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HFMD Affects Macs?

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Who woulda though HFMD affects Macintosh computers? My recent iMac went down this morning, and this one looks bad. The internal drive isn’t acting quite right. The boot CD Disk Utility can see the drive, but it looks unformatted.

Ack!

I bought Leopard for Time Machine and it’d better work!! But first have to figure out what’s up the main drive. Maybe I’ll try resetting the System Management Controller to see if that helps any. Maybe it is the Western Digital internal drive like people in this post are reporting.

New "Cuts" and Kinkiness on KHON

I admit that I haven’t been watching the morning news like I used to. Been trying to keep up with the Tabasco Man’s proclivity for work and efficiency so no time for morning television!

Not sure when this happened, but KHON morning meteorologist Trini Kaopuiki has shorn her locks and is now sporting a mommy hair cut. It’s okay, but not as stunning as KITV’s Mahealani Richardson shorter ‘do.


Also, on Tuesday’s airing, do-it-all Manolo Morales showed off a new hair cut for his segment on Paint by Numbers and also got a little bit kinky.


Watch at about the 1:00 mark as Manolo makes his move for the oheso.

I think we just found the next promotion for Club 939!

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Once a Mama, Always Yo Mama

The day after Mother’s Day, Gloria James, the mother of NBA baller LeBron James, had to show the League what mamas are made of. After a hard foul on her son, Mama James got out of her courtside seat to have a word with the Celtics Paul Pierce. KG played the role of peace keeper, stopping Mama James from opening a can of whoop ass on PP.

LeBron’s post game comments are classic!

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Black, Latino, Asian, or Uh Non-Svelte – Who Gets Your DWTS Vote?

The Semi-Finals of Dancing with the Stars is now over, and the fans vote for the Finals is simple. I’ll break it down for you. You can vote Black (Jason Taylor), Latino (Cristian de la Fuente), Asian (Kristi Yamaguchi), or umm, non-svelte (Marissa Jaret Winokur). That’s it.

So the question then is who has the bigger base to draw from? Will the brothers from BET vote for brother Jason? Can Latinos breakaway from Telemundo to support Cristian? Asian Television Network ain’t a thing and AZN ain’t, so Asians got no excuse calling in for Kristi. But then again, there are a lot of portly haters in the world who wouldn’t mind sticking the Winokur to the trim and buffed Taylor, de la Fuenta, and Yamaguchi.

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Home Remedy for HFMD

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Even though there’s no medical cure for HFMD, here’s our home remedy which is making things more bearable – Tivo loaded up with all kinds of cartoons and Jamba Juice.

No better pain relief than vegetating in front of the television, and while eating solids is too tough, non-citrus Jamba Juice is just right.

Best Places to Work in Hawaii

The HawaiiBusiness magazine published their annual Best Places to Work issue for 2008. You have to buy the printed version for the complete writeups of the various businesses, but the online version has some interesting tidbits including #1 Xerox Hawaii, a photo gallery, 7 Things Employees Love, and a self assessment of your work place.

Who knew working at a law firm could be fun? #3 in the “Small” category. I guess having a picnic at Secret Island and going on a sunset cruise is fun. Maybe it’s that average annual salary of $84,838 that’s fun or the 61% female employees? I must say though, the firm does look like it is culturally diverse.


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War on Top Chef

The perennial favorite Top Chef challenge, Restaurant Wars, got a change up this season, converting to Wedding Wars. Top Chef teams catered wedding dishes according to the tastes of the bride and groom, but for the groom’s team, Wedding Wars broke down into flat out war.


The team of Dale, Lisa, Nikki, and Spike never gelled and was easily the losing team. The current Chefs admitted to watching previous seasons of Top Chef, but Nikki must have missed Restaurant Wars from Season 3. That’s the one where Tre, the Executive Chef for the team, was eliminated for not acting like the Executive Chef. Even with her Italian food expertise, Nikki didn’t guide the team to victory preparing Italian dishes for the groom. You know Head Judge Tom Colicchio ain’t down with Executive Chefs not stepping up.

The groom’s team was an eclectic crew, and I need to get video footage as they stood at Judges’ table. Their body language was a telltale sign. Dale went ballistic for right or wrong, Lisa was her bitter angry self, Spike didn’t help the mix, and Nikki simply went along for the ride.

Although I must say this episode was probably my favorite of this season. The Quick Fire and Wedding Wars were interesting challenges. More time was spent showing the personalities of the chefs although none of them are still fan favorites. In fact, I think most of the chefs really dislike each other more than other seasons.

The show’s producers must realize this lack of fan support as well. How else can you explain the recent “What is Padma Wearing?” addition to the Top Chef website? How does this improve the culinary aspect of the show?

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Pulpy Stats for 2008

Haven’t done one of these for awhile now, so just catching up with Pulpconnection stats for 2008. According to SiteMeter, Pulpconnection has had 86,458 visits over its entire lifetime. Hmmm, 100K visits coming up…

According to Google Analytics…

Top performing content in 2008.

  1. /2007/09/abercrombie-fitch-models.html
  2. /2005/10/listmania-hottest-local-newscasters.html
  3. /2007/02/liking-these-air-force-ones.html
  4. /2005/11/tasha-kobashigawa-this-is-my-final.html
  5. /2007/11/julianne-hough-went-stay-fut-on-dwts.html
  6. /2005/10/pau-listmania-hottest-local.html
  7. /2006/05/high-tech-kicks-for-ballin.html
  8. /2006_09_01_archive.html
  9. /2007/04/kathy-muneno-joining-khon.html

So the best content for 2008 wasn’t written in 2008.

Top keywords.

  1. tasha kobashigawa
  2. kathy muneno
  3. justin cruz hawaii
  4. jandi lin
  5. julianne hough swimsuit
  6. stephanie lum
  7. cindy paliracio
  8. diane ako
  9. shari shima
  10. kobe hyperdunks

Hawaii-based newscasters still rule. “Club 939” came in at #17 after “heelys for adults.”

Top traffic sources.

  1. google / organic
  2. images.google.com / referral
  3. (direct) / (none)
  4. blogger.com / referral
  5. cctwt.blogspot.com / referral (thanks Tabasco Man!)
  6. images.google.ca / referral
  7. yahoo / organic
  8. truemors.com / referral
  9. images.google.co.uk / referral
  10. hokumi.blogspot.com / referral

Alltop.com came in at #28 as a traffic source, way behind Truemors.com.

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