the "pile of junk" --- geekage

[Kragen Sitaker]

So one of the larger items in the "pile of junk" I mentioned before is
a Mustek MFC-600S scanner, which is apparently a flatbed full-page (A4
or letter) 300x600dpi one-pass 24-bit color scanner.  Because it's six
years old, it's hard to find information about it, and it looks like
people can't get it to work under Windows 2000.  Fortunately, Linux
support for it is good.

I also got a PCMCIA modem there; Linux supports it and it looks like
it works, although I can't be sure until I get the little dongle that
lets me hook it up to my phone line, which is going to cost me $22 and
take until next week.  This is a major blessing, because it means I
can leave my bulky (yet crappy) external modem with its heavy power
supply at home.

I went to BayPIGgies Wednesday night.  The presentation was fun, but
there wasn't as much interaction with other people as I had hoped.
But I finally got the chance to meet people I'd heard about and
corresponded with for years.  I tried to unload some of the pile of
junk there, a magneto-optical SCSI drive with a bunch of MO discs,
without any success.  Maybe I'll take them apart and decorate with
them.  Surely Beatrice would be delighted.

And, as Beatrice pointed out after she read my previous post,
Wednesday wasn't Mardi Gras.  Wednesday was Jeudi; Tuesday was Mardi.
Oups.