Archive for December 3rd, 2009

… or maybe I AM going with FiOS.

Posted by evan in Uncategorized on December 3, 2009

Well, this was unexpected. Verizon is really playing hardball with pricing. When I called this morning to cancel my install appointment, Verizon countered and they offered an extra $30/month discount. I asked for an extra STB for free (I figured all they can do is say no) and while the rep said she couldn’t do that, she did increase the credit to $40/month which would more than cover the cost of the 2nd box. So as of this moment, I’m on for FiOS tomorrow.

Ain’t competition great?

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Suffolk County High School Rankings by total SAT scores

Posted by evan in Uncategorized on December 3, 2009

I just found this cool site which has SAT scores for high schools all over NYS, but for me the sorting didn’t work, so I copied the stuff into Excel and sorted by total score (and added the % columns). The data are supposedly from the NYS Department of Education for the 2007 graduating class. Found the link via the Long Island City-Data.com forums. Rather than trying to HTMLify the table and make it work inside WordPress, I just decided to print it to PDF, but the summary is below.

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Oops… sorry FiOS, I’m sticking with Cablevision.

Posted by evan in Uncategorized on December 3, 2009

Well that didn’t take long. I got a call this afternoon from the same Cablevision rep I spoke with to talk about cancelling after I signed up for FiOS. Apparently they received Verizon’s request to port my number over and learned I wasn’t kidding when I said I was going to move to FiOS. And good news! I can now qualify for the Optimum Triple Play again!

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