This lady talks about canceling tv. Here is an excerpt of her post I found pretty interesting.
Several months ago I canceled my cable–because of Joe Dominguez who, in his wonderful book from the 70s Your Money or Your Life, pointed out that how we spend–our money, our time, our resources–should reflect our real values in life. I thought about the 40 bucks for the cable and realized I didn’t value it that much.
(By the way, the numbers in Joe’s book are dated, but the methodology he explains is still just as valuable for evaluating your spending.)
So the question is, what would you do if you canceled cable? For me not only would I no longer have cable, I’d no longer have an internet account. What things would be different in your life? How much time do you spend in front of the TV? How dependent is our society on tv and cable in general?
I think most of us would have an hour or more extra time every day to get things done we’ve neglected because we were either too lazy at the time, or had a show that was more entertaining that what we needed to get done. A lot of people use the excuse that they were too busy to get something done, when chances are they were too busy with that important TV show. What effect does that TV really have on your life?
My dad came to town and picked me up a Sirius Satellite Radio. All I need to do now is install it. The nice part about this one is that it can go in the home or in the car, so I plan on getting both kits. The monthly cost comes in at 12.95/month, not too bad considering what you are getting. If I drop $400 bucks on it, I could get a lifetime subscription, that might be an option in the future. Another interesting tidbit, I’ve heard that the stock is worth looking into. Right now it is going around $3/share. Right now we are unsure wether subscription radio will catch on enough to send the stock sky high, but if it does… then its a risk to look at.
Since we are a community of events. I have added an event table on the left that links the next wetwired events in the future.
I purchased the domain of wetwired back in 2000. The idea was to have a website that was news and campus oriented. We wanted to get the local college kids interested in the site, and create a web portal of sorts. We advertised on campus, we bought chaulk and wrote in the quad about the website, we pushed business cards. The site got pretty busy, but amazingly enough, no where near as busy as it is today. As time went by and writers came and went, and we added a forum, things changed, but one thing remained the same, we stayed primarily a news site, we commented about the normal hustle and bustle of everyday news. Today, the site is more of a community, and with the advent of blogger, I steered the site to use that and the forums. Our traffic is growing daily due to the great community of fellow bloggers and links from other great sites. But I cannot leave behind the concept of the site. We will still continue to post our comments about the news, the bad reporting, the bad opinions. I am pleased to announce that Beer Slinger, writer of the original series Cocktails and Conclusions, is coming back to the staff to write articles about news, politics, books, things that are happening in the world.
If you click on the picture, you’ll see the original flash intro I did for wetwired back in spring of 2000. The link at the end is bad, but the flash works.
Today is the biggest shopping day of the year. Everyone is out at the mall fighting crowds of people for those special deals. Don’t you know that they jack up the prices only to put a sale tag on and make you think that you’re actually getting a deal? Well regaurdless, I am at work and not out dealing with crowds of people I’m dealing with mindless zombies that brought their computers home over the holiday.
If I was out today, I’m sure I’d be with Magik fighting the crowds of people only to see if there were some hot chicks to oogle at Victoria’s secret. Magik, would eventually get us kicked out because he’d probably put a thong on his head and run around saying “pork chop sandwhiches”.
Today, I am thankful for my family that is spread out across the US, that I cannot be with. I am thankful for my friends who are my 2nd family that also cannot be with theirs. Today we’ll all be gathering at my place for a Thanksgiving meal and then a movie. Stay tuned for a couple pictures and maybe a Thanksgiving treat of the first installment of the Detective Story. Be safe guys, and be humble.
Aside from that, throw a turkey at someones car and watch it explode at 60mph!
Ok, next avatars
Self-Inflicted Wound
Agamemnon
And Finnally because he bitched that he had grey hair, Maca did an Andy Warhol collage for him to pick from.
Well, like yesturday, today will be a light day of posting. Not that its really busy, but I ‘ve got some things to do and some movie watching to get done because of the holiday. I am working on my first Serial Detective Story it will be posted some time this holiday.
Today is “suposedly” the most traveled day of the year with tons of people traveling to visit thier relatives and friends. So watch out on the roads, cause you know someone is going to get angry and throw a turkey out the window in road rage. Or at least I would if someone pissed me off enough. What could you say if you’re driving along, you cut someone off and he comes back up next to you screaming “you fucking jackass!” and then throws a turkey at your car?
Maca, a new friend of mine, whom I’m setting up a webpage for, has been kind enough to do drawings of the wetwired staff. She finished the first two, myself and MJ and sent them to me. All I had to say was damn.
pylorns
MJ
Top Ten Things to get a Blogger for Christmas:
10 New computer
9 Caffine
8 Christmas card
7 A new website
6 A clue
5 A date
4 Sleeping Pills (for the insomniacs)
3 New Graphics
2 New Slogan/T-Shirt
1 Immunity for Survivor
You’e the man now Dog. So says Sean Connery. I’ll probably have some other links for the day, but this was the first one I came across. Props to Ratmaster in the forum.
Hsubaru I got bored and wanted to hone my html skillz, so I created a site and then slapped his name on it and gave it to him. Check it out.
The immunity challenge is out on Survivor. This time, Don says “Don has been late on several occassions. Determine his punishment. ”
Oh what I could do with that.. but I had to go and get myself kicked off.
I found Jim’s comments on the survivor site to be pretty interesting, looks like he has something in store for Don. Maybe something concerning the cow. His comments and I quote:
“Oh, that is… that’s just… delicious. >:-)”
This Priest updated his site again. All I have to say is daaaamn. If it’s true.. this guy is in for some problems.
Don stole my idea about a detective/serial type series. Very much a “coincidence” that both of us had the same idea at the same time. Yes you could say that great minds think alike. But beside the point. Anyway, read it, its funny, or at least I laughed. Damn you Don.
Mind Jack goes over the troubles of E-voting. This generally brings up a lot of concerns.
You fellow bloggers come in some days and say, ‘damnit, what the hell am I going to talk about today?’
I find that usually I have no clue on what I am going to talk about until something interesting happens later on that day, then I find I have something to comment on. I admit, sometimes I plan out some articles, but for the most part I just fly by the seat of my pants. I can tell you that I have a really good idea for a story. One of those film noir/serial type stories with a detective, a broad, and an interesting plot twist. I’m thinking of doing it in episodes like the old radio shows. “Tune in next week to find out if blank_name is able to plunge the toilet with a mutant squid attached to his balls!”
Ok well something like that… Aside from that, this weekend was a quiet weekend, as most go I spose. Sunday I braved the lines at HEB to do my own shopping for Thanksgiving. One thing comes to mind. Coupons. Yes coupons. Why do people use coupons? Aside from the whole saving money part, wouldn’t you agree that time is money and when you hold up lines and lines of people because you have 50 coupons; you are wasting time and thus it costs more than you save? I think what really bothered me, is that half the coupons had to be manually entered into the system and the clerk had to have been dyslexic. I’m not kidding, it took him damn near 15 minutes to input 5 coupons into the system because he kept putting the numbers in the wrong order. To make matters worse, the person in line in front of me was a guy. Since when do guys use coupons? Guys are supposed to be in and out. He is a disgrace to the gender. Ok I’ll get off my soapbox. It’s Monday.
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