Atomictumor

A band called Phonograph will be opening for Wilco at the Tenn. Theater. They sound pretty good at first listen. Looking forward to that show.

I’ve been reading books from the Ender series by Orson Scott Card lately. That’s a wonderful set of books that raises many questions about the nature of intelligence. Would we even recognize intelligence that’s alien to our own, for example?

Well anyway… who would have guessed that we have a colony of buggers living right beneath the Cemestos Gardens? Termites. Sorry little, expensive creatures.

Do any of y’all know of a good exterminator?

I’ve been trying to ignore it, but I just can’t.  Netmom first brought the intended purchase of Bellsouth by AT&T to my attention in the comments section on my most recent post of how much Bellsouth and AT&T irritate me with their reckless and irresponsibly greedy plans to charge on both ends of internet connections, but I just wouldn’t believe it. 

It seems unusual, at best, for something like this to be leaked on a Sunday and announced on a Monday, although it has evidently been in the works since November.  However, this seems to worsen things for we poor bastards who live in the southern US, because Bellsouth and AT&T were the biggest voices in support of the two-tiered internet garbage that I’ve been griping about for months.  I said Friday that I’d be suprised if they could pull it off, but with the bastards combined like this, well, anythings possible.

My post Friday fired me up about something else thats been in my mind for a long time: community broadband.  It seems to me that we’re spending way too much money for what seems (admittedly, from the outside, but from an educated view) an inexpensive technology.  Towns all over the country (the world, even) are starting municipal or community broadband networks (wireless has been popular, but I’m not sure how effective it’d be with the hills and whatnot) in order to lure business and generally cause an ease on their taxpayers.

Who’s interested?