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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.