by The Editors on June 24, 2008
We finally pulled the plug on Time Warner Cable. We could not continue to justify paying $140 a month for a system that never worked properly (OnDemand especially).
No sooner did we quit cable than we started hearing that AT&T was sending people door-to-door in Carlsbadistan selling their new “100% digitally delivered television,” Internet, and phone service called U-verse. We’ve written about U-verse before and the reviews have not been good.
Today we got the following from a reader who switched to AT&T’s U-verse for about a week, but is now going back to cable:
“AT&T sucks! Hard selling (contracted sales force) Girls roaming the neighborhoods selling the savings of AT&T. . . My whole bundle of services was down for 3 days+ (including the phone). All the techs are nice but it gets down to a unreliable service. So now we are on the Disconnect AT&T program and going back to Time Warner.”
If you’ve signed up for AT&T’s U-verse service, please let us know how it’s going. We’re personally going to just stick with Internet and Apple TV, but there may be others who would like to know what they’re getting into before then go through all the hassles.
by The Editors on June 24, 2008
Carlsbadistan’s Sammy’s Wood Fire Pizza at 5970 Avenida Encinas is holding a fundraiser on Wednesday June 25, 2008 to raise money for the Barefoot Kids Foundation.
This Non-Profit organization exclusively provides new footwear to Kids in Need through their National Distribution Network currently in 27 cities throughout the USA. Childcare organizations such as Boys & Girls Clubs, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Salvation Army and Court Appointed Special Advocates provide Payless ShoeSource shopping cards to underprivileged Kids.
Sammy’s will donate 20% of all dinner bills to the Barefoot Kids. And hopefully, that means the kids will get some new shoes. Have some good chain-restaurant pizza and help a good cause at the same time tomorrow night at Sammy’s.
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by The Editors on June 24, 2008
Carlsbad’s own little green automobile company Aptera has announced that they have hired former “Director of Marketing at Audi of America” Tony Kirton as its Chief Marketing Officer.
Having spent the last three decades successfully implementing and executing marketing and sales strategies for the world’s leading car manufacturers such as BMW, Audi, and Volkswagen, we are very fortunate to bring someone of Tony’s caliber to the team,” said Steve Fambro, co-founder and CEO of Aptera. “His wide-ranging experience coupled with established relationships in key automotive channels will prove invaluable as we prepare to roll our first vehicle off the assembly line this year.”
Welcome to Carlsbadistan, Tony.
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by The Editors on June 23, 2008
Thanks to brake trouble Carlsbadistan’s NASCAR racer Boris Said had a bad day at Infineon Raceway on Sunday. After starting in 14th position, he flipped it and finished in 41st.
Before coming into the season’s first Sprint Cup road race, Said was looking to overturn his unlucky year of racing. But on Lap 3 of the scheduled 110-lap race, the front brakes on Said’s No. 60 7-Eleven No Fear/Slurpee Ford Fusion were starting to fail. . . . “When the brake pedal went to the floor on the third lap, I knew we had a big problem,” explained Said, who qualified 14th. “Our car started the race just as strong as we were in practice yesterday. But a component failure cut our day short.”
Said’s next race will be a 400 miler in Daytona. We hope things go better there.
[Link: Motorsport.com]
by The Editors on June 21, 2008
Work has finally begun on the parking pay station at the Tamarack Surf Beach parking lot that we first reported on November 17, 2007 when the California State Parks and Rec department first filed to build “an automated fee collection device in the Tamarack day use lot.”
Though we had hoped that the City of Carlsbad would work something out with the State of California it looks like that plan failed. Paying $8 for beach parking in Carlsbad won’t be long now.
Read what Carlsbad resident Richard Riehl thinks about this in his “freelance” North County Times column.
by The Editors on June 21, 2008
If you’d forgotten. Today is officially world-wide Go Skateboarding Day.
If you see someone on a skateboard (even if they’re rolling where they shouldn’t) congratulate them for celebrating a world wide holiday. And if you own a skateboard (no matter how old it is) get out and ride it. Or, you could even stop by the Carlsbad Skatepark at the Orion Avenue Safety Center and share the love.
[Link: Go Skateboarding Day]
by The Editors on June 21, 2008
Carlsbadistan’s NASCAR driver Boris Said Qualified Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Infineon Raceway by playing it safe according to a story on Motorsport.com.
Said’s less-than-full-throttle run was the 14th fastest and he will start the road course event from outside of Row 7. His No. 60 7-Eleven No Fear/Slurpee Ford Fusion recorded a time and speed of 78.568 seconds at 91.182 miles per hour. Kasey Kahne won the pole with a speed of 92.153.
“I stuck to our game plan and I’m glad I did,” offered Said. “I’m a racer and I want to go fast. That’s why it’s mentally difficult when you’re only going 75-80 percent and know you have a car that can challenge for a front row spot. When you’re one of the go or go home teams, you just can’t take a chance by going full throttle.”
Now we can watch Boris go full-throttle on Sunday at 12:30 PM on TNT.
[Link: Motorsports.com]
by The Editors on June 21, 2008
by The Editors on June 20, 2008
Amazing how this stuff can sneak up on us. Tonight (June 20, 2008) from 6 to 8 PM, on ball field number 1 of Stagecoach Park “contemporary blues” singer Debbie Davies launches the new summer season of Carlsbad’s Jazz in The Park.
Davies cut her teeth playing in blues and rock ‘n roll bands in the San Francisco Bay area before returning to Los Angeles in 1984, where she landed the lead guitar spot in Maggie Mayall and the Cadillacs, an all-female band led by wife of British blues pioneer, John Mayall. . . . Since 1993, Debbie has produced nine solo recordings and two collaborative CD’s, one with guitarists Tab Benoit and Kenny Neal, and another with guitarists Anson Funderburgh and Otis Grand. . . . in 1997 [Davies] won the award for Best Contemporary Female Blues Artist. She is nominated yet again in this category for 2008.
Pack up the picnic and roll out to Stagecoach for an evening of fine blues guitar in a big park.
[Link: Jazz in The Park]
by The Editors on June 20, 2008
In what has to be one of the biggest culture clashes in sport NASCAR hits the wine country this weekend when the Sprint Cup hits the Infineon Raceway.
In addition to the traditional left hand turns Infineon also be right hand turns and changes in elevation. All of this is good from Carlsbadistan’s own NASCAR driver Boris Said if he can qualify in today’s qualification runs.
Sonoma also gives fans of Boris Said, the so-called “Said Heads,” another chance to cheer the Carlsbad driver and road-course specialist with the mop of curly hair. . . .Said has four top-10 finishes in eight starts at Sonoma. But he doesn’t have enough points this season to automatically start in Sunday’s 43-car field, so he’ll have to qualify his No. 60 Ford today.
If Boris makes it in the race we might even watch it on TNT at 12:30 PM on Sunday.
[Link: LA Times]
We finally pulled the plug on Time Warner Cable. We could not continue to justify paying $140 a month for a system that never worked properly (OnDemand especially).
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