Big Blue Huddle

GordonG,

You are one of my favorite posters. You haven't posted here in a long time. I hope you are well.

Problem solved! Our new better range and faster router arrived today. After my son installed it, the picture is now noticeably sharper. I don't get the occasional buffering on the TV either(picture freezing).

I think my problem might be my router. Maybe MightyGiants can chime in on this one. My friend suggested running the internet speed test. When I run it on the computer, the download speed is around 100 MBPS. When I ran the download speed test on my phone, I got 8 MBPS. I guess that's adequate speed but my Linksys router is over 5 years old easily. It's dual channel and the newer routers have more than that(plus have more coverage) so I'm leaning towards getting a new router.

As far as when I noticed the drop off, I'm not totally sure but the picture quality seemed OK in the spring. For a couple of months over the summer, we had AT&T streaming instead of Youtube TV because my son wanted the Yes network for Yankee games.

For those who have Youtube Live TV, does it seem the picture quality is not as good as previously?

The picture quality of sports broadcasts are particularly worse. Maybe signal quality suffers because the signal comes form one source and then is rebroadcast through the internet?

For those who have Hulu, Sling, FUBO, how is your picture quality?

I went on a pleasure trip yesterday.  I drove my mother in law to the airport.

I really enjoyed the movie "The Green Book".  It kept me interested all the way to the end.  The driver is quite the character and very believable.  I give it a 9.

What is Shane Smith's potential?  Could he be at least an average fullback?

I saw The Last Movie Star with Burt Reynolds.  It was filmed in 2016 when Burt was 80 years old.

It's about a cranky aging movie star who feels sorry for his aging self and lives with regrets.  He accepts an invitation to a Nashville film festival to accept an award but it turns out to be a pathetic festival of less than 100 and in the back of a dive bar.  Burt is aghast when the organizers put him up in an Econolodge.

He becomes sentimental and takes a drive to Knoxville to see the house he grew up in, the college stadium  he played is and visits his ex-wife in a nursing home.

There are a couple of scenes where the old Burt is superimposed into scenes from Smokey and the Bandit and Deliverance where he talks to his younger self.

A sentimental movie for sure.  I'd give it a 7 out of 10.

I saw three movies lately.

The Magnificent Seven (Denzel Washington) - If you like westerns with high body counts, this is up your alley.  A group of farmers pool their money to hire seven gunfighters to take out a cruel land baron and his men.  It dragged in parts but I would give it a 7 out of 10.

Train to Busan (Netflix) - If you are going through zombie withdrawal, you might enjoy this movie.  It is a Korean movie subtitled in English.  It was still watchable though.  Although not great, it held my interest.  These zombies were not like the slow moving zombies in The Walking Dead.  They were a little too twitchy for me.  Their heads jerking around reminded me of chickens.

Alien Covenant - It was an OK movie, definitely not one of the better Alien movies.  It took too long for the aliens to appear in the story.  One interesting aspect of the story was the two identical looking cyborgs.  You can see a bit of the Adam & Eve story here.  Walter, the good cyborg, is like an Adam before he ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Walter is a good, loyal and smart servant who does what he is told.   David, the bad cyborg, was the post eat from the tree Adam, having free will and knowing good and evil but chose evil.

Quote from: UKGiantsFan on April 24, 2017, 10:22:19 AM
Thanks to Ed, Rich and Brian. It was fun! Will do one post draft as well

I vote for Ceri to be heir apparent to Jerry Reece's job.  Hip, hip, hurray!

Was Ceri a paid writer/reporter for 15 years?

I'd like to know how Ceri came to love football.  He is a Brit, right?

I saw a quirky movie called Paterson.  It was filmed in Paterson, NJ and the lead character's name is also Paterson.  I thought I would mention it because some BBH members may be from there and also because there are a lot of thinking men on this site.  If you like poetry and a thinking man movie, you might like this slice of life movie.  It's about a bus driver who deals with the daily drudgery of his job and life by writing poems.  His wife is flaky and loveable but directionless.  A slow moving movie but after it was over, I thought about things a lot.

Lamp could be another "bright spot" on our offensive line.  (Ouch)

Quote from: GFICO on February 04, 2012, 09:01:55 AM
Q. What do you call 47 millionaires around a TV watching theSuper Bowl? 
A. The Dallas Cowboys 

Q. What do the Dallas Cowboys and Billy Graham have in common? 
A. They both can make 70,000 people stand up and yell "JesusChrist".   

Q. How do you keep a Dallas Cowboy out of your yard? 
A. Put up a goal post. 

Q. What do you call a Dallas Cowboy with a Super Bowl ring?
A. Old   

Q. What's the difference between the Dallas Cowboys and a dollarbill? 
A. You can still get four quarters out of a dollar bill. 

Q. How many Dallas Cowboys does it take to win a Super Bowl? 
A. Nobody remembers. 

Q. What do the Cowboys and a possums have in common? 
A. Both play dead at home and get killed on the road!

How about this:

Q. What do the Cowboys and prostitutes have in common?
A. Both spend a lot of time on their back. (or horizontal)

Herb Welsh II?