by Larry Brody
Last week Gwen the Beautiful and I got a notice from our not so close personal friends over at DISH Network that as a thank you for using their service for 17 years in five different cities across the country, they wanted to personally thank us for our loyalty and were rewarding us the chance to watch some movie channel we’d never heard of for absolutely free for a few months.
Oh, and they also wanted us to know that they were raising our monthly fee by about five bucks because, hey, expenses, you know?
Over the past few years, we’ve been watching actual television shows on television less and less and thinking more and more about ditching everything, plugging a laptop into our flatscreen, and living out other people’s fantasy lives without leaving that strange comfort zone created by being online. The only thing that mitigated against that was the concern that it would just plain be too hard to keep track of when shows we wanted to see would be on without a DVR to record them automatically.