Cable

We haven't watched Curb Your Enthusiasm this season. That's just disgraceful.

Over last weekend as I was purusing alternatives to keeping cable I saw an add from Frontier Communications. The moment I had entered my phone number and hit send I regretted it.

I'm almost there, almost. During our move I signed up for cable through the cable company. Now, I'm having second thoughts and thinking about cutting the cord.

This past week, starting on Sunday afternoon or so, cable and internet have been out with Charter Communications for patches of time.

It's been a long time since the Marvel Legends toy line has dabbled with the likes of the X-Men. There have been a few lines here and there, but the frequency of Avengers and Spider-Man series has drowned out the past efforts rather loudly. This most recent wave of figures bodes well for the future of X-Men at Hasbro though. The last time we saw the X-Men, it was a smaller set with a Build-a-Jubilee available only at Toys 'R Us. This wave is available everywhere, and it's huge. I don't just mean there are a lot of figures --- there are eight in total --- I mean it's physically massive. That's thanks in part to the Build-a-Figure being Juggernaut, who is among the biggest BAFs offered in the line. Still, eight figures is about as big as a collections in the Marvel Legends line get, but it's hard to be disappointed when the roster is as strong as this one.

A fun carnival ride turned into a dangerous, heart-stopping excursion for two people in France.

We've all lived the nightmare of trying to deal with customer service on the phone. Well, this encounter sums it all up. This guy wants to cancel his cable service with Comcast, but the operator is anything but cooperative. Take a listen to this amazingly maddening call and how unhelpful the representative is...