Monday, January 23, 2006

Postscript to Tired

...And cable? That isn’t even on the horizon for us. When we lived in remote Janesville (population 500), 20 years ago, cable was available. Thank you Comcast! Cable or satellite, neither one are what we really want; that‘s the ability to choose only the programs we want to pay for. That’s the part that is so frustrating as I know the technology is available for us to pick and choose the programs we want to see.

As one who is still able to remember the earliest days of television; it’s especially irritating to see how far from the original promise that television has strayed. Oh, sure…it’s now High Definition and in glorious colors, but for 100+ shopping channels do we really need High Definition? Ginzu knives in full color? How odd…I was reading the paper and sure enough. There was an article about the problems we “rural” folks have with the availability of broadband, or lack thereof. The article referenced some wireless ISP’s, but even those are unavailable here.

Another news article detailed the problem that newcomers to the Sacramento area (Natomas) are having. It seems that the realtors don’t mention the fact that Natomas is a historical flood plain and the federal government has conveniently changed the definition for this high risk area. (Convenient for developers) Now the newcomers have read the Sacramento Bee articles on the distinct possibility of levee failures. They have also noted for the first time that the large earthen structures on the immediate horizon are in fact, levees! Some people feel they have been sold a bill of goods…but I have a feeling that these same people didn’t notice the existence of a nearby airport as well and are now wondering what that noise is?

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