A Black Hole of Happiness

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Fuck 'em. If they can't take the time to listen to your outgoing message then they deserve not to get an answer. I clearly say that "this is NFH, and you've reached my cell phone." If you're calling for Bill or the Hilton hotel to reserve the banquet room for your reception and you don't hear my message - then you're toast.

Fringey's point seems to be more about the intended callee, not the caller.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
SF has apparently changed their rules to just mixing everything together, per an article I read this morning in the Economist. They now sort it all out later too. A friend of mine who lived in an apt bldg closish to UCLA had a separate recycling dumpster, but my building has no way to recycle. It seems like single-family housing has recycling with their trash pickup -- this is how it was in Dallas, too. I don't get why single-family housing is apparently required to be offered curbside recycling, but multi-family (where there is more recycleable trash produced per square foot) is not. It's really annoying.

We're going to the big mixed bins here, but they are not including glass. So the neighbors can still see how much wine/gin/whiskey I go through. Thankfully, I've got a keg in my basement, so they can't count the beer bottles, too.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I have an idea for people: stop drinking bottled water.

Or reuse the bottle. What is bottled water other than a cheap plastic bottle that costs 99c? Spend another $5 and you can be a Nalgene hipster.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I have an idea for people: stop drinking bottled water.

there was an article a while back about the harmful amount of plastic that bottled water generates...

I don't mind filtered water. that is what my firm has.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I have an idea for people: stop drinking bottled water.

I generally don't here, because the tap water is good. But in a lot of places, the tap water tastes like ass.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Gattigap
I'm struck at how different cities are in recycling stuff. I live in a part of LA that has a truck coming around to collect recycle-able stuff, and they don't really give a shit how you leave it for them. If it's paper, plastic, nuclear waste, whatever -- just put it in one of the blue cans they give you, and they'll come pick it up and sort it all out later.

In San Francisco, the recycling folks were Seinfeldian Soup Nazis. If I didn't have my cardboard not only FLAT, but in pieces smaller than X foot by Y foot, they would not only refuse to pick it up, but leave me a pissy note explaining my sins and de facto membership in the MilitaryIndustrialEcodestructiveCapitalisticAsshole Conspiracy.

Gattigap

I am pretty sure that all of the items I place in a blue bag for recycling get thrown in the dump with the rest of the trash. I don't trust Daly at all. They allegedly sort the trash from the recycling after they unload it from the trucks. Right.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
We're going to the big mixed bins here, but they are not including glass. So the neighbors can still see how much wine/gin/whiskey I go through. Thankfully, I've got a keg in my basement, so they can't count the beer bottles, too.

I take pride in the rattle of glass in my recycle bin. I like to show up my goody-two-shoes, tea-totaling neighbor.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I am pretty sure that all of the items I place in a blue bag for recycling get thrown in the dump with the rest of the trash. I don't trust Daly at all. They allegedly sort the trash from the recycling after they unload it from the trucks. Right.

Didn't you read the link? Those bottles have value. Daly isn't sending them to the dump. If questioned, he'd say he's sending them to the dump, but he's got a little side recycling business that they're actually going to.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I have an idea for people: stop drinking bottled water.

In Houston, I'm happy with tap water. In central Texas, the well water is a little too mineral rich to drink. We have to clean out the shower heads every other day or so to get rid of all the gunk that accumulates. Filtering at the tap helps a little, Brita helps a little more, but it's just not great drinking water.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Or reuse the bottle. What is bottled water other than a cheap plastic bottle that costs 99c? Spend another $5 and you can be a Nalgene hipster.

It is worse. It is water stripped of all minerals and all else. It is dead water for soulless people. But Ollie is right -- if the choice is between bottled water and tap water of questionable quality, I guess go bottled.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I have an idea for people: stop drinking bottled water.

The tap water here tastes like warm moss, and drinking these would crimp my otherwise fabulous standard of living.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

I like the new cut.

http://www.imnotobsessed.com/?viewimg=13192

TM

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The tap water here tastes like warm moss, and drinking these would crimp my otherwise fabulous standard of living.

it would be like....water in a box!

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The tap water here tastes like warm moss, and drinking these would crimp my otherwise fabulous standard of living.

The evils of the bottled water industry were part of the focus of the May Day Parade by the local hippie puppeteers of the Heart of the Beast. I found these photos on the Daily Kos, which is apparently a hippie blog:

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Didn't you read the link? Those bottles have value. Daly isn't sending them to the dump. If questioned, he'd say he's sending them to the dump, but he's got a little side recycling business that they're actually going to.

Good point. For a mayor who likes to remind people of how green he is, King Daly's recycling system is embarrassing.

A friend of mine plans to follow a garbarge truck to determine if their really is any sorting going on.