I've been wanting to get recycling going here in the building for a while. They don't offer it because a) it's zoned commercial so it's not free, and b) it's a high traffic, sketchy area and anywhere that you put out a bin, it's going to be rifled through and trash thrown into it, which they then charge you a fine for.

But screw that, I figured there has to be a way better than driving our stuff across town to a recycling centre.  Found this, which would be cheap and convenient, but they don't offer locked carts.  I asked what other options we'd have, and she said that the driver can't go inside a building, but it can be behind a locked gate that he would be given a key/passcode for.  Well, there's not really anything like that here.  But... wait, says Chris... if he can have a key for a gate, why can't we lock the bin on our own? 

"Well.. yes... I guess there's no reason you couldn't do that!" 

Oh, if I had a nickel for every time someone's said that to me  :) 

Home brew strap/lock coming up!

Then we get to be the building heros for maybe five minutes at least...

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In other home brew news, we went to the Maker Faire on the weekend, albeit briefly due to the choir craziness.  Man oh man it was amazing.  And we only saw like half of it and didn't have time to actually participate in the tons of activities.  I missed a Nabaztag hacking booth, waaaah!  We were totally drooling over the rapid prototyping equipment.  These guys are running an interesting service.  Pay monthly to get access to work on all their machinery.  Pay for only the materials you use.  Groovy.