I happened to be in Wahiawa again today. It seems that what I saw last week and this Sunday was only the beginning of the blooming cycle, as the trees that featured prominently in the last entry were just about at their peak. More of the trees that were bare had sprouted flowers, but were still not fully involved. I’m thinking this weekend is going to be about the best. I actually saw a couple of “secret trees” that were in full bloom, and even several that were tapering and actually had already gone to fruit! When I drove by previously, I didn’t even notice the flowers on the trees at the Wahiawa Hongwan-ji. It could have been the lighting, tunnel vision, or not even expecting there to be cherry trees that far downhill. Those also look like they’ve been there a while, as the trees have already thrown out a good head of new spring leaves. Continue reading ‘More Wahiawa Sakura’
Monthly Archive for February, 2013
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Hell yeah! Nothing says revenge like Peter Weller’s creepy transparent skeleton hands!
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The new Sony HDR-AS15 (and presumedly AS10) are nice little POV action video cameras. They produce video about as good as and in some respects better than GoPro’s closest priced competition. But it’s got its share of shortcomings and problems. Some of the shortcomings you would have figured they would have figured out ahead of time by looking at the competition.
There is one problem that has shown up and that is a rattle that is very loud in the on board audio. You can hear it when you shake the camera too. Continue reading ‘Shake Rattle No’
So I’ve had these two long enough to play with them a bit and take some side by side footage. The Sony is their recent foray into the compact, self contained, HD POV video camera market dominated by GoPro. GoPro has such a strong hold that the name is becoming a verb among the action sports crowd, “Are you going to gopro that?” “I hope you were goproing that!” So it’s interesting to see what one of the big electronics names brings to the table.
I’m going focus on how it stacks up against the GoPro. Continue reading ‘Soda C: Sony Action Cam vs GoPro HD3 Silver’
It’s that time of year for the sakura (flowering cherry trees) to bloom in Hawai’i. Sakura? In Hawai’i? The answer of course is “yes”! The plant in question is the Formosan (Taiwan) Cherry (Prunus (sometimes called genus Cerasus) campanulata) and was introduced to cooler parts of Hawai’i from Okinawa. Called kanzakura (カンヒザクラ/ 寒緋桜) this is the warmest climate adapted species found in Japan. Although it will survive at lower elevations, it typically will only bloom if it is growing where the temperature drops below around 7 to 10C (45 to 50F). Flowering examples exist in Koke’e, Kaua’I, Wahiawa, O’ahu, and Waimea, Hawai’i (there may be some on Maui too). This species is considered an invasive species in New Zealand, but because of the warmer overall climate in Hawai’i, it can’t spread naturally, since fruiting/seeding is restricted to specific, rare climate zones, and there are fewer seed transporting vectors here. Continue reading ‘Wahiawa Sakura’
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I bought the accessory door pack for the Sony Action Cam, $50 for the flat underwater door and the “enhanced” audio door, ouch. The audio door is what I wanted, it has two openings in the waterproof case door where the built in stereo mics are. But over the two holes is a membrane, it is most likely a GoreTex like membrane found in the LifeProof iPhone case. It allows air to pass, but not liquid water. So it should improve audio recording while maintaining waterproofness to a Sony claimed 10 meters. It still suffers from wind noise so I decided to do the Dead Cat treatment to it also. Continue reading ‘Sony Dead Cat’
So what happened with the test today, I heard the sirens but nothing on KORL as I was driving?
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