Friday, February 27, 2009
poem
i hear you walking down the hall
clip-clop clip-clop
just resign yourself to shortness
everyday i want to take a saw to your $30 pumps
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Neon
The first problem is the leaking of oil, although the car is 12 years old, it only has about 70,000 miles on it, and at least 5000 are from my driving down to Milwaukee on a weekly basis and a trip back and forth to La Cross. My Neon is a first year Neon, which according to my dad is a rather bad investment, there are still many kinks to work out of the design problem and they haven't receded any feedback.
The reason that it is leaking oil is because they made the engine block out of two different metals, to try something new and be all experimental and stuff. The problem with that is that two metals (in this case aluminum and the standard steel i believe) shrink and expand at different rates, breaking the head gasket. Getting a new head gasket is $500 to get replaced, $500 can buy a hell of a lot of oil.
(btw if any mechanics want to call me out on my bullshit, feel free i won't be offended)
Another thing is the defroster, i would put a picture up on here if i could find my camera at the monument. For reference, just think of the dash on your car, there are more then one heating vent right? There is on bigger longer on in the middle and two little ones on the side, right? I only have the lager on in the center, it only defrost the middle of my windshield, a right pain in the ass when I'm driving down the highway
The last thing is that I only have a radio, no cd player, no tape desk. I would very much like to listen to my own music rather then the stuff on the radio, but I have never seen an radio adapter that made sence or lasted more then 3 hours on batteries.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Fish have a skeleton
First off, I would like to lay it out on the table that I am a vegetarian.
I'm not one of those girls that's all like, I LUVR ANIMANALS!!!!! UR A MURDER IF YOU EAT MEAT!!
I have many reasons, and the death of a living thing is only a part of that. By not eating meat, more of the grain that would go to feeding cows pigs and chickens will go to people in third world counties, by not eating meat, I am helping the planet. In addition to all that grain that those non-existent animals would have eaten, there is also the water they would have drank, and the pollution they would have created with there fecal matter. I am also a vegetarian because of the animal suffering, I don't like the fact that chickens die with half of there beaks cut off and never being able to fully spread there wings in there short life. I don't like the fact that pigs are intelligent enough to be house broken and used as pets, but we still kill them horribly. I don't like the fact that cows have there young taken away from them and sometimes even killed in front of them. I am vegetarian because its healthier to not have the added fat in your diet from meat. And lastly, I am vegetarian because it is important to my boyfriend who I love very much.
I putting this out here, not to preach at you, but so you realize the context that I am coming from.
Fish are meat, if you eat fish, you eat meat.
Thats you are not a vegetarian if your eating fish. The ocean is being depleted of fish because of the rate of commercial fishing going on right now, your not saving the planet by only eating fish, the fish your eating could be going to whales or other at risk or endangered species. Eating fish is more healthy then eating other meats, but its not a vegetable, it doesn't grow in the ground. There are no fish trees or fish bushes.
I know that was pretty bitchy and rant like, but I swear to god if I have to hear some self-righteous woman talk about animals rights, to only mow down on her McFish, I'm going to slap her with a Catfish.