The Famous Footwear store is now open in the Ward area, taking the spot formerly filled by Nordstrom’s Shoes. Tons of affordable shoes (and slippers) for men, women, and kids. A few pictures…
For the hardcore Twilight saga fans, do you own a pair of Nike’s Air Twilight?
Along with their new car safety kit, check out a few more collectibles from the “new” Farmers Hawaii.
An always needed chip clip and of course, their fun car light keychain.
And this fantabulous pen!
I just got my Canon Rebel T1i DSLR camera and already it’s obsolete with the forthcoming T2i. Amazon is taking preorders for this “sister” camera. Who are we kidding? The T2i will replace the T1i in the Canon DSLR lineup.
Look for car safety kits from Farmers Hawaii. Pack this handy kit in your car and you now have reflective warning signs, a bright reflective vest, a flashlight, and a tire pressure gauge.
Thanks Farmers Hawaii!
What does a Superbowl party look like for non-football fans? It kinda looks like this…
Eat, keep the kids entertained, eat, watch the commercials, eat, talk about Pink’s Grammy performance, cheer on the underdog. Geaux Saints!
That was fast. Ninja Sushi in Kailua closed down on February 1st and already the place has been cleaned out.
And after shopping at Don Quijote, the refrigerators were gone too. Supposedly the owners will reopen Ninja Sushi in the neighboring complex by Safeway since Target is slated to occupy the Don Quijote location.
The other day on a commute home, a little white Mazda Miata went zipping by on the H3. The driver was obviously in a rush, changing lanes to get around slow moving traffic. He was well going over 70 mph since he easily zoomed by me (naturally driving the legal speed limit).
A few minutes later I see this white “sheet” flying in the air. The object tumbled airborne before heading down to the road. It was the hood of the white Miata! Fortunately, it landed in between the two lanes of on-coming traffic. After veering around the hood, I see the Miata pulled to the side of the road, driver with his head in his hands.
But the story doesn’t end there. After getting off the H3, I see this in my side mirror.
Traffic on the H3 headed townbound is at a total standstill. I haven’t moved in about 10 minutes.
Car engine is off and all the cars are just sitting here. Here’s a view I have of a gutter.
So Apple finally unleashed its tablet with the iPad. Despite it’s funky name, the device is very cool and is set to revolutionize this developing mobile space. At an aggressive price point starting at $499, who’s not getting an iPad?
That would be me. Although an Apple fan boy at heart, I’m not totally convinced I need an iPad just yet. Yes, I was slow on the iPhone bandwagon, waiting for the 3G to hit the street before succumbing. And now, I can’t imagine life without my iPhone. Perhaps the iPad will have a similar arc where using it will validate its need.
But I’ll wait. Looking at my wants from a Netbook, the iPad comes very close but misses a key mark in what I’m looking for, and that’s the ability to offload digital pictures. While this might be a small gripe for what the iPad can actually do, it’s something I think is important. Looking at the iPad accessories, there is a Camera Connection Kit which adds a SD memory card reader or USB port to the iPad so you can connect a digital camera to import pictures and videos. But with the low end iPad model with 16 GB of storage, how many times can you offload pictures from your 8-GB SD card? Eight gigs of photos and videos is actually a lot but for an extended vacation trip, it’s a possibility.
Why not just get a larger capacity iPad with 64 GB of storage? And that’s why I’m waiting. You know the cost for capacity will be better in the next version. And maybe the cloud computing power of MobileMe will mature where pictures imported to the iPad are then safely synced in my MobileMe Gallery or iDisk. Or someone will cleverly figure out yet another way of fixing this need.
So I’ll pass on the iPad, for now, anyways.
