Every
year, the
Marist College Computer Society (of which I am
vice president ::
preen::) goes around and gathers
defunct machines. Then, just before
finals week, when all the
tension on
campus is at its absolute
peak, we spread out a
tarp, bring out a twenty pound
sledgehammer, and
charge people fifty cents a
swing to
demolish (in
effigy) the machine that ate their
term paper, or kicked them off
IM when they were talking to their
girlfriend,
etc, etc.
And yes, before I get
mobbed with
howls of
protest, we make
absolutely positively sure there is not a single
scrap of working
hardware in the pile before we begin. What few working machines we end up with get added to the MCCS
Beowulf Cluster.