Scoble
was fascinated how news of the Longhorn recalc propogated, but he
missed the most fascinating aspect of the announcement. Microsoft
shipped the story on a Friday night, I even got a detailed email from
a Waggenerette, but the blogosphere waited until Monday to carry the
story.
It wasn't that we were on vacation or weren't checking email
over the weekend, it's just that by announcing it on Friday, Microsoft
was clearly "taking out the garbage" (a term I learned from The West
Wing). The blogosphere didn't play along. Blog flow over weekends, esp
a late summer weekend, is miniscule compared to the flow on a Monday
morning.
May 30, or 530. 5 3 can be read "gomi" in Japanese which means
garbage. So what does May 30 mean in our village? Garbage 0 day. This
morning, I participated with most of the village in picking up trash
and junk around the village. Along one of the roads, there was an area
that was clearly being used as an illegal garbage dump by many people.
There were mufflers, car batteries, toilets, beds, bicycles and even a
car dumped there. We spent the morning hoisting this junk out of the
mud and carrying it in trucks to a location where the local government
would come and collect it for us.
There were many children helping out as well. Hopefully this annual
garage day will help educate them not to dump trash by the road.
I got a chance to meet more of my neighbors so it was nice. I still
have a hard time remembering everyone's name but sharing this massive
chore with the whole village was quite a bonding experience.
Reforming a garbage house
Reforming a garbage house12/04/2003 08:21 PM This is an inspiring story about an obsessive "hoarder" whose home had
become a garbage house, so full of crap that he was in danger of going
to jail for criminal violations of local ordinances. Then the county
counsel cut a deal with the president of the local chapter of the
National Assn. of Professional Organizers to help the craphound clean
up his life -- and he allowed a news-crew to document the process.
Drum, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat tied under his chin, will
supervise from a chair near the garage. Breininger is jazzed. Drum has
kept his promise not to bring anything back into the two rooms the
crew cleared out a week ago.
Drum is nervous. He frets about the broken windows and rotting
flooring, things that must be fixed to put him back on the right side
of the law. And he wants shelves so he can have his books, now boxed,
around him.
"First, we get you organized, then we'll figure out how to take care
of the repairs and the beautification," Breininger reminds him.
Garbage man damage update03/19/2005 03:02 AM Mark Frauenfelder:
(Click thumbnail image for enlargement) Here's an update from
yesterday's garbage man damage report. The cable guy spliced the
TV cable yesterday afternoon. He did a nice job. I gave him an orange
from the orange tree.
The phone company won't come until Saturday. I was getting tired of
having no internet or landline phone, so late yesterday afternoon I
grabbed the phone cable that was lying across the road and ran with it
quickly to the ladder and got up on the roof with it. (I had to run
fast because there were a lot of cars on the street and I didn't want
one to drive into the cable when it was only a couple of feet off the
ground.) Then I took a bunch of wire nuts and some wire strippers and
spliced the severed wires. Doesn't it look pretty? This ought to do
until the phone repairman comes and yells at me for fixing it myself.
Also, here are a couple of emails I've gotten about
yesterday's incident:
Jay says: I feel your pain about having
the lines cut--I work from home and the loss of my cable line would be
a disaster. And your garbage man sounds like a jerk. But don't
castigate them all. There are deadlines--the crap has to be picked up
in one day whether every house leaves one bag or a small mountain. I
think there is plenty of stress too. Garbage stinks--and plenty of it
is heavy and awkward to lift. I have left hot water tanks, washers,
dryers, mounds of wet drywall, paneling, chunks of concrete--and
plenty of good ol' household waste. It gets cleared away without
fanfare, and I am very grateful. I live in a pretty affluent
community and the garbage men make about 13 bucks an hour. Maybe
trying to make ends meet on that paltry sum engenders some anger; for
sure, it is hard to derive much joy and fun from life on such a cruddy
wage. Or maybe it is the people who get impatient and roar around a
stopped truck and nearly run them down all the time. Whatever. I
don't call that well-paid, and I am ashamed it isn't higher.
You had a bad day for sure, but I thought I'd point out how you came
across and offer the other side. Boingboing is one the few things
that lives up to its billing "a directory of wonderful things." Just
this once, not so wonderful. -- Jay
Levi says: If you're looking for an answer [to the
question "Why are garbage men so angry?], re-read what you said. When
times get
tough, you can fall back on your social status, education, or whatever
else you inherently feel the world owes you. He, on the other hand,
gets the shit end of that world payment structure. He implicitly takes
the shit from people like you for being lesser than you. Feed that
cycle back for years and years, and you get your incident today.
Greg says: Here are some answers:
1) He was as high as he thought he could be and still do his
job. It's a boring job.
2) Realistically, it's not all that well-paid, and there's no room
for advancement, especially without a bit of education.
3) They can be fired, but they have to work at it.
Maybe this is his chance? One of our guys rolled his oversize
truck on a residential street in front of a visiting
dignitary. That works, but you need to be on a hill.
4) It's a boring job, and you only get to listen to junk
radio.
Joshua says: Our garbagemen knocked over our
mailbox and just kept going. Which meant
the post office wouldn't deliver our mail until the mailbox was fixed
(because
they post office won't deliver to our door, only to our streetside
mailbox--I
don't know why). My wife called our landlady, who called the city
about the
mailbox. The mailbox was fixed (by our handyman), but as far as we
know,
nothing ever happened to the garbagemen who knocked over the
mailbox.
Adventures in Garbage Collecting
Adventures in Garbage Collecting04/09/2004 04:10 PM One of the nice things about being within driving distance of people
who're phenomenally smarter than you are is that you sometimes get the
benefits of their research. (Though Citeseer's darned nice too) For
the interested, there's a seminar on garbage collection at MIT on
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Homeless Man Compacted in Garbage Truck (AP)12/19/2004 03:23 PM AP - A homeless man who fell asleep in a commercial trash bin was
dumped into the back of a garbage truck Friday and compacted —
but escaped serious injury, officials said.
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has disassociated
himself from a much milder MoveOn.org ad that talks about Bush's
Vietnam-era military "service," a questionable period for the
president at best. Josh Marshall notes the tight connections, politically and financially,
between the anti-Kerry "Swift boat veterans for truth" and Bush and
his associates, and wonders why Bush isn't man enough to disclaim the
sleaze. Marshall notes:
"In any real world sense, this
is a front for the president. And for the saps who are willing to give
the president the most improbable benefits of the doubt -- that this
is something he has nothing to do with and is utterly beyond his
control -- well, he won't even toss them a bone by making even the
most innocuous statement of
disassociation."
Meanwhile, the Washington Post
uncovers information about the co-author of the Swift boaters'
accompanying book that pretty much shreds his claim that Kerry wasn't under fire during
the operation that resulted in the Democratic candidate's Bronze
Star:
"But Thurlow's military records, portions of which
were released yesterday to The Washington Post under the Freedom of
Information Act, contain several references to "enemy small arms and
automatic weapons fire" directed at "all units" of the five-boat
flotilla. Thurlow won his own Bronze Star that day, and the citation
praises him for providing assistance to a damaged Swift boat "despite
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Cleaner Tosses Art Out with the Garbage (Reuters)08/29/2004 10:54 AM Reuters - A cleaner at London's Tate Britain
modern art gallery threw out a bag of garbage that was part of
an artwork because it was thought to be trash, British
newspapers reported Friday.
Shark Tank: Garbage in, Internet out
Shark Tank: Garbage in, Internet out05/25/2004 11:46 PM This pilot fish's company installs in-room Internet access in hotels,
which is a lot easier when the place is already wired with Cat 5
network cable. When it's not, fish has to work around the problem.
Garbage Man Charged in Cape Cod Slaying (AP)
Garbage Man Charged in Cape Cod Slaying (AP)04/15/2005 08:26 PM AP - A garbage man with a long rap sheet was charged Friday with
murder and rape in the stabbing death of a fashion writer whose
mysterious slaying turned a spotlight on a small Cape Cod town and
inspired a best-selling book.
Free Real-Time Garbage
Free Real-Time Garbage05/10/2004 04:19 PM A teenage mutual fund manager lends his name to some penny stock hype.
A feel-good story this ain't.
Garbage disposal installation made simple12/27/2004 09:28 PM Mark Frauenfelder:
My parents are staying with us for the holidays, and today my father
and I installed a garbage disposal in the guesthouse kitchen sink. My
father did 90% of the work, since he's a lot better at this kind of
stuff than I am, but I had to pitch in for certain parts, because one
of his hands is out of commission. He has a rare condition called
Dupuytren's contracture -- thickening of skin tissue in the hands that
makes it impossible to open them. It's a genetic condition that seems
to affect people with Viking ancestry. He had a "palmar
fasciotomy," a surgical procedure to cut the bands of thickened
tissue. So his right hand is all bandaged up. (Click thumbnails for
enlargement).
We saved a few hours installing the garbage
disposal by using this great wireless switch purchased at Home Depot.
It cost $18 and has a range of 100 feet (we mounted it just a few feet
from the disposal, of course). I'm wondering what else I use these
things for. What a terrific idea!
Cleaner Thinks Modern Art Is Garbage (Reuters)
Cleaner Thinks Modern Art Is Garbage (Reuters)08/27/2004 01:59 PM Reuters - A cleaner at London's Tate Britain
modern art gallery threw out a bag of garbage which formed part
of an artwork because it was thought to be trash, British
newspapers reported Friday.
Garbage Collection Library for C++ 1.0 (Default branch)
Garbage Collection Library for C++ 1.0 (Default branch)06/22/2005 02:28 AM LibGC is a small, fast, portable, multi-threaded
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members on the stack or as global variables. It's
very easy to use, since it has only two classes,
Object (the base class for garbage-collected
objects) and Pointer (for garbage-collected
pointers).
Sun critics hear the sound of two garbage trucks colliding
Crafty crackhead Powerbook made from garbage bags12/30/2004 02:45 AM Cory Doctorow:
There's a big-city hustle that goes like this: a hustler comes up to
offering to fence you some stolen big-ticket electronics item, still
sealed in its box -- say, a video camera. You can heft that box all
you like, but no opening the shrink-wrap, as that would lower the
resale value. Once you give the crackhead $20 for this boss $1000
camera and tear off the shrinkwrap, you discover that you've just
bought a brick in a camcorder box. Basically, it's what happens when
you combine crackheads, a supply of fresh consumer electronics boxes,
and a shrinkwrapping machine.
Here's a modern twist on an old favorite: buy a Powerbook for
a double-sawbuck. What's in the black, sleek Powerbook box?
"A fake laptop made of gray garbage bag and cardboard, spray-painted
platinum silver and finished with A HAND-PAINTED APPLE LOGO DONE IN
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Garbage man severs my phone, TV cable, internet, drives away
Garbage man severs my phone, TV cable, internet, drives away03/19/2005 03:03 AM Mark Frauenfelder:
I don't understand why garbage men always seem
angry? What's to be angry about? They are well paid, have no deadlines
or stress, never have to get their butt out of their seat, get
excellent health benefits, paid vacation, and so on.
Garbage men never have to worry about getting fired, no matter how
badly they screw up. That's probably why the Los Angeles garbage man
who snapped my phone, TV cable, and internet lines, damaging my roof
in the process, drove away without so much as a note with a number we
could call. A neighbor saw the whole thing happen this morning. The
driver shrugged and kept on going. "Not my problem," he probably
thought to himself, assuming he had enough empathy to realize he had
inconvenienced another person.
Now there are cables stretched across the road. I called the city,
and they told me they'll send me a paper form in the mail to fill out.
That's the city's way of dealing with the problem quickly.
The cable guy is here now, but he said he couldn't fix it until the
pole on the roof was fixed. I climbed up on the roof and unbent the
pole enough for him to pull the cable through.
The phone company won't come until Saturday. Meanwhile, the garbage
man is probably downloading internet porn, yelling at his ex-wife's
child support lawyer on the phone, and watching Die Hard VIII on
cable, because nobody snapped his wires. I don't like you, garbage
man.
C|Net taking over MP3.com?11/14/2003 12:33 PM We got a rogue release from a MacMerc reader that states C|Net is
taking over MP3.com. Before you get too excited, the release went on
to say that they will take down the music and launch yet another
pay-for music service. Timeframe? December 2nd. Start your [free]
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DNA That's Yours for the Taking11/05/2003 06:24 AM British researchers have documented 200 billion letters of DNA. That's
a lot of DNA. To make sure lots of researchers can access and make
sense of the data, it's freely accessible to anyone who's interested.
By Kristen Philipkoski.
Taking Wi-Fi to the Streets12/11/2003 02:33 PM You know Wi-Fi has really hit the mainstream when art students use it
in their performance art pieces: Students from New York's Parsons
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pointing to its utility. There's not a very detailed techincal
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networks for backhaul or are used as repeaters to extend signals from
other hotspots. It's kind of a cool idea for delivering Wi-Fi
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Another perl person became the father of a daughter in the past few
days [congratulations Ken :)] and this is another interesting and
corroborating datapoint for a theory I have that I would like to see
given some real research. My theory is this:
Men who use Apple iBooks/Powerbooks with wireless cards have a
very high probability [>85%] of having female offspring that is far
greater than the statistical average.
For the Americans who slept through basic biology classes in grade
school, I should explain that the sperm determines the sex/gender, not
the mother via excretions of hormones, nor are all embryos female at
conception since as far as the genetics are concerned you are either
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suggesting this idea when a few perl guys had female babies but the
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One perl guy who uses an iBook without wireless has a male baby. One
guy had a baby boy before he started using a wireless iBook and
afterwards he had a baby girl. Coincidence? I'm really beginning to
believe that it isn't.
Perhaps it's some sort of karma or divine revenge to give computer
geeks who aren't entirely aware of what jerks, intentional or not,
they are towards women, but science can't empirically prove that. It
is entirely possible that the Y sperm are weaker [typically they are
and this is partially why all the woman's eggs are X's, at least this
was the theory back in the dark ages when I was in university] and
more susceptible to the wireless card radiation which, when the laptop
is on the lap, is sitting directly above the family jewels. Bullshit
or an emerging pattern of plausible causation? Or maybe a secret
conspiracy by women's organisations to breed more women? :) It would
be a fascinating clinical study if a few medical people decided to
take the theory and try to prove it right or wrong. I, of course, will
continue to be very entertained by the baby girls ganging up on perl
guys. :)
Taking stock05/25/2004 02:15 AM USA Today May 25 2004 6:17AM GMT
Taking Control
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I'll be away from the office until February 15th in order to take a
long-promised Disney vacation with my family. I'll be checking the support newsgroups while
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Taking out the trash04/09/2004 04:10 PM So, I went to the talk on unified garbage collection theory Monday.
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anything new, though it wasn't a waste of time. The executive summary,
for those who're interested, is that Refcounting and Tracing, as means
of garbage collection, are really the same thing. Or, rather,
opposites of one another--refcounting finds the dead stuff and tracing
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Microsoft Eyes Master Search Tool05/28/2004 04:51 AM Looking to ease consumers' digital overload, the software giant
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Xandros Opens Beta Test for Linux Desktop Deployment Tool
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Local Installation Source is a Setup feature. When a user installs
Microsoft Office 2003 from a CD or a compressed CD image on the
network, Setup copies any required installation files to a hidden
folder on the local computer. Microsoft Windows Installer uses this
local installation source to install Office, and the local source
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on. Users can install features on demand or run Setup in maintenance
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Apple finally went and released an inexpensive computer. With the
advent of the Mac mini, some Windows and Linux users who have been
curious about Mac OS X but turned off by Apple's high prices have
finally bit the bullet and ordered a mini.
Trying an unfamiliar operating system can be irritating at times.
Things are not where you expect them to be, the GUI is different, and
connecting to servers and other PCs can be frustrating. Hence the
mini-guide.
This is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to all
things OS X. Its purpose is to help those new to the operating system
do simple things, like use a Windows printer, connect to a network
share, and figure out what the key with the funny-looking squiggle on
it next to the spacebar does (or even use your PC keyboard with a
Mac). So if you're an "adder" and are feeling a bit out of sorts,
check out our guide.
Taking out the garbage
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We saved a few hours installing the garbage
disposal by using this great wireless switch purchased at Home Depot.
It cost $18 and has a range of 100 feet (we mounted it just a few feet
from the disposal, of course). I'm wondering what else I use these
things for. What a terrific idea!
There's a big-city hustle that goes like this: a hustler comes up to
offering to fence you some stolen big-ticket electronics item, still
sealed in its box -- say, a video camera. You can heft that box all
you like, but no opening the shrink-wrap, as that would lower the
resale value. Once you give the crackhead $20 for this boss $1000
camera and tear off the shrinkwrap, you discover that you've just
bought a brick in a camcorder box. Basically, it's what happens when
you combine crackheads, a supply of fresh consumer electronics boxes,
and a shrinkwrapping machine.
I don't understand why garbage men always seem
angry? What's to be angry about? They are well paid, have no deadlines
or stress, never have to get their butt out of their seat, get
excellent health benefits, paid vacation, and so on.
