Garbage Man Charged in Cape Cod Slaying (AP)

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Garbage, garbage everywhere, and not a
drop to drink!

Garbage, garbage everywhere, and not a
drop to drink! 04/07/2005 12:53 PM
The Garbage House is a bizarre but all-too -common phenomenon. Garbage houses often seem to be a product of a particular type of obsessive-compulsive disorder called compulsive hoarding. The hoarding [wmv, direct] may be of g arbage, animals, (the neighborhood "cat lady") or perhaps even "collectibles" from eBay. The most compulsive hoarders seem to be the Collyer Brothers[*], even prompting a book.

Is that a cape in your closet?

Is that a cape in your closet? 04/19/2004 12:33 PM
Batman and Robin have been spotted on the streets of Whitley england, saving damsels in distress, scaring wrongdoers and even chasing naked men from football fields. Other self-made superheroes making news range from the amusing to the disturbing. Even MTV and Stan Lee are jumping into the fray with a cas ting call for a reality TV show where contestants will compete against each other in a show designed to develop their superhero characters and test their mettle as defenders of justice.

Wi-Fi in Cape Girardeau, Mo!

Wi-Fi in Cape Girardeau, Mo! 02/10/2004 11:51 AM
I was out searcing when i found a hotspot at the Burger King on Broadway and Hwy. 61 the ssid is wireless it has internet access and is not WEP

Cape Clear, CA hop on The enterprise BUS

Cape Clear, CA hop on The enterprise BUS 05/24/2004 05:07 PM
At CA World on Monday, Cape Clear Software announced its intention to integrate its Business Integration Suite with Computer Associates International's Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) in hopes of providing a richer environment for helping create and manage a services-oriented enterprise.

Taking out the garbage

Taking out the garbage 09/01/2004 06:14 AM

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.

Garbage day in the village

Garbage day in the village 05/29/2004 08:51 PM

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.

E Cape creates multimedia centres

E Cape creates multimedia centres 08/02/2004 10:18 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Aug 3 2004 2:21AM GMT

Cape Clear fills out ESB line

Cape Clear fills out ESB line 07/13/2004 03:16 PM
Version 5 of the company's integration software will support more management and communications protocols.

Reforming a garbage house

Reforming a garbage house 12/04/2003 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.

Link (via Making Light)

Garbage man damage update

Garbage man damage update 03/19/2005 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.  

Auto garbage collection

Auto garbage collection 10/02/2002 11:17 PM
CNET Oct 2 2002 10:02PM ET

Smieciuch Garbage Collector

Smieciuch Garbage Collector 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Smieicuh 0.3.2 is out now

Adventures in Garbage Collecting

Adventures in Garbage Collecting 04/09/2004 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 Monday April 5th 2004. The announcement follows: "A (Grand?) Unified Theory of Storage Reclamation"Speaker: David F. BaconHost: Professor Martin RinardHost Affiliation: Computer Architecture Group Date: 4-5-2004Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PMRefreshments: 3:15 PMLocation: Gates 7th Floor Lounge The two basic forms of automatic storage reclamation, tracing and reference counting, were invented at the dawn of...

Cape Clear, Neon in Web services deal

Cape Clear, Neon in Web services deal 09/22/2004 12:27 PM
Cape Clear Software and Neon Systems Inc. on Wednesday announced they are working together to integrate their respective technologies and allow users to quickly integrate mainframe applications and data through the use of Web services.

Eastern Cape Technikon under police
guard

Eastern Cape Technikon under police
guard 08/12/2004 08:11 AM
Business Day South Africa Aug 12 2004 12:24PM GMT

Cape Clear touts business processes in
ESB

Cape Clear touts business processes in
ESB 07/13/2004 08:58 PM
Cape Clear Software on July 21 will ship Cape Clear 5, an upgraded version of the company?s ESB (enterprise service bus) product package that adds support for BPEL (Business Process Execution Language).

BEA, Cape Clear, and Oblix eye
streamlined SOA creation

BEA, Cape Clear, and Oblix eye
streamlined SOA creation 07/19/2004 08:17 AM
Easing the assembly and integration of SOAs (service-oriented architectures) is the aim of products rolling out this week from BEA Systems, Oblix, and Cape Clear Software.

The Swift Boat Garbage Haulers

The Swift Boat Garbage Haulers 08/20/2004 10:49 AM

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 enemy bullets flying about him."

Reverse Trace Garbage Collector for C++
0.1

Reverse Trace Garbage Collector for C++
0.1 12/20/2003 04:59 PM
A garbage collector for C++.

Homeless Man Compacted in Garbage Truck
(AP)

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.

Cleaner Tosses Art Out with the Garbage
(Reuters)

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.

Free Real-Time Garbage

Free Real-Time Garbage 05/10/2004 04:19 PM
A teenage mutual fund manager lends his name to some penny stock hype. A feel-good story this ain't.

Shark Tank: Garbage in, Internet out

Shark Tank: Garbage in, Internet out 05/25/2004 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.

180 Gigs of Garbage - No Backups in
Sight

180 Gigs of Garbage - No Backups in
Sight 08/20/2002 02:34 PM
The only thing left to say is, "let that be a lesson to you kids".

Police evict students from Eastern Cape
Technikon

Police evict students from Eastern Cape
Technikon 08/11/2004 05:34 PM
SABC Aug 11 2004 9:01PM GMT

UUNET Cape Town increases international
capacity

UUNET Cape Town increases international
capacity 01/05/2004 11:42 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jan 5 2004 11:13PM ET

After Three Years, Arrest Is Made in
Death of Cape Cod Writer

After Three Years, Arrest Is Made in
Death of Cape Cod Writer 04/15/2005 04:15 PM
A man with a history of burglary convictions was charged following a dragnet attempt to collect DNA from all the men in a town.

Cape Clear launches data transport tool

Cape Clear launches data transport tool 12/11/2003 07:23 PM

U.S. to Reopen Probe of Till Slaying
(AP)

U.S. to Reopen Probe of Till Slaying
(AP) 05/10/2004 10:25 AM
AP - The Justice Department said Monday it is reopening the investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, a black teenager whose death while visiting Mississippi was an early catalyst for the civil rights movement.

Sniper Said to Admit Guilt in 2nd
Slaying (AP)

Sniper Said to Admit Guilt in 2nd
Slaying (AP) 09/24/2004 04:19 PM
AP - Teenage sniper Lee Boyd Malvo plans to drop all appeals of his conviction and life sentence for one of 10 killings in October 2002, and will admit guilt in a second slaying, his lawyer said Friday.

Funerals to Be Held in Ga. Family
Slaying (AP)

Funerals to Be Held in Ga. Family
Slaying (AP) 01/11/2004 02:42 PM
AP - By the time Melissa Peeler got the phone call, her infant daughter had been strangled and her parents and sister fatally shot. The man she had left Georgia to escape was on the phone, saying he had her three other girls and would "start killing the kids one by one" if she called police, relatives say.

King Remembered 37 Years After His
Slaying (AP)

King Remembered 37 Years After His
Slaying (AP) 04/02/2005 08:02 PM
AP - The voice of Martin Luther King Jr. boomed again from the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church on Saturday as dozens of people gathered to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the civil rights leader's assassination.

Trial to Probe Notorious B.I.G.'s
Slaying (AP)

Trial to Probe Notorious B.I.G.'s
Slaying (AP) 06/22/2005 02:56 AM
AP - The mystery of who gunned down Notorious B.I.G. — and why — has frustrated and fascinated the hip-hop world for eight years. With FBI and police investigations failing to net even a suspect, a swirl of theories implicated corrupt cops, gang hits, bicoastal beefs — or all three at once. None have been provable, so far.

Al-Qaida Claims U.S. Slaying and Hostage
(AP)

Al-Qaida Claims U.S. Slaying and Hostage
(AP) 06/12/2004 06:45 PM
AP - A purported al-Qaida statement Saturday claimed the terror group had kidnapped one American man in the Saudi capital and killed another American. It threatened to treat the captive as U.S. troops treated Iraqi prisoners.

Hamas appoints new leader after slaying

Hamas appoints new leader after slaying 04/18/2004 12:23 PM

Hamas Chooses New Leader After Slaying
(AP)

Hamas Chooses New Leader After Slaying
(AP) 04/18/2004 02:57 AM
AP - The Palestinian militant group Hamas appointed a replacement for Abdel Aziz Rantisi on Sunday but declined to identify him after losing two leaders in less than a month to assassination by Israel.

U.S. to reopen probe of Till slaying

U.S. to reopen probe of Till slaying 05/11/2004 09:26 AM

Garbage disposal installation made
simple

Garbage disposal installation made
simple 12/27/2004 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.
Grok Description matches for Garbage Man Charged in Cape Cod Slaying (AP)
GrokA matches for Garbage Man Charged in Cape Cod Slaying (AP)

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media (Reuters)

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media (Reuters) 04/11/2004 12:20 AM
Reuters - Three Japanese civilians kidnapped in Iraq were safe near Falluja on Sunday, Japanese TV said. Government officials could not confirm the report.

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media 04/11/2004 06:50 AM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 11 2004 10:50AM GMT

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 garbage collection library for C++. It is highly customizable, as it can be multithreaded or single threaded, and the memory size to use for the collector may be changed at compile time. It is precise, as it only scans pointers that exist as 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).

Crafty crackhead Powerbook made from
garbage bags

Crafty crackhead Powerbook made from
garbage bags 12/30/2004 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 WITE-OUT."

Oh, man, that's some Martha Stewartoid crackhead creativity. Link (via Making Light)

Garbage man severs my phone, TV cable,
internet, drives away

Garbage man severs my phone, TV cable,
internet, drives away 03/19/2005 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.

Sun critics hear the sound of two
garbage trucks colliding

Sun critics hear the sound of two
garbage trucks colliding 06/05/2005 11:41 PM
Analysis Is StorageTek buy a waste?

Airport snoop system thrown in $102m
garbage can

Airport snoop system thrown in $102m
garbage can 07/16/2004 05:18 PM
CAPPS II snafu

Boehm-Demers-Weiser Conservative Garbage
Collector 6.3alpha2 (Alpha)

Boehm-Demers-Weiser Conservative Garbage
Collector 6.3alpha2 (Alpha) 12/11/2003 06:14 AM
A garbage collector as a replacement for C malloc or C++ new.

No sex please -- we're Japanese

No sex please -- we're Japanese 06/04/2004 10:46 AM
USA Today story on statistics published in a popular Japanese news magazine that point to an acute shagging deficiency throughout the country.

Only in Japan would a popular weekly newsmagazine deem it necessary to exhort the nation's youth to abstain from sexual abstinence: "Young people, don't hate sex," AERA magazine pleaded last month in a report detailing a precarious drop in sales of condoms and in business at Japan's rent-by-the-hour "love hotels."

More and more Japanese men and women are finding relationships too messy, tiring and potentially humiliating to bother with anymore. "They don't want a complicated life," says Sakai, who has written a controversial bestseller, Cry of the Losing Dogs, on the plight of unmarried Japanese thirtysomething women like herself.(...)

AERA reports that condom shipments are down 40% since 1993 (probably in part because Japan finally legalized birth-control pills in 1999) and love-hotel check-ins are off at least 20% over the past five years. What's more, an increasing number of those visiting love hotels aren't there for romance, AERA says; they've found that love hotels offer the cheapest access to karaoke machines and video games.

Link. Hope this has nothing to do with the butter dog trend recently reported by Fleshbot. Or, god forbid, her .(Thanks, Invisible Cowgirl).

Unicode-Japanese-0.21

Unicode-Japanese-0.21 05/26/2004 05:48 AM

English to Japanese, Japanese to English
PDA

English to Japanese, Japanese to English
PDA 03/06/2004 01:54 AM
I know what I am buying as soon as I am back in Japan. e-Navi is a new PDA that...

Unicode-Japanese-0.22

Unicode-Japanese-0.22 05/31/2004 05:39 AM

Garbage Man Charged in Cape Cod Slaying (AP)

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