Thursday 24 February, 2005

Recycling

Residents of our building have understood the concept of recycling. In the basement we have the recycling and garbage room where people bring their, well, recycled materials like paper and plastic products, and leave their garbage. But in addition to this there is "unofficial" recycling going on all the time. People just put aside stuff that they don't want anymore but that can still be used by someone else: mugs, books, clothes, magazines... And today I found a perfectly good coffee table there.

I was taking out our plastic recylables, and thought that the table looked good - and on my way up in the elevator I decided that I should go and grab it. So down in the elevator (takes maybe 30 seconds) and grab the table - Vi, our building manager (Mrs.) was already there and urged me to take the table before someone else did...

It's a medium sized coffee table, black wooden frame and a glass top - you know one of those fancy tables you see in the decorating programs where you have a space under the glass where you can put pretty stones and feathers or whatever you want to use to decorate it. It'll become our printer table (as soon as we have money to buy one!), and I'll decorate it accodingly with manuals and cables and other geeky things.

Posted by kolibri at 24 February 21:21, 2005
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# 1 - Outi (on February 25, 2005 02:19 AM):

Manuals and cables and geeky things instead of pretty stones and feathers and seashells and what not? Boy, you two are just as bad as Janne :P


# 2 - kolibri [TypeKey Profile Page] (on February 25, 2005 07:50 AM):

Oh no, it's just me :) Dragon generally couldn't care less about technology ;)


# 3 - Dragon (on February 25, 2005 09:19 AM):

Oh but I DO care. I want it to work. Which seems to be rarer and rarer these days.


# 4 - kolibri [TypeKey Profile Page] (on February 25, 2005 10:55 PM):

Exactly - you don't care about technology, you just want "stuff that works".

For example he might say that he wants a certain program on tv to be taped so he can watch it later, and gets very frustrated when our European VCR doesn't seem to be able to do it. I've for a while now been dreaming about a DVD-R player with an internal hard drive, and I could talk a long time about the model I've chosen after long comparisons between others, and all the wonderful features it has :D Only thing Dragon cares about is that he can watch the programs he missed later - I'm actually interested in playing with technology and explore all the possibilities it will give me.


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