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.