Carried Away

I Wuz Robbed!

My triple-play (phone, cable, high speed internet) bill this month from RCN:

High-Speed Cable, including sales tax & cable modem rental -- $43.16;
Basic Cable TV, including various taxes & HDTV converter box rental -- $57.85; and
Telephone, including various taxes and fees (no long distance minutes) -- $29.53.

Totaling $130.54.  What do I get rid of?

I'm thinking of getting rid of the telephone.  Maybe going with Gizmo for $35 per year plus 1 cent per minute for outgoing calls.  No 911 service through Gizmo, though I could use my cell phone for that.  Or I could wait until Google gives it all to us for free.

I could get rid of cable TV, but I watch a lot of sports during the summer and fall.  Maybe I'll try to dig out that antenna again.

Bigelow Aerospace Jobs Open

While surfing Bigelow Aerospace's web site this morning, I noted that the jobs page has been updated extensively again.  Bigelow has a big blurb in bold about wanting to hire recent engineering grads.  No full-time job experience is required, so if you fit the bill, this is a good opportunity to get in on the ground floor with a company doing some of the most exciting work in aerospace with your work making it to space on short order.  These opportunities are rare in aerospace, unfortunately.

Also of note is that Bigelow has posted a job description for a web designer.  Bigelow's web site looks amateurish, but it seems like a slam dunk to use all of the good space artwork that Bigelow has commissioned in order to make a polished web site.  If you are looking for good web design work, you would be doing all of us fanboys a favor by taking on the assignment.