Freedom?

In the spirit of Independence Day, I cut the cord on our cable and home phone; we now only have Verizon FIOS internet-- they're sending us a prepaid shipping box so we can mail back the set-top cable receiver, so no more weird fees to "rent" that stupid thing (no taxation without representation!) and they are also sending us a new router . . . at first the lady on the phone wanted to charge me 84.99 a month for internet, but once I mentioned the opposing deal from Optimum, she "noticed" that if I signed up for two years, it would be 44.99 a month--- and that's it, no fees or anything-- I think I now need to get a digital antennae for local stations (apparently there are more than you think) and I'm a little hazy about the rest-- I'm still a Verizon customer, so I can login to ESPN3 and other channels-- and in place of the home-phone, I used Google Voice and got a Google Phone Number . . . yesterday I actually called my son and the computer in the kitchen "rang" and he answered the call . . . and he was able to reciprocate and call my cell from the computer with Google Voice . . . to celebrate the new digital revolution, we watched Apocalypse Now last night, it's streaming for free on Amazon if you have Prime.
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5 comments:

  1. zmanJuly 4, 2017 at 11:58 AM

    Someday I will have the cajones to do this. I grew up without cable and used to know all the UHF stations. I'm sure there are tons of oddball channels broadcast the old fashioned way, but they're likely not in English.

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  2. LeckyJuly 5, 2017 at 1:18 PM

    Is Apocalypse Now the best movie title of all time? It's got be that or Dr. Strangelove (the full title).

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  3. WhitneyJuly 5, 2017 at 1:38 PM

    I prefer the title Porklips Now.

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  4. DaveJuly 5, 2017 at 2:46 PM

    the only reason i showed them "apocalypse now" was so that they could see porklips now. strangelove and apocalypse now are great titles-- i noticed on this viewing where the title shows up in the film.

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  5. DaveJuly 5, 2017 at 2:51 PM

    and you growing up without cable and my kids having access to netflix and amazon and all the other channels streaming on computer are definitely not the same thing. these kids have too much content to even fathom.

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