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[susandennis]

ZDTV caused me to first expand my Comcast subscription. It turned into TechTV and I watched it constantly and then it turned into G4 and the content changed substantially and I called Comcast and went back to basic. There were several dry years and then CNET started on their website - video podcasts. And Revolution(thanks for the editing) Revision3 stepped up to the plate and now there are 'tv' shows all over the internet and they are great.

I can watch them on my TV and I do. For a year or so I've had this ridiculous setup of computer that routinely trolled for the podcasts and downloaded them and then slip them over to the TiVo server which flipped them over to the TV. It was a massive work around but it worked.

But in the last few weeks TiVo had upped the ante and put all of those I'm currently addicted to on their list of Video On Demand so I can just get Season Passes and they show up right there with House Hunters and The Big Bang Theory and endless reruns of Law and Order.

Very very very nice.

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I'm conjuring up a new adventure for Saturday. I've wanted to go to Blue C Sushi since forever. It's one of those sushi places where the food comes by on a conveyor belt. There's a bus (28) that pretty much goes from here to there (Fremont). So I think I'll just take it and 'do' lunch on Saturday and then walk home from there. It's a fairly long trot but not up hills and, if it's too much, I'll just hop a bus the rest of the way.

It's supposed to be cool and rainy on Saturday which is perfect walking weather in my book.

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I got a handwritten/hand addressed thank you note from the bank manager at my new bank. How cute is that?

Comments

[davmoo.livejournal.com]

ZDTV is why I first bought in to satellite TV...their channel wasn't offered on cable when I first moved here, and I had gotten addicted to it while living in the big city.

G4 is living proof that the quickest way to take something good and totally fuck it up is to get Comcast involved.

And you mean Revision3 :-)

[susandennis]

doh yes thanks. Revision3 - that name just does not stick with me.

I did not know Comcast had anything to do with G4. While I am hesitant to defend Comcast, G4 ain't the only fucked up TV network and I don't think Comcast fucked them all up.

[davmoo.livejournal.com]

Comcast originally created G4. When it sucked and they couldn't get channel space on a lot of other systems (for instance, Dish Network did not carry it), they bought up TechTV to get its channels (like its slot on Dish Network), killed off most of TechTV's content as well as getting rid of most of its employees, and brought out the abomination that is now the current G4.

[machupicchu.livejournal.com]

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Am I understanding correctly that you're going to attempt walking back to your place from Fremont? That's five miles!
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[susandennis]

Yeah, you are understanding correctly. BUT, I'm thinking I should be able to make it to Denny, right? Going along Nickerson? and then if I die, it should be easy to find a bus going home. Right?

[machupicchu.livejournal.com]

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Oh, definitely.

I had to look up Nickerson on Google Maps. That actually turns into Westlake at the Fremont Bridge, so you probably wouldn't actually be walking on the Nickerson part. You'd get bypassed by buses on either Westlake (17 & 30) or on Dexter (26 & 28).

I don't remember the extent of your Internet capabilities on your phone, but have you looked into One Bus Away? I swear by it, as it can be used to look up real-time bus arrival information using either route number or stop number. It would be very useful in exactly this kind of situation, I should think.
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[susandennis]

Whew thanks and I actually meant Dexter, not Nickerson. And I am totally looking forward to using One Bus Away.

Should be a good little trip, I think.