May 15, 2008
April 14, 2008
Scrivener’s Sudoku | starbulletin.com | Features | /2008/03/23/ | Scrivener’s Sudoku
In case you missed it: My one-hudredth sudoku puzzle in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
7 months ago
April 9, 2008
taipei101_part1 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
The new Flickr video is in its infancy and I’m really starting to dig it. I don’t get turned on much by fireworks, but I love the crowd noise in this one!
7 months ago
March 14, 2008
hulu: Who Is Gordon Sims?: WKRP in Cincinnati
One of my favorite TV episodes ever, available (with commercials) on Hulu. WKRP, while it had a much-too-loud laugh track, frequently pushed the envelope in its subject matter. This episode’s a great example.
8 months ago
March 12, 2008
Some Maui County residents are staying home more and driving less as the price for unleaded regular gasoline has already soared above $4 in rural areas and appears poised to move above $4 in Wailuku. (via Maui gas hits $4 | starbulletin.com | News | /2008/03/12/)
Paradise tax.
8 months ago
March 11, 2008
March 10, 2008
Six years after leaving the franchise he helped turn into a Super Bowl contender, running back Warrick Dunn is coming back to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. (via RB Warrick Dunn reunites with Buccaneers - Yahoo! News)
Mike Alstott retires, but Warrick Dunn comes back. Sometimes, things in football just make sense. I hope Dunn has a knock-out year.
8 months ago
And yet I was there in another way, listening to and even interacting with some of my friends in the audience, picking up on the vibe in the room and even tuning in later as Sarah Lacy loudly defended herself. I was there because I was plugged into Twitter, the instant messaging service that lets users send short text messages to anyone who cares to tune in, online or on their mobile phone. (via BBC NEWS | Technology | How Twitter makes it real)
8 months ago
Using her unique, friendly style of interviewing — closer to two friends chatting than a straight question-and-answer session — Lacy tried to get the notoriously tight-lipped Zuckerberg to open up. But the discussion rarely strayed beyond the usual business fare and eventually descended into a string of awkward moments punctuated by the audience’s heckling. “Talk about something interesting,” one attendee yelled about halfway through the keynote. The remark was met with waves of cheering and applause. (via SXSW: Zuckerberg Keynote Descends Into Chaos as Audience Takes Over | The Underwire from Wired.com)
Okay, Lacy messed up. But why isn’t Zuckerberg getting heat for not giving the audience what it clearly wanted? Because Lacy’s a woman.
8 months ago
“ seriously screw all you guys. I did my best to ask a range of things.
I won’t apologize for SXSW organizers, who pack the show with Internet microcelebs instead of the most elucidating presenters. No excuses at all for Mark Zuckerberg, a man with no onstage talent who covered it by tossing his interviewer to the wolves. But if you really hated yesterday’s big event, Austin attendees, blame yourselves. SXSW only gave you exactly what you wanted: A chance to relive Spring Break and the senior prom, but with you and your self-styled “geek” friends as the popular kids. Let’s have Sarah interview Mark! Lesson learned: The prom sucks for the king and queen, too. (via sarah lacy - Valleywag)
8 months ago
March 6, 2008
The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks: “no sex policy”
Click the link to see the OTHER side of this punctuational nightmare of a van! Hall of Fame for sure.
9 months ago
February 29, 2008
“ To resist the custom is to be radically antisocial, like “Mr. Pink,” the crook played by Steve Buscemi in “Reservoir Dogs.” He doesn’t tip “because society says I gotta tip.” When a fellow hoodlum avers that waitresses are underpaid, Mr. Pink answers: “She don’t make enough money, she can quit.” Generous? No. But economically sound. It’s not that we tip waiters because they are paid so little; they are paid so little because they can expect to make up the difference in tips. Starbucks is known for paying relatively well and providing respectable benefits. Yet, without the tip-jar take, the company would have to raise its wages commensurately to maintain the same caliber of employees. Perhaps prices would rise too, but I suspect many would be happy to have the full, unambiguous cost of the transaction up on the board. As things stand, the tip jar subsidizes the company’s payroll costs.