I treated myself to this orange beast at the end of (I'm pretty sure) 2007. i7-940, GTX260, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD, Windows Vista. I immediately added an additional 2GB of RAM which cleaned up some weird stutters in the OS and eventually added an SSD boot disk when I upgraded to Windows 7. Still have that 8GB of RAM, but I've since put a GTX750TI card in it, and added three additional 4TB HDD for storage. It was my daily driver until early 2019 when I built a system to replace it. Most of the USB ports and the headphone jacks no longer work, but it still plays American (and Euro) Truck Simulator quite well.

My condolences on your loss.

My fiancee and I bought a new house last February (2012).

We get more than five incorrect letters a week. All get sent back "RETURN TO SENDER, ADDRESSEE NOT AT THIS ADDRESS, DO NOT MAIL, REMOVE FROM LISTS."

Sometimes it works, but most of the time it doesn't.

Well hell, that saves me at least 99 bucks, or 1200 if I really wanted to be a true Monster hunter...

At home, doing laundry from a weekend away with my fiancee, I felt rattling that I initially attributed to my dad toodling around in his wheelchair. Then when stuff started to fall off shelves, I knew something else was going on.

Not many clouds in the sky - no tornado... only thing left that's not unnatural is earthquake. It was neat, but slightly scary too.

You're not reading the whole comment.

He said "I'm the only one at this address with the authority to do that". He didn't say he was the only person there.

I do the same thing with my "household" - the house and all the bills are in my name, and if any telemarketers call, whomever answers the phone (if they want to, we do screen calls) they are instructed to answer "put it in writing, or give me a number and call reference number so the homeowner can call you back."

I pay 50 bucks (US) a month for my Earthlink DSL. I get 1.5Mb/s down, less than 300Kb/s up. Yes, you read that right - my total downloads never exceed 150KB/s and my uploads never exceed about 36KB/s.

It works for me and my needs (though it's annoying downloading game demos/updates that are larger than a few hundred MBs - takes me multiple days)

I wouldn't mind faster service - but I don't want to pay the 75+ a month that Comcast will eventually charge me (and no, I don't want to spend 2+ hours a month trying to negotiate them down to a "special" price) and the FiOS pricing and availability in my area is kind of stinky, too. Lots of packages that don't last long enough and price ranges that jump up 50+% at the end of the promotional period.

If I could get 10Mb symmetrical service for 50 bucks a month and not have the price change (except to go down), I'd jump on it.

And in the Northeastern United States, it shouldn't be a non-existent option.

Satellite TV + Web Browser Windshield Overlay are much too dangerous. See CELL PHONE.
Jet Engine / Helicopter Rotor - Not bad, however I'd want it for long trips and short stints alike. Problem is, roads aren't banked enough to take small curves (or big ones!) at Mach 3. Though some of the highways in Texas are straight enough your only issue would be launching off a hill and avoiding THAT OVERPASS!
Rocket Launcher - For blowing away the idiot who tried to cut you off, or the dumbass broad behind you who is talking on her cellphone in one hand and applying mascara with the other...
Comfy Recliner For a Driver's Seat - nah, I don't want to get too comfortable; I can fall asleep anywhere.
Invisibility Cloak - Drivers already don't watch where they're going, how is this going to help them avoid me? The only bonus I could see would be driving up ramps the wrong way or going down one-way-streets the wrong way. I don't have to worry about being tracked while speeding because my car hates going over 55mph :)
Shield To Protect Me From People Who Picked Any of the Above - Not bad, however it's still not Idiot-Proof.

My choice would be a fully transformable and configurable mode of transportation that included subspace warping, hyperspace jumping, spacelane or jumpgate transmission, stargate crossing, hovering, submarining, thermal protection, as well as the requisite ballistics, birds, and baby carriage protection. Further, it would require the ability for on-the-fly reconfiguration, a'la the Batmobile changing from a lane-sized vehicle to a super-skinny "skate rider" BUT it would need the ability to return back to "regular car size."
I also need to be able to configure its mass-density and be able to phase through objects.

Throw in a Flux Capacitor and the Spark of an Autobot and it's a start :)
(My buddy Lou would ask me why I didn't just ask to have a white 1963 Beetle with a 53 painted on it...)

I prefer my steaks done "Chicago-style" medium.
Though admittedly, I only learned about the actual name, if it is a true industry-wide known preparation technique, from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak

My girlfriend and I have had regular conversations about this. She claims that the only true state to eat steak should be rare or medium rare.
However, my stomach does more flipflops than an Old Navy sale at the Boardwalk in Wildwood if it's anything less than medium.
(When I was younger and my palate less refined I would ask for medium well or well-done, but then it would almost require sauce or salt.)
Also, I can -rarely- eat rare tuna.

However, upon entering several steak houses (admittedly chains, ie Longhorn, Texas Roadhouse, and Outback) no one seemed to know what Chicago-style was.
So I've taken to just ordering it "medium, seared on the outside."

I agree.
The last decent manual I got in a box with a game was Fallout 2.
Then again, Interplay had some kick-ass manual writers and the manual had just as much awesome charm as the game.
(Disclaimer: I have not purchased Fallout 3 to make a comparison.)

I'm not grayscale colorblind. But I have trouble, at times, depending on context, differentiating between blue-green, blue-purple, green-brown, brown-red, red-green, purple-gray, gray-green... I'm sure you get the picture.

I'd love to be able to tell when my cellphone or DS Lite needs charging just by the light of the power indicator.
I'd love to be able to tell my girlfriend that the red of her blouse goes great with the highlights in her hair.
I wish I could see those Magic Image thingies.
I hate picking out "the wrong shirt" on St. Patty's Day.

I can't tell resistor colors apart - I had to get help in that class in school.
I had to tell a Navy Sub recruiter that I am colorblind. He stopped calling.
I can't play a lot of video games because of color problems. Metroid Prime, Devil May Cry. Had issues in certain zones in Everquest; still have issues in certain zones in World of Warcraft.

It would make my life easier.

My "office" is actually three discrete office spaces with removed walls. So while it is one contiguous office area, original floor plans were three separate offices with separate heat/air units.

Unfortunately, this makes the Ice Queens and the Hot Heads of the office battle over what temps to use. Needless to say, it's frustrating, what with my cube being in the middle of two of the biggest offenders.

Further, some folks have taken to bringing in tiny space heaters to warm their feet... which invariably blows a breaker and basically kills a portion of the cube farm for a few minutes. Of course, space heaters are forbidden by the office VP, and sweaters are just too much of a pain in the neck to hang on the back of your chair.

Then there's the days the air goes on when it's cold, or the heat goes on when it is hot, just because something's pooched in the system. Gotta love those days even more.

My cell phone, with Sprint as a service, gets less than crappy reception inside my office. However, I have no problems getting and sending text messages quickly.

So it's not unthinkable to imagine that they had crap for voice reception but had no issues with a web connection, especially given that they were inside a storm drain.

Oh, and when did a ten-year-old and twelve-year-old become teenagers? (The answer: "not yet".)

At my last job (I was call center tech support, but did a lot of the Mac work for the Tech Dept) all workstations had names based on their cubicle location. IE if you were in Tech Dept, Room 4 Row 5 Cube 6, your computer name was TD040506. It made it easy for them to find people who were doing Bad Computer Things(TM).

At my current job, since my office is so small, we use the actual user's user number, an OS code, and a system number (ie if they've had a replacement or if it's a temp machine.) Something like E0000098-XPA. (Vista is VB for Biz, right now, since we only have one Vista laptop in use.)
I had suggested using cube numbers - since it's easier to equate the cube number with the person, due to a lot of "self approved migrations" - but was shot down by Net Ops 300 miles away.

At home, I use ship names, planets, etc from Stargate.