Why Comcast Cable Sucks This Morning

Comcast sucks? When did this become news? I've been satisfied with their cable Internet service (don't have phone), but the cable TV blows chunks of ineptitude.

some time after I upgraded to digital cable, Comcast replaced the Microsoft-based DVR programming (which had its issues, but largely worked, was intuitive, and even intelligent.) So, they replaced it with their in-house programming that is incredibly bad. How bad? So bad that it deserves to have a little janitor and 2 homemade robots appear down in the right-hand corner of the screen commenting on the ongoing futility associated with trying to operate it.)

First of all, it freezes, big time. When you are trying to run through a list of programs, or try to program a recording, it just freezes for  several seconds - for no obvious reason - then unfreezes. Of course, in this time I've punched several buttons, which it now exectues, so I get the program canceled and end up going back several menus or exiting entirely so tha tI have to repeat everything. Fun!

One of the most annoying things is that you can't program a recording of just one showing of a program. It will allow you to only record new episodes or repeats, but what it doesn't do is probably the most important thing of all. Take the MSNBC show Countdown; I like to record and watch the 5 O'Clock program every night. So, now I also have to hand delete scheduled recordings for every showing of Countdown that day (3 programs I have to erase every day). When I forget, I end up with a list of Coundtown a screen and a half long.

Overall, the new DVR service is irritatingly buggy. It's a crap product. I've complained to Comcast customer service and received automated responses that don't do anything.

It's too bad. Comcast Internet has been great, but the Cable TV is making me long for a satellite dish...

Might As Well Talk About Thierry Henry

With the season quickly deflating like an old discarded balloon, it's time to turn to wild stories and rumours and tales of Gunners past. Our friend Thierry Henry is not having the best of times at Barca. I have to believe the former Gunner great still has plenty to give soccer. I just don't believe Barcelona's the place. NOnetheless, he nixes rumours of a Barca exit and says Arsenal is the only EPL team he'd return to England for...Uh, we've all moved Thierry. Thanks for the memories, though. The only worse thing that could happen to him than his present straits, perhaps, is a move to the LA Galaxy

Implosion

Implode. intransitive verb1 a: to burst inward <a blow causing a vacuum tube to implode> b: to undergo violent compression <massive stars which implode>2: to collapse inward as if from external pressure; also : to become greatly reduced as if from collapsing3: to break down or fall apart from within : self-destruct

I'll choose 2 & 3...

Well, At Least It Wasn't 1-1

I'm kidding, of course. Heartbreaking game at Anfield. The 4-2 scoreline is not indicative of how close this game was. Arsene is unhappy with the penalty call, and there could be an argument there. But let's face it it, Arsenal lost a game they had by the throat. The proverbial snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Blame the ref if you want, but the only word for our defense is shoddy. And there were stretches in which our midfield was just being dominated.

There were also stretches, particularly in the first half, in which Arsenal played some of the most brilliant, most fluent and potent football I've seen from anyone this year. And Theo Walcott? His effort on the equalizer was flat out amazing. From box to box, through 4 defenders and delivers the pass on the money. That should've been game, set, match right there.

This will be another year without silverware...depressing

Tied At Emirates

Look, I realize Arsenal does not deserve to win any silverware this year. The long slump. Losing to lesser teams. Giving up the lead to Didier Drogba (I think there some other men in blue shirts there, as well, but I'm not sure they were playing) at Stamford Sludge. And the defense. The Defense! barely two minutes after taking the lead, the back four breaks down like a '67 Volkswagen Bus on a mountain highway. You can't win championships acting like that!

I love Arsenal. I will root for them to defy the odds they've created and win the EPL Trophty and the CL Trophy. But, baby, do they need some new people in defense, and some dudes on the bench, as well. Kolo Toure dives in and checks on too many plays per game to be playing for a front line team. He did it again on Gerrard on the drive that tied the game. And William Gallas for all his skill and fire is a little dude when compared to the Drogba's of the world. (The fullbacks are top notch, of course.)

Oh, and someone tell me when Emanuel Eboue was replaced with a petulant 11-year-old? What happened to him?