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The other day I thought I would take a cruise on my Yamaha Zuma II scooter and I go down a road I usually do because there is hardly any traffic because it is a road off the main street. It leads back into an older subdivision and there is a forced right turn at the end of it. Instead of turning, I went straight onto the dirt behind the directional sign where they are clearing a 2 - 3 acre lot to build something. I notice there are a couple of stray dogs there eating something out of a bag and I look up ahead and I see this trash heap - someone had dumped a lot of trash and a hot water heater. Among the trash I found empty boxes for a home sound system, black trash bags filled with lots of empty beer bottles and stuff, an old Compaq computer with the case exposed to the drizzling we just had, and an NEC C700 17" monitor. Now at first, I got off my scooter and inspected stuff, (hey, another man's trash is another man's treasure) then I thought to myself, "What if this monitor works?" I decided to go home and get the van and come pick it up. I went and got it, cleaned it off with some Windex and then found out I didn't have a signal cable with two male ends. Off to Best Buy I go and return $18.00 poorer to test this sucker out. I figured if it didn't work, then I could return the cable and get the money put back into my checking account, simple. So I hook it all up and IT WORKED! I was stoked. So I added the monitor to my current system, used the Digital-Analog adapter that came with my video card and viola!, I now have dual display baby. Pretty sweet, thanks for throwing all that "trash" on the construction site! Got any more?