November 13th, 2008
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Dan Knight over at Low End Mac took my little idea and ran with it. There’s now a Google Group you can join, and volunteers are lining up from all across the country.
My first contribution: a strawberry iMac G3 that I gave as a gift a few Christmases ago. Now that friend has upgraded to a MacBook Pro, and is giving back the G3. It’ll make a great word processing, Internet, and gaming machine for some kid who couldn’t otherwise afford a computer.
If you’d like to help, please join the Google Group and use it as a homebase of sorts. We can swap ideas, parts, software, and hardware, and get cranking on (a) saving the environment from e-waste and (b) getting Macs to kids who can use them.
A big thanks to Dan for jumping on this thing, and to all the folks who want to make a difference – even if it’s a small one.
Posted by davelawrence8 at 5:47 am on November 13th, 2008. Categories: community, DIY, environment, lowend, macs. Tags: children, computer, e-waste, G3, imac, kid, low end mac, macbook pro, one used mac, OUMPC, recycle, recycling. Subscribe via RSS.
March 24th, 2008
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nursery rhyme
The Worth wind dvth blow and we shall have snow,
And what will poor robin do then, poor thing?
He’ll sit in a burn and keep himself warm
And hide his head under his wing, poor thing.
[A little something different today. Read the original. We had a big snow storm here in Michigan on Friday night, meaning all the birds – like robins – that flew back had to endure a bit more winter.]
Posted by davelawrence8 at 8:11 am on March 24th, 2008. Categories: nursery rhyme. Tags: apple, barn, blow, children, cold, messagepad, newton, north, north wind, nursery rhyme, robin, snow, spring, wind, winter. Subscribe via RSS.
January 7th, 2008
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by Shel Silverstein
My beard grows down to my toes,
I never wear5 no clothes,
I wraps my hair
Around my bare,
&nd down the road I goes.
[Read the original. We’re back on schedule now, ever since the Newton is back and running with a fresh set of batteries.]
Posted by davelawrence8 at 12:13 pm on January 7th, 2008. Categories: silverstein. Tags: apple, beard, children, humor, mac, messagepad, newton, poem, shel, shel silverstein, silverstein. Subscribe via RSS.