[FM Discuss] proprietary software manuals to soil

[Julian Oliver]

hehe. geekosystem indeed.

for the record, you can pry the 1700 page, 3kg, meticulously well
written 'OpenGL 2.0 SuperBible' from my cold, dead fingers.. 

as for all the /rest/ of those proprietary manuals: talk to the
shredder!

:wq!

julian,

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..on or around Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:40:46PM +1300, adam hyde said:
> hi all,
> 
> I'm just about to leave NZ for Australia for a day and then on to NYC. I
> thought I should perhaps send an update on my holiday activities which
> are kind of related to FLOSS Manuals...
> 
> Julian Priest, David Merritt and I set up an exhibition in Christchurch
> called 'the Geekosystem'. The show was about many things including the
> reuse of old computers and electronics - essentially it was a walk-in
> workshop with a lot more to boot.
> 
> One component of the show was a corner where Dave had set up a shredder.
> You can see it here:
> http://www.geekosystem.org/photos/shredder.jpg
> 
> What you see in the picture is a shredder with a lot of books in the
> background. These books are all proprietary software manuals. They came
> from Daves personal collection of old computer manuals and books. So we
> set up the shredder and asked people to come and shred the proprietary
> software manuals. It was a very cathartic experience for many people as
> you can see from the photos.
> 
> There are some pictures here of people shredding (the first being me and
> dave):
> http://www.geekosystem.org/photos/shred1.jpg
> http://www.geekosystem.org/photos/shred2.jpg
> http://www.geekosystem.org/photos/shred3.jpg
> http://www.geekosystem.org/photos/shred4.jpg
> http://www.geekosystem.org/photos/shred6.jpg
> 
> The mulch was then added to a box (you can see it on the left of the
> shredder in the first picture -
> http://www.geekosystem.org/photos/shredder.jpg) and then added to this
> was some water (rain water) and used coffee grains from the coffee we
> drank during the week doing our geek things. 
> 
> This supplies a good deal of nitrogen (from the coffee) and carbon (from
> the books). With time this breaks down to compost, and with added worms
> it becomes soil.
> 
> We will turn the box into a garden over the next weeks (Dave is staying
> at the gallery for a while). First however we had to germinate the
> seedlings (Spinach) so we have made a glasshouse from an old floppy disk
> case, added the coffee and proprietary software manual mulch and started
> germinating...:
> http://www.geekosystem.org/photos/seedlings.jpg
> 
> so...now we have found an excellent use for all those old proprietary
> software manuals....turn them into soil :)
> 
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> adam
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