one of the funniest things i’ve seen is that cable tv ad where the dude is on his roof trying to install some kind of umbrella thing over his satellite dish to prevent rain fade… it’s nonsense for two reasons - first the sheer silliness of trying to do such a thing, but second, rain fade is not a result of the dish getting wet and it’s a shame that tv ad people propigate such a fallacy…...

see that sad face? that’s me when the weather ain’t perfect… in my endeavor to get the best internet bandwidth available to ppl who live in BFE, i jumped off and tried satellite internet. first of all, if ALL YOU DO IS DOWNLOAD (and you only use it when there’s not a cloud in the sky), it’s amazing, once you’re “assimilated” into the network operations center....

the angry face is directed to Direct TV - sure, i love my digital satellite TV but they PROMISED me 2 years ago that my area would be getting local network television availability in “june.” that was in 2000. it’s now SEPTEMBER 2002 and the story is, well, we just can’t provide local network service to all 1600 major broadcast areas. hmm… anyway, all the complaining aside, if you...