Behold! Georgia, a Prophecy...

May 09, 2006 11:16

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mpnolan May 9 2006, 18:09:05 UTC
1) $2,000 dollars worth of concrete...

* Take a little from each of your favorite ... concrete-having ... places. This is like a "salami slicing" strategy, as in Office Space :P.
* Look outside, it's everywhere
* Know anyone in "the biz"?

2) $2,000 dollars with which to purchase $2,000 dollars worth of concrete...

* Are there any organizations that would consider your intentions worthwhile for them to donate to?
* Clever short-term money strategies, like offering to deliver old people's groceries or giving psychic readings
* Know anyone in "the biz"?

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boykooties May 9 2006, 20:19:17 UTC
Pretty much the same conclusions I reached, Sky Mike.

I may have managed to procure some from someone, "in the biz" but it's sort of a tenuous lead at the moment.

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rikyuso May 9 2006, 19:58:24 UTC
Hrm. I think the concrete will be easier to obtain, depending on where you get it and if you'd rather have poured or that stuff that comes in a bag.

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boykooties May 9 2006, 20:20:15 UTC
Either works, as most concrete has about the same density of 150 pounds per cubic foot, and weight is what we are concerned with here.

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maryanjelluvsu May 9 2006, 21:06:20 UTC
I think it might be harder to get the money, well, unless you through a funderaiser, you can get anything if you have the right amount of cash.

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crazy_julio May 9 2006, 23:49:22 UTC
precisely how much would two thousand dollars worth of concrete weigh?

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boykooties May 10 2006, 01:57:25 UTC
Precisely?

Unfortunatley, variations in price, in density between brands and mixes, and even within the same mix make this rather approximate, however the total target weight is approx. 15.223~ tons, and at a typical hardware-store price of 3 or 4 dollars per eighty pound bag, the price range becomes something like $1,278.75 - $1,705.00, and with a built in contingency for externalities like taxes, calculation errors (volumetric and otherwise), and any other various things that could go wrong (and something usually does) one easily rounds up to $2,000 to create a suitable safety-net for such things. I suppose $1,500 - $2,000 would be arguably a fairer and less severe way of stating the problem, I don't think it makes a very big difference to the overall nature of the problem, which is what I was attempting to address here.

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