After a few days learning about the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I’m ready to go Quadrant 4 for awhile. You know the place where not important and not urgent stuff resides, like watching television and goofing around the Internet. 😉
Trying out the new Thesis version 1.5 theme for WordPress. Easy upgrade path but looks like some things broke. My customized navigation bar up to no longer shows all my pages and RSS Subscribe, Email, and Twitter links.
The “teaser” function seems pretty cool to changeup the number of full posts and short teasers seen on the home page. Right now I have 6 full posts shown on the home page then other posts are shown as teasers below these. Scroll down a bit and you’ll see the teaser excerpts. I may go back to full posts on the home page, still playing with the new features of Thesis you know.
Some of my fonts also look different. The tagline of “Addicted to Passions and Pulp” seems smaller and the Google ad’s font doesn’t match anymore.
Out of time for now. More experimenting and learning later.
One more thing, to help control the amount of Spam comments, I set comments to automatically close after 30 days. So if you don’t say you’re peace in one month, too bad!
Made a few small changes to Pulpconnection which uses the great Thesis theme. In the rightmost sidebar, I added a section to display recent links saved to my Delicious account. You’ll see the “Delicious” section under the “What I’m Doing…” area displaying my tweets.
I added a Facebook plugin to integrate Facebook with Pulpconnection, but it doesn’t seem to be working. 🙁
To better track comments, I installed the Subscribe to Comments plugin. For each post, you can now get notified via email of any new comments.
Lastly, the Thesis theme was just updated to version 1.5, and I’ll probably upgrade to that soon enough. So you may be seeing even more changes.
Ah, now I get it! It’s so obvious, but I missed the big picture of Cheryl Burke’s Dancing with the Stars strategery. In Week 6 of DWTS, I took a look at each couple’s strategy of winning the competition. Basically, I thought Cheryl Burke’s strategy for Gilles Marini was showcasing only this Frenchman’s dancing skills. But let’s take a look at the past weeks shall we?
In Weeks 1-4, Cheryl and Gilles indeed focused on the dancing artform. Then in Week 5 came Gilles’ “pecs-o doble” where he started the routine shirtless.
Week 6’s jive featured Gilles and Cheryl in form fitting black leather outfits.
Cheryl and Gilles danced the Viennese Waltz in Week 7, but in preparation, Cheryl had Gilles practice his fluidity with a synchronized swimming instructor which yielded this.
And most recently in Week 8, Gilles flashed the fans his beans and frank via the old moose knuckle.
You see the trend here? It’s not just Gilles’ superb dancing on display. Oh no, Cheryl’s strategy of showcasing the wares of her man candy is in full effect and might lead her to yet another championship. Very, very clever Miss Burke.
Did Gilles Marini give the fans of Dancing with the Stars a flash of some moose knuckle action?
I wonder if this is a ploy by ABC to get more viewers to catch up with American Idol on Fox?
Needed some new take-me-away tunes so bought the newly released Ultra Trance 09 from 
. 24 tracks for $16 and available for download right now!
On Twitter, each Friday you’re encouraged to nominate fellow Twitterers for others to follow. While I haven’t taken part in Follow Fridays, here’s me saying thanks on my own Mahalo Monday.
Mahalo to Doctor Flores at the Straub Medical Clinic at Windward Mall. A partial water outage forced the closure of sections of the Mall including the Straub Clinic. We didn’t get the phone message of the closure so we showed up with a sick kid for an early morning appointment. Instead of turning us away, Doc Flores who was already at work helped us and any others who happened to come to the Clinic. Thanks Doc Flores! By the way, I’m giving you the street name of “FloDoc.” No ka oi, Class of ’96!
Mahalo to the young Asian brother working in the pharmacy at the Kailua Longs Drugs. We had to get three medications and a nebulizer which supposedly was available at “any” pharmacy. Not so anymore. Nebulizers aren’t so easy to come by. Still, this dude took care of the prescriptions and called other nearby pharmacies to find us a nebulizer.
Mahalo to Windward Mall Sears appliance sales rep Craig. He provided great service and expertise in helping us find a new washing machine. So far so good with our LG washer.
Lastly, mahalo to the City and County crew helping Kaneohe go green with the delivery of the community’s green waste recycling bins. Not only were they working hard, but they gave us some spare parts to repair our trash bin.
And that’s all my mahalos on Mahalo Monday!
Did you find your Pepsi or Mountain Dew Throwback yet? For eight weeks starting on April 20, these drinks sweetened with sugar and not High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) will be available, and yes, they are in Hawaii. Over the weekend, I managed to find both Throwback varieties in 20 oz. bottles at Safeway in Kailua.
My first thoughts drinking the Throwback Dew – smooth and flat. The drink feels less carbonated but is real easy to drink. I kinda missed the extra fizz though that shouldn’t have anything to do with HFCS?
To go with the sweetness of the Mountain Dew, I snacked on salty Doritos Salsa Verde chips. These Doritos have a bite to them, not overly spicy but you do feel a burn after eating a few. The Throwback and Salsa Verde Doritos made a nice green pairing.
I think the Pepsi Throwback has a more drastic change in flavor and feel. The Throwback is definitely easier to drink than regular Pepsi. To me, Pepsi feels harsh while swallowing and chugging it would be tough. Not so with Pepsi Throwback. Again smooth and flat like Throwback Dew but not too flat since you’ll definitely burp or fart afterwards. The biggest difference for me was not getting an upset stomach after drinking Pepsi Throwback. Usually, Pepsi turns my stomach a bit, nothing major but still noticeable. Pepsi Throwback didn’t have that affect on me. Could that be due to sweetened with sugar versus HFCS?
Pepsi Throwback doesn’t even compare with Pepsi Natural. These are two completely different drinks. The Throwback is Pepsi while the Natural is more like Pepsi-flavored club soda.
So is Throwback worth it? I’ll definitely stock up but won’t miss them in the long run.
For more reviews of Pepsi and Mountain Dew Throwback, check out:
From fly white guy, we go to bad a$$ brother who did some “Amazing” work while in Hawaii. Check out Kanye West’s video of Amazing featuring a ton of unreal scenery from the 808.
Take a closer look at tourists visiting the Hawaiian Islands since one of them could very well be a fly white guy named Steve Nash. Yeah, that Steve Nash of the Phoenix Suns is in Hawaii .
Defying all odds, we won a fish at the local elementary school fun fair. My daughter tossed a ping pong ball into a sea of cups, and it landed in the only cup that wins a fish (supposedly the best prize from this game).
So now we have Nemo (who doesn’t look too healthy to begin with).
