Stuff for Sale

I have too much stuff. I don't want stuff. Please take my stuff.

Some of this stuff is left over from my teenage years; some of it is stuff that I've kept due to some irrational sense that somebody somewhere will have a use for it. It's hard to find these people, so a lot of it looks like junk. It might actually be junk. Don't judge me. I have no regrets.

Prices are guides; please offer what you think things are worth. "Free" is a valid offer.

Books

£1 each unless otherwise stated.

Fiction

Time for Bed by David Baddiel (0-349-11355-6)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1-85326-004-5)
Duluth by Gore Vidal (0-345-31707-6)
Messiah by Gore Vidal (0-349-10364-X)
The Dilbert Bunch by Scott Adams (0-7522-1314-8)
Hardback. The dust cover has about a 1-inch tear in it.
Saint Jack by Paul Theroux (0-14-004157-5)
Bin Ends by Alan Coren (0-7474-0302-3)
Red Dwarf by Grant Naylor (0-14-012437-3), free
Severely worn, but readable. I wouldn't feel right taking money for a book in this condition.
Better Than Life by Grant Naylor (0-14-012438-1)
Backwards by Rob Grant (0-14-017150-9)
Last Human by Doug Naylor (0-14-014388-2)
Primordial Soup by Grant Naylor (0-14-017886-4)
Cover somewhat battered.
Son of Soup by Rob Grant & Doug Naylor (0-14-025363-7)
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh (0-14-000136-0)
Cover torn on the spine, but the pages are in good condition.
Deadkidsongs by Toby Litt (0-241-14070-6)
Blast From The Past by Ben Elton (0-552-99833-8)
Inconceivable by Ben Elton (0-552-14698-6)
Was made into the film Maybe Baby. Everyone loves sperm jokes, right?
Stark by Ben Elton (0-7474-0390-2)
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (0-7493-3650-1)
Mr. MacGregor by Alan Titchmarsh (0-671-01584-2)
Yes, it's that Alan Titchmarsh.
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (0-14-118549-X)
The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaardner (1-85799-865-0)
Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1-85326-239-0)
The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury (0-330-39031-7)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (1-84195-392-X)
Man and Boy by Tony Parsons (0-00-714432-6)
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe (1-85326-013-4)
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh (0-099-59091-3)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (0-330-23564-8)
Concrete Island by J G Ballard (0-09-933481-X)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (0-14-026407-8)
Middlemarch by George Eliot (1-85326-237-4)
Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller (0-141-01225-0)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig (0-099-32261-7)
Atomised by Michel Houllebecq (0-099-28336-0)
I hear Gwen Stefani hated this book. She ain't no Houllebecq girl.
The Sound of No Hands Clapping by Toby Young (978-0-349-11852-9)
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis (0684-82554-6)
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (0-330-25836-2)
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (0-099-27658-5)
This was one of my AS Level texts, so there are pencilled-in notes in the margins.
Man Walks Into a Bar – The Ultimate Collection of Jokes and One-Liners by Stephen Arnott & Mike Haskins (009189765-3)
The Schoolgirl Murder Case by Colin Wilson
Hardback.
Heart of Darkness & Other Stories by Joseph Conrad (1-85326-240-4)
Love and Other Near Death Experiences by Mil Millington (0-297-85105-5)
You may know the author from Things my Girlfriend and I Have Argued About.
Third Rock From The Sun – The Official Report on Earth by High Commander Dick Solomon (0-7522-2219-8)
Sherlock Holmes – Four Great Novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (0-7525-1380-X)
A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear. Deerstalker not included.
Whatever Love Means by David Baddiel (0-316-64857-4)
Hardback
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (0-14-062080-X)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell (0-14-018233-0)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (978-0-330-46846-6)
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby (0-330-26623-3)
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk (0-099-28544-4)
Do Butlers Burgle Banks? by P. G. Wodehouse (0-14-00-5036-1)
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (0-140-43313-9)
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle (0-7493-9599-0)
Adolf Hitler – My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan (0-14-003520-6)
Papillon by Henri Charrière (0-00-771209-X)

Non-Fiction

The Naked Eye by Desmond Morris (0-09-187867-5)
"Part biography, part travel book, part anthropological observation." Enjoyable, IIRC.
Midnight Express by Billy Hayes with William Hoffer (0-7221-0554-1)
1001 Sudoku (978-1-86200-444-3)
I am Me, I am Free by David Icke (0-9526147-5-8)
Don't even ask why I own this. The most disturbing thing about it is that half of it is all Good Stuff – be nice to people, love thy neighbour, and so on – and the other half is 8-foot lizardman claptrap.
AA Pocket Guide to California (0-7495-2113-9)
Statistics by Alan Smith (0-340-70165-X), £2
Ideal for an AS Maths student. That's what I was using it for.
The Life – a Portrait of Jesus, by J. John and Chris Walley (1-86024-283-9)
These were given out free with screenings of Mel Gibson's Messiah. I didn't see that film but ended up with a freebie anyway.
Programming PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf and Kevin Tatroe (1-56592-610-2)
Covers PHP up to version 4.1.1. Rumours that you can replace competency with a bookshelf full of O'Reilly books remain unconfirmed.
Webmaster in a Nutshell by Stephen Spainhour & Robert Eckstein (1-56592-325-1)
Second edition. Published in 1999. Covers HTML4, CSS1, XML, CGI, Javascript 1.2, PHP 3, HTTP 1.1, Apache server administration, mod_perl, and generic performance tips. I suspect the HTTP and Apache parts are still useful, and you could always use it to throw at people.
Python in a Nutshell by Alex Martelli (0-596-00188-6)
Covers Python 2.2.
The AB Guide to Music Theory, Part 1 by Eric Taylor (1-85472-446-0)
The AB Guide to Music Theory, Part 2 by Eric Taylor (1-85472-447-9)
Perl in a Nutshell by Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, & Nathan Patwardhan (1-56592-286-7)
Published 1999, but I wouldn't be surprised if you got another 3 or 4 years of use from this before Perl 6 comes out.
C/C++ Programmer's Reference by Herbert Schildt (0-07-212706-6)
Black Belt Sudoku by Frank Longo (1-4027-3761-0)
Shorter than the other one, but much harder. Only a few steps down from this book.
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore (0-141-01190-4)
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (0-00-717233-8)
University Challenged – The Unofficial Student Guide by Rohan Candappa
Seems to have been read in the bath at some point, as the pages are a bit wavy. It's not supposed to teach you stuff, it's supposed to make you laugh. It'll succeed in a couple of places.
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson (978-0-00-720448-9)
Hey Rube by Hunter S. Thompson (0-684-87320-6)
A collection of Thompson's sports columns he wrote for ESPN.
Who Moved my Cheese? by Dr Spencer Johnson (0-0918-1697-1)
The Times Ultimate Sudoku by Wayne Gould (0-00-776171-6)
The Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles by Elonka Dunn (1-84529-325-8)
Webster's Reference Library Students' Companion (1-84205-167-9)
English grammar and usage, English idioms and everyday phrases, English terms from the worlds of business, computing, science and the arts.
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawke (0-09-187456-4)
Not the skateboarder, the comedian.
Afterlife by Colin Wilson
Hardback.
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (0-14-044513-7)
Top-right corner of the cover is torn.
A Vindication of The Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecrat (0-141-01891-7)
Nice embossed cover, though there's a crease on the back. Abridged edition.
My Story by Dave Pelzer
Hardback. A combined edition of A Child Called It, The Lost Boy, and A Man Named Dave. 438 pages of child abuse.
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (0-552-99600-9)
Love All the People – Letters, Lyrics, Routines by Bill Hicks (1-84119-878-1)
Howling at the Moon – Confessions of a Music Mogul in an Age of Excess by Walter Yetnikoff (0-349-11797-7)
The Code Book by Simon Singh (1-85702-879-1)
Hardback. A history of cryptography.

Computer Stuff

D-Link 4 port USB 2.0 hub, £5
Powered, works fine. I replaced it with a 7-port model.
Edimax 8-port ethernet switch, £5
Powered, works fine. Does 10/100Mbit. I've embraced 2004 and gone wireless now.
3.5" internal floppy drive, free
I've embraced 1998 and gone ssh/USB key now.
IBM Thinkpad floppy drive, £1
Taken from an IBM Thinkpad T20. FRU P/N 05K9206.
Western Digital MyBook Pro 500GB, £10
This thing tends to give me I/O errors after it's been mounted for a few days, but it's about a 50/50 chance that's down to my PC's crappy USB handling than the drive. It's got a USB2.0 and Firewire interface, so if nothing else you could use it as a smart new drive enclosure.
Nikon LS-2000 film scanner, broken, £20
This scanned my negatives and slides for a good couple of years before finally giving up the ghost. I think the motor that moves the scan head has gone. It's got a SCSI interface and the last time I used it it powered up fine, it just wouldn't produce a scan. If you can fix it you can get a dirt cheap film scanner. If not, it'll give you lots of lenses and motors and gears and stuff.
VGA cable, 50p
2x power cables (kettle leads), 50p
Brand new Acer keyboard and mouse, £10
Came with my Acer Aspire Revo, but I'm using it as a headless server. Both are white, and still in their packaging. The mouse is optical and has a scrollwheel; the keyboard has that flat-button style that Apple keyboards have these days. It's a little smaller than standard, but not as small as a laptop keyboard. Both are USB devices.

DVDs

£2 each.

Totally Bill Hicks
Robin Williams Live on Broadway
South Park
Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
About Schmidt
Big Fish
The Long Good Friday, free
This DVD crashed my friend's DVD player, so he gave it to me. It crashed my DVD player too. Maybe you will have better luck.
Chocolat
The Bourne Identity

Guitar Tablature

Musical Chairs by Hootie and the Blowfish, £3
Let Your Dim Light Shine by Soul Asylum, £3

Undeniable Junk & Miscellaneous

3x Guardian-branded Oyster card wallets, free
2x Natwest-branded credit card wallets, free
Electric guitar, £20
This thing's an undeniable clunker. The action is pretty shit, the electronics could do with a soldering iron to make the connections less dodgy, and the paint job is nasty. It is a body someone rescued from a skip and bolted a new neck to. But! If you wanted a cheap way to try out the guitar, or smash one up without spending too much, or try being a luthier, or just leave it lying around the house to impress girls – this is the guitar for you.
Ilford photo paper, £5
I've got a box of 8x12" and some 16x20". This is light-sensitive paper, for black and white printing in the darkroom. It's been kept in the dark, but is a few years old.
Fake Guitar Hero-esque toy thing, free
It's got a light sensor thing in the bottom of it, and it knows about 8 tracks. The idea is you have to strum along and break the light beam, and each time you strum it plays the current note. My mother got this for me as a stocking filler gift a couple of years ago, and it has sat in my drawer ever since. It's free because it was a gift to me, so it can be a gift to you. I'd recommend giving it to a six-year-old whose parents you hate.
Rear bike mudguard, free
Bolt this to your seatpost and keep mud off your arse & back. Works fine; I now use a pannier rack for this purpose. If you've got a pannier rack I'd be surprised if you could fit this on too.