The first Hawai’i Superferry is scheduled to begin in early-2006. I can’t wait, though I’m sure Aloha and Hawaiian Airlines aren’t thrilled at the prospect of the competition. Perhaps it will revive their merger talks, which fell apart a few years ago.
For Eagle’s fans only: A variation on a joke my daughter told me.
Tom Brady dies after a long and successful career. He gets a personal tour of heaven from God, and is taken to his home – a humble, single bedroom home painted in Patriot colors. Tom looks across the street and sees a huge mansion, five stories tall with probably 20 bedrooms, and a couple of Rolls Royces in the garage. It’s painted green and white, with a huge flag bearing the Philadelphia Eagle’s logo fluttering in the wind. Brady turns to God and says, “Not that I’m complaining, but why do I have this dinky little home and Donovan McNabb…
Irish language schools land US windfall.
Lucky Irish-medium schools in N. Ireland will receive $40,000 that the founder of the Irish-American Cultural Institute left to them in his will.
Happy Birthday Macintosh!
I didn’t discover the joys of Macintosh until it was about 2 or 3 years old, and met Scott about the same time. He was, and still is, quite the Mac evangelist. I still have my first Mac Plus functioning as a bookend in my home office.
Governor Lingle’s State Of The State Address.
I’m most happy to see this line: “…I’ve included $20 million to build the long-promised Hawaiian Language Building at UH-Hilo.” Yes, it is long-promised and long-overdue. We’ll keep our fingers crossed that the legislature funds this request. Mahalo e ke kia‘āina!
Namu Pa’i ‘Ai.
Sarah Roberts’ weblog features “News and Linguistic Sketches on Hawai’i Creole English and Other Pidgins and Creoles.” One of the web examples she posts, though it is not her own, is curious: Lyk da ada dae… he wen stay making troubLe… so den she wen make hym go in tha breakout room… en den Lyk he was pLaying wif everything in there. I grew up in Kihei, Maui. I spoke SE (Standard English) in front of the parents, and HCE (Hawaiian Creole English, or “Pidgin” as it’s called here) with friends. I never heard th become f in Pidgin as…
Have you heard of Yola?
While I was aware of the variety of languages and dialects spoken in Ireland, I had never heard of Yola. The Yola Folk Park & Wexford Genealogy Centre has more. Slugger O’Toole always comes up with some great links.
Paul Brady on iTunes Music Store.
I was lamenting a few weeks ago that while ITMS does have a large catalog of Irish music, they had little of Paul Brady and Sean Keane. I just noticed that they got quite a number of Paul’s recordings up there, though there is still not much of Sean’s catalog in there.
Scott summarizes the past 15 years of my life.
I guess on a subconcious level I realized what all of this work meant, but never focused on it in this way. It’s simply been a matter of trying to keep the Hawaiian language contemporary and viable in today’s society. There have been times that I just want to let it go and focus just on the language, but every once in a while we hit a new high, like getting the OS X support for Hawaiian, and it recharges my battery. Hopefully we’ll get Microsoft on board as well and I’ll experience that all over again. I’ve registered the…
Survey finds wide support for Irish-speaking youth radio.
I’ve thought about this quite a lot myself. In our Hawaian language radio program, Alana I Kai Hikina, we only play music in the Hawaiian language. Most of this is perfomed in a traditional style. However, what if we had a show that played the music that appeals to today’s youth, but with the DJs conversing in Hawaiian? Hmmm. Something to think about.