I think some of those weed genes were around when I was a kid in my parents yard.
But the ones at my parents house only detected dog poop and septic tanks. And they changed the grass from its natural beige color to strange dark-green hue.:)
My very first car was a 1985 Ford Escort (5 speed, DIESEL). It never blew up, but smoked so much that it looked like it was constantly on fire.
My friends in high school nicknamed it the "marker", because every parking space that I parked in had a black soot dot right where the down-pointing exhaust pipe coughed out a pile of chimney smoke when I started it. Sometimes, when starting from a standstill and then tromping the accellerator, instead of a dot it would leave a line, which of course everyone thought was hilarious.:)
I was always under the impression that when an ad claimed 100% something-or-other, that just meant that the part of the product that was actually the special ingredient was 100% pure. Then the rest of the product can be whatever.
Like fruit juice drinks, for example. You can buy fruit juice that says "contains 100% fruit juice" or something similar, but really it is made up of lots of things. The actual juice is 100% fruit juice (whatever that means), but the added water and sugar and preservatives and apple juice concentrate (most drinks are cut with apple juice) have nothing to do with the actual "fruit" part of the juice, and therefore do not apply to the 100% rule.
Or I could be wrong.
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Absolutely True! It's the hardest thing to do at the time not to strike back, but I've been asked to return to mis-managed projects that I started on several occasions. Geeks tend to be one of society's less-agressive (at least on the surface) types.
Personally I haven't done much dumpster diving, but my younger brother, who is still in college, goes all the time.
According to his stories, his plan of attack goes like this: Find a nice area of town, where there are lots of national retailers in a new shopping center. (He calls these Giant-Land, since all the stores tend to be friggin huge.) Look for the bigger stores (i.e. Wal-Mart, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, Crate and Barrel, Pier One, etc..) and drive around to the service side. Make a note of which stores have trash compactors and which stores just have dumpsters.
Keeping this in mind, come back at a later (and darker) hour and take a look in some of those dumpsters. You will be suprised at what huge retail stores throw away! And since retail stores dont really generate that much real "garbage", most of the stuff is pretty clean.
For example: My little bro and some friends visited a Wal-Mart next to his apartment, and came home with literally TWO truck beds full of breakfast cereal and crackers. Another visit revealed an entire dumpster full of shrink wrapped couch pillows. Televisions and stereos with missing power cables, power tools, boxes of out of date/holiday candy, hand tools, an entire dumpster full of working light bulbs... and everything brand new! Craziness I tell you!
It's rediculous what these places just throw away. I guess just trashing everything saves them money on the processing needed to get things to people who could use actually use it.
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I think some of those weed genes were around when I was a kid in my parents yard.
:)
But the ones at my parents house only detected dog poop and septic tanks. And they changed the grass from its natural beige color to strange dark-green hue.
Speaking of Fords that blow up...
:)
My very first car was a 1985 Ford Escort (5 speed, DIESEL). It never blew up, but smoked so much that it looked like it was constantly on fire.
My friends in high school nicknamed it the "marker", because every parking space that I parked in had a black soot dot right where the down-pointing exhaust pipe coughed out a pile of chimney smoke when I started it. Sometimes, when starting from a standstill and then tromping the accellerator, instead of a dot it would leave a line, which of course everyone thought was hilarious.
I was always under the impression that when an ad claimed 100% something-or-other, that just meant that the part of the product that was actually the special ingredient was 100% pure. Then the rest of the product can be whatever. Like fruit juice drinks, for example. You can buy fruit juice that says "contains 100% fruit juice" or something similar, but really it is made up of lots of things. The actual juice is 100% fruit juice (whatever that means), but the added water and sugar and preservatives and apple juice concentrate (most drinks are cut with apple juice) have nothing to do with the actual "fruit" part of the juice, and therefore do not apply to the 100% rule. Or I could be wrong. --
Absolutely True! It's the hardest thing to do at the time not to strike back, but I've been asked to return to mis-managed projects that I started on several occasions. Geeks tend to be one of society's less-agressive (at least on the surface) types.
Personally I haven't done much dumpster diving, but my younger brother, who is still in college, goes all the time.
According to his stories, his plan of attack goes like this: Find a nice area of town, where there are lots of national retailers in a new shopping center. (He calls these Giant-Land, since all the stores tend to be friggin huge.) Look for the bigger stores (i.e. Wal-Mart, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, Crate and Barrel, Pier One, etc..) and drive around to the service side. Make a note of which stores have trash compactors and which stores just have dumpsters.
Keeping this in mind, come back at a later (and darker) hour and take a look in some of those dumpsters. You will be suprised at what huge retail stores throw away! And since retail stores dont really generate that much real "garbage", most of the stuff is pretty clean.
For example: My little bro and some friends visited a Wal-Mart next to his apartment, and came home with literally TWO truck beds full of breakfast cereal and crackers. Another visit revealed an entire dumpster full of shrink wrapped couch pillows. Televisions and stereos with missing power cables, power tools, boxes of out of date/holiday candy, hand tools, an entire dumpster full of working light bulbs... and everything brand new! Craziness I tell you!
It's rediculous what these places just throw away. I guess just trashing everything saves them money on the processing needed to get things to people who could use actually use it.