To Do in May if you Can
Once upon a time in the not-too-distant future:
I have succumbed to temptation and watched TV after I learned after Turn Off TV week- an attempt to get our faces off the boob tube and away from the endless barrage of mind sucking advertisements (must…go…see…Spider-Man III…or not…). But I watched a show last night PBS whose programs are commercial free although there are endless barrages of mind sucking advertisements (…must…go…get…expensive car…which is made possible by viewers like you) that bookend their shows.
I learned that it will cost me currently $30,000.00 to install the cheapest solar panels to my place which will cut my electricity bill in half. If I lived in Massachusetts, the state would have paid for half of it. If I lived in Germany, government incentives would actually make you a profit if you have solar panels and soon that country would supply a third of its electrical power from them. If we cover the Mojave with solar panels, the Unites States would significantly reduce its need on fossil fuels.
I still like the Transmetropolitan idea that we should find a way to cover the planet Mercury with panels and ‘beam’ the energy back to us. At the speed of light, it would only take eight minutes to get to us.
Upcoming stuff:
May is Asian American History Month, which is the lesser known of the ethnic-American months. And now that I think of it, it is kinda odd that the month Asian American History Month is in shares a name usually only found in Asian women. Anyway, go out this month, give one of us a hug, learn more about your slanty eyed friends and eat some pansit, har gow, tandoori, kim chee, satay and/or some yummy curry. Damn, now I am hungry. For me, I will do all that plus catch up on the HK DVD’s waiting to be watched on my shelf.
May 19th and 20th is the Strawberry Festival in the ‘Nard (also known as Oxnard, CA), an event that Big Louie always gets mad when I mention it. Yes, the farm workers do not get enough credit for their hard work for these delicious berries and other fine fruits and vegetables. So skip it this year not just for that but also because while admission may not an arm and a leg yet, but at $12.00 a person, it is an arm, if you buy food, it will be a leg and if you purchase anything at the Arts & Crafts booths it will be another body part.
Plus there will be a million people there all drunk on the strawberry beers, noteworthy bands stopped playing there a million years ago and it will take you two years to get past traffic and find parking.
Also on May 19th and 20th is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Open house in Pasadena (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/), an event I will pimp to no end (although if you see the gweilo who thought my shirt, which had a Chinese character, read ‘Die Whitey’ please kick him for me- hey, buddy it meant ‘dream’ and it is disenchanting to see you in a place like that).
No admission charge for this event which is just off the 210 and you get to be awed by the fact that yes, sometimes, the human race still cares to expand its collective horizons and yes, boldly go where we have never gone before. See kids smarter than you, kids who want to be smarter than you and kids who will one day be running the country and/or be your boss.
Also, see the closest thing to Transformers (a giant robotic arm) and do not miss the opportunity to see the JPL control room.
And, by the way, this weekend (May 5th) holds Free Comic Book Day. Now, you cannot pass this up, now can you?
Other stuff:
A friend of mind is currently fostering a malamute by the name of Sheila, who can be seen at http://www.texalmal.org/. Can you believe they were about to put down this two year old beautiful puppy because no one wanted her? If my cat were not so dog phobic, I would take this dog in at a heart beat. As it is, this malamute needs a home and I may just arrange a time to take the dog for a walk or play fetch with it pretty soon. By the way, if I could have a puppy, it would be a malamute, a welsh corgi or one of them schnauzer dogs. I came across a three legged boxer at a shelter event that I wanted to take home pretty badly (a perfect companion to the three legged cat who currently rule our lives) but at the time my apartment would kill us if we had a dog (as evident by the bodies scattered around the complex and the mournful howlings at night).
________________________________________________________________________
Where else I can be found:
http://www.myspace.com/catterpillarboy
See all my amazing friends! Beware of inside jokes that no one, even my friends will get!
http://catterpillarboy.blogspot.com/
Possibly maybe stories and projects that I am working on
http://catterpillarboy.livejournal.com
This will probably be the most updated one with all of my thoughts, feelings, book and movie reviews and other random stuff.
I have succumbed to temptation and watched TV after I learned after Turn Off TV week- an attempt to get our faces off the boob tube and away from the endless barrage of mind sucking advertisements (must…go…see…Spider-Man III…or not…). But I watched a show last night PBS whose programs are commercial free although there are endless barrages of mind sucking advertisements (…must…go…get…expensive car…which is made possible by viewers like you) that bookend their shows.
I learned that it will cost me currently $30,000.00 to install the cheapest solar panels to my place which will cut my electricity bill in half. If I lived in Massachusetts, the state would have paid for half of it. If I lived in Germany, government incentives would actually make you a profit if you have solar panels and soon that country would supply a third of its electrical power from them. If we cover the Mojave with solar panels, the Unites States would significantly reduce its need on fossil fuels.
I still like the Transmetropolitan idea that we should find a way to cover the planet Mercury with panels and ‘beam’ the energy back to us. At the speed of light, it would only take eight minutes to get to us.
Upcoming stuff:
May is Asian American History Month, which is the lesser known of the ethnic-American months. And now that I think of it, it is kinda odd that the month Asian American History Month is in shares a name usually only found in Asian women. Anyway, go out this month, give one of us a hug, learn more about your slanty eyed friends and eat some pansit, har gow, tandoori, kim chee, satay and/or some yummy curry. Damn, now I am hungry. For me, I will do all that plus catch up on the HK DVD’s waiting to be watched on my shelf.
May 19th and 20th is the Strawberry Festival in the ‘Nard (also known as Oxnard, CA), an event that Big Louie always gets mad when I mention it. Yes, the farm workers do not get enough credit for their hard work for these delicious berries and other fine fruits and vegetables. So skip it this year not just for that but also because while admission may not an arm and a leg yet, but at $12.00 a person, it is an arm, if you buy food, it will be a leg and if you purchase anything at the Arts & Crafts booths it will be another body part.
Plus there will be a million people there all drunk on the strawberry beers, noteworthy bands stopped playing there a million years ago and it will take you two years to get past traffic and find parking.
Also on May 19th and 20th is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Open house in Pasadena (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/), an event I will pimp to no end (although if you see the gweilo who thought my shirt, which had a Chinese character, read ‘Die Whitey’ please kick him for me- hey, buddy it meant ‘dream’ and it is disenchanting to see you in a place like that).
No admission charge for this event which is just off the 210 and you get to be awed by the fact that yes, sometimes, the human race still cares to expand its collective horizons and yes, boldly go where we have never gone before. See kids smarter than you, kids who want to be smarter than you and kids who will one day be running the country and/or be your boss.
Also, see the closest thing to Transformers (a giant robotic arm) and do not miss the opportunity to see the JPL control room.
And, by the way, this weekend (May 5th) holds Free Comic Book Day. Now, you cannot pass this up, now can you?
Other stuff:
A friend of mind is currently fostering a malamute by the name of Sheila, who can be seen at http://www.texalmal.org/. Can you believe they were about to put down this two year old beautiful puppy because no one wanted her? If my cat were not so dog phobic, I would take this dog in at a heart beat. As it is, this malamute needs a home and I may just arrange a time to take the dog for a walk or play fetch with it pretty soon. By the way, if I could have a puppy, it would be a malamute, a welsh corgi or one of them schnauzer dogs. I came across a three legged boxer at a shelter event that I wanted to take home pretty badly (a perfect companion to the three legged cat who currently rule our lives) but at the time my apartment would kill us if we had a dog (as evident by the bodies scattered around the complex and the mournful howlings at night).
________________________________________________________________________
Where else I can be found:
http://www.myspace.com/catterpillarboy
See all my amazing friends! Beware of inside jokes that no one, even my friends will get!
http://catterpillarboy.blogspot.com/
Possibly maybe stories and projects that I am working on
http://catterpillarboy.livejournal.com
This will probably be the most updated one with all of my thoughts, feelings, book and movie reviews and other random stuff.
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