The Frustrated Bunny

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Cutting the cable

My experience with cable, why I canceled and what I use now instead When I moved into my apartment in 2006, I signed up for high-speed internet and digital cable with Comcast. In Atlanta, the only other cost-effective alternative is DSL through AT&T bundled with satellite through (I believe) DirecTV, and it really wasn’t as good of a deal. Not to mention, because of the location of my apartment, mounting a satellite dish would have been a problem. So in short, Comcast was really my only option. Over the four years that I was a Comcast subscriber, the problems I...

Science Fiction

Trek gets no respect

Yesterday afternoon, it came to my attention that, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Trek, Paramount had gone the trouble of digitally remastering all 79 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, and it would be airing on several local TV stations around the country. My reading comprehension must not be too good, though, because I missed the part where the News.com article mentioned that the episodes would begin airing this weekend. It was only when I was re-reading to make a post about it that I discovered that most stations aired the first of the episodes (which are...