New Stealth Blog

Coworkers went wild over “Inf in Revolt”–so much so that I didn’t have a moment’s peace when posting there. Also, a few students found it and began following it. Weirdness! (It’s been retired even though it says hiatus.) Also, the truth is that I’m kinda sick of all the citing of information. Save it for the research papers, amiright? I just want to flout outmoded copyright laws.

I’ll be sending out the link to my new stealth blog soon.

Cancellation

I just canceled my internet connection, effective today. The reasons are the same old, so I won’t bore you with any extended discussion on that account.

What was sort of interesting was how desperate Verizon’s cancellation sales person was to keep me as a customer; she offered me so many deals it made my head spin. The final one seemed rather good (huge price cut, bump up to a faster service, free service ’til the end of the year, free in-home technical support for a year), so if you don’t think you’re getting a good deal with your ISP get on the horn and tell them you’re canceling because of a poor connection and overly-expensive rate.

I think the more reasons you give for canceling sweetens their offer. The fact that I had a laptop and said I’d go to coffee shops and libraries for free access seemed to be factors that resulted in increasingly lucrative deals. Also, the longer I held out the better the offers became.

From now on I’ll be flying under the radar on one of my neighbor’s connection and covertly mooching at Crazy Mocha (sans purchases, of course). I’ll be the internet version of a freegan (in an economical, not silly, way).