On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 05:44:56PM -0500, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> I don't know what happened, but I found this weird guy sitting at my
> machine (snicker).
>
> In all seriousness, Paul, you've really struck a chord in my heart. I
> am a full-fledged dumpster diver. I feel it is an honest to God shame
> when people chuck valuable processing for the sake of newer technology
> when it's all going to repeat again in a couple of years.
As one of my many jobs many years ago, I worked for a rural trash
service for a while. Amazing what people discard. I once read that
people in Japan simply throw their old furniture and stuff out.
Apparently they have a culture where people simply don't consider
re-using other people's stuff. This from a culture where resources are
extremely limited and most raw materials must be imported.
> I've got an HP closet at home that I plan to populate with 486
> motherboards and make a Beowulf cluster someday. Maybe if P2P
> processing progresses, I'll do that instead, but for now, I'm
> accumulating as my girlfriend is leaving (oops!).
>
> If enough folks are interested, maybe we could pool together and make a
> mass junk raffle for SLUG? Anymore junk out there?
>
This is starting to sound like a good idea. There have been some other
recent discussions about people swapping junk. The only caveat would be
that if you bring junk and no one wants it, you gotta take it back home
with you; we can't leave junk lying around at PwC.
Paul
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