2004-09-10 Puters

One Pentium 2 400MHz Gateway. Seems damaged physically on the motherboard and is missing a cdrom.

One Pentium 3 Slot 1 style, missing memory, half the case and hard drive. Hmmmm, maybe I see a chimera coming on.

2004-09-04 Vise

Smallish, and potentially completely useless, swivel vise mentioned above:

2004-09-04 Mosquito Deleto

A new-in-box Coleman Mosquito Deleto 2100 device. Looks all special, its destiny is not yet decided but could end up joining some similar ones , Pic of ours here:

2004-09-04 Frame Saw

Interesting old frame saw that should provide entertainment for those collectors of old tools. It works, it was used to chop an old workbench in half for no particular reason, well maybe to facilitate extraction of the two vises bolted to it. Pic:

2004-08-26 Update: Loppers

The loppers from Tuesday, pictured below, have been used heavily over two days of clearing trees. They earnt us two bottles of fine wine so far and promises of more to come. For being so useful they got a quick canadian rebuild and coat of high visibility paint on certain parts.

2004-08-25 Fuel

Was a long way from home and hence out of free fuel, was forced to actually buy fuel! The horror. Put in 10 gallons only. Went to pay and noticed that the fuel stop had a food area, almost a cafe. I asked about their deep fryer oil and they showed me a 55 gallon drum of the best looking oil I have ever seen. It was not luck that I had three 5 gallon buckets with me.

They did not seem to understand that it was against their interest to give me that oil. Oh well.

2004-08-24 Puter Dumpster

A realtor type office seemed to have emptied itself, including lots of computing related items, into a dumpster. We made off with numerous items, inclucing but not limited to.

One Gateway Pentium 2 266MHz with no memory but a hard drive full of realtor stuff. Most entertaining. No porn though.

One Gateway Pentium 2 233Mhz yet to be investigated.

One unidentified Athlon type thing with lots of memery but no HD. DVD rom and CD-R still there all happy.

One Belkin KVM switch, two TV capture cards and assorted 168 pin memory.

Several Windows and Office install CDs. Great, just what we need.

Pair of ethernet crimpers and lots of cable ready to be crimped. These are probably the most useful thing in the dumpster even if they did draw blood. Pic:

Linksys wireless print server adaptor, not the sort of thing we would use but you never know we might find a use for it. More likely a customer for it. Pic:

Pair of pruning loppers. They seem to fully functional. They are not computer related but they sneaked in at the end here anyway.

2004-08-22 Fuel

Ten gallons of oil from a well known, if slightly touristy, bar. I will never be eating there as their oil was pretty brown and burnt. Slackers. Oil filtered quickly though and is all ready to go.

2004-08-10 Compaq Presario

What a grandiose name for such a piece of junk, one crappy Compaq Presario type thing with a ~350MHz Celeron, Windows 98, 8G HD and some weird and barely useful amount of memory. It has a CD writer which could always come in handy. More to the point it had Kazaa Lite installed with an extensive collection of "media", for want of a better word. In particular 1030 MP3s from such luminaries as:

     49 Metallica
     45 Aerosmith
     23 U2
     22 Rolling Stones
     22 Kid Rock
     17 Led Zepplin
     16 Rage Against The Machine
     15 Linkin Park
     15 Elvis Presley
     13 Red Hot Chili Peppers
     12 Dave Matthews Band
     11 Van Halen
     11 Steve Miller
     11 Offspring
     11 Guns N' Roses
     11 Bush
     11 Audioslave

Also there were some Seinfeld episodes and the obligatory sprinkling of porn. I bet if the owner is reading this he is really hoping I do not reveal his name and address further down this page. Oh yes and I now have a bunch of his passwords and his horrible homework assignments written in Word. Blech.

2004-08-07 Shredder

Yet another shredder, this one had a slight jam behind the power switch that the paper trips on the way in. Cleared with a pair of needle nose pliers (not even any dismantling with this one) and all ready for its new home. This one is not cross cut but goes very fast. Pic: