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Fatty - I am doing the $10 entrance fee AND $20 to the pot.

Too late to join? I will jump in if it is not too late - plus I will toss an extra $20 in the pot. Height - 5'11" Weight - 230 Desired Weight - 180 Last year I did the Body For Life program by myself and went from 279 to 214, then golf season started and the workouts stopped, while the beer drinking started. I put back on 16 pounds and need to get rid of it - my 20-year reunion is coming up this August!!

What we have here - is a wonderful system that is 100% stable and reliable. Blue Gaming case - I cannot remember who made it and it does not say (only the best leave their name off). I believe it is an Aspire case - Removable sides - Main side is one large clear window with fan - Front USB/Mic/Headphone Jacks - This is a very good case that has cooled my system very well Aspire 500w gaming power supply - This is a newer power supply with clear case and neon lights inside with fluorescent green wrapping on all the cables AMD 3700 + Barton CPU - Great CPU - NEVER OVERCLOCKED!! Zalman CPU Cooler - CNPS7700 - This is the huge Zalman copper cooler that keeps the CPU ice cold 2GB RAM - I have another 2 I will ship with it but they are not matched to the first 2GB GeForce 6800GT 256MB - Great card, ran every game I owned with no problem SoundBlaster Audigy ZS - Great sound card, never a problem DVD Drives - DVD-RW Drive - DVD-R Drive Floppy Drive Windows XP - Home Edition - original box and packaging Microsoft Plus for XP - Everyone needs a copy of this!! NO HARD DRIVE RIGHT NOW!! - I can get one, load up Windows and ship it but the price goes up slightly - I put both drives in my new PC This has been a great PC and I am only selling it because I finally spent a crapload of money on my new one. I can put in a 15" LCD Monitor as well if someone wants one, price TBD I would love to get $1000 but that is never going to happen - so toss me an offer, I am really looking in the $450+ area + shipping (I will meet in the mid-michigan area if you want local pickup). If it is sold and paid for before Sunday I will cut someone a better deal (need money for my golf trip to Myrtle Beach next week haha). I will also throw in some various cables, fans, other stuff that you will find useful hopefully and take off my hands.

Alright - the sob store. We were in LA on vacation and due to the flight times we had to take the redeye back home. My oldest (9), dropped her DS and Ipod in the back of the seat before she went to sleep. When she woke up 3 hours later, grumpier than ZD at a Democratic Convention, she never looked in the seatback pocket. Myself and her mother both were tired and grumpy and did not look either. Spirit has not had it turned in yet - we both feel bad because we should have been checking for her since it was 4:30am - so we are going to get another before Christmas and surprise her. Anyone have one for sale? Any color - I am also looking for the Nintendogs game. Thanks, Soul

Yup - back up and my local store had 1 so I bought it!! YAY!! I almost bought the other one they had left just for resale but my wife would have killed me.

Well said Playaa - The Wii did exactly what they planned - they captured the casuals and families. Having kids in elementary school I do not know one child that is not yammering at their parents for a Wii and a DS. Will Nintendo capture the hard core gamers? Nope - but that is not the intent. It is a gamer for people who do not play video games as their commercials stated. I know many families with a Wii and many, many more who are anxious to get one. This is the market to keep them going. The hard-core gaming market is covered and , in my opinion, not as large an area for sales as what the Wii has opened up. Heck - look at the Wii being used in retirement homes, physical rehab facilities and other places of business. My wife's company took one to a sales conference and had every vendor at their booth playing the Wii at one point or another. You would never get that with the 360 or PS3. Plus the games are more tailored to the family and kids and MUCH more friendly. Compare Mario Galaxies with Assassins Creed and see which one you would let your kids play... Most folks on here lean to the hard-core side of gaming so I can understand why the Wii would not appeal to many....low blood/gore/action. But the number posted above from nexgen show how easily the Wii is killing the competition.

GAH!!!! Sold out already. I saw they had them and waited a couple hours to buy and they are already gone.

Lower release amounts keeps the demand high - if they had released enough for everyone when it came out it would not be such a hot item and still wanted by so many folks. I think this is the best move Nintendo has done to move to the forefront of the console marketplace - they have pretty much destroyed the 360 and PS3 in terms of desirability, hotness and just plain fun. I still get a chuckle out of the folks who paid $3,000+ on Ebay the first couple weeks for the PS3 when it came out.

Alright folks - here is one of my newer favorite authors. He writes the Dresden Books which is now a mediocre Sci-Fi series - but the books are GREAT. Start with the first book - Storm Front - it is a great book and then follow the series. I was sucked into these VERY fast. Then, when you are ready for a little fantasy, switch to his Codex Alera series. This is possibly one of the best fantasy series I have ever read - absolutely engaging and entertaining from start to finish.

Hey guys - good to see this section is still alive haha. I have read Robin Hobb - I liked the Liveship traders but could not get into the assassin series. She does a great job of character development but I thought she went too far in-depth for my tastes. They are very well written books though. I will have to check out the Shield Ring Bewildered - sounds interesting. ZD - I have read some Lackey, she always writes a good book that I consider an "in-between" book....something to fill the time between books haha. Someone go read Kim Harrison so I can talk about those books - they are great!!

Alright - I said it - Female Authors haha. Yes, I have been on a kick lately of reading good female authors with strong female leads. These mostly center around occult/fantasy/horror books. Kim Harrison - The Deathly Hallow series - I love this series and cannot wait for another book to come out this Spring. Kelley Armstrong - These are great - make sure to start at the beginning with Stolen - they are sets of two but the characters pop in and out of future books and make it very entertaining. I have several more but will see if the topic goes anywhere.

I liked the Shannara books but could not get into the others. Robert Jordan was my favorite for a long time (now he has passed away and no clue what happens to the series). George R.R. Martin is the best right now IMO - His Fire and Ice series is absolutely amazing!!

Is this local only? I know a few people in mid-michigan who would qualify.

I love how the bad chick is Starbuck from BSG and they have cameos from 5-6 BSG regulars in the season. That said - how can someone not like Chuck? That is one of my favorites haha.

Funniest movie this year - by far - in my opinion.

It's amazing the different tastes out there haha - Easily the worst movie I saw this year - or dang close to it. I think I had half a chuckle - then the final scene left me scratching my head.

Kinda funny - but I thought 300 was one of the best movies this year.

Alright all - Every now and then I may download a movie in AVI format. The movie always looks great, has DVD-like quality and great sound. When I decided I wanted to make my own HTPC I investigated several options for ripping my DVD collection to my PC. I have tried several programs. I am currently using Handbrake since it is free. When I rip the DVD in MP4 format it works perfect. However I would like to rip them in AVI format and everytime the quality is bad and it does not consistently play the movie. Does anyone use a good program for ripping their movies to their hard drives in AVI format? Or ripping then converting to AVI? I am struggling with this - please help!! Thanks, Soul

It is a current $119 PSU with rebates and crap this week. The 8800GT/GTX or ultra do not have the ram?

you should check out those forums Cujo - lots of good info and the For Sale section always has some good deals on stuff....some not so good deals as well but many good ones.

=IF(A1<1000, 5, IF(AND(A1>1000, A1<2001),6, IF(AND(A1>2000,A1<3001),7, 8))) That should work fine - at least it did in my test sheet.

Nice - Good to know someone else on that forum. Now go bump the thread by Haggy with Office 2007 for sale haha...please haha - need to sell it so I can buy a damn vid card.

I will let you know how the Asus is later this week haha. I am looking forward to testing out Vista as well, never worked with it before.

That is a VERY nice setup there Ruff - and a good price. Hang on - Did you find that at Hardforum? I think that sold yesterday - were you the buyer?

Good to know Dark - I have no experience with it yet. As I re-read my post it seems like I do but that is a mistake, I am going off solely what I have read in many forums. There is a huge battle it seems between the EVGA and the Asus people - kind of like ATI vs Nvidia. It appeared that most thought the Asus was easier to overclock everything, but the EVGA could do it but it took more time. Like I said above though - I only have what I read, my board is still not in yet - I am anxiously waiting on the USPS guy now!! haha.