15 November 2005Media
The Ropes Are Plenty Strong...
I moved to my new place about 2 weeks and I have almost everything set up, unpacked and in the right place. All except cable and Internet service. I can't decide what to do. Honesty I think I can live without TV. I've been doing it for 2 weeks now. I have done it for much longer in the past. Always when I didn't have a TV to distract me I have been more productive. Sure I'll miss a few things like sports and The Daily Show and the Food Network, PBS and the news. But do I really need this stuff? Not really. I still have my TV in my living room--couldn't live without movies, could I? And I can always pick up an antenna if I'm desparate for football. Then again I could always just get cable and be done it with it. It certainly would help with the whole Internet question. I don't have a phone line, just use my cell, which makes DSL out of the question. The only other options are cable and satelite. I haven't even gone so far to research whether I can get cable from the usual providers (Comcast or DirectTV in my case) without also getting TV service. I probably can, but I'm not certain. I think I'm going to go another week and see how I feel. In the meantime, if you've noticed that there are no posts at night, know you know why.
Posted by andrew at November 15, 2005 05:11 PM
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'The Ropes Are Plenty Strong...'.
We haven't had cable in 3 years (granted we were away for almost 1 of those) and we don't miss it.
Plus NOBODY is getting me to pay $600 a year to watch the idiot box. Fuck That.
Just go a couple more weeks without it and you'll have done your cold turkey. Plus you'll discover that there is life post the flickering tube/lcd/plasma.
J.