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Burned by Amazon Monthly Music Sales
Each month Amazon’s MP3 Music Store features 100 albums for $5 each. You just don’t know what albums will be on the list. The June list includes some definite winners and if you paid full price for some of these (like me), you just got burned. 😉
The recent B.o.B Presents: The Adventures Of Bobby Ray
From Kikkoman to Sempio to Yamasa
I had thought Korean brand Sempio pulled a coup detat on the soy sauce served at Kozo Sushi. But not so fast. Kozo has re-affiliated itself with the land of the rising sun by going with Yamasa who has a history with shoyu.
So from my collection of soy sauce packets, Kozo went from Kikkoman to Sempio to Yamasa.
Doreen Fang, the Next Star in the Foodie World!
Be sure to catch the upcoming season of The Next Food Network Star featuring fellow UCI Anteater, Doreen Fang. Specializing in California cuisine and former roommate of some Hawaii kids, Doreen’s ready to go against 11 other chefs, and we’ll be rooting for her! Check out Doreen’s audition video.
To add to her coolness, Doreen’s on the Interwebs with a Facebook fan page, a blog, and she tweets.
Season 6 of The Next Food Network Star starts on Sunday, June 6.
A Decade of Christina Aguilera
Essentially Christina Aguilera’s greatest hits. Keeps Gettin’ Better is now on sale for $3.99 and features her classics like Genie in a Bottle, What a Girl Wants, Beautiful, and more. Get this daily special before it’s too late.
Madonna or Lady Gaga: Glee, Round 2b
Let’s continue our Madonna versus Lady Gaga comparison on popular television shows and look at who made a bigger impact on the wonderful world of Glee.
Madonna started it off with an entire episode dedicated to the Power of Madonna. This Glee musical collection tore up the Billboard charts and every performance in the episode was a Madonna hit. And who can forget Sue Sylvester’s rendition of Vogue?
A few episodes later, Lady Gaga’s music and looks were featured on Glee. Unfortunately, this episode lacked the impact and power of Madonna. While the Gaga musical numbers were good, the Glee guys were singing KISS songs.
But let’s get another opinion. When asked, which episode did Miss Universe 1997, Brook Antoinette Mahealani Lee, prefer?
@geewhy glee madonna for sure…
Brook Mahealani Lee
MsUniverse1997
So that settles it. Round 2b goes to the power of Madonna!
Score: Madonna 1, Lady Gaga 2
Madonna or Lady Gaga: American Idol, Round 2a
So which of the music divas is more prevalent on popular television shows? Let’s take a quick look starting with the mega music reality television show known as American Idol.
Back in 2007, Madonna participated in the Idol Gives Back fundraiser but has never been a musical guest or mentor. In this season, Lady Gaga performed on Idol.
Hmmm, I have to give Gaga a slight nod in Round 2a.
Score: Lady Gaga 2, Madonna 0
Don’t Feed the Birds… Or the Homeless
This is a sensitive one dear readers and I’d like your opinion. While at Costco, the epitome of abundance, there was an assumed homeless dude wandering around outside by the food court area. He’s a young guy, not harassing anyone. This little old lady says to him:
“Young man, would you be offended if I offered you this hot dot?”
He willingly accepted the offer, but then employees suggested she not offer food to the guy. The lady complained that she bought the hot dog and can do anything she wants with it.
I know the lady meant well but on the other hand, I can understand the view of the business not wanting to attract the “wrong element” to their location for potential run ins with customers. So what’s the right decision?
My iPhone Data Use
Here’s what my monthly data use on AT&T looks like.
With AT&T’s restructured data plans for iPhones (and other smart phones), I can get away with the $15 DataPlus plan for the most part. What’s with the spike in March? I had a trip to California, OD-ed on Starbucks new Dark Cherry Mocha, attended Unconferenz 2010, had a staycation at the Sheraton Waikiki, visited Cereal Remix, and checked out the Honolulu Festival amongst my usual business. So yeah, March was a busy month.
I could move to the cheaper $15 plan from my grandfathered “unlimited” plan and save some bucks but still no tethering unless I’m willing to upgrade to the $25 DataPro plan and pay the additional $20 tethering fee. 🙁
Thanks to this post on generating the AT&T data usage chart.
McDonalds Double Wide in Kaneohe
Oh 96744, I don’t know if this says anything or not, but your renovated McDonalds features a double wide drive thru. I’ve never seen a McD with dual lanes in Hawaii. But I guess you can get your yummy fries at twice the speed?
Or is it just so that the line of cars no longer blocks the shopping mall’s entry way?
Eschew Efficacious
Learned a new word today, efficacious. Essentially, it’s a fancy way of saying effective.
I will eschew efficacious since it seems ineffective, or is that inefficacious?
Steve Job Defines the Challenges for the AppleTV
At the D8 conference, Steve Jobs talked many things including the challenges for the AppleTV (and any other set top box). Sounds so straightforward, and I’m hoping Apple has a solution.
And add to your vocabulary the word “Balkanize:”
to break up (as a region or group) into smaller and often hostile units