It’s a lot like Sanford and Son

Sanford and Son

What, you might ask, has this to do with anything? Take a look at this picture from our living room:

This is our living room at the moment.

Yes, that's 16 computers and a 17" monitor. There's three more monitors downstairs and 12 more waiting for pickup. The short of it is I bought a bunch of older surplus computers from Utah County for (get this) $10 each. Yep, that's right. Ten bucks. I'm gonna turn around and sell most of the monitors for about that and end up with a boatload of free computers. I think I can get behind this whole "public surplus" idea, you know?

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Posted by Jesse | Filed under: Geek, Life on March 9th, 2007 at 5:30 pm

7 Responses to “It’s a lot like Sanford and Son”

  1. jeremy, on March 9th, 2007 at 5:51 pm Said:

    nice pull

  2. Jason, on March 9th, 2007 at 9:20 pm Said:

    impressive. i forsee an underground WOW group forming downstairs.

  3. Jesse, on March 10th, 2007 at 6:13 pm Said:

    Well… you *can* setup your very own WoW server with some hacked software, but that defeats the multi-player aspect, doesn’t it? No, what I’m doing is much more geeky: I’m experimenting with VPNs, PBXs and many other acronyms. I totally live on the edge.

  4. Jason, on March 11th, 2007 at 4:42 pm Said:

    I’m not smart enough to know what that means, but Im interested.

  5. Glen, on March 12th, 2007 at 6:14 am Said:

    Now if you go around faking heart attacks like pops, that is when I say things will get interesting. :)

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