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Archive for February, 2007

I have a post formulating in my head, but need a little more time to work it out. In the meantime, you might notice that I am posting more images than I normally do.

Well, I am going to try to take advantage of my surroundings and focus my creative energy into more worthwhile pursuits.

There is a rainbow somewhere on Maui everyday. You could spend weeks here and never fail to see at least one rainbow during your travels. This one was upcountry (what the locals call the area on the slopes of Haleakala Volcano. Oh, and it is my birthday today. Hard to believe, but I am 41 years old today. Yeah, i know, I don’t act 41… must be all the drugs I did in high school and college.

I wonder what kind of person likes to spray paint their name or mark on things. Are these people so insecure? Are they so in love with their artistic abilities (for lack of a better phrase) that they feel compelled to share with the rest of the world?

I know in some of the more hard-scrabble communities, Graffiti is usually a gang marker, but I doubt that was the motivation for tagging a random chunk of demolished building on a beach in Maui… I wonder…

Recently Maui County began building a sort of boardwalk along a portion of Ma’alaea Beach (north of Kihei) adjacent to Kealia Pond. It hasn’t officially opened because, like a lot of things that happen on "island time," it isn’t finished yet. So far, it has been under construction for close to three years.

One thing you have to get used to when you live in Hawaii, and Maui in particular, is how slow everyone moves. Four years and counting, and I still can’t move that slow. I would have to get a full frontal lobotomy to move that slow, but that is conjecture on my part.

The geriatrics that fly to hawaii for the winter are here! I always enjoy seeing them on the beach because unlike a great many baby boomers, these folks still enjoy getting out, socializing and living life to the fullest.

I hope that I am still able/willing to shake my fat ass out to the beach when I get to be a decrepit old geezer (not that any of these fine folks are decrepit or geezers, but I am on that path).

Perhaps you are aware about the teeth gnashing and unabashed tears being shed over at Flickr because Yahoo! Inc (bought them out in March 2005) and now they MUST create a YAHOOID in order to access the site. On top of that, the threshold for contacts is being lowered (albeit significantly).

Now, i fucking hate whiny people with a passion. A lot of that comes from my upbringing (where unless you lost an appendage AND were burned over 90% of your body, at the same time you were not allowed to cry without much verbal abuse), but I really can’t understand when people complain about completely trivial things. The fact that a business (whether the original or a new, parent company) decides that a change in their operating paradigm is necessary (or desired) is part of life and something that a reasonable and intelligent customer (user) should understand and roll with. Of course, in an age where customers believe that the world revolves around them, I guess it shouldn’t surprise me to see and read the completely ignorant and selfish vitriol being lashed out out Flickr and Yahoo.

Having to change your user id? Annoying to be sure, but worth spilling precious saline over? Hardly. There are so many things in the world to be indignant over… The inept administration of the war, the fact that my San Diego Chargers can’t win a big game to save their lives, the price of a caramel macchiatto here on maui, the legal ramifications of strangling idiots who piss me off… the list is endless without having to resort to begrudging a business from doing what it believes it needs to do to offer a better, more cost effective product. The world is a tool shed to be sure, but the intraweb seems to be HOME DEPOT on Father’s Day.