2008-08-23 Bluestone

Some small amount of bluestone for a friend to make a small area for a fire thingy. No big deal.

2008-08-21 Schwinn Breeze.

A nice green Schwinn Breeze bike. It has flat (but new) tyres, perfect chrome mudguards, fine seat, good paint. Some rust in various places but all that will come off nicely. The gear cable is a little shy of its proper connected state but that should fix up easily. Some hipster is hunting for this bike with cash in hand, not literally as hipsters don't carry cash, but nevertheless they will come back four days later with that money. It should also provide entertainment for us riding it around until it is sold, these bikes can be quite relaxing to ride for a while.

The special romantic photographic effects are just what an iPhone does in this particular light.

2008-08-16 Bike Seat

Yet another Topeak bike seat for kids. We have sold a few of these recently and this one is in near perfect condition so it should sell well also.

2008-08-09 Trailing Bike

A Trail-a-bike device for pretending that your offspring are contributing to the general familial propulsion effort. This is in perfect shape except for being missing the attachment point. It will probably go on the list of craig neverthlessas said attachments are available seperately from reputable outlets. Shown below in the folded position.

A corner of Egbert is just about visible in the top of the picture. Some horrible offspring seems to have drawn on his leg.

Update: Bought by a very pleasant and with-it couple who had even already got the missing attachment device. What a refreshing change.

2008-08-09 Offspring Rucksack

A super fancy Kelty rucksack for carrying one's offspring. This is in really nice shape and is a pretty fine example of its type. Cleaned and ready for the list of craig.

2008-08-09 Joggers

Two single jogging strollers, same brand, different conditions. The blue one is near perfect, pretty much never been used and good to go. The little rubbers hairs have not even worn off the tyres. The purple one had some brake issues and rusty poppers but cleaned up nicely enough for the list of craig, at a discouinted price iof course relative to the blue one.

Update: Blue one sold quickly. Purple still waiting for a home.

2008-07-26 Mosquito gathering device

This was picked up a few weeks ago but for some reason got neglected in issues of documentation. A mosquito killer thingy complete with full cannister of gas. It starts right up and seems to run so all is well there. We have no idea what the reason for discard was on this, it is in excellent condition modulo some dust etc. We gave it to a friend who likes such things, but only after we deployed it for a party at a different friend's house (yes, you may infer that we have more than one friend!). The only thing it might need is a the little attractant smelly thing, it being a consumable. Pic shows it in dismantled state for transport.

2008-07-26 Clown Bike

Yet another clown bike. This one is smaller than the previous one and will be used in the lab as a procrastination device or job candidate filter. Pic soon.

2008-07-26 Bike Trailer

A bike trailer suitable for dragging a brace of offspring around. Seems in OK shape and seems to amuse offspring mightily when deployed. Despite its great entertainment value we will be letting it entertain somebody else's offspring via the list of craig.

2008-07-17 Map Cabinet

A map filing cabinet in pretty fine shape and all ready to file maps in. A pity we have none worth filing. This will hit the list of craig in an attempt to find a new owner.

Update: Sold on the list of craig within a day or so, a nice lady wanted it for her offsprings' art. Hmmmm.

2008-07-12 Offspring Transport

A Baby Trend double Jogger that seems brand new and never used. The brakes were not set up even and it did not need a wash. This will be sent to meet its purchasers on the list of craig.

Further, a single Baby Trend Jogger double in similar condition. It needed air in the tyres and may actually have been used once or twice. This also will be sold.

Further, a Graco random newish stroller. All present and correct and barely needs a clean before going to the list of craig. Quite a haul of indistinguishable-from-new strollers today.

Update: The two singles sold within a few days, the double will have to wait for the next crest of the IVF twins wave, so next month maybe.

2008-07-05 Puters

A brace of Dell Pentium 4 PC machines. First one a 2.66Ghz, 75G HD, missing the memory. On the HD was a completely fresh install of XP waiting for first boot config etc.

Next a Pentium 4 Dell, very similar but better motherboard ( more ram slots and better graphics setup). Some Notes:

• 6752 mp3s and 1115 iTunes, some popular artists shown:

      254 CMJ New Music Monthly
      135 Chris Whitley
      132 Various Artists
      114 Compilations
      106 Aesop Rock
      101 Jazz Artists
      100 25 Jazz Greats
       97 The Beatles
       95 Neko Case
       84 Led Zeppelin
       80 David Bowie
       75 The Roots
       75 Cocteau Twins
       74 Sea Songs
       70 Jill Scott
       69 The Beastie Boys
       66 Irish Artists
       66 Edith Piaf
       66 Bruce Springsteen
       66 80's Artists
       63 PJ Harvey
       63 Paste
       62 Indigo Girls
       61 Badly Drawn Boy
       60 Beck
       57 Jack Johnson
       55 Prince
       54 Gipsy Kings
       50 Dave Matthews Band
       50 Country Artists
       49 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
       47 Blues Artists
       46 Peter Gabriel
       46 Fleetwood Mac
       44 We Love New York
       44 Virgin Recommends
       44 Iron And Wine
  

• Fertility planning stuff and associated data.
• Lots of baby pics etc, including pics of the obligatory caesarian. Canon PowerShot S60 took them.
• Home movies of fresh offspring.
• Lots of course work for Art History classes and such.
• One user had only wine labels and porn in browser cache, another lots of random stuff.
• Some great mailing list material cullable from contact lists in excel files.

2008-07-05 Joggers

A Babytrend double jogger in near perfect condition. It needed air in the tyres and a further application of compressed air to blow the dust off. It does not even have the sticky folding mechanism that is so common on these models, though we oiled it up anyway so as to be ready for several years service after we sell it to the nice people shortly to be introduced to us by the list of craig. It seems it had never been set up correctly as the brake quick release was in the open position and was not closable without cable adjustment. Fixed now.

Further, a Babyjogger double in fine shape. This one is more of a pain to fold but has aluminium wheels and frame etc. The air was still in the tyres so it just needed a wash to be ready for its new owner. Horror film style pic here for now, check back soon for a better one?

Update from the future: Obviously we never fixed the picture

2008-07-02 Schwinn

A green Schwinn bike that, once cleaned up, looks respectable enough for a hipster. This was pulled from curbside by a friend who will be wined and dined at our expense once we sell this. See, reuse of garbage is a social catalyst as well as the correct thing to do.

2008-06-28 Trike

Random kiddy trike in perfect shape and all too ready to go into the breach that is offspring entertainment.

2008-06-28 Golf Stuff

A Golf bag, possibly of use to some friends of ours. We shall see next time they come over for Kasseler, maybe they will want this.

2008-06-28 Chair

A random plastic chair that happens to match those of friends of ours, hence it was acquired and dispatched off to their house. The fact that said friends we along for the ride helped of course.

2008-06-28 Car Seats

A veritable array of Britax kid seats for usage in newfangled automobiles. Those in the know will know what there is to know about Britax, i.e. they are pretty good. One has damaged insert, that will have the cover scavenged. A couple more are sort of too old, we may pull covers of them likewise. So far 3 have cleaned up to near perfect condition, ready for the list of craig or other usage. Note, not all of them are shown in this pic, the bench under the back row previously appeared on this page and is now rehabilitated enough to put into regular usage. No name yet.

2008-06-28 Bouncer

An offspring containment bouncer thingy. Comes with built in amusement plastic things. This again for aforementioned friend.

2008-06-24 Stroller

Some random Sit-n-stand stroller in OK shape. It is actually also a regular dual seated stroller so all very flexible etc. Destined for the list of craig we feel.

2008-06-24 Kids Bike

A random Huffy kids bike in pretty fine condition. The chain guard had embrittled so we broke that off and threw it away. Awaiting an appropriatly sized kid to come and draw blood on it.

2008-06-22 Tools

A plastic garbage can full of tools. Including sockets, ratchets, spanners (Craftsman), spark tester, hole saws, screwdrivers, marking bob, some files, brace, old stanley level, and all sorts of extra goodies.

Apart from all the loose hand tools there was also a Craftsman power sander, the pic is pretty self explanatory. Works fine.

2008-06-22 Sting Ray Update

Well, somebody actually wanted to buy the Sting Ray and it was most convenient to meet nearby for handover. The journey there being mostly downhill it was actually feasible to ride the thing there. The new owner was very shaky on the bike (natural, bearing in mind its preposterous geometry) so we left her practising and took the money and ran.

2008-06-22 Pushchair Craziness

A Maclaren Techno XT single pushchair in excellent condition but with sand in the crevices. Found nearby were winter covers for another Maclaren, probably a double.

A Maclaren Vogue single pushchair in good shape but dusty. It will be subjected to cleaning procedures and sold off via the list of craig.

An Instep jogger in OK condition. Entirely unremarkable and it will hopefully find a new home in a routine manner via the list of craig.

Also a Safety First pushchair in fancy modern form factor. It has some issues folding but we expect to be able to fix that. Otherwise in pristine condition. No pic yet.

2008-06-22 Pack and Play

An entirely typical pack and play, also the extra accessories for another including hood, hammock thingy and changing table. The list of craig for the lot of it, unless you happen to need them dear reader?

2008-06-22 Maple

A piece of maple butcher block about 3 ft by 4 ft by 2 inches thick. It is very nice, no cracks etc. The finish on it is pretty thick and nasty but that will have protected the wood nicely. Previously was configured as a single legged table. It this were 4ft by 10 ft we would use it as a dining table but alas no. It may become a coffee table or some addition to a kitchen. We will see.....

2008-06-22 High Chair

Two luxury Peg Perego High chairs in fine shape. They both have the fake leather cover on them, both need a clean but are otherwise ready for deployment under some messy offspring's butt. Fine examples of their type, note that Martinelli is just rebadged Peg Perego for these purposes.

2008-06-22 Car Seat

A Britax car seat for year old offspring and up. It has a luxury cover and is in good shape modulo the clean it requires. This may be used for a while and then sold, barterd or whatever. This has the less annoying buckling arrangement.

2008-06-21 Pushchair Roundup

A Peg Perego Venezia pushchair in dark blue and nice shape. It is all very spiffy and in fact was sold before it got a chance to appear here or on the list of craig, luckily we grabbed a pic of it at some stage.

A Peg Perego Milano, similarly in nice shape and dark blue.This one has the full insulated winter cover and hood, all very nice. It has on adjustor button that is problematic, we will work on that. Going on the list of craig if no readers of this page snap it up.

A random cheapo jogger that needed a couple of tweaks and some oil. All is well with it now , brakes adjusted, tyres pumped up and it is on the list of craig waiting for a new owner.

A pretty fancy modern Snap-and-go, it is constrained in its usefulnes in that it only take Graco infant seats but somebody will want it on the list of craig for some amount of money. Egbert visible again through the leaves!

2008-06-21 Lifting Table

A hydraulic lifting table very similar to this one apart from the diamond-plate top. It was covered in a fine dust and the let-down valve was disconnected. A quick clean and a new bolt later it seems in fine shape and works, the rubber mat that goes on top is not present in the pic, it is being cleaned elsewhere.

2008-06-21 CF Card

A SanDisk 256M CF card. While this size is not as useful as it might once have been, it has the entertainment value of the pictures on it. We have gained a disposable CF card and the elevation of our artistic souls though pics such as this:

I think you have to agree that whatever the (de)merits of this particular image, it is superior to a picture of the CF card itself. Unless maybe we edited the card into this pic...... Hint: check the exif headers, or just save it to your Mac desktop and look.

2008-06-19 Pram thing

An Emmaljunga pushchair/pram thing. This is a Swedish super fancy offspring portability mechnism which allows you to swap the top part from pram to pushchair arrangement and has full recline and loads of stuff even on the regular pushchair mode. Rolls nicely, looks great. Probably the bext price for this will come from selling it on the list of craig to some crazy scando dog owner, but we will see.

2008-06-19 Bike Followup

This random Nishiki has been floating around quite some time, we have no idea where we got it from but we definitely got it from some discard arrangement, hence it is elligable here. Anyway, an acquaintance wants a real beater bike for city usage and this may well be it. Missing front derailleur but some scavenged tyres and a flat fix make it into an unexpectedly pleasant ride.

Update: Bike now has a front derailleur installed and is now seeing regular use as city beater. Fine stuff, with friends like us who needs the craigslist?

2008-06-17 Bike Followup

First, another bike off that pile shown the other day is a Trek 800. Upon acquisition it looked a bit sorry, the tyres were off the rims and the tubes hanging out. However; once they were popped back on and given a puff of compressed air they seemed fine. In fact in this pic it seems pretty damn shiny! Seems like the previous owner was just plain stupid, or some such. This has been given a squirt with the hose, a wipe with an oily rag and is now proudly advertised of the list of craig. Pic shows it posing with the ever-present recently acquired chair. This chair has appeared so much here that maybe we ought to give it a name? Suggestions? We propose Egbert.

This is a Roadmaster Mt. Fury (??) in almost brand new condition. Such a pity that is a complete piece of junk that should never have been manufactured in the first place. One wheel nut was missing from the front wheel but we soon found a replacement kicking around for that. Again, this will be sold pronto, if there is any bike we wish to get rid of this is it. Well this and the idiotic Schwinn from a few days ago.

2008-06-15 Tube

An offspring amusement tube in brand new perfect condition. You might well ask how an offspring amusement tube works in its designated capacity, but empirically we find that the offspring in question have an excellent innate knowledge of how to make it work.

2008-06-15 Pack and Play

A pretty shiny Graco Pack and Play, all present and correct and in perfect condition. We may use this for offspring containment purposes as it is so spiffy. Then maybe later sell it on the list of craig.

2008-06-14 Jigsaw

A Sears Craftsman jigsaw. This has the steerable blade thing and a nice fence. When found it had the plug cut off but it was the work of but a moment to wire one on for testing purposes. Voila, it worked. Already claimed by tk we think.

2008-06-14 Golf Trolley

A pretty fancy folding golf bag trolley that we think might be useful for a friend. That or scrap aluminium. Rotate your vision -π/2 for the pic:

2008-06-14 Double Jogger.

An Instep Safari TT double jogger in fine usable shape. Comes with 5 point harness, seat liners (not shown in pic), folds easily, peek-a-boo window, locking front wheel swivel etc etc. Some sun damage, a couple of screws loose and air required in the pneumatic road contact devices. No real reason for discard. Available or destined for the list of craig.

2008-06-14 Clothing

Some rags to hang on the offspring as they grow, mostly just for legal reasons as we see no reason to demand they wear clothes. Note they are draped over the chair recently featured here, said chair has entered arduous service in the outdoor zone quite sucessfully.

2008-06-13 Peg Perego

A Peg Perego Venezia pushchair that seems to be in very nice condition and has loads of features. A quick cleanup and it is good for the list of craig or other outlets.

2008-06-13 Jogger

A pretty nice single jogger, InStep brand, 5k model. It has a digital odometer/speedometer and is in near perfect condition with hood and all that stuff. This will be sold off as we do not need it.

2008-06-13 Graco Double

A Graco Duo glider stroller in nice shape. These are a reliable commodity around here so it will be turned into ale and victuals via the intermediate step of cash from a person introduced to us via the list of craig.

2008-06-13 Firepit

A little patio fireplace thingy. This has some potential usefulness to us so we may well try it out in the bottom of the garden in the late night patio area.

2008-06-13 Bike Breakout.

The first one examined from that large pile of bikes is a Trek 820, it has been used, needed some air in the tyres and a clean but seems fine. It will be a great the list of craig station bike sale, of maybe for JP? JPR not JPL.

2008-06-10 Bikes

A selection of random mountain bikes in need of some tuneup etc. They all look complete. The two Treks at the back are the best but all will make fine station bikes for some happy commuters. More info later on these as we investigate.

Update: See other entries more recently for details on the actual bikes but three are sold and the other is out to a summer student. Fine stuff.

2008-06-08 P.O.S.

A Schwinn Stingray badged Orange County Choppers. It is amazing how somebody could take something as useful as a bike and turn it into something as pointless and crap as this. It is pretty hard to ride, at least for people of our build and sensibilities, but is otherwise in OK shape modulo the rust spots on the chrome.

2008-06-07 Calphalon

A big nonstick Calphalon frying pan, or omelet skillet as they like to call it. This has the non-stick coming off so we are going to return this for a new one and who knows what we will do with that one. Present your worthy cause....

2008-06-07 Brass Lamp

A large brass lamp that is remarkable for its size but not especially for its form. This is for a friend who values such things, we hope.

2008-06-06 Double Jogger

A Kool-Stride double jogger in OK shape and delicious purple colouring. It needed only air in the tyres and it is ready to be off to the list of craig.

2008-06-03 Sink

A Stainless steel slop sink that seems in pretty fine condtion. Obviously somebody had it in a garage sale and nobody wanted it for the advertised price of ten currency units, how sad. This may be deployed in the rennovation of our basement washing area, we will see. Previously we had been looking for large double deep stone or ceramic slop sink for this area but now who knows what we will do.

Now we have that sinking feeling.

2008-06-01 Furniture Update

The chair was glued and screwed and cleaned and oiled. It seems too red to be teak, it may be mahogany or some such. But here it is so you can see for yourself:

Update: This chairs seems to have been named Egbert. It needs a name as it seems to appear in the background of so many subsequent pictures on this page.

2008-06-01 Cast Iron update

We cleaned the rusty Wagner from yesterday but then got sidetracked by a prior find, a slant logo Griswold with heat ring, and the other no-name pan from yesterday. Here they are after a good clean and an initial cure. Both are sort of available if you convince us you are a good cause.

Meantime the Wagner has to wait a while.

2008-05-31 Tennis Machine

A tennis ball floinking machine. We had one of these that we sold on the list of craig but this one has a power cord and AC power and hence is more conducive to immediate fun. It works fine and can function as garden artillery.

2008-05-31 Furniture

A hardwood chair and small table for outdoor usage. We get the feeling that the damage they seem to have sustained occurred upon discard. Attempts will be made to fix them as they seem worth it. A spot of glue, some clampage and some nailgun action should suffice. Pic shows the chair being glued and screwed, note the clamps all appeared on this page at some time.

2008-05-31 Compaq

A Compaq 2.8Ghz Celeron machine with a 40G HD and 256 M RAM. Boots XP, for what it is worth. This is a HP compaq and it still seems to have crappo Compaq issues, once stable it may have some cycles to offer. It has been converted to a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz (using a CPU from the trash). CDrom issues holding us up on the forensics front. Watch this space......

Update: Bartered for a bunch of beer, the social kind of beer of course. Not just a bunch of beer, that would be crass.

2008-05-31 Cast Iron

Yet more cast iron pans, a Wagner with heat ring and some random no-name but "Made in USA" thing. Wagner is rusty but we aim to fix that, pic shows the crusty rusty Wagner hanging out on the stove.

2008-05-31 Bike

A Giant ladies' mountain bike. Before you ask, no, not the bike that this woman rides:

...but in fact a Giant brand Acapulco model bike that is marketed towards females. It is of not so great quality. It seems functional after a couple of tweaks, one of which involved a large hammer and a vise. We already have a possible taker for this, people want simple ridable bikes for some reason.

2008-05-29 Tractor

An offspring amusement device that shows much promise. We will see what occurs when the offspring returns from overseas and checks it out.

2008-05-29 Bike Parts

A friend had his rear tyre slashed on his beater bike, and rather than fixing the tube and getting a new tyre it is much easier just to get a whole new rear wheel. Shown here with a random seat and pole that came with.

2008-05-26 Cast Iron Update

Attending an event involving the cooking of numerous things outdoors, we took a bunch of random cast iron, some of which has been featured on this page, some not yet. We found recipients for some of it, then we cured the whole lot on the large open cooking fire and used some of it for actual cooking. An excellent scaled cleanup.

2008-05-17 Tablet

An Acer table/laptop thingy with XP installed and sort of working fine, the only problem seens to be an intermittant connection in the powersupply connector. Despite its many claimed features we have no use for it.

2008-05-17 Dell

A Dell XPS gaming laptop with hyperthreaded 3.4 GHz cpu, 1G RAM etc. It booted but had a bad GPU which was part of the motherboard and hence not easily fixable, that was probably the reason for discard. It also had a chewed power cable that had been bodge fixed with some tape. We sold the carcass off to somebody who has the time and inclination to care. The pic does not do it justice, it is boat anchor in laptop form factor.

2008-05-15 Table

A stainless steel restaurant food prep table that appeared to have been discarded in curbside garbage by a well known (but not good) restaurant. It had some skanky tape on the top and a bunch of scratches but there is no apparent reason for discard. Shown here after a good clean and a light sanding to take out some scratches from the surface. Prospective future uses include the sushi bar at an outdoor wedding and some form of useful loadbearing function in an art thingy?

It is bloody heavy, in case you are thinking of borrowing it.

2008-05-04 Sewing

A Brother Sewing machine complete in the box. It has been lightly used, if at all, and so far tests OK. This was a request by a friend, and sure enough within a week we had found a nice one. This posting is also belated, we got it a while ago but only got the pic from the new owner recently.

2008-05-04 Jogger

A twin Baby Jogger Q series. This is a pretty fancy jogging stroller, the folding action is well worth the price and complexity. It had been run over by its previous owner but it was very simple to fix the broken frame piece. Despite all its features, it is however, too wide for our local railway station door, hence off it goes on the list of craig.

2008-05-04 Dell P4

A Dell Pentium 4 1.7Ghz PC with 256M RAM and no HD. Previous owners had a clue we guess. Works fine, boots Knoppix fine so there is no apparent reason for discard except possibly that they had too many infections on that HD we did not see.

Update: Refurbished with a HD and some extra memory from stock and sold on the list of craig because we have way too many Pentium 4 machines lying around at present. Pic is actually the pic used to sell.

2008-04-30 Bikes

A random Jamis mountain bike, pretty nice condition, still had air in the tyres etc. Quickly cleaned up ready for presentation to its new owner on the list of craig.

Also a slightly junkier and more primative model, a Redline (whoever they are) with a nasty paint job. It had a bent front wheels and some issues but a spare from stock and some tuning and it is good to go. Would make a good "station bike".

Update: The Jamis sold on the list of craig and spawned inquiries that sold the Royce Union and the blue Trek. Handy dandy.

2008-04-29 iMac

A G5 iMac 1.8GHz with some issues. One issue is that it does not power up but the other is that somebody has made some weird USB modification on it involving drilling a hole in the case. Investigation will ensue.

Update: The weird USB mod was a Troll Touch touch screen modification. We opened up the machine and observed various things upon attempted boot. After disconnecting the HD it booted fine. Upon reconnecting the HD it booted fine. Take it apart and put it together again, our favourite problem solving method. The machine was used as a kids' machine we think. A few iTunes on it (Julie Andrews, Johnny Cash, Peter Paul and Mary etc) but not much else.

2008-04-29 Cocktail stuff

A WMF cocktail set. Complete except for the jigger stick thingy. Some of the implements are quite nice so we may use them at some stage. We do not use measures anyway so we do not care about the missing piece. Shown on top of the stainless BBQ that made an appearance here but recently got cleaned up(it had some nasty gunk on the top).

In the same box were these glasses. Not the finest in the world but given the breakage rate in our service a welcome addition to the random glass cupboard.

2008-04-29 Bikes

A nice Trek mountain bike of middling quality. The shifters were a little sticky in p[laces, that seems to have been the reason for discard. Pretty much ready for a new owner now.

A very similar but slightly lighter Royce Union. Nothing wrong with this at all except for some rust spots on some components. It has super cheapo brake caliper thingies but the bike rides nicely.

Update: Sold by the Jamis ad on the list of craig.

2008-04-29 Assorted ironware

Shown in the pics below a small assortment of handy things. One strange cast iron pan suitable for donation to friends, one tap wrench that seems very nice, one random crude chisel, a bike chain (required for the Peugeot) and the floor wand from a Miele vacuum cleaner. All of it fairly useful.

Update: Pan donated to people who cook, the tap wrench is really nice to use, and some relatives just happened to need the floor wand for a Miele.

2008-04-27 High Chair

A high chair in good condition suitable for positioning the offspring for food ingestion. This will be for a friend who has need of such.

2008-04-27 Graco Dual

Not a particularly special device but somewhat handy, a Graco Duo Glider stroller. All present and correct and just needs a quick clean. Somebody will want this, craisglist may introduce us to them in due course.

2008-04-19 Wood

A selection of 2x6 wood, excellent material for our next replacement window project. You know what a 2x6 looks like, if not see prior 2x4 pics and extrapolate.

2008-04-19 Radiator

A chunky and not so inelegant cast iron radiator for use with steam or water. Pretty fine, about 27x27x7 inches.

2008-04-19 Lamp

A lamp thingy that seems to be for photo studio use. It is very bright and seem to have uses beyond those it was intended for.

2008-04-19 Dell Laptop

A Dell Pentium 4 1.4GHz laptop with 256M RAM, 20G HD in fine condition. When powered on it turned out to have a BIOS password, which is hard to get around. After consulting the interwebs we found the chip on the motherboard containing said password and flashed it with a paper clip as instructed. This involved a moderate amount of dismantlement and a painful period of reading chip IDs. Once flashed we were able to boot the installed XP then a more useful knoppix CD for the purposes of investigation. Machine works fine, though the fan is both loud and often on. Salient points on HD (which was not obviously not encrypted):

• Previous owner a female lawyer. Evidence of prolongued job search, wedding plans, details.
• Lots of evidence of shopping on Amazon for offspring related products. Also lots of handbag shopping.
• A bunch of pics scanned in with a Kodak Film Scanner, some more pics documenting arrival of previously mentioned offspring.
• 195 MP3s, mixed artists.
• 696 iTunes, the major contributing artists being:

      311 Compilations
      119 Dave Matthews Band
       62 The Beatles
       28 Pearl Jam
       25 Led Zeppelin
       18 U2
       16 James Taylor
       14 Weezer
       14 Dave Matthews
       13 Alanis Morissette
       12 Billy Joel
       11 Sarah McLachlan
        9 Janet Jackson
        8 Metallica
        8 Jessica Simpson
        8 Fiona Apple
        7 TLC
        7 Phish
        7 Mariah Carey
        6 Vanessa Carlton 

• TurboTax and stuff.

2008-04-19 Cast Iron Pans

A scrap yard full of cast iron pans of various types. One super nice Griswold with italic logo and heat ring, some nice Wagners and some no-names. All in all some good functional stuff. Some already promised but siome still available.

2008-04-14 iMac

An iMac 800Mhz in fine shape, obviously used by the offspring of a household. Disk contains:

• Evidence of import of OS 9 stuff from the old machine.
• 3452 mp3s, substantially acquired with Limewire. Lots of them untagged and ill organized, of those that are organized here are some big contributors:

      342 Compilations
       97 Blink-182
       64 Unknown Artist
       34 The Ataris
       33 David Tao
       32 Jock Jams
       29 the get up kids
       29 Counting Crows
       28 Original Broadway Cast Recording
       28 Less Than Jake
       25 Orishas
       24 Elephant Man
       23 Hall & Oates
       23 Good Charlotte
       22 James Taylor
       22 Green Day
       21 Red Hot Chili Peppers
       21 Queen
       21 Living Colour
       21 John Mayer 

• 339 iTunes, including

      114 Compilations
       26 Pink Floyd
       20 James Taylor
       20 Frank Sinatra
       18 Queen
       18 Elvis Presley
       16 Red Hot Chili Peppers
       15 Jimi Hendrix
       13 Van Halen
       11 Led Zeppelin
       11 Guess Who
       10 Lynyrd Skynyrd
  

• Lots of digital pics of teenage girls doing what they do.
• Lots of AIM chat logs and huge buddy lists.
• No discernable porn.
• A nice shiny Morgan Stanley investment report that shows their portfolio to have gone from 1,693,444 to 1,440,059 in one month. Ooops.
• Several documents related to making wills, assessing potential estates for such, SSNs, amounts and other details all included.
• Lots of Sunday school documents.

2008-04-12 Wood

Knowing we have more framing and stuff to fiddle with, these seems to be most handy. Four 2x4 planks that are seemingly quite new.

2008-04-12 Tool Case

A tool case, specifically the case for a Ryobi circular saw. This seems to house a stray router quite nicely so it will be pressed into service.

2008-04-12 Radio Flyer

A couple of pristine Radio Flyer wheeled offspring amusement devices. First the little truck thingy:

Also a classic trike with tassels. Certain nearby offspring found these quite attractive.

2008-04-12 Legs

8 legs for a common and useful shelving system, we took the best four. They had some fancy castors on them but no sign of the shelves or the little collets you need to hang the shlves on the legs. These are for a friend with storage needs.

2008-04-12 Cast Iron

A cast iron thingy that allows one to bake things in the shapes of various animals. Wow! It has seemingly never been used. This will be donated to somebody who might have a use for it.

2008-03-29 Switch Plates

A bunch of brass switch covers, mostly of them OK and one ornately ugly. These are for a neighbour who may have need for such.

2008-03-29 Pipe Wrench

This is a cheapo junky pipe wrench but will be handy to keep in a car or some such place where it might provie of crucial usefullness one day.

2008-03-29 Mac Tower

A Mac G4 tower missing HD but full of memory. THis will be invesitgated for its usefuless but we suspect it is getting a bit old to be anything but fanboy fodder.

2008-03-29 Bag

A random travelling bag that has a couple of rips but is otherwise in very usable shape. This will be stored for the next visiting European to use to take all their swag home with. Now the US really does have monopoly money we expect more surgical shopping strikes to pass through and require extra bags for homeward transportation.

2008-03-26 Tie down

A tie down that presumably literally fell off the back of a lorry. It will come in handy for our trailor. Note this is genuine "stuff" because even though the owner lost it they threw it away by not coming back for it.

2008-03-26 Schwinn

We got a modern Schwinn racing style bike a while ago and recently found the parts to fix it up. The handlebars were rusty and drop style, not popular and not nice. We put on some straight bars and old schwinn sparkly grips and gave the thing a clean up and voila. This may already have a home waiting for it.

2008-03-25 Cookware

A Griswold No9 skillet in excellent condition. This one is nicer than ours in certain details so we will use this and pass our existing Griswold No9 on. Shown here after cleaning and a light cure at 450F.

An anonymous cast iron skillet marked only "8" on the handle and "8-" underneath". It has a nicely shaped handle, very nice interior and a heat ring so this will displace our prior skillet of this size, a Wagner. Again the Wagner will find a home with a worthy kitchen, after all we have been breaking it in for a few years now.....

A Griswold baster dutch oven with wire handle. The lid has the handle broken off, such a shame. This is a possible donation as we are not sure we need this. Pic shows it in gloriously unrestored state, though note that the previous two looked like this a short while before their pictures were taken. Most of the appearance problems stem from a weird dusty coating. The lid on this is a beautiful casting.

2008-03-25 Bike Stuff

Some bike stuff, we need to replenish stock to that we can sell to the hipsters for the spring bike awakening. No pics yet.

2008-03-22 Kelty Jogging Stroller

A Kelty Jogging Stroller in fine condition. This is an interesting artifact in that is a full jogging stroller, with better standard features than most but it folds like a Maclaren stroller. It is way superior on features to almost every other jogger out there. Surplus to our requirements but it will make a blazing appearance on craigslist.

2008-03-22 DVD Player

Small form-factor DVD player that also plays endless other alphabet soup formats. Complete with manual and remote. This is of course pretty useless to us but is a standing request from somebody in need of one. (Yours Russ, just get it out of our house!).

2008-03-22 Book Selection

A pile of books, nothing too thrilling but some OK stuff there. Mythology book for anthro-prof friend, Linux book for the next noob that asks me about Linux, wine book for some vinophilic friends, some of them to read and some for reference.

2008-03-22 Baby Seat

A fancy shiny Peg Perego baby seat for use in those newfangled automobiles. This is a good seat in excellent condition and it arrives just in time, sort of. It was not even very dirty but it got a good wash anyway. It came with the base but that is not shown in the pic:

2008-03-08 Radiator

Small cast iron radiator, usable for water or steam. Available until it sells on the list of craig.

2008-03-08 Jogger

A nice shiny green jogging stroller, all complete and ready to go. It is a bit of a strange shape in the area that is in immediate contact with the offspring's butt, but there you go. It does seem to work though and no apparent reason for discard. Craigslist for this.

2008-03-08 40 inch TV

A Gateway 40 inch TV/monitor. It has some issues, often there is fuzzy ghosting all over it especially at startup, but this pic shows it perfectly clear. We will probe its precise deficiencies and see if it can be used.

2008-03-06 Hard Drives

A colleague found some RAID arrays being tossed, and inside were 60 or so seemingly good 120G Western Digital hard drives. Now we would not want to use these in a RAID type application now, much easier just to go buy 7 1TB drives. But for random machines that need a new HD or an extra 120G or sneaker drives, they seem just fine. We will test them as we use them, you may also if you need one.

No investigation of drive content here for several obvious reasons. Sorry.

2008-03-01 Rocking Horse

A wooden FAO Schwarz rocking horse in OK shape. It seems to function quite well as an offspring amuser so it will be deployed in the offspring amusement device zone.

2008-03-01 Drop Cloth

A roll of plastic drop cloth. Super handy!

2008-03-01 Dell P4 machines

Three Dell Pentium 4 PC machines all seemingly complete and in good order, they were all dumped off by the same guy. Jumping ahead, they all seem to come from the office of a "fund of funds manager".

First one is a hyperthreading 2.8Ghz 512M RAM with an 80G HD. No reason for discard, boots to XP fine. The following summarizes their computer usage:

• Music, 699 mp3s, seemingly sourced from Limewire, well represented artists shown here

       28 disturbed 
       14 blue october 
       12 nickelback 
       11 vertical horizon 
       10 pink 
       10 maroon 5 
       10 concrete blonde 
        9 vast 
        9 queen 
        9 pm dawn 
        9 my chemical romance 
        9 house of pain 
        9 him 
        9 fall out boy 
        8 toad the wet sprocket 
        8 korn 
        8 blake lewis 
  

• Lots of (gothic?) wedding pics and baby pics. Lovely. You are invited to guess, based on the music selection, whether the former owners have tattoos or not. Go on, guess.
• IE caches completely empty, cleaned we would say. Given the facts that the cache dirs were present and these machines are all from a common admin domain and the others have full caches I would say that this user surfed loads of NSFW stuff and knew enough to clean up. We may try an undelete on this at some stage.
• Documents present include resumes, house purchase docs, pleading letters to lawyers, that sort of thing.

The next one is also a Dell hyperthreading machine, 2.6Ghz, 512M RAM, 80G HD. It seems to function well with no apparent reason for discard. Only 15G or so of the disk used. Salient points include:

• Browser cache present and correct, no porn visible upon quick check.
• Lots of google maps usage, many closeup zooms of houses on satellite view.
• Recycler was full of pics, business documents and all sorts of good stuff. Good job they threw these out before tossing the machine. Dop!
• One user has lots of Dell stuff in their cache, presumably browsing for the replacement machine.
• 5 mp3s, bah!

Next machine is a Dell Pentium 4 1.6Ghz 384M RAM with a 20G HD. No apparent reason for discard, seems to work fine. Though obviously if you are going to toss the above machines this one is going to go also.

• Cache has lots of Britney and Rudy pics and no porn.
• The dir "Copy of g drive" has all sorts of stuff in it that may have been forgotten there, lots of stuff presumably related to managing funds of funds. Mixed docs, ppt, and xls. How do these people do any work with these constraints?

The 2.8 benchmarked 12300 secs vs an existing machine's 15600 secs, and hence will be pressed into service.

2008-02-16 Pot

A Calphalon 8.5 qt dutch oven. Missing the lid and the finish on the inside so this is set for a warranty return. It might even be a keeper as we do not have one quite like this.

2008-02-02 Cast Iron

A cast iron Griswold Oval Roaster, number 3. This will be just fine for roasting ornithological specimens of a certain size that happen to fall into our food chain, namely chickens and ducks. We had chicken last night in fact and though the thing was nicely roasted in the deep cast iron chicken fryer we were wishing for a proper oven roaster. Well, here it is. The more astute amoung you will have already recognized the pans in the background from their prior starring appearances on this page. Note that the roaster has only had one initial cure after its clean, it will soon turn black like the others.

This is not really available, if you want one they are hard to find but there is one here, at least at the time of writing.

2008-01-26 Radiators

Two nice cast iron radiators, set up for steam but usable for water. People we know often need these things and if nobody we know happens to right now, the interwebs are usually kind enough to introduce us to new people who need them. How nice.

Update: Sold on craigslist to some guy who bought a repossessed house from a bank which had had all its radiators removed. Cheeky.

2008-01-26 Peg Perego Pliko

A Peg Perego Pliko folding stroller in good shape. It has been used but is certainly fine enough to make its way up onto the list of craig. This model was our stroller of choice for a while, especially while travelling. It folds in two dimensions, had reclining seat back, 5 point harness etc etc. Also it is not junky, the earlier Peg Peregos tended to get very brittle after a while but this generation seem to age better.

2008-01-26 Dell

A Dell pizza box style PC, 128M RAM 700Mhz celeron, 10G HD, seemingly in good order, 1st Grade maths CD still in the drive. In keeping with first impression the machine had nothing but kids software on it. No evidence of having been connected to the net, no surfing detritus etc. Oh well, I guess this was a valid use for a machine, just not very interesting for us. Available if you have a use for such, it runs quietly and could be used for some appliance task.

2008-01-12 Puters

A couple of Pentium 4 PC seemingly complete. First one is HP and has a pretty randomized HD, good job previous owner on wiping. People are learning, upon booting the CDrom makes funny noises and we get a "hot dust" smell. It may need attention.

Second one is a small form factor Dell, 2.4 Ghz, 256M RAM, 40G HD. Bob, you want this? Here is a list of salient data from the HD:

• The household comprises a couple and their two offspring. The lady and the gentleman of the house have accounts on the machine. Given their ages and the fact that their offspring are twins it seems IVF is likely to have occurred here.
• Both the adults are accomplished in terms of fancy high finance management careers. Their resumes are full of bullshit yet nevertheless accomplished contentful bullshit, if you accept the premise that the finance industry has content.
• An interesting 3-column Excel file that caught our roving eye, note we hid columns 2 and 3 for your (their?) benefit:

  My Documents% xl2txt Passwords.xls | cut -f 1 -d"|" 
  SHEET:Sheet1
  Numbers / Passwords
  Smith Barney
  Vanguard
  Chaseonline
  American Express
  Fidelity.com
  Fidelity ATP
  Yahoo Fin
  IBD
  AIM
  Modem
  WSJ
  Pension/  Hewitt
  Verizon Wireless
  Verizon Wireless/DSL
  Verizon.com
  Wireless sync
  HP Tech Support
  Compusa Support M

• The lady (or is it the gentleman?) of the house likes strong women. By strong we mean the traditional definition, "able to lift up a car", and this pic is one of the more bearable, less muscled and less posed examples of their taste, as well as being quite literal.
  
• Some iTunes, stuff grouped by artist and listed here, could be worse. We have these on shuffle as we type, how self-referential of us.

       10 Annie Lennox
       13 Beat Positive
       12 BeBe & CeCe Winans
        9 Black Box
       11 Bonnie Raitt
       13 Collective Soul
      113 Compilations
       10 Crosby, Stills & Nash
       11 Dave Matthews Band
       12 Deee-Lite
        7 Eric Clapton
       45 James Taylor
       11 Natalie Merchant
       17 Red Hot Chili Peppers
       13 Shawn Mullins
       10 Stephen Stills
       15 Steve Winwood
       12 Susan Tedeschi
        8 The Allman Brothers Band
       13 The Pretenders
       12 U2
       13 Young MC
  

• Lots of financial data, tax data, resumes, blockparty invitations, corporate proprietary data etc etc.
• Pretty much no porn. Some naked "strong women", but we will choose not to expose you to them.

2008-01-12 Lamp

A bedside lamp with a remotely steampunk air to it. It had no bulb in it but one was procured and inserted and it worked. This is now fulfilling its purpose next to a new bed.

2008-01-12 Drop Plastic

A substantial roll of folded drop plastic for curtaining off areas under construction, and other such tasks. Convenient really, this will be used for the next set of replacement windows we put in. The roll is only 14 inches wide or so but the plastic folds out into a larger sheet.

2008-01-12 Brass

A small piece of brass that is the perfect size to make a new striker plate for a door that happens to be in need of one. No pic, you know what a small piece of brass looks like. Same door that got the mahogany earlier.

2008-01-09 Mahogany

A couple of pieces of mahogany showed up just as we were working on our front entranceway. The step/saddle/threshhold was junk so we tossed it and some form of custom made thing seemed in order. Voila, the materials (or most of them) showed up. From pickup time to install was less then three hours, a good turnaround.

2008-01-05 Tivo S2

A Tivo Series 2. This is untested and uninvestigated, watch this space. We have had several requests for these so if it works this should find a home pretty quickly.

Update: Tivo seems to work but does not have lifetime subscription on it (booo!) and we do not have the remote. All boring, sorry, no screenshots yet. It will be used by the Z dudes in some capacity we suspect.

2008-01-05 Laptop junk

A selection of laptop accessories including two base stations and some power supplies and such. A nice USB wheelmouse also. Shown, the two docking stations, which may end up on ebay as people seem to like these things there.

2008-01-05 Kenwood 5CD/DVD

A Kenwood 5CD and DVD changer, supports MP3 etc. This is more potential fodder for the record store dudes, initial testing seems good. There were alas no CDs in the tray, we love found music! Grainy pic shot during dodgy testing with Jesus Jones, Doubt. Not an especially good CD to test a CD player but the first we had to hand. Damn, going back to this whole physical media thing is tricky!

2008-01-05 Jeep Stroller

A double Jeep Wrangler stroller. These are not as nice as the Maclaren equivalents but other people seem to like them. This has a cupholder and little bag thingy and is in perfect condition so it will be hitting Craigslist soon.

2008-01-05 GPS

A Garmin Streetpilot III or some such, seemingly new in the box with all the accesories. Previous owner had some token effort at use but it looks very shiny etc. More investigation required on this one, we would love to salvage the tracks data from it to see where the previous owners drove but the preliminary powerup suggests it has never been used in anger.

2008-01-05 Cast Iron Radiator

A cast iron steam radiator, in OK shape. Two nicer ones were present but they were BOD (broken upon discard). It is so sad to see some really nice thing in perfect shape be tossed away only to break upon impact with the hard surface it falls on. Craigslist for one this unless any readers want to trade a few beers for it.

Update: Sold within 24 hours. Fine stuff.

2008-01-05 Bike Rack

An Xport bike rack suitable for a 2 inch receiver. Seems in perfect shape and will be sold as such on craigslist.

2008-01-03 Stroller Cornucopia

First a double jogger with super large wheels and in very nice shape. A puff of air all round and a quick clean and this is ready to go. The hood is missing, sad.

Next a single Maclaren, all very nice and functional. Needed a clean as the seat area was full of crumbs and hair (used for a dog maybe?).

What seems like an early Peg Perego Pliko. If you have used a Pliko you will know that these are pretty nice contraptions for general purpose offspring carriage. The fundamental design seem to be the same as later models so this may find a home somewhere.

2007-12-22 iBook

An iBook 14inch. Seems in sort of OK shape, may boot but had screen problem. Either way it awaits HD inspection and overall evaulation. Looks for parts of this on eBay next month I suspect.

2007-12-19 iBook Batteries.

Two batteries for a 12inch iBook aluminium, seemingly in good shape and one of which having a full charge in it. These will be tested and sent to handy iBook users who happen to require them.

2007-12-19 P4

A Dell Pentium 4 PC with speed around 1.5Ghz, missing memory and some plastic. will probably be used for parts or in the making of a chimera. No pics for now, you know what a Dell computing machine looks like.

2007-12-15 Trek Bike

A not so high quality Trek mountain bike. It is serviceable enough to be sold anyway, it will be going to craigslist. No apparent reason for discard, the tyres even had air in them. It gave us great entertainment riding around in the snow in the middle of the night already, great value for money.

Update: Sold as a commute bike to a happy guy who found it on the list of craig. We were almost sad to see it go as it had provided some amusement riding around in the snow in the meantime.

2007-12-15 Teak outdoor furniture.

Some teak outdoor furniture. A bench, two chairs and one armed chair all matching in a modern-ish style. The bench has some discard damage (i.e. something that seems have have occurred as it was thrown away) but that is easily fixable, we think. Otherwise they are all solid and just need a clean and maybe some teak oil. We could use these but we have a bunch of this type of stuff already so these may become available after some consideration.

2007-12-15 High Chair

A Peg Perego Prima Pappa rocking high chair. What a stupid idea! Rocking one's small offspring while they are eating seems like a recipe for a mess. Chair is in OK shape but has a hole in the fabric seat liner. We shall see what occurs here, probably will be sold on the list of craig, to some people the rocking element is a premium feature or some such.

2007-12-15 Gateway P4

A Gateway Pentium 4 with WinME installed, all present and correct on the initial physical inspection at least. Machine belonged to an adolescent male, here are some humdrum google searches, after having removed the ego driven self-searches to protect the former owner from your specific (as opposed to non-specific) ridicule.

      1  aladdin 
      1  aladdin music 
      1  Amitai Etzioni 
      1  APA format 
      3  ballericons 
      1  brittany spears mexico gave the finger 
      1  chopin 
      1  clean ocean action 
      2  drums percussion premier drum workshop dw paiste sabian zildjian maple birch tama ludwig  
      1  dvojak 
      1  dvorak 
      2  first union bank 
      2  free online english dictionary 
      1  garden state 
      1  garfunkle 
      1  gloria steinem and the women's rights movement 
      1  grieg 
      1  guitar tabs doobie brothers 
      1  guitar tabs stone sour 
      1  IM Icons 
      2  instant messenger icons ultimate 
      1  johnson and johnson corporate law office 
      1  johnson and johson 
      1  journal of memory and language 
      3  Karate Kid 
      1  koepi xvid 
      1  Laetrile 
      1  meister german hard liquor yager 
      1  Michael Novak 
      1  minnesota test 
      1  monkey bowl ultimate frisbee tournament 
      1  mozart 
      1  nashville 
      1  nashville maps 
      2  nashville maps  
      1  nashville shop zippo lighters 
      3  nebuchanezzar 
      1  new jersey garden state 
      4  nfl draft players 
      2  official site garden state 
      1  off shore dumping 
      1  paul simon and garfunkel 
      1  paul simon and garfunkle 
      1  phone directory site
      4  photos drums percussion premier drum workshop dw paiste sabian zildjian maple birch tama ludwig  
      2  point to wrist point to crotch bathroom 
      2  premier drums 
      1  "baby names" origins 
      2  "johnson and johnson" corporate law office 
      1  "Sextus Empiricus" Chrysippus dog 
      1  rec.sports.disc 
      1  sci 
      1  ssci 
      1  state map 
      1  tennessean 
      1  tennessean newspaper 
      6  tennessee tour guide 
      1  the ebola virus 
      1  the new york times 
      1  the world is not enough 
      1  Thomas Anderson 
      2  ultimate frisbee summer league cleveland ohio 
      1  university of rochester 
      1  upa 
      1  USGS 
      1  wax museum nashville tennessee 
      2  wax museum tennessee 
      1  web of knowledge 
      1  yager meister 
      1  yagermeister 
      1  yeagermeister 
      2  yellow pages 
      1  zanies 
      1  zion bible 

Not sure about reason for discard yet but the disk seems to have some not-quite-fatal-yet issues. Closer inspection of the Recycled dir shows a discarded Morpheus install with a bunch of music, images and porn movies, notably several Jenna Jameson offerings. Evidence of stuff no longer present is also plentiful in db files.

2007-12-08 PVR

Some random PVR, not a tivo. It seemed to have issues coming up properly but when we pulled the 80G HD inside that seemed to work fine. OK then, the rest of it is junk and we prepare to see what can be found in terms of cool TV programming on this thing. Exactly one recording was present, and it was 250 seconds of TV snow. Of course it is not even well encoded snow because no PVR manufacturer sets up their mpeg2 parameters to be useful for snow. Download the 150M file here, if you are really curious. Play it directly from your command line with:

 mplayer http://user-agent.org/stuff/images/pvr_snow.vob 

2007-12-08 Jogging Stroller

A jogging stroller with ripped fabric in two critical places we fear. Oh no, a genuine reason for discard! Never mind, we have another in stock that has a cracked aluminium wheel mount area. We were going to weld that up but it seems a lot faster to take the (almost new) fabric from that one and put it on this frame. The new chimera stroller is now on the list of craig, trying to feed the family. Fine and dandy.

2007-12-08 Graphics

The VIA server from the other day has no graphics on it so I resolved to find a PCI graphics card for it (no AGP on the board). Seek and ye shall receive. Pic may come soon.

2007-12-08 Car Seat

A Cosco Alpha-Omega car seat for young offspring that is in perfect shape and feature laden, in a good way. We really have no use for it though so we will be floinking it off on the list of craig. Available at heavy discount to readers of this page.

2007-12-08 CD changer

This is thoroughly obselete but we picked it up for our friends who own a CD store, and yes they seem to be thriving. They are pretty much series-of-tubo-phobic. They do like CD changers though for the store and requested such from us. It even being a DVD changer and they being in the process of expanding into more DVDs I bet they will want a TV from us next....

2007-12-01 Server

A 1U short server with a Via twin CPU motherboard in it. This seems like a pretty nice machine so we may make it into a nice little backup server or some such in the basement. It is not fully tested as yet but so far we have great hopes for this particular piece of garbage.

2007-12-01 Double Stroller

A Babytrend double stroller in perfect condition apart from a 1.5 in hole in the fabric in the side of one the of the seats. It sort of looks like a cleaned up cigarette burn but larger. Who knows what the modern parents of today allow their horrible offspring to do.......

2007-12-01 Books

Today a bumper crop of german language books, always useful. No pic for now.

2007-11-20 Bike

A Trek cheapo hybrid bike. Cheapo but quite useful if you actually want to ride somewhere. Flat fix and a quick clean and it is off to meet up with craigslist.

Update Sold on the list of craig rather quickly, fine effort

2007-11-03 Radiator

A pretty large cast iron steam heating radiator. This is a available to anybody that might want it (Monica?). Failing that it will be making an appearance on craigslist. It is a pretty good size and weighs probably more than 200 lbs.

Update: Sold on the list of craig to some happy fresh first time homeowners. They seemed a bit sketchy on the whole concept of steam heating but hopefully this is what they need.

2007-11-03 Offspring Carriage Devices.

First up a super fancy double jogging stroller in near perfect shape. Tyres needed a little air, and in fact the tyres seem to imply that this had never been used. The blue on in the background is a complete and very similar double jogger but it has a bend in it. Its fate is uncertain but the red one will be a craigslist special very soon.

Next a super fancy Maclaren double. This needed nothing but a clean as it had obviously sat in a garage or some such and got dusty. All very spiffy, it is sitting up on the table to catch some wind to assist in the drying process after the quick hose down.

A single mesh seat Maclaren pushchair with seat liner in it. Again perfect condition and all ready for some usage.

2007-11-03 Highchair

A Peg Perego highchair, offspring food induction for the use of. It is in excellent shape, including the padded seat. This will be sold as we have one identical.

2007-11-03 Drumkit Hardware

Some random pieces of drumkit hardware. Not useful to use but we know people who may use such things. Bob?

2007-11-03 CD changers

These two are for some acquaintances that run a record store. They value the cd changer functionality for in-store use. The Sony works (despite its sketchy appearance in the pic) and is a very common discard these days, what with the advent of these newfangled music media. The JVC is actually a DVD changer and seems pretty fancy, not sure if it works yet.

2007-10-13 Record Player

Yet another record player, no pretence at ever needing one of these but it will go happily on ebay. Unless you, the reader, wants one? The last one was a big hit with its new owner.

2007-10-13 Jogging Stroller

A Baby Jogger jogging stroller in OK shape. Some rust on wheels and fittings, tyres needed air. It will find a home somewhere.

2007-10-13 Dell P4

A Dell Pentium 4 PC, as yet uninvestigated so watch this space for more details. Pic of it opened up with all the guts showing, seems complete and not even very dusty. Came with ostensibly working flat screen and wireless keyboard and mouse. Yum.

2007-10-13 Dell Laptop Carcas

This will be straight off to ebay to help somebody fix their laptop. Stripped, missing HD, memory, battery, charger etc. Otherwise in OK shape.

2007-10-13 Child Seat.

An Eddie Bauer branded Cosco child seat and booster combination device. This is in excellent condition and not at all old. We acquired it because a friend has guests coming with young offspring and she specifically asked us for a booster or seat for them to use while here. Well, we got her the AND rather than the OR version of the request but that should be fine.

2007-10-13 Amplifier

A Carvin Profresssional Power Amplifier. We are pretty sure somebody we know will have a use for one of these, and failing that we will introduce outselves to somebody who needs one via craiglist or some such. Very dusty but otherwise in good shape, untested as yet.

2007-10-06 Trailer Bike

A kids tagalong trailer bike (or some such). You bolt this thing onto the back of your bike and your offpspring gets dragged along helplessly as you cycle but simultaneously gets the feeling that they are empowered or contributing or some such. Already sold on craigslist.

2007-10-06 Raleigh 3-speed

A random late Raleigh 3-speed bike in OK shape. It has the usual Raleigh stuff, plus a couple of rust spots that do not really show up because the paint is rusty coloured to start with. Fine stuff. It has a Brooks leather saddle on it but that is pretty past it unfortunately. Destined for craigslist.

2007-10-06 Offspring Backpack.

A device for carrying one's offspring behind oneself. This is a mediocre brand, the device itself is in tip top perfect condition but when we tested it the comfort levels for both carryer and carryee were not so good. Hence soon to be available to those with a small wad of cash in their hand.

2007-10-06 Miyata Road Bike

A somewhat random but really rather nice Miyata road bike. Clip pedals, nice saddle, rides very nicely. All in all a wonderful bike that we have no use for, hence craigslist at some point for this.

2007-09-30 Trek trash

A trashed Trek bike, carbon fibre frame and fancy dura-ace components. Lots of titanium. It seems to have been squished by some heavier vehicle and what is left was tossed. There are several quite expensive components on this thing that are usable, it has been offered up to the Z dudes for scavenging. If you don't know who they are it means you are not sociable enough and do not spend enough time hanging out with us drinking beer and eating dead animals.

2007-09-30 Swings

A relative asked, "Can you find me a kiddie swing in the garbage...?". We were of course happy to oblige and ended up with three in one day. One happy customer, they only need a clean and something to swing from.

2007-09-30 Offspring transportation roundup

A pretty damn fancy jogging stroller that has a slight crack in the frame near a rear wheel. Some welding will be applied to that (alu frame) and it may then become whole again, at least enough to be sold. Silly Bouncy thing found at the same time.

Some random carry-cot thing that can be mounted to a pram frame or some such. Pretty fancy, OK quality. hence it will be seeking a home out there in craigslist or ebay land.

2007-09-30 Floor Puzzle

Giant floor puzzle, 'nuff said? Is it a puzzle for giant floors, or a very large puzzle to be used on the floor. It might not matter.

2007-09-29 Wood

Some quite nice chunky mahogany pieces and some white oak. They will be useful for some little project down the road, just as the last batch of mahogany was. No pic, you know what wood looks like.

2007-09-29 Radial Arm Saw

A Craftsman Radial Arm Saw in fine working condition. It is a somewhat old, in a good way, it feels very solid. The blade is a little blunt, at least when tested on some scrap oak. It will be pressed into service I think, should such an opportunity arise.

2007-09-29 Cookware Assortment

A selection of cookware including a large calphalon skillet, a ridged base cast iron thingy and a bunch of cuisinart. Some weird German thingy in there also. Mostly pretty good quality and not worn enough for any warranty returns, available-ish. Apply with beer tokens in hand.

2007-09-25 Wooden Folding Chair

A wooden folding chair that is rather comfortable. The finish is still OK and the thing works fine, though seems fairly old. This will employed in various places as needed. It has great appeal dur to its curved seat, hence making it quite comfy. This is rare in a modern chair.

2007-09-25 LGB

A large box of Lehmann Gross Bahn. Included were many different track sections and accessories. We also missed out narrowly on another box to some guy who wanted it for the scrap brass value. Idiot. The stuff we got is feeding us pretty well via its appearance on ebay.

2007-09-22 Pushchair

A Maclaren double stroller. It is pretty faded and a little beat up but somebody may want this so we will make it available to those who might. Pic soon.

2007-09-22 Printers

First a Dell scanner/printer that is brand new and comes with two extras ink cartridges. Previous owner says this was purchased bundled with a Windows Vista machine but seemed to not work at all with Vista. Hence he tossed it. We will give it a try as we try to remain Windows free, especially Vista free.

A HP printer that according to the previous owner works fine, but his daughter did not like it anymore or something so they tossed it. Investigations to proceed.

2007-09-22 Pipe Clamp

A brand new pipe-based clamp. Not much to say about this apart from the fact that it may come in handy.

2007-09-22 Keg of Bud Light

A shiny new sankey keg complete with small pump. It is half full of Bud light with a born on date of one year ago. We suspect that the Bud is no worse than when it went into the keg. Upon inspection, as shown in the pic, we find that the Bud light seems to have transmogrified into a select and peculiar Belgian style beer with piquant overtones. Look for this from Anheuser-Busch soon....

2007-09-22 Chunk of Wood

A pretty chunky chunk of some fairly hard and heavy wood. We are not sure what this will be used for but it seems to have some promise so we will put it in stock.

2007-09-22 Books

Yet another assortment of books. Ho hum.

2007-09-22 Belt Sander

An old and quite industrial Porter Cable belt sander. When we plugged it in the results were shocking. This may be worth fixing for somebody though as some of the flooring guys tend to like the se super old and grungy tools.

2007-09-20 Dell Pentium 4

A Dell Pentium 4 PC, 1.4Ghz, 2x 40G HD, 256M RAM, dual boot RedHat and WinME. Former owner was an (technical) employee of a very large computing machinary corporaton. He scrubbed /home /var and numerous other things from the linux install so that it booted but pretty much had nothing of interest on it. Quite slick actually, needlessly so as he really should have zeroed the drives. It seems that he really wanted the machine to boot after it left his possession. The Windows ME install has IE caches chock full of strange windows tutorials and porn. The porn varied from vanilla to kitchen implements (yes, seriously, see . Below we show a image from the cache of great importance to those (like ourselves) who have trouble copying and pasting in Windows ME.

We still have trouble copying and pasting in Windows anything but at least we have now seen the tutorial! No media on machine, no P2P, no digital pics. Sad.

2007-09-10 Toys

Numerous toys, mostly of the sit in or ride on variety. These were acquired due to the sudden influx of numerous remote relatives and their horrible offspring. First a pedal tow truck thingy. It is all metal and quite nice quality for a toy. We may keep this for a while.

A Peg Perego plastic tractor, this is nominally a high ticket item so once the horrible offspring have finished with it we will be tossing this on the list of craig.

2007-09-10 Cast Iron Pans

A friend requested some good cookware for targeted donation purposes. Well, these fit the bill, some vaguely nice cast iron. After he has cured them they will hopefully cook some nice dinners somewhere.

2007-09-10 Bikes

Ross, shiny bike with super slim saddle and collapsable pannier. It is OK, sort of qualifies as hipster material, will be sold on the list of craig, we think. The folding basket is rather handy, we suspect that the targeted hipster purchasers of this machine will not appreciate such devices.

A more junky Ross, with wiggly frame. Not sure if this has any value but we are prepared to test the waters with a quick cleanup etc.

A junky Huffy Kids' bike. It was promptly snapped up by a crazy old woman with a full spectrum of grandchildren, a worthy home we feel.

2007-09-07 Update:

The spiffy sink we found complete with faucets was scavenged. We donated the faucets to somebody who is rebuilding a bathroom and they are installed, albeit in a temporary fashion. Note in the pic that there are no walls and the drain leads via a Montego Diesel radiator hose into a bucket. But they are putting the taps we found to good use, and will do so more in future! They live again.

2007-09-04 Keyboards and Mice

All the keyboards and mice plus two more keyboards were stacked up. The mice were still plugged in indicating that somebody was tossing an entire lab of macs, but we have not seen those macs yet. What will we do with all those hockey pucks, most useless mouse ever. One of them has been marked up as a special vision impaired model. The missing two were already donated to a serial spiller of drinks on keyboards for use as hot spares. The Dell sneaked in there as we needed one to complete a pc + extras package for somebody.

2007-09-04 Clamp

A quick grip clamp, has some surface rust which was promptly removed with a trip to Mr Bench Grinder. It does not have infinite length as the picture might suggest. It will join the array of clamps on the wall in the basement that are poised to help out at a moment's notice.

2007-09-04 Bench

After the reasonable success of our bench rehabilitation somebody requested some similar bench ends for their own project. Well, ask and you shall receive, sometimes. The ends are now stripped of the wood and ready for pickup but here is the bench before we went crazy with the sawzall. Lots of layers of nasty paint.

2007-09-01 Tools

A faintly interesting hammer and a wooden plane, these acquired for us to pass on to the rabid tool collectors in our genetic neighbourhood. They were in a huge bin of stuff, most of which has rusted away far too much to be interesting. A shame.

2007-09-01 Saddle Bag

A fairly nifty canonndale saddle bag thingy. It was pig to pull of the wrecked seat it was attached to but we have it now. It is pretty nice.

2007-09-01 Radio Flyer

A Radio flyer red truck. As our offspring holds a US passport it is probably approriate that she has one of these things. This one is miraculously in excellent shape, they tend to rust quite quickly. It may have something to do with it apparently having been used not but some unwary offspring in the garden but by the staff in the offices of a major drugs company. We took the stickers off before taking the pic.

2007-09-01 Laptop Stuff

A Dell laptop carcas pretty much stripped, no HD, optical, memory etc. Somebody on ebay may want this so we will give it a shot.

Followed by a laptop docking station in seemingly good order. It is a pretty fancy one we suppose. Again, ebay fodder for whoever may want it an bid highest.

A Vaio laptop dock still in the original packing. It may or may not be unused and pristine but it seems fine. This will be paying a visit, along with the rest of the laptop garbage, to Mr and Mrs Ebay.

2007-09-01 Kitchen Things

A stainless steel asparagus cooker, seemingly in good shape but missing the insert. No matter, this thing is useful for its stainless steel vessel-like qualities. Shown here after a quick clean with pumice for the body and in the dishwasher for the lid. No particular reason for that.

A pretty fancy stovetop espresso maker. It has some special attachment that allows one to make cappucinos direct in the stovetop device. Pretty fancy indeed! We have yet to test this extended capability but as the thing appears pretty much unused we suspect it will work to some degree.

2007-09-01 Keg

A keg. More precisely, a half a keg, that is still keglike in topology. This has a bung but the tap fitting seems a little shonky. We will present this to the local brewer for his opinion and hopefully usage. Intense competetion for this, all the scrap metal opas wanted it for the deposit return and probably not for the couple of gallons of beer in it. What they do not know is that the gratitude of the local micro-brew-master is worth more than the cash deposit on any keg. Morons.

2007-09-01 Jogging Strollers

A slightly beat up jogging stroller by Baby Trend. Steel frame has some rust. Folding mechanism needed oil to work smoothly. Tyres need air. Fabric needed a clean. This will hit craigslist for some lowish price.

Also seen in background is a Tonka excavator thingy that seems to amuse the offspring unduly. Saves us hosting a pic here to mention that in passing.

Also found, a rather nice jogging stroller with an aluminium frame etc and no sun damage. Wheels, fabric, everything in good shape. Quick wash and it is ready for craigslist at some pretty high price, people don't value what they acquire unless you charge them accoridngly.

2007-09-01 Hooked on...

A whole metric butt-load of "Hooked On..." book/tape sets. Mostly these have not been filled in etc and we have no real use for this stuff but somebody we know might. Available or being got rid of.

2007-09-01 Chairs

A pair of somewhat ugly but quite functional chairs for small offspring. Small offspring in question seems to quite like them so that is fine.

2007-09-01 Bike things, and Bikes.

A Trek bike had rusted components all over except the frame, wheels and seating gear. We took the aforementioned unrusted things and mated the rear wheel with a tyre from another bike to make yet another replacement rear wheel for the turquoise mongoose that is now a regular feature here. Pic shows just the happy rear wheel ready for install.

Also found, a pretty fancy bike for juvenile people. This will serve well in engaging and distracting the numerous cousinous people that are due to come our way next weekend. The chain shows up a trifle rusty in the pic but it works fine at present and will have received a cosmetic cleanup by the time it is pressed into service. Or maybe we will sell it on craiglist before they get here, gotta love some serendipity in one's life.

2007-08-29 iMac

One iMac g4 800Mhz in fine shape. Mostly unremarkable stuff, lots of pics and movies shot in Central America and lots of music in spanish. Note much in the caches and little else to poke around in. Maybe more details soon.

2007-08-29 P4 Compaq

A Pentium 4 Compaq 1.6Ghz 512 RAM that has to be one of the ugliest computers of the recent era. It has Windows XP installed on a 70G HD, does not boot and had a Windows 2000 install cd in the tray. Hmmmmm. Had kazaa installed with this lot in the "My Shared Folder"

04 - She Hangs Brightly - Mazzy Star.mp3
17 Tsunami.wma
Blonde Redhead 10-Mother.mp3
Blonde Redhead-The Gentle Waves - Ballad of Lemons.mp3
Cruxshadows - Insomnia.mp3
Finch - i miss you.wma
Joy Drop- All Too Well.mp3
Joydrop - Sometimes Wanna Die.mp3
Liam Lynch - My united States of Whatever.mp3
Local H - Bound For The Floor.mp3
Loudermilk- Insectica.mp3
Marylin Manson - Coma White.mp3
Mazzy Star - Before I Sleep.mp3
Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have.mp3
Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie & Roger Waters - Comfortably Nu.mp3
One True Thing - Dearest.mp3
Rasputina - Diamond Mind.mp3
Rise Against - Heaven Knows.mp3
The Get Up Kids - Out Of Reach (acoustic).mp3
The Get Up Kids - Overdue.mp3
The Get Up Kids - Stay Gone.mp3
The Rapture-Echoes-the coming of spring.mp3
The Weakerthans - Aside.mp3
The weakerthans jks- saint cecilia.mp3
at the drive-in - pickpocket.mp3
mazzy starr - Jesus and Mary Chain Cover.mp3
miranda sex garden - gush forth my tears (1).mp3
neutral milk hotel - king of carrot flowers 1.mp3
 saves the day, new found glory- words unspoken-The Get Up Kids.mp3
tapping the vein - Sugarfalls.mp3
tapping the vein - crushing.mp3

Machine was probably used by a whole family, many of whom are pictured in the photos and decribed in the resumes left on the HD. One is a very accomplished resume writer. Also they are Ukrainian in origin and hence had lots of cyrillic web stuff in caches. Here are some very language-like google searches made by the teenage girl of the household, we guess that some of these are homework but some of them are not. Can you guess which are which?

 how are fossils used to identify rock layers? 
 how did avagadro come up with his number? 
 how did avogadro come up with his number? 
 how did the twelfth amendment change presidential election? 
 how does lorenzo's oil work? 
 how do humans interact with their enviorment in the state of washington? 
 how do humans interact with their environment in the state of washington? 
 how many chromosomes are in two new daughter cells? 
 how many people in the world have wilson's disease? 
 how to calculate scientific notation 
 how to draw mouths 
 how to feng shui a bedroom 
 how to give oral sex 
 how to give oral sex to a male 
 what's gwen stefani's favorite lipstick? 
 what are some sites that are used to start and store online diaries? 
 what are the seven deadly sins 
 what did colonists do to rebel the sugar act 
 what events caused the war of 1812? 
 what events led to the war of 1812? 
 what events led up to the war of 1812? 
 what is a virtual image in science? 
 what is erucic acid 
 what is neon light 
 what is neon light in physics 
 what is radioactive dating? 
 what is the definition of a virtual image in science? 
 what is the definition of neon light in physical science? 
 what is the definition of neon light in science? 
 what is the difference between d-amino acids and l-amino acids? 
 what led to the war of 1812? 
 what problems in india facing as a result of modernization? 
 what problems is india facing as a result of modernization? 
 what processes in the human body produce carbon dioxide? 
 what was the balfour declaration? 
 where can i start an online diary? 
 where is amsterdam 
 who discovered wilson's disease? 
 who has wilson's disease 
 who was james oglethorpe 
 who was william penn 
 who won the war of 1812? 
 why are the plasma membranes of plant cells hard to see? 
 why did jean de bueil build the chateau usse? 
 why was palestine not granted independence from great britain? 

A cross-section of teenage girl stuff I guess, especially with the search for pro anorexia websites added in. 75 unique lyrics related searches also in the mix, etc etc. To finish here is a nice picture that was on the HD, in the mother of the family's space.

2007-08-28 Wire Basket

Wire basket at the side of the road in curbside garbage. Shown in pic fulfilling new duties, i.e. storing hard drives. Handy Dandy.

2007-08-26 Update

The mahogany we found turned out to be fancy porch floor planking. Some of it has already been deployed in the construction of this essential piece of hardware.

2007-08-25 Random Tools

A tool chest (rusty and crappo) filled with a selection of interesting tools. Including but not limited to the following. A Remington powder gun thingy for blasting things into other things, some surface rust. We have no use for it so it is available.

Some solder. This stuff does not go bad and we are always running out of it.

A tasty selection of fanbelts. We tossed all the dry rotted ones and kept this sub-selection. These will be donated to an individual we know who has great need for a variety of these.

A set of valves hoses and torch for oxy-acetylene usage. The hoses are super long and may be in good shape. The valves and torch and pretty beat up. We will have to sinpect these for their potential usefulness.

Also present was a bit of scrap brass and copper, always handy in the sense that it turns into cash at some point.

2007-08-25 Bike

A rather dubiously named bike, Free Spirit indeed. It is not the most fancy thing in the world but is in pretty good condition bar the missing tube on the front wheel. It also required an air impact wrench to get the back wheel off, interesting stuff. We threw on the nice wheels from that trashed Mongoose a while ago and it is ready to deploy into the custody of some distant family member's horrible offspring.

2007-08-19 Quick Fix

Some time ago we found a stainless steel rubbish bin, in the rubbish of all places, it probably showed up on this page. Or if not, should have been. The pedal never really worked due to overall cheapness of the mechanism and we just lift the lid all the time. A while ago we picked up a heavy aluminium pan for the scrap value and after we had chiselled the rivets off to toss the handles, the second handle had a use suggested for it. Pic shows it in action.

2007-08-18 Raleigh Bicycle

Raleigh LTD-3 bicycle in blue. This a is a classic made in Nottingham English bike in good condition. It has basically never been ridden, still the original tyres with a little dry rot but perfectly ridable. Chrome is all pretty good apart from on the optional extras, the speedo and kickstand fitted are crappo quality but functional. The chainguard is slightly kinky also, somebody may have hoofed it at some point. Brooks saddle (cheap version) also fitted. Rear luggage rack very useful.

2007-08-18 Offspring Entertainment

Not sure what the name of this is beyond offspring entertainment centre, it has duplo stuff on top and beads on wires and pinball-like things. It seems to function correctly, i.e. it entertains the offspring, hence it will be deployed in such a role. It is in much better shape and much more multi-functional than the previous beads on wires thing, hence that will be tossed.

Also with it was a small bag for of duplo, shown here draining after a wash. The colander we had already.

2007-08-18 Cuisinart Coffee Maker

This coffee maker is the same as the one we have in our lab so the carafe is handy to have for a spare. As suspected the coffee maker itself does not work, bad heating element, so that will be tossed and the carafe stored in the lab for that fateful day when we break the other one.

2007-08-18 Books

Some books, Coetzee, Le Carre and other stuff of varying quality. Saves a trip to the library.

2007-08-12 Giant Update

Well, this update is not actually very big as its title might imply, it is actually regarding the aforementioned Giant bike. Specifically it seemed in a pretty sorry state but is now a pretty fine bike. It still looks a little shonky in places but that is good for the theft repellent quality. It is a good solid ride.

2007-08-11 Puters

A Dell Pentium 3 PC and an IBM Pentium 3. These are for a friend who has a 266 Mhz Pentium 2 and said that he would welcome anything better that that for use somewhere in his home. We shall see.

2007-08-11 Cookware

A Calphalon Stainless steel skillet. This is in near perfect condition, reason for discard seems to have been a few specks of greasy dirt on one side of the thing. Not visible in this pic as I had just taken the required two minutes to clean them off. Works well and is pretty much available to anybody who wants it.

A Kitchen Aid stainless pot, sort of a milk warming pan or something. We may use this as it fills an empty cookware niche in the kitchen. Absolutely no apparent reason for discard.

2007-08-11 Compressor

A Campbell Hausfeld PowerPal compressor. It is of no great use to us due to our predominatly high CFM requirements but it may form the basis of a vehicle installed portable compressor. It works fine and just has some light rust on a couple of the steel components.

2007-08-11 Books

A fairly random mix of books, a mushroom taxonomy books that seems super useful, Anna Karenina and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. No spoilers here, even though it is too late for you to realistically expect me to to worry about that.

2007-08-11 Bike Spares

After the frantic bike (re)building effort last weekend we used up quite a few spares from the stockpile so it was good to find a few random bits today, some good tyres, tubes, wheels and quick release skewers. Also present was a beautiful old Schwinn but the rust had taken too much hold on the rims so we left that in the scrap metal.

This Schwinn bike seat was actually on a discarded exercise bike, i.e. one without wheels. It was so stylish in an un-cool way that I decided that it needed to be put on real bicycle (on which one might also obtain exercise, imagine that) so that it could see more of the world with it's campy cool logo.

This Giant carcass seems in pretty poor shape at first sight but due to our freshly replenished spares department it could probably be quite a usable beater bike pretty quickly. Some rust on chain and brake cables etc but will work fine for a long time yet with some care.

Hmm, Giant carcass, makes one think of Ender's Game, a copy of which has appeared on this page.

2007-08-05 Two wheeled person powered transportation devices.

The mongoose that was stripped of wheels, pedals and saddle has been resurrected. The scumbag thief also cut the brake cables in order to get the wheels off. We ended up finding bits from several partial bikes in the scrap metal and assembling it all. Now it is better than before but that is in no way a silver lining on the cloud that scumbag bike thieves cast.

This rocky mountain bike was found a day or so ago, stripped amongst the scrap metal. Possibly a scumbag bike thief had been at it and the previous owners treated that as a reason for discard? Today we managed to find all the requisite parts to make it whole again to a standard suitable for sale on the list of craig or some such. Maybe the previous owner will buy it back? Also available to avid readers of this page of course, at a deep discount. It is now a pretty fancy bike but only suitable for hominids under about 5 ft 8 in height. Having small feet helps also, about the size of those of the foot model in shot are fine.

2007-08-05 Toddler seat

An Evenflow toddler seat in perfect condition, has barely (if ever) been used. Not nearly as desirable as equivalent Britax etc but usable nevertheless.

2007-08-05 Hardwood

As if by Murphy's law, just days after we bought some hardwood to rebuild a park bench, we find some nice mahogany. It is not quite enough to finish an entire bench but will be useful for something else. Custom whiteboard frame? Hmmmmm....

2007-08-05 Complete baby seat kit

A Peg Perego baby seat with two matching snap-in bases (not shown in pics) and snap-and-go chassis thingy. For those in the know Peg Perego is pretty good stuff, less of the whole seat detaching and baby plus seat flying out of car business. I guess a nearby somebody's offspring just crossed a height/weight threshold and they tossed their entire infant car safety setup. All in very good shape and will appear on the list of craig soon. Monica?

2007-08-05 Athlon 2.2Ghz

A gentleman new to the neighbourhood had obviously decided to upgrade his entire home computing infrastructure and hence was pitching his old one. Emachines 2.2Ghz athlon with 512M ram and a nice 160G HD. Also flat screen packed for transit in original box and all paperwork etc, including Geek Squad receipts. At the last minute, when he saw us coveting his hardware, he asked us to take the HD out for him. Sensible fellow. I have a HD the same as that with broken controller board so I would have quite liked that but there you go. Machine will probably be donated to a needy family at some point. Teenage son needs the learning, skills, responsibility of setting it up for younger sister, who needs a faster machine, all to benefit of parents, who need demanding offsprings' demands quieted. All of them need something.

2007-07-28 Toolchest

A nice Stanley tool chest. It has super monster bearing drawers, holes drilled in the top and couple of dings but all in all is in fine functional shape. Colour is pretty nasty but there you go. This may end up used, traded or sold, not sure which yet. Put in your offers....

2007-07-28 Laptop Carcass

A Dell laptop missing everything. The last one of these that we had went well on ebay so I think this one will follow it. Missing memory, HD, optical drive etc etc. Has screen, keyboard, motherboard, power supply and most of case.

2007-07-28 Books off booklists.

Some random books off some various bestseller lists, acquired for a youngish female relative to get through. Now she has finished HP7 she has cycles to spare......

2007-07-28 Bike stuff

A rather nice mountain bike. Simple but effective. The thing had a super bent front wheel so we grabbed a wheel off some crappo walmart special bike and a also the seat was better replaced with one from stock. Now, a nice machine, posibly destined introduction to its new owners via the list of craig.

Also found some fancy 24 inch wheels from on super high end mongoose kids mountain bike. The bike itself had a really nice frame and all sorts of cool stuff but was a little messed up and had bits missing. Never fear, the wheels will live to fight another day.

Also scavenged off the mongoose the brakes for sombody who needs brakes such as these for a repair job. Fine and dandy.

2007-07-25 Laundry Basket.

Ikea again and potentially not a good item to find used but it is in near perfect condition (one handle loose) and the liner is of course washable. Cool.

2007-07-25 Ikea cornucopia - Office Chair.

The old desk chair was getting a bit ratty and pieces would sort of swivel off at random times so this is a welcome addition to the household, even though it is Ikea. It is more comfy and more functional than previous chair and more or less brand new except for a few cat hairs or something.

2007-07-25 Garden Chair

A folding garden chair of no great notability except for the fact that is is pretty comfy.

2007-07-25 Bookshelves

Ikea bookshelves in perfect condition. This event is fairly astounding as these things tend to fall apart when you move house or even under normal use. They must not have been ever really used. Will be plonked in some bedroom to hold a cache of books, can never have too many bookshelves. Note of course the key advantages of picking other people's Ikea stuff out of their garbage are that we do not have to go near the nightmare swarm of people that perpetually envelope every Ikea and we do not have to do any self-assembly. Win, win, and because it is free, win again. This was found with the chair while we wsere on foot so it was most convenient to put the shelves on the chair and wheel the both home.

2007-07-14 Stainless BBQ

A somewhat monstrous stainless BBQ with side hob and cabinet and stuff. It has a few broken spot welds that we can easily re-weld, then we will convert it to charcoal from gas and proceed to press it into service. Replacement of the junky steels nuts and bolts will also occur, stainless all round now. This should last a while when finished. No real apparent reason for discard.

2007-07-14 Skillet

This is a very early calphalon I think, it has a bowed base so will be returned for a new one.

2007-07-14 Bike Rollers

A set of rollers for when you have a bike but don't actually want to go anywhere with it. Near perfect condition, super spiffy all round. We have no use at all for this, off to Craigslist.

Update: Exchanged for liquid financial instruments via the list of craig.

2007-07-14 BMX

A BMX bike in good shape, needed a flat fix on rear wheel and all ready to go. Available or used for distant family offspring.

Update: As expected it turns out to be coveted by some distant family offspring. Hence saved for such.

2007-06-21 Graco

A graco duo glider double pushchair. All the stuff seems to be present, one or two little things on it are a bit ratty but otherwise seems OK.

2007-06-16 Measuring cups

1/4 and 1/3 cup stainless measuring thingies. I ferreted around trying to find the whole set but alas that seemed too much to ask. If we end up not using them or just getting bored of them we can send them for scrap stainless.

2007-06-16 Fireplace Hardware

A pair of imposing iron fireplace thingies. They are pretty nice and simple and are available to anybody who wants them.

2007-06-16 Double Stroller

A pretty fancy instep brand double jogging offspring transportation contraption. It has numerous bells and whistles, as you can see from the pic. There is nothing really wrong with this but it does not push that nicely, even when empty. With two fat slobbering parasites in it I would imagine it is even more cumbersome.

2007-06-16 Bike

A mongoose bike in spiffy red. It seems to work OK except the front shifter. Has knobbly tyres so not so good to ride on the road but all round pretty serviceable and happy. Available.

Update: Sold via the list of craig.

2007-06-02 Bike

A panasonic bike in spiffy red. It has super nice tyres for city riding and is very like the schwinn found last week. Broken gear cables soon fixed by replacing with some some off a nearby frame. Available-ish.

2007-05-26 Trek Frames

A matched pair of smallish his and hers Trek mountain bike carcasses. Fairly small frames and one missing a chain. One damaged wheel had to be tossed but we have one rideable made from the pair already. Available.

2007-05-26 Specialized Mountain Bike

A Specialized mountain bike with small frame. It looks a bit well-used but is OK under the dirt and scratches and has somewhat nice components on it. It is allocated already. Puncture in rear tyre was fixed and needed a good clean and adjust.

2007-05-26 Schwinn Mountain Bike

A really nice Schwinn mountain bike. Needed air in tyres but nothing else, this is really nice to ride and somewhat classic and hence may be kept for future usage. The only real downside to this is the supa knobbly tyres which are pretty awful on pavement. The saddle cover is a bit loose but not in any serious way.

2007-05-26 Ross Bike

A Ross ladies racing style bike. Uninspired except for the fact that it might have just a touch of hipster appeal in the same way a brown 1979 olds V8 would. This possibly has a home already, tentatively yours Brendan, for the swiss miss?

Update: Bike given to aforementioned swiss miss, unfortunately soon stolen by some scumbag.

2007-05-26 Mongoose Mountain Bike

A large framed Mongoose, perfect for riding in the city. This has been earmarked for exactly that purpose. Once its sadly disfunctional-by-design carrier is fixed it will be a handy thing to have access to.

Update: Used for a while in a large city, then stripped of its pedals, wheels and saddle by a scumbag bike thief. Reminder, always flay alive any bike thief you catch. Then put some salt on. Bike currently awaiting arrival of replacement parts from various garbage sources. This was a really nice rideable bike before being stripped so is worth rebuilding.

2007-05-26 Mongoose Mountain Bike

A smaller Mongoose mountain-ish bike, seemingly set up for a delivery type situation. This may become the property of some restaurant in the city for exactly that purpose. Functional, but ugly.

2007-05-26 Huffy Hybrid Thingy

A random Huffy bike. It has a super cushy seat with a sprung seat pole. It is sort of comfy to ride but not very satisfactory due to ill-defined adjustment related issues or just the generally poor build quality one gets with Huffy bikes. Available.

2007-05-26 Beads on Wires

Some form of offspring entertainment device that seems to work quite well. Not sure how long its entertainment capabilities will last though.

2007-05-17 Rucksack

A rucksack for carrying offspring. It is all very fancy and in perfect condition, this may be deployed for the actual carrying of offspring or it may be sold. Maybe even both, in some order.

2007-05-17 Miele Hose

A hose and floor wand for a miele vacuum cleaner. This is highly fortuitous as a steam heating pipe managed to melt the hose on our miele. From this we figure that no german would be stupid enough to use steam heating etc etc because we cannot imagine that miele made an error on their hose material. But now we have a new hose should the duct tape fix applied to the old one become unsatisfactory. And a spare wand, whatever use that will be.

2007-05-04 Schwinn Pixie

A kids Schwinn Pixie bike that is in pretty good condition for its age. It will be cleaned up and deployed as an offspring transportation device or sold as a "classic hipster kids toy" or some such.

2007-05-04 Jogging Stroller

This jogging stroller has 20 inch wheels and is in perfect shape now that I straightened out the bent axle it had when we found it. No idea what caused that bend. It also needed a squirt of air in the tyres but had never really been used. We, in keeping with its former owners, have no real use for it so it will be sold at some point.

Update Sold on craiglist, took a long while though. These usually go withing 24 hours but this took 5 days. Finally we can feed the family again....

2007-05-04 Dell

A Dell Pentium 4 2.4GHz PC with 512M ram. It had a dead power supply. One from a Dell carcass found the same day was swapped in and voila, works fine. Previous owner searched web for amsterdam escort services, porn, guns, and pics of shiny expensive cars he will never own. Media on HD included fuzzy SVCD rips of Wedding Crashers (2005) and Mr and Mrs Smith (2005). Yuck. No music or personal pics at all, but some documents in wWrdperfect present, high-school or college homework style stuff, very generic subjects like Jefferson, September 11th and the Battle of the Ironclads.

Notable pieces of downloaded movie content in a Shared directory on the HD also include those prefixed by these stubs

     14 ufc
      9 naughty america
      4 top gear
      4 naughty office
      4 illegal street racing
      4 heather brooke
      3 jenna jameson	
      3 ghostrider
      3 latin adultery
      3 american daydreams
      2 my friends hot mom
      2 milf hunter
      2 mikes apartment

Ultimate Fighting, Fast cars and Porn. All deleted now thankfully. Even the crappo rip of Land of the Dead (2005), of which a screenshot below. Even for free, I am disappointed that somebody is prepared to watch that rip?. Just go to Schlockbuster dude!

2007-05-04 Curbstones

60+ feet of curbstones. Some of them had attached cement and stuff but it chipped off very easily. They just need a quick cleanup and they can be used for edging various areas in our yard, they even match the existing curbstones on the driveway. Pic shows exemplary model.

2007-05-04 Bathroom Sink

A bathroom sink. This is in great condition (despite its appearance in the pic) and is a candidate for use in one of our bathrooms. Pity about the scalloping on it, but even with that it is nicer than the one we have. We will see, if we do not want it them somebody on craigslist will.

Update:Taps stripped off for somebody, rest is still available.

2007-04-21 Transformer

Yes, yes, enough with the silly topical toy/film jokes. This converts 110V AC to 220V AC and is pretty damn handy for any european that happens to end up on the North American continent with some of their appliances. We have 220V run throughout the house as well as the native 110V so do not need it. This is available or for sale or whatever. It can only handle 250W so think before you speak up.

And no, it does not turn into a drill press or any other useful household item. It transforms leccy. Now if it could transform into a 3-phase converter I would be happy.

2007-04-21 Roofracks

Thule ski racks that seem in perfect shape apart from the missing keys. These are vagueley available.

2007-04-21 NICs

A pile of 5 still sealed in the original package dual interface NIC, 100baseT. I think they are for some compaq server or other. Also present were a pile of new old stock 4G scsi drives in hot swap server trays. Oooooooh. You could almost extract a DVD onto one of those, but not quite. Anyway, I now have a couple of dual NICs to spare, Allan or Russell, these are probably great for making firewalls etc. One taken out of it's special wrapping for photo purposes shown in the pic:

2007-04-21 Kitchen Sink

Yet another kitchen sink, this will be bound for criaglist pretty quickly. OK condition, needs a bit more cleaning.

2007-04-21 Golf Ball Grabber

A telescopic thingy for fishing golf balls out of nasty places after errant shots. This will be donated to people who may have use for this type of thing. This in conjunction with a box of 100 golf balls makes for great fun in the garden. After dinner games etc.

2007-04-21 Crutches

Very handy for a friend who will be going in for ankle surgery soon, these crutches are super spiffy. When we are done with them they can become scrap Al.

2007-04-21 Cast Iron Fish

Sort of artsy and wierd, we are not entirely sure of the intended use of this cast iron fish thingy. Maybe it is a planter, the inside stuffed with potting compost would allow seedlings to sprout out of the holes quite nicely. Answers on a postcard to /dev/null. Pending approval of recipient this may have a home.

2007-04-21 AV stack

An AV stack from some auditorium type place. Came in a large case with lots of stuff. First the power conditioner and console lighting unit, seems to work fine but one bulb is dead. Pic:

Next a Yamaha power amp, seems in very nice shape. We have no use for it so ebay should be seeing this soon:

A video switching unit with some number of input cards in the back. Not sure about this, it might be useful for certain things (Z boys??) or might just be out of date. Investigation followed by allocation seems to be in order.

Also present was high end professional VHS player. What garbage that was, it seems all VHS players are crap no matter how high end they are. We got rid of that plus some other peripheral junk and the case.

2007-04-14 Copper Tube

Some 12 ft lengths of copper tubing that were initially candidates for scrap copper but turned out to be new old stock and hence will be saved in case we need to do some plumbing at some stage. No pic, you know what copper tube looks like.

2007-04-14 Alloy wheels

Two alloy wheels off a fancy schmancy Saab 9-3. 20 lbs of scrap aluminium alloy each or for sale on craiglist. I suspect we will get significantly more than scrap value for them from some saab owner. The rims seem to be in good shape and have no dings impairing their wheelness function. Some minor scratches on the outsides where a curb-wheel interface problem occured. We could wait and see if we can collect the rest of the saab as it is incrementally thrown out but I suspect that would not be fruitful.

Update: Sold on CL to some guy whose nephew had just driven his fancy saab into a curb and trashed the front wheel. He gets a bargain, we get to eat dinner!

2007-04-14 Alienware

An alienware PC, minus the HD. It is only an athlon 1GHz but seems to work fine. Somebody will want it for the case I would think, these things are handy if you need to pack loads of crud into a machine. They have loads of drive bays and largeish power supplies and other such features. They are rather large and ugly though.

2007-04-08 PVR Update

The Tivo boots fine, batteries in the remote are good, everything is happy. The selection on the HD is the sort of thing that people really do not need a Tivo for. Apologies for the super hokey analogue hole capture, but I currently do not have a TV capture card installed in any computing machinary at the required locale, and this TV is the best I could scrounge up to use as a display with the Tivo. Honestly. The Tivo has the lifetime subscrption on it. Spiffy.

The replay does not seem to boot. The batteries and the battery compartment cover were missing from the remote. It will be fiddled with. Keep wtaching this space. Both of them needed a good cleaning, there was all sorts of fluff inside. Yes we violated the warranty on the replay in order to do this but the Tivo seemed to have no little stickers informing us of this.

2007-04-07 Tivo and Replay

Somebody really went to town and bought both a Tivo S2 and Replay. Then, some time later they apparently tossed both of them. Investigation will proceed into the gems of television culture left behind on the HDs. Both remotes are present, as shown in the pic. Tivo is only the 80G model, not sure abnout the Replay's HD size. For now, a pic, watch this space for more details later.

2007-04-07 Speakers

A set of fancy logitech surround sound speakers and suchlike. All very fancy and of little or no use for us but again exactly what a friend wanted. Straight into the arms of a happy new owner.

2007-04-07 Printer

A fancy looking HP printer. Guy who tossed it said it worked fine so figured it was worth a look. Tests out fine, ink is low but all the vaious modes of operation seem to work.

Found at the same time but not related I think is some printer ink new in the box. One in date and one expired. Ebay for the good one.

2007-04-07 P3 Dell

An acquaintance asked me, "Have a you a junky machine I could put OpenBSD on to make a home firewall?". Off we went looking for such a device and we found a nice Pentium 3 Dell PC in small form factor. I loaded him up with lots of spare ethernet cards and a extra partial machine or two for even more spares and hopefully he is now firewalling away.

2007-04-07 Firewire kit

A firewire enclosure that looks like it was made to appeal to 1st gen iMac users. Really ugly. But that is OK because again it was just what somebody wanted, now hopefully being used by its new owner.

2007-04-07 Bubbles

Some bubbles stuff, mysteriously abandoned but fully functional. Great for offspring entertainment purposes.

2007-04-01 Pack and Play

Graco 3-way pack and play, almost new, with changing table, net cover, canopy etc etc. Again, super fancy example of its type, almost new but no use to us. Already sold.

2007-04-01 Combi Dual

Combi dual stroller in almost new condition, a very recent model, if not still a current model. We never knew these things came with so many features:

• Folds two ways to get super small (relatively speaking).
• 3 cupholders for offspring usage
• 2 cupholders plus handy little bag for the driver of the contraption.
• 5 point harnesses, usable as 3 point in the fortunate event your offspring is not pathologically inclined to launch self forward out of stroller (we have never used a 5 point harness in a stroller and our offspring lives yet).
• Fully reclining seats.
• Accepts a car seat (only one at a time though).
• Individually detachable hoods with the little flaps and windows in the back of them.
• Shoulder carry strap.
• Foot pouch thingies.
• Other usual stroller things like brakes etc.

This thing has more features and special thingies than our cars. No way we need all that stuff or any dual so off this goes to craigslist.

2007-03-30 Dell

Dell Pentium 4 1.7Ghz PC with 256M RAM and a 40G HD. Has the funky paired memory with blanks required for unused slots. Bit of a pain. Machine had Windows XP install and hung for no real reason late in boot process, seemingly just prior to login. Eh, who cares, Knoppix is the answer. (But then also note that for some rather large set of computing machinary related questions or problems, Knoppix is the answer). Points to note on contents of HD:

• Family had Canon PowerShot A60 and curiously neglected to take a picture of the computer or of the box the Canon came in. How weird, though I suspect they had a prior machine when they bought the camera. Zero points for self-referentiality anyway. Pics of kids and Temple Sinai all over the HD, in fact everywhere except the My Pictures directory.
• Family also have some form of scanner and was digitizing various older pics and diagrams etc.
• No digital audio or video media.
• No word docs etc.
• No porn except for the possibly inadvertant image file in cache named penis_enlargement_stretcher[1].jpg.
• Beanie Babies and Baseball in the cache directory, how curiously appropriate, both are completely pointless by design and each markets multiple functionally exchangable instances of the same thing.

Pic shows what might be the family dog winking with one eye and getting redeye with the other. Maybe it knew it was destined to have this picture shown on the interwebs??

2007-03-29 Athlon

Compaq Athlon 1.3GHz with 500M RAM and 75G HD. Has a whole family's worth of users on it. Yum, delicious found data. Machine bluescreened on boot and seems to have io errors on the disk. But then also the main 71G partition is absolutely stuffed full, zero bytes available. Highlights:

• Program Files/Microsoft AntiSpyware is 4.1 G in size.
• An older male offspring has complete downloads in watchable but annoyingly bad quality of The O.C..
• Also a 90 minute porn movie, Ninfas en Hawaii, again pretty sketchy rip from DVD, seems like it was torrented. Two differently named copies present on HD.
• 10 or so topless pics from some female acquaintance of aforementioned offspring, She is referred to in AIM logs as his "hot cousin from Anyville". Note I changed the name of the town to protect the terminally clueless. She seems very proud of her mammary glands.
• Assorted porn pics sprinkled throughout caches, AIM logs and other random places.
• Lots of home movies involving the various younger offspring, edited and snazzed up with small stories etc and MSpaint style intertitles.
• Lots of AIM accounts with 4036 sessions recorded, along with pictures etc. A totally randomly chosen one (really!) starts like this (anonymized again):

   
     Friend (10:00:07 AM): yo
     User   (10:00:09 AM): yo
     User   (10:00:11 AM): what up killa
     Friend (10:00:15 AM): nm u
     User   (10:00:19 AM): nm'
     Friend (10:00:37 AM): you were supposed to call me yesterday douche bag
     User   (10:00:48 AM): i know cocksucker
     User   (10:00:54 AM): if i had something to tell you yet, i would have
     Friend (10:01:13 AM): what about the summer shit
     Friend (10:01:18 AM): send me an email
     User   (10:01:50 AM): oh yeah
     User   (10:01:55 AM): aight, i'll get on it
     User   (10:02:00 AM): those things are hard to find
     Friend (10:02:20 AM): wha d o you mean
     User   (10:02:58 AM): like,  it's  hard  to  find  good college
                           programs that aren't like all work for five weeks
     Friend (10:03:13 AM): oh yeah
     Friend (10:03:26 AM): is it 5 weeks
     User   (10:03:53 AM): i dont think so, how long do you want to go for
     User   (10:03:54 AM): about
     Friend (10:04:30 AM): i dunno whatever
     Friend (10:04:43 AM): not really long like 7 weeks though
     Friend (10:05:02 AM): are there choices
     User   (10:05:26 AM): yeah, but im still lookingh
     User   (10:05:34 AM): i'll email you all the choices by tonight
     Friend (10:06:22 AM): ok ggt
     Friend signed off at 10:06:24 AM.
  

  Thus do the high-flyers of tomorrow spend their time today.
• Lots of crude MSpaint drawn images.
• Firefox installed, heavy usage on both it and IE.
• 1500+ iTunes plus assorted other P2P acquired music. Summary by "artist":

      389 Compilations
       92
       79 Outkast
       74 The Notorious B.I.G_
       71 Dave Matthews Band
       40 Van Morrison
       38 Bruce Springsteen
       34 DMX
       28 Creedence Clearwater Revival
       27 The Offspring
       24 Dropkick Murphys
       22 The Beastie Boys
       20 Bob Dylan
       19 The Jam
       18 Green Day
       17 Sublime
       17 Jimi Hendrix
       16 LWL
       16 Jerky Boys
       16 Bob Marley
       15 Paul Weller
       15 Chili Peppers
       15 Blink-182
       14 Red Hot Chili Peppers
       14 NaS
       14 Metallica
       14 J-Kwon
       14 Jay-Z
       13 Pearl Jam
       13 Lit
       13 John Mayer
       13 Incubus
       13 Guns N' Roses
       13 Bob Marley & The Wailers
       13 Black Eyed Peas
       13 Barenaked Ladies
       13 Alien Ant Farm
       12 Will Smith
       12 Nirvana
       12 New Found Glory
       12 Midtown
       12 Matchbox Twenty
       11 The Strokes
       11 The Streets
       11 Death Cab For Cutie
       11 Counting Crows
       10 Jojo
       10 Franz Ferdinand 

• 3000+ mp3s, too lazy to document them at present.

2007-03-28 Art

Unknown art of unknown provenance. It has been donated to somebody who may appreciate it.

2007-03-27 Wine Rack

A wine rack made from that modular wireframe shelving system whose name currently eludes me. It is complete with all the little plastic collets required fopr assembly (in the a tupperware box!), but I think it has never been assembled. Useful for a friend or a stranger via craiglist I suppose, we have no need for a wine rack.

Update: Traded to a wine-store owner for some fine wine but we kept the tupperware.

2007-03-24 Books

A pile of faintly interesting books. The salacious expos� into the secret ways and workings of tools is of interest to certain relatives who collect hand tools and the Bell System book is of interest generally, because all old Bell System stuff is cool.

2007-03-17 Delta Saw

A Delta compound mitre saw in rather nice condition. It is not the most recent type, which I think is a good thing as it feels pretty solid. It runs nice and smoothly of course and the hinge-down action is good. The blade is carbide tipped and fine for good number of cuts. This will be pressed into service in place of the previous one that had some issues.

2007-03-17 Dell P4

Most of a Dell Pentium 4 PC. No HD, cpu or memory. I have one exactly like this that has a bad power supply, hence this will result in one working machine plus a spare motherboard. Fine and dandy.

2007-03-15 Survival Manual

US Army Survival Manual reprint in OK condition. How useful. We may keep this as it has some nice plant guides and stuff in the back.

2007-03-15 New Old Stock Money

A fancy first 13 states special state quarter presentation pack, issued by the US Mint and the NARA. Hence this is technically New Old Stock coinage. This is of course useful for the fact that it contains 26 25 cent pieces, handy for toll money we think! Though maybe there is somehow more value in preserving the presentation in its entirety......

We are still faintly perplexed by the fact that this ended up in the trash. Who tossed this and what was their thought process? Answers on a postcard....

2007-03-10 Jogging Stroller

A lightweight jogging stoller in good condition. After some air in the tyres it is all ready and good to go, go on craigslist that is. The tyres are almost not worn at all, slight rust showing on some bolts.

2007-03-08 Cast Iron Radiator

A rather nice ornate cast iron steam radiator in OK shape. It has that nasty "heat transfer" paint on it that inspires so many arguments. Not sure if we will use this one or pass it on to our period--piece-o-phile neighbours.

2007-02-09 2x Micron P3

Two micron 1GHz or so Pentium 3 machines with Windows 2000 and Windows NT installed. The NT machine was almost totally empty (wiped?) and the Windows 2000 machine empty except for TurboTax usage and some evidence of moron grade web surfing (espn, weightwatchers, jrcigars, pgaofamerica being represented in the cookies). Courtesy of the tax records we have some detailed information on the people in question but they are just too boring for any further analysis. Not even any cool pics on the HD, no media, nothing. So much for this alleged digital media revolution we hear so much about.

2007-02-03 Fancy Stroller

A Sportrunner jogging style stroller that folds up pretty small for it's style. It runs well and is in OK shape. It works OK, unlike most strollers, it is possible to push it without kicking the rear of it all the time and the handle is at a reasonable height (though not quite high enough). It has a label written in hebrew on it so I am guess this is a super spiffy grey market model. Fine and dandy, it even came with a hat for very young offspring and a full bottle of spray-on sunscreen. The only thing really wrong with it was that the tyres needed a quick squirt of air, which of course promptly got.

2007-02-03 Allclad skillet

A nice Allclad skillet. It has a stainless steel interior lining in the aluminium main part. It is in very good condition. Should check on warranty availabilities on these, but meantime this one may be available.

2007-01-27 iMac Plus firewire

A late first gen iMac in good shape with a LaCie firewire casing containing a fast cd burner. The former owner is an executive with a large music company, in fact he even seems to be some guy in charge of digital privacy for said music company. Oooops! Recently the machine seems to have been used by the young offspring of the family, learning to play chess and suchlike. Continuing our series of self-referential digital archeology, here we have a pic found on the HD, taken with a Kodak EasyShare CX6200:

Extra self-referentiality points for taking a picture of the screen with iPhoto open! Note that in common with many new digital camera owners the first pics they took documented the box the camera came in. How nice!

2007-01-13 Toshiba laptop

A Pentium 4 2Ghz Toshiba. This thing works very well except that the enter key is a little touchy, requiring a good tap to get it to work. The machine was unfortunately almost completely empty, no laughable user data here, move along. Picture of the machine shown here for no particular reason. The apple stickers are a little baffling, maybe they replaced this with an apple?

2007-01-13 Dell laptop

A Pentium 3 600Mhz Dell laptop in somewhat well-used shape. It boots OK with some encouragement and seems to work fine. On it we find:

• Some small sprinklings of porn in two of the users' caches.
• Some iTunes activity, all very boring etc etc.
• A fair few pics taken with an Olympus U710 camera.
• Some small file sharing activity.
• Some homework.
• Lots of google searches for specifics on historical english immigration to the US.
• A nice portfolio snapshot, seemingly indicating that the principal earner of the household gets lots of options.

Two pics shown, illustrating the physical house this household lives in courtesy of local.live and a juvenile female member of it indulging in her favourite high quality beverage with a friend.

2007-01-05 Powerbook

Mac Powerbook 667 Mhz, other specs as yet unknown. I know that the charge board does not work on this but that otherwise it might be fine. I have no power supply for it hence will have to borrow one to find out and test it a bit. Watch this space.

2007-01-02 Shelving

It may seem all very idle when you sit around and muse that in order to clean up one's apartment one needs a serious storage system for all the laptops and stuff lying around, but sometimes fortune smiles on the idle. 3 hours after exactly this type of musing, here we are, a special laptop filing system. It may need a couple of extra shelves but this is a good start.

2006-12-30 Ridged Wagner

A ridged base cast iron Wagner skillet. In nice condition, just needed a quick scrub and a cure. We already have one like this so this is up for grabs if anybody wants it.

2006-12-23 Firewire card

A firewire and USB2 card seemingly somewhat new in the box. Weird. I found it at the bottom of a big box of ethernet cables and such. This may get tossed into the Dell for good measure.

2006-12-23 Dell

Dell 2Ghz Celeron PC with 256M RAM, 30G HD and Windows XP installed. It seemed to have some trouble booting XP but knoppix worked fine. Primary uses for this PC were surfing and digital pics shot with their PENTAX Optio S. Pic shows the keyboard and screen from the machine in its former household. They had two very similar machines. The other was set up for use by a blind family member. This machine may join a certain cpu intensive project, once I have tested its cpu for its suitability for the task.

2006-12-23 CD case selection

A handy dandy CD carry case with lots of CDs inside. Windows ME with key and other such uselessness. The case is available if anybody wants it and the CDs are coasters (i.e. getting tossed).

2006-12-15 E-Machine

EMachines Athlon 1400, missing memory, 40G HD, somewhat dusty inside. Machine works fine with some borrowed memory. Lots of delicious things on the HD:

• 5 users with associated cache directories. Lots of cache hits indicating gaming and sports etc. No, or very little porn. 3 or so users may be juveniles.
• 500 or so iTunes including the following:

       77 Compilations
       28 Black Eyed Peas
       27 Norah Jones
       27 10,000 Maniacs
       25 Michael Tilson Thomas, Philharmonia Orch
       20 Christina Aguilera
       14 'N Sync
       14 Kelly Rowland
       14 Justin Timberlake
       14 John Mayer
       14 Jewel
       14 Counting Crows
       13 Coldplay
       13 Britney Spears
       12 Zero 7
       12 Vince Guaraldi Trio
       12 Sheryl Crow
       12 Seal
       12 George Michael
       12 Dido
       11 Sade
       11 Natalie Merchant
       11 Dave Matthews Band
       10 Sarah McLachlan
       10 Maroon 5
       10 Destiny's Child 

  Lovely. Listening to them now as I write up this page.
• Some 86 downloaded mp3s also, seemingly acquired using Limewire. Shortly before discard somebody had tossed all this stuff in the RECYCLER, and left it there. Including the following variations of some mildy famous chap:

        2 Emenem 
       13 Eminem 
        1 eminem
        1 Eminem Feat Dr.Dre 
        1 Eminiem  

• Also mp3 versions of some of the iTunes user ripped stuff was there also. This indicates I guess that they ripped a bunch of stuff to mp3 then started with iTunes and reripped. All very confusing.
• A few word docs, work and school and such.
• Some evidence of ebanking including scans of cheques etc, including one big one to the IRS.
• Some pics taken with a Canon PowerShot A40.

Pic is one of a series found on the HD that were taken at a wedding. Amidst all the happy people attending there was apparently somebody who felt the need to bring a sickbag from delta airlines in their pocket. That says something about family occasions I guess.

2006-12-09 Netgear

Yet another netgear wireless NAT box thingy. Seemingly OK but we have not actually properly tested it yet. We were able to bring up the management interface and log into it after resetting the thing but have not got it working on an uplink yet.

2006-12-09 Calphalon Lids

Weirdly, two calphalon lids. Often we find the pans without the lids, but today the converse. We now have a huge surplus of lids due to the extra lids you get from doing returns. Calphalon lids anybody? They are nice.....

2006-12-09 Books

A pretty fine pile of books. Assorted novels and literature etc, all very interesting. An interesting combination of cookbooks and weight-loss books, mostly we do not pick these up. Also some really nice art books etc. The Sotheby's wine enclyclopedia we already found a home for. Some pics below:

2006-12-05 Worklights

Two worklights, as idly requested the other day while working on the house.

2006-12-03 HP Pentium 3

HP Pentium 3 800MHz with Windows XP installed and only 32M of ram. Astounding. From the pristine undisturbed state of the monster dust bunnies inside I would say that the 32M of ram was all that was in there the whole time and none had been removed before we got to it. The dust bunnies were the worst I have seen in a while. Needless to say, bearing in mind the memory size, the thing took for ever to boot. Lots of family pics and stuff, a few word docs, kids' homework etc etc etc. iTunes installed with just a few pieces of media, Limewire likewise. This picture was on the HD and is particularly notable in the self referential sense because it shows the HP machine itself that we found the picture on but also the box from the Sony camera that took the picture (as confirmed in the exif headers).

This machine has a new home with a friend of a friend already. We tossed in a 256M ram chip we found seperately. So now the machine is not so very bad and might have another life ahead of it.

2006-11-20 Kitchen Sink

Stainless steel kitchen sink complete with Moen single lever mixer faucet and snake squirter. It looks to be in near perfect condition and came up super shiny after a quick clean. We are looking into a new kitchen sink for ourslves but we want an under-counter mount. Hence this one is straight off to craigslist as the last one was a roaring success there.

Update: Sold after a few hours on craigslist. Fine.

2006-11-20 Fire Extinguisher

A fire extinguisher, of distinctly vintage type. The primary reason this was picked up of course was for scrap brass but it seems pretty special and "period" so we may try to find a rabid fire extinguisher collecter to give us money for it. Ebay or craigslist might assist in this endeavour.

2006-11-20 Art

Some art, details as yet unknown but investigations are is progress by those in a position to know. But is it art? We will see.

2006-11-18 Starbucks Card

Well, as I was mining a rich seam of discarded brass plumbing fittings ($1:50 a pound scrap value) a woman asked me if there were any wrought iron railings in the pile I was looking through. I replied that no, there were not, but the guy over there with the Ford Exploder and homemade plywood trailor had a whole load. After overcoming her various stages of incredulity at my apparent omniscience she arranged to offload the railings directly from truck to truck. In return for my handy indexing functionality (something I am known for in other areas) she gave me a starbucks gift card for 5 USD. That counts for this page because I found some free discarded stuff and traded knowledge of it's whereabouts for the card. But, can you still get a drink at starbucks for a paltry 5 USD? I guess I will see.......

2006-11-18 NAT box

Linksys NAT box. Looks to be in good shape, untested as yet. This is pretty surplus so if you need one of these it is yours to play with I would think.

2006-11-08 Bar Sink

A nice little bar sink, stainless steel complete with water pipe, taps and feeder tubes etc. Missing the snake or soap, though it looks like there was never a snake installed. The sink and taps are in good condition. We are currently looking for a sink but not this type, so this is available in a craigslisty type way.

Update: Sold in a very craigslisty way so no longer available.

2006-11-05 Water Feeder

Attached to the copper tubing from yesterday we dicovered a water feeder. As luck would have it this is the same model that we have. Ours has had a leaking problem for a long time and even though this one is pretty beat up we may be able to make one good one out of the two. Mmmmm, hybrid devices.

2006-11-05 Books

A nice selection of books with enough variety to please everybody. Pic soon.

2006-11-04 Weed Whacker

A Homelite Echo weed whacker. It looked so complete and spiffy that we took it home. After adding fuel and giving it a few cranks it started and ran and whacked weeds. Reason for discard seems to have been that it ran out of fuel. Cool. Pic shows it posed in the neighbour's driveway....

2006-11-04 Gateway P3

Random Gateway Pentium 3. Again not worth our time to fix up but worth a quick look at the bits. Boring, but here is the summary:

• Three word docs, boring.
• Huge cache directories, but no porn in there. Cache shows lots of golf and halloween costumes.
• No media (mp3s, video etc) or file sharing
• Shown below is one of the more interesting images from the MSIE cache:

2006-11-04 Dell P3

A run of the mill Dell Pentium 3 PC which did not seem to want to boot. Seems in OK shape though, it will be passed on to somebody who has more time for machines this old. First though, a quick look at the HD reveals a happy family lifestyle. Some salient points:

• 83 excel docs including taxes and such ($325000 revenue, $113000 deductible for the year I looked at)
• 166 word docs, all subjects, business and pleasure.
• A fair amount of porn in caches, much of it branded bangbus.com.
• Lots of evidence of surfing looking for dogs and pigs
• Notable google search, and this is verbatim: "pat benetar play ing her g". What does this mean we wonder?
• Lots of happy family pics, including this lovely self referential one. Random family members in foreground of course but the Dell this picture came from is visible behind. Presumably that word document they have open is something I now have a copy of.

2006-11-04 Bin

A nice galvanized storage bin which we will use to store our accumulating pile of scrap copper, of which today there was a fair haul. Somebody tossed their entire furnace plus lots of pipes and peripherals.

2006-10-20 Switches

Two 100baseT switches, mildly antiquated by the standards of their industry, but seemingly OK, one 8 port and one 5 port. Thes will be tested and made available for anybody who wants them. Rob? Charlie? Also present were some junky hubs and a very old laptop, left that other stuff.

Update: both tested out OK, each has power supply etc. Get them while they are hot.

2006-09-25 Calphalon

One Calphalon Contemporary omlete pan like this. These are the middle of the range versions and not nearly as nice as the "commercial" or "one" range. This one has a loose handle and a lifetime warrantly so we will find something to do with it.....

2006-09-16 Puters

A nice selection of computing hardware. First an e-machine Celeron 2.0Ghz PC, 256M ram but no HD. Also an e-machines Athlon 2400, same source as previous, again no HD but has memory etc. Pic shows the Athlon but the Celeron looks almost exactly the same:

Next a Dell Pentium 4, complete with everything. Watch this space to see how much completness there is in the data on the 40G HD. I think this is identical to a prior Dell Pentium 4 we had.

2006-09-16 Peripherals

A fancy netgear NAT box and vpn thingy, plus a netgear 802.11g access point and NAT box. Both untested but so far they look in fine shape. One or both may get deployed as they both have advantages over their equivalents that we are currently using.

2006-09-16 Mower

Another happy little push lawn mower, same brand as our previous ones. This one is in very good shape in the blade department, having been sharpened and set recently, but the handle is a little beat up. No problem, it will get the handle off another one that has a cracked cast iron side casing and all will be well. Shown here before its rennnovations.

2006-09-16 Atari

Atari 5200 supersystem plus a whole bunch of extras. It mostly looks like it has not been used, all very special. This will be tested and maybe some action stills posted later but for now just a boring ebay style showcase pic.

2006-09-13 Updated update

The 3 foot pipe wrench was required to remove a radiator. Tried the 18inch model and did not work but the 3 footer cranked it right off. How fortuitious that it turned up a week or so in advance of when it was really needed.

2006-09-10 Updates

The pipe wrench got further cleaning and restoration to original manufacturer colours. Pretty much anyway. It is now in fine shape, as evidenced by this pic. It is pretty old but seems in good shape modulo the surface rust it had on it when it was found. I am sure we will have a use for a 3 foot pipe wrench at some stage.

Also the calphalon 8qt stock pot came back from its excursion to warranty-return-land and went, via ebay, on a journey to the house of a complete stranger. The 10inch omelet skillet went straight from warranty-return-land to a friend of a friend as a gift.

Upon detailed investigation, the dualit 3-slice toaster had one element dead inside. The thing has quite a history already as an acquaintance had asked me that day, "hey, could you find me a toaster?". I thusly found that toaster but he declined to take it as he was pushed for baggage space etc on his plane trip home. After we played with it and grokked the mechanism we liked it, hence our discovery of the bad element (reason for discard?). Another aspect of this toaster we like very much is that you can get replacement parts for it, hence we did so and voila, we have a "new" toaster. Sure beats buying one.

2006-09-09 Lego etc

One set of underwater technical lego, complete enough to be convincing. Seems fine. This was donated to some form of remote cousin, hopefully providing some small moment of childhood happiness.

Also a couple of sets of K'nex, well populated though obviously we have no idea of their completeness, should that even mean something with this product. Donated to yet another remote cousin, in fact a 1st cousin of the aforementioned remote cousin. Again, seemingly happiness ensued.

2006-09-09 Books

Some books, including but not limited to those in the picture below.

2006-09-09 Baby Seat Grab Bag

Lots of this is catching up with stuff we found a while ago, but certain readers have been nagging us to update here so off we go. Lots of baby seat stuff. For example here we see a brand new never been used Eddie Bauer infant seat. We offered this to a friend who has impending offspring and he informed us that his wife wishes to buy everything new. Well, this is new, just not bought by you? Whatever.

Further a couple of Evenflo seat bases, these are usually good for craigslist or some such.

Also an Evenflow complete baby seat, ready for use etc etc. Not seen much use hence it will be good for somebody at some stage.

2006-08-20 Non-ferrous redux

We finally amassed enough non-ferrous scrap to fill a military surplus missile resupply trailor and wandered down to trade it in for cash. A few hundred pounds of alu at 61c/lb, a hundred plus of brass at $1.30, a hundred plus of lead at 16c and a load of copper at $2.50. They issued us a handy little receipt to take to the front desk and they dished out several hundreds of dollars for us. Cool. They even unloaded the trailer for us with great dispatch, better service than one gets at many restaurants.

2006-08-10 Platform

A painting platform type thing, used for painting the ceiling or reaching into high places with better freedom of movement than on a ladder or chair. This was almost destined for scrap Al but we thought it would prove useful at some stage so gave it to a friend on condition we might borrow it at undertermined times in the future. Oh, and yes it is in fact new in the wrapping?!?

2006-08-05 Scooters

Visiting friends appear with their two genetically programmed terrorist offspring, what should one do to amuse them, we all say? Well it so happens that we found two nice alu scooters that were adjustable in such a way as to provide amusement devices for their age groups. "Engage!", we all cry and deploy the scooters in a frantic ploy to distract the monsters from tall buildings etc. Success........

2006-08-03 Hookah

Not especially special but there it was, all discarded and lonely. A silver hookah. It was promptly donated to one that might appreciate its charms.

2006-07-29 Puter bits

6 sticks of PC100/133 memory and a HD. Pretty junky stuff but the memory sells well on ebay in nice assortment style lots and the HD is handy for fixing crappo machine for people. No pic for now, you know what this junk looks like.

2006-07-29 Life vest

Life vest, US Coastguard Approved, to suit some particular mass range of human offspring. This mass range is destined to be attained by our particular offspring at some stage and hence this item will put this aside for that day. Pity about the nasty imagery on it.

2006-07-08 Pipe Wrench

36 inch Ridgid pipe wrench, after a cleanup it looks a lot better and may be kept lying around for future usage. Maybe a little refurb first though, it deserves some paint I think and a cleanup.

2006-07-08 Maclaren Double

Double Maclaren stroller, all seems in good shape, just a little dusty. CR for this I think, as soon as we get ourselves organised.

2006-06-17 Griddle pan

Calphalon square griddle pan with corrugated base. It is almost brand new and has probably been used just a few times, but it was dirty and hence got thrown away. It is very like this one but not non-stick. We have cleaned it a bit already but we have no use for it so it is yours for free if you want it and you get to clean it. The dirt comes off with a little persistence.

2006-06-17 Copper Skillet

This is a very similar thing to that skillet above but copper with a brass handle. It has a tin lining that is coming off, hence the thing is no good for cooking as we do not want to ingest lots of copper. Now it could either have some non-food use or contribute to the brass and copper piles for the non-ferrous scrap. Anybody want it? It is quite ornamental. Made in Italy.

Update: It is possible to get these things retinned, or to do it yourself. Nice! I may have to give it a try, although I am still not really interested in this particular skillet and hence it is still available to any who want it.

2006-06-17 Calphalon

There appeared in the air a flying object, saucer-like but with a handle! The elite UFO investigation team that reached the point of impact were pleased to identify it as a Calphalon 10inch non-stick omelet skillet. The point of impact was of course a scrap metal dumpster and the person who launched it through the air had apparently no further use for it. Reason for discard, bowed bottom, which is conveniently also a fine reason for warranty return......

2006-06-17 Bikes

A really nice panasonic steel frame in excellent shape, completely stripped. Also an old and rather classical and stylish Hunter 3-speed with Brooks leather saddle.

2006-06-17 BBQ starter

We have been looking for a good one of these for a while. This one has a nice handle with heat shielding and a second handle to assist in the final pouring of the coals. It has some rust on it and other siugns of use but is in pretty good shape for something that has endured that sort of heat cycling. It has a nice size also. Tested it the same night cooking dinner on the BBQ, hangar steak, sausages, smoked pork chops, corn, brocolli rabe and potatos all cooked over that fire. We added no further coals after initial starting in the chimney.

2006-06-13 Jogging Stroller

Random jogging stroller as shown in the pic. Seems to work fine. Also, another one not shown. It had folding issues but now I oiled it it has different folding issues. We will see about that one.

2006-06-11 Outdoor Table etc

A Wood Classics teak table, with four matching chairs and a matching bench. They are all in OK shape and will be cleaned and oiled for our use. Fortuitous really, we have been discussing redoing the patio and getting a better table for it as the current one is starting to rust. Curbside bulk garbage day offers a great in-car shopping experience. Here is a pic showing the table and bench after some cleaning and some teak oil, chairs yet to be prettyfied. Note patio underneath that really needs doing, where am I going to find free discarded patio materials we all wonder?

2006-06-10 Pool book

I got this for the custodian of the pool table we found. Not that he is an idiots or needs to learn more about pool but it can sit next to the table in case an idiot does show up.

2006-06-10 Overhead Panel

Probably useless but somebody might want it. No power supply unfortunately.

2006-06-10 O2 tanks

Two large oxygen tanks. They look to be in good shape, latest test dates 2000 and 1994. They are available for anyone who wants them, failing that I may try to see if there is a deposit on them I can get. Crappy pic taken in dark garage in the middle of the night, sorry about that.

2006-06-10 Maclaren Double

The last one of these Maclaren Double pushchairs went for a pile of cash on ebay so we will try the same with this I think. The last one had a small break in the hood but hopefully this one will turn out to be in fine shape upon further investigation.

2006-06-10 Dualit Toaster

A nice looking Dualit 3-slice toaster. I initially got it for somebody else but we might keep it for ourselves now. I have never played with one of these before, they seem quite nice and simple. The previous owners had even been so thoughtful as to empty the crumb tray before tossing it out. How nice.

2006-06-10 Calphalon

Eight quart stock pot, regular aluminium with the hard anodised finish worn off somehow on the inside, see pic. It is actually in much better shape than the picture makes out, almost new in fact. It is as if the former owners cooked up a pot of acid in the first week they owned it and that scoured the inside but left the rest relatively pristine. This is going for a nice warranty return and will come back all super spiffy and shiny.

2006-06-10 Bike Rack

This is a request item for a friend who needs it to move a bunch of bikes he is acquiring from us, they of course appeared on this page at some point. The photo makes it look like there was a brutal mnurder or some such involved in acquiring it but that is just water etc that seems to look sinister in the depths of the night. Honest.

2006-06-03 iMac 400

iMac 400. These things are getting pretty dated now but they will still run OS 10.4 with enough memory chucked in. This one boots OS 9 and has some video issues but maybe they are the special firmware thingy. Will find a home somewhere if we can make it work, and maybe if we cannot. We have one or two iMacs in stock in case anybody wants one to tinker with, they run Ubuntu nicely.

2006-06-03 Two bikes

Two slightly dated racing style bikes, a Schwinn and a Univega. Both are slightly heavy compared to their really modern counterparts etc but are in nice shape. Both are already in new home with happy users, sketchy pic of this one with tyres pumped up and rideable.

2006-06-03 Dell P3

1GHz Dell Pentium 3 PC with a nice 256M RAM chip and 10G HD plus DVD rom. We got this mainly for sending to certain avid teenaged tinkerers (you know who you are!). It does not seem to boot (hardware/power supply issue) and has linux installed on it. Whole or in parts it will still be sent off. Pic shows it pulled apart so that I could inspect the HD on another machine (yours Charlie) using knoppix.

Update: After reseating memory, CPU, HD and all motherboard connectors this PC now works fine. Canadian rebuild strikes again! Currently running knoppix on it watching Ultraviolet with xine as a test of the machine. Check out the screenshot of this here, Dr March is just cleaning up Mike's leech bite. Machine will now be sent complete with extra parts added in rather than as extra parts itself.

2006-05-27 Stainless thingies

Somebody had zip tied 3 bosch oil pumps together and plumbed their inputs and outputs together with very fancy stainless tube fittings such as those sold on this page . As we often purchase and use fittings just such as these we dismantled the assembly, tossed all the junk and the pumps and kept the fittings. Spiffy, the collection included stuff such as these in sizes such as 1/2 inch tube and 5/16 inch tube resp.:

The whole arrangement looked pretty new so I suspect the construction was rather speculative and did not work. And no Rob, these pumps would be no use for your your reclamation setup. For other things maybe some use. Pic of them hangining out between on a shelf

2006-05-27 Stainless Drum Dolly

A newish stainless steel 55 gallon drum dolly. These are not cheap, check out McMaster again here ,l item number 2608T14 near the bottom. I have no real use for it so it is up for grabs (Christine??) before I try and find somebody to pay for it. Or maybe I should expand my own oil reclamation activities?

2006-05-27 Scrap Brass Update

The brass we found was 135 lbs and scrap brass is now USD 1.70 per pound. Woohoo!

2006-05-27 Scrap Al

No, not the long lost imitator of Weird Al . Al as in the element, or alloys thereof. We finally caved in and picked up some scrap aluminium, mostly because we found a whole pile of good solid chunks of it. It is not as valuable as copper/brass etc but when you find chunks weighing 20 lbs it becomes worthwhile to collect

2006-05-27 Puter parts

Some memory and a 30G HD, blah blah. Memory will go to ebay as part of a job lot. The HD had the following salient points:

• The cache directories were an estimated 90 percent porn pics. No specific style of porn on the whole, one or two gay porn instances did pop up though .
• The remainder of the cache was mostly airsoft or paintball guns. Mmmmmm, now there is a classic combination: guns and porn. I was actually quite astonished by the near total lack of anything but porn and guns in 1200+ cached jpgs. Now that is a dedicated web surfer!
• Kazaa was installed, with a "My Shared" directory of 727 mp3s with that acquired look about them. Naughty. Music sampling pretty standard, a rough rundown of popular artists:

       21 tom petty
       10 red hot chili peppers
        9 bruce springsteen
        8 led zepplin
        8 eagles
        8 dispatch
        6 tupac
        6 led zeppelin
        6 kc
        6 frank sinatra
        6 bob marley
        6 50 cent
        5 will smith
  

• Lots of junk installed like dodgy looking games etc
• Some spyware/adware stuff plus multiple anti-spyware/anti-virus thingies
• Big fat "recycled" directory. I guess before tossing the machine previous owner has "cleaned up".
• Found in recycled, lots of pics taken with a Sony Cybershot camera and showing a happy family christmas.
• Also in recycled, two ripped CDs. Note that this dude had "deleted" his more legal music and left all the illegal stuff in place before tossing the machine. There is a story here somewhere.

All in all a nice view into the life of a "normal" internet user. Very satisfying to see some nice cliches fulfilled. Here is a pic from the family Christmas Trip to Radio City Music Hall, at least from what I can gather. Do they let you take pics in there, maybe this pic is illegal also?

2006-05-26 Buckles and such

We found a fancy rucksack/carryon converter bag with lots of fittings on it. Bag was a little decrepit but the snap fittings etc were good so we cut them off. These will possibly be used in some form of custom offspring retention device, maybe as part of aforementioned homemade baby-bjorn project.

2006-05-24 Calphalon Update

The most recent 12inch calphalon frying pan we found has duly made its way back to us after having every part of itself simultneously replaced by the manufacturers under warranty. Nice.

2006-05-19 Printer

An Epson c84 printer, see here for example. Needed cleaning but seemingly works. Spiffy.

2006-05-19 Laptops

Two 500Mhz Pentium 3 laptops good for not much at all, ITC brand (who are they we ask, without caring to hear the answer). Donated to somebody who seems to value such things so fast that there is no pic, good turnaround.

2006-05-15 Tricycle

The existing tricycle that was deployed to amuse the offspring of guests was getting rusty, a testament to its permenant outdoor home. We found an new and inferior version today, inferior because it is plastic, but it will not rust I guess. It will just embrittle and fade. Either way it is on much better shape than the last one, o9ut with the old and in with the "new"

2006-04-30 iMac box

An iMac x86 shipping box. This will be sold to some mac user at some point. Bonus inclusion was all the docs and the OS 10.4.4 install/restore CD. Woohoo!

2006-04-29 Scrap Brass

We found a sufficient quantity of brass sitting on one place to incent us to pick it up. Probably a 100 or so pounds of it. This will all duly be converted into meat and wine via the arcane alchemical process of driving it to a non-ferrous metal scrap dealer and taking the money they hand over to the meat and wine repositories. I am not sure what the exact scrap price of brass is but I know it is unseasonably high. No pic for now, you know what brass looks like.

2006-04-28 Pool Table

A local dive bar has been purchased for its booze license and the new owners have decided to toss the pool table. We happened by at the right time and found a home for it. It is real slate and pretty heavy though the furniture elements are somewhat beat up from being in a dive bar the last 20 years or so. Pic shows it loaded into the trailor for transport to its new home. Those of you sneering at my prior perceived trailor snobbery should shut up now.

2006-04-22 iBook

A late model toilet seat is seemingly pretty good condition. It chimes when the power button is pushed but does not get any further that we can see. Various pieces will be sold to Mac dudes anxious for spare parts.

2006-04-22 Helmet

Either a WWI/II British helmet or a WWI US helmet. Pretty ratty but cool. I think it has only a small value on ebay but a friend of mine likes such things so we will show it to him. Any ideas what that insignia means?

2006-04-22 Drill

An oldish drill that still seems to function but is way too crappy for our usage. Not that we are drill snobs you understand, but we have several far superior models already. A friend wishes to have it so that is all well and good. I just wish he would have told me last week when I had to the chance to pick up a basic milwaukee drill for 10 USD almost new.

2006-04-22 Calphalon

Yet another juicy Calphalon 12inch omelet non-stick with the teflon worn off. We all know where this is going, it even looks almost exactly the same as the last one of this size.

2006-04-18 Plonk

At an estate sale, having selected lots of juicy items, I found some bottles of fizzy hidden in the tool cupboard in the basement. I brought them up from the basement for the attention of the bereaved daughter. The juicy items I of course paid for and hence they do not appear here except in passing. After I pointed out the value of some items I did not want however, I was given a bottle of the fizzy plonk, free stuff. We shall sample it at an approriate time. Pic shows the plonk in front of two of the super bargains I got.

2006-04-17 Taps and Extractor

Two threading taps (1/2 course and 12mm 1.5) and large stud extractor. Quite possibly handy things to have so they go into the machine tools chest for future use.

2006-04-17 Swirler

A swirler thingy for mixing or agitating things. It looks absolutely brand new and in fact the power cord that was right next to it was still sealed in its plastic bag. Upon first test it did not work but when I opened it up and gave it a hand assist start it ran fine. After that it started fine on its own. Special. It is an MS 450 Swirler by IKA, I guess.

2006-04-16 Hard Drive Fun

Aforementioned hard drive was found to have the following data:

• 181 word docs involving resumes, letters and random family business.
• Lots of wedding/bachelorette/honeymoon pics.
• Pic from other family events such as Uncle Jack's birthday etc.
• No audio media or filesharing software and only 2 movie clips of which one was mildy pornographic.
• No porn (modulo my quick check) in the cache directories, somewhat surprising
• Lots of bank account records and tax infomation in laborious detail.

2006-04-15 PC Parts

Some random PC parts, memory, HD, good sound card, graphics etc etc. These will be sent to approriate users of such, including certain industrious teenagers intent on turning every PC they touch into a miraculous chimera of functionality. You know who you are...

2006-04-15 Outdoor Chair Legrests

Four intriguing legrests for outdoor chairs. By great good fortune they even fit on our teak chairs. I do not really like them but we will see what shall become of them. Example shown here attached to one of our chairs.

2006-04-15 Jack

Jack not name, Jack job. All very fine. This thing works sort of but needs some work. It is however better than one of my other jacks (same source) so I may do that work and press it into service.

2006-04-15 Books

A nice selection of books. There were a whole bunch of them but I cherry picked a little. Includes Allende: Daughter of Fortune, Sobel: Longitude and some Discworld stuff (not shown).

2006-04-13 Le Creuset Pot

One red Le Creuset pot with lid in very nice shape. The inside was a little dirty but it seems to have cleaned up OK. The enamel is in OK shape inside (as opposed to having been worn down to the iron) so this is all ready to be used now. Check it out on Amazon.

2006-04-07 Keg

A 15.5. gallon stainless steel beer keg with Sankey connector on top. It was labelled Miller and was half full. We immediately conveyed this to our friendly neighbourhood brewpub so that I might incurr the brewmaster's gratitude. When I marveled at its good condition and the fact that it had been tossed into the general scrap metal some regulars at the bar pointed out that the fact that it was half full of Miller is enough to make any sane person throw it away. Indeed. No pic for now, you know what a keg looks like.

2006-03-28 Wheels

Two pretty nice Mavic bike wheels with Shimano 600 stuff on them. The tyres are fancy schmancy ones and brand new never ridden. These will go to a friend who has a possible need for such things.

2006-03-28 Mac Kdb

Present was iMac 233 Mhz or thereabouts but the only really useful parts was this keyboard. No sign of the mouse.

2006-03-11 Coat Rack?

This morning, while we were rennovating the back porch, somebody said, "Wouldn't it be nice to put a coat rack there?". Ask and you shall receive. This is not a coat rack but it seems to be some kind of heavy duty convergent evolution equivalent of one. The only markings on it say "Hub Rak". I have some spare hubs for the car mentioned above in the basement but I am pretty sure I will not be keeping them on this thing. Pic shows it after a slight clean, it is heavy guage galvanized steel with some slight rust on the "pegs". Maybe we will regalvanize it next time we do a batch?

2006-03-11 Car Seat

The offspring project has exhibited substantial growth in the longest dimension and has in fact outgrown the particular car seats claimed to be relevent to her age group. Hence we have been looking for nice example of the next size up. Voila, we found one today. The other car already has one (the denim covered britax previously seen on this page a while ago) but here is the new one installed into the car that needed one. It seems pretty much brand new and has good attachment straps.

2006-03-08 Snow Chains

A pair of pretty heavy and moderately old snow chains. They fit 7.50x16 and have some surface rust but seem in pretty good shape A test fit onto a convenient wheel went well. I have passed them onto a friend who may have need of these things. No pic, think piles of rusty looking chain and you will have the correct visual.

2006-03-01 Cast Iron

A medium sized cast iron campfire cooking pot complete with lid, it has never been used and had surface powder rust on it. I cleaned all that off and cured it and voila, you see it before you. Seems fine for all sorts of cooking activities.

2006-02-27 Media

We were given access to a newish iBook that was purchased on eBay. The iBook of course is not "stuff" for this page but the data left on it is fair game, i.e. it was unambiguously discarded and we got it for free. No cleanup had been done prior to shipping out the machine. As far as we can tell the story goes as follows:

• Previous owner, let us call him Arthur, is given a Mac laptop and told it is cool and he should "switch"
• Possibly with some assistance, Arthur manages to transfer a whole pile of stuff from his old Windows machine's "My Documents" folder over to his shiny new Mac including dubious Windows executables and various media.
• iTunes detected his music (600 plus songs sourced seemingly from filesharing in various formats) in this media pile and maybe Arthur was happy with that.
• Arthur was however probably unhappy that he could not get his new Mac to play any of his porn collection stored in some Windows Media Format.
• Hence Arthur decides that he does not like Macs.
• Hence the Mac was sold on eBay, complete with all his data, after only 14 boots (we checked /var/log/system.log*).

Here is gets a little self-referential. Below is a picture of the machine (we think) that we found on the HD of the machine itself, probably taken for the purposes of eBaying said machine. Of course, the machine itself is not actually "stuff" by our definition, but the picture of it was free and hence appears here.

2006-02-26 Spanner

Small spanner double open end with sizes 7/16 and 3/8. Better than a kick in the butt as these are pretty useful sizes.

2006-02-26 Cast Iron Pan

A 12 inch (lip to lip) cast iron skillet that says "Made in USA" on the bottom but is not a named brand. In very good condition with a nice cure on it as shown in the pic. Available to the first person who informs me that they want it.

2006-02-18 Laser

A Helium Neon Gas Laser. Hmm, how useful. These things sell for quite a price on ebay sometimes so I think we will get rid of it, will fetch a few dollars and make somebody happy. We did not find the power supply (12V) for it so have not tried it but seems in OK shape.

2006-02-17 Songbook

The New York Times Great Songs of Broadway. This will be for a friend who is more musically inclined than we are. Inclined towards actual production of music that is, and probably also consumption. These guys seem to want to sell you one.

2006-02-17 Ruler

A stainless steel ruler with centimetres and inches marked, useful in our household due to the mixture of mesurement needs, users and capabilities.

2006-02-17 Mac box

A shipping box for a recent 12inch powerbook complete with inserts and some pistacio shells. This will be sold to some rabid mac-head at some point. It is in very nice condition so it could be destined for the *mint* obsession crowd rather than the pragmatic "need a shipping box" crowd. Lovely.

2006-02-16 Update.

The Calphalon 4qt posted here 2004-12-10 and sent off as part of a warranty return batch has come back. We used it quite a lot prior to sending it off but the anodized finish had come off inside and we were always missing a lid. Note the before and after pics, before first

Instead of basic Calphalon Commercial they sent us Calphalon One, maybe they have discontinued the Commercial line? Pan is quite nice, lid is big improvement over some of the lids on the older Commercial line.

2006-01-27 PC parts

Pile of parts from a PC. On the HD we see the following:

• Alimony details.
• Full tax returns.
• Medical stuff
• Names, addresses, TNs and emails for the extended family etc
• A dusting of mild porn in the cache directories.
• A nice fancy resume with all sorts of businesslike claims and deals on it.
• Pictures of the offspring and extended family.
• A pretty vestigial Napster directory with such gems as Peter Paul and Mary and Matchbox 20. No contribution to our mp3 collection here, move along.

Below is a banner that the owner of this machine seems to have followed up on. AFAIK it seems pretty tame stuff (we did not check out the site) but the cache dirs display evidence of having sampled this site. And no, for those of you asking the question already this is none of our congressman, senator or governer. Still waiting for that stuff to show up, watch this space.

2006-01-24 Calphalon

Yet more calphalon, a 12 inch nonstick omelet and a 10 inch anodised omelet. Also a silicone heatproof handle cover shown in the pic sported by an unrelated pan. The big nonstick might be worn enough to be warrantied, or we might just use it. The anodised pan is dirty but in OK "well used" shape, nothing to warrant warranty replacement, so to speak. That may be sent to a friend who recently requested such things of us.

2006-01-22 Mac Monitor

A Mac studio CRT display, not the super huger size but a very nice monitor. This is being donated to winestore owner for his ensuing "conversion" over to Mac from Windows. He got a dual 1Ghz G4 donated (not from us) and I guess one must have all the right peripherals. Shown here being tested on an ubuntu machine lurking in the background that normally runs headless, the more astute amoung you may recognise that machine from its prior appearance on this page.

2006-01-22 Bike

A pretty new updated ladies bicycle. Updated in that it is a fairly traditional form and style but with fancy all new modern components. Tyres needed air and brakes adjusting and voila, a fine bike. Has that interesting super low first gear to remove need for multiple front chainrings.

2006-01-18 Gateway all-in-one

OK, picked up a Gateway Profile 400Mhz with 128M RAM, like this one. Booted fine into Windows 98, seems to work. Booted knoppix DVD on it and it seems to have trouble, optical drive trouble. Tried different knoppix CD, no improvement.

Parts are standard laptop stuff so I grabbed a DVDrom from a toshiba laptop, stripped off the toshiba mounts and IDE connection shim, and put the gateway stuff on it. Plonked it in and knoppix booted OK. Upon showing my achievement to a colleague, he grabbed the corner of the still dismantled machine and it went dead. Hmmm. No light, no bios, nothing. At this point I personally declared success because I had fixed what was initially wrong with the thing, but I suspected a warped motherboard had now killed the machine. For some reason he dismantled further. Getting close to fundamentals he tried a last test boot and it worked, hence we remantled piece by piece test booting as we went. Eventually was fully working and all together, change knoppix CD yet again to avoid a big piece of bitrot we dicovered and it works great.

Phew. Now, on the HD was a pile of word docs (homework assigment type stuff) , some porn movies, some music, Napster, Kazaa etc etc. Usual stuff, here are the top 20 domains previous owner got cookies from:

    138 sextracker
     88 go
     83 hitbox
     51 yahoo
     28 aol
     27 advertising
     26 sportsline
     25 co
     24 msn
     22 nj
     22 att
     18 weather
     18 porncity
     17 cnn
     15 gator
     14 porntrack
     13 villanova
     13 lycos
     12 mediaplex
     12 fastclick

Nicely representative I would think. This machine will become some kind of installed art at the hands of the Z dudes or something as it is quite a handy form factor for that.

2006-01-14 Some memory

Some crappo PC100 memory. Big whooppee.

2006-01-14 Loads of Calphalon

A nice batch of the basic Calphalon commercial stuff. These are the style with the plated, slightly crude cast handles. Specifically:

• 2x 2.5 Qt pots with one lid for such.
• 1x 1.5 Qt pot, no lid
• 1x lid for 5 Qt stock pot
• 1x lid for 8 Qt stock pot
• 1x 10.5 inch omelet skillet
• 1x 7.5 inch omelet skillet

Here are two of the pots pretending to be a happy set. These two will be sent off on Tuesday to be warrantied (loss of anodized finish inside...).

And the rest of it in a junkpile-like ensemble. These will be dealt with in due course. The lids we keep as Calphalon send you new lids when ever you return stuff. Finally we now have enough lids!

2006-01-14 Fancy bike

A super fancy Softride Windshear bike. It has loads of gears, fancy wheels, fancy bouncy saddle mount thing, and elbow bars. Missing one quick release skewer but otherwise in pretty fine shape. We may ride this for a while and then sell it or part it out. The mileage computer on the handlebars has 4000+ miles on the clock. No idea why it was discarded, though I talked to the discarder. I did not want to ask him why as he then might have reconsidered tossing it.

2006-01-11 Update - 12inch Omelet skillet

One of two things happened to the 12inch omelet skillet from 2005-10-29, either I got it renewed with the Calphalon lifetime warranty, or I stripped off the remaining nonstick, you judge by the pic what happened:

2006-01-10 Mac Keyboard

After having given away our last Mac full keyboard last week we conveniently found an identical one. Some kind of cosmic conservation of junk law seems to be in operatyion here, must investigate further. It had some form of coffee stain in one corner (compare, the one we just gave away originally had coca cola spilt on it) but when tested it all works fine. Quick clean and it is good as new, see the pic:

2006-01-07 Pancake griddle

Bottom of the range Caphalon pancake thingy similar to this. I have no real use for it but we will hang onto it as maybe one of you has a use for it??

2006-01-07 3x P3

Three Pentium 3 PC machines. First one, a small form factor HP with Windows 98 installed. It is now all happily upgraded to an 800Mhz with 256M Ram and donated to a worthy recipient. On the HD:

• Car porn, i.e. pics of cars the PC user in question will probably never own.
• A few mp3s.
• A few word docsuments.
• Pics of scantily clad females in IE cache, see here for safe exposition of what sort of things this entails.
• Google searches for Maggie Gyllenhaal and other assorted junk.
• Real porn pics in IE cache
• Shown below a montage of cache pics left over from what seems to be some online shopping for shirt/tie combos. No montage of the porn on this website!

Next machine, a Dell 800MHz with a fresh clean install of Windows XP on it, seems to have never been used after the install. Handy Dandy. Needs more memory and a network card but otherwise is ready for something. No pic.

Last machine, a crappy Gateway 500Mhz with barely enough ram to boot it's Windows 98 install. More to come on this one?

2006-01-05 Mac Kbd

Yet another Mac keyboard, very good condition, bright green back, lots of sparkly little stars stuck all over it. Works fine, no pic as I have Mac keyboard fatigue.

2005-12-31 Wireless card

Compaq iPaq PCMCIA wireless card, new in wrapper. Useless to us I think so will be sold or traded. Looks fancy and shiny.

2005-12-31 Sat TV stuff

Everybody is ditching satellite TV round here, maybe for HD cable? The hardware is pretty useless but some poeple want this stuff so we picked up an assortment of junk.

2005-12-31 Puter parts

Wow. A guy disposing of his PC decided to shred pretty much the entire machine with a knife and physically break every part he could in order to protect his data from those evil hacker ID thieves he knew to be lurking. Kudos to him for the right idea but his execution as a bit OTT. We salvaged his 1Ghz CPU, 256M PC133 memory, firewire card and some other junk. I think he kept the HD, which was all he really had to do, but who knows what stray data was lost on the motherboard? Extra 800MHz cpu sneaked into this ensemble pic:

2005-12-31 Laptop

Crapped out Compaq Pentium 2 Laptop that has broken screen. Not worth our time but somebody might want to fix/break it. We will see if anybody snaps it up on ebay.

2005-12-31 Carhart

A Carhart jacket. Modelled here by a transient guest, chainsaw purely optional, only used for modelling purposes. Don't try this at home. Nevertheless, jacket is pretty fine.

2005-12-30 Mac Keyboard

Yet another mac keyboard, quite a nice one with numpad and an interesting stain in one part. Works fine so was probably tossed because previous MacHead owner, being the supreme aesthete, did not like the stain, and upgraded to the newer version in purest white. Will come in handy at some point, sale trade or usage.

2005-12-24 Compaq Pentium 3

Middling useful Pentium 3 Compaq. 733MHz, 13G HD, 256M memory. Was previously used by employee of J. P. Morgan but did not have much on the HD. Either this individual never really used the machine or the thing was cleaned up by management stuff. VPN stuff and all sorts of shared drive links still in place so I think this machine was used a telecommute box by somebody who never worked from home. Pic showing the thing booting into a very self referential situation there, this page seen in picture on left hand monitor.

2005-12-24 Calphalon

Two calphalon items, both without lid. Why do people not throw their lids away with their high end pots and pans? How frustrating. This time a 2.5 qt sauce pan and a 3 qt shallow saute pan thing like this. We have one of the 2.5 qt already but the saute thingy is a welcome addition to the cookware shelves.

2005-12-17 Drive duplicator

HDS 8000 drive duplicator, makes up to 7 clones at once from an IDE drive. Read the manual as pdf here. I am guessing this was tossed because it does not do SATA. Either way, it seems to work so far, great for fast sneakernet parallelization or just cloning drives for servers (I need the SATA version for the servers I have in mind). If I had a cybercafe I would probably use it. As I do not, it may be sent to ebay or craigslist.

2005-12-13 Update

Of the four DVD players found a while ago the following has so far been ascertained. All are pretty fancy and play many media typres, VCD, CD, mp3 CD etc etc. Further:

• The sony works if you hand spin up the DVD to get it started. I.e. motor can spin the DVD and everything works but only if you help it to start up. Tossing this one.
• The super shiny Daewoo works fine. Sent to a wine store to assist in the creation of wine buying ambiance through playing of classical music.
• The Phillips seemed not to work but now works fine after having its various moving mechanisms exercised by hand. Stored for when a user asks for it.
• The other chunkier Daewoo, not yet tested.

2005-12-10 USB Mouse

An ever desirable USB mouse. Seems to work fine, pic shows it being tested out on a random laptop but will probably find a home elsewhere.

2005-12-10 Old Apple

Some old Apple II something or other. The last one like this went very well on eBay hence we will see if there are any takers for this, whole or in part. Not yet tested.

2005-12-10 Calphalon Pan

A small calphalon pan, minus lid. It is in very nice condition, a few scratches in the Teflon. Still waiting on warranty experiments on the last one listed here so not sure what we will do on this one. Picture shows it being pressed into service boiling up receptables recently relieved of their payload of 6 week old baby food.

2005-12-04 Rollator

A wheeled walker thingy. We actually picked this up a while ago but it slipped into the cracks in that clunky interface between real world and internet until now. While we do not currently have need of this particular assistive technology, we may in the future. But who knows, by then we might have gravitic-repulsor-micro-modules or some such nonsense. Mmmmm, maybe we should get rid of this then, perfect condition, made in Sweden, probably the Volvo of walkers, or the Saab? Might have to hit craigslist.

2005-12-03 Dell LCD

Dude, I got a Dell 1905FP 1280x1024 LCD display. Perfect for you high tech puter users out there! See, see how 1337 I am with my fancy screen and other bling bling? Unfortunately, see picture, this has some vertical lines on the screen. That is rather intriguing. This thing was made in May 2005 and according to Dell it has a 4 year warranty, so we may have to follow that path and see where it leads. Failing that further investigations will be made.

2005-12-03 Bungee

A Gunk brand rubber bungee thingy, pretty short one but brand new still with its label on. Always a handy item when one has a big fat roofrack and a trailor.

2005-11-26 Fireguard

A nice simple fireguard in good shape. Not that we have a fire of course but somebody I know will want it. Hal?

2005-11-26 DVD player

A Daewoo DVD player that deals with all of DVD, CD, MP3 CD, Kodak Picture disks. No VCD listed on there, strange. Anyway, looks like it might work though I have no need for it.

Also 3 more similar very modern DVD players found. Does this mean people are tossing their DVD gear for PC based home media centre equipment? MythTV or the M$oft equivalent?

2005-11-26 Bike parts

A partial bike with some good parts and some parts without a bike. Pic shows the partial bike and a skewer that came on a wheel that was bent but had a very nice hybrid tyre on it. Gear cluster was intriguing also but damaged.