Bell is ass raping Grandmas

Rogers is too.

For a princely sum of ~$25/mo you can get a whopping 2 (that’s TWO) Gigabytes worth of data to download from the Internet. Like omg, a whole 2 gigs? Really? Cuz that’s, like, half of my little USB stick.

Who’s going to pay for such a crappy plan? Grandmas, who just want to share some photos with their grandkids. And what happens when the kids send Grandma a digital video they made for her birthday? BAM! Grandma has to pay extra PER Gig over the measly 2 GBs.

And now Bell wants to limit the usage of all the small ISPs that buy service from Bell AND throttle traffic when there’s no need? FUCK YOU BELL. The only reason you have this monopoly is because of your infrastructure. Your infrastructure was built with taxpayer money. So fucking lay off the other ISPs, do something real to grow your business, and stop ass raping your customers!

I particularly liked one person’s comment: “A box of expired cereal can run that company better.” Amen.

P.S. Don’t even get me started on 15cents for incoming text messages!

What to get your Mom for her birthday

Ever had the dilemma of not know what present to get? Isn’t it even harder when it’s your Mom? Well, in this day and age, just type your query into Google, and surely you’ll be blasted with lists of thoughtful, useful gifts to delight Mom. Surely.

After endless handmade chocolates and birthstone jewelry, there’s this little nugget: a solar-powered mystic garden gnome. Yep, you read that right. “Darling during the day, enchanting at night. Solar panel lights up the toadstool inside the magic ball at dusk.” Whew! Another birthday successfully dodged. And i’m covered for at least Christmas and Mother’s Day with the Solar Hiking Gnome, and Solar Cottage Toad Abode. Or should I get the Dyson hand vacuum instead?