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Dear Comcast,

Please stop advertising about how you've got more HD television* than the "other guy", on stations that you do not carry in HD.

Thank you.

*as long as you count very old on-demand movies, pay-per-view crap, and reruns of recent network TV episodes.

Dear Dish Network,

Please stop advertising about how you carry all the best channels in HD, the channels the "other guy" doesn't carry, on channels that are being broadcast by Comcast in HD.

Thank you.

In the process of mucking around with some of my Google Account settings this morning, I stumbled upon the old Blogger-powered TCZ group blog (unfortunately, the link to the blog itself is currently dead) that saw its heyday from June 2004 through June 2005, and then faded out slowly after that. I'd totally forgotten about most of the posts I made there, including a hilariously out-of-date post from Aug '05 that simply read "I saw regular unleaded for $2.90 a gallon this morning. (several blank lines) Good."

Reading back, it's interesting to see how my writing style has evolved over time and how parts of it now make me wince... especially where I really forced the dryly humorous side of things. I'm going to go through and post some of them here over the next little bit, in part because the old blog is now dead and thus my readership finally out-paces theirs at one-to-zero.

Back in June 2006 I wrote a draft of the following post, but never actually published it... it's still sitting in the Blogger control panel in draft form, over eighteen months later. I've put it into the extended entry here in its entirety, with only minor style revisions.

Watching the football game tonight I saw several commercials for a Human Papilloma Virus vaccine study that's being conducted right now.  The ads go through all the statistics (affects approximately 1 in 2 women, causes cervical cancer, etc...) and so forth.

The bizarre part was the catch phrase they're using in their effort to find study subjects - "pass it on".  After every fact they read off about HPV, a woman's voice says "pass it on".  The website for the study is even http://www.passitonstudy.com/.

Now maybe I'm just confused about the concept of the vaccine, but aren't they actually trying to prevent it from being passed on?