True Blood and junk

So many things I don't even know where to begin.

I've started on a rhubarb wine, that will take something like 2 months to finish up and is the reason that I'm going to buy another couple of carboys. It takes 20 lbs of rhubarb to make 5 gallons of the stuff, but I think it's going to be above average awesome.

The specific recipe and directions can be found in this PDF. I added about 6oz of thistle honey to it, and found that 10lbs of corn sugar only had me at 17 or 18 balling which is ~1.080OG so get 12 or even 13 lbs of corn sugar if you follow this recipe.

Next up, True Blood started and I still haven't finished watching last season. I think I have 3 episodes left and cannot find time for that, not to mention I'd like to watch the Game of Thrones season if I could get the time.

Oh sleep you cruel mistress.

So much in the world

So warning ahead of time, the link is not safe for work!!!

Any how, one of the tumblrs I follow posted a <NSFW> link to this </NSFW> and I knew I needed to watch this show.  That is a frame from Season 2 episode 1 of Sherlock.  I looked and guess what season on is on Netflix, if you don't have netflix get a disposable email address and start a free trial, it really isn't that hard.  Any how if you followed the NSFW link above don't let that set your hops too high, the show runs on BBC before the watershed, so typically you won't see the implied nudity but damn it I really enjoy the show.  I've only watched one episode of the first season as I'm waiting for my wife to catch up so we can watch them together.

As for the current season, while it may eventually end up on netflix if you cannot possible wait one second, check out a little program called expat shield.  It will give you a British IP so yo can stream shows from the BBC iplayer.  It seems legit, but if you have any nervousness about installing it, you should check out one of my favorite security softwares on earth Sandboxie.  It lets you install things without letting it really install.  It installs it into a sort of sandboxed part of your computer.  Uninstalls are super quick and it logs all the changes it tried to make to your computer, pretty handy for investigating software.

Anyhow hope you enjoy the show it's really pretty quick-witted, and similar in pacing and theme to the Sherlock Holmes blockbuster movies you've no doubt heard about; just with real British people and it is set in modern day.

Problem now solution

So it couldn't have been but a couple of days ago that I read the worst energy users in the US household is the Cable Provided DVR.  It was posted several places, but Lifehacker is where I saw the post.  Basically the consumer electronics made on the behalf of the Cable and Satellite companies are cheap (no surprise) and wasteful.  They do not have advanced power saving features and chew about 1/2 as much energy as a refrigerator.

That is outright crazy.

It doesn't affect me personally as I use my PC as a DVR, but still crazy to think about.  Now we have a problem, boom.  Engadget posted a potential solution.  A really tiny ass streamer reference design.  This thing is tiny and low power; what do you bet it never makes it to US consumers homes?  The providers will just say there is nothing that can be done, (read it would cost us money to fix the problem and we don't want to give any of that shit up).