Iceland Dreams
Jæja, en áfram med smjörid | well, on with the butter

I’m really bored with the 4 year long U.S. presidential campaign that starts the day after the current president is sworn in.  This cycle is the oddest I’ve seen in my whole life.  The reasons have been beat to death so I won’t speculate upon speculation or even my sentiments about Obama.  Suffice it to say that I’m disappointed  with Obama but not because my views are polar opposite to what he originally campaigned on.  My biggest gripe is that we’re still fighting bogus wars and until that ends nothing else matters.  Not your economy or anything else being campaigned by everyone while young men and women are dying for reasons that I’ve yet to understand.  And these wars are getting almost no time in the campaigns.

We’re fighting wars based on lies.  To quote a Christmas message from long ago; War Is Over, if you want it.

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All this mention of Netflix on mobile has never excited me, after all why would I want to watch a movie on a teeny tiny screen?  On the other hand I might as well install it for that once in a blue moon occasion.  But then I fully expected the app to not be available outside of the U.S. as so many apps are if they are related to any form of streaming service by big name companies.  But look, there it is, let’s try it.

App installed and then I logged in fully expecting it to then tell me I’m not worthy by being “off shore”.  Wow, there’s my account and the list of movies I’ve recently watched.  Let’s test it by watching the last bit of a movie I didn’t fully watch.  I’m on WiFI so that won’t be a problem.  Click, landscape mode, spinning wheel, I think it’s going to work.  Bam, big fat popup telling me that I can’t instant stream from my region.  Ok, what else can the app do?  Nothing, nada.  No queuing, only searching.  What good is that if I can’t watch it or queue it for watching later on at home?

F.A.I.L.

None of this streaming business is ready for prime time especially if you don’t reside down in Yankee Land.  ”Available on many many devices”.  Except for any and every device and app I own.  Thank goodness for a free month of testing because now I know not to give my money away.