Yep. Saving money. buh-bye, xfinity
Jane’s blog has details—we’re bailing from cable tv and phone…
by CJ | Mar 30, 2016 | Journal | 56 comments
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I really need to see if there’s an alternative to ::snarl:: Comcast and AT&T U-verse in my city (Houston). I want to ditch cable and have only broadband internet. — I *really* don’t want or need the basic cable service I’m getting. I only want internet service. But Comcast’s prices habe become truly outrageous, and I can’t afford them.
— As I understand it, autism spectrum folks, Aspies included, tend to be high-functioning on language skills, things like wordplay and the other skills needed for one’s native language or for other languages. So Latin or any “foreign” language might be the sort of challenge an Aspie or autism spectrum person might find really exciting.
(Apparently, I’m one of those folks who just naturally has language skills. — But as with anything, that has to be developed, and needs good teachers and materials. I knew right away, with my first course (and a good teacher) that I loved languages.)
— My copy of Visitor in ebook form arrived the other day. It’ll be a while before I can get the printed book, but it will happen.
Oh! And I saw a curious claimed statistic the other day. (Wish I’d saved where I saw it.) The claim was that Russian is, or is fast becoming, the second most widely used language on the internet after English. — I’d think that should be checked, since I’d think Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese) would be high on the list too, and likely Japanese and Hindi and Spanish and German. But if Russian is in the top five or ten languages most used online, that’s an interesting statistic. That could be an interesting metric for where world languages are heading.
Re: Aspies language skills.
Don’t go there! That’s more stereotyping. Think of it as those of us with good language skills just demonstrate that the stereotypes of ASD don’t work. Aspies may have as varied “talents” and “deficits” as any other people. The only truly common thing is that it’s innate.
Language skill develops early. It seems to be easiest to acquire multiple languages as one is learning one’s “mother tongue”, i.e. say between 5-8.
It warms the cockles of my heart that you would remember our Py. She is getting old now but is still herself. Deserves the name. Not so good anymore at grooming 🙁
Needs her Khym but he is gone now.
Sorry to be soppy but you have given us all so much.
And I am loving Visitor. Thanks for that too.
Hugs. And give Py a treat for me.
Kobo is still not showing me Visitor, when I go looking to buy it.
Maybe someone at the publisher forgot to tick the ‘Rest of the world, non-exclusive’ sales-rights box again when sending it to the distributors. It happens.
I usually just send an email to the publisher’s customer department to notify them of the problem (if I’m sure the ebook exists), and hope they’ll figure out the right person to send it on to. Usually it works, and the book shows up less than a month later.
In this case, do you happen to have a name or contact info I should send my notice to?
You probably need to update Flash, the common video player for Windows. There’s an exploit distributing ransomware! 🙁 Be careful to get it from a reliable source! 😉
Re: Aspies
There’s a new TED Talk interview today with Linus Torvalds. Of course, I had to watch it (and of course, not using Flash). It didn’t take long for me to think, “I recognize you. I know who you are.” 😉
See it here: http://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_linux
I clicked on that and about 30 min. later, I’ve seen that plus two TED talks by Tim Berners-Lee.
I just finished Visitor. What a great accomplishment. Thank you.
Waah! I want to read it too! But I can’t, because I can’t buy it.
When I search for it the e-book store pretends it doesn’t exist…
(And Paul, if your remark about updating Flash was meant to help me: Flash doesn’t have anything to do with this.)
/End of plaintive wail.