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I started futzing with computers in 1980 with my bright, shiny Sanyo dual floppy drive machine. No hard drive. Everything had to be saved to disk or printed, baby! That, along with my high-tech thermal dot-matrix printer, got me through college.

Along came my wife and my first child, and my first attempt at building my own. A Cyrix 386 compatible CPU, 10 mb hard drive, an Orchid video card, and 32 kb of ram and I was a bad ass on the block.

Then came that beauty in booties, Laura Croft, and I had to upgrade my video card just to play with her. I got a Hercules Voodoo 1 and ran that bad boy with the case open and a room fan blowing on full into the case to keep it cool.

When I first got my Voodoo 2 card, I thought I'd never need another. But then I got into an online fighter plane game and needed more umph, so I bought another Voodoo 2 and went with....are you ready?... Scan Line Interleave!!!! SLI for you younguns. The original, and still the best. Okay, the new cards make it look like a still photo hanging on the wall in comparison, but those cards ROCKED!

Now I'm playing Crysis, Bioshock, Call of Duty 4, and Valve's The Orange Box games, and I'm running them in SLI. Two 7800's in an MSI board and they run great...on the lowest settings. How am I supposed to continue to enjoy the fruits of my labors past if I can't get two monster 8800's? How can I live up to the standards I set for myself all those years ago if I can't have the newest generation of veneration?

Well, maybe Firing Squad can help. An old man can dream, can't he?