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I was in a certain area of town… lets just call it the vicinity a 5 mile range of Bayfront doing my rounds and I came across a house that I thought was vacant from the backside and uninhabited. I came at the house from the side entrance and this is the front entrance so [...]
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It looks like the North Kona – Kau area will be getting a new fire station soon. The Department of Public works recently was approved with conditions the following: Special Permit to allow the establishment of a fire station and related uses on approximately 2.80 acres of land within the State Land Use Agricultural District. [...]
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Here is my guess at what the top 10 websites visited by Hawaii County Employees are: Google.com Yahoo.com Homepage of whatever branch of Government they work for Honoluluadvertiser.com Hawaiitribune-Herald.com Westhawaiitoday.com www.bored.com www.fail.com hunterbishop.com Howtokilltime.com Anyone else want to throw out a guess at what would be a popular website for county workers to visit?
Filed under: Big Island, Blogs, Comedy, County Council, Kenoi, Legal, Rumors, Technology | Tagged: Hawaii County Internet Scandal | 1 Comment »
More than 125 conch shell blowers gathered in Florida Friday, trying to establish a Guinness World Record for the most people to simultaneously tease sounds from the mollusk.
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I came along someone trapping mongoose today… Is two mongoose called Mongeese? I’ve never gotten so close to one in my life. I got about 3 feet from the caged ones… and they started Hissing like a snake! It kind of freaked me out. Did you know that you can eat mongoose? I kid you [...]
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When your tire hits a pothole on County roads and there is damage done, supposedly the County is liable for the damages. I came across some of the most dangerous damn storm drains that I have ever seen. They were designed very poorly and they are just a serious accident waiting to happen. There is [...]
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The other day I posed the question of where you folks might think the picture of my new “Header” was taken. Here is the actual photograph before the image is cropped. The buildings you see in the background are the ones owned by Pahoa Auto Repair next to Woodland Center Market place. The Sign is [...]
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Ok… every once in awhile I have to throw up a video like this. I just stumbled upon it and it seems pretty interesting. I don’t know much about the person that put it together though.
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One of the cool things about this work, is seeing cool houses along the way. I stumbled upon drove by this house which reminded me of a geodesic dome that my uncle used to live in back on Kauai in the Seventies. It’s actually two separate dome houses joined together in the middle. For clarification [...]
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Hoku Award Winning Classical Guitarist Lee Eisenstein performs at the Grand Opening of the Punatic Cyber Cafe, formerly known as the Aloha Outpost in the town of Pahoa on the Big Island of Hawaiii. You can see more videos of Lee as well as other Punatic Cyber Cafe videos at their youtube site here.
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Hawaii Cannabis Ministry founder and director summarizes the new law that went into effect last November. This new law allows private citizens to grow up to 24 plants and to have up to 24 ounces in their possession (at home for private use).
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I blogged about Council Member Yagong looking into the records of county employees a few weeks ago here. The Big Island Chronicle blogged about it on the same day here. I then thought about it and blogged my thoughts about how this was a no-brainer here the next day. Big Island Chronicle followed up with [...]
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The Department of Education, the board overseeing the state’s schools and local police are doing separate investigations into an affray Tuesday at Keaau High School that led to the arrest of six students and one 17-year-old student being subdued with a Taser. So the police tazered a kid at Keaau High School and it seems [...]
Filed under: Community, Education, Kids, Legal, Puna, Security, State Affairs | Tagged: Education, Keaau High School, Tazer Incident | 1 Comment »
Interesting… I guess now you can drop off your car at Big Island Toyota… and be tweeted when it’s ready for pick up. Well I don’t know if they are doing that yet, but they could. I had to chuckle when I saw that Big Island’s Toyota Service has a Twitter site and actually uses [...]
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So I went to feed the dogs for the first time in awhile, and it appears that the pigs have attempted a coup on the place. This first video shows them guarding the coup (audio a must): The second video show’s the “Kid Trap” in action that I blogged about the other day: Before: After:
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I’ve changed my “Header” on my blog to a new image. Anyone want to take a guess at what the pale yellow buildings in the background are?
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Jack in the Box® restaurants is out to prove that bigger isn’t always better and that when it comes to taste and value, its new Mini Sirloin Burgers are the best in all of Hawaii. From Monday, April 20 through Sunday, April 26, all Jack in the Box restaurants in Hawaii, except the Hilo location, [...]
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People have been complaining for a long time about the bus stops all over this island. In the Hawaiian Beaches area, Fred Blas and the Hawaiian Beaches Action Team have built some lovely bus stops w/out the help of the county or state. Now people along Highway 130 are starting to resort to making their [...]
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Big Island on the Cheap is having a contest giving away the following vase made by Michael and Misato Mortara : Don’t Enter THIS CONTEST! And if you do enter and win… you know where to send it for a few bucks!
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