Last week, my dad was visiting and I almost gave him this monitor to take to electronics recycling, but thought I should see if it was worth anything on ebay first (which is always a good idea).  Seeing that it was, I listed it.

Here it is being tested on my old but still-working 386-40 (with Micropolis ESDI drives!)

In two days, someone did ‘buy it now’… for $388!
Makes me wish I would have kept more of them.

I used these in the 90s to debug VGA graphics chips and DVD boards, and to debug video drivers when it was the only way to have two video adapters in the same computer.

12/12/13.   I worked for hours to set up a system to test this.  The post office destroyed it.  It was protected with me for 14 years here and didn’t make it 100 miles to New Jersey.  I didn’t make $350.  I lost $32 in mailing and this lovely thing is gone.
Devastated.

This should have been a museum piece.

Why is it every time I spend four hours to give some treasured piece a good home, it’s just destroyed?   Buyer and seller, get nothing.  WTF.

Yesterday I set my hand to recreating a Japanese recipe for ginger pork that our friend Chilli cooked for us last year.  This is my version, which I’m still developing:

Thin sliced pork roast (deboned, fat removed) – roast and eat separately what was trimmed out.

Marinate in:
a bunch of freshly grated ginger (2 T?)
perhaps 4 heaping tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon mirin
1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil (I like Kadoya brand).

Cook the pork in small batches in a little olive oil.  Add water between batches to deglaze pan and prevent burning.  Don’t overcook.  It’s a flavor explosion!

Some of my guests were having it as a romaine lettuce wrap.