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Doreen Fang, the Next Star in the Foodie World!

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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

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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

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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…less than a minute ago via webBrook Mahealani Lee
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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

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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

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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?

Introducing AmazonWireless

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Want a hassle-free way of shopping for mobile phones and service plans? Amazon just launched its AmazonWireless site where you can shop for phones from AT&T, T Mobile, and Verizon. All phone orders comes with free two day shipping. You can also upgrade your existing cell phone or start a new service contract.

So if you’re in the market for a new phone, check out AmazonWireless.

illy issimo Cappuccino Tastes Like…

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… the now-defunct line of Starbucks canned iced coffee.  Available at your favorite Costco is illy issimo Cappuccino, but of course, being Costco, the canned coffee drink only comes in a 12-pack.

The drink isn’t bad, but it’s not very distinguishable. A 8.45-oz can contains 100 calories and 64 mg of caffeine and a mean coffee aftertaste.

I’d rather try illy’s Latte Macchiato and its “smooth and silky swirl of fresh espresso taste perfectly blended with a hint of velvety milk and sugar.”  But I have a feeling this drink hasn’t hit Hawaii yet.

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