another day...

Getting ready to head in to the CoH in a bit... yea, it's Saturday, but people are still homeless on weekends. Heh. Actually, I left something there yesterday that I kinda need. Plus next week we are taking delivery of a rather generous donation of 7 iMacs and a switched hub (sharing a single DSL connection among 25 machines is bad enough without the extra added bonus of constant collisions). I have a lot of work to do to prepare for that.... the network needs some serious tweaking, and I still need to procure mass quantities of cat5, and a couple more switched hubs would really help.

We still need lots more kit, for the record. There are 8 projects in the Coalition, 7 at my office plus Hogares Sin Barreras. One already has a G3, so I can put one iMac in each of the other projects, but what's going to happen is that no one will want to use the crappy older Macs on the other desktops and there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth and collisions among the staff and volunteers over who gets to use the new machines. Anyone looking to clear out some old stuff and get a tax deduction without spending anything in the process.... cat5 (a spool would be nice), hubs, switches, etc are high priority right now.

[EDIT: here's the Coalition's address...

Coalition on Homelessness
ATTN: Administration - Rain
468 Turk St.
San Francisco, CA 94102

Be sure to include a return address so we can send you a tax receipt... for replacement value of the same or comparable on today's market.
Thanks, guys. :-)

The phone there is 415-346-3740, I'm usually in from noonish until after dark, if anyone has questions that can't be addressed in email. Ask for Rain.
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Care Not Cash was reinstated by the courts... *sigh*.

The guiding logic of Care Not Cash will be tested in the next few months. Newsom has long said that many welfare clients come to San Francisco because of its generous cash benefits; when they are faced with losing their checks, he believes, they will leave, saving public dollars. The budget analyst reported last summer that there's no evidence this will actually happen. [SF Bay Guardian]

The logic of the downtown lobby and their pet monkey Gavin is thus:

There is a homeless problem.

The problem is that there are homeless people.

The problem will be gone when the homeless people leave.

[yes, really... the problem in their eyes is not homelessness, but homeless people, cluttering up the place]

I'm out.