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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.
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.
A chunky and not so inelegant cast iron radiator for use with steam or water. Pretty fine, about 27x27x7 inches.
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.
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):
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
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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An iMac 800Mhz in fine shape, obviously used by the offspring of a household. Disk contains:
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
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
Knowing we have more framing and stuff to fiddle with, these seems to be most handy. Four 2x4 planks that are seemingly quite new.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Some bike stuff, we need to replenish stock to that we can sell to the hipsters for the spring bike awakening. No pics yet.
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.
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!).
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.
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:
Small cast iron radiator, usable for water or steam. Available until it sells on the list of craig.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A roll of plastic drop cloth. Super handy!
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:
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
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:
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.
The 2.8 benchmarked 12300 secs vs an existing machine's 15600 secs, and hence will be pressed into service.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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