Dumpster Diving

This story comes from my friend John. He posted it on his page but I thought it was funny. See if you can figure out who the friend is...

"This year I'm starting early! Last year I waited too long until the end of the promotion, and lost out. I'm gonna get some stuff off those new special playlists!" So a friend tells me today. Picture it: he's behind a building at work, digging through the recycled bottle dumpsters. "I bet people here think I’m homeless, like I'm gonna melt-down this plastic for warmth," he said, while talking on his cell phone. My friend, sadly enough, is consumed by greed for yellow Pepsi bottle caps. The current Pepsi-Apple promotion for free iTunes is what has caused his new behavior.
As we continued to talk, his ten minutes of searching revealed two more unclaimed, discarded winning caps. "Gold, Jerry, Gold!* I bet next week it will really pick up...I don't think many caps are yet in my region here... I should be finding more. Thank god there's this recycling bin, I don't want to have to go through all the garbage." (* a reference to Banya's famous saying on Seinfeld.) With three found today, and 3 found earlier in the week, my friend is looking forward to downloading six iTunes songs tonight via his computer. He's far too proud a Coca-cola drinker to actually buy Pepsi for sipping, but the refuse-searching exercises that take up his work breaks aren't beneath him. "I can't believe people aren't using, or checking these? Are they all using Napster? This is like... literally now... throwing money away. Now it's mine, all mine."
As he proceeded back into his building, going up the elevator, with three caps in his pocket, he started to scratch his eye... "Damn, I have an eyelash in my eye..." I told him he might not want to pick at his eye with hands that had just come out of a dumpster. "You might get pink eye," I told him. "That's nothing... I am sure I could get much worse. Pepsi drinkers are swine."
I am not sure what you call folks who steal their discarded caps. I'm only sad that Apple didn't collaborate with Coke. I am sure my odds would have favored a luxurious, prodigious collection funded by my Coke-drinking habit. I just hope Apple realizes what urges of fanaticism they have caused people with their yellow caps and free 'tunes.

Baby Names

I found the coolest link. Well the Admiral found it and had it on his page. But its cool none the less.

Go to this website to find a whole list of names used for babies since 1900. You can search by letter, the whole name, etc to see how popular a name was during the century. Its too much fun.

One thing I noticed is a large increase in the popularity of "Friends" names during the 90's.