Hunting for Empty Bottles and Cans

Couple days ago I noticed that I have a bunch of empty bottles and cans from all the soda drinking, so I decided to save them instead of throwing them out so I can make a couple of dollar by throwing the stuff into those recycling machines. Then I thought about how can I get more of bottles and cans, and figured that I can just check the garbage rooms inside my building, because the resident leave these articles in the bin instead of throwing them down the garbage chute, so whatever is there on each floor is up for grabs. Evening and late mornings seems like the best times of the days to hunt for the "empties".

 $0.85 worth of recycles from 2 days ago evening hunt.  

 $0.25 worth of recycles from 1 day ago morning hunt. 

 $0.75 worth of recycles from yesterday's evening hunt. 

$0.45 worth of recycles from today's morning hunt.

I went to the recycling place and began feeding 2-litter plastic bottles into the machines, and in the midst of it the machine broke down and worker had to fix it, so I went home and took the glass bottles to recycle. The glass recycling machine was idle, so I began feeding it but most of the bottles were not accepted: the feeding mechanism spins the bottle around while the laser beam scans for the bottle barcode, so I guess that they do not accept the brand that the place sells. Old Chinese people seem to have a hold of all of these recycling places and it is difficult to find the machines that are idle, so one can recycle, because Chinese recycle 24/7 and they have their "assistants" cart, bike and drive huge garbage bag-fulls of empty cans and bottles. So far I have 2 receipts that total to $0.50, which I yet have to cash-out.

Hedge Fund Trader Nick Gentile: Say Cheese, Nigga!

Laughs at Nick Gentile, the Staten Island hedge fund trader who had his Oakwood Beach house ruined by hurricane Sandy.

He screwed-up last year with MF Global and now he got hurt again with hurricane Sandy. I am just glad that he has to suffer along with regular folks [aka 47%], and I am not the only one who thinks like this:

Craig Anthony Swinson said "I don't feel sorry for him, not one bit on the MF GLOBAL loss. He plays in a risky game, with sharks and untold risks, he uses others money to basically bet on a market, and he got burned. Maybe if he was better at what he did he could have minimized his risk by splitting his risk over several firms. That old saying, don't keep all your eggs in one basket, goes for money and firms or banks too"

Gerarg Mcparland said "get a real job! sitting behind a desk and playing with other peoples money.... boo hoo"

Marty Cohen said "when things were good these guys were buying toys that costs more than a years salary for the average slob , over charging commissions and sand bagging customers with bogus trades , now that Karma is a itch don't feel sorry for the greedy slug!"

Wally Walter said "This is great! I hope he ends up in a homeless shelter workin 3 jobs. Voodoo economics was created by douches like him and the Gov. Now they get what they deserve. HHAHHAHA"


I just hope that this motherfucker will suffer more and more further on.

Update

My computer recently broke down as well as digital camera, and I have been pretty busy with school and personal projects for the past couple of weeks and this is why there has not been any new posts. But I did receive replacement USB charger from the South Beach smoke, V2 Cigs adapters, Humble Twin razor from Dollar Shave Club and several shaving creams. I bought a new laptop so I gotta figure how to get the files from the broken laptop into the new one.

Dr. Pepper Tuition Giveaway

Last week during one of my courses, I overheard someone mentioning that theres free soda being distributed outside from the truck. So I went out to see whats going on. I figured that some promo truck was outside and that they are giving away their product, and I was right: Dr. Pepper truck was outside and there were "promoters" right next to it.

This Dr. Pepper promo thing is a part of their marketing campaign that is called Tuition Giveaway and it is geared towards college students. I am not really sure how it works, but all I know that some students got like $123,000 from Dr. Pepper company towards their tuition expenses.

There were plenty of Pepper cans in the back of the truck, but most of them were diet ones. The rest of the versions seemed do be underneath the diets, so I had to help myself and fish out the good ones (non diets).

I grabbed myself 2 cans: 1 regular and 1 cherry Dr. Pepper.

Lots of people seemed to be not minding the free soda.