In the past 96 hours, I've been exposed to:

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meteors,

an earthquake,

a hurricane,

a tsunami watch,

annoying frogs (which, while not exactly toads, are still amphibians), and

\<a href="http://arted.osu.edu/160/images/50rnr/hollyband.gif"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">annoying crickets (which, while not …

We stayed over \<a href="http://www.plumhall.com/"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tom & Lana Plum's house last night, hoping to take advantage of their very dark skies to see the Perseids. Slept on the porch on thin mattresses, beautiful milky way / Sagittarius / Scorpio in the evening hours. Saw …

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Lava has reemerged at Pu'u O'o vent, creating a vast, slowly circulating lake of lava, as captured from the USGS cams at dawn on 7/8/07. During the day, it doesn't look like much, but try the \<a href="http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/cam/"" target="_blank" rel="noopener …

After Pele rolled over, she's gone into a deeper slumber and the Big Island is experiencing the lowest level of volcanic activity since 1983. Such pauses have happened twice before during the current 24-year-long eruption and previously lasted just a few weeks.

The effect on the Kona (leeward) side of …

A few weeks ago, Scottevest Cargo Shorts were on sale. I've never owned a Scottevest product before, but they're well-reviewed, and if there's one piece of clothing a Hawaiian geek requires, it's capacious cargo shorts.

They're quite good looking and can handle a full load of iPod, wallet, digital camera …

A big earthquake swarm on the SE side of the island is "consistent with a shallow intrusion of magma" at Kilauea / Pu'u O'o. They don't predict eruptions, but I have a feeling that Pele might be restless. Luckily, that's 60 miles away and on the other side of a 13 …

I know people love Skype, but my experience using it from Hawai'i has always been terrible -- horrid echo, constant break up -- and on my recent trip to Panama, it was equally useless for calling to Hawai'i. That's all I have to say about that.

My friend Doug has apparently gotten his converted Karmann Ghia onto the road...

Just back from a 4-day mini-vacation in Kauai, hiker's paradise (well, if your idea of paradise is a hike in the rain to the world's highest swamp along knife-edge ridges with 3,000' drops...) Looks like I missed lots of interesting goings-on and Mix is going to generate tons of …