This has so far been a year of cyber-frustration. Living in the so-called
greatest city in the world, full of heroes and othernozzles, it has been literally impossible to obtain a decent high speed internetservice.
Time Warner, the only cable company out here providebroadband, apparantly cannot find enough wire to reach my particular apartmentbuilding in Greenpoint, Brooklyn), although they have installed in many ofmy friends & neighbor's apartments!).
Verizon, the company that monopolizes the phone lineshere out East, hooked me up to some of the crappiest wiring that is alsotoo far from "the source"(according to
Earthlink's local server) for effective DSL that runs no faster than a fast dialup. After going through 3 modems, I have still not been able to achieve more than a sporadic 2 hour a day intermittent "sync" light for connection. So here I am, on the iMac Bondi Classic 9.2.2 that I began with on this website, using the internal 56k modem for dial-up on these crappy New York phone lines, typingthis rant to express the frustration I felt in not havinga modern technologicalcommunication even though I'm not living in f***ing St. Paul anymore butNew York f***ing City! It's the little, most obvious day to day run-ins withthe corporations that sell us this American way of living (consuming electronicgadgets and whatchamacallits), yet not providing this modern city with thebasic service we need to enjoy this garbage!
Why, I suspect it would be easier to
buy a handgun in this town than to get Verizonor Time-Warner to hook me up with High-speed internet. Anyway, thankfullyI am leaving on Sunday to go back on the cartoonland circuit, and I'm notcoming back ti;ll October, and then I'm giving New York
ONE MORE CHANCEto live up to it's ridiculously overblown reputation as the greatest cityin the world.
So I'll add new pages and cartoons to this site at cafes in the Middle Westover the next four months when opportunity arises. Thank you, Sincerely,thank you!
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