It seems like everyone I talk to lately has made a point of telling me how great Mad Men is, and then gasped when hearing that I had never seen it. And since I’d hate to not be one of the cool kids… I started downloading the episodes tonight through DirecTV OnDemand (and when I say download, I mean through DirecTV OnDemand since it downloads content using my Internet connection rather than the satellite) because it just so happened to be their featured pick. How ironic.
Hopefully this show is half as good as people have been hyping it to be.
July 20, 2008
I had never watched this show before (intentionally), but Shelly asked that I put it on tonight when I was flipping through the channels…
We only watched for about 15 minutes, and it was the same contestant the whole time… a woman who had made it through every question (with all the inevitable high drama that goes along with these shows), and had won $300,000. She had to another question to win $500,000 and get the chance to then answer a final $1,000,000 question. The final category was “First-Grade Geography,” and the question was…
“What is the only continent that is also a country?”
Now, I will honestly admit that some of the questions they had asked her up to this point, I either didn’t know the answer to, or got flat out wrong. So, I guess that I am not any smarter than a fifth grader either, but I sat staring at my TV in total disbelief when the woman said that every continent was also a country. Seriously? Come on lady…
Luckily for her, she quit before “officially” answering and got to take home $300,000.
July 5, 2007
Mule Design wants to know, which side of the fence are you on?
Me? Well, I really thought that I wanted to see Tony get whacked. I told several people that if he didn’t get whacked, that I was going to call shenanigans on the last eight years! Now that it is done though, I actually kind of liked the way it went down… and I must say that Phil’s death might have been the best one of the whole series. Seriously, those kids anticipation of seeing the SUV roll toward his head, and their subsequent reaction… that’s just classic stuff.
June 11, 2007
So, they finally fixed our service last Monday. The tech showed up on time, fixed my problem and was gone inside of 15 minutes.
Imagine that. All those problems, all those tech support calls, all that B.S., and it turned out to be exactly what I told them it was two weeks earlier… the damn dish. It had a weak signal from the roof, so he fiddled with some knobs and all is well.
I still wanted to axe the service, but Shelly fears change and told me that I couldn’t. Oh well, I guess my desire to cancel because of a single issue was a little irrational. Especially since I’ve had zero problems over the last seven years, and that includes moving the service to three houses.
Interesting side-note about Comcast. I had an installation/setup appointment last Thursday, just in case DirecTV hadn’t fixed things on Monday. So, I called and cancelled my installation on Wednesday afternoon.
That evening at 5:59 PM, the phone rang and CallerID said Comcast. I answered the phone and had a recorded greeting reminding me about my appointment the next day. After the message, there were some options for re-scheduling and cancelling, etc. I chose the option to cancel, just in case, and was transferred to the customer service department. I was then immediately met with a greeting that their office was only open until 6:00 PM… Yeah, it had to just be a coincidence… nobody would intentionally make it difficult like this to cancel an installation… 
April 16, 2007
Since we haven’t had a working TV in a week (and we lost another week’s worth of TV that was on our DVR when formattng the drive as part of the troubleshooting process), tonight I am trying to locate copies of all our favorite shows… The Office, Scrubs, 24, Survivor, etc.
Only Survivor is available on Xbox Live’s Marketplace (and Shelly has watched it from here for the last three weeks because of issues), so that one was the easiest to figure out. The rest, well getting them from Bit Torrent seemed so obvious. However, I’m a father now, and someone who doesn’t (willingly) go to those lengths anymore…
So, I figured that I would download them from iTunes. At $1.29 each, it is the quickest and easiest method available that I know of. After downloading and installing the software (that I love to hate), I logged into the iTMS and found that my account still had $20.39 credit from sometime long, long ago. Sweet! Finally, something “good” has come out of this horrible DirecTV experience.
April 7, 2007
