Street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm ([info]tritium) wrote,
@ 2007-10-25 14:59:00
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Yet more crap
* Holy JESUS, Comcast sucks. Like, customer service hangs up on me. And something that they just weren't able to do, I could do in a minute using their online interface.

* Okay, I did watch some of the baseball contest last night. I went to bed when it became clear it was turning into a rout. I tried to look up the scores from my laptop in bed, and found MLB's GameDay program, which is a user interface more suitable for monitoring the reactor core than for watching a game. Waaaay too much information.

* Also on said contest, I don't care if he's a kickass pitcher, Josh Beckett's hemp necklace and chin beard make him look like an asshole.

* And the hubris shown by Sox fans is really something. The "man on the street" question in yesterday's Metro: "how many games will it take for the Sox to knock out the Rockies?"

* Have any of you seen the TV show Pushing Daisies? I caught half of an episode last night, and it looked awesome.

* This is also awesome:


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[info]doraphilia
2007-10-25 08:35 pm UTC (link)
People say Pushing Daisies is good.

Since moving here I am appalled by Comcast and had NO IDEA how good I had it with Time Warner. I could go on and on about all the things wrong with it but it would just take too much time. And I'm only talking about the cablebox/DVR interface and capabilities-- I'm not even talking about customer service, to which I can now add to my list thanks to you.

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[info]doraphilia
2007-10-25 08:37 pm UTC (link)
OK it will take too much time but let me explain the thing that bugs me the most. The DVR doesn't understand the difference between "new" and "repeats" the way TWC did. So if I have it set to record all Daily Show episodes, it will record the 5 repeats a day of the show the night before. I can set it to "only keep one on the DVR at a time", but sometimes I go two or three days without watching and so I lose all those other ones.


This is in addition to heaps upon heaps of stupid bugs and ill-thought-out interfaces.

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[info]joshfisher
2007-10-25 10:59 pm UTC (link)
Can't you get Direct-TV for about the same $$$ ? Everything that is appalling about cable is good about DTV. And the picture is much better. And the company is sane.

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[info]tritium
2007-10-25 11:54 pm UTC (link)
Do they have Internet and VoIP? Because if so, we might switch.

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[info]doraphilia
2007-10-26 02:36 am UTC (link)
I think with the internet it was a LOT more expensive than Crapcast. When we have jobs maybe.

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[info]joshfisher
2007-10-26 02:41 am UTC (link)
I noticed that the direct-tv and internet combination was almost exactly the same as cable, but that's a local thing. Here it's in combination with the local phone co. For land-lines, we just pay local, and use onesuite.com for everything else, which is by-the-minute voip. The internet part is DSL, which in 2007 seems way, way better than cable.

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[info]catamorphism
2007-10-25 08:35 pm UTC (link)
Have you seen this about Comcast?

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[info]tritium
2007-10-25 11:48 pm UTC (link)
Oy. Well, I certainly feel sympathy.

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[info]quiggles14
2007-10-26 12:22 am UTC (link)
pushing daisies is AMAZING. i haven't seen last nights episode yet but so far everything i've seen is fun and entertaining and adorable and funny and just a treat to watch. and not in the way i enjoy watching bad teen dramas but in a quality way.

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[info]tritium
2007-10-26 12:47 am UTC (link)
It was AWESOME. They taxidermied a pigeon with a Bedazzler.

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