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It's clearly the first draft of Felice House's version of The Martyrdom of St Sebastian.
My first guess too.
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My biggest curbside coup was on West End Avenue. Someone threw out three boxes of near-mint RCA Victor classical LP's from the 1950's. I was walking to work and as soon as I saw what was in this cache I hailed a cab and headed right back home. An amazing find.
It wouldn't be a New York Story without someone hailing a cab! 
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Now I'm learning how amazingly slow iTunes is, transferring all my swing music from cd to the Nano. 
USB2 is not the fastest connection in the world, and third-party iOS cables have been known to slow down data transfers dramatically. (Some third-party manufacturers, like Anker, give top performance.)
Anybody ever used an non-Apple program to transfer mp3's to their iPod mp3 players? I'm considering 2 different ones.
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Now I'm learning how amazingly slow iTunes is, transferring all my swing music from cd to the Nano.
USB2 is not the fastest connection in the world, and third-party iOS cables have been known to slow down data transfers dramatically. (Some third-party manufacturers, like Anker, give top performance.)
Anybody ever used an non-Apple program to transfer mp3's to their iPod mp3 players? I'm considering 2 different ones.
I used a program called Copy Trans Manager, and it worked okay. It took forever since it had to do that stupid renaming an re-folder-ing nonsense, just like iTunes, though.
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Just found a second generation iPod Shuffle, with cables and earphones.
I wonder if it works.
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I should have guessed it would happen eventually. I found a smartphone. HTC with a Sprint logo on the front.
I switched it on and the silly thing vibrated, then the screen turned on. The Sprint logo appeared. It lasted there a while, then the thing belch-beeped and the logo on the screen receded into the distance.
Now it won't turn on again.
What do I do? I'd like to find the owner.
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Just found a second generation iPod Shuffle, with cables and earphones.
I wonder if it works.
By the by, I think I've lost this one. It's so darned tiny.
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I should have guessed it would happen eventually. I found a smartphone. HTC with a Sprint logo on the front.
I switched it on and the silly thing vibrated, then the screen turned on. The Sprint logo appeared. It lasted there a while, then the thing belch-beeped and the logo on the screen receded into the distance.
Now it won't turn on again.
What do I do? I'd like to find the owner.
It's this one: https://www.androidcentral.com/sprint-htc-evo-3d-review
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Jul 6, 2018 - 7:04 PM
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edwzoomom
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A family friend works for a company that goes into private schools and colleges at the end of each academic year to clean out the student housing and make repairs. He has told us about the unbelievable things the students leave behind. Among the items have been living creatures like cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, lots of rats, a hedgehog and baby ducks and chicks. All of the poor critters are taken to local shelters or adopted by employees from the company or school staff. Among the expensive items have been full drum sets, endless numbers of guitars, keyboards, every type of string, wind and reed instrument out there. One student left behind a Yamaha Clavinova.
The electronics left behind cover just about every category you can imagine. The best find had to be a Segway which was unfortunately beyond repair. Apparently the most common item has been laptops, especially the notebook types. He said the biggest find used to be iPods.
Among the weirdest items were a full sized canoe, a trio of mannequins, a portable bar, a wheelchair with a cooler attached and a unicycle.
One observation our friend made, and he has been doing this for over 20 plus years, is that the current generation leaves less behind and what's left is not as expensive as in years past. They are more messy though. He said that the late 90s to mid 2000s seemed to be the years when the volume and value of items left behind was very high. As to what happens to the items, the school attempts to reunite the items with owner at owner's expense. If unsuccessful, the company can have any nonpersonal or nonidentifiable items except computers or phones. Anything else goes to charity.
I've hinted about coming to work with him to no avail.
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Among the weirdest items were a full sized canoe, a trio of mannequins, a portable bar, a wheelchair with a cooler attached and a unicycle.
Considering these are college dormitories, I would not call any of those items weird or out of place.
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I should have guessed it would happen eventually. I found a smartphone. HTC with a Sprint logo on the front.
I switched it on and the silly thing vibrated, then the screen turned on. The Sprint logo appeared. It lasted there a while, then the thing belch-beeped and the logo on the screen receded into the distance.
Now it won't turn on again.
What do I do? I'd like to find the owner.
It's this one: https://www.androidcentral.com/sprint-htc-evo-3d-review
I borrowed a charger and found 2 email addresses on it. Neither replied to my email to them.
From what I could tell while it was charged (I could only charge it for about 20 minutes), it lacks a micro sd card. That looks like it's going to cost me a few clams.
I'd probably only want to use it as a media player for mp3's (probably), as a camera (maybe) or to read David Raksin's book. I don't want to use it as a phone. It might not be worth it to me, since I don't NEED another media player unless the ones I have conk out (which I guess they will eventually).
So maybe it's not worth buying a card for it.
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Nobody has gotten back to me. I'm calling this puppy "abandoned."
So if I can get a power cord for this, plus a micro SD card, could I use this as a media player? Maybe install VLC to do that?
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