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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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13 February 2003 - 10:02 pm
Apartment 12 has been finding furniture left and right. A couple of weeks ago IEEE rearranged their lounge and got rid of one of their couchs. After it sat in the hall outside their lounge for a couple of weeks, michael and I persuaded Jim Tucek to borrow his mom's van and move it over here. Then, a few days ago, as michael and I were leaving Bryan Hall to go home, we discovered that some of the old chairs from the library were being thrown out. After a lot of struggling we managed to get two of them into the Echo and back here, where one has replaced the broken chair at our kitchen table, and the other fills some empty space next to the tv.
All of these furniture acquisitions have led me to wonder why WashU doesn't run a consignment shop. Departments can have their excess furniture moved to the consignment shop where other departments, students, and the general public could come and buy it. It would make more sense than the current system, where a few items get listed on the surplus property page and the majority of unwanted items end up in dumpsters. At least calling a charity and having them haul it off would make more sense than throwing it out.
Posted by on 13 February 2003 at 10:00 PM
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But it all usually ends up in the hands of students, so it does go to charity.
Posted by jim on 14 February 2003 - 12:04 PM
Do you really think the students at WashU qualify as charities?
Posted by david on 15 February 2003 - 1:03 PM