Borrowed from a comment on Slashdot

If your religion requires others in public to change their behavior, your religion is broken.

Nearly one year

It's nearly a year since I started this blog. And it's still small.

The day job is stressful and it saps creativity. I would like to find more mental quiet time to offset that.

For a good blog, see http://www.cringely.com/.

Cutting the cord, one month later

It's been a month since we ditched cable. Some channels are spotty, but that's okay. Not having the frustration of abysmal customer service and ever-rising prices make their own reward.

Cutting the cord part 5

Most of the time, recordings are completing successfully. It's better than it was with cable, though, because I control it, end to end.

I'll still be watching that cable company, to see how they manage to survive, alienating customers like that.

Cutting the cord part 4

I have an antenna and I've canceled cable TV. Reception isn't perfect and we're still working on that, but the deed is done. Cable TV rejected me by trying to force me down a path I didn't want to follow.

Cutting the cord part 3

Found an installer. Hoping for the best.

Cutting the cord part 2

I've tested with my old, tree-damaged antenna and have discovered that I can indeed receive all the channels I want to receive. But. There's always a but.

I'm having a devil of a time finding an installer to do what I want.

Pretty soon I'm going to have to start making phone calls. I don't like making phone calls to people I don't know.

Unbreakable

I've become drawn into Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. I really like Tina Fey's writing.

Cutting the cord

It's time to leave cable television behind, for my cable company is now in a headlong rush to drop all analog service and to encrypt all digital channels, even those on the tier that every customer pays to receive. In my opinion, this is a bait-and-switch to make equipment rental mandatory when it need not be.

Perhaps, eventually, I'll watch less television.

In the meantime, I'm on the search for a reputable antenna installer so we can receive at least all the PBS stations.

On learning language

For as long as I can remember, I've been interested in languages other than my mother tongue. I've studied formally German, Russian, Latin, ASL, Spanish. I've dabbled with others. Still no fluency in anything but English. I wish to step up my game.