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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:

 

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.

Bedside Lamp
 

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.

Plastic Sheeting
 

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.

Mahogany
 

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.

Laptop junk
Laptop junk
 

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!

CD changer
 

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.

Jeep Stroller
 

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.

GPS
 

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.

Cast Iron Radiator

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.

Bike Rack
 

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.

Double Jogger

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?).

Maclaren Pushchair

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.

Peg Perego Pliko
 

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.

iBook
 

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.

iBook batteries
 

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.

Trek 820

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.

Teak Chairs
Teak Bench
 

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.

High Chair
 

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.

Jogging Stroller
 

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.

Cosco Car Seat
 

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.

Via 1U server
 

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.......

Double Jogging Stroller
 

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.

Trek Hybrid

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.

Radiator

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.

Double Jogging Stroller

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.

Double Maclaren Pushchair

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

Maclaren Pushchair
 

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.

Peg Perego Highchair
 

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?

Drumkit Hardware
 

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.

Sony 5CD Player
JVC 5DVD changer
 

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.

Record Player
 
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