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Sat around waiting for AT+T guy to come and install U-Verse. Time window was 1-3P, he showed up at 345p, after I finally called to see where the hell he was. He didn't finish until 715p. I missed happy hour with friends and half a dinner date with my wife and another couple. And he couldn't get the new gateway to work with my old Linksys router.

Yes, the old router would be kinda nice to keep since I have 2 of them on either side of the house connected over the home electrical wiring. I'll have to see if the new one's wifi signal will reach that far. Otherwise, it might be Airport Extreme time.

Happily, the internet speed is very good (10-11 MBs down/2-3 MBs up). And dinner was great (Filet - grilled Medium Rare - and topped with goat cheese, atop creamy polenta and blanched baby spinach.) I was half way through it when I thought, 'I should take a pic!' Oh well. Still learning.

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Do you really say 'shall we go for some curries?' when you go out to eat?

Pretty much. You are never more than a short walk or 5 minute drive from an indian restaurant. There are 1000 of them in London alone, and 8000 in the UK . That equates to one indian restaurant for every 7000 of the UK population - which is exceptionally high. The corresponding number of indian restaurants for for the US would 37,000. It is 7 times the number of McDonalds in the UK. We certainly eat indian food once a week or so, although we usually either cook it ourself or have one delivered - there are five restaurants in Abingdon (population 25,000) that deliver to your door. At the weekend you often have to book in order to get a table.

I buy my ingredients from the Eastern and Continental store in Cowley, which is where the restaurants buy their stuff Shopping on Oxford's Cowley Road

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You shouldn't have said that, now I'm likely to seek instruction from you. :)

Aside from the large number of small caps (49 I think) it is pretty easy to swap them out. There are also only two values used in the DAC, large 2200uf caps in the PSU and small (10uf?) elsewhere.

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Pretty much. You are never more than a short walk or 5 minute drive from an indian restaurant.

I buy my ingredients from the Eastern and Continental store in Cowley, which is where the restaurants buy their stuff Shopping on Oxford's Cowley Road

Wow, that's a lot of Indian restaurants! They're available here, but you have to make an effort. But would you say 'go for curries' before you'd say 'go for some Indian food'?

To be fair, it can be a major pain in the ass to get a lot of old linksys routers to even work at all.

Heh. I could probably use an upgrade. But I did get it working this AM after a good night's sleep. Needed to plug the gateway into the network input, not the internet input. Duh. But AT&T guy didn't think of it, and neither did his tech support guy. He left me contact info for their network specialists, but said they'd charge me. Thanks, dude! And the new gateway actually reaches the whole house anyway. So I'm good for now. :)

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Wow, that's a lot of Indian restaurants! They're available here, but you have to make an effort. But would you say 'go for curries' before you'd say 'go for some Indian food'?

The most common way of saying it is "Do you fancy going out for a curry?", or "Do you fancy an Indian take-away". Most restaurants in the UK are either Pakistani or Bangladeshi - so Northern India. They have adapted true cuisine for Western taste, and invented a few new ones, but that is fine. We were on holiday earlier this year for two weeks in India, and true Indian food is different and equally delicious.

Of course most Indians are vegetarians - mainly because they are Hindu, and because meat is rare and risky (food poinsoning). There are specialist vegetarian restaurants in places with really big Indian populations like Birmingham, and they are worth seeking out.

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Set up the Apple TV, "she who must be obeyed" is happily watching one of the romantic comedies flick. I also swapped the cable box for one that outputs via HDMI so the quality picture has improved considerably over the component video red/green/blue I was using. Wife is happy ... it is all good.

I have also been listening to the HE-6 in Fang's loan program. So far they have sounded best out of the vintage Marantz 2220 receiver.

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The mahi mahi was incredible, as always. Isn't it strange how the simplest little hole in the wall places always have the best food? This place is nothing more than a hut with a zinc roof and it's only open on weekend nights, but the fish they fry comes straight from the sea, usually the same day, and even though it's carry out only, they have to keep raising their prices to keep the crowds away. The lady who owns the place told me the other day, "We're as big and busy as we'll ever want to be!"

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What TV?

Well although I may be a cinemaphile, I'm no videophile. Only bought because increasingly getting comments from friends and having to go over to their pads for everything. So took advantage of the following sale this weekend (pickup). Not LED, but price is right and decent picture...

LG 42" 120Hz 1080p LCD HDTV - $499 - dealmac.com

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