Council cleanups rock!

26 May 2004

Yay, it’s that time of year (I’ve never quite figured out how often it is) again, and it’s been raining for several days on and off, which is generally acknowledged to be a complete kill of any geek hopes of salvaging weird and wonderful posessions from the various piles in front of peoples houses.

Not THIS geek!!!

This morning I discovered something of a hidden treasure on my way to school – enclosed in a box which had previously housed one of those “entertainment system” mini-ish PC’s (this box was soggy, and people wouldn’t throw out a working system, which are the only two reasons I think it hadn’t already been nabbed by someone else) was a lovely Super Power case, complete with 350W power supply!!! Wooo!!!

Now, who had a power supply die on them a few months ago?  And who had been putting off purchasing a new one for no real reason?  YEAH!!!! MEEEE!!!!

Of course, because of the rain and all that, I’m unsure whether it actually works yet (I’ve got “attack PSU w/ hair dryer” written in my diary – no, seriously… if you don’t believe me, nab me sometime and I’ll show you!) – but its cool that someone just threw it out!!!  Well… cool where cool equals extremely wasteful and uncaring about the financial or environmental cost of IT goods… but still!

I’m planning on going for a bit of a jog sometime later tonight to better scout my suburb for miscellaneous goodies that no-one else has found yet (seeing cleanup is technically Monday, I’m not too hopeful – generally, you’ve got about 10 hours after stuff is thrown out to find it.  Walks late on Sunday night are good, but I forgot to, and on Monday I was at the Retreat :( ).

Should this thing work, I shall once again have a working P3, without any cost incurred to me!  Woooo!

Yeah, the excitement shall wear off shortly – until then, I’ll not be able to concentrate on things that I really should… mmm… assessments.  I found out today that apparently I have an ITF task due Monday.  Not a big thing in itself, but I’m sure that I was never told about it… I’m kind of tempted to just not hand it in and say I wasn’t notified of it – sure, I’d fail it, but its almost worth it just to make a point.  ARGH that subject sucks… its so tedious and unstructured – not to mention generally disorganised – we still haven’t got the LAST assessment back yet, and that was several months ago now.  I can’t drop it, though – it counts for four units (inc. Cisco random stuff), and that’d take me below the required minimum of 12.  Bleh!

Mmm capacitor discharge from wet powersupplies…