h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

When this broadband's working it is quite shifty: that only took about five minutes!

You got the full 20 meg connection?

Loads of my pals who were previously with Telewest are really annoyed at Virgins fair usage policy.

Often getting only dialup speeds at peak times which they say seem to be about 50% of the time.

Yeah, it's the 20 meg. The fair use policy does suck arse. There's a reason the top 3% of users pay for the most expensive packages: that reason isn't so we can get throttled while cheapskates check their emails!



Fortunately uTorrent's scheduler is pretty good at keeping things running smoothly.

Well, maybe you should check your emails occasionally.

Emails read, replied to.

Roymondo! I need your help... urgently...! Its hot... I don't 'like' hot... and I'm seriously considering getting dressed and goign to the guitar shop with the heat.... which frazzles my brian.... and the guitars in the guitar shop, I feel I have a very* low chance of being able to go into the shop, try and play a guitar, and not leave without handing them my credit card! how can I stop myself? Which reminds me... if*... I mean when.. no* I mean if* I get a new guitar... you still intersted in my Washburn tonewood? (I'm seriously running out of guitar hanging/standing space) hoh nos I can feel 'that'* 'feeling'... my resistance is lowering
At least virgin seems to be runing at somethign above dialup speed thus far today

Yes. Yes I am (is that the widdly one?)

I've two wiggly ones... (Floyd rose type trems)...
The Yamaha pacifica (which has been customised with a path pro pickup at the neck position,a dn a hot rods//rails? pick up in the middle position, with the origional pick up it would have had in the bridge position), still has the origional floyd rose stylee trem is came with, nice low action......
The washburn tonewood, not such a good action probably, though it might be possible to get it better a pseudo floyd rose trem, which is a quick one for putting new strings on as they thread through from the bridge rahter than having to be locked in place; despite which it is set up pretty well now thanks to a firend on the bridge sid eof things so it holds intination and tuning pretty well still has the locking doobrys on both guitars at the headstock end The washburn is all origional electronics I think/pickups haven't been changed, its the one with the machine heads the wrong way round as if it was a left handed guitar (very annoying actually for baning them on things but all works well few dints in the bodywork on that, which is a natural wood type finish... actually think it is just hte plain wood of the body probably stained or just linseeded
So.
In your profesional opinion, you think I should get up off my arse and go to the guitar shop? I don't need another guitar though oh. hang on. I'm wrong arn'tI?
I really really do* need another guitar. anotehr guitar is exactly* what I really do absolutely need even if it is a months wages moreorless

Aha, it is the Nuno isn't it? Sounds like the Nuno.

Everybody always needs another guitar.

Yeh, its the nuno one from memory, the full thing written on the headstock is 'washburn tonewood, mercuary series' not relaly sure what the mercuary series bit refers too though I got it second hand ... oo a fair few years ago now... must have been when I was at uni.... probably 98 or 99 I think yeh, possibly* 97 but I think later than that, and not in my last year so not as late as 2000 used it a couple of years, then the trem bust, and it put it in a case and left it the cupbaord, and got round to fixing it and buying and fitting a new trem... oo last year I think ; problem was coudln't get an exact replacemnt trem, and so I just kinda ignored it for a long while... actually the origional trem it had on it was pretty shite.... didn't hold the intination/tuning well, so the new one is probably an improvement on that

Your not helping are you?
y ho. off to spend 800 quid I go

Thanks. I sent you a sample now, let me know if it's any better and if I should get on with it or not.