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.

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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.