Tony,
That is the larger question, isn't it? Is cable just one more of
the tubes that fasten to our domicile and abett our sedentary
lifestyle? I was watching Fanny & Alexander (not the acrobats) last
evening and marvelled at the activities that they had to entertain
each other: Singing, recitations, dancing and all. I know my Celtic
blood yearns to spin a few yarns. (yearns-yarns; it's bubbling
already). In the movie you even have an uncle who entertains the
children with prodigious farting. Now there's a lost art! (the feat
was achieved, no doubt, with high octane lutefisk as a propellant!)
Seriously, I've had the pleasure of spending time with friends and
acquaintances from Italy and Ireland and they know how to entertain
themselves; they know how to have "fun" (which of course is the one
thing that money can't buy, and so gets the brush off from the
"invisible guiding hand" of capitalism).
Joe (a-bobbin' and a-spinnin') Clarke
Anthony West wrote:
I think the law should require us all to use carrier pigeons instead.
It's about saving the Earth. Modern urban technology generates too
many pigeons, just as it generates too much CO2. Messages we send by
pigeon instead of internet will reduce our CO2 debt, since the
pigeons are already there and require no further carbon combustion.
-- Tony West
When I was a Campus Apartments renter I was limited to Campus
Technologies for Internet. (It was blazing fast, had connectivity to
Penn's network which was useless to me, was expensive and didn't
support home networking.) I don't remember the phone company they
used but it wasn't Verizon. They also offered a weird limited cable
TV option but I went with Comcast which was available in my
building. It's not available in all of their buildings, or wasn't at
the time.
Frank
This is interesting, since in West Philadelphia, aren't we ALL
limited to Comcast for _cable_? Wouldn't it be great to have a
choice?
- Melani Lamond
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Tony,
That is the larger questions, isn't it? Is cable just one more of
the tubes that fasten to our domicile and abett our sedentary
lifestyle? I was watching Fanny & Alexander (not the acrobats) last
evening and marvelled at the activities that they had to entertain each
other: Singing, recitations, and all. I know my Celtic blood yearns to
spin a few yarns. (yearns-yarns; it's bubbling already). In the movie
you even have an uncle who entertains the children with prodigious
farting. Now there's a lost art! Seriously, I've had the pleasure of
spending time with friends and acquaintances from Italy and Ireland and
they know how to entertain themselves; they know how to have "fun"
(which of course is the one thing that money can't buy, and so gets the
brush off from the "invisible guiding hand" of capitalism).
Joe (a-bobbin' and a-spinnin') Clarke
Anthony West wrote:
I think the law should require us all to use carrier pigeons instead.
It's about saving the Earth. Modern urban technology generates too
many pigeons, just as it generates too much CO2. Messages we send by
pigeon instead of internet will reduce our CO2 debt, since the pigeons
are already there and require no further carbon combustion.
-- Tony West
When I was a Campus Apartments renter I was limited to Campus
Technologies for Internet. (It was blazing fast, had connectivity to
Penn's network which was useless to me, was expensive and didn't
support home networking.) I don't remember the phone company they
used but it wasn't Verizon. They also offered a weird limited cable
TV option but I went with Comcast which was available in my building.
It's not available in all of their buildings, or wasn't at the time.
Frank
This is interesting, since in West Philadelphia, aren't we ALL
limited to Comcast for _cable_? Wouldn't it be great to have a choice?
- Melani Lamond
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