2006-03-28 Mac Kdb

Present was iMac 233 Mhz or thereabouts but the only really useful parts was this keyboard. No sign of the mouse.

2006-03-11 Coat Rack?

This morning, while we were rennovating the back porch, somebody said, "Wouldn't it be nice to put a coat rack there?". Ask and you shall receive. This is not a coat rack but it seems to be some kind of heavy duty convergent evolution equivalent of one. The only markings on it say "Hub Rak". I have some spare hubs for the car mentioned above in the basement but I am pretty sure I will not be keeping them on this thing. Pic shows it after a slight clean, it is heavy guage galvanized steel with some slight rust on the "pegs". Maybe we will regalvanize it next time we do a batch?

2006-03-11 Car Seat

The offspring project has exhibited substantial growth in the longest dimension and has in fact outgrown the particular car seats claimed to be relevent to her age group. Hence we have been looking for nice example of the next size up. Voila, we found one today. The other car already has one (the denim covered britax previously seen on this page a while ago) but here is the new one installed into the car that needed one. It seems pretty much brand new and has good attachment straps.

2006-03-08 Snow Chains

A pair of pretty heavy and moderately old snow chains. They fit 7.50x16 and have some surface rust but seem in pretty good shape A test fit onto a convenient wheel went well. I have passed them onto a friend who may have need of these things. No pic, think piles of rusty looking chain and you will have the correct visual.

2006-03-01 Cast Iron

A medium sized cast iron campfire cooking pot complete with lid, it has never been used and had surface powder rust on it. I cleaned all that off and cured it and voila, you see it before you. Seems fine for all sorts of cooking activities.

2006-02-27 Media

We were given access to a newish iBook that was purchased on eBay. The iBook of course is not "stuff" for this page but the data left on it is fair game, i.e. it was unambiguously discarded and we got it for free. No cleanup had been done prior to shipping out the machine. As far as we can tell the story goes as follows:

• Previous owner, let us call him Arthur, is given a Mac laptop and told it is cool and he should "switch"
• Possibly with some assistance, Arthur manages to transfer a whole pile of stuff from his old Windows machine's "My Documents" folder over to his shiny new Mac including dubious Windows executables and various media.
• iTunes detected his music (600 plus songs sourced seemingly from filesharing in various formats) in this media pile and maybe Arthur was happy with that.
• Arthur was however probably unhappy that he could not get his new Mac to play any of his porn collection stored in some Windows Media Format.
• Hence Arthur decides that he does not like Macs.
• Hence the Mac was sold on eBay, complete with all his data, after only 14 boots (we checked /var/log/system.log*).

Here is gets a little self-referential. Below is a picture of the machine (we think) that we found on the HD of the machine itself, probably taken for the purposes of eBaying said machine. Of course, the machine itself is not actually "stuff" by our definition, but the picture of it was free and hence appears here.

2006-02-26 Spanner

Small spanner double open end with sizes 7/16 and 3/8. Better than a kick in the butt as these are pretty useful sizes.

2006-02-26 Cast Iron Pan

A 12 inch (lip to lip) cast iron skillet that says "Made in USA" on the bottom but is not a named brand. In very good condition with a nice cure on it as shown in the pic. Available to the first person who informs me that they want it.

2006-02-18 Laser

A Helium Neon Gas Laser. Hmm, how useful. These things sell for quite a price on ebay sometimes so I think we will get rid of it, will fetch a few dollars and make somebody happy. We did not find the power supply (12V) for it so have not tried it but seems in OK shape.

2006-02-17 Songbook

The New York Times Great Songs of Broadway. This will be for a friend who is more musically inclined than we are. Inclined towards actual production of music that is, and probably also consumption. These guys seem to want to sell you one.