Have you heard about this “Teevee”?

You don't have to browse and choose shows from categories, you just sit down and pick a channel! The channels aren't even organized by theme or topic! And the best part is the way you get to channels is by their number! The number is totally arbitrary and not related to the name of the TV network. So Cool! There's no way to figure out what will be on what channel at what time unless you subscribe to a paper publication that gets mailed to you or you look online. The device you are consuming the media through offers no way to access information about the shows you are watching or the shows that you could watch. It's totally crazy, no information at all, just media, fed straight to you with an obscure system structuring the whole schedule that you pretty much just have to memorize.

Oh and I didn't mention the best part, they have banner ads! And not just banner ads, but banner ads that interrupt the content you are trying to watch every 6-10 minutes. Oh, and by the way you better make sure you don't mind banner ads, because there is no way to skip them, no way to watch a whole show uninterrupted, even if you wanted to pay for the content you can't it's just NOT available without about 20 banner ads in every show.

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This is what I call Audience Affiliation

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Cingular recycles phone numbers & 24+ATHF=<3

Here is one of the minor yet still annoying challenges of modern living. Cell phone companies run out of phone numbers pretty quickly, so they re-assign them almost as soon as they are cancelled. I dont know what the exact length of time is but it doesnt really matter how long they wait as long as other companies (I'm talking to you Pizza Hut) are stupid enough to use a phone number as a unique identifier. Seriously, this is not Aisha's phone number anymore, quit calling me!

In a completely unrelated event, mooninites have threatened our national security. There's is only one course of action left to us, send in Jack Bauer.