I have some ancient Mac peripherals looking for a new home. Anyone want a) an Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II, b) a Logitech Trackman Marble with ADB connector, and/or c) an external microphone that worked with a PowerMac 7500?

Tonight's the night I have finally agreed to let jbsegal remove my ancient, unbootable PowerMac 7500. I haven't used it in several years now, but I had an emotional attachment to it nonetheless, so I would just like everyone to realize that this is a big deal to me.

Things I have found while cleaning:

• A empty cobalt blue tincture bottle (gave it to kimberlogic
• Two- ( Read more... )

We are outcrufting and there is a bunch of free stuff on our porch, including, but not limited to ( Read more... )

So far today I have:

• Slept until noon
• Done three loads of laundry
• Made a batch of orange-chocolate-butterscotch-chip cookie dough, currently chilling in the fridge

On my agenda for the rest of the day:

• Pick up results of "film amnesty month" leavings at Cameras Inc. (15 rolls of 10-yr-old film, eep...wonder what I'll find?)
• Go to the gym

So, after coming home this evening to find 9-count-'em-NINE wormy things on the ceiling and then seeing more a little while ago, I lost my shit and started really digging into the cabinet that seems most affected. I threw away most of what was in there (including a bunch of dry pasta, because it was so old), kept what wasn't compromised, and put ( Read more... )

We're suffering an onslaught of grain moths and have been killing moths and caterpillars left and right. Tonight we discovered at least one old box of cereal that's been serving as a grain moth buffet, which led us to purge several more old boxes of cereal. One of them had a sell-by date from 2002. O_o ( Read more... )

We've been cleaning out all kinds of stuff in the last few days, and I've uncovered still more treasures of all kinds. Photos, postcards, books, the title to Roz, and my original separation agreement, among other things. The best, though, was what I found in an old gym bag buried at the bottom of a pile of boxes in a kraft paper envelope: the deep ( Read more... )

Babies Know: A Little Dirt Is Good for You: Jane Brody, NY Times: "In studies of what is called the hygiene hypothesis, researchers are concluding that organisms like the millions of bacteria, viruses and especially worms that enter the body along with 'dirt' spur the development of a healthy immune system. Several continuing studies suggest that ( Read more... )

At the price of aggravating my arm again, I cleaned out the last drawer in my living room wall unit. Amongst the treasures contained within ( Read more... )

For the first time in a long while, I am attempting to make sense of the drawers in my living room wall unit. Those of you who know me know how much I hate doing stuff like this, but it is necessary ( Read more... )