Now that Barack Obama is officially sworn in as our new President, it’s time to say good bye to Mr. Bush. The Townhouse Spa is taking this farewell literally, offering huge discounts on bikini or Brazilian waxing for your Mr. Bush. Ha!
Wonder if local places like this will match the offer?
I didn’t have an Obama Day today, but at work, Barack Obama’s inauguration was playing on a television in a conference room. I checked out part of it, but didn’t watch everything since I programmed my Tivo to record the “Presidential Inauguration” figuring I can watch at home.
Playing back my Tivo recording, it recorded everything leading up to the swearing in of the 44th President, not the actual inauguration. What happened?
Fortunately, Tivos can now access YouTube content and guess what was number one on YouTube’s recommendations? Yup, Barack Obama’s Inauguration and Address. Here is all 20+ minutes of Obama’s address in pretty darn good video quality.
And yeah, he musta been nervous, flubbing several lines of his oath.
Sidenote: At around 8:00, the YouTube view count was in the 800,000 range. One hour later, the views are above 1.2 million.
Went to the Honolulu Zoo over the weekend to see the baby tigers who weren’t so baby anymore.
These guys always look freaky.
The zebras were grazing.
The peacock was in full effect.
The animals were a lot more active in the morning time.
Economic times continue to be tough, especially in the electronics arena. First, all Circuit City locations closed their doors. Now Shirokiya is shutting down its electronic department.
What to do with the 3800 square feet of space? How about more seating to eat my bento so that I don’t have to jockey for tables? I know, along with more seating how about bringing the bird cage back? Not as huge as the old school Shirokiya, but have a good sized bird cage next to the additional seating area so patrons can watch the birds as they peacefully enjoy their meals.
Just playing around and building a new team site to replace our old team site. Same but different…
Saw a DUI arrest go down on Friday night on my street. A car ran into two parked cars and tried (unsuccessfully) to drive away. I didn’t witness the actual event, but did hear the crash and saw what looked like the driver trying to dislodge her car from the parked vehicles. After gunning the engine and with wheels screeching, the car got free and puttered along until the engine wouldn’t go any more. About 6 police vehicles arrived in a matter of minutes and got the situation under control.
Fortunately, no one was hurt, but there was significant damage to the parked vehicles. And it even appeared the the driver was in an earlier accident with her car showing additional signs of damage.
Don’t drink and drive.
Episode 8 of Top Chef was somewhat of a shocker. Lessons learned down on the farm, respect your ingredients (and proteins) and past performance means nothing.
For these two reasons, Ariane was ousted after mangling her team’s lamb dish. Tom Colicchio presented his philosophy of cooking, stressing the respect chefs show their ingredients. Ariane, he felt, dishonored her lamb with her butchering. Even though Ariane has done well with lamb in past competitions, each elimination brings a clean slate, so Ariane was dismissed.
Maybe it’s one too many trips to Starbucks, but I have proof that I’m not hallucinating. Skynet really did go online with Hawaii’s early digital television cutover, and it’s slowly growing. For now, the immature sentient has a sense of humor and is toying with us. Just look at this message, it left me.
That’s right – “Fockya”. Surely, this can’t be the radio text for Aaliyah’s Back and Forth.
Somehow I’m not totally surprised all Circuit City locations will be closing their doors. Whenever I went there for sale items, the Hawaii store would be sold out.
Wonder what will take it’s place in a somewhat visible area in Pearl City right next to Pearlridge and Starbucks?
Some similar but different kicks from Kobe Bryant and Lebron James.
Lebron VI Los Angeles version
Zoom Kobe Chaos Joker edition
Nike continues to promote Kobe Bryant and his signature shoes with the latest “NotMyBrokenAnkles” campaign. Here is part of the message Kobe released as President of Ankle Insurance Co.:
Broken ankles can happen at anytime. Don’t let your friends, loved ones or opponents suffer from slow game any longer. If your superior quickness has ever broken someone’s ankles, don’t just laugh at them. Get them the piece of mind they so desperately need.
Of course, the push here is to buy the Zoom Kobe IV which is available in a rainbow of colors.
Whew, nope. It’s on Friday. That Sci-Fi ad had me for a moment saying new episodes tonight. Only 10 more episodes in the Battlestar Galactica story.
Who’s the last remaining Cylon?