The Footlocker
While I was still employed by the Speakeasy Cafe and Network, I obtained
a military surplus footlocker to store those chattels that I didn't want
disturbed after I went home. This is one of the old plywood footlockers
now out of style, 13"H x 32" W x 16" D not including handles. It has
an internal tray section for smaller items. The whole assembly is
painted olive within and without.
When I ceased employment at Speakeasy, I moved the footlocker into the
Muppetlabs/the-space.net space for safe keeping and eventual removal.
The thing required two people and a car to remove, however, so I never
got around to that. When Speakeasy absorbed that space, the footlocker
was moved to the new space near the Kingdome. An earthquake closed that
building, and eventually the box moved to DC1020's biohabitation unit.
On 25 October 2002, I recovered the box from DC1020 and finally brought
it home. I located the padlock key and opened it up. I had not seen
the inside of that box in over two years.
Due to the sheer inconvenience of this unit, there are quite a large
number of people who are interested in knowing what the contents
of the box are. I'm pretty curious, myself, actually. So, upon
opening the box, I'll carefully inventory the contents below, for
your edification and entertainment. And for a chance to make you say
"no wonder..."
Contents
Tray section, left-hand side
- One white envelope including several photographs including the
1982-83 Oregon Institute of Technology varsity rally squad, including
Owl mascot, and one photograph of Claude
Shannon taken in 1984 or 1985. Moved to permanent files.
- One RS-232 interface tester, with vinyl case and test leads.
Moved to tools storage.
- One packet of photographs, various Seattle industrial scenes.
Moved to photo files.
- One formal portrait of my wife and
I, framed. Displayed in home office.
- One Halloween party photo of my wife
and I, as provided by Dr. Blase. Displayed in home office.
- One birthday card, signed by several Speakeasy people, featuring
several meerkats. Displayed.
- A random selection of free postcards. Recycled.
- One 4-inch electric fan (110 VAC, 7 W) scavenged from a Burroughs
data terminal and used as a personal climate control device.
Stored in tool storage for next summer.
- One TRS-80 Model 100 cassette recorder interface cable. Stored
with Model 100 equipment.
- One AC wall adapter (RS-273-1665), 9 V, 300 mA, center pole
negative. Now used to power PRO-94 handheld scanner.
- One AC wall adaptor (Icom BC-110A), 12 V, 200 mA. Stored with other
AC adapters.
- One Oral-B #25 soft toothbrush, in box. Moved to bathroom to replace
my current toothbrush.
- One "walkman" style AM/FM/Cassette player. Moved to miscellaneous
electronic equipment file.
- One Congressional Directory, 104th Congress, January 1995.
This includes the official Congressional Photograph of Sonny Bono. Moved to pile of books to
be sold or traded.
- A number of Speakeasy business cards. Discarded. (So to speak..)
- One pair stereo earbud-style earphones (probably used with walkman.)
Stored in misc electronic equipment.
- Some keys. One is a DRONE_BOX key, one is a combination-setting key for
a certain model of padlock, one is mysterious (some sort of luggage key)
- Two small cardboard boxes labelled "Turgeon Raine Jewelers". Passed
to wife for disposition.
- One remote push-to-talk switch. To misc. electronics drawer.
- One footswitch for Kinesis keyboard. To misc electronics drawer.
- One small pencil, advertising for Speakeasy. Discarded.
- One 8-inch 3-ring notebook. Stored with similar supplies.
- One philatelic cover, postmarked "First day of issue, Grande
Tui, January 1, 1998." and bearing three Tui Tui postage stamps, in
denominations of 3-1/3, 6-2/3 and 10 Nupees." Displayed in home office.
Tray section, right-hand side
- The Lisovskii
Package, with customs declarations from Belarus specifying
"disketa". Moved to files.
- Twelve (12) Pickett model 160ES
6-inch sliderules. Obtained for a sliderule class that hasn't
happened yet. Moved to slide rule collections.
- One Dietzgen No. 1733 Log-Log
slide rule. Moved to slide rule collections.
- One Miller Planisphere, 6 inches, for 50 degrees North latitude.
Moved to desk drawer.
- Compact Disc "On the Mountain 5", various artists. Moved to
music collection.
- A packet of photos, including pictures of antennas in Barcelona,
pictures of a very large sliderule and field strength tests of
a 2-meter Yagi.
- One Gillette ClearGel Deodorant, "Wild Rain" scent. Discarded.
- Book, "The Alien Years" by Robert Silverberg. To bookshelf.
- One Commodore Model PR-100 Programmable Calculator, with power
supply, non-functioning. To miscellaneous storage.
- One reproduction of a 16th century map of Canaan by Abraham
Ortelius, depicting the travels of Abraham the Patriarch from the
Euphrates Valley to the Promised Land. Probably came with a
wall calendar. The map depicts Sodom and Gomorrha as being
under the modern Dead Sea. To file.
- One biro. To desk.
- One DB-9 to Macintosh mouse adapter pigtail. To computer supplies.
- One 9-25 pin RS-232 adapter. To computer supplies.
- Two 25-pin male/male gender changers. To computer supplies.
- One Pro Audio Sound 16 sound card driver disk. To computer
supplies.
- One 1/8" stereo to dual phono plug patch cable. To misc.
electronics drawer.
Main compartment
- One sticker "Hello, My name is" written on with "SEXY MUTRFCKR".
Discarded.
- Scientific American, October 1998. Includes several computer
security articles. Recycled.
- Book "How to Start Your Own Country" by Erwin S. Strauss.
- Book "Starting FORTH" by Leo Brodie.
- Book "Object-Oriented Programming in Turbo C++" by Robert Lafore.
To outgoing books stack.
- Book "Let's Talk LISP" by Laurent Siklossy.
- Book "HTML Manual of Style" by Larry Aronson. To outgoing book
stack.
- Book "The Code Book" by Simon Singh.
- Book "Bhagavad-gita As It Is" by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
- Book "X Window Systen volume 4, X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming
Manual" by Adrian Nye and Tim O'Reilly
- Book "Cracking DES", Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- Book "HTML Sourcebook" by Ian S. Graham. To outgoing book stack.
- Book "DNS and BIND", 2ed, Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu. To outgoing
book stack.
- One "Official Baseball Score Book", Wilson Sporting Goods. One
game has been scored, Detroit Tigers at Seattle Mariners, 8/24/99.
M's win 5-nought.
- One set nautical signal flags, small. I'm sure I'll find something
appropriate to do with them. To storage.
- Book "Pocket PCRef", 5ed, by Thomas J. Glover and Millie M. Young.
To outgoing book stack.
- Book "Compendium of Astrology" by Rose Lineman and Jan Popelka.
- Book "The American Atlas", 5ed, by Thomas G. Shanks.
- Book "PROM User's Manual", Sun Microsystems.
- One box for a Kenwood TH-D7A handheld transceiver. To box storage.
- One Maxon Model 49-FX 5-channel beltclip transceiver. To misc
electronics drawer.
- One postcard with a picture of me in
infrared, taken by David Narazaki. Displayed in home office.
- Book "Programming Perl", 2ed, by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and
Randall L. Schwartz. To outgoing book stack.
- Book "DNS and BIND", 3ed, Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu.
- Seven copies of the "Regrade Dispatch", November 1995, in a manila
envelope. To file.
- A manila folder including a large-scale map of the Belltown area.
To file.
- A manila folder with several astrological charts. Recycled.
- One "Sendmail Desktop Reference", by Bryan Costales and Eric
Allman
- One "Programming Perl Quick Reference Guide" for Perl 4.019,
by Johan Vromans.
- One "Programming Perl Quick Reference Guide" for Perl 5.001,
by Johan Vromans.
- One SSC "HTML Reference" card.
- Two Kinesis Keyboard manuals.
Special thanks to DC1020, MH311, AB427 and any other drones who may
have stubbed their toes on the Gorlak-blessed thing...
