TV

Yesterday I called Atlantic Broadband and had them stop our cable TV subscription. They hated to see us go, they offered $20 off a month and they offered a bundled deal. No thanks.

We’re still keeping the cable internet. The CSR asked if we want to upgrade to the faster internet service? It’s only $5 more a month, but you need one of our modems that you can rent for $6 a month or buy for $90. No thanks.

Right now with a cheap set of rabbit ears we get the big 4 commercial networks, three of them have sub-channels and one has two. So that’s ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW (minor league network), My12 (old TV shows), MeTV (really old TV shows), Bounce (geared towards African-American viewers), and The Country Network (music videos.) All of them come in excellent, except for FOX & Bounce which gets pretty pixelated sometimes. There is absolutely no PBS/ETV. In an effort to overcome those shortcomings I ordered a Leaf, should be here next week.

My new favorite Olympic spectating sport is Women’s Water Polo. Not only do you have to tread water or swim while controlling the ball, but there is some serious pushing, shoving, dunking and grabbing going on. It is not so evident in the usual overhead camera angles, but when they show the action using an underwater camera you really get a great feel of what is really going on.

I was watching a match yesterday between Spain and Great Britain and during one of those underwater views, when there was a bit of grabbing going on, I almost got a view one of the player’s naked boobies. Forget the bikinis of the women’s beach volleyball, they leave too much to the imagination.

It seems like this is not so rare an occurrence as wardrobe malfunctions have been captured at least two other times in the course of these games, on 8/1 during a US vs Spain match & yesterday during Australia vs China.

When I discussed this suit grabbing thing with my wife she felt that it was cheating and had the perfect way to prevent it, make ’em compete in the nude. Sound like an awesome idea to me.