Dave points to this piece from Slate on the latest Apple ads. My take? Who cares what PC users think. Ask the children of PC users what computer they want to own. Never underestimate the power of a nagging child, and the lengths that a parent will go to to silence them.
FUD in the Senate debate over the “Akaka Bill”
I watched the Senate debate via C-SPAN2 to for a while. Senator Akaka presented his case clearly and respectfully, but I had to turn it off after a few minutes of listening to Senator Lamar Alexander building a wall of FUD over the issue. Senator, you simply can’t compare immigrants who arrived and the U.S. willfully and the indigenous peoples who had no say in their government being overthrow and land annexed against their will. Alexander harped on the term “sovereignty” so many times and in such a way as to suggest that that the bill would result in complete…
The truth is out…
Last year I pointed to Kenneth Makuak?ne’s weblog and speculated who his anonymous collaborator at UH-Hilo was. Well, Kenneth’s let the cat out of the bag, and I don’t mind – it’s me. It has been an amazing process, and hard to believe we’ve been at it for over a year. Sometimes I write lyrics to his music, sometimes he sets music to my mele, but there is always a lot of give and take. I always run the mele by my colleagues at UHH, a process called paka, to make sure that there isn’t anything in there that could…
From the mouths of babes…
I was testing out a brand new Sony DV video camera at my daughter’s piano recital today, and another parent came up to me and asked if we would be willing to make a copy of the tape for them. I told him that we were planning to copy the video to computer and make DVD copies for everyone if the recording came out OK. There was a young lad, perhaps six or seven years old in the seat directly behind me, and he asked if we had a Mac or PC. When I told him it was a Mac,…
The Evil That is Coca-Cola
A well-intending colleague of mine posted this on our office’s internal discussion board today, along with another passage that espoused the value of drinking water. I know that some of these are urban myths, but it was an interesting read. In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two days. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the “real…