Today I thought I would have more activity in my place. Let me expain. Kevan, my coworker, has been getting free cable. Shaw doesn’t know about it, and he isn’t telling them. But it is preventing him from getting HDTV. If he asks to upgrade, Shaw will notice and start charging him. But there is a workaround that he has tried in the past. He previously got an HDTV decoder and hooked it up at my place, got Shaw to turn it on, then took the decoder home and used it there. He eventually returned it.
There is now a new decoder on the market that has fancy new features. Specifically a hard drive so you can record programs, and even watch them at the same time. With the Olympics coming up, Kevan wanted to do the same thing again. That was the plan yesterday. So, I tried to make sure the condo was clean. Unfortunately I’ve been distracted lately and didn’t do a good job.
My distraction has been a new webcomic called Sluggy Freelance. It’s not very well drawn, and not particularly funny, but it is still quite good. What attracts me to it is that it has nice nerdy plots, and is very good at continuity. Previous plot-lines are never forgotten, and the characters seem to evolve (especially in the case of the alien Alyee.) The comic has been around since 1997, so I’ve been going through all the archives reading them. It is so easy to read just one more comic, that I’ve been forgetting to be productive until far too late. Anyway, my condo isn’t as clean as it should be.
Fortunately, Kevan decided to bite the bullet and get HDTV the correct way. So he doesn’t need me. Unfortunate because he’s going camping this weekend and was going to let me try out HDTV. The brief time I had it, I wasn’t impressed, because nothing was being broadcast on HDTV. So if I had it for an entire weekend, I could probably get a good feel for it.
Anyway, I’ve got to prepare dinner right now, and then meet Andrew around the Fringe area. Then afterwards I’ll eat dinner.