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Pig-bin origami
Aug. 13th, 2006 10:53 amFor 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.
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.
