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Starbucks Steel to Starbucks Wood

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So Starbucks’ experience with its recent limited edition steel card may have opened the opportunities for more rarities. The limited availability of this card surely drove a frenzy amongst collectors and Starbucks fans.

Soon enough, we’ll go from cold hard steel to something more warm and organic. Yes, Starbucks is releasing a card made out of wood. It’ll feel like a typical card but its origin is from harvested birch trees. I’m wondering if this card will be lighter that the heavy steel card?

Today, I Caved

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Maybe I’m tired, maybe I’m dispassionate, maybe I’m just run down, but today, I caved. I shoved my entire insulated lunch bag into an already crowded refrigerator at work. No matter that the refrigerator is packed with other insulated lunch bags (a pet peeve of mine), I usually empty out my insulated bag and only store the items needing refrigeration. But not today. Today I’m guilty of the same.

It felt good.

That’d be LeBron Dunking

Despite the grainy video, that is LeBron James throwing down a crazy dunk during warmups. Through the legs pass off the backboard and a monster throw down!

I’ll take the “H” in H-O-R-S-E.

Jennifer Lawrence Is Funny

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I don’t know much about Jennifer Lawrence other than she’s Katniss in the Hunger Games. Never knew she was so funny with a quick, honest wit. Check out her question and answer session during the Oscars. Or maybe it’s that shot of booze she downed before fielding questions.

Cat on a Roof

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I’m not sure how this cat did it, but he managed to get on the roof of this house. You don’t see a cat running around up there every day… or at all.

Cat on a roof
Cat on a roof

Added to Our LEGO Collection

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Valentine’s Day brought along some new additions to our LEGO collection. Here are the instruction booklets.

Added to the LEGO collection
Added to the LEGO collection

I’m very impressed with the Ninjago set. That mecha exoskeleton includes lots of interesting parts for only $10.

A Taste of Robotics at Pearlridge Center

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I’ve never watched a robotics competition for any duration before, but Pearlridge Center gave me the opportunity this past weekend. On Sunday, February 17, 2013, Pearlridge hosted a VEX Robotics Competition as part of Engineers Week in Hawaii.

Middle and elementary schools from around the island showcased their custom designed and built robots in a competition of skills and strategy. The rules of the competition is complex with scoring, high goal scoring, de-scoring, autonomous mode bonus, parking bonus, alliances, and more. Regardless, watching the robots and the kids actively engaged was fun. I gotta say, using robots to block other robots was an exciting twist, and the defensive strategy was very effective, allowing the underdogs to take down higher ranked opponents.

Here’s a small taste of one round of the competition.

And here are a few pictures.

Congratulations to all teams and their schools for a great show!

Migrating from Posterous to WordPress.com

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Since Posterous announced that it will be shutting down on April 30, I followed their steps to backup my existing Posterous content.

For the requested backup to be available took some time and downloading ~140 MB of stuff took some time as well. Using my existing (but unused) pulpconnection.wordpress.com blog, I used the Import tool. I located the XML file in the unzipped download and let the import tool go to work. After another wait, I was notified everything completed successfully.

So at least my 459 Posterous items now live on within WordPress.com. Who knows, I may even configure this extra blog to be Posterous like.

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Posterous content migrated to WordPress.com

Oh and apologies if this massive import blows up your WordPress.com Reader if you follow along. I’m not sure if all these entries are reported as “new” and therefore overwhelm your reader feed.

Ala Moana Last Week

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So this week at Ala Moana Center, there were lion dances and a flash freeze mob, but what about last week? Last week was more mellow although it started on a rare note as I parked next to a Maserati. At Champs Sports, I spied the Nike Air Max 95 EM Honolulu version. But I couldn’t find Center Court. Where’d it go?

Where'd Center Court go?

I did find the future home of the Microsoft Store. It’s next to Bath and Body Works, diagonal from the Apple Store, and faces Fashion Secrets.

Outside the Microsoft store
Outside the Microsoft store

I also found the new and temporary Centertainment stage by Nordstrom’s. It’s small.

Centertainment
Centertainment

Week by week, this mall giant changes ever so much. For a little bit more pictures, check out the gallery below.

Freeze Frame Flash Mob at Ala Moana

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On Saturday, February 16, 2013, Ala Moana Center celebrated Chinese New Year by unleashing dancing lions to traverse the mall. As the many drumbeats of the performances echoed throughout, the once home of Center Court held a silent show. A freeze frame flash mob quietly assembled frozen in poses for a few minutes.

Freeze Frame Flash Mob
Freeze Frame Flash Mob

It took a little while for shoppers to understand this was a show, not just people standing in the way of bustling shoppers. This performance did catch the Ala Moana security guards off guard. Do they remove these silent models? Is this a sanctioned show? I’m guessing this flash mob is this event organized on Facebook.

A few more frozen pics.

I was tempted to tap one of them on the shoulder to ask for directions or something. 😉

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