[Noisebridge-discuss] more free junk!
Rubin Abdi
rubin at starset.net
Sat Oct 3 20:28:41 UTC 2009
Hi Michael.
After the last truck load of e-waste was picked through and hauled off
last night, I was pretty happy to think that what was left over was more
or less the cream of the crop (though it was a very small percentage
left over) and that I wouldn't have to spend more time picking through
piles and piles of junk at Noisebridge then actually hacking on some
sort of hardware I found.
Sorting through dozens of broken optical drives to locate 1 functional
DVD burner is very counter productive and sometimes so intimidating that
giving up and buying my needed supplies seems simpler. My thoughts were
that now we've (mostly) reset the hack pile and have gotten an
understand of the difference between "oh this stuff is totally hackable
someone will eventually hack on it" and "no one will most likely waste
their time on fixing this" members and guests will be a little bit more
cautious about what things may or may not be useful to the group. And I
feel now that we've got an "exit plan" for anything we don't want
through e-waste pickup, it'll be easier for folks to look at something,
decide that it possibly shouldn't have come into the space in the first
place and toss it into the e-waste pile to be picked up in a month or
taken to someone's home.
Michael Shiloh wrote, On 2009/10/03 12:12:
> I've been carefully sorting out the tons of stuff that pass through my
> hands, selecting items that I'm pretty sure will be useful, and in all
> cases, asking via email first if anyone wants these items.
>
> In addition, I always state in my email that if there is anything left
> over after everyone has picked over the collection, I will take
> responsibility for recycling and/or disposing of these items. I fully
> understand how a place like NB could easily become a dumping ground for
> everyone's unwanted items, and I have no intention of using NB as such.
I just want to thank you for having the attitude that you have towards
donating items and that it means a lot to me that you feel it's your
responsibility to make sure what you do donate gets used in some sort of
way and doesn't eventually turn into cruft. I hope more and more members
adopt this way of thinking when they plan to donate things to the space.
I also wanted to apologize to you for the comment I did make to Zedd
when I saw him place more pc towers in the e-waste pile that's sitting
in the elevator room. After picking through, sorting out, and moving
donated items that we've had in the space for almost a year and finally
having it get hauled off, being completely drained from the past two
months of build out, getting to be extremely flustered with the
unexcellent attitued folks have been sharing on and off this list, and
the fact that I had just allow myself to drink for the night, I let some
pretty nasty words fly for a minute. I'm sorry if you found that all
offensive and I hope you can understand that it wasn't with any ill
intent or hate.
Again thank you for your donations and sorry for being a dick head at
that moment in time. I think you're quite an awesome person for thinking
through your donations.
--
Rubin Abdi
rubin at starset.net
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