AT&T’s TV offering is called U-Verse. I just now learned the details of it.
It’s H.264 MPEG-4 video over a multicast IP Fiber Optic network. No one else is doing this. Not even Verizon with FIOS. This sounds super-cool and since detractors say it’s impossible to scale, I say go with it, at&t. I doubt I’ll subscribe to pay tv anytime in the near future, but this is the way to go. Keep on truckin, SBC … I mean AT&T.
From area code 78666 in San Marcos, to the divided Hell-Way of Austin …
Passing just east of the residences of David Koresh and George Bush …
Then past the city that Debbie Did and another that got blown up …
All the way up to the haven of public radio and collapsing bridges …
May the holy power of US Interstate 35 grand you peace and joy this Christmas Season.
Having just completed a roundtrip via two very new airports, I wondered about what they had replaced.
This Old Terminals site is garish, but it has rare information about abandoned and demolished airports. That includes the old Austin Mueller, and Denver Stapleton airports that I didn’t patronize (although I must have used Stapleton in 1992).
It seems the Control Tower is often the only building preserved at an abandoned airport. I will have to go find the old one in Austin. In Denver, Holland and I got a free night on United’s dime at a hotel near the old Stapleton Airport. I don’t think there are any hotels actually at the new Denver International Airport and even several miles towards town, there is only an outpost of budget hotels and chain restaurants surrounded by empty land near the highway. Maybe that’s what you get for building the third largest airport by land area in the world. Third after King Fahd airport in Saudi Arabia where they have too much empty land to begin with, and the boondoggle Montréal-Mirabel in Quebec.
Supposedly new urbanist, the Stapleton redevelopment across the street mostly looked like a lot of strip malls. I felt bad for all the hotels that served airport passengers but now were not quite at the airport and not quite anywhere in town either.
“Driver, take me to the DoubleTree near the Panda Express and Best Buy!”
