6 Apr
2005
6 Apr
'05
7:15 p.m.
I registed to a local freecycling group. I receive several tens of
emails each day. 80 percent are wanting and 20 percent are offering. I
would expect the reversed ratio.
vax, 9000
6 Apr
6 Apr
8:21 p.m.
Definitely not from my neck of the woods. It is reversed here. Though, what
is being offered is sometimes rediculous. For example, someone was offering
a partially consumed package of paper napkins, available for pickup only.
WTF? Yes, pickup only. Considering gasoline costs $2.28 for 87 unleaded in
these parts, there were obviously- NO Takers. Things like that pop up
often, but sometimes you get a bunch of nifty stuff offered for free, or
some small fee (tag sale is the $300 or less branch off of freecycle). I
got a free used (and working) Cisco Aironet 340 PCMCIA card (Wireless B)
from someone lately who offered it. Also got a LinkSys
BEFSR41v2 Broadband
Router for $20, new with receipt copy to prove it, in opened
box (used for
2 days, guy went wireless to his PC instead as he didn't feel like placing
network wires about). It just depends on where you are and what is out
there to be offered. Yes, some places will offer nothing or crap, while
others offer a lot or really interesting items. You just have to look
about. Items on topic offered as of late: an old 8088, a GE typewriter, an
IBM typewriter and a teletype terminal. It just depends, like I said.
-John Boffemmyer IV
At 10:15 PM 4/6/2005, you wrote:
I registed to a local freecycling group. I receive
several tens of
emails each day. 80 percent are wanting and 20 percent are offering. I
would expect the reversed ratio.
vax, 9000
10:13 p.m.
I joined several local lists. Much of what is offered seems to be kids
clothing and toys. I did get rid of a leaking, but fixable, fish tank
the day after I joined. I must have had about 15 people wanting it.
I'm thinking of offering the broken chunks of cement that I have in my
backyard..... I probably won't get to many takers for that one :-)
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
9000 VAX wrote:
I registed to a local freecycling group. I receive
several tens of
emails each day. 80 percent are wanting and 20 percent are offering. I
would expect the reversed ratio.
vax, 9000
7 Apr
7 Apr
4:15 a.m.
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 01:13 -0400, C Fernandez wrote:
I did get rid of a leaking, but fixable, fish tank
the day after I joined. I must have had about 15 people wanting it.
Good for reptiles, even if it's no good for fish I suppose.
Worth remembering that if you're near to a university, students will
generally trade *anything* given that they often have no space and no
money - so some really oddball stuff moves about (I've seen half-eaten
boxes of breakfast cereal change hands before now)
University departments are good for getting old hardware from though if
you know the right people - lots of early / mid 90's Unix machines and
associated network gear over the last couple of years, along with 1980's
8-bitters that get found in cupboards every once in a while. The 1970's
stuff seems to have all long gone, though.
cheers
Jules
5:11 a.m.
At 12:13 AM 4/7/2005, C Fernandez wrote:
I joined several local lists. Much of what is offered
seems to be kids clothing and toys. I did get rid of a leaking, but fixable, fish tank
the day after I joined. I must have had about 15 people wanting it. I'm thinking of
offering the broken chunks of cement that I have in my backyard..... I probably won't
get to many takers for that one :-)
I forwarded Chad a post from my local FC group this morning where
someone had offered a pile of rocks (from a barn foundation) and
were overwhelmed with takers. This is in a rural county where
piles of rocks are not uncommon to spot every 1000 feet at the
edges of fields along country roads.
"Wanted" posts seem to be discouraged on my local list. Of course,
even on a list of 80% "wanted" posts, I think it would be productive
to offer to be willing to take entire piles of old computer junk.
- John
2:44 p.m.
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, John Foust wrote:
piles of rocks are not uncommon to spot every 1000
feet at the
edges of fields along country roads.
"Wanted" posts seem to be discouraged on my local list. Of course,
even on a list of 80% "wanted" posts, I think it would be productive
to offer to be willing to take entire piles of old computer junk.
Couldn't they be used instead of rocks to pile up every 1000 feet?
6:32 a.m.
Chad, local guy offered his broken concrete chunks last week, had 20+
people looking to take it for everything from rock beds for drainage
ditches to stone walls to stone chunks in an outdoor garden someone was
designing. You can definitely get rid of them. =)
:Attempt to make on-topic:
Were these chunks from a floor supporting old big-iron in a building or
from a computer company's locale that was
demolished?
-John Boffemmyer IV
At 01:13 AM 4/7/2005, you wrote:
I joined several local lists. Much of what is offered
seems to be kids
clothing and toys. I did get rid of a leaking, but fixable, fish tank the
day after I joined. I must have had about 15 people wanting it. I'm
thinking of offering the broken chunks of cement that I have in my
backyard..... I probably won't get to many takers for that one :-)
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
9000 VAX wrote:
>I registed to a local freecycling group. I receive several tens of
>emails each day. 80 percent are wanting and 20 percent are offering. I
>would expect the reversed ratio.
>vax, 9000
9:55 a.m.
John Boffemmyer IV wrote:
Chad, local guy offered his broken concrete chunks
last week, had 20+
people looking to take it for everything from rock beds for drainage
ditches to stone walls to stone chunks in an outdoor garden someone was
designing. You can definitely get rid of them. =)
Hmm, I didn't think about drainage ditches. My thoughts were retaining
walls or a cheap, but creative patio/walkway.
:Attempt to make on-topic:
Were these chunks from a floor supporting old big-iron in a building or
from a computer company's locale that was demolished?
Um, no..... small patio that was sloped in such a way as to funnel water
into my lab's personnel uniform cleansing facility (laundry room).
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
5:19 p.m.
Those evil bastards! Runoff water damaging my Silicon Graphics, Palm,
Seagate, Cisco, AMD, Adaptec, etc. shirts and laundry would surely agitate
the crap out of me too. Must have been designed with a M$ product (much
like older M$ Basic where if a series of commands are given using a
"vending machine" concept, the end result will always be wrong- unless you
negate every command after the first in the written program, lol. ...As
told to me by a friend who was a programmer I worked with at IBM), hehehe.
-John Boffemmyer IV
PS: use for drainage or solidifying bed in soft soil in low-laying areas
are usually what broken concrete is used for. It is semi-permeable,
odd-shaped and multi-sized, allowing a lot of pieces to fit nicely together
when laid down as a foundation for smaller stone or blacktop above, firming
up the area to allow heavier loads with less shifting and more saturation
drainage. Sorry, used to do engineering too and we started using that idea
in the mid-90's.
At 12:55 PM 4/7/2005, you wrote:
John Boffemmyer IV wrote:
Chad, local guy offered his broken concrete chunks
last week, had 20+
people looking to take it for everything from rock beds for drainage
ditches to stone walls to stone chunks in an outdoor garden someone was
designing. You can definitely get rid of them. =)
Hmm, I didn't think about drainage ditches. My thoughts were retaining
walls or a cheap, but creative patio/walkway.
:Attempt to make on-topic:
Were these chunks from a floor supporting old big-iron in a building or
from a computer company's locale that was demolished?
Um, no..... small patio that was sloped in such a way as to funnel water
into my lab's personnel uniform cleansing facility (laundry room).
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA 
7:57 p.m.
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, C Fernandez wrote:
I joined several local lists. Much of what is offered
seems to be kids
clothing and toys. I did get rid of a leaking, but fixable, fish tank
the day after I joined. I must have had about 15 people wanting it.
I got a nice AT&T Word Processor so far ;)
I'm thinking of offering the broken chunks of
cement that I have in my
backyard..... I probably won't get to many takers for that one :-)
Oh yes you would.
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