UPDATE:Links to photos work, despite the images not showing up

Jesus tap dancing Christ! Two daily Gism's in a row! That's actually Daily! What could be going on in His dilluded little mind?
Well, mainly, He wants to brag. Brag about His new job at the ACCRC. You see, as far as the geek community goes, there is one rule that governs all: He who dies with the most toys wins. Anyone who's ever been dumpster diving can attest to the great lengths geeks will go to in order to acquire toys. monitors, broken computers, dead mainframes, even old printers all qualify as toys, working or not. And so, it is with great pride that He announces His now fully verified and paid for position at the ACCRC.

So just what in the hell is it? Well, to start with, the initials stand for Alameda County Computer Resource Center. Basically, companies and citizens donate their old computer equipment to the ACCRC and get a nice tax write-of in exchange. Then, the ACCRC fixes some of the old machines and donates them to places like Cuba, Africa, and south Oakland (all extremely poor places). Of course, the ACCRC is a non profit business.

And so, He is now working there full time, as web designer and network engineer. As Macintosh repair-man, and general advisor on all things Apple. In exchange, He gets a meager paycheck, and all the hardware He can carry.

Let's take a tour of the facilities, shall we?

The very heart of His domain is Macland.

It is here that He rebuilds

old Macs, plays with new ones,

and generally inhales lots of dust and grim. You see, The ACCRC used to be an ice cream factory. Then, for a time, it was a donut factory. When donuts became unfashionable, the place became a bagel factory. Finally, it fell into disrepair and became a haven for degenerates and junkies. Enter the ACCRC. They threw out the junkies, kept the degenerates, and fixed the place up. Sorta. Macland was, until He arrived,

the central pumping room for the plant. The old equipment lineing the walls and jutting from the floor is actually intended to distribute industrial power and pump steaming hot water through the rest of the factory. At the rear of Macland

is the even darker and danker generator room. Technically, it performed the same functions as the stuff in Macland, but now it's just dead weight collecting dust

When He arrived, the room was sealed by a great blue door covered in Apple stickers. He spent the weekend working harder than He's ever worked in His life, cleaning, categorizing, breaking, fixing, and generally attacking Macland. After two days of non-stop work, it went from an asbestos filled dump stacked to the cieling with old Mac crap to a mildly clean asbestos filled room packed to the cieling with organized mac crap.

There are a lot of interesting things in the main warehouse of the facility. For starters, a lot of mainframes come through. He had never seen many of these machines before, outside of movies.

Some of the equipment looks like it's right out of Dr. Strangelove, Daryl, or Wargames. Not only are there plenty of old mainframes, but there are thousands of old personal computers as well.

Extra bonus points for anyone who can identify this:

He supposes that's actually a fairly easy test, but He had to work in all of His pictures somehow. Incidentally, here He is:

And best of all, He gets a new email address:Email Him!

Here are some more shots, in no particular order. He's just too lazy to add too much more in the way of text.

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