Reading xavierenigma's journal

As a buyer of Time Warner Digital Cable, I'm used to the rare and short lived glitch in the network resulting in distorted or frozen images. Tonight, I witnessed something peculiar and strangely fascinating. Around 12:15am, I noticed what appeared to be one of the usual glitches resulting in a frozen image. Normally everything clears up in around 3-5 seconds but this time, the image had already been frozen for 15 seconds. I was watching HBO at the time so I thought I'd change channels to see what else was on and too my surprise, I discovered that all but three local channels were frozen as well. I'd never witnessed this before and by now, the freeze spanned 4 minutes.

Why would anyone possibly want to see frozen cable? There's no audio and one image can get pretty boring after a while. Nevertheless, I viewed this as an oppurtunity. Using this glitch, I could see every cable channel simultaneously. Fascinating isn't?

Now, I can tell you what is really on T.V. at some random time in the night. Some channels were frozen to screens displaying simple messages such as "XBOX 360" and or "IDLE NUTS" (Cartoon Network). One channel was frozen to a near fullscreen picture of Bill Cosby and another a picture of a golden chalace. I counted 4 promotions for movies, 1 mattress promotion, 2 air purifier promotions, 1 pest control commercial, 3 erectile disfunction medication promotions, and 3 insurance commercials ( 1 for car insurance 2 for life insurance). Isn't television fascinating?

Normal programming resumed at 12:46AM.

To me, this is another example of why technology will never replace humans...or I should say why we shouldn't let it take over for us.
It wouldn't be to bad if we just stuck with what works, but since we the companies always want to upgrade, and push the "newest thing" on us, we're subjected to this kind of crap.
I have a similar thing with my "windows experience." Even though the machine says everything is fine and connected, I won't be able to access the web. I'll have to reboot and I lose everything I was just working on.
It's infuriating.

Once Fred Neitszche declared God is Dead, f*ck became the most important word in the English languag