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Who Sucked Less on Top Chef?

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Now that the eye candy is being eliminated from Top Chef, it’s coming down to the real skills of the competition. But, in Episode 8: Restaurant Wars, all the chefs ran into problems opening up their teams’ restaurants. For the judges’ decision, it was a simple matter of who sucked less. In the end, both teams sucked equally so in an undramatic move, the judges ordered a do-over of the Restaurant Wars challenge.

Both teams of Restaurant April and The Garage will be back next week to improve their sorry performances of making inedible food, forgetting silverware, and having flustered and sweaty service. Let’s see who can make the most improvements!

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Apple Appeals to the Young

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If you ever stepped into an Apple Store, then it’s no surprise that Apple appeals to the young. The store is filled with teenie boppers using the demo iPods, Macs, and now iPhones. In fact, if you want to try out a Mac on display, you’d probably have to kick some kids off who are updating their web site or playing games.

One funny note, while walking outside the Ala Moana Apple Store, I heard teens say that’s the “iPod” store.

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The Art Of The Perfect Cup

That’s the motto for Tassimo.

TASSIMO is not just another coffee maker. It’s a whole new way to prepare a variety of delicious hot drinks perfectly, in the comfort of your own home. And it’s so simple.

With the TASSIMO machine and the TASSIMO Discs (T DISCs) you can make the hot drink you want, when you want it. No fuss. No bother.

It’s truly amazing. The same machine that makes a real espresso and freshly brewed filter coffee from some of your favorite U.S. and European brands, also makes real milk-based latte & cappuccino, cafe crema, tea, hot chocolate – something for everyone. Each cup is freshly brewed to celebrate its true character and gives you the taste you love, every time.


There’s a video on this page that shows how a perfect cup is made by the Tassimo.

It makes so-called perfect cups with their “ingenious” discs, which contain “a precisely measured amount of coffee, tea, chocolate or concentrated milk, and is sealed to protect the precious flavors inside”. See their beverages here.

Interesting concept but it could get expensive for all you damn addicts considering one disc makes one cup. So visit select Best Buy or Macy’s stores to pick up your discs if you got the shakes. Yes, Best Buy sells them (but not all beverages).

Or if you want 5 cups at one time to satiate those cravings, just get the Zutto.

iMovie Is Not iMovie

While I haven’t yet gotten my hands on iLife ’08, there are a lot of reviews coming out. While I initially liked the feature description of iMovie ’08, namely the management of movie assets, David Pogue has a horror story of what ISN’T in iMovie ’08.

Looks like all the features I use to spiffy up videos are no longer available. No timeline?? Reduced audio editing?? Gadzooks!

Apple should just spin off iMovie ’08 into another application specific for movie asset management or better yet fold together the new iMovie and the old iMovie.

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Hawaii Beauty Pageant Winners in the News

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Little did I know that Olena Rubin’s hiring at KHON would bring to light some interesting discussion about the local business success of beauty pageant winners. We’re talking winners of the Miss Hawaii and Miss Hawaii USA pageants. Here is a list of winners going back to 1993 as provided by Wikipedia. Recognize any names?

I highlighted the winners that have had time on local broadcast television news.

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Small Update on Recent Posts

Just some updates on recent posts on Pulpconnection.

Club 939’s 2nd anniversary of bringing the heat to Hawaii starts on Friday, and you can be my guest! The local management of 939 has made a VIP list for the loyal readers of Pulpconnection that gets you free admission to the frivolity. Just say you’re on Gee Why’s guest list. Or, is this really a ploy to meet the Angry Asian Girl?

And speaking of the Angry Asian Girl, she unknowingly started an interesting discussion about former beauty queen winners finding local success in other ventures. Case in point, Olena Rubin as a news reporter for KHON. Then there’s Malika Dudley on KGMB and Erika Kauffman who’s doing public relations work.


Can anyone explain the hiring of Justin Cruz to do the weather?

You Know Flossie Is Done When…

you drive to work and instead of hearing continual updates about the hurricane, the Wake-Up Crew on 93.9 is doing their usual Wild Wahine Wednesday. This morning’s episode featured Noli, Brandon, and Craig who supposedly earns $7000 a day! He didn’t say what line of business he was in though. Hmmmm…

Forgot the Wild Wahine’s name, but she kept talking about the size of her boobs.

And, oh yeah, Krey-Z Oshiro now owns Kelsey’s Baby Specialties. He said they lowered prices throughout the store, and they needed to cuz their stuff was expensive compared to USA Baby and Baby Emporium. Now if they can only remodel and give the store a facelift.

Hey, I Resemble That Remark!

The Angry Asian Girl pointed me to this blog post about 6 annoying fetishes I talk to much about, and hey, I resemble that remark!

  1. Coffee. Yup, I’m there. Did you see my Zutto?
  2. Macs. Need you ask? I haven’t done a recent look at how many converts I now know but some converts surprise me. A new iMac? Yummmm…
  3. Gmail. While I don’t necessarily use Gmail and its interface, I do route other email accounts to Gmail for some awesome spam filtering.
  4. Firefox. Since Macs don’t have IE anymore, Safari and Firefox are my browsers for productivity. I use Firefox since Google’s products seem to work better with Firefox.
  5. Veganism. Well, no, that ain’t me. I do like food, but I would replace this one with kicks. I love me kicks!
  6. Simplicity. I think this is inherent in at-heart Mac users, not necessarily iPod/iPhone converts. Simplicity to do the complex is what allured me to the Mac years ago. It’s Steve Job’s simplicity in design and operation that made Apple (and Macs) prosper.

Funny! I gotta keep track of Zen Habits to see what other common interests we share.

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