Snowflakes in Hell

I’ve decided it’s high time to get rid of some of my old hardware I’ve been keeping around for sentimental reasons, and not much else.  Here’s what I have:

• Two NeXT Monochrome Mexapixel Displays.  They both work, the natural rubber pads on both have gooed off by this point.
• Three 68040 25MHz NeXT Cubes.  One has a bad SCSI HD, the other is missing RAM.  One boots up, but needs to be booted into single user mode and have all the Netinfo crap turned off.  None of them have the Dimension color board.
• One 68040 Turbo slab, monochrome.  Missing RAM.
• One Mac IIcx, no monitor.  Seems to work.
• One Mac IIsi, w 12″ monior.  Missing HD.
• I seem to have keyboards and cables to go with all this stuff.  I think I have some NeXT software and optical disks too.  No clue whether the optical drives are still functioning.

If anyone wants them, they are free to a good home if you want to come pick them up.  If you want them, but don’t want to pick them up, let me know where you are and I can see if I plan to be by that way any time in the NeXT year (ha!), and I might be able to deliver.

UPDATE: Looks like Tam and TD are interested.  Now I just need to figure out how to get the machines to them.

Just when we start to think we Second Amendment Blog Bash attendees are the cool kids, Greg proves us wrong by attending a Special Operations Industry Trade Show.  I’ll be honest, I didn’t know there was such a thing, but it sounds like a pretty cool show.

Bitter decided to do a car interview on the way back from Kentucky, to get my thoughts on how our first Second Amendment Blog Bash went.  I talk about the genisis of the idea at least year’s Annual Meeting in St. Louis.  The idea that NRA should do something with blogs actually originated with Dave Kopel, and before we could reach out to NRA, they reached out to us.

By the way, Eyeblast.tv has an entire channel dedicated to the Second Amendment Blog Bash, so be sure to stop by an peruse the videos.

From David Olofson, we have the e-mail that ATF claims proves he purchased M16 parts.  I see a lot of talk about M16 magazines, which are identical to AR-15 magazines, and talk about a bolt, which are also identical, AFAIK.  But I only see one mention of M16 parts, and I would agree that in the realm of “proof” this isn’t it.