Best of the Season

thus far. NBA TV got it right. The one Lebron highlight was actually legit.



Happy New Year!

An Interesting Move

Straight out of Jersey, and a great idea

Three people with a healthy obsession for cellphones; that’s all it took to start Rentobile, a young company that rents popular handsets to U.S. consumers who want a shiny new device, but are stuck in the middle of a lengthy contract.

Two years was much too long for Seungcheol Lee, one of Rentobile’s partners, to wait to get his hands on a different handset. Lee and Rentobile’s two other partners, all of whom all spring from design and graphics backgrounds, decided to take their love of the latest technology and turn it into a business plan. The company is not a mobile operator; it doesn’t offer service plans, usage charges, etc.

Hell of an idea. Lets hope they keep expanding.

source.

Blizzard Man + Ludacris > T-Pain

Really, he is kind of better than T-Pain

Greatest Photo of the Year?

Probably not. But hilarious nonetheless.

Via Basketbawful

To Jim

So, we lost that $100 gift card (which really sucked and makes me wonder if a certain someone came by and snatched it), then there was the time the cable was down for about five days and the repair guys kept flaking out. Oh, and there was when we first moved into the house and moved the cable/router too close to the TV and no one could connect to the internet or have a decent speed when they did (yes Jim, you were right and we should have moved it away from the TV). But I'm completely glad the 105A house never signed up with Time Warner Cable.

Why?

well 12:01AM, January 1st might be seeing a huge change in TV programing.

SpongeBob SquarePants might get squeezed off Time Warner Cable.

Media giant Viacom Inc said its Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and 16 other channels will go dark for 13 million subscribers at 12:01 a.m. Thursday if a new carriage fee deal with Time Warner Cable Inc is not agreed upon by then.

The impasse would mean "SpongeBob" and other popular shows like Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" and Stephen Colbert's "The Colbert Report" will be cut off on the nation's second-largest cable operator. Time Warner Cable primarily serves people in New York state, the Carolinas, Ohio, Southern California and Texas [emphasis added].

So as this year comes to a close, lets be happy we got AT&T and not the Nazi-esque Time Warner Cable.

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Editor's Note: Yes, I'm aware that Time Warner is not available in Houston, but rather Comcast is. Shut up.

To AAR

Since you're an admitted reader and also a new, but enthusiastic fan of the Wire (one of the greatest shows ever), I'm posting this for you.

Alan Sepinwall is a writer from New Jersey (don't hate him because of that). I'm pretty sure he maintained weekly posts on the show which contained some of the most insightful material and thoughts. It's almost an episode guide of sorts since so much happens in one episode. Check it out and try not to read ahead (it's hard not to).

Top Gun

Where are they now.

Worth a look and interesting to see. Kelly McGinnis did not age well.

Generally Speaking

Not much going on these days. Enjoying the life back home. Seen a few friends. Spent some real quality time with the parents.

Generally speaking, what's been going on?

Mp3 player is still down. I anticipate I will be (reluctantly) rejoining the ipod gang. Digital camera is also not functioning. I anticipate I will be buying a refurb from ecost.com. It was time. Weird that the stuff I bought while in undergrad in Massachusetts decided to crap out around the same time.

What else has been going on?

Discovering old music that's laying around my room that I have kind of forgotten about over time.

I'm in the process of uploading a bunch of it right now. Travel light with some mp3s.

Also, I recently purchased the entire box set of the Wire. Stoked. I've watched it 2 or 3 times through now. Presently viewing season 3.

In other news, I've become extremely nocturnal.