[sdiy] Tip of the Day: Resource Development

[Oren Leavitt]

I've got a Home Depot, Sears a Radio Shack & two great surplus stores 
within walking distance. (less than a quarter mile)

Websites for the two surplus stores - I'm usually at one or the other 
every weekend:
http://www.murphyjunk.bizland.com/
http://www.californiaelectronic.com/    (website *very* under 
contruction...)

Tom Arnold wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:12:05PM -0700, Tim Parkhurst wrote:
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>>My girlfriend thinks I'm goofy when I tell her I want to go to the Hardware
>>/ Electronics / Surplus / etc. place just to look at stuff. She's completely
>>befuddled when I go to a place and don't buy anything, but developing
>>resources and getting ideas is exactly what these trips are for.
>>    
>>
>
>Every weekend I do the same thing, South down 101 to Weirdstuff, across
>to Disk Drive Depot and Action Computer, then a little further to Halted
>Electronics, then south to Excess Solutions.  Then head back towards home
>and hit several general thrift stores.  On days when they are running I'll
>hit the local electronics fleamarket and at least once a month a trip to
>Mike Quin's Electronics.
>
>My GF cant understand this.  She also cant understand why I *read* the new
>Mouser, Newarc, Digikey, Jameco, etc etc catalogs like they are a new novel
>or something but you know, I pick up things from all over the place. Even
>a bit of surplus junk that I have no want or reason to buy might have a nifty
>way of mounting something I just hadnt seen before so I get the idea for
>free...
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>

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