Perfect (mis)Timing

Last week I broke down and decided to pay $15 for access to TimesSelect. Today, the New York Times eliminated the program and made the newspapers columnists and archive free!

They had FINALLY worn me down. I’m the last one to splurge on a new item. I’ve got a television set from 1984 (the most amazing Hitachi. I doubt it will ever die and the picture is great). When I buy something, the trend has passed, the item is trustworthy, it’s future viability certain. So, shockingly, I was the customer the Times always wanted. The last curmudgeon to fall down.

TimesSelect was always an awful idea. I gave in because I needed an article from the archives and I could expense the cost.

I guess they blew it, because if I signed up who knows how many thrifty folks like myself were about to emerge from the scenery.

This makes me a two-time loser. Two weeks after I bought the second generation ipod, Apple produced one with a color screen! Do you have any idea how horrible that was? And they offered a lousy discount store credit to take back the new “old” player. Now TimesSelect. I hope that, at least this time, I get my money back.