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Commented on How to Get Free Electronic Goods In Japan
In Austin, we have "bulk trash day" once (or twice) a year. You (and those in your neighborhood) will get a card in the mail a couple of weeks in advance. Since it's for a neighborhood (and another neighborhood or...
Commented on Traditions That Make You Feel Good
12 grapes for my family, growing up in Texas. If you waited too long to go to the store, you made do with raisins....
Commented on T9 inventor shows off Swype: finger-tracing predictive text for touchscreens
it's called "WritingPad". i don't know if the internals are the same, but as far as i can tell, the results are....
Commented on Woman who couldn't stop itching
fwiw, a finger nail is a 2.5 on the mohs hardness scale. but 2 minutes looking for the moh value of human bone didn't yield any definite number. i blame my short attention span on...
Commented on Talking doll establishes "direct connection with Jesus" says commercial
for a moment i thought, why would someone make a talking doll of my Tio Chuy ?!...
Commented on Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" milks multi-processor CPUs with "Grand Central"
disclosure: i only read the linked article and didn't look for any further info ... not that i really expected apple to be more forthcoming with the info, but it strikes me as more than a little silly to say...
Commented on Bathtub with built-in bookcase
Is there some correlation between the push for ebook adoption and the insistence with incorporating a book shelf into every piece of furniture? I know, probably not ;-) It's more likely a case of people seeing that something gets attention,...
Commented on Scotland Yard wants DNA samples from 5-year-olds in case they grow up to be criminals; Oyster card records to become part of "war on terror"
Incredibly inefficient. Instead of making sure you can catch the future criminal, why not prevent the future crime ... just kill the child. So simple. And certainly cheaper than having to create a cumbersome database, secure it, keep it updated,...
Commented on Why Are Projector Bulbs So Expensive?
The timing on this is freaky. Earlier today I passed on buying an Epson LCD projector for $50 with a dead lamp ... because when I priced a replacement lamp it was about $400-500 ! Sure maybe the total price...
Commented on Still at SXSWi
Joel, There's good vintage shopping here in Austin. Make sure to pick up a free "Vintage Around Town" guide (at pretty much any vintage store). There are a couple of good areas where the stores are all w/in walking distance:...
Commented on Gallery of beautiful vintage travel posters
It pales in comparison to the shear volume of photos Hamish has put up, but I've got a few photos of some vintage travel posters from the 50s in an old blog entry: http://vintage-stuff.blogspot.com/2006/11/vintage-travel-posters.html I wish Hamish had uploaded higher...

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J France commented on How to Get Free Electronic Goods In Japan
Hard Rubbish! Council areas all voer the metro area have hard rubbish once every 12ish months. In the mor eexpensive areas it is more than common to find people waiting with trailers to grab the relatively new and fully functioning stuff that is chucked away. I've got myself several CRT monitors, a spare TV and even a DCC deck (Digital Compact Casette player, remmeber those?) And I feel exactluy the same as 13strong @#3 - this reckless need to upgrade and dispose is... eurgh. Give me the days when that TV / washing machine / fridge was a 15 year...
Made in DNA commented on How to Get Free Electronic Goods In Japan
#86 "As part of their culture, the Japanese find buying anything used distasteful. They don't have anything akin to thrift shops over there." This USED to be correct. Hard times breed new thinking. Thrift shops and 100 YEN STORES (DAISO) are everywhere now. Look up HOUSE OFF, BOOK OFF, HARD OFF, and HOBBY OFF....
wusao commented on How to Get Free Electronic Goods In Japan
I used to do this all the time when I first moved out of my parent's house. I'd go on craigslist.org, which is kind of like an online flea market, and go into the free section just to see what people were giving away. I used to think about taking the stuff for free and fixing it up so I could turn a profit, but that sounded like a little too much thought into the matter......
ROSSINDETROIT commented on How to Get Free Electronic Goods In Japan
The oddest stuff turns up here. Friends think that because I work with audio electronics everything electronic, technical and musical belongs at my house. This week: an optical sight from a WW II rocket launcher, a vacuum servo gyroscopic autopilot from an aircraft, a home made record player and six huge reels of 2" studio master tapes from a jazz album. This stuff is mostly worthless or worse. Now I have to track down a musician and find out if he wants his tapes, which he probably threw away but you never know. The metal will get sorted and recycled...
Takuan commented on How to Get Free Electronic Goods In Japan
good thing we're not neighbours! Aside from that, I would look very, very, very closely at ANY "found" household stuff: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4608113.ece I've heard of entire libraries and record collections being written off after infection....

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