Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:30:42 GMT <![CDATA[TexasRareBooks.com]]> Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:30:42 GMT New Ebay Listings have started as of 9-16-09

A Complete Set of Vintage Life World Library -- that's 34 books total. A great addition for any Home, School,and history buff! This listing will end in 2 days. So get your bid in NOW!!

Also these listings will be ending tonight:
The Left Behind Series, and The Left Behind Kids Series, The Dolphin Diaries, Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Treehouse, And a lot of Great Illustrated Classics that include: Grimm's Fairy Tales, Moby Dick, Black Beauty, The Prince and the Pauper, Around the World in 80 Days, Christmas Bedtime Stories, The Jungle Book, A Christmas Carol, Stories from the Bible, Jane Eyre, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Treasure Island, and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

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]]> <![CDATA[New Ebay Listing!!!]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:35:59 GMT New Ebay Listings will start Sat. night 09-12-09 at 7:00pm PDT !!

The Left Behind Series, The Kid's Left Behind Series, Magic Tree House Books, Great Illustrated Classics, Treasury of Illustrated Classics, The Dolphin Diaries and MORE!!!


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]]> <![CDATA[and MORE New Ebay Listings!!!]]> Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:42:37 GMT New Ebay Listings have started as of 9-10-09

Home Improvement Books, Vintage The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys Hardback Books, Time-Life's Cookbooks, Bible Study and Bible Reading Hardbacks, A HUGE lot of Stephen King First Edition Hardbacks.....and Much Much MORE!!!

Huge, Huge Lots!

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]]> <![CDATA[New Ebay Listings!!!]]> Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:48:01 GMT

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Sprint Palm Centro
Smartphone
Includes Many, Many Extra's!!!

Includes these Accessories!!
1) Belt Case
2) Soft Shell Case
3) Power Cable
4) Power Cable Adaptor
5) Sync Cable
6) Palm 2 in 1 Stereo Headset Pro
7) 4G Micro SD card with SD Adaptor
8) 3 Pack of Palm Stylus
9) Sprint Manuals and Sprint Software Installation CD


Product Description:
Keep in touch by phone, text, IM, email, web, and Facebook® for Palm. Centro™ makes it easy with a touchscreen and a full keyboard, so you can say L8R to those tricky keys on your old cell phone. Carry names and numbers, shoot photos and video, and meet up with friends.

Chat
Dial up a friend. Fire off a text. IM your buddy lists on AIM, Windows Live™ Messenger, or Yahoo! And send and receive email from personal accounts like Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo!. With a full keyboard and comfortable gel-soft keys, typing messages is fast and easy.

Browse
The touchscreen makes reading, viewing and navigating pages a breeze. Search for restaurants or get movie tickets. Connect with Friends on Facebook for Palm. Even get maps, turn-by-turn directions, and traffic updates from Google Maps with My Location.

Organize
Carry phone numbers, addresses and your calendar wherever you go. Make to-do lists and store notes. Then back them up to your computer—just in case. And if you have to work outside the office, Centro lets you access Microsoft® Outlook® email, sync your Contacts and Calendar—even view documents.

Play
Shoot pictures and videos and send them to friends. Create photo slideshows. Use the built-in MP3 player and take your tunes to go. With 64MB of storage there’s plenty of room for your media files. And you can add up to 4GB more with a microSD card.
**** 4GB microSD card is Included in this Auction!!!! *****

Palm® 2 in 1 Stereo Headset Pro
If your Palm smartphone pulls double duty as a phone and an MP3 player, then the 2-in-1 Stereo Headset Pro is perfect for you! This fully functional smartphone headset is specially designed to deliver amazing sound quality for digital audio content. Enjoy your favorite tunes with rich, dynamic stereo sound through the high-performance earpieces. Got an incoming call? Switch instantly to call mode with the touch of a button right on the microphone.
In-ear, ultra-soft silicon ear tips keep unwanted sound out, maximize comfort, and minimize ear fatigue

In-line control unit features:
* Omni-directional microphone
* Answer/End button
* Volume control
* Mute switch


Full Specs:
Display 320x320 pixel Transflective color touchscreen

Dual-band CDMA2000 EvDO phone radio

Platform Palm OS® by ACCESS 5.4.9

Bluetooth® v1.2 wireless technology

Memory 64MB available user storage

Camera 1.3 megapixels with 2x digital zoom and video capture

Battery Removable 1150mAh, lithium-ion

3.5 hours talk time, up to 300 hours standby time

Expansion microSD™ card (up to 4GB supported)

Connector Multi-connector

Dimensions 4.22" (L) x 2.11" (W) x 0.73" (D); 4.2 oz

Desktop or laptop system requirements:
Windows® XP
Windows Vista®
Mac OS X v10.2–10.4






Sprint Palm Centro






Palm Centro Belt Case







Palm Centro, Soft Shell Case, and 4G Micro SD






4G Micro SD Card with SD Adaptor






Palm 2 in 1 Stereo Headset Pro







3 Pack of Palm Stylus for Centro






Power Cable






Power Cable Adaptor






Sync Cable






Sprint Manuals and Sprint Software Installation CD







Sprint Palm Centro Smartphone Details







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]]> <![CDATA[Sprint Palm Centro Smartphone up for auction on Ebay!]]> Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:32:01 GMT Sony PSP 3000

Playstation Portable
Piano Black PSP System



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This gaming system is practically brand new!



Includes 5 Games!!
1) Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII
2) Valhalla Knights 2
3) Resistance Retribution
4) SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals Fireteam Bravo 2
5) Thrillville

AC Adaptor AND ...
Hard Shell Case!

Product Description:
The all-new Sony PSP 3000 - with vibrant widescreen LCD screen and built-in microphone! Play thrilling games, movies, music, connect to the Internet, and more. With the best portable games, and a dazzling LCD screen, everywhere just got better!

The PSP (PlayStation Portable) system is the first truly integrated portable entertainment system designed to handle multiple applications - music, video, photo, Internet, and wireless connectivity, with games as its key feature. The PSP system features an unmatched library of entertainment content, combining more than 135 games and more than 430 feature films, TV programs, and videos on UMD from major studios and record labels, as well as downloadable content from the Internet. Can play on any TV using the video outs.


A Full Entertainment System in Your Hands!
The PSP was designed to handle all varieties of applications and entertainment -- music, video, communication, wireless networking, and, of course, gaming. Users will enjoy top-notch 3D games with high-quality, full-motion video, and high-fidelity audio. The 4.3-inch wide screen display is bright and beautiful, and works well under many different lighting conditions. If you prefer, you can also connect your PSP to your TV. The PSP utilizes the Universal Media Disc (UMD) for a storage medium, each of which holds 1.8 GB of data.

Hundred of Games to Choose From
The PSP gaming library is hundreds of titles strong and covers a wide variety of genres. Whether you are seeking the hard hits of football or the strategy of a puzzle game, there's sure to be many games for you. The PSP is capable of graphics quality that is comparable to the PlayStation 2, but in a pocket-sized package that you can take wherever you go.

Watch Movies and Videos On The Go
When you just want to sit back and enjoy a movie on a long plane trip, the PSP has you covered. The PSP offers two options to do this: you can either purchase full-length movies and TV shows on UMD, or you can download videos onto your computer and transfer them on a Memory Stick Duo for playing on your PSP.

Listen to Your Music Collection Anywhere
With the ability to play MP3, WAV, WMA, ATRAC3+, and MP4 files, you can easily use your PSP as an audio player. Simply place your music on a Memory Stick Duo, and you can navigate your collection using the PSP's XMB (XrossMediaBar) to select your song to play.

Built-in WiFi allows for Internet Browsing and Online Gaming
With built-in WiFi, you can access the Internet from any accessible hotspot. Once connected, you can surf the Web and download exclusive demos and content for your PSP from the PlayStation Store.
The WiFi also allows you to battle other gamers, both over the Internet and in your local vicinity.


Full Specs:
Platform: Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) 3000 series
Wireless Type: Wi-Fi
Installed Memory: 64 MB
Processor Speed: 333 MHz
Sound Supported: Stereo
Game Media: UMD (Universal Media Disc)
Slot Types Provided: Memory Stick Duo
Color: Piano black
Processor Data Width: 128 bit
Controller: Game pad
Connector Type(s): 1 x headphones / remote control, 1 x USB ( mini-USB Type B ), 1 x DC power input, Component video output, Composite video output

Sound Output: Stereo
Manufacturer Part No.: 98898
UPC: 711719889809








PSP 3000






PSP 3000 Case







PSP 3000 Games







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]]> <![CDATA[Sony PSP 3000 Piano Black Gaming System with 5 games up for auction on Ebay!]]> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:30:52 GMT The tank has been up and running since December 2008 for those that haven’t seen the pictures of the making of “The Tank” check out this link:

http://www.texasrarebooks.com/tank

So the biggest fish in The Tank is called “The Big Guy”…pretty self explanatory! LOL! He is a Bala Shark and He’s about 14 inches long and weighs close to 5 lbs.

Here’s my latest fish story: and this happened about a week after The Big Guy and all the inhabitants of the Tank survived tank temperatures in excess of 96 degrees (for less than 8 hours) because the AC was out in the house! ….that’s another fish story I’ll post later!

Bala Sharks are known to dig through the gravel (basically sucking rocks into their mouth) looking for food. It’s just what they do. I never in my wildest dreams thought this would happen… see, I put medium sized gravel in the Tank, thinking there’s no way that the Bala’s could get such huge rocks into their mouths…well I was wrong. Last week The Big Guy sucked into his mouth a rock the size of a nickel. And it got stuck in his throat! My first thought was “ok, I’ll give it a few days to see if he would work it out”. Well, two days went by, and the rock was still stuck in his mouth. He wasn’t able to close his mouth. So, I set up my 30 gallon tank that I keep in reserve as a hospital tank. It took me at least 2 hours to catch him. So by the time I threw him into the hospital tank, he was exhausted enough for me to stick a pair of tweezers down his throat in an attempt to get the rock out! Well, the rock slid in even further down his throat, and I wasn’t able to touch it anymore with the tweezers. I figured, ok, he’ll just live the rest of his life with a rock in his belly! Hell, sharks in the ocean live with much worse in their belly’s all the time. The Big Guy was able to close his mouth and he looked like he wasn’t stressing out, so I waited 24 hours and threw him back in the Big Tank.

24 more hours go by, and The Big Guy apparently choked the rock back up to the point where it was caught back in his mouth. I could actually see the tip of the rock poking through his lips! So out came the net (I had to make out of a pool leaf catcher and pvc pipe), and I went to work trying to catch him again.

This time however, I was going to knock him out with fish anaesthesia and pull the rock out. Now fish anaesthesia was new to me, It’s a mixture of Finquel (which is an amphibian and large fish anaesthesia) and baking soda in a gallon of water. So I mixed it up and prayed… because this was either gonna help him or kill him. There wasn’t much in between! So after I caught him, I dunked him in the Finquel bath, and counted to 10…

The Big Guy started to float on his side, but his gills were still moving, so I knew the drugs were working! The Big Guy was down for the count! I had placed a pillow case over a towel on the counter, with a large desk lamp (so I could see better), a large magnifying glass, a timer, and several pairs of different size tweezers.

So I took the now very docile Big Guy, and laid him on the pillow case and started the timer (the experts say to not keep them under for more than 5 minutes). It took less than 30 seconds to wiggle the rock out of his throat! Thank you Jesus! So in the hospital tank he went so I could get fresh water moving through his gills. I had to hold a very groggy Big Guy in the hospital tank for about 5 minutes before he started to get his bearings back and could keep himself upright. But by God, I got that damned rock out!

As the Big Guy, was recovering in the hospital tank, I decided that the gravel that was in the Tank had to go. So I ended up scooping out all the medium sized gravel (all 175 pounds of it) and replaced it with the small regular gravel you can get in about every aquarium store! By the time I was done replacing the gravel, the Big Guy was ready to go back into the Tank.

I’m proud to report, that That Big Guy, the other 4 Bala’s and all the rest of the inhabitants of the Tank are all well and happy! wheeeeeeew! :)

]]> <![CDATA[SOS: The Big Guy's in Trouble!]]> Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:19:49 GMT Here's the link to see "The Making of The Tank"!!

http://www.TexasRareBooks.com/tank

]]> <![CDATA[The Tank in the making :)]]> Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:03:21 GMT
http://www.texasrarebooks.com/tank

By Feb. 2009 I was battling heat exchange in the tank (the tank was running around 84 degrees) versus the humidity the tank was leaving in the house. I had to find a happy medium for both fish and me!

Solution Number 1 – The Hood:
The first solution to the tank heat was to raise the temporary hood away from the surface of the tank by about a foot. So I built a one-foot tall wall surrounding the tank, that sits on the top of the tank by 1-inch triangular feet. The temporary hood now sits on the temporary walls! LOL! I built 5 doors into the wall so I could get to the surface of the water. This seemed to drop the tank temperature by a few degrees, but also added to the humidity that was going into the house. The humidity in the house was running in excess of 67 percent. Not good!

A temporary fix to the humidity problem was to buy a dehumidifier. But the drawbacks to running a dehumidifier was the extreme costs on the electric bill, probably $185 extra a month in electric charges. So a better solution needed to happen fast!

Solution Number 2 – The Filtration System:
When I designed the filtration system, I submersed the submersible/inline 4000 GPH pump into the second 45 gallon tub that was inline with the filters. Well this size pump, puts out a lot of heat, which was adding to the heat in the tank. So the next chore was to put the pump inline (outside of the second filtration tub). This involved re-plumbing the filtration system to accommodate the now inline pump. Once the project was done it dropped the tank temp by about 2 degrees. Still not enough for happy fish!

Solution Number 3 – The Lighting:
When I designed the lighting for the tank I was using (4) —> 40watt, 4-foot, Coral Reef 50/50 Fluorescent Tubes. Nice look these lights put out! However that was 160 watts of heat I was putting into the mix! Not to mention the strain on the electric bill the ballasts were putting out! So my solution was to get (4) – 4-foot, 12 volt, LED tube lights that I found at LEDLight.com. Not only did it significantly drop the heat exchange in the tank, but it also dropped the usage on my electric bill (they don’t need ballasts). The only problem I found with the LED lights was that their “warm” look couldn’t match the look of the Coral Reef 50/50’s, but being the lighting person that I am, I fixed this by putting L201 filters over the LED’s, and the beauty of this is, I can change the color in the tank to whatever I like in the future.

Solution Number 4 – Air Circulation:
I put a fan that blows across the water to cool the tank.

After solutions 1-4 were complete the tank temp was down to 80 degrees, very nice, but I still wanted it down to 78. And I was still getting a lot of humidity in the house. That was the next problem that needed to be addressed.

Solution Number 5 – Enclosure:
I decided to enclose the top of the tank inside the one-foot walls with plexiglass. However, I didn’t want the heat to be trapped inside the tank and the plexiglass. So to battle this I installed 2-feet by 3-feet sections of plexiglass across the top of the tank and left (2) 2-inch spacing between two of the sections, and still left the fan blowing across the top. Wow! what a difference this made! Humidity dropped! I could now stop running the dehumidifier! WooooHoooo!

Solution Number 6 – The Heaters:
Well they (those pesky little experts in the aquarium field) always tell you to leave your heaters plugged in, since the temperatures could drop during the night. Well those experts must have never lived in Texas! LOL! I unplugged my heaters — all 5 of them, and the tank temperature was now at a VERY stable 78 degrees. With the fan blowing across the top off the tank I am now able to set my Air Conditioner in the house to 80 degrees, and the tank will stay at a stable 78 degrees. Humidity in the house is around 42 to 50 percent without running the dehumidifier. WoooHoooooooo!

My electric bill is happy again, and so are all the inhabitants of The Tank!


]]> <![CDATA[Problems with Heat versus Humidity!]]> Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:03:21 GMT These Ebay Listings will start Sunday night 2-8-09 at 7:15pm PDT !!

Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery Cookbooks, Children's Books, and more!


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]]> <![CDATA[Ebay Re-Listings !!!]]> Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:01:21 GMT New Ebay Listings will start Wed. night 12-31-08 at 7:00pm PDT !!

Home Improvement Books, Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery, Time-Life's Nature Library and MORE!!!

Huge, Huge Lots!

Time-Life's The Epic of Flight lot will start Sunday Night 1-4-09 at 7:00pm PDT!! So Stay Tuned! :)

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]]> <![CDATA[New Ebay Listings!]]> Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:48:43 GMT