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I buy my books at Borders, Friends of Kaneohe Library Booksale, Amazon & Alibris.

1. Melons for the Passionate Grower by Amy Goldman
2. The Heirloom Tomato by Amy Goldman
3. The Compleat Squash by Amy Goldman
4. The History Of Kanalu by B. K. Namakaokeahi
5. Native Planters by Handy & Pukui
6. Hammond World Atlas 5th edition
7. Goode's World Atlas (1961)
8. These United States by Readers Digest (1961)
9. Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections
10. Princess of the Night Rides by John Dominis Holt
11. Grow Vegetables by Alan Buckingham
12. The Body Fat Solution by Tom Venuto
13. The End of Overeating by David A. Kessler, MD
14. The Complete Book of Indian Cooking by Shehzad Husain and Rafi Fernandez
15. Remains of a Rainbow by Liittschwager & Middleton
16. Hawaii: Tides of Change by Bob Krauss, Rick Golt
17. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
18. Waking Up In Eden by Lucinda Fleeson
19. The Truth About Garden Remedies by Jeff Gillman
20. Na Maka o Halawa: A History of Halawa Ahupua'a, Oahu by Klieger
21. Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web by Jeff Lowenfels
22. Island by Aldous Huxley

My favorite hangout, Border's Windward Mall...

Heading out to my mom's house for thanksgiving. Just me and her again. I'll probably come home before dark cause my lights on my car don't work, and maybe have dinner here. haha. double thankgivings. my mom is just ordering one of those meal thingys from safeway.

I just never knew how good health care is here, compared to the rest of the country. We have employer provided healthcare for employees working over 20 hours a week and we've had it since 1974. So I've had it my whole life. It was only when I started working for the county of Honolulu that I had to pay premiums and it really hasn't gone up that much in 15yrs. I've heard other states had it and dropped it cause employers were thereting to leave the state if they passed it?

Just watching all the debate has opened my eyes to how crappy the health insurance industry is run.

Well, Hawaii was #1 in 2007 according to this article, but like it said, every state has room for improvement.

"...if all states equaled the top-rated states, there would be 90,000 fewer premature deaths before age 75 from conditions such as diabetes, infection, respiratory disease, and treatable cancers. In addition, 22 million more adults and children would be insured, cutting U.S. uninsured rates in half."

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Fascinating interactive representation of US Unemployment.

Press play and watch the jobs go bye-bye.

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I'm guessing the 'myzoo' game at facebook is run by people where english is a 2nd language to them. First they put for my status update, "Charles is playing with her zoo", now it has "Charles is playing with him zoo".

The most awkward family pictures. The captions on some of these are hilarious.

Awkward Family Photos.com

A fairly accurate review of the film. I disagree that the soundtrack was overbearing though. I barely noticed it.

Barbarian Princess Review

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Hawaii premier of "Barbarian Princess" sparking controversy and ticket sales - Hawaii News Now - KGMB and KHNL Home

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Windy, rainy, yet sunny! What a strange day.

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Megan Fox was voted best sci-fi actress for her role in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, prompting website Contactmusic.com to crown her “Queen of the Geeks“.

So Seattle-Geekly.com made their own list of Queen of the Geeks, and on theirs is one of my favorite authors, James Tiptree Jr. AKA Alice Bradley Sheldon. Hmm, don't know if she should hold the title of Queen of the Geeks, but she definitely belongs among geek royalty. :)



"I live way within, in the unformed, unchallenging depths, occasionally lashing out at someone with a tongue-whip of words, a severe glitter -- 'See, I contain marvels!' -- then whisk, back into the hole."~Alice B. Sheldon

Didn't dress up and go to Waikiki like I've done in the past. Just kind of not feeling it this year. ok, so last year was the same and the year before.....lol. can't remember the last time I went, 2005? we didn't dress up at the office like we used to either, but Lisa did decorate the office. She bought everything and decorated it all herself. if it wasn't for her, it'd be bland cause the rest of us are just plain lazy.

Her and her mother a little bit of a shopoholic, when it comes to those after holiday sales and she snatches stuff up. and they collect nutcrackers...LOTS of nutcrackers...a whole house full of them.

( a collage of the office decor )

Snagged from sisyphus238....Costuming your effeminate son....

To each of these societies thriving around the globe so long ago, the world of their grandfathers' grandfathers was already ancient, just as Ecclesiastes described it to be. And on this particular day, Sunday, October 23rd, 4004 BC., no one alive would have believed that this was the first day, or that the Earth had just been created that morning.

My co-worker's yard and the exterior of her house were used in the short film "Lychee Thieves", which debuted last night at the Hawaii International Film Festival. She also got two tickets to see Barbarian Princess and is trying to wrangle two more tickets from the director of Lychee Thieves, so she can take her daughter and she said she'd give me the other ticket. Hope so.

Barbarian Princess is turning out to be yet another missed opportunity, no surprise there. Still want to see it though. With historic dramas there's always that problem of taking to much artistic license and end up distorting the truth. Stick with the truth as much as possible, it's always more interesting. But ultimately it's the 'vision' of the director or writer, whatever, that your watching. Even so, I still like watching historical movies.

maldito posted this link to a good article that pretty much sums up what's wrong with the movie....

"It would have been more historically accurate and dramatically engaging to tell the truth– that the overthrow and the results of occupation crippled a government and its people who had a constitution and a bill of rights that was arguably one of the most socially progressive in the world at that time. Just as the film referenced that ‘Iolani Palace had electricity before the White House, Forby could have just as easily referred to many examples, like the constitutional protections for immigrants, or policies outlawing slavery years before the Emancipation Proclamation, among others."

A collage of pics of my great great grandmother, Emma Fern. Her hat looks strange to me and in the one on the right, it looks like it's made of her hair. I'm sure there's a name for this style of hat, but so far looking on the net has resulted in nothing.



In 1875, vibrant writer Isabella Bird, wrote with awe about her arrival to the “Sandwich Islands.” She was especially impressed with Hawaiian women’s love of horses.

“Every now and then a flower-wreathed Hawaiian woman, in her full radiant garment, sprang on one of these animals astride, and dashed along the road at full gallop, sitting on her horse as square and easy as a hussar…The women seemed perfectly at home in their gay, brass-bossed, high peaked saddles, flying along astride, barefooted, with their orange and scarlet riding dresses streaming on each side beyond their horses’ tails, a bright kaleidoscopic flash of bright eyes, white teeth, shining hair, garlands of flowers and many-coloured dresses…Sometimes a troop of twenty of these free-and-easy female riders went by at a time, a graceful and exciting spectacle, with a running accompaniment of vociferation and laughter…Many of the women were in flowing riding-dresses of pure white, over which their unbound hair, and wreaths of carmine-tinted flowers fell most picturesquely.”

Edit: originally posted at genealogy

My great great grandmother is the woman in the center, with the funny hat on. I've seen this group of riders in various books, dressed exactly the same, so I know it's from the same day/parade/event, but the date given is June 11, 1900 in one book and when I ordered the picture from the museum, the date on the back said 1900-1910. She would have been 8 months pregnant on June 11, 1900. To complicate things, the man in the white outfit next to her is in a photo at the archives dated 1907, he has the same exact outfit on & I just found a 'moving picture' with this same group on a dvd. Their with a bunch of old clips called the Edison Films, 1898, but only one clip (the worst of the bunch) has the date of 1898 and all of them have the copyright of 1906. Now, my cousin on the mainland, emailed me this:

"Robert K. Bonine made a video 1906-7, titled Pa'u riders (some sources say 07). He worked for Edison. He made a lot of old videos in Hawaii and went to Hawaii in 1906...found stuff on him. There is a reference to it at the Manoa website and they say it's in the Library of Congress."

So if you were trying to date this photograph, what conclusion would you come to?
I'm also wondering about that hat. Is there a name for that style & when it was popular?



'Moving Picture' of the same group:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6bi5cpGIq0