May, 11, 2001 archives

sometimes the cable company can be so dumb that it makes my brain hurt. i got a flyer in the mail about how my cable rates will be going up, which also heavily pimps their digital service. now, for the cost of my "full basic service," i could apparently be getting the "digital 3-pak". but i have no idea what that means, or what the equipment rental fee would be, and their website is absolutely useless. actually, i'm pretty sure that the "digital 3-pak" charge must be in addition to the "full basic" rate, but the information they've provided is useless.

(oh, and what new thing am i getting for my extra $3 a month? nothing.)

coleridge on novels, circa 1811: "as to the devotees of the circulating libraries, i dare not compliment their pass-time or rather kill-time with the name of reading. call it rather a sort of beggardly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness and a little mawkish sensibility." but i bet he'd dig the sopranos, too. (quote comes via this paper that compares the history of video rental stores of the 20th and 21st centuries and the circulating libraries of the 18th and 19th centuries. très cool.)