I am not making this up.
We are spending about half our time now in Nashville.
We have a condo.
The condo has DirecTV
Cable.. satellite. Who can tell? It's all the same. (Yeah, I have seen the ads).
Our cable bill in NY runs to $190 a month.
And what are our choices?
How many times have you flipped through the guide and said 'there is nothing to watch'?
Last night, I was so astonished at the range of options that I took a photo of some of them to sha
Vietnam: A Television History
Something has got to give in the world of education.
Tuition at many private universities now exceeds $50,000 a year. That's $200,000 for a BA.
Is it worth it?
A lot of people are starting to say no.
Or maybe not.
They're looking for alternatives, and a very popular alternative is the notion of an 'online' education.
So now you see an explosion of
Do I have any interest in any of this? Nope....
This week Facebook annnounced that it was going to start changing up to $100 per message for people who want to email someone who is not one of their 'friends'.
Really?
Yep!
Here it is, in The Guardian.
"Facebook is extending its experiment charging users to send messages, offering users access to the accounts of VIPs – in
In December we went to England to spend Christmas with the English side of the family.
The visit coincided with ITV's airing of the Downton Abbey Christmas Special.
The British side of the family gathered around the 'telly'. The Americans had to retreat to the living room. We're one season behind.
Last Sunday night, PBS aired the first two hours of Season 3, so we could start catching up.
Downton Abbey may be fiction, but it speaks volumes (perhaps too m
Like the Romans said: Bread and circus for the masses. But where's the bread?
Every once in a while you read a book that changes your life.
That book, for me, was Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman.
Published in 1985, Postman, a Professor at NYU, predicted that as television came to dominate the landscape, every other activity would be bent to television's insatiable ne