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POPSThe Waste Land - San Francisco's roving recyclers
More: One man, tall and strong with sharp eyes and long dreadlocks…Mute, he pulls a scrap of paper out of his cart and starts writing… “What school?” Berkeley, I say, impressed and somewhat embarrassed that he can tell so quickly my status. “Why here?” he jots. I try to explain. “You’re not too smart,” he concludes, pointing at my thin sweater and shivering hands… Then he offers me the red down coat he is wearing and goes back to work. As I walk around the cardboard boxes that contain the recyclables…I see bits of his scribbled conversations with others. “Temper is going Everyone’s under $ pressure,” reads one…“Me, I don’t sweat the cash too much,” reads another. I return to ask for the paper on which we’d just had our conversation. He looks at me skeptically. “You’re a bad journalist,” he writes. “No tape recorder.” Then he hands over the paper and smiles. I asked for his name, but he holds his forefinger to his sealed lips, then turns and goes back to
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POPSHTC Hero 3G Android HTC Sense is very very good, there is very little lag, the graphics are smoothe and choices wide and varied. You might think (for example) that 12 different clock types would be enough for anyone, but I would love them to come out with more as I am a little fussy that way! Pity that the music player does not immediately grab cover art, but there are programs on the android market that wil
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POPSUnruly To Be Lessoned In Green I am currently stuck ( a problem I am hoping to alleviate before winter) with the now Infamous Unitil Electric company. If you have not heard , they were the one's whose clients were without power for 14 days during last year's ice storm. This company has never spent a dime in emergency planning( no joke) or testing despite an annual raise in rates , until this year. Yet the top 10 on the board are pulling in 6 figure salary's. With company's like this around how can you afford not to go green?
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POPSOn skepticism and sexism More: Some people wrote in suggesting that the topic wasn’t worthy of discussion, and that Carrie and I exaggerated the problems. Many of the responses showed that on the contrary, we underestimated the problem and were downright wrong to say that the only sexism in the community is unintentional.… Why is it that feminists are so often misrepresented as being too sensitive, when cases like this clearly show the opposite? Neither Carrie nor I ever told anyone “fuck you.” We never called anyone a sexist. We never lost our temper and we gave everyone the benefit of the doubt, assuming or accepting clarifications that an insult wasn’t intended. If only the same could be said for those who took offense to our discussion.
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POPSTips from a traveling web developer Webworkers may, in a romantic fashion, dream of a life traveling and working where ever they want to. But the are a few considerations that might temper this feeling of unlimited freedom. Web developer Nate Weiner's trip to Japan gives some useful advice when traveling to places that, for instance, do not have Wifi connection.
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POPSDiscussion Derailing for Dummies From the Introduction: for this project, I wanted to explore the way privileged people - including otherwise marginalised people - use the same tactics, no matter the issue, in order to derail and undermine. I was so aghast at everything that occured during RaceFail 09 and so hurt by my own experience, that I also wanted to bite back in a way, even wrangle a laugh out of it. More: Aren't You Treating Each Other Worse Anyway But You're Different To The Others Well I Know Another Person From Your Group Who Disagrees! A In B Situation Is Not Equivalent To X In Y Situation Who Wins Gold in the Oppression Olympics? You Have A False Consciousness You're Not Being A Team Player You've Lost Your Temper So I Don't Have To Listen To You Anymore You Are Damaging Your Cause By Being Angry You're As Bad As They Are Surprise! I Was Playing “Devil’s Advocate” All Along!
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POPSThose aren't fighting words, dear More: Let me be clear: I’m not saying my husband was throwing a child’s tantrum. No. He was in the grip of something else — a profound and far more troubling meltdown that comes not in childhood but in midlife, when we perceive that our personal trajectory is no longer arcing reliably upward as it once did. But I decided to respond the same way I’d responded to my children’s tantrums. And I kept responding to it that way. For four months. “I don’t love you anymore. I’m not sure I ever did.” His words came at me like a speeding fist, like a sucker punch, yet somehow in that moment I was able to duck. And once I recovered and composed myself, I managed to say, “I don’t buy it.” Because I didn’t.… My husband tried to strike a deal. Blame me for his pain. Unload his feelings of personal disgrace onto me. But I ducked. And I waited. And it worked.
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POPSTolstoy On Happiness "This posting is from me to your happiness, in all its pain and all it’s glory; in all its suffering and in all its celebration."
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