|
|
|
can Earthlink possibly compete?
Thursday, August 23 2001
Exactly on schedule this afternoon, the fine people from Time Warner Cable came and installed a cable box and a cable modem for Gretchen and me. Not only do we get no-hassle fixed-IP cable modem service (which I can route to numerous computers simultaneously), but we also get 500 channels of digital cable teevee. I came home tonight and took a stab at trying to surf such an embarrassment of riches, but was soon firmly mired in Twisted Sister: Behind the Music on VH1. Some things never change. The price for all these things and the absence of pain is $100 each month. How can Earthlink possibly compete with this? It's like choosing between lethal injection and being broken on the wheel.
In the course of watching all this high-bandwidth culture cabled into my living room, I realized I could just sit around and write all day about popular culture. The music videos alone (and is digital cable ever awash in music videos!) deserve a full time commentator. I was watching this one musician named
David Usher doing his best to be something of a watered-down Eddie Vedder and it creeped me out something awful. That saccharine look on his face (as he sang about being alone in the universe) conjured up images of Barry Manilow singing in the closet pædophiles' tent at the annual gathering of the Christian Coalition.
Speaking of cable teevee and modems,
how can a company be one billion dollars in debt and still be "a going concern"? That's like me crossing the Mojave Desert on my hands and knees, donating two gallons of blood, and then attempting to run a marathon. You'd think if a company like that could go a billion dollars in debt, I'd be able to go in the hole a couple million before anything too weird would start happening.
For linking purposes this article's URL is:
http://asecular.com/blog.php?010823 feedback
previous | next |
