Moxie Marlinspike recalls the day Pittsburgh scrappers hauled away his furnace

In a nostalgic X post, Moxie Marlinspike shares a journal entry from around 2006 about moving to Pittsburgh in the dead of winter. He describes the city's scrappers—people who collect scrap metal—and a chaotic encounter with two of them who helped remove an old furnace from his basement. The story captures the gritty charm of Pittsburgh and the absurdity of the situation, from a claustrophobic helper to a four-cents-per-pound payoff.