Weird Stuff, Halted, Alltronics and Excess Solutions sold the electronics + misc. When I'd feel like I needed some inspiration, I'd often go and pick up some w

Weird Stuff, Halted, Alltronics and Excess Solutions sold the electronics + misc. When I'd feel like I needed some inspiration, I'd often go and pick up some weird obscure failed (or prototype) project. Once I found a floppy disk carrier that belonged to a fellow employee (based on the handwritten label) from my first job, 20 years earlier. Excess Solutions also sold more of the furniture stuff, workbenches, and, strangely, hotel surplus blankets, lighting fixtures and wall coverings. My $20 living room couch came from there - I think it was originally from Ikea but it's still pretty solid. The fabric is faded with a particular stripe and I imagine had spent it's previous life in the lobby of some software company where the sunlight would find it's way through some half broken blinds to mark the passage of time by fading this couch. Weird Stuff I know didn't have their lease renewed by the property owner (google) and most of it's stock was scrapped as waste.