Saturday, April 5, 2008

Hike - 2 hours, 2 blue bags, 20some photos

pictured: mylar balloon, car parts, plastic shreds, a wheel, wheelbarrow assembly instructions (marathon #00265), pot scrubber (chore boy/label still attached), hearing protectors, clothespin, sport helmet tag, pencil, '2006', lead weight, candy (reese's), car mat.

not pictured: 2 bags of recyclables, 1 dead battery
http://www.panoramio.com/map/#lt=39.344757&ln=-76.391791&z=3&user=1197306&k=3&a=1&tab=4

Script to transform photos to 800X600:
for shot in \
2575 \
2576 \

do echo $shot
time jpegtopnm DSCN${shot}.JPG | pnmscale -xysize 800 600 | ppmtojpeg > DSCN${shot}-800x600.jpg
done


"The waiting list is right now at ID: 8800000."



http://www.panoramio.com/photo/9138030
Eastern Ave., Carroll Island Rd. and Eastern Blvd.
http://www.panoramio.com/map/#lt=39.338953&ln=-76.402005&z=4&k=2

This hike was drive and walk mode, so I had a central hub to dump pockets and pick up more blue bags. Found a slightly torn blue bag in the stickers between the park and the school so took that as a sign to keep picking up recyclables. Filled it to overflowing in a few minutes, so stopped except for pre-flattened aluminum cans and plastic water bottles (especially one use plastic water bottles). I was unhappy that the water fountains weren't turned on at the park, as I haven't been packing water for a short stroll near my house in early spring.

The last item scavenged was a car repair mat, just when I thought my pockets were full. The irony is that this is not printed on plain, digestible paper, it's on a plastic fabric of sorts, presumably so the mechanics boots don't dig through the paper. It reads, in part:

WE HAVE TRIED TO KEEP YOUR CARPETING CLEAN WITH THIS PAPER MAT
...
IT HAS BEEN A PLEASURE TO SERVE YOU

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