by RadialMonster | Apr 9, 2018 | General
While a customer of CenturyLink I started to realize they enjoy wasting money on marketing materials. I began collecting the materials, so here’s a compilation similar to my previous Election 2016 Political Ads posting. I’m no longer a CenturyLink customer and the marketing materials seem to have stopped. I want to clear some space so it’s time for the results.
66 large flyers promoting Prism TV service.
I thought it would be interesting to compare the pricing and services offered across the different marketing materials. (Preferred plans included Showtime and Starz)
Service Name: Essential
Channels: 150+
HD Channels: 100+
Set Top Box: 9.99 per month
Whole-Home DVR: Included
Monthly Price: $70
Service Name: Essential
Channels: 150+
HD Channels: 100+
Set Top Box: 9.99 per month
Whole-Home DVR: Included
Monthly Price: $62
Service Name: Essential
Channels: 150+
HD Channels: 100+
Set Top Box: 9.99 per month
Whole-Home DVR: $9.99 / $11.99 HD per month
Monthly Price: $40
Service Name: Preferred
Channels: 300+
HD Channels: Tons (unspecified additional monthly fee)
Set Top Box: 9.99 per month
Whole-Home DVR: $9.99 / $11.99 HD per month
Monthly Price: $55
Service Name: Essential
Channels: 140+
HD Channels: Doesn’t say it includes any or is available for upgrade
Set Top Box: 9.99 per month
Whole-Home DVR: $9.99 / $11.99 HD per month
Monthly Price: $40
Service Name: Essential
Channels: 140+
HD Channels: Doesn’t say it includes any or is available for upgrade
Set Top Box: 9.99 per month
Whole-Home DVR: $9.99 / $11.99 HD per month
Monthly Price: $40
Service Name: Preferred
Channels: 290+
HD Channels: Free HD for 12 months
Set Top Box: 9.99 per month
Whole-Home DVR: Free for 1 year, $9.99 / $11.99 HD per month after
Monthly Price: Doesn’t say, but you get a $200 gift card
Service Name: Essential
Channels: 140+
HD Channels: 210+
Set Top Box: 9.99 per month
Whole-Home DVR: $9.99 / $11.99 HD per month
Monthly Price: $49.99 and you get a $50 gift card
2 large flyers promoting Smart Home service.
7 large flyers promoting high speed internet service (10mbps for $20 a month)
12 letters promoting auto bill pay.
9 letters offering a free account review.
2 letters promoting Smart Home service.
by RadialMonster | Nov 15, 2016 | General
This year, I collected all the political ads that were in my mailbox. I live in North Carolina, and am registered Independent. Check out my analysis of the numerous flyers in my mailbox this election season.
First up is an complete picture of all of the ads.
Lets get into some more detail.
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by RadialMonster | Nov 9, 2016 | General
Shakema D (11/9/2016, 8:58:08 PM): Welcome to Panasonic Live Chat!
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Me (11/9/2016, 8:59:22 PM): I have a brand new DMC-GX85
Me (11/9/2016, 8:59:56 PM): I have a message on the screen that To begin charging, turn off the camera.
Me (11/9/2016, 9:00:09 PM): I was told you could operate this camera and charge it at the same time
Me (11/9/2016, 9:01:21 PM): to begin charging turn the camera off
Shakema D (11/9/2016, 9:01:51 PM): I apologize for any inconveniences and I will be happy to assist you with this today.
Shakema D (11/9/2016, 9:02:47 PM): Please
Shakema D (11/9/2016, 9:03:09 PM): I apologize for the above error.
Shakema D (11/9/2016, 9:03:47 PM): It is recommended that you allow your unit to be fully charged at first use.
Me (11/9/2016, 9:04:00 PM): ok,and then after that?
Me (11/9/2016, 9:04:06 PM): can i operate it and charge it at the same time?
Shakema D (11/9/2016, 9:05:21 PM): I would not recommend that you do that.
Me (11/9/2016, 9:05:33 PM): is it possible or not?
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Me (11/9/2016, 9:06:35 PM): that doesnt answer my question
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by RadialMonster | Oct 8, 2014 | General
Sometime around maybe the year 2000, my then girlfriend’s dog had some puppies, and we kept one. She named her Murray, and Murray stuck around longer than the girlfriend. She’s stuck around longer than any other girlfriend, being a very loyal companion. Today, Murray passed away.
by RadialMonster | Sep 22, 2014 | General
1 year ago today I arrived in in Lac La Biche, Alberta Canada. Which is about here:
by RadialMonster | Sep 2, 2014 | General
6 years since I got married. About 6 months since I’ve been divorced. Just haven’t had the energy to write about it. But I need to write a little something now, because I need to transition this to my next.
Writing can be my therapy. I’ve done it for years. I have stuff posted here from 20 years ago. 20 years? Am I that old? Hm.. I was about 17 then. Did computers even exist then? Not sure when I started writing exactly, but it was in English class in high school. There was a writing contest announced for the school. And I remember I had pretty much never written anything, but I had an active imagination, and a good friend who wrote, so I felt I should give it a try. I did, I wrote 2 short stories. Only one was supposed to be entered, but my teacher liked both of mine so much she entered them both. I won the school. My stories went up to the County level and was compared to the winners in each of our other counties schools. I won that too. So I got sent to the state level. Went to some fancy building in Raleigh, NC and sat in a room with other kids who would write on the spot something for the final contest. But, it wasn’t that I could write anything. I didn’t realize this going in, but they gave a specific topic, and I had to write about that. And it was about something out out of a popular book, my thoughts on the subject. I don’t like to read books, and I didn’t care anything about the subject, so I gave it a half assed shot and just tried to throw my creative ideas in where I could. Failed miserably.
Anyway, didn’t discourage me. Kept writing, moved into poetry, with the occasional story. Eventually moved to writing here in my blog. Before blogs were blogs. It was just my journal. Those were my creative days, that I miss so much. Lately I write more about how much I miss writing than I do writing anything else. In fact, lately I haven’t written anything at all. Other than for work, which I write a lot of communications every day. I mean creative writing.
Being in love prompted a lot of my writing. Falling out of love was some, and lack of any love was a lot too. It’s easy to write about love. Hard to write about failure of it. For about a year and a half now I’ve considered how to write about the last failure. Still, no clue where to begin.
Why should I even do it? The pain caused isn’t even worthy of the text on this page. I can’t possibly articulate such strong feelings in letters, it’s a blur of unlimited potential. I’m very symbolic and sometimes things, words, pictures, feelings seem to mean more to me that others. Eh, everyone sees what they see.
I’ve moved on. I have, forcibly, but also willingly with who I hope is the right person. So going forward, I’ll try to post about my next in posts after this one. And posts about the previous I’ll try to keep in this posting and update it when I write more. I need to document it for my own therapy. For now sleep.
