UW Surplus Crap On Sale Today

A friend and Seattlest discovered the UW surplus warehouse while walking home from Agua Verde one day a couple of years ago. We just walked in and started wandering through the shelves of cast-off computers, unidentifiable but important looking measuring equipment and bad office furniture. To us, techies both, it was like two sixteen-year-olds accidentally wandering into a porn shop for the first time. This is before we'd come across Re-PC. Everything had a little yellow price tag on it. Computers were marked $10. Strange machinery with big bubble displays cost $50. Half of the stuff in there looked like it could have been ripped from the set of Flash Gordon or Frankenstein's laboratory - We were suckers for that kind of thing. Luckily, we realized that nothing was for sale to the public before we gathered a complete haul. We were the public, unaffiliated with the University in any way shape or form. When questioned about our department at the checkout we tried to make something up, "Uh...English?" which, of course, didn't work at all.

The Surplus Property department at UW only sells its wares to UW departments, government agencies and non-profits, except for today. Today at noon at 1137 NE Boat Street there will be a public auction so we suggest you head over to their website and feast your eyes on all the crazy crap and then get down there and take it home with you. Unload it directly to your basement/garage/shed/living room until that next great art installation/film set/rummage sale.