Sharpest Manmade Object Ever: A Tungsten Needle – Gizmodo The picture you’re looking at on the left is the tip of a tungsten needle, which happens to be the sharpest object ever made by man. How sharp is it? Well, you see those red and black orbs? Those are ATOMS! And the tip of the…
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Mt. Olomana- The Matterhorn of Oahu!
For those of you who are curious, I have begun blogging Hawaiian adventures, restaurants, hikes, and life at my Hawai’i specific site, HawaiiChicken.com I will endeavor to post a few things from there, here now and then. cd Hawaii Chicken » Mt. Olomana- The Matterhorn of Oahu! Today I got together with my friends Ryan…
Breakfast, Pedicures, Chinatown, Zoo
Every day can be like a vacation if you know how to let go and enjoy yourself. It also helps if you don’t have a boss breathing down your neck or a desk that you are chained to. In any event, yesterday was like a vacation day even though Mink Hippie and I both had…
Garage Sales and Kayaking
It was a relaxing weekend on Oahu. Saturday morning we cruised Kailua garage sales looking for hidden treasure. We found a poster, a kali nightlight, a funky mirror, some oil pastels, and this creepy crocheted toilet seat cover with half a doll’s face crocheted into the center. It was a dollar at an old Portagee…
Volcanoes set to release Jazz albums–claim to be the real Bitches Brew
After listening to the musical stylings of both volcanoes (click the pix to hear for yourself) I called in my vote for Tungurahua… Active volcanoes are being made to “sing” by researchers who convert seismic data into frequencies audible to human ears. Although the volcanoes are unlikely to sell many records, the technique could make…
Skateboard for a house update….The Devil is Still in My House!!! Want the Devil?
For those of you following my quest to trade my old veriflex skateboard for a house, the trade for four medium size moving boxes full of unopened Pez has fallen through…. so to sum up….I traded my old veraflex skateboard ….to Bryan Dodd, an artist living in Georgia who is using the skateboard in his…
Mr. Beavers Teahouse Puppet Theatre and now Adult Muppets
A few years ago, as hard as it may be to believe, I was wearing a Beaver suit around Bellingham Washington doing off the wall stunts for The Morning Deal, a morning radio show on 92.9 FM, Independent Rock. I was the producer and as such it was my job to take on any and…
The Rapture is like the world of fashion…One day you're in, the next day you're out–Auf Wiedersehen!
The Reverend’s parishioners are always asking him about the rapture, now that we have so many wars and rumors of wars, as well as seemingly unnatural natural disasters. The fact is the Reverend is usually working on a gut shot straight, or praying for the last card to make a flush, so he invokes the…
Forget Katrina…China is about to be hit by Super Typhoon Saomai…Half million flee
BEIJING (Reuters) – More than half a million Chinese have fled their homes in the path of a super typhoon, the strongest to threaten the country in 50 years, as it churned relentlessly toward the southeast coast on Thursday. one of three storms to have hit East Asia in the past few days, has already…
Green pigment spins chip promise
An unpopular pigment used by artists in the 18th Century could lead to more energy efficient, faster computers. Cobalt green, as the dye is known, has been tested by a US team who believe it could be used in “spintronic” devices. Spintronics involves manipulating the magnetic properties of electrons to do useful computational work. Cobalt…