Man, all my Snowboarding outerwear is trashed – especially my jackets. My newest jacket is suffering from dandruff – the semi-permeable laminate on certain colored panels is flaking off. Still looks nice and new on the outside, but when I take it off I’ll be covered in white flakes. I ran it through the dryer inside-out on “air only” a few times to try and shake as much out through the inner mesh liner, so hopefully it won’t be too bad.  My “Captain America” jacket has a hole at a seam where the stitching has gone away and the taping and laminate is failing. I stitched up the hole and put some Gore repair tape on the inside, so it should last until the end of this season. Continue reading ‘Semi-Homeless Boarding’
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We went to Island’s Fine Burgers in AMC last night for some monster burgers and brews. The hostess was from Oz, so Fabio was briefly in dreamland, until our server with ADD showed up. They were out of “hef-wize-in†or however she mangled the pronunciation, so I got a Kona Big Wave Golden Ale. Fabio got their Kona-coffee-flavored Pipeline Porter, and root got the Longboard Lager (all Kona drafts were $4 USD). The Big Wave was lighter in both flavor and color than the Longboard, which is their version of a classic continental lager (like Sam Adams Lager). I’m not a big fan of Longboard – it tends to be a bit overhopped, and I’ve had a few in bottles that have gone skunky. The Pipeline Porter was coffee-flavored beer. The other coffee-flavored beer I’ve had was the coffee stout at Brewhouse in Whistler, and to be honest, I didn’t really like either. A good, dark roast on the malt is all the smokiness I need – no additions please. If I could point out one thing I liked about the Porter is that it was mildly hopped, so there was just the coffee and the malt flavor – no bitterness or floweriness. I did like the Big Wave, however – I’d say it’s the best thing from Kona Brewing Co. that I’ve had so far. They have some things on tap at their brewpub locations that I’d like to try, including a hefeweisen and a porter that doesn’t have coffee in it. Continue reading ‘In the Islands Again’
Chris mentioned in an email yesterday that a co-worker had gone to Los Chapparros and was raving about it to everyone in the office, and it brought to mind that the former Dixie Grill on Ward had been reformatted to a Mexican restaurant. On a whim, I walked down the block for a late lunch yesterday – nobody was in the office except me until 14:00, and the electricians showed up precisely at lunchtime so I couldn’t lock up and dig. Continue reading ‘Bob’s yer Uncle’
Sick.Â
Saw this at Times produce department on Saturday night. Supposedly it’s called a “Turban Pumpkin”. I guess when the meat-cutter’s union is on strile, this is what the produce department guys do…
The last time Fabio joined the manga/anime geeks from Collector Maniacs for a late dinner at Big City Diner in Kaimuki, he got a burger that was either poorly engineered, designed, or assembled. As soon as he tried to pick it up, it fell apart, making him explode with anger just like Steve Wilkos! Continue reading ‘Angry Food’
Just watched the legitimate release of the 2006 Kyoto Animation version of Kanon. Root had given me the older 2002 Toei Animation version as fansubs years ago and I liked the general premise, but remake version is definitely better in both writing and animation quality. ADV Films, who did the legit release of the Air series for the USDM has released the first 4-episode volume of Kanon, with the second volume due out in February. Continue reading ‘Omoidasenai Machi – Kanon TV 2006’
After watching the disappointing first half of the Hawaii-Georgia Sugar Bowl game, I started flipping back and forth to the one-day-late KIKU-TV telecast of the Kohaku Uta-Gassen. There wasn’t anything good per-se, but it reinforced some judgements that I had from before: Continue reading ’58th Annual Kohaku Uta-Gassen’
Hooray! Christmas has past and 101.1 FM has ceased playing horrible xmas music all day. Back to natsukashii J-pop…
Mmm…
Nothing quite as good as pork tamales from Cha Cha Cha Salsaria in Hawaii Kai. I got there a little early, so I had to wait for them to open, but it was worth the wait. Pork carnitas with corn tamale and black beans with a green tomatillo sauce. Rice and chips with homemade salsa on the side. They thoughtfully put the chips in a seperate container for take-out orders so they don’t get all soggy.
$9.37 USD
Four out of four grinning chow monkeys
Tio Muerte says, “muy sabroso!”
Every year when Easter or Christmas rolls around, the documentary channels up in the 70’s run all these “History of [insert Biblical name here]” or “The Science of [insert Biblical occurrence here]” programs.
This isn’t HISTORY – it is DOGMA. Having these kinds of programs on seemingly “objective”, “scientific” networks lends credence to the assertion that the people or events involved are factual. This is brainwashing through habituation.
I ran into these on both the National Geographic Channel and The History Channel this weekend. Give us natural history documenaries and war documentaries (respectively), not Christian demagogue!
FTP!