November 13th, 2008
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
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
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.
