Petco Pearl City Now Open
The new Petco location in Pearl City is now open for business according to this sign.
Your Social Network and You
What does your favorite social network say about you? There’s a study being published that makes correlations like LinkedIn users gravitate to soap operas and MySpacers tend not to exercise. If you use Twitter then the study indicates you’re more interested in the hunka chunka than users of other social networks.
Other Twitterer behaviors?
They also especially like pop culture, with music, movies, TV and reading, ranking higher than average. And their buying habits mirror that. They’re more likely to buy books, movies, shoes and cosmetics online than the other groups.
How do they keep going? Coffee, apparently. Some 31% buy coffee online, far above the average 21% of other social networkers.
How accurate do you think this study is? Go read more.
Disney’s BFF Extended Edition Marketing Genius
What genius Disney has using new school lingo like BFF in their latest DVD release, Princess Protection Program: Royal B.F.F Extended Edition. What other marketing terms could there be?
How about the LOL version? Or the even better, ROFLMAO rendition. I’d be sure to get products tagged as ZOMG, and the NSFW edition is sure to draw some attention. Too tempting would be the WTF! edit.
What a goldmine Disney’s tapped!
The Alien Ninja Still Lives
Here I had given up on the Alien Ninja, not seeing any significant progress on this project for some time. But who am I to understand the ways of a ninja, especially an alien one!
Yes, the Alien Ninja series is still alive according to this interview with movie producer Sheri Bryant.
In the meantime, I’m in post on our first web series called “Alien Ninja”. I wanted to get into the new media space and thought that a sci-fi comedy would be the best way to go. So we shot for a week in Hawaii and ended up with something very funny! Who can resist an Alien who happens to also be a Ninja crash landed on Oahu?
So despite the non-existent domains at alienninja.tv and alienninja.net (these both now default to GoDaddy.com ads), the Alien Ninja could still be making an online appearance in the foreseeable future. Then you could see some mad acting skills! 😉
Extras for Alien Ninja from Gee Why on Vimeo.
Starbucks Giving Away Free Ice Cream to Facebookers
If you’re lucky, you might be able to get free Starbucks ice cream as a Facebook fan of the green mermaid logo.
As part of National Ice Cream month, Facebook users can install the Starbucks Share application and see if you can get one of the highly sought 20,000 free pints of ice cream. Supposedly 800 coupons are given out each hour (don’t try now since this hour’s 800 is already gone). From the wording of the promotion, it sounds like you pick a friend to gift the free ice cream to?? Promotion ends July 19. Good luck!
At worst, you can still get a $1 off coupon for Starbucks ice cream.
The Dance DJ Trifecta
First, there was Paul van Dyk’s Best of
on sale at Amazon. iTunes followed with Jason Nevins presenting Ultra Weekend 5. Now the mainstream dance and trance DJ trifecta is complete with Amazon’s pre-release of Paul Oakenfold’s Perfecto Vegas. 2 CDs worth of tunes for $4!
Awww man, my Amazon affiliate account is still shut down. 🙁 Now that Governor Linda Lingle has vetoed bill HB1405, I hope Amazon reactivates its affiliate program for Hawaii soon.
About the Amazon Kindle and the Scare of iPods
I don’t have an Amazon Kindle but have heard good things about it. I’m old school with books and would rather have printed material for the most part. This Fast Company article about the Kindle is pretty interesting and worth a read.
The potential showdown with Apple’s iPod line is provoking and as a non-publisher, reading how traditional publishing works and how Amazon is changing the game is fascinating. Overall, a very well written article!
Kanye West’s 7 Ways to Be a Success
Watch 16 slides of 7 ways to be a success by Kanye West.
Is that all it takes? 😉
The Wienermobile in Kailua
What would the Fourth of July holiday be without some wieners? Or how about one gigantic wiener? As in the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile that’s touring Hawaii for the next week.
Here are a few shots of the Wienermobile in Kailua.
The interior upholstery is yellow and red though not as shocking and irritating as the Windows hot dog stand theme. The interior roof is blue skies, but you can’t really stand up inside the Wienermobile. You gotta hunch over to get to the driver’s seat.
There was a small crowd visiting and everyone got a free Wiener Whistle. But sorry, no free wieners. You had to buy the hot dogs from an adjacent tent.
If you want to check out the Wienermobile for yourself, here’s their schedule. And you can get more wiener-licious news from the Hotdogger blog and their Twitter feed.
Kailua Fourth of July Parade
This is the first year we went to the Fourth of July Parade in Kailua. I didn’t know this event was a politically rally. The Governor and Lieutenant Govenor, Linda Lingle and Duke Aiona, were there along with many more politicians. Grand Marshal Wally “Famous” Amos had his leg in a cast.
Pictures from the scorching hot parade.
Remembering Old No Ka Oi Times
Remembering old times while looking through At Thy Call We Gather.
The cover of the school bulletin 20 years ago(!)…
Sexually Implicit Instructions
Just what is being described in these instructions?
To ensure long lasting fun and to maximize the enjoyment… This will get (you) warmed up. Continue your… fun… which will have (you) begging for more. More noise, more excitement, and plenty of oohs and aahs! A great finale!
Would you guess these are for fireworks?
These sexually implicit instructions are from the TNT Big Thunder fireworks pack sold at Costco.
Are you ready for the Rain Dance and Golden Shower?