We went to the Bishop Museum this morning to see three Ku sculptures exhibited together for the first time in 150 years. What the heck is a Ku, you ask? Kū is known throughout the Pacific as the god of procreation, prosperity, and warfare. Here’s an amateur picture. They’re bigger than life-size and they’re damned …
While making the case for Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Protection Financial Agency/Bureau/whatever it ends up being named, Paul Krugman puts his finger on the political reason for appointing her. Mr. Obama?s attempts to avoid confrontation have been counterproductive. His opponents remain filled with a passionate intensity, while his supporters, having received no …
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I rise to point out a drawback to living in Hawai’i. There are two major airport terminals on Oahu: one for interisland flights and one for domestic/international ones. If you haven’t looked for parking at the airport in a while (in my case, about 15 years), you may park in the structure attached to the …
Pedantry redux: I eagerly await my first sighting of the word “tort” on a menu, meant to describe a rich cake. Conversely, maybe I’ll see the word “torte” on the business pages of a newspaper, meant to describe “a wrongful act that results in injury to another’s person, property, reputation, or the like, and for …
It’s not the scanning that’s the hard work, it’s the captioning. 35 pictures, an hour-and-a-half. Actually, it’s deciding which photos truly represent the time frame you’re trying to save out of the hundreds you have which takes the most time.
I get a daily e-mail from Monster telling me what new jobs have been posted to its board in my location. I’m noticing that on any given day one-third to one-half of those jobs appear to be posted by “staffing consultants,” not the companies doing the actual hiring. Should one be bullish on the hiring …
I remember buying “Private Investigations: The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler”. I’d never heard much of the band’s music, but I knew the group’s name and thought “Why not?” Imagine my surprise when this song came on and I realized NPR had been using it for one of its “buttons,” those little interludes …
Charming. . . .asbestos use is growing rapidly in countries such as China and India, prompting health experts to warn of future epidemics of lung cancer, asbestosis and mesothelioma, an aggressive malignancy that usually attacks the lining of the lungs. The World Health Organization says that 125 million people still encounter asbestos in the workplace, …
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I haven’t plugged Library Thing in a while. Let me point out the amusing and mostly useless statistics the system keeps about my library: Item: There are 256 different “series” to which my books belong (quotations because series is kind of free-form. Your books may become part of a series if some other Library Thing …
From the inbox: Greetings… My name is Mr. John Hamilton, the chairman technical crew Chelsea Football Club West London. I am writing in search of a trustworthy elderly or caregiver, housekeeper and a house manager from your country to work with my old Parents in London. I have 75 years old Dad and 67 years …