Andy Parx on Tribune Herald Article on DPW Blackballing Bloggers: “…Crummy Shoddy and Lazy Journalism at Best or More Likely Some Sort of Corrupt Complicity…”

Andy Parx made the following comment that I’m going to give a bit more attention to on my blog. While I don’t necessarily agree with everything that is said and I appreciate Mr. Armstrongs effort to get what knowledge he may or may not have been able to publish… I am still very perplexed as [...]

Play By Play of Tonights Pahoa Victory

Play by play from Sportshigh.com 08:00 PAHOA MISSED JUMPER by Viernes, Jonathan REBOUND (OFF) by Byrd, John 07:43 PAHOA MISSED 3 PTR by Viernes, Jonathan REBOUND (OFF) by Sakoda, Dustin 07:25 PAHOA TURNOVR by Byrd, John 07:24 UH STEAL by Gomez, Dylan 07:16 UH GOOD! JUMPER by Gomez, Dylan UH 2 – PAHOA 0 (UH [...]

1 in 32 Hawaii Residents in Jail and Racial Disparity in Hawaii’s Prisons

One in 32 Hawaii adults are either behind bars, on probation or parole, according to a new study released Monday by the Pew Center on the States. 1 in 32 adults is under correctional control Growth over time: in 1982, the figure was 1 in 90 adults Percent behind bars: at year end 2007, 29 [...]

BJ Penn to Appear at 1st Annual Spring Break Pa’ina

Are You Lurking?

Hat tip to Andrew Cooper Comic by xkcd licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License

Hilo Living… The Blog

I’m adding a new blog to my ‘Roll… “Hilo Living“ We moved to Hilo, Hawaii from Silicon Valley to increase the quality of our life while downsizing our lifestyle. So check out Hilo Living for another great blog on the Big Island.

My 4-Year Old Playing the ‘Ohe Hano Ihu: The Hawaiian Nose Flute

Here is a short clip of my son showing how to play the “Nose Flute” otherwise known as the ‘Ohe hano ihu that him and his mother made this weekend. (Volume a must) ‘Ohe hano ihu in Hawaiian means “bamboo, breath, nose.” It is made from a single bamboo node with a hole at the [...]

Mahalo to Pacific Locksmith

I’d just like to say Mahalo to Pacific Locksmith out of the Kona side of the Big Island for assisting my wife when she was in need with her Ford Focus Ignition and stuck on that side of the Island. It’s also interesting that you folks mentioned that this is a very common problem with [...]

To the Assholes at the Ford Dealership on the Other Side

Thanks for being very rude to my wife when she was in a time of need talking to whomever she spoke with on the phone. You knew exactly what she was talking about as this is a very common problem.  When I get time… I’m designing a special smuck award for you. We ended up [...]

Aaron Stene’s Letter to the Hawaii Tribune Regarding Bloggers Being Blackballed by DPW

Aaron Stene has submitted the following letter to the Hawaii Tribune regarding the recent Department of Public Work directive blackballing Aaron, Dave and myself. “I was thoroughly disgusted to find out that the Hawaii County Department of Public Works had implemented a directive barring any DPW employees from talking to me, Damon Tucker, or David [...]

Follow the Hokulea Live on Twitter

Twitter is great! The crew of the Hokulea is using it to communicate with people throughout the world on their latest voyage.  You can view their Twitter page here. You can also track the voyaging vessel. Here is just a sampling of todays Tweets: Some asking why we couldn’t launch in the winds. We could, [...]

My Wife is On the Road! I Need to File a Claim

My wife is on the road coming home! If you haven’t heard about my recent saga, my wife and her family went to Kona since Thursday leaving me behind to feed the dogs and keep the house in check, besides the fact that I didn’t want to go to Kona for four days. As my [...]

Waena Farming by Mr. Fitzgerald

I’m glad to see that Big Island resident Jay Fitzgerald has gotten his computer fixed and is connected to the real world again. Jay writes today in his blog Sensible Simplicity about Waena Farming. If your not familiar with the term, I suggest you read Mr. Fitzgeralds blog today on the subject as we could [...]

“Operation Yellowjacket” Hits Hawaii… It’s Bogus Folks

The Michigan State Police (MSP) wants citizens to know that a widely distributed e-mail message about a “31-day speeding ticket frenzy” in Michigan titled “Operation Yellow Jacket” is completely false. There is no such effort underway at this time, or any time in the future, to generate revenue through the issuance of traffic citations. Citizens [...]

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