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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, 06:09:34 PM)
MLK,
I reside in the outer borough because I grew up in them and I like the patches grass and trees that dots the landscape. Very few NY'er move into mahhatten if they grew up around it. It is too much of a lifestyle change. And the traffic to visit family is just horrible.
Parking is not a given in the city. Some homes don't come with a garage. You know I hear LA is the best place to find parking. Some people circle the block for hours looking for parking.
Are you jealous that I'm paying homage to your mutts? :)
"I would be hunting you down to get my just revenge if you took my dogs and posted recipes used in their demise"
You know that would make a great premise for the next great martial art film.
AC Dropout
Thursday, July 11, 2002 at 13:41:59 (PDT)
AC Dropout
Jeeeeez! $500-$700 dollars a month? That's really expensive. I don't think I could afford to keep my car if I lived in NY. So I assume you live in the outer boroughs since you have a car. Of course you park your car in a garage. Where else would you park it? I do too. I'm assuming it's the garage that came with your house, right?
"...If I was really interested in getting your mutts and devoted some of my time and resources to this clandestine endeavor"
Your complete and utter lack of interest in my puppies really show very clearly, you know that? For a man to devote that much time to come up with two (really great!!!) poems starring my two dogs (as well as inumerable postings and comments regarding them) is a pretty good indication of his total lack of interest in their furry bodies.
I would be hunting you down to get my just revenge if you took my dogs and posted recipes used in their demise.
MLK
Wednesday, July 10, 2002 at 17:28:30 (PDT)
MLK,
In Mahattan island it is difficult to keep a car unless you have some disposable income. Monthly parking rates run about $500-$700 dollars a month in the mid-town area. SUV and luxuary cars usually need to added another $100 to the rate, I don't know why.
NYC isn't LA. There are not that many drive-thru places.
If you live in the outer boroughs most families have cars. There are more Drive-Tru Fast Food joints in the outer borough.
I park my car in a garage.
If I was really interested in getting your mutts and devoted some of my time and resources to this clandestine endeavor I assure you within a matter of days you would posting the vilest remarks at me on Goldsea. And I would be posting the recipe used for their demise.
AC Dropout
Tuesday, July 09, 2002 at 14:39:23 (PDT)
AC Dropout
I heard that it is very rare to even own a car in NY, and the ones who do pay outrageous fees in parking and maintenance and taxes, so only the rich can afford to own one (or to even park it). Is this real? And in this case, then, where do you have space to park your car? If hardly anyone owns a car, it would be tough to go to a drive-in movie, or drive-through fast-food place, or drive-by banking, or drive-up window of a pharmacy, wouldn't it? And it would be hard to go grocery shopping since you'd have to carry them home in your arms.
I'm quite loyal to my cars (and dogs, and men). Once I love a car (or puppies or even a man), I usually stick with it/them/him until it/them/him keels over and die.
You think it's easy to steal my dogs or to even come in any kind of close contact with me? Ha! In order to steal my puppies, you'd have to drive your fancy Beamer cross-country to get to the Bay Area, and then you'd have to find me from among the gazillions of blonde Asian chicks with silver Miatas driving all over San Francisco and San Jose (Miatas are all over the roads here in California because the weather is so nice 99% of the time). And then you'd have to fight my dogs and get bitten quite badly before you can wrestle them into your car (may they poop and pee all over your fancy schmancy BMW interior).
MLK
Tuesday, July 09, 2002 at 00:07:13 (PDT)
AC Dropout
I wrote you a long post yesterday, but my computer crashed, and I guess it didn't go through. Sorry. I'll rewrite it when I have a little more time this evening. Not too much time at work to play.
MLK
Friday, July 05, 2002 at 16:50:48 (PDT)
MLK,
The city is in a budget deficit, so they are writing parking summons at $110 a pop to cover the 4 billion dollars since 9/11. Its a patriotic privilege to pay a parking fine in the city, not.
$2 dollars a day on the west coast. Jeez what to spend it on. Gas, pot, or blackouts.
"What if you hated what you were doing? It would be an even lonelier quest, wouldn't it?"
That's why I quit my first job and became a dropout.
I'm not too attached to cars. Once the new car smell is gone. I usually trade them in or something.
Then I will have to steal your doggies and drive off with them in my faster car. And since they aren't female, white, blonde, and 14 the incident won't get national coverage. hahahah.
I'll tell you what they taste like from the safety of the goldsea board.
AC Dropout
Tuesday, July 02, 2002 at 13:58:41 (PDT)
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