Yeah yeah, what the heck was I doing waiting until the day before leaving for trip to set up new bindings. Well, they’re newer year of the same model I currently run, the Flow Teams and there are no changes to the geometry. Just have to match up settings and should be good to go. Right. So two days before departure I finally tried to setup the new bindings to discover new fastners. While I’m glad Flow listened and did something about the tendancy of their previous fastners to work loose, this was ridiculous. Continue reading ‘Chine?!’
Monthly Archive for January, 2010
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No, I really don’t know. If you know what bread pudding is like, it’s that kind of pudding – not the “wet” kind. If you’re really that curious, go hit up Wikipedia for more information.
In anticipation of the upcoming Whistler snowboarding trip, I wanted to update my first aid kit. I have heard of these coagulating products from reports coming back form the sandbox. For heavy trauma, even arterial bleeding, this stuff forces the leaking blood to coagulate and form a mass. The blood flow in adjacent tissue is unaffected, so there are none of the necrotizing effects associated with tourniquets. For amputations, a tourniquet would be required, but for nearly anything less, packing on coagulating agent seems to be the best course of action to stop the bleeding while the victim is being transported to a medical facility. Bigger hole = more packs of coagulant. Continue reading ‘Quikclot Sport’
Bathroom deodorizers really shouldn’t be scented to emulate edible products. Before spraying, the bathroom smelled like shit. After spraying this, it smelled like berries… and shit. Now when I smell berries, I’ll think of feces. In all honesty, it didn’t really smell like berries: It was more of an excessively strong potpourri scent. The scent is strong in an attempt to load your smell receptors so the poop smell molecules can’t find a home, but the net effect ends up just being additive instead of masking.
I dropped by Target in Kapolei for some small items from the pharmacy. They had neither the simple breath strips nor the esoteric traumatic bleeding clotting agent that I was looking for. While looking at their selection of bandaging tape, I took a look at their in-house brand. Unlike the in-house Long’s/CVS stuff, the Target stuff was made in The PRC. No, there really is no way I’m going to buy medical-related supplies, of all things, from China. Sorry!
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Alright guys, you need to give the people in the packing department more material and stop skimping. This is the second package of high dollar fairly sensitive electronic and optical equipment I ordered from them that arrived with inadequate packing. Is the risk and return rate worth the savings in material? Sheesh! When I picked up the box and did the tilt test, I already could tell they had done it again, hearing the item inside sliding around freely. They were lucky with this one, Panasonic’s OEM packaging for this lens was fairly minimal. I am going to yet again write a negative feedback on packing to Amazon, this time probably more scathing than my previous one. Lemme dig up my pic for that one….
Ah, here we go, the camera had some fairly robust OEM packaging, but still…. It bugs me. Both pieces of equipment appear to have survived intact and fine, but really, a big name mail order business like this really should take more care in their packing. Even a monkey could have packed these better!
I was cleaning out my wallet today at lunchtime, and found the receipt from the time I went to Good to Grill after the Honolulu Marathon. $8 USD for the Surfer Special (2 pancakes, 2 eggs, bacon or SPAM) and $2.50 USD for a cup of coffee. The food was fine, and they actually had real butter instead of margerine for the pancakes, but all the service items were third-party prepacks from like Y. Hata or somewhere like that. The service was excellent. One of our group even knew the owner, and we got to meet him when he came by before just we left, but we had attentive service before any of the staff knew this. I would have to drop by for lunch or dinner to really pass judgement, but from this breakfast experience, I’d say that I was underwhelmed, in particular value wise. The Euro Illy coffee was just coffee – there are so many good locally-produced coffees that the rationale of bringing in a supposed premium European brand feels like pompous name-dropping.
Ambivalent – give them a try and see what you think
Two-and-a-half out of four breakfast scarfing monkeys.
Chris had free time on Saturday, and the weather was outstanding, so he and I met Root and Ckucke out at the Ditch. Jeff and Sara were out on the water, and JT was working, so it was just the four of us. Although the sky was perfectly blue, the ground was still damp from rains on New Year’s Eve. We figured our best bet would be to stay up high, so we climbed Government Road and took the Demon Trail all the way to Pube Tree. Demon Trail was slightly damp, but no worse than usual. The further extent was a little grown in with invasive weeds. Continue reading ‘First Dirt of 2010’
The New Year in Hawaii means interesting seasonal entertainment from Japan on KIKU-TV. The general worldwide economic downturn has been reflected in this annual spectacle in more austere sets and decreased use of expensive shots like the helicopter fly-in on ELT on a rooftop stage at the opening many years back. The talent level has remained fairly consistent through the years, so the enjoyment level has remained pretty much the same. Here are some reflections on this year: Continue reading ‘2010 60th Annual NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen’
12 years. TWELVE YEARS! Can you believe it? It was 12 years ago that I brought The Pig home. All the boys said don’t count the chickens till it’s rolling down the street. Well, here you have it! I’m rather surprised it wasn’t covered in a thicker layer of dust and that after only a bit of monkeying with the brake pad adjusters and airing up the tires, we were able to roll it out of the garage. 
It helps to have a demon on your side. He was just here to help, demons are no fools and he wasn’t about to get stuck with The Pig taking up precious space in his lair. I kid, about him being a demon anyway, nice dude. Pretty cool trailer rig that they borrowed.