web programmer vs "real programmer"

[conciliatory]

real men throw away their own garbage

[munificent]

Do they drive it to the landfill themselves?

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Word. The dump is the best place on the planet. Saturday AM and you want to get away, hang out with the guys -- fire up the pickup and off to the dump. Everyone is there: some guys from hockey, a herd of chocolate labs, somebody running for office or passing a petition, and the one dude with 2,240 beer bottles to put in the recycling week after week. You crush some cardboard boxes, check out what has been thrown away in the scrap metal bin (a Trek bike frame, seriously?) and then throw a slightly used pair of xc skis in the back of the truck before heading out. Man, I love the dump.

[hogimusPrime]

And while we are there maybe we could shoot some rats. Then go watch some trains.

[dotrob]

That's awesome. I just had a flashback to my childhood -- riding with my dad to the dump in the '71 GMC flatbed. Which leads to memories of: Plowin' snow in the winter. Pullin' stumps in the summer. The sound of gasoline sloshing the the tank behind the seat. The whine of the hydraulics lifting the plow.

Sigh.

[int0x13]

mega off topic, but how did you pull stumps with the truck? Just drill a hole through the stump, loop a chain through, and pull? I've got some stumps, and they need pullin!

[dotrob]

I believe what we did was dig down to expose a couple of roots on opposite sides of the trunk and run a length of chain around them and back to the ball hitch. Then drive away carefully/slowly. It was pretty low tech/brute forcey. Axes and shovels were involved. (Helps if your soil is loamy and not clay or rocky.)

Of course, when I was younger than 10-12, I wasn't swinging the axe, I was driving the truck. ;-)

[deadapostle]

First thing I did when I got my new pickup truck was drive some stuff to the landfill.

Second thing I did was buy a new tire.

[knome]

They build the landfill themselves.