In yet another installment of “Oh Craigslist, What Will You Think of Next?”, I present these new-old-stock pentode vacuumless tubes; a steal at $50 a piece.  They’ve even been cleaned!  Click through to the full article to see the original craigslist ad.

7591 Vacuum pentode, vacuum not included

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I recently procured an excellent new addition to my bedroom décor.  Doubtlessly you’ll perceive the same timeless artistic quality in it that I did.

Have you got it in you?

Ah craigslist, your ability to bring bizarre novelties, inane rants and tirades, fantastically bad trade propositions, and epic transgressions against the English language out of the wood work is what so endears you in our hearts.  For the past couple of months I have been attempting to sell my Bandit 1200 via craigslist (not because I don’t love the bike, mind you, but because I really want to try a naked V-twin like the SV650 or Monster).  In my ad I clearly state the models of bike I would consider in a trade, and a ballpark price I would accept for a sale outright.  Of course that doesn’t stop people from offering wacky and irrelevant items in trades, for example a 1996 Dodge Intrepid.  This is an expected part of the craigslist experience, but once in a while you encounter an offer so zany as to impel the most battle-hardened craigslist veteran to cock an eyebrow.  Here’s one such offer.
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Perhaps it goes without saying that some people on internet forums can be rather dumb.  You might also hardly find it surprising that this is especially the case for Japanese import car forums.  I knew the facts, but I had never quite taken them to heart until a recent first-hand experience with the sheer neanderthal-esque level of language comprehension some of these people possess.

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Wow, what is this shiny Web2.0-approved new corner of the global blogosphere?  We are synergizing and transmogrifying in a manner never before beheld, nor indeed likely to be seen again! Seriously though, I am loath to be writing a blog now, but it just looks too spiffy for me to be too upset.