I Was Aiming for Surf & Turf

....but it was not well enough planned. I had the onions, garlic, yellow curry, and coconut oil in the pan. I was planning to add the ground beef that we had in the fridge, but then I remembered the scallops that I had defrosted and were just sitting in there being all 'scallopy' and everything-- bored and aging by the day. I thought, "Aah, a 'surf and turf' approach just might work here. The thing was, I had alteady travelled too far down the beef trail to be able to successfully add anything from the ocean. Oh well. So, in a moment of what should not be called genius, I grabbed them and threw them in the pan. Oops, that was definitely not the right place for scallops. I knew that, but I was stretching, thinking "I need to use these, and who knows, maybe it'll turn out okay." Negative. While the dish tasted okay on the whole, your taste buds could not quite figure out what it wanted to be. I tried to mend the gaffe, but the fix didn't take. One mark for experience; one more file for bin 13.

iTunes movie Streaming to Apple TV Update

A few days ago now I had posted a little piece complaining about the quality of the movie and show streaming via iTunes to Apple TV. Upon further troubleshooting I have discovered that the problem was most likely stemming from a 3rd party vendor issue that iTunes is in partnership with to stream some of it's media offerings. I am a novice at these things and hence cannot be certain. I can say however that I vetted my in-house Wi-Fi system as well as did several Internet speed tests, and talked to one of my ISP's technicians about the issue.
The resultant hypothesis was that the dip in service was most likely due to a 3rd party server that supplies media data through the iTunes store. There you have it. I'm not sure whether I'm right or wrong, but I felt it necessary to correct my implied jab at the seemingly wrong company. In this case that would've been (iTunes) Apple.
The movie we had issues being able to seamlessly watch was 'Salt'(lots of pauses and indefinite load times (with a pretty fast Internet connection (11.65Mbps))). Since then we have watched several other features off of iTunes with not the slightest of issues. Who knows? Any opinions (shade-tree Tech or otherwise)?