Thoughts on TV

“The Secret to Winning on Jeopardy”

Fun article by Jeopardy! champion Drew Goins that asserts, “To win on Jeopardy, you don’t need to learn everything. You just need to learn one thing about everything.”

“Charlie Cox talks Daredevil: Born Again

This interview with Charlie Cox is longer and is a more open and insightful conversation, compared to most of the press interviews I’ve seen with him. There was a particularly good section where he discussed Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 and its challenges and rewrites. I also love the idle speculation on the part of host Josh Horowitz about how cool it would be to have a Secret Wars with both Cox and Affleck reprising their respective takes on Daredevil.

“Netflix Wrecked Their tvOS Video Player”

Honestly, between the ever-increasing monthly prices and their complete refusal to be a good citizen on Apple platforms, let alone actively making their apps worse, Netflix makes me want to cancel so badly. (Recently my wife got logged out, and her first thought was that I had canceled.)

Finally Finishing Our Cord-Cutting Project

A couple years after cutting the cord, I finally fixed our flaky over-the-air TV and now have a reliable, free(ish) source for our nightly Jeopardy! habit. Hopefully this post can help anyone wanting to run their tuner on power-over-ethernet like I did.

“The Splay is a Subpar Monitor but an Exciting Portable Projector”

The Splay seems interesting in that it packs up small, so that it would be easy to pack and transport safely, but big enough to be a useful display in the van. It’s pricey, and its bulk when set up means I’d really like to try one before thinking about purchasing one.