Archive for the 'Rants' Category
Department of Redundancy Department
May 23rd, 2007
This beauty comes courtesy of AOL Television. For months now, I’ve been searching for the ultimate TV listings and have looked at Yahoo TV, TV Guide, MeeVee, TV.com, ZAP2IT, AOL Television, and countless others. So far, I haven’t found one that I absolutely love so the search continues. While conducting my search, I took a look at AOL Television’s guide. In their guide listings, when I enter my ZIP code, I’m offered the following choices:
- Time Warner Cable - Standard, Los Angeles, CA
- Time Warner Cable - Digital Non-Reb, Los Angeles, CA
- Time Warner Cable - Standard, Los Angeles, CA
- Time Warner Cable - Digital Non-Reb, Los Angeles, CA
First of all, as a consumer, how am I supposed to know what “Digital Non-Reb” means? Even if for some reason, I knew, why is each option listed twice? Of course, this ultimately ends up being Time Warner Cable’s fault since they’re the one providing the names. This only goes to show that the merger of AOL and Time Warner is really paying off. Only together can they create such a crappy user experience.
Sphere: Related ContentDefining Irony
May 21st, 2007
Sure, you could look up the definition of irony but I find learning by example much better. For example, take two stories from the LA Times. The first is about California State Senator Carole Migden who was involved in a car accident over the weekend when she reached down to get her cell phone. The ironic part? She voted for a bill this year that would fine people for talking on their cell phone while driving their car. Example number two comes from Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa who rode a city bus last week to a meeting about reducing fossil fuel usage. After the meeting, he climbed into a GMC Yukon SUV (a car that gets horrible gas millage and burns a lot of fossil fuels) and drove off. I guess he’s taking a page out of the book of Arnold.
Sphere: Related ContentThe Best of the Worst
May 16th, 2007
The Today Show and Zagat (apparently pronounced “Zuh-GAT” although the battle rages on) have come out with the Zagat/Today Show Fast-Food Survey which chronicles the best of the worst fast food and chain restaurants out there. In the category of Top Food, Wendy’s gets the prize trailed by Subway. In fact, Wendy’s has top honors in three out of the four categories. Now, if only they could stop calling things “biggie” I might be more inclined to go there (not really) but to me “biggie” is the equivalent of “Rooty Tooty Fresh and Fruity” in the breakfast world. In other words, I’m not saying it so I’m not ordering it.
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