Monthly Archive for February, 2013

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GoPro – Pro means you can replace equipment all the time?

Published on February 16, 2013 in Gear and rant by taro. Closed

Alright, who at GoPro decided to “upgrade” the HD Hero 3’s outer case lens? Who decided to put a glass lens on an extreme action camera? Granted it’s a fairly significant 1/8″ thick, but it’s still glass. I kinda wondered about this when I first got it, I noticed the lens had an optical coating. Not something you saw on the older generation lenses.

I guess this has superior optical clarity, but all the anti-glare coating in the world doesn’t help when you get this!

 

Yes, I put it in a bad place, that was intentional. In retrospect it was a pretty extreme location as the polycarbonate case has a lot of dings now, but still I’m used to expecting these things to take a beating, that’s the whole point of these cameras, right?

The Trouble up North

Published on February 16, 2013 in Culture, rant and SUAR by risu. Closed

To every South Korean who embraced the idea of peaceful reunification and thought the joint economic zone at Kaesong and humanitarian aid to the DPRK was a good idea,

To every Korean expatriate or ethnically Korean descendant in Japan who sent their hard-earned (or ill-gotten) cash and various commercial goods back to the homeland via the Chongryon’s Mangyonhbong-92 purpose-built smuggling ship,

To every country that sent humanitarian aid to the DPRK, which was instantly siphoned off by the party upper class and the military, some being resold on the black market for hard currency,

To every kid in Australia who partook in illegal/questionable recreational drugs delivered to their country by DPRK spy boats,

2013 February 02, 02:57:51 UTC was ALL your fault!

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Free Floating?

Published on February 16, 2013 in car and SUAR by risu. Closed

Nissan NV3500 HD van with a 3/4-ton full-floating rear Dana axle?  A full-floating Titan work truck would clean up in the commercial market.

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Yet More Wahiawa Sakura

Published on February 16, 2013 in Culture by risu. Closed

Took another look at the Wahiawa sakura trees last Saturday with Root. They were about peaking out. The windy weather expected this weekend will probably make a lot of flowers drop, but there are still some trees that haven’t bloomed yet, so if you want to see sakura on O’ahu, you’ll likely be able to see something through maybe the last week of February.

See the gallery here!

Ghetto

Published on February 12, 2013 in SUAR by taro-mobile. 1 Comment

Man, Hilo airport is kinda ghetto. The main restaurant/bar is outside of security, and the bar side is closed. One dude running register, bussing tables, cooking, bartender. At least they still running their drafts am this local red is decent! Time to hit security!

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Glau on 5-0

Published on February 11, 2013 in rant and SUAR by risu. Closed

“Are you OK?”
“Yeah,”
Of course I’m fine, other than the blood shooting out of my face and this one broken arm…
What the heck kind of question is that?!?!

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Disco Bomber

Published on February 11, 2013 in Culture, rant and SUAR by risu. Closed

Although their look is visual kei, Golden Bomber definitely sounds more disco nowadays than rock.

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Test

Published on February 8, 2013 in Site by risu. 3 Comments

This is a test post.  Please ignore it as if it doesn’t exist.  Don’t worry about things too much.

Beer Is Good – Aloha Beer Company Aloha Lager

Published on February 8, 2013 in Uncategorized by taro. Closed

Finally found it at Foodland, pours a light clear yellow with moderate head. Clean crisp fairly dry beer. A little bitter that doesn’t linger very long. Light mouthfeel. Easy drinking, but on the other hand utterly unremarkable. Honestly I don’t think it’s much different than a mass market domestic beer.

Barely 2 out of 4 beer bong monkeys.

Audio Poop

Published on February 7, 2013 in Culture and SUAR by risu-mobile. Closed

Ugh.  TVXQ.  Too much K-krapp on KORL.  Thank goodness it’s Thursday and Steve Stoddard is on KTUH!

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