to go out on a weeknights to see friends and not worry about taping or missing something is great.

It works better than a long movie because it is still designed for chunked viewing. There tend to be discrete short term stories and mini arcs making it easy to get into and drop out of as you want. It also reveals really lazy and mediocre writing quickly.

They no longer sell the white macbook, and the model they did sell until recently is a different design from the one pictured.

You can do it yourself rather cheaply if you have a VCR. You just need a video in adapter, which for something like a VCR should be rather inexpensive. Warning though, it is slowww. This true with all analog recording. Going analog to digital takes forever because it is recorded 1 to 1.

I have mixed feelings.

On one hand, I like some of the overlap because I always felt like some of the sections had very relevant topical posts that were missed just because of a strong demographic division. For example, I have no children, and little interest in 80% of Odeedoh, but I read it because it had a ton of fun design and some great general small space stuff that did not need to be child specific. Those articles are now cross section, meaning more people get to see them.

The downside is, of course that with so much cross posting it makes it more frustrating to follow multiple sections, which is still sometimes useful. If you like kids, and tech, and DIY you might find some extreme overlap that can be frustrating.

To be honest it is simply a limitation of the modern blog format. Until sites start custom tailoring content based on viewer preference/statistics you end up with that dichotomy. I trust that Apartment therapist has enough viewer stats that they felt a merged format fit their general viewership better than the strongly departmentalized setup they had previously.

I switched back to windows a while ago for work, and it has been pleasant for the most part. There are, for sure, a lot of annoying aspects of it that make me go "how did you mess this up of all things!" but the day to day experience has been good, and for work I appreciate the flexibility in hardware.

I do have to say if you run in the dark PLEASE wear reflective gear or a light in darker areas. the MUP near my house is a major bike route and biking at night is horrifying because there is, without fail, someone in all black with headphones on jogging in the pitch black making them practically invisible until you are a few feet away from them unless you have 300 dollar bike lights. Stay visible, stay safe!

The biggest thing to watch out for with the harmonies is the device cap. In recent years logitech have been real dicks, and dramatically cut the device maximums. My current harmony, a harmony 550, could control up to 15 devices. The current model at the same tier caps out at FIVE. If this fits your usage then great, but for me I would need to spend at least 200 to have a harmony that could handle all my devices. It is a complete ripoff considering 4 years ago their cheapest remote could handle just as many devices as their most expensive one now.

That really isn't that girly. Pink doesn't have to be a little girl color!

@Miami's Elaine: From what I understand the average new home size, though older homes would have been going up in size due to flippers performing foundation level tear downs and expansion/refinishing jobs. That said, the 70's was the end of an era of post war housing booms. There was a ton of small, cheap construction going on. I live in a neighborhood of houses that are mostly 1920-40's built homes, with no expansion, and they mostly sit in the 2000-2500 sqft range. I think what is more telling is density. I would be curious to know the average family unit size occupying new homes then and now.

I would use it if I could say, prepay for a year and get a rate like 15 a month, but I find the value dubious. I am lucky to see a movie a month. I used to see 4-5, but the cost just kept jumping, the matinee period got smaller, and it just got to be to much. I don't care about blockbusters, I am happy watching older movies and lower budget indie films. There just isn't a lot of value for me at that price point.