Archive | December 3rd, 2009

03 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

… or maybe I AM going with FiOS.

TweetWell, 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 [...]

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03 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Suffolk County High School Rankings by total SAT scores

TweetI 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. [...]

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03 December 2009 ~ 1 Comment

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

TweetWell 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 [...]

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