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janc
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Grex Property Disposition
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Dec 24 21:26 UTC 2004 |
The simple part of moving Grex out of the pumpkin (where it has been
kept very well for some time) is moving the computer to provide.net.
The hard part is getting everything else out of the room. I think the
experience is going to somewhat resemble emptying the house of a dead
relative. The good stuff is easy to find a home for. The trash is easy
to throw away. And then there's all the other in-between stuff which is
just baffling. The pumpkin is packed with in-between stuff.
There is some furniture there which might be on the good end of the
spectrum. Maybe we could find someone who'd have a use for some of it,
and might even give us a few bucks. Best are two steel shelving units
that I think DanG donated. They are your standard not particularly
attractive basement shelving units, but unusually sturdy. There is a
Steelcase desk from University Property Disposition - about five feet by
three feet, two drawers on each side, functional but not attractive.
There are a some chairs also from property disposition - a wheeled
swivel chair that used to have problems with a wheel falling off, but I
haven't noticed that lately, and two other chairs. All old, ugly and
functional. There are some long 1x10 wooden planks being used for
shelving, and probably shelving hardware to hold them to the walls. I'm
sure someone has a use for those.
Then there is a very large supply of old Sun parts. Personally I'd be
willing to give them to anyone who will take them away. We should keep
only the Sun 4/670 and a box full of spares. I think DanG offered to
temporarily house that.
The biggest dinosaur is a computer rack. This was the chassis for a Sun
4/690. It's a little smaller than a refrigerator. I think inside it is
a standard computer rack, but the outside is marginally prettier than
usual. It weighs a ton.
There is lots of other stuff. Check Mark's inventory database for a
complete list.
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tod
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response 1 of 99:
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Dec 24 21:31 UTC 2004 |
Rex and I did the New Center in a weekend. It took about 4 hours of chucking
stuff into a dumpster one flight of stairs upward. Has anyone advertised the
list on M-Net or HVCN or anywhere else?
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naftee
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response 2 of 99:
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Dec 24 22:49 UTC 2004 |
Goodbye pumpkin :(
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mfp
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response 3 of 99:
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Dec 24 23:55 UTC 2004 |
Goodbye, pumpkin. :(
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gelinas
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response 4 of 99:
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Dec 25 05:42 UTC 2004 |
(I fear that the ultimate sentence of Jan's penultimate paragraph is NOT an
exaggeration.)
I'd be happy to take the shelving, and even make an appropriately-sized
donation for it.
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mary
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response 5 of 99:
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Dec 25 10:50 UTC 2004 |
My opinion is that if staff wants any of what's in the Pumpkin then
they get first option to take it, without charge, as a small token
of what they've generously given to Grex. Would others support
this?
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slynne
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response 6 of 99:
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Dec 25 15:16 UTC 2004 |
I am ok with that although if someone who isnt on staff wants something
in particular, I think we could give it to them too.
All I know is that I will be cleaning out that place in January. And I
am not a good judge of what is useful and what isnt. It is *all* garbage
to me.
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mary
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response 7 of 99:
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Dec 25 15:36 UTC 2004 |
I'm fine by it all being given away. Whomever takes it away by the
end of February is doing us a HUGE favor.
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dpc
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response 8 of 99:
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Dec 25 18:33 UTC 2004 |
Yes, I support your good idea, mary.
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ryan
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response 9 of 99:
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Dec 25 18:35 UTC 2004 |
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albaugh
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response 10 of 99:
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Dec 25 23:30 UTC 2004 |
Does grex have authorized & easy access to a dumpster at the pumpkin?
If so, I suggest that baff implement and announce the following:
1) On/by such-and-such a date, people who have contributed stuff to grex that
it no longer needs, and people who might want stuff that grex can't use and
has no value, they better come and get it, or FORget it.
2) On that date, have identified volunteers who will take whatever is left
of value that grex can't use, for possible sale somehow.
3) Pitch everything that is left.
Is that workable?
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janc
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response 11 of 99:
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Dec 26 05:43 UTC 2004 |
The Mac SE in the pumpkin is my own personal property, on loan to Grex.
I want it back. I want nothing else.
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richard
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response 12 of 99:
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Dec 29 06:32 UTC 2004 |
the minutes of the last board meeting aren't posted yet. was there
actually a board vote to approve moving out of the pumpkin? when does
the lease expire? has there been no attempt to negotiate with the
landlord for favorable terms for a lease renewal? why move unless grex
is being evicted or something...
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aruba
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response 13 of 99:
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Dec 29 07:13 UTC 2004 |
Richard - yes, the board voted to move Grex. The reason for moving is that
we will save a lot of money. The numbers aren't close, so negotiating
wouldn't bear much fruit.
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other
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response 14 of 99:
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Dec 29 10:17 UTC 2004 |
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other
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response 15 of 99:
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Dec 29 10:17 UTC 2004 |
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other
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response 16 of 99:
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Dec 29 10:55 UTC 2004 |
I'll volunteer my time and my pickup truck to help clear stuff out of
the Pumpkin, if someone will let me know when to be there (assuming it
fits my currently rather loose schedule).
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mary
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response 17 of 99:
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Dec 29 12:36 UTC 2004 |
The only thing better than one Eric is three Erics. Volunteering
pickup trucks.
Thanks.
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gelinas
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response 18 of 99:
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Dec 29 13:40 UTC 2004 |
I noticed last night that fronttalk reports "response not entered" and returns
the "respond, etc" prompt, even though the response was in fact entered. I
expect Jan will take a look at it when he gets some rest. :)
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keesan
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response 19 of 99:
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Dec 29 15:37 UTC 2004 |
I volunteer my porch as a staging ground for pickups of things people promised
to come get that are not out of the pumpkin in time. It is enclosed and
unlocked. Eric could deliver to it. We could recycle what is not picked up.
I don't think the rack and shelving and chairs would fit on it though. 5'
deep by 14' long and we need to be able to open two doors and walk through.
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richard
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response 20 of 99:
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Dec 29 18:20 UTC 2004 |
maybe someone could volunteer to take pictures of everything and sell some
of the stuff on ebay. people seem to bid on anything there. one person's
junk is another's treasure
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other
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response 21 of 99:
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Dec 29 18:49 UTC 2004 |
Hmm. BT reported a crash which I assumed meant the response had not
been posted, thus the repeats.
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keesan
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response 22 of 99:
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Dec 29 19:15 UTC 2004 |
Our neighbor likes playing on eBay. We can ask if he wants anything not
picked up by a grexer by some deadline. He can figure out if anything there
is likely to be valued as he knows a lot about computer hardware.
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steve
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response 23 of 99:
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Jan 1 09:04 UTC 2005 |
The stuff that Grex has is not likely to garner a lot of interest, but it
*would* be nice if we could store stuff (well, some stuff) inside where we
could try to sell it off. I realize this isn't exactly likely.
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keesan
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response 24 of 99:
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Jan 1 15:36 UTC 2005 |
We spent part of yesterday afternoon making space on the porch and closing
up some of the rips in the plastic enclosure. If you subtract space to open
the doors and to store a few of our own things like trashcan, there is now
an empty strip 2' wide, about 8-9' long, and 8' high where anything definitely
to be recycled can already be dropped off. Email me for the address. We can
store a smaller amount indoors while people try to find a market for it.
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