PHANTOM'S FINAL WORD Archives

Boy Did I Get a Wrong Number!

By The Phantom – That was the name of this Bob Hope flick of the mid-’60s, in which Bob calls his wife on the phone, but accidentally gets a French movie star who has escaped to the U.S. As only Hope can do it, one thing leads to another and Hope finds himself in a hilarious pickle.

Now Where Was I? (Part 2)

Phantom – Guess I’d better find another industry to haunt if the phantom bosses decide to put me back into the programming business. Lemme think: How did I pull off the switch from that French opera house gig to this cable gig?

That What Brought Us

By The Phantom – Don’t believe me about the polarization thing? Hold a pair of polarized sunglasses backwards over one eye and rotate them 90 degrees while watching an LCD screen.

Is There a Contortionist in the House?

By The Phantom — The company found that productivity in many cases went up, not down as many bosses had feared. Employees learned the joy of working in PJs.

A Repeat

By The Phantom — Fast forward a century, we are in a pandemic, a divisive political season, and are dealing with a rapidly-changing technology landscape brought about by a technology for interconnecting computers, televisions, and other appliances not imagined earlier in our lifetimes.

King of the Hill

By The Phantom — HFC technology as knocking twisted pair off the hill, but you’d be making a fatal mistake if you thought that we can stay on the hill forever

Artificial What???

By The Phantom — So, we keep hearing all this stuff about artificial intelligence (AI). Here we are, talking about artificial intelligence, and we haven’t gotten the real thing figured out yet.

Smarty Town

By The Phantom — So, smart cities are all the rage today, huh? Now just what does that mean? I didn’t think cities were animate objects that could have a characteristic like “smart.”

Remembering TV Technology

By The Phantom — There was an event of significance to our beloved industry that occurred last summer, the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing of Apollo 11. Heck, we weren’t even haunting the cable TV industry back then.

What is Wrong With Me?

By The Phantom — I, Phanty, started to say something last time, but ran out of space just as I was getting to the point. Now if I can just remember the point I was trying to make, I’ll continue this month and see if I can make said point.