Two years ago I canceled my cable TV subscription and never regretted it, and you should consider doing it too, for the following eight reasons:

1. Cable is too expensive. At $60-$100 per month, depending on what you subscribe to, that money can be put to better use — and I don’t mean on something other than entertainment. With this budget at your discretion each month, subscribe to Netflix ($10-$30), go to the movie theater ($20-$40) and have enough left over to buy/rent a TV show or movies from iTunes, Amazon or the local video store. Sure, you can’t get everything that’s on TV that way, but once you shut off access to cable, you soon forget about what you might have had if you had it, and focus on enjoying the shows you do have access to.

A new DeLorean may be in the works, which appears to be based on the Saturn Sky / Pontiac Solstice two-seater made by General Motors. It’s not clear if the car will be all stainless steel, like it’s predecessor, or just painted silver.

The DeLorean, of course, was the time travel vehicle in Back to the Future, and a new version of the car ripens the franchise for a remake. Fans of the movies would likely go ballistic, so you do the only thing you can do: make it a television series.

Here’s the pitch: It’s Quantum Leap in a new model DeLorean, except the hero chooses where back in time (or the future) to go. Instead of jumping into the body of the person who the main character has to “fix,” he takes that person in present day back (or forward) through time in order to influence their choices in the past (or present). Themes of free will and the many nuances that show how one’s choices and actions leads to specific consequences in life would be common among the episodes.

How about this to replace the failing Knight Rider revival over at NBC? Hire some Star Trek: The Next Generation writers to get things going and it’ll be a hit.

Surfing the iPhone app store while at lunch today (@SlicesNYPizza) brought me to Wordpress’s mobile app. A few taps of the finger later I am writing this post between bites of semi-spicy chicken wings, inadvertantly smearing hot sauce all over the display of my phone.

Test blog post here!