|
October 25, 2003 - Saturday
| This is for the folks back home in Ireland. Well, Ms. Mari's home, that is. Mari is Ms. Maili's person, and she'ls off visiting her family in Ireland and wanted a photo. Luckily, Maile got a special morning walk yesterday with Axel, and they agreed to briefly pose for this great shot. |
 |
UH's Paul Costello is doing a very good job with his new local interview show, "One on One with Paul Costello" which is broadcast Thursday evenings on PBS Hawaii. His interview this week with Denby Fawcett about her experiences as a young reporter in Vietnam was excellent. He's proving to be a very thoughtful interviewer who is well prepared. If this isn't on your weekly schedule yet, give it a try. If anyone knows if the program is rebroadcast, please let me know.
And for the "nice place for living" file, this note arrived yesterday:
I just visited your 'ancient' galleries on the net. Very nice photos, especially those from dawn and the sea. Hawaii must be a nice place for living...
Greetings
Dan Pfenning(Switzerland)
October 24, 2003 - Friday
I probably won't even open today's local newspapers, which appear to have been Bushwacked by yesterday's presidential stopover.
Coverage of opposition to the president appears, on first glance, to be pretty dismal. An Advertiser story on protesters who gathered slipped in this unnecessary and biased comment: "The sight of police officers everywhere ensured that the demonstrations remained peaceful." As if those federal union leaders and planned parenthood supporters had showed lots of unpeaceful tendencies.
Back in Washington, the boys in the Senate have finally noticed what has been obvious since Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's first televised press conference--he doesn't give a rip about any other opinions except his own. The New York Times reports today on growing dismay about Rumsfeld's perceived disrespect for others, including Republican leaders. A good read.
| Sometimes we even have sunsets in Kaaawa. Sunset--as in the end of the day. The opposite end of the usual morning view presented here.
This past Sunday was one of those Sunset days, so I'm just tossing it out here as a change of pace.
|
Sunday Sunset |
October 23, 2003 - Thursday
The Advertiser may have a bigger budget and larger staff, but they Star-Bulletin still manages to get many stories first. When we read about the Big Island shooting earlier this week, the Advertiser reported that the suspect's was believed to have known the victims, but no other information was reported. The Star-Bulletin's Rod Thompson, in the same Tuesday morning edition, reported that the suspect had shot the grandparents of his 3-year old daughter and that the girl had been at the house when the shooting occurred.
Kahoolawe is scheduled to be formally turned over the state control in a couple of weeks, more than 27 years after the first protest landing began the movement to end military use of the island. Don't forget that some of my photos of that first protest are available here.
Here's an interesting take on the recent poll of Iraqis that has been cited by Bush administration officials in recent days. Once again, the devil is in the details.
Ms. Annie is happily hunting a roach around the room, thankfully not right under my chair. She's getting pretty good at this, and is probably ready to move on to more complex prey.
October 22, 2003 - Wednesday
Advertiser writer Tanya Bricking's Tuesday story "Where singles mingle" provided the best typo of the day:
Ricci, a part-time nightclub musician, has witnessed the bar scene and seen the horrors it can reek on relationships.
Of course, it was caught and corrected before too long, but still gave me a chuckle over my morning coffee.
| I spent yesterday at home coughing and wheezing, somewhere just this side of brain dead. But I did work through a bit more history--this time Sonny Kaniho's attempt to occupy a pasture in Waimea on the Big Island as a protest against policies of the Dept. of Hawaiian Home Lands. |
Hawaiian Homes protest, 1974
|
I managed to scan some of the old documents found in my files, including the original criminal complaint for trespassing signed by then-police officer Leningrad Elarionoff, now a member of the Big Island County Council.
By the end of the week, I'll manage to finish up the collection of photographs and get those online. Stay tuned.
October 21, 2003 - Tuesday
A friend forwarded this description of today's "magical morning" with two bright planets, the crescent moon and meteors from Halley's comet. Luckily, it repeats tomorrow, so it might be a day to get up early and check it out.
I enjoyed Jim Dooley's story in yesterday's Advertiser which reported on an investigation putting $77 million of federal contracts on hold. Later in the day I noticed the news food chain at work. Pacific Business News had a detailed story on the case nearly three weeks ago. Sources told PBN the investigation was triggered by the pattern of bids which suggested the winning bidder might have had inside information on competitors' bids.
I sent a brief email to the young Brazilian blogger, Letcia Ikegami, who used one of my photos, and have gotten a couple of notes in reply:
well, i found that image on "google.com"...!
i like so much gray clouds..
then.. i´m sorry, but i don´t speak english very well, and i dont know if u´r understanding me...!
congratulations about your photo!!! it´s so pretty!!!
when u put my link in your site i stayed surprised! because i received people from USA to my blog... thank u!
It's a small world.
Well, I'm heading outside to see whether the magical morning is going to be visible in Kaaawa.
October 20, 2003 - Monday
You've got to wonder what's happening up at UH with the long delay in announcing a selection in the search for the vice chancellor for academic affairs. In situations like this, time counts. Even highly interested candidates can't wait forever and are likely to begin dropping out in order to accept other offers. Stalling offers interesting opportunities to manipulate the outcome or could just indicate administrative disarray. In any case, the continuing silence is ominous.
The Advertiser scored points by recognizing the news value of the emerging opposition to construction of a West Oahu campus by members of the UH Board of Regents. The 'Tiser ran that story on the front page, and followed with one on the change in policy to allow open criticism of the president by members of the board. The Star-Bulletin didn't get to the West Oahu story until the following day.
More signs of the change of seasons. It's been cool the past few nights in Kaaawa, dipping down close to 70. Chilly, but not cold enough to draw multiple cats in to the bed in search of warmth. Those days, though, are coming.
| I didn't walk Saturday morning and missed quite a sunrise, but Sunday turned out to be beautiful as well. Here's a sample. Just click on the photo for a larger version. |
 |
October 19, 2003 - Sunday
Here's a heck of a read from the Seattle Times, a tale of politics and money in Spokane that's got everything: power, class conflict, public funds, and a family newspaper dynasty.
Another reader sent this description of her experience of being "spoofed" :
My email addressed has been spoofed and I now have the pleasure of touting “The World’s Most Amazing Vibrator – Astounding Multiple Organisms…”
I checked out the Website and it’s for something called the Jackrabbit Vibrator. So more than a thousand rejection notices have come back to me. I don’t Get a prototype, I don’t get a percentage of sales, I just have my email address as the source of this piece of crap. It’s a bit of a violation. I wrote an email for assistance, and to assure RoadRunner that I am not responsible, but they never responded. Don’t exactly feel as though they are being very supportive. Of course, I wrote to the sellers, too, and probably am getting more mail as a result.
Fortunately, a friend on one of my lists showed me how to create my own rules using Microsoft Outlook’s Tools option. Now most of the offensive mail goes straight to delete and I don’t have to deal with it. But still! I have a vague idea of what to do with one but I wouldn’t exactly launch a sales career over it.
Love the recent cat picks. Anna is coming along nicely. Interesting how your cats adjust and accommodate for kits. Especially the “old ladies.” I call them good sports.
So far I've escaped this fate, although my "junk" mailbox overflows daily with other fine offers. I'm using the latest version of Eudora, which does a pretty good job of handling this and other kinds of spam.
| Mr. Duke loves to sleep! And such poses. Here he's stretched out in front of the door heading out to the front deck, just to be in the way, I suppose. |
Mr. Duke
|
Previous week • Other
Search this site,
courtesy of the folks at
|
 Online Store
More choices
|
