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2007-08-29 iMac

One iMac g4 800Mhz in fine shape. Mostly unremarkable stuff, lots of pics and movies shot in Central America and lots of music in spanish. Note much in the caches and little else to poke around in. Maybe more details soon.

 

2007-08-29 P4 Compaq

A Pentium 4 Compaq 1.6Ghz 512 RAM that has to be one of the ugliest computers of the recent era. It has Windows XP installed on a 70G HD, does not boot and had a Windows 2000 install cd in the tray. Hmmmmm. Had kazaa installed with this lot in the "My Shared Folder"

04 - She Hangs Brightly - Mazzy Star.mp3
17 Tsunami.wma
Blonde Redhead 10-Mother.mp3
Blonde Redhead-The Gentle Waves - Ballad of Lemons.mp3
Cruxshadows - Insomnia.mp3
Finch - i miss you.wma
Joy Drop- All Too Well.mp3
Joydrop - Sometimes Wanna Die.mp3
Liam Lynch - My united States of Whatever.mp3
Local H - Bound For The Floor.mp3
Loudermilk- Insectica.mp3
Marylin Manson - Coma White.mp3
Mazzy Star - Before I Sleep.mp3
Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have.mp3
Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie & Roger Waters - Comfortably Nu.mp3
One True Thing - Dearest.mp3
Rasputina - Diamond Mind.mp3
Rise Against - Heaven Knows.mp3
The Get Up Kids - Out Of Reach (acoustic).mp3
The Get Up Kids - Overdue.mp3
The Get Up Kids - Stay Gone.mp3
The Rapture-Echoes-the coming of spring.mp3
The Weakerthans - Aside.mp3
The weakerthans jks- saint cecilia.mp3
at the drive-in - pickpocket.mp3
mazzy starr - Jesus and Mary Chain Cover.mp3
miranda sex garden - gush forth my tears (1).mp3
neutral milk hotel - king of carrot flowers 1.mp3
 saves the day, new found glory- words unspoken-The Get Up Kids.mp3
tapping the vein - Sugarfalls.mp3
tapping the vein - crushing.mp3

Machine was probably used by a whole family, many of whom are pictured in the photos and decribed in the resumes left on the HD. One is a very accomplished resume writer. Also they are Ukrainian in origin and hence had lots of cyrillic web stuff in caches. Here are some very language-like google searches made by the teenage girl of the household, we guess that some of these are homework but some of them are not. Can you guess which are which?

 how are fossils used to identify rock layers? 
 how did avagadro come up with his number? 
 how did avogadro come up with his number? 
 how did the twelfth amendment change presidential election? 
 how does lorenzo's oil work? 
 how do humans interact with their enviorment in the state of washington? 
 how do humans interact with their environment in the state of washington? 
 how many chromosomes are in two new daughter cells? 
 how many people in the world have wilson's disease? 
 how to calculate scientific notation 
 how to draw mouths 
 how to feng shui a bedroom 
 how to give oral sex 
 how to give oral sex to a male 
 what's gwen stefani's favorite lipstick? 
 what are some sites that are used to start and store online diaries? 
 what are the seven deadly sins 
 what did colonists do to rebel the sugar act 
 what events caused the war of 1812? 
 what events led to the war of 1812? 
 what events led up to the war of 1812? 
 what is a virtual image in science? 
 what is erucic acid 
 what is neon light 
 what is neon light in physics 
 what is radioactive dating? 
 what is the definition of a virtual image in science? 
 what is the definition of neon light in physical science? 
 what is the definition of neon light in science? 
 what is the difference between d-amino acids and l-amino acids? 
 what led to the war of 1812? 
 what problems in india facing as a result of modernization? 
 what problems is india facing as a result of modernization? 
 what processes in the human body produce carbon dioxide? 
 what was the balfour declaration? 
 where can i start an online diary? 
 where is amsterdam 
 who discovered wilson's disease? 
 who has wilson's disease 
 who was james oglethorpe 
 who was william penn 
 who won the war of 1812? 
 why are the plasma membranes of plant cells hard to see? 
 why did jean de bueil build the chateau usse? 
 why was palestine not granted independence from great britain? 

A cross-section of teenage girl stuff I guess, especially with the search for pro anorexia websites added in. 75 unique lyrics related searches also in the mix, etc etc. To finish here is a nice picture that was on the HD, in the mother of the family's space.

flowers scan
 

2007-08-28 Wire Basket

Wire basket at the side of the road in curbside garbage. Shown in pic fulfilling new duties, i.e. storing hard drives. Handy Dandy.

wire basket
 

2007-08-26 Update

The mahogany we found turned out to be fancy porch floor planking. Some of it has already been deployed in the construction of this essential piece of hardware.

mahogany plinth
 

2007-08-25 Random Tools

A tool chest (rusty and crappo) filled with a selection of interesting tools. Including but not limited to the following. A Remington powder gun thingy for blasting things into other things, some surface rust. We have no use for it so it is available.

remington powder tool

Some solder. This stuff does not go bad and we are always running out of it.

roll of solder

A tasty selection of fanbelts. We tossed all the dry rotted ones and kept this sub-selection. These will be donated to an individual we know who has great need for a variety of these.

fanbelts

A set of valves hoses and torch for oxy-acetylene usage. The hoses are super long and may be in good shape. The valves and torch and pretty beat up. We will have to sinpect these for their potential usefulness.

oxy acetylene gear

Also present was a bit of scrap brass and copper, always handy in the sense that it turns into cash at some point.

 

2007-08-25 Bike

A rather dubiously named bike, Free Spirit indeed. It is not the most fancy thing in the world but is in pretty good condition bar the missing tube on the front wheel. It also required an air impact wrench to get the back wheel off, interesting stuff. We threw on the nice wheels from that trashed Mongoose a while ago and it is ready to deploy into the custody of some distant family member's horrible offspring.

free spirit bike
 

2007-08-19 Quick Fix

Some time ago we found a stainless steel rubbish bin, in the rubbish of all places, it probably showed up on this page. Or if not, should have been. The pedal never really worked due to overall cheapness of the mechanism and we just lift the lid all the time. A while ago we picked up a heavy aluminium pan for the scrap value and after we had chiselled the rivets off to toss the handles, the second handle had a use suggested for it. Pic shows it in action.

garbage lid handle
 

2007-08-18 Raleigh Bicycle

Raleigh LTD-3 bicycle in blue. This a is a classic made in Nottingham English bike in good condition. It has basically never been ridden, still the original tyres with a little dry rot but perfectly ridable. Chrome is all pretty good apart from on the optional extras, the speedo and kickstand fitted are crappo quality but functional. The chainguard is slightly kinky also, somebody may have hoofed it at some point. Brooks saddle (cheap version) also fitted. Rear luggage rack very useful.

raleigh bike
 

2007-08-18 Offspring Entertainment

Not sure what the name of this is beyond offspring entertainment centre, it has duplo stuff on top and beads on wires and pinball-like things. It seems to function correctly, i.e. it entertains the offspring, hence it will be deployed in such a role. It is in much better shape and much more multi-functional than the previous beads on wires thing, hence that will be tossed.

duplo centre

Also with it was a small bag for of duplo, shown here draining after a wash. The colander we had already.

duplo blocks
 

2007-08-18 Cuisinart Coffee Maker

This coffee maker is the same as the one we have in our lab so the carafe is handy to have for a spare. As suspected the coffee maker itself does not work, bad heating element, so that will be tossed and the carafe stored in the lab for that fateful day when we break the other one.

drip coffee maker
 
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