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ASIAN AMERICAN ISSUES
Technologies Changing Our Lives
icrowave ovens save us from the spectre of fiery deaths from forgotten soups and tea kettles. Cellphones let us big brother shady mates. The internet saves our backs from weekly recycling bin schleps. Aspartame lets us gorge ourselves silly on sweet nothings. Wireless LANs save us from having to enter the jungles growing in the dark recesses behind our desks. CD-burners liberate us from all those awful songs on sketchy albums.
And who isn't eagerly awaiting self-driving cars that never need refueling? Or gene therapies to reverse the effects of ageing? Or hypersonic airliners to cut those interminable transpacific crossings to an hour or two?
Is it just us or is technological progress the only reliable force for improving human life?
So what technologies are changing your lives? And what technologies are you staying away from?
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Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 06:09:35 PM)
To AC Dropout
Why don't you get those velcro shoes, the kinds that light up and squeak when you walk? Then you don't have to fumble with your own shoe laces and everyone would know you were coming without having a town crier to announce your arrival.
And lattes cost $5 in NY? I only have to pay $3 for mine, and I'm sure it tastes just as great, even if it's coming from the west coast. Add $2 per day and I'll have a tidy sum at the end of the year, which you won't have.
What if you hated what you were doing? It would be an even lonelier quest, wouldn't it?
I wasn't sure what your car looked like so I went on the net to take a look and found a whole bunch of pictures. I'm sure it's very impressive, but I still think my car's prettier than yours. Maybe not as expensive (or as fast as yours), but definitely prettier!
The only people who get parking tickets are those who are too lazy to find proper parking spaces and feel they are too important to walk long distances from their car to wherever they need to be, so they park all over the place and wherever they can squeeze themselves into. One of these days, certain of these people are going to find themselves towed away to someplace not so cool and their nice Beamer will suffer dings and dents as a result of the towing company's sloppy performance. Car racing is a dumb sport. You go real fast, round and round, and get nowhere. And waste a lot of gas, and wear and tear on your tires and your engines. And then you bring home a plastic trophy if you win, plus some l'argent, of which I'm sure you're hurting to own.
There you go again with the strangely perverse thought of turning my beloved puppies into culinary prototypes. You can offer, but even with all your money, you will never have enough to pay for even a whisker on their little chiny chin chins.
Q4 of 2002 is coming up, I think around September or November, right? I would think this would be an exciting time for you. Busy, but extremely exciting. I'm sure you'll do just fabulous. I wish you the best of luck on all ventures sought and (eventually) conquered.
MLK
Monday, July 01, 2002 at 21:49:06 (PDT)
MLK,
I'm still in NYC right now. I have to show up to the office to show support to the new fearless leader I appointed. You have to get people use to the new guy, instead of coming to me.
I'm only important to my employees, because I'm responsible for their paychecks. Outside of my office, I'm just another regular joe. I get parking tickets. I still have to pay $5 for latte. And tie my own shoe laces.
I'm sure if you disappear from the job for a couple of days, upper management would miss you.
I know what you mean about a busy life style. Looking back I've been packing my schedule since high school. These past few months feel like decompression. I'm starting to dread the compression I'm going to put myself through starting in 2003. The planning stages start in Q4 of 2002. It's not pretty...but someone gots to suck it up.
I wouldn't feel too bad about turning down dinners, if you weren't interested. There no point going out on a social occasion, if you don't feel socialable.
Achieving goals is lonely quest. As long as your love what your doing then it works out.
I've had a lot of different cars since my speeding tickets trouble started. Could you believe I've even got pulled over for speeding in a Hyundai Excel at college. The thing had like 78 hp and ran like Archie's Jalopy. I current drive a BMW 5-series, doesn't help much either. Maybe I should take up professional race driving as a hobby. Get it out of my system.
If I'm ever on the West Coast and see a blonde asian chick with 2 mutts. I'll offer to buy the mutts and serve them as dinner.
AC Dropout
Monday, July 01, 2002 at 07:38:10 (PDT)
AC Dropout
So if you've got an exec for the NY office, where are you at now? Still in NY or traveling around the country? You sound very important and very busy (well, not busy, just important). That's totally oposite of me. I'm sooooo busy, but not important at all. It's probably because you can afford to delegate and I have to do all the work that upper management delegates to me. That really sucks and life's not fair, but there you go. We all have to play the hand we're dealt with, and win or lose, we all still have to play until we close our eyes and go bye-bye!
I don't really notice the times that you post. I just read what you write and respond during the time that I am able (which is around 9 or 10 Pacific time, after I get home from work and have fed myself and my dependents (those two little fur balls you've been meaning to cook for the last two months). I don't really even have time for a life. I turn down more free dinners than I care to admit because I'm so exhausted at the end of the day that I don't want to entertain anybody but myself. I know...I sound pretty dull, even to myself, but at this stage in my career, as I'm trying to build some kind of a life for myself, I have to work hard and sacrifice many things, just like I did as I was going through school. I kept promising myself, "later, I'll have the time and the oportunity to do this or that...later after I achieve this or that goal..." but I haven't gotten to that stage yet. And there's no short cut anywhere in sight. (sigh) Sometimes I feel so alone...
My Miata? Yeah, it's a tiny car that slips in and out of traffic and squeezes its tiny little body into tight spaces easily (what do you drive that causes so many speeding tickets?). Anyway, despite its appearance, it has a really big booty (read rear end). I can put a week's worth of groceries (including a big bag of Puppy Chow) in the trunk with room to spare. My puppies also love to ride in it with the top down. They hang their muzzles out the side of the car and enjoy the wind (and shed all over my passenger side seat). If you ever see a blonde Asian chick with two little ragamuffin scraggly dogs in a silver Miata, tearing down the freeway, honk and wave! That's probably me!
MLK
Saturday, June 29, 2002 at 16:09:56 (PDT)
MLK,
I've achieved my professional goals. I've set up the company. Found a day to day executive for the NY office. I've transitioned my responsibilities and found an abundant amount of time at the office. You'll notice I only post during business hours EST. I have a life after work, that's why I don't post at night or days off.
But honestly I spend a lot of time now thinking about next years goals for the company. I probably will not have time after the 2003 for the goldsea due to extensive travelling.
I'm enjoying my professional free time now. Next stage in about a few months is to get the business the run without showing up at the office.
Miata convertiable isn't that the tiny small car, that zips through traffic like nobody's business. How do you do the grocery in that thing?
AC Dropout
Thursday, June 27, 2002 at 14:49:31 (PDT)
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