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It’s Gotta Be the Shoes!

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Mars Blackmon, paging Mars Blackmon. One Eldrick Woods needs to hear your famous words, “It’s gotta be the shoes!”

It worked for His Airness, Michael Jordan, and will it work again for Tiger Woods? We’re talking kicks, specifically Nike’s new shoes made for Tiger himself. These new golf kicks haven’t yet been named, but Tiger has been a part of its design process. Nike FREE is there, so is Hyperfuse, recycled Air Max, and even Flywire in the lace loops.

If Tiger mounts a successful golf comeback, it’s gotta be the shoes!

Cloudy Kicks

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It was a matter of time, and I would have guessed Nike would have adopted the thematic moniker first. The “cloud” is becoming more and more ubiquitous thanks to the likes of Google, Amazon, and Apple, allowing users to store content in the cloud. This latest cloud trend hasn’t been lost on the sneakers scene with upstart, On Running, introducing the On CloudSurfer featuring CloudTec.

With CloudTec:

as the foot hits the ground with forward momentum, the CloudTecâ„¢ element folds back, allowing the foot to glide to a softer halt. After the element is compressed by the weight of the runner, it locks together and becomes firm and ready for the push-off.

Is CloudTec technically sound or just playing to the cloud frenzy? For $150, you can find out.

Camping at the Club

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File this under “Not Quite Roughing It” as we went camping at the Pacific Club. Thanks to Wokintime’s family, we were invited to stay overnight and camp at the Club. Yes, there was running water, full amenities of the club, and all kinds of goodies for the camping families. We enjoyed hours of swimming, playing Uno, grilled burgers and hot dogs, late night S’mores, watching Tangled, and great weather. What we didn’t like were the adults who stayed up until 2am, talking in the middle of the camp area while the kids were sleeping. Still though, a fun change up for the weekend.

Young Artists Summer 2011 Show

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For the next two weeks, if you stop by the Academy Art Center at Linekona, you can see the Young Artists Summer 2011 collection. You’ll walk through the creativity of young minds and their artistic view of the world (which apparently includes Angry Birds). Anyways, a fun display if you can catch it.

A preview of the Young Artists Summer 2011.

Lion Keeps My Mess

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Boo, now I have to start tidying up my Mac whenever I shut down for the day. Taking a cue from the iPhone and iPad iOS, Lion now features Resume. Whenever you fire up an app, it will return to its last state with files open, windows placed, etc. When I power on my Mac, it’ll resume from the previous shutdown condition, starting up apps that were running, opening files, and moving windows around. So if I had a mess of stuff while shutting down, that mess persists after a restart.

I don’t know if I like this or not. At the end of the day, I’ve had enough. I want to shutdown and have all my apps quit automatically then start the next day with a clean desktop. With Lion’s Resume, my new day already feels like the burden of yesterday. There is that shutdown option to reopen windows when logging back in. I think I’ll uncheck that box to help clean up my mess.

Recovery Steps for Mac OS X Lion

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Mac OS X 10.7 aka Lion has introduced a few new ways to recover from a troubled computer. You can boot your computer and hold down the Command-R keys to perform recovery and maintenance options like running Disk Utility or restoring from Time Machine.

For newer Mac hardware like the Mini and Air, there’s a built-in Internet Recovery for serious problems. If your drive crashes, Internet Recovery kicks in and over a broadband connection will download a minimal but running version of Lion. From here, you can perform recovery and maintenance options.

If you’re more comfortable with the OS on removable media, here’s an article about creating a bootable flash or external drive and creating a Lion install disk.

A Surefire Way of Catching Centipedes

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A wise man once told me an ancient secret that guaranteed catching of a centipede within your home. It goes something like this…

If you see a centipede in your home and fail to catch it, this is what you need to do. Get a piece of raw chicken. Then inject poison to pollute this poultry. Next place that poisonous chicken near the last sighting of the centipede. Now leave and wait…

You see, in ancient folklore, the centipede and chicken are symbolically linked like the yin and the yang. Both creatures are simultaneously attracted and repelled by one another and cannot exist separated. There is no East without the West, no North without the South, no centipede without the chicken.

So back to the story… Upon return, you will find the chicken and its soulmate, the centipede, together again but this time linked by death. I was so amazed by this tale and its venerable wisdom that I forgot to ask an important question – what kind of poison do I use?

The Green Sandy Beaches of Hawaii

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Picture by Mark Quezada

Israel Kamakawiwo’ole sang about the white beaches of Hawaii, but did you ever hear of the green beach of Hawaii? Yes, green. This natural rarity can be seen on the Big Island at Papakolea where Olivine semi-precious stones have been eroded by the ocean making green sand.

Fortunately (or unfortunately), this phenomenon is shielded by a long and moderately difficult hike, limiting its access.

Check out pictures of the Papakolea Green Beach from To-Hawaii.com.

Thanks to @mirthlab for the information and picture.

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