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Clock radio

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This is a Sony Dream Machine ICF-CS650 AM/FM/cassette clock radio. I keep it in the kitchen as a background-NPR-while-doing-dishes radio, and it's fine for that. Outputs a pretty big sound for a small unit, and seems pretty resistant to the mutlipath interference that plagues my FM reception here in the Mission.

The other Dream Machine has a much better UI, and I'm asking $30 for that one. I'll take $25 for this one.

Outstanding clock radio

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This is a Sony Dream Machine ICF-CS660 AM/FM/cassette clock radio. This is, hands down, the best UI I've ever seen in a clock radio. No matter how sleepdepped I am, I can always reliably disambiguate the snooze and off buttons by touch alone, and handily tack an extra couple minutes onto the alarms.

The audio is very good, and the radio reception is pretty robust against multipath interference. I owned one of these when I lived in Toronto and absolutely fell in love with it, and when I moved to San Francisco, I hunted down the very last one for sale in the city and wheedled the poor man at the Sony store until he sold it to me. I take the ability to control my REM cycles very seriously.

I'm asking $30 for it.

Oil-filled radiator

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This is a Honeywell HZ680 Oil-Filled Radiator, which I use to heat my frigid bedroom. San Francisco is in northern California, which means that it gets down to 5C at night, but the buildings are uninsulated wood-frames, and goddamn it gets cold.

This thing is cheap to run -- running it every night for a month tacks < $10 onto my PG&E bill -- is small and wheeled for convenience, and gets the job done.

You can get these for $34.25 through Froogle -- how about $20?

Lamp

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This is a pretty deco lamp, about 26" high.

I paid $90 for it.

I'm selling it for $45.

iMic

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The iMic is a cross-platform USB audio interface. Bought it for an iBook that didn't have a built-in mic jack. Used it a couple times.

Per Froogle, these are worth $33 and up.

I want $20 for it.

Bull-skull

Sold! This is the skull of a bull. Boy, is it heavy. Lotta bone in them bulls. Comes with optional obscure Filepile [this is good] sticker. Anatomically correct and southwestern flavored.

Bought it for $40 at a yard-sale.

I'll take $30 for it.

iBook stand

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This is a Lapvantage Dome laptop stand, which has lots of manufacturer-touted advantages, like "raises laptop to eye level for optimal vantage point, designed for an external keyboard and mouse for ergonomic computing, rubber feet to help keep your laptop running cool." Mostly, though, it just kind of connotes the new "table lamp" iMacs when you stick a white iBook on top of it.

Froogle sez these go for $79 and up.

I'll part with it for $50.

REI knapsack

Sold! This is an REI Internal Frame Great Star Knapsack, "Storm Blue". Only used twice.

REI charges $139.93 for these.

I'll take $70 for it.

iPod

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This is a second-gen, 20GB iPod, lightly scuffed, running fine, no remote, no headphones. It's an iPod. They are all the rage with the kids these days. Comes with a charger and a white FireWire cable.

This does not come with any music!

eBay blue-book for this is running about $320.

Gimme $250 and it's yours.

VCR

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This is a Panasonic PV-V4520 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR. OK, the fact that this product's name contains the string "Hi Fi" probably indicates that it is an obsolete, last-century boat-anchor, but goddamnit, you've got a lot of VHS cassettes kicking around, so whaddya gonna play them on, huh?

Runs fine. Looks like it was designed on an Apple ][+.

I'm asking $30 for it.