When I’m short of cat photos for Feline Friday, I take a camera with me out into the yard in the mid-to-late afternoon. The cats follow. I feel liked the Pied Piper, with the camera as my magic instrument. The cats seem to know that they’re going to be on camera, and they enjoy it. [...]
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We received word yesterday that Professor George Ball, simply “Dr. Ball” to generations of Whitman College students over five decades, died on New Year’s Day at age 96. He was a quiet man, a fixture on the small campus in Walla Walla, Washington, who left an indelible impression on many over the years. The Seattle [...]
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I dug out a few more photos from the archives. The first was taken 40 years ago tonight. Meda and I were living in a small, two bedroom apartment in what was then known as the Circle Jade, the unusual round apartment building on 9th Avenue in Kaimuki. It’s now a condominium. In those days [...]
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This notice was sent out today, announcing elevator repairs that will leave only one of the three elevators functioning in one of UH Manoa’s major classroom buildings. The elevator outage is expected to last for two days. Perhaps they didn’t notice that this will be the first week of classes at UH Manoa, always a [...]
Another wet December morning in Kaaawa. And almost the end of another year. Notice the negative spin there? Why didn’t I say, “almost the beginning of another new year”? The latter is really the way we view the world in practice. The former is what my keyboard just produced. “Just lay down on the couch, [...]
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Merry Christmas, folks! The cats are enjoying their holiday catnip, along with an extra taste of canned food, always a treat. And here are a few things from the ghost of Christmas past that you may enjoy. First, enjoy a quick listen to my Kaaawa Christmas poem, written in 2002 and last revised when Leo [...]
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Remember that photo of women at Pearl Harbor apparently fighting a fire that MSNBC was trying to find out about? I mentioned it here back on December 9. Well, it didn’t take long for investigative reporter Bill Dedman to ferret out the real story by tracking down one of the women. So the bottom line: [...]
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I highly recommend Larry Geller’s long and detailed analysis of failed or simply missing efforts to improve pedestrian safety in Hawaii, posted yesterday at his DisappearedNews.com. Larry picks apart, in excruciating detail, the various excuses given for bureaucratic inaction in the face of pedestrian fatalities, and adds photos to illustrate particular problems. One issue Larry [...]
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