This vintage sign can be found on the Kaaawa end of Kahana Bay. It announces “road work” scheduled to begin January 6, 2003. The work was finished years ago, but the sign lives on. I wonder what the Department of Transportation policy is regarding the removal of these things. I’m guessing the contractor was supposed to take it down and never got around to it, so perhaps it will just stay there until it rusts away.
Ka Leo, the UH Manoa campus newspaper, had a good story this week describing a man who was paid by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to shadow Congressman Charles Djou during the recent campaign, taking video, making audio recordings, and hoping to document the candidate’s slip-ups.
Did you catch this Washington Post story on how cats drink?
While a dog curls its tongue like a ladle to collect the water and then pull up what it can, a cat curves its tongue under and slightly back, leaving the top surface of the tip of the tongue to lightly touch the liquid. The cat then raises its tongue rapidly, creating an upward mini-stream of water. The cat snaps its mouth shut and the water is captured before the countervailing force of gravity pulls it down.
An average house cat, the team found, can make four of these mini-streams per second.
“What we found is that the cat uses fluid dynamics and physics in a way to absolutely optimize tongue lapping and water collection,” said Jeffrey Aristoff, now at Princeton University but who was one of the four researchers who began the study out of curiosity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
I knew it! When I think they’re napping, those cats are really concentrating on optimizing the fluid dynamics of the next drink. I should have known!
Hmmmm. I noticed this little story about a robot with ethics. When it finally goes commercial, perhaps we can assign robot advisers to elected officials.
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Thanks for the link to the story on the private investigator following Djou. Confirms my belief that most people should not become active in politics.
It is far better to stick a regular career with the goals of making money, protecting your assets, and protecting your family.
Participation in elective politics can left to the dogs.
I kinda like the roadwork sign, like Rap Reiplinger would say… it gets the “Tourists” to slow down and drive with caution. Aloha.
Uh, how about a story about the “tracker(s) Abercrombie had following Mufi.
The House Minority staffers have been tracking the Democrats for years.
I read the Ka Leo story with interest. I saw nothing distasteful about what Chang did. He was upfront with Djou’s campaign about who he was and what he was doing.
Nor did I see that his research resulted in any “dirty tricks.” BUt maybe that is because Chang didn’t think to use PhotoShop to doctor the pictures and make Djou look more sinister, the way Djou’s GOP supporters did to Hanabusa.
And it says something about Chang’s maturity that he was able to say complimentary things about Djou rather than demonize “the enemy” as too many folks in politics tend to do.
maybe it is pet peeve of mine … but I am always troubled by the intellectual dysfunction that occurs when people find so much attachment to politicians and political parties
with so much freedom that come from being independent … why is there such a need for people to cling on “their” guy or “their” team to the detriment of clear thinking?
and why do we always have to hear that the other side does it too … or they are worse?