nvidia nForce 750i SLI FTL

Thursday night, shortly after hitting lvl 47 in Forochel killing Tundra Bears and collecting Dwarf Picks, every USB device connected to my computer abruptly stopped working. I could only watch in horror as my Elf-Hunter's dignity was stripped away as he was mauled to death by hungry bears, while helplessly auto-running into a stone wall. After angrily mashing the reset button my computer informed me that it could detect no keyboard. Pressing the CMOS reset button and using Mark's ps2 keyboard to re-enable USB keyboard support in the BIOS had no effect. After cursing the stars for a while, I decided I should ask IT to have a look at it. With the BIOS flashed and the USB drivers uninstalled and reinstalled, the cause and solution had even escaped Paul's mighty knowledge. No one knew how the story could ever have a happy ending. Luckily some five months prior to this when the salesperson at Memory Express asked me if I wanted to purchase an Instant Product Replacement on my motherboard, I had that foresight to say "Yes, yes I would like to do that thing." ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS get the extended warranty on expensive electronics. They have saved my ass (by which i mean my wallet) more than once. This makes the 3rd version of this motherboard that I have had in my new PC since July. nForce 750i SLI FT"W", eh nvidia? 07:47 PM

Bolding going where lots of people have gone before

I've started watching Star Trek: The Original Series in order to be adequately prepared for the release of the new Star Trek movie coming out next year. I've never really watched an episode of Star Trek before this, and have always sided with the Star Wars geeks rather than the Trekkies, but it wasn't as bad as the lightsaber wielding, Lucas-hating, wookie-wannabes made it out to be. I especially thought it was going to be a less-than-enjoyable experience because it was made in the late 60s, and I have seen particularily bad scenes that have been passed around on the internet. Nevertheless, I found most of the stories entertaining and the "late-60s-motif" charming in a way. When i first saw the trailer for the new Star Trek movie I thought the actor for Spock (the guy who plays Slyer in Heroes) was going to be hard to take seriously, but after watching some of The Original Series I find he actually looks quite similar to young Leonard Nimoy. I AM, however, going to be making Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz references whenever Scotty is on screen. I hope they throw a Tribbles reference into the new movie. 04:35 PM