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Aquateen HungerForce

Browsing through our TiVo Suggestions tonight, this one caught my eye. I'm not sure why 1, but TiVo thought we would like a show called Aquateen Hungerforce. It's a cartoon about a bunch of talking fast food items. Weird. 1. It's...
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A Wii bit of madness

I got a kick out of this. A sizable group of people camping outside the Best Buy in Almaden, waiting for the Wii. One group of guys had a tent with a projector and a Nintendo and were playing games to pass the time....
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Rear-ended

On Saturday, at around 4:35 pm, we were on University Ave. in Palo Alto between High St. and Emerson St. when I saw a parking space open up. I slowed down and came to a stop and a few seconds later, the car behind us slammed into...
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Two CableCARDs – NOT

Looks like I spoke too soon. I could've sworn that we had each of the two tuners on a different HBO channel while the cable guy was here. Well, a few hours later, I could get tuner 2 to work with regular network channels but not...
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Two CableCARDs

The Comcast guy just came by and swapped out our non-working CableCARD. He was probably here less than 10 minutes and now we have two working tuners that have access to all our channels. This is great! No more futzing around with...
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links for 2006-11-17

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