Adventures in Garbage Collecting

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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.

Fatman Adventures 2: Underground
Adventures Has Been Released

Fatman Adventures 2: Underground
Adventures Has Been Released 03/14/2005 05:55 PM
Highly addictive exciting platform arcade. [PRWEB Mar 12, 2005]

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.

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 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.  

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)

Smieciuch Garbage Collector

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

Auto garbage collection

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

Collecting In the Digital Age

Collecting In the Digital Age 06/07/2004 05:46 AM
Collecting In the Digital Age
http:// www.charlestonco.com/features.cfm?id=157&type=ed

Michael A. Keller, publisher of HighWire Press and Stanford University Librarian, says that what librarians should be collecting is the "unique and special... the records of our lives, our institutions, our hobbies, arts, and crafts that would otherwise disappear. We should look for the diaries, the drafts, the sketches, and versions of our artists, poets, and novelists. We should concern ourselves with the creative outputs of designers and architects, of those who are experimenting with the expressive possibilities of technologies and new media. We should worry about the newspaper archives and collections of photographs that might get pulped or discarded, because they no longer offer much to the quarterly reports of profits. We should concern ourselves with local history, with local manufacturing, agriculture, trade and transport. We should offer fire departments and women's clinics, local chamber orchestras and soccer leagues a place to deposit their records. We should let our government agencies know that their records are important, potentially vitally so, and that we expect them to either take care of those records or let us care for them."

They were just collecting dust anyway.

They were just collecting dust anyway. 12/27/2004 03:17 PM
The city of Salinas, CA has decided to address budget concerns by cutting a number of services*. Most surprising, though, is the decision to raise ~$7Mil. (or 2, depending on the PDF) by clo sing all of the libraries* (hey, at least they're not burning novels) in a town whose population is mostly Hispanic.
Reminds me of that bumper sticker: "Welcome to America: Learn English."
Which begs the question; Where?

*pdf; 5% fewer calories than leading brands.

Shell-Collecting For Your PC

Shell-Collecting For Your PC 07/19/2004 06:12 AM
CBS News Jul 19 2004 10:09AM GMT

Collecting Your Dues

Collecting Your Dues 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

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++.

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.

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".

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."

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.

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.

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.

collecting a bunch of remixes

collecting a bunch of remixes 01/23/2004 09:53 PM
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Collecting The Stark Hyperspace War

Collecting The Stark Hyperspace War 12/02/2003 02:34 PM
Dark Horse also recently released Star Wars: The Stark Hyperspace War trade paperback, collecting several issues of the ongoing Star Wars series.

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.

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).

Collecting and Alerting on Security
Events with MOM

Collecting and Alerting on Security
Events with MOM 09/26/2004 09:24 AM

Collecting Star Wars Tales

Collecting Star Wars Tales 01/22/2004 02:13 AM
Dark Horse Comics releases the fourth volume of the Star Wars Tales trade paperback series, including 4 issues of previously-released stories.

Collecting Disaster Recovery Files

Collecting Disaster Recovery Files 06/15/2004 06:22 PM

"bl0gs4God is already collecting
bl0ggers' takes on"

"bl0gs4God is already collecting
bl0ggers' takes on" 06/19/2004 04:38 AM

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

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.

Collecting The Clone Wars Comics, Volume
III

Collecting The Clone Wars Comics, Volume
III 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
The third trade paperback collecting the Clone Wars comic book stories, Star Wars: Clone Wars--Volume 3: Last Stand on Jabiim, was released today, collecting the next chapters in the war against the Separatists.

Collecting The Clone Wars Comics, Volume
IV

Collecting The Clone Wars Comics, Volume
IV 06/23/2004 05:39 PM
The fourth trade paperback collecting the Clone Wars comic book stories, Star Wars: Clone Wars--Volume 4: Light and Dark, was released today, collecting the next chapters in the war against the Separatists.

Hasbro 2003 Preview: Collecting The
Coverage

Hasbro 2003 Preview: Collecting The
Coverage 03/20/2003 08:33 AM
You've seen the pictures, you've read the coverage, but did you get the whole story? Several other Star Wars websites were invited to Pawtucket, Rhode Island and came away with some great reports. Check out the special reports and see what American Dream Comics, Artoos News, Galactic Hunter, Sir Steves Guide, The Jawa, Trade Federation, and Yakface had to say about this collector's event. The Official Site and Hasbro even put out their own reports, so be sure to check those out as well. It looks to be an exciting year for fans and collectors, and we haven't even seen everything yet!

Penny Arcade collecting games for
charity

Penny Arcade collecting games for
charity 12/08/2003 03:28 AM

Just saw a spot on KOMO-TV (Seattle) about Penny-Arcade asking their customers to donate games for use at a Seattle Children's hospital. Penny-Arcade is a game site. They have 150,000 visitors a day. The TV showed piles of games coming in.

Nice spirit!

High IQ managers collecting 8 percent of
the value of a merger

High IQ managers collecting 8 percent of
the value of a merger 07/17/2004 11:10 PM

In Sunday's New York Times the article "No Wonder C.E.O.'s Love Those Mergers" discusses how top managers (i.e., a bunch of folks with fairly high IQs) are managing to collect in the neighborhood of 8 percent of the value of two public companies when they merge... all without disclosure to the widows and orphans who own stock.  It is apparently a beautiful world out there for those who are smart enough to navigate the maze of regulations and laws.

[Make sure that you read "Hourly Pay in U.S. Not Keeping Pace With Price Rises"  in the same sitting to see what life is like at the other end of the wage-IQ scale.]

Are iTMS's 128kbps Songs Worth
Collecting?

Are iTMS's 128kbps Songs Worth
Collecting? 07/04/2004 10:55 AM

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