Interesting article in todays New York Times about Ricky Jay and his traveling oddity show..
In his new book, "Extraordinary Exhibitions," Ricky Jay, master conjurer and historian of show business, has assembled such a congress of marvels, wonders, prodigies and anomalies as Barnum himself would have been proud to present. See Mathew Buchinger, who despite being born without hands or legs is a gifted calligraphist, magician, musician, swordsman and bowler. Behold Daniel Wildman, the equestrian apiarist, who rides standing on a horse while swarms of docile bees cover his face. Gasp as Giuseppe de Rossi separates a steer's head from its body, then rejoins them.
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Remember Verizon, you know, the phone company? Specifically, the company that lost millions of customers the past couple of years due to the popularity of VoIP.
Well, I think Verizon has quietly been plotting to earn your business back, and possibly break the back of a few cable and satellite companies in the process. They have remained amazingly quiet as customer after customer converted to internet calling, almost as if they resigned themselves to their fate, or was it that they had the proverbial ace-up-the-sleeve, and was lurking in the background, waiting on the moment...
What moment?
The FTTP moment..
FTTP, fiber to the premises, is now being offered in select markets nationwide. After years of converting all their copper cable to fiber cable, Verizon is now ready to pump a new standard of services into YOUR home.. I'm not sure they were ready to unwrap FTTP in 2005, but I think they felt an urgency to stop the bleeding.
FTTP will not compete with broadband or cable... it will blow them out of the water. With the ability to offer download speeds based largely on what you're willing to pay, FTTP offers 5 meg speed for about thirty-five dollars and a blazing 15 megs for about ten dollars more - that's three times faster than the fastest cable.
Verizon can sell you 100 megs of download power - twenty times faster than any of their competitors..
Imagine downloading a full-length movie from Movielink in two minutes, without any loss of image quality..
Wow.. but is there a catch? Of course there's a catch.. there's always a catch..
You have to subscribe to Verizon long-distance service!
Ta-Da! The plot thickens.....
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Will someone solve this dumb-ass little game fer me - so's I can get's on wit my life?
The game is quite simple. Only a basic understanding of math is required and an open and creative mind. The game can be used as an example of how different people look at the world differently, and how these different ways of looking can yield different answers. In "Petals Around the Rose" there is always one correct answer. The problem is how we define the problem.
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