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.