Speight’s dropped a dollar to $10.99 USD in today’s Foodland ad! I’ll pick up a spare case on the way home…
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Finally saw a 200-series Land Cruiser here. It was a black Lexus version with vanity plates. I’ve already seen several in Japan since they came out in late 2007.
(0)Airsoft fans rejoice! Power Edge in Kaimuki just got in the new KSC Japan gas blowback H&K MP7A1 PDWs. I dropped by yesterday and Peter let me test fire it. The heft and feel is superior to the Tokyo Marui AEG version, and the lock time is much better. The perceived recoil is very nice! On firing, it is obvious that this one is packing significantly more muzzle velocity than the AEG. The construction was very nice – even the feel of the materials felt like genuine H&K. All of this comes with a bigger price tag though – just a little shy of $400 USD! This is not bad considering the current dollar-to-yen exchange rate of around 95-yen-per dollar, and the JDM MSRP of 36,540-yen. Spin by and visit Peter and Dave to check one out. They had four left yesterday…
I saw a negative reaction to some students burning a star cut from an American flag in the Honolulu Advertiser Letters to the Editor this morning. This act was meant as a protest to the anniversary of Statehood, but was typical in its half-baked execution, which is in turn typical of the ignorant mentality of certain native rights/sovereignity groups. Immediately popping to mind was a memory of television news footage from the early days of the Makua valley controversy of a man in glasses climbing out of his brand new Subaru saying, “We don’t accept the White man’s laws. We don’t accept the White man’s ways.” Really? Where’s your malo? Explain your glasses and car. If these students were really advocating a return to pre-contact ways, they darned-well had better be ready to cut out the star with an obsidian or shark-tooth implement and start the fire with hau branches – made in PRC Fiskars and the BIC lighter don’t cut it! If you’re going to talk the talk, you have to walk the walk… unless you’re just a fake or poser.
(0)Chris and I discussed this on our seperate drives home almost a month ago, but with the impending doom of Felicia and getting sick, I neglected to blog about it. On my way to meet the guys up at St. Louis is when I usually see all kinds of freakish and stupid krapp, usually along King Street. On the way to the last ride, I saw this fixie dude ride past with a black and white fur sporran on his drive-side hip! WTF?! I guess he needed somewhere to put his pocket goods, since there was no way to actually use the pockets in his unnaturally tight, pencil-legged, fashionably faded black jeans.
Need to buy any military surplus stuff locally? Head up to Wahiawa and visit Camouflage Shop on Wilikina Drive. Their selection has expanded a little, and it’s more organized inside (it’ll never be like when it first opened!). Military HQ on Sand Island seems to be on the way out. There are a lot of empty shelves, and there doesn’t appear to have been any new inventory in over a year. Too bad.
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I tried a Chang Thai Beer from Cosmos Breweries in Thailand with dinner at Saeng’s tonight. This Pilsen-style lager pours golden with a high level of carbonation. The aroma is peaty or musty, and the initial flavor is moderately bitter with a light malt flavor. The malt flavor comes out a little more in the middle, and the flavor tapers of cleanly. It isn’t as smooth as say Wernesgruener, but it is a very well mannered, easily drinkable beer. Tiger is still my favorite Thai beer, but this is my second favorite.
5.0% ABV
Recommended
Three out of four drunken monkeys
Chris had some free time Last Saturday, so the fooligans gathered out at the Ditch for some pedal time. The weather wasn’t ideal – Hurricane Felicia had just passed, bringing some heavier-than-normal rains in her wake – and I was coming off a cold from the weekend before. Since we all hadn’t been riding for an extended period, nobody was averse to an easy Ditch ride. Root, Jeff, Sara, and Chris were already there when I pulled in. The ground was a little on the damp side on the climb up Government Road. There wasn’t a lot of deadfall, attesting to the lack of heavy winds associated with Felicia, but there were a couple of new large broken live branches across the trail – one was along this climb, and another out at the end of the Ditch. I was feeling hot, but considering the humid weather, I didn’t feel that it was unusual. Continue reading ‘Bronchitis Ride’
After last Saturday’s ride, I went by Hale on Makaloa next to the Ghostbusters building for dinner. I had downed some Endurox R4 after the ride, so I wasn’t ravenously hungry, but my body told me that I needed protein and the associated amino acids above and beyond what soy-based products could provide. They had a fish entrée and burger, the fish of the day being ’Ono (Wahoo). I went for the burger because the entrée version was startlingly expensive, and I wasn’t sure what some of the side dishes would turn out to be. Continue reading ‘Edible Briefs – Hale Macrobiotic Restaurant’
I had dinner over the weekend at a Macrobiotic restaurant, and they had several organic beers that I haven’t tried before. I gave this one a shot based only on the brewery name recognition. I’ve had a couple of other Deschutes varieties, and I have to say this one is not unlike them. On initial pour, the color of this ale was dark amber, almost red. The server tilted the glass and didn’t’ give a full pour, so it didn’t form a head. I subsequently rectified this. The carbonation level was moderate – bubbles continued to rise throughout the life of the beer. The aroma was hoppy and sweet, and similarly, the first taste was fruity from the hopping. There was only a faint malt flavor in the middle with a bitter note from the hops. The finish faded out on the bitter note. The overall impression was that of Obsidian Stout with a lighter roast on the malt. If you like Deschutes other offerings, give it a try – I didn’t particularly care for it. Specifically, I was disappointed in the underwhelming malt flavor, and the overwhelming hop flavor. Continue reading ‘Beer Is Good – Deschutes Green Rivers Organic Ale’