Hawaii Blog

Eerie. Greg was just e-mailing me about how the Alamo Drafthouse — the awesomest movie theater chain ever — is finally starting to set up franchises outside Austin. I wrote back saying, “Well, we’ve got too many theaters here… when they start closing, who knows? The Kailua theaters might work.”
Well, the Kailua Cinemas is shutting [...]

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A fun article in today’s Honolulu Advertiser on the often non-functional crosswalk buttons at Honolulu intersections. (It’s a localization of this piece in the New York Times.) I think it’s a little muddled, though.
It leads with the statement: “Most of those little ‘walk’ buttons at hundreds of intersections in Honolulu won’t speed up [...]

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“The Spanish ambassador to the United States, Javier Ruperez, who said he believes ETA was responsible, said ‘in a way it is’ Spain’s September 11, referring to the 2001 terror attacks in New York and Washington.”
Sept. 11, 2001 was two years, five months, and 27 days earlier, according to CalendarHome.com’s date calculator. Or, put [...]

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Aue. Dave Blood, bassist for The Dead Milkmen, is no longer with us. According to a messageboard post from his sister, he took his own life last night. [via MeFi]
Thanks for the music, Dave.
Life takes from us the things we love
and robs us of the special ones
and puts them where where we can’t climb
and we [...]

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Lest anyone suspect that In Medias Res — the somewhat neglected heart of my little corner of cyberspace — has gone the way of the dodo, I’ve finally managed to sort out a couple of tweaks that could constitute a pulse.
I’ve had the “latest gallery images” feature working for a while, and had a bit of fun [...]

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Rumor has it a couple of geeks will take to the airwaves this evening to talk about everything and nothing.
Actually, it’s the debut of Rough Take, a weekly radio show on “culture, technolgy and the Internet” that’s the brainchild of Advertiser columnist Burt Lum. Not sure what to expect, I’ve got some Bjork, They [...]

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