Welcome

Welcome to my ever-evolving blog. It started out as a blog on Beachbody workouts and products, mainly when I was a Beachbody coach. I no longer coach, not because I don't believe in Beachbody's programs (I subscribe to Beachbody on Demand and use their workouts every day), I am just not a salesperson and hated that aspect of it. I am more than willing to answer questions about my experiences with their products and the various workouts, and I feel freer to do so without the appearance of giving a biased review of something.

I have also started adding reviews for various things I have purchased like movies, books, CDs, and other products. This was brought about by a fight with Amazon in which all of my reviews were removed over a completely bullshit allegation that I posted a review that violated their terms of service. After going back and forth with the morons in the community-reviews department (even after they admitted that my posts did not violate their guidelines) they restored my account (which took them six months to do), but I have been posting my reviews on my blog to have them preserved in case something like that happens again. And here, I will post uncensored reviews so I will swear from time to time and post reviews that may be longer than Amazon's character limit. Everything I post here on any topic or product is my personal opinion, and I take no compensation for any product reviews I post. I am a member of Amazon's vine program and because I get those products for free, I keep those reviews on Amazon only, but everything I have purchased with my own money, whether from Amazon or some other store/website/outlet, I will post here.  

I also plan to do some longer blog posts on various topics, such as how to learn physics, how to get through calculus, and longer reviews of workout programs as I do them. Basically, whatever strikes me as interesting at the time.  As you can see if you navigate around the blog, I had many years in between postings. During that time I was going back to school to get an engineering degree, and learning material that I avoided my first time through college was a different experience and one that gave me a lot of insight into how to do well in those classes, which I will try to impart here for those who are looking to get a science or engineering degree. 

Friday, August 25, 2023

App Review: HGTV GO

 


This is an App that has most of the HGTV shows on it. It is free to download, but you have to sign in with your account information for whichever TV provider you have, be it cable, DirecTV, DirecTV Now, etc. If you do not have a cable or satellite provider (unless they have altred the policy) everything will be locked if you try to watch something. Once you do, you can stream pretty much every show on the network. 

It mostly has just the most current episodes of the various shows (whatever season is currently airing, or most recently aired, and occasionally the season prior to that). It does not have every episode of every show, especially those which have been around for more than a few seasons. Some of the shows allow you to fast-forward through the commercials and others make you sit through 4-5 commercials (and sometimes the same commercial run over and over). If you are a cord-cutter and are a fan of the shows on the network, it is a great way to watch them when you want, especially if whatever streaming TV service you use does not have (or you do not want to pay for) DVR functionality.

All of the HGTV shows are now on MAX, which used to be HBO Go and then HBO Max. So if you subscribe to that you do not need to watch this, but if you do not want to pay for another streaming service and still have a cable subscription, this is a good option.

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