Part 1 of what is sure to be a multi-part adventure.
 | Just in case I need to verify that my copy of WORDPERFECT is authentic. Pffft. |
 | This is a loop of reel-to-reel tape that contains the sample "SO RED... AND SO BIG. (BUUURP) ... AND SO RUDE TOO." Zog ran it back and forth across the pickup of a tape machine in the bowels of KDVS to make one of his promo carts, ten or eleven years ago. I still have a sample of that tomfoolery, somewhere. This would be a collectors item, if it wasn't so irretrievably, bone-headedly stupid. |
 | I will never, ever, EVER need to link two PHONE CABLES together to make one longer one. I haven't even had a home phone number for seven years!! |
 | Years ago, Zog sent me some CDs in a brown paper parcel. This note was folded up with them. It's the sequel to an earlier note that goes: "HEY MISTER! TRY MY POTION! GUARANTEED TO INCREASE YOUR STRENGTH! ONLY TEN RUPEES!", followed by a string of increasingly aggressive, incoherent threats against anyone who refuses to try the aforementioned potion. I love it. |
 | This is the other side of the paper Zog scribbled the note on. |
 | I will never EVER need to split a PHONE CABLE into its component wires, EVER AGAIN. Goodbye, useless widget. |
 | Ten years ago, this was the back door key to the Ocean Echo Motel in Santa Cruz. I helped my friend Brent occasionally when he and his wife were managers of it. Of course, this key is totally useless now. |
 | Why these go together I do not know. Miniature handles for a tiny chest of drawers? |
 | Carefully labeled and packaged mounting kit for the CD-changer installed in a van I haven't owned for six years. |
 | Connector adapters to a multi-voltage power supply I no longer own. Yeah, better keep these handy. Mmmyep. |
 | I have absolutely no idea why I collected and saved these. I don't even know what the groupings mean. |
 | A sawblade to a saw I no longer possess. Whatever. |
 | Kayla and I traded calculators many years ago because we each preferred the stickers that the other had decorated their case with. I would have put the iPhone next to it for a comparison of how far handheld technology has come ... but I was using the iPhone to take the picture. Heh heh heh. |
 | Here's why the calculator is no longer useful. Batteries leaked all over the inside. |
 | A cute flounder drawing on a piece of paper shoved in the back of a drawer. Clearly it must go on the internet! |
 | Here's a rare collection. These are slot covers for the back of an Apple IIgs. I still have the IIgs they came from. Time to toss these out. It's not like I'll ever remove the expansion cards from the IIgs, necessitating a slot cover. |
 | I cut this part off the guts of the satellite receiver that my parents bought in the 1980s. I think it might be the IR sensor. I don't know what my aim was in collecting the damn thing... "Gee, maybe I'll use it in a wacky robotics project some time!" |
 | I will never, ever need to use one of these damn things again. So why did I have three of them? |
 | A large test tube full of electrical fuses, spackled with red paint. This looks too cool for me to throw it away, so it's still in the drawer. |
 | Yes, it's a plastic box of "hardware included". Mounting brackets for something I cannot identify and probably no longer own. |
 | I have no idea what I would use this for ... even if it wasn't all dried out. |
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Date: 2007-11-03 03:51 pm (UTC)You could have completed the Word Round Up, plodded through the Amazing Corral, and tried your hand at being a Barnyard Artist before throwing it out.
You could fashion a handle for it out of a dowel with a similar diameter. Saw the dowel down the middle a bit, insert the saw and wrap with a metal hose constrictor. Sorry, that's the geeky woodworking side poking through.
When I saw the calculator, I was prepared to make an offer. Then the next picture loaded showing me why you were getting rid of it. When's the funeral? I'd like to pay my respects. 8)
Because, before digital inputs, there was cable, and before that there was VHF. This allowed people to turn their shitbox antenna tv into a cable tv. Now, I need something to turn my shitbox 42" digital/ cable ready tv into a 16X9 flat screen.
At first glance, I thought it said V.I.P. and was thinking, "Dude, you should totally use it to try and get in through the back door of some hot venue." But V.L.P. just totally doesn't work for it, so yeah, you should throw it out.
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Date: 2007-11-03 04:53 pm (UTC)Funny... I was looking for one of those not too long ago. We don't have cable, and I don't own an antenna - the TV is strictly for movies and video games. But when San Diego caught fire last week, and the evacuation zones were two miles away and closing in, we wanted live coverage. And doohickey + long wire = antenna!
Eventually we gave up and periodically used the radio in the car.
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Date: 2007-11-03 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-04 03:27 am (UTC)IS THAT A TI-85?????
I got one of those in college when my TI-81 got ripped off by some gutless, honroless, son-of-a-crackwhore (wherever you are: I still haven't forgotten... I've still got a WHOLE CLIP with your name on it, fucker). The greatest graphing calculator EVER. Got me thru calculus, statistics, and I could even draw Bill the Cat on it.
You rock my world.
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Date: 2007-11-04 04:29 am (UTC)i should make more junk sculptures.
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Date: 2007-11-04 07:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-05 07:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-05 07:02 pm (UTC)and my batteries leaked all over my TI-87, too
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Date: 2007-12-03 03:57 am (UTC)I think it's ironic that I cleaned out and threw this stuff away AFTER hauling it to the new place ....
Well, we were pressed for time, whatchagonnado(tm).