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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)
AC
Just like a man to miss all that commotion and chaos. If that was me, I'd be running to the window, pressing my nose up against the pane, and fogging up the glass, and peering out there at the towers. I'd probably be at the window for hours staring at the smoke and the people swarming below! And here you are, with front row seats, and barely even aware of what's going on around you. Do you actually live with a bubble around your head like that on a day-to-day basis? That's so sad. I feel sad for you. It reminds me of a song from the Corrs, "...I have a friend I've never met. He hides himself inside his head..."
I think you attract the kinds of dogs that piss on your shoes. Dogs know if you don't like them, and they will do that to people they get bad vibes from. If you show them that you love them, they will love you ten times back what you've given them. They have more emotion to give to humans than humans do, even to each other! We (actually you) could learn a lot from them.
MLK
Tuesday, July 16, 2002 at 23:20:25 (PDT)
AC,
wooops, excuse my post, I didn't see this was a private board...;-)
nyhomboy
Tuesday, July 16, 2002 at 15:17:07 (PDT)
AC dropout
The greatest event in last decade happened in front of your eyes, and you and your lawyers just kept truckin...incredibly thickheaded.
Me, I took the day off...all shook up, plus I was downwind and didn't want to get caught in any possible contamination.
nyhomboy
Tuesday, July 16, 2002 at 15:15:22 (PDT)
MLK,
My 9/11 experience.
Well actually I saw it happen from my office window that day. But I was so busy with a meeting with a real estate company and my lawyers, that it was secondary on my mind.
First I heard something on the car radio about the WTC as I drove in and gave my car to the garage. I take the evelator go into my office and see the towers with black smoke coming out of it. I thinking must be a fire or something. I go to a building 2 blocks to talk about a real estate deal. Traffic is getting very light, which is strange I think. Talk about 1 hours in that meeting. Get back to my office both towers are smoking. My employees remind me of a meeting with the lawyers. Then my employee tell me he sees white smoke from the base of the tower and we can't see either tower. 10 of my employees crowd into my office and we think we see the top of one tower. I run off to another meeting with a lawyer. Meeting last 35 minutes. Come back more white smoke. Then someone in my company surf the web on my company time (the audacity) to find out the towers have just collapsed. Next you know I let employees off by 2pm and I hang around till about 9 pm. The last thing on my mind is a possible secondary attack or anthrax. I'm like thinking, s*** one of the employees has the fax number to another company, how am I suppose to get this fax over in time for tomorrow.
I actually hate dogs. Had a friend whose dog pissed on my shoes all the time.
AC dropout
Sunday, July 14, 2002 at 22:04:16 (PDT)
AC
Were you affected by 9/11? Did you live/work anywhere near it when it happened?
"...LA is the best place to find parking. Some people circle the block for hours looking for parking.
Back when I was going to University in Long Beach, I often took the hour drive to LA to play in the city. It was difficult finding parking only if one didn't want to pay 30-50 bucks for it. As a student, I was so poor that I really would circle around for a long time looking for free parking. Now that I've moved away from southern California, I don't know how much worse its gotten (I live in San Jose, by the way, just in case you've been somehow misled).
"...Are you jealous that I'm paying homage to your mutts? :)"
Me, jealous? Of my dogs? Of all the crazy ideas I've heard coming from you, this has got to take the cake. So you show an inordinate and strangely obsessive compulsive devotion to my dogs...does that mean that I need to worry about The AC hanging about my house, stalking my puppies and spying on them during their puppy chow time? hehehe I've heard of stranger stuff.
MLK
Saturday, July 13, 2002 at 16:46:24 (PDT)
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