Comcast sends a love note. I got this “important and exciting news” today from Comcast regarding our little connectivity cutoff -

“Thank you for your patience! During the next 30 days, our crews will be working in your neighborhood replacing existing cable lines with state-of-the-art fiber optics. All work will be performed in city approved areas

“As fiber optic lines are installed in your area, you will experience a temporary loss of cable signal. We apologize for any inconvenience, and we will keep service interruption to a minimum. In most cases, crews will be working from 12:00 midnight to 6:00 PM, Monday through Friday. Information will be left at your door before work begins…

“It's an exciting time for Comcast and our customers! “

Yeah, “exciting” is one way of putting it. And I love this “information will be left at your door” bs.

Comcastration Redux. Once again, we're on dialup. The Fine Folks at Comcast (TM) are
“trying to correct connectivity issues in your area”, according to
the tech support drone, so I've had to rig up our Airport as a
temporary dialup router.

Paula's thankful to have any connectivity at all — she's been
working on a project for one of her grad school classes that requires
Internet access, and she's been having trouble getting enough uptime
to get it done. But I have a heavy bandwidth dependency, so my style
is being severely crimped.

href="http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_bonus_030404,00.html?ESRC=eb.nl">Soldiers
aren't excited about the $10,000 re-up bonus the Pentagon is
offering.

“Not even a million dollars” would make
Corporal Will Tate stay on after his four-year stint is over in July,
he said as he burned waste material on a cliff overlooking the Tigris
River near his base in Saddam Hussein's hometown
Tikrit.

As the song used to go:

Re-up
and buy a brand new car

Re-up
Show what a fool you are

Re-up

I'd rather throw up

Than be a lifer, a puker, a fly…

(Why do you call 'em flies? Because they eat shit and bother people!)