\<a href="http://www.backbaypress.com/skylines.html"" target="_blank" atomicselection="true" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Since LiveWriter Beta seems to not delay publishing until the "Set publish date" time (it just time-stamps them later, which is just annoying), I will be going dark for a few days of travel. In …
more ...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 …
more ...My friend Doug has apparently gotten his converted Karmann Ghia onto the road...
more ...The weekend box office receipts aren't yet published, but if Makalapua Cinemas in Kailua Kona are any benchmark of the American viewing population (and they aren't), I predict that 300 will either set or approach record revenues.
We actually saw Zodiac, which was excellent (it's ending challenges you to consider …
more ...Okay, this is pure gloating, but I get paid (or, at least, can justify time spent on...) to think about things as diverse as quantum computing, Ruby IDEs, and trustworthy Trackbacks. Even better, when Tina heard the humpback songstream she invoked a 'We live in Hawaii' break and we went …
more ...Sexy cetacean sounds... oh yeah, baby ...
more ...My house is built on a bit of a ridge between two gullies (well, two collapsed lava tubes -- I do live on the side of an active volcano, after all). Grand plans include decks and terraces, but I can't envision them without a plan. Of course, I could hire surveyors …
more ...Ooh, this is tough; I've received a couple one-a-day challenges that are on things that I really do need to do. Jimmy Norton invited me into the Flickr Project 365 challenge, which is to post an image a day for a year. I am always dismayed to realize how little …
more ...Sorry about such a string of offtopics but now that I've posted something SD-related, I just have to tell you about literally bumping into Beth and Duane "Dog" Chapman at the airport. Tina and I were over in Honolulu a few days ago, all bleary-eyed and coffee-deprived from an early …
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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 …