Pig-bin origami

[hirez]

For a couple of months, we've been more-or-less happily dealing with the council supplied pig-bin and pig-handbag... Ok, so the kitchen waste isn't going to feed the pigs like they did when mater & pater were younger, but anyway.

On the referenced web-page, you'll note that the nice people recommend you line the pig-handbag with newspaper to save it getting too manky. Thus far the lining efforts have been ad-hoc and generally a bit poor. One's as likely to find banana skins and festery teabags on the wrong side of the alleged liner as the correct one.

So it struck me on Friday while cycling to work (along with exactly why a shellscript was failing sometimes. Did you know HP-UX was missing a 'stat' command? The 'experts' said 'use ls -l'. Does that give me mtime in seconds-since-epoch? Does it hell. Tossers.) that a chap should be able to bodge up an origami box using the sports section of the Manchester Guardian, given the Berliner form-factor is exactly the right size. Though don't let the Mail-reading conspiracy theorists know that.

Now, I'm far from an expert on Origami. Several tens of miles, probably. The internet's being a bit poor as well. Plenty of glue and cutting, not much in the way of clever folding akin to the sort of thing a chap used to see in the back of Rupert Annuals back in the days of three channel television.

I can see I'm going to have to furtle with this myself.

Comments

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Origami boxes tend to be solid, so you'ld have to make the classic water bomb then slice it's head off. Of course 'bat will probably tell you different.

It does sound more of a 'slice a slab into cross-shaped box net' sort of a job.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

I'd go for the classic cuboid newspaper "printer's hat", as modelled by Tenniel's Walrus and the Carpenter
(http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/walrus.html)
Then turn it upside down.

Also comes in handy for impromptu blackberry picking.

[jendama.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that your area offers the composting, including meat products. I think it is a great idea. Hope the smells and leftover residue don't bother you too much. (We spray out our bins with a garden hose each week and leave them upside down for a day to dry out.)

[girfan.livejournal.com]

It was just a bit awful when the weather got very hot and the bin ended up full of maggots (the large one, not the small one under the sink-thank god!) which is one of the things that squicks me out. I did fill the bin with detergent last week and soaked all the crud out of it.

The only thing the council doesn't pick up is plastic.

Some people seem to think they are above recycling-such a shame!

[medusa.livejournal.com]

We just started using our pig bins today. It is all hideously vile and there have been rantings about: 'Are we at war? Is there going to be rationing as well?'

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

The vital question is: do you get a share of the pig your scraps have been feeding?

[meryc.livejournal.com]

No "stat" thats a bit of a bitch.

Oh would you like some CDs form Black Hat or Defcon?

Well?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Well, it's there in libc, but nothing that I could find to get mtime in something useable in a shellscript comparison.

So I just wrote a one-liner in perl that emits mtime in seconds for .

CDs? Blackhat? Oh yes please. Were you at both?

[meryc.livejournal.com]

No but I know people. :-)

So are you intrested?

Yes. Mail me and ill put then on a server for you.

[silentq.livejournal.com]

Here's a video of a girl showing and telling you how to make one:
http://hobbies.expertvillage.com/videos/origami-box.htm