Who has the best dumpster?

From: John Allain <jallain_at_databaseamerica.com>
Date: Wed Feb 9 17:07:55 2000

I personally find this discussion thread to be scary at best.
What does it say about us?

My favorite "dives":
   The MIT Flea Market
   The Foothill Flea Market (haven't been since '88)
   This list.
   eBay.
   The curbsides of suburbia
       Found the following: Mac Performa, Mac Scanner,
          PS2/30 complete, Syquest, Butcher block table, ...
   The Greenwich Dump
       Somebody dumped about a dozen Macs there just before Y2K.
       Funny since Macs always were Y2K compliant.
       I took One. and a scanner.
   One of Five randomly selected Scrap houses in the San Jose area.
   Companies in the process of "BPR".
       Went to my first open house auction in the No.Cal office
       of my old employer Calma. It was essentially a Giant three
       floor tag sale. There was One row of cubicles not with
       price tags and taped off with a "do not enter" sign on a
       sheet of paper. That was the 10 remaining people left there,
       still working.

My favorite dumpster story.
   Walked all the way to The Jacob Javitz Convention center in NYC
   once for an Internet exhibition. On the way there passed several
   dangerous neighborhoods. Was reassured(?) to catch a glimpse of
   one kindly Gentleman reclining to get some noontime sun; seemed
   like a happy unthreatening type. He was of course reclining in
   his dumpster.

John A.
Received on Wed Feb 09 2000 - 17:07:55 GMT