Someone comes to town, someone leaves town
by Cory Doctorow · 1 Jul 2005 · 390pp · 113,737 words
them. You know, there's pretty good Vietnamese in Chinatown." "This is good Vietnamese." "Better than Chinatown?" "Better situated," Kurt said. "If you're going dumpster diving afterward. I'm gonna take your cherry, buddy." He clapped a hand on Alan's shoulder. Real people didn't touch Alan much. He didn
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, that Billy had come to talk to him. "Do you know that for sure?" "Yes. He has dinner with a woman, then he takes her dumpster diving and comes home and goes to bed. I can see that." "But you don't see everything?" "No, but I saw that." "Fine," Adam said
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to the back of the store, to Kurt's den, sure that his friend would have been back there, worn out from a night's dumpster diving. He took a false turn and found himself up against the refrigerator. The little piece of linoleum that denoted Kurt's kitchen was hot and
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
by Novella Carpenter · 25 May 2010 · 306pp · 94,204 words
hopped or flown over here to 10th and Webster just as most of the restaurants closed and stood there, with furry paws and scaly legs, Dumpster diving. They would hear, as we did, the laughter wafting out of the open windows above us, the smell of cigarette smoke mingling with the odor
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later, I walked by Brother’s Market on my way to get weeds for the chickens, ducks, and geese. Bill and I hadn’t gone Dumpster diving lately. Mosed, the shopkeeper, was outside enjoying the sun. When he saw me, he pointed at the buckets. “What do you do with those?” he
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we got enough food to feed them for two whole days. If we could stockpile like that more often, we wouldn’t have to go Dumpster diving every night. The rabbits and chickens had never been this demanding. We had ventured out only twice a week for them. The pigs were another
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the rest of the poults into a bucket and carried them upstairs. I created an impromptu brooder out of a wooden box we had found Dumpster diving. The other three turkeys were fine with their new home and didn’t seem to miss the chickens. Ice Boy was still not looking so
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you have a whole pig,” he said, “you get the complete picture.” I nodded as if I understood. I had come only to confess to Dumpster diving in his compost bin but found myself blurting out, “Teach me how to make salumi, how to make hams. I’ll give you one of
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, adding that she sometimes made spicy pickled vegetables in the style of her Iranian grandmother. No one seemed to think it was odd that a Dumpster-diving urban pig farmer was in their midst. In fact, I came to learn that the restaurant industry was filled with other obsessive freaks like Samin
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. Even my family and friends had taken second place behind the pigs. I hadn’t talked to my mom or sister in weeks. Willow went Dumpster diving with Bill and me sometimes, but I could tell her heart wasn’t in it. Bill and I had grown closer, though. After a sweaty
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night of summer Dumpster diving, we would share the bathtub, wash each other’s backs, and marvel at the treasures we had found that night, and the porcine treasures that
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rent the trailer, $60 in fuel. Almost $600 in all. Like most things, what that tab didn’t include was the time we had spent Dumpster diving and taking care of them. Toward the end, between the two of them, they were eating seven fifteen-gallon bucketfuls every night. Also not included
A People's History of Poverty in America
by Stephen Pimpare · 11 Nov 2008 · 468pp · 123,823 words
On the Streets Homelessness and Veterans On the Road Women on the Road The Anomaly of National Aid The Kindness of Strangers Chapter 3 - Eat: Dumpster Diving There Is No Hunger Here Faith and Food Eating Trash Chapter 4 - Work: (In) Dependence Work and Welfare Other Dependencies Chapter 5 - Love: Women and
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, to solve their homelessness problem in their own manner, without the patronage or the patronizing of the established public and private relief agencies. 3 Eat: Dumpster Diving People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating and drinking? Why don’t you write about the struggle for power and security
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—wait until just after closing time, and you may be rewarded with a sizable bag of discarded food. Lars Eighner described the first moment of Dumpster diving:At first the new scavenger is filled with disgust and self-loathing. He is ashamed of being seen and may lurk around, trying to duck
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(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1936 [1972]), 111. 115 Kisseloff, You Must Remember This, 207. 116 See their Web site, www.outofthedoorways.org. 3. Eat: Dumpster Diving 1 Mark Nord, Margaret Andrews, and Steven Carlson, “Household Food Security in the United States, 2005,” USDA Economic Research Report ER-29, November 2006; “Hunger
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Lizbeth (New York: St. Martin’s, 1993), 117–18. The seminal text on Dumpster diving may be John Hoffman, The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving (Port Townsend, WA: Loompanics, 1992). Hoffman claims it is, at any rate. See also John Hoffman, Dumpster Diving: The Advanced Course (Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 2002). 35 Eighner, Travels with
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) Dodson, Lisa Dolan, Peggy domestic violence Donohue, Timothy Dordick, Gwendolyn Drake, Guy drapetomania “dromomania,” drug abuse Du Bois, W.E.B. Dujon, Diane Dulberger, Judith Dumpster diving Duncan, Ruby Phillips Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Echols, Rause “Economic Justice for All” (National Conference of Catholic Bishops) economic mobility economic practices, exploitative “fringe
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of the poor hunger over the life course obesity and poverty and public scorn of the poor requests for emergency food aid restaurant Dumpsters and Dumpster diving saving leftover food school meals programs food riots food stamps average monthly benefit experiences of applying for/using–48, 156–57 and national welfare rights
Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace
by Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner · 15 Jan 1995
it's getting louder. Closer. It's a banshee now, and it's just around the corner, and Paul, for one, has had it with dumpster diving. He climbs over the fence, as fast as he can, and follows a retreating Hac to the sidewalk. The siren's just about upon them
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
by Kevin Mitnick · 14 Aug 2011
! I stuffed my pockets with partially used books of transfers—my first of what would be many, many acts of what came to be called “Dumpster-diving.” My memory has always been way better than average and I managed to memorize the bus schedules for most of the San Fernando Valley. I
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’re fat. You oughta lose some weight.” Did I take her sharp but unquestionably constructive advice to heart? Nope. Did I get into trouble for Dumpster-diving for those bus transfers and riding for free? Again, no. My mom thought it was clever, my dad thought it showed initiative, and bus drivers
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COSMOS was nearby, only a few miles away. I figured if a few of us went over there and had a go at a little Dumpster-diving, we might find some useful information. Lewis was always ready for just about anything. We invited only one other guy, a fellow named Mark Ross
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we could trust. En route, we swung by an all-night pharmacy and picked up gloves and flashlights, then on to the COSMOS building. The Dumpster-diving turned up a few interesting items but nothing of real value. After about an hour, discouraged, I suggested, “Why don’t we see if we
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out to the back of Galpin Ford in the San Fernando Valley and dug through the trash. It took about fifteen minutes, but my little Dumpster-diving expedition paid off. I found a bunch of credit reports on people buying cars from the dealership. Incredibly, printed out on each report was Galpin
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’s cell phone records had led me to. Justin was careless: he didn’t shred his notes before throwing them in the trash. Austin went Dumpster-diving at the house and uncovered evidence that Justin was still committing credit card fraud. He informed the FBI of his discovery. Once he had enough
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
by Peter Singer and Jim Mason · 1 May 2006 · 400pp · 129,320 words
of sterilization) could be used. Whether hunting can, in limited circumstances, be justified depends on whether such other means are available, or could be developed. DUMPSTER DIVING: THE ULTIMATE ETHICAL CHEAP EATS It's about 7.30 p.m. on a mild Tuesday evening in Melbourne, Australia. We're in a small
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wants. It's too far down for even his long arm to reach, so for the first and only time tonight we see some real "dumpster diving" as G gets his upper body right into the bin, only his legs sticking out the top. The booty is eight 250-gram vacuum-sealed
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economic system is possible, but they are under no illusion that taking food from dumpsters will in itself bring that system about. Instead they see dumpster diving both as a way of detaching themselves from the present system and, at the same time, as part of a broader life of resistance to
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that system.32 Dumpster diving may not be an option many consumers are likely to explore, but there's still a lesson to draw. Many of agriculture's ill effects
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-in contrast to buying meat at the supermarket-his consumption of meat seems to make no difference to the demand for it. (It's like dumpster diving without getting your clothes dirty.) Nevertheless, by not making a fuss, Kagan is sending the airlines a message that failing to provide a vegetarian meal
Backup & Recovery
by W. Curtis Preston · 9 Feb 2009 · 1,266pp · 278,632 words
, even though it was essentially idle at the time? If we are going to answer these questions, we need to understand exactly how dump works. Dumpster Diving The dump utility is very filesystem-specific, so there may be slight variations in how it works on various Unix platforms. For the most part
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and size (d and s), Different Versions of dump, Limitations of dump and restore, The dump utility, Torture-Testing Backup Programs, Demystifying dump, Demystifying dump, Dumpster Diving, Pass I, Pre-Pass III, Pass III, Pass IV, Summary of dump steps, A Final Analysis of dump, Determine the Blocking Factor backup data, writing
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dump Command, Interesting options for Solaris’s ufsdump utility steps, summary of, Summary of dump steps syntax, Syntax of the dump Command Unix platforms, differences, Dumpster Diving volatile filesystem backups, Torture-Testing Backup Programs dump, ditto, tar, and cpio utilities, The tar, ditto, and cpio utilities duty cycle, Duty Cycle DVD recording
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twos complement platforms, The Little Endian That Couldn’t U ufsdump utility, Demystifying dump, Dumpster Diving filesystem backup, Dumpster Diving filesystems, inactivity for backups, Demystifying dump Ultra Density Optical (UDO) recording format, UDO recording format Unix systems, Demystifying dump, Dumpster Diving dump utility, Dumpster Diving filesystem, Demystifying dump user error causing data loss, Be Ready for Anything: 10
The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means
by Jeff Yeager · 8 Jun 2010 · 189pp · 64,571 words
general, I’ll admit that the Internet has its advantages, including making access to free stuff easier than ever. It’s sort of like virtual dumpster diving. The first tip from the cheapskate next door when it comes to using the Internet to find free stuff is to join local “reuse groups
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scavenging as “any legal way to get stuff for less than full price,” so it’s everything from thrift-store shopping and using coupons to dumpster diving, foraging for wild foods, and, yes, beachcombing. We immediately hit it off, since, like me, the couple’s means of support consists of two components
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for unclaimed savings bonds. Savings: Per NAUPA, if you’re that one-in-eight, an average of $1,000. Although they do their share of dumpster diving, Anneli and Kristan don’t consider themselves Freegans, since they do pay for some of the things they consume and they don’t share all
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what anything costs anymore because it’s been so long since we’ve paid for anything.” Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Free Stuff Is dumpster diving—picking stuff out of other people’s and businesses’s trash—legal? Believe it or not, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the issue
The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter
by Matt Paxton and Phaedra Hise · 3 May 2011 · 225pp · 64,008 words
tend to use the word “addiction” to describe hoarding, even though it may truly be more of a compulsion. Hoarders who shop, or who go “Dumpster diving,” definitely do it because it feels good. These hoarders get a primal rush from the “hunt and gather” experience. This rush helps them avoid the
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endorphin hits all day is a happy way for anyone to live. Hoarders get to feel that exciting rush every time they go shopping, go Dumpster diving, or reach for one of three dozen affectionate dogs. Especially when the rest of a hoarder’s life isn’t going well, it’s easy
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of disposing of hoarder’s stuff DIY (do-it-yourself) hoarders document shredding do-it-yourself (DIY) hoarders “donation” piles Don’s case dumps/dumpsters Dumpster diving early- to mid-stage hoarders See also Stages 1 through 3 (Clutter Cleaner Scale) easy love eBay effective teams elderly housebound people Ellen’s and
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in an 800-person Kansas town, he taught himself programming using library books in the early ’90s, on computers he built from parts scavenged during dumpster diving outside his high school. After graduating with a degree in history, English, and philosophy, he went to work building Flash web pages for a car
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and illegal activity. Members in Abene’s hacking group would share passwords to corporate systems that they’d digitally cracked (or discovered during old-fashion dumpster diving in the company’s trash). Abene and his colleagues eagerly shared info on reprogramming phone systems. And this is where federal officials began to perk
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