Been decently busy all week. Catching up on the stuff from last week, when I was in Pittsburgh, ate up a good day or two. But that was worth it. Pittsburgh was pretty fun. Got to see a bunch of the old gang and hang out for a bit.Mostly did the normal work/gym/eat/sleep routine most of the week. I was going to go see Sandra Collins for the third or fourth time. Problem was, the club was being anal about dress code. I’m not going to go to a party (albiet a club one) in slacks! I like my UFO pants. They’re comfy.Hung out with Jamal last night and had some fun. He’s getting married unfortunately….another one lost to the dark side =) But I’ve got one and a half weeks left to turn him back!Threw in some more hard drive space onto my Linux server. That thing just keeps growing in size. Its great. Cancelled cable while I was at it. I couldn’t justify the $50/month (after tax) that they wanted just for some television. Most of the stuff I watch is on broadcast television anyways. The ironic thing was that when I was trying to cancel, the customer representative tried to tell me cable would come in clearer than broadcast TV in my area. While he was giving me his little precooked message, I was watching Fox in higher clarity than what Time Warner could offer. I mentioned this, and he said \”Oh, that must be a fluke\”. No, its because your company turned up the compression. Those assholes need to figure out that quality is important. Video artifacts from compression suck. You probaby can’t tell on a typical run of the mill tv, but I’m watching on a computer monitor. That just highlights the imperfections in any video stream. Just because they can increase the MPEG2 compression on the video stream doesn’t mean that they should! I’m going DirectTV if I ever get cable/satellite service again. Their video streams are just cleaner.
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