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Well, this is a tricky one. I gave a short presentation about the things that go on on this page and backstage and the steering committee at the event in question decided I should be awarded a prize for my efforts, burgundy duct tape. They said that duct tape seemed highly appropriate for this particular effort. So, to recap the duct tape was free to me in terms of money but earned by pulling stuff out of the garbage, hence I judge it gets a place here.
A super crappy compaq USB keyboard complete with a full set of idiot buttons on it. Picked up because USB keyboards can often find a home in front of a mac, not because we need idiot buttons.
One Trek something or other bike, hybrid style. It had (gasp!) flat tyres but they pumped up fine and seem to hold air. Saddle was a bit ratty but we went back and pulled a better saddle of another bike that was toasted in other ways (bent forks). Reason for discard unknown (flat tyres maybe?). This bike is very nice to ride, an excellent compromise between road and mtn bike. In fact, in terms of general riding to actually get somewhere, better than any "mountain bike" and better than any "road bike". Fate of this thing is unknown, it will fetch up to 100 USD in the city but it is a very useful bike, so we may keep it.
A slot 1 Pentium 3 with firewire, CD-RW and nice sound card but missing CPU and memory. Could go either way, split for parts or pressed into service with somebody who might use it. No pic for now. Below you may peruse some exerpts from the budget of a person that we shall call M (abbreviation used to protect the terminally stupid).
| Monthly Expenses | ||||
| Madge | 800 | |||
| Stu Loans | 400 | |||
| Water | 50 | |||
| GPU | 200 | |||
| PSE&G | 200 | |||
| Cable | 80 | |||
| Groceries | 1,500 | |||
| Amex | 4,000 | |||
| Cars | 1,450 | |||
| Cash | 2,000 | |||
| Mort. | 5,833 | |||
| Household | 2,000 | |||
| Landscaping | 100 | |||
| Other | 1,000 | |||
| Club | 500 | |||
| Total | 20,113 |
The next bit has a units problem all round I think. Do not try and add up the second column and make it tally with what you spend unless you are prepared to allow errors on the scale that astronomers tolerate.
| Months | 11 | |||
| Yearly total | 221 | |||
| Other | ||||
| Insurance/Taxes | 25 | |||
| Vacation | 5 | |||
| Car Ins. | 4 | |||
| Life Insurance | 2 | |||
| Charity | 2 | |||
| School | 4 | |||
| Total | 42 | |||
| Total annualized | 274 | |||
| Monthly | 23 | |||
| Mortgage | $ 1,000 | $ 4.79 | 0.0575 | |
| Taxes | $ -0 | |||
| 2nd Mortgage | $ 250 | $ 1.04 | 0.05 | |
| 3rd Mortgage | ||||
| Insurance | $ -0 | $ -0 | ||
| Total | 5.8 | |||
| $ 1,250 | 12.5 | |||
| Total Mortgage | $ 18.33 | |||
| Total int. | 220 |
I did not see the 101 iTunes they had bought in that budget, I wonder where that comes in. Also this M was cunning enough to earn a fair amount of wad per month (judging by outlays etc) but seemingly unconcerned about the possibility of ID theft from his old HD. I will spare you the moronic obsession with sports that M seemed to be infected with. It's not big and it's clever.
Schwinn Traveler racing style bike. This one is made in japan and slightly later and less desirable than the others, but it is in excellent shape and will be sold off to some urbanite in need of transportation. No reason for discard became apparent during the brief look over it just had. Air in tyres, oil on chain, a quick wipe and ready to go.
White mac professional keyboard, looks in very good condition, no sign of american champagne on it but it sends consfused signals through its usb cable as far as I can tell. Either way, we have enough usb keyboards right now so this one may be going to visit Mr and Mrs Ebay at some stage, working or not.
Two socket style Pentium 3 IBM PCs in good shape, all complete etc. One with Windows 98 and one with Windows ME. I suspect reason for discard of the pair was that previous owner installed Windows ME on one of the two, saw how much of a complete dog it was, then tossed them both. They both orignally had Windows 98 on them. Brief summary:
These are now earmarked for good homes.
A nest of small side tables. Very modern. They seem OK and so will not be just used for their scrap aluminium value, we can find a home for them I think. The black finish is worn through in a few places but that just gives them "patina" as somebody I know would say.
A HP celeron small case and a Dell Pentium 3 slot 1 PC. Nothing special, one might go for parts to the cyber cafe and the other to a friend. Watch this space for the HD investigation.
A bizarre lawn edging device. It looks completely preposterous but must be worth something to somebody, even if just to a collector of weird tools. You ge to cut a swath of grass 6 inches wide with one side or flip it over to use the pizza wheel on the edges.
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