Snoop on Yourself

You can do this, y’know. You can find out what people are saying about you online.

All you have to do is set up a Google Alert.

It could be helpful, just in case somebody is trying to smear your good name in some ridiculous website. If you find something bad being said about you, the sooner you notify the website owner, the faster it’ll be taken down and the less likely the smear will be repeated elsewhere.

Just go to www.google.com/alerts. It’s simple, it’s free, and it’s good protection.

Because these days … one just never knows.

“Beard Saga II” Making a Point

Now that I’ve had my beard for a little more than 10 weeks, I’ve decided to mess around with the style just a little bit more.

What I did was trim the jawline hair so none of it hung below the jawline. I left the chin hairies alone this time.

The result is a more … um … devilish style.

The Beard: It Now Has a Slight Rounded Point

Fair Warning!

This sign requires practically no commentary, except to say that that I’d warn the soccer players not to cry out “Oh shoot!” if they’re tackled or knocked to the ground, or miss a goal, or let the ball get pass them.

Keeping Abreast of Charities

Oh boy … here’s a slightly creepy "charity."

There’s a website called myfreeimplants.com where women can post photos of their needy chests, and wait for benevolent men to donate money that will be used to pay for breast implant surgery.

The guys benefit, of course – they can have private chats with the women they “sponsor,” if they pay a monthly membership fee as well.

Who in their right mind would do this? That’s what I asked myself. But … apparently the website has helped several hundred women find their “swell” new figures.

This is just another sign that the Apocalypse is just around the corner.

For High-End Rear Ends

Waitrose Supermarket in London is now selling “cashmere toilet paper” impregnated with cashmere extracts. Its high-end luxurious toilet-paper line includes fanny wipes containing aloe vera and jojoba extracts.

According to Waitrose buyer Carla Smith, "It's indulgent, it's stylish and it's helping provide that extra softness to our new premium bathroom tissue collection."

It’s not terribly expensive either, selling at about $3.50 for a four-roll pack, and $7.52 for nine (the budget pack).

I looked and looked, but can find nothing about “cashmere extract.” Guess it’s little bitty fibers of the ultra-soft under fur of the cashmere goats, huh? Hope it doesn’t make your butt fuzzy.

No matter. It’s toilet paper fit for a king, giving a whole new meaning to the term, “throne room.”

Red Hot Hibiscus

I don’t have much to add about the brilliant beauty of this flower, except to say it’s in a hibiscus hedge alongside the Imperial Plaza building at the corner of Kapiolani Boulevard and Cooke Street near downtown Honolulu.

Pretty, huh?

Find a Penny …

Remember the old saying about a penny?

Find a penny, pick it up

And all day you’ll have good luck.

I wonder how many people still pick up pennies they see lying there on the ground. I know I don’t.

I did see a nickel on the ground yesterday in the supermarket parking lot. After standing there for a couple of seconds, contemplating my next move, I gave in to my nostalgic recollection of the adage, bent over and picked up the nickel.

But I didn’t keep it. I put it in the Red Cross can with the rest of my change at the grocery store’s check-out counter, my thought being that maybe I can pass on my day’s share of good luck to someone who really needs it.

I would have put it in the nickelodeon, but I couldn't find one where I was.

Hawaii Technology Education Fair

Being shown in conjunction with the 2010 Hawaii Science and Engineering Fair a couple of weeks ago was the Hawaii Technology Education Fair, which was administered by the Hawaii Academy of Science for the Hawaii Department of Education.

(That sure is a bunch of Hawaii agencies and events, eh?)

Since I was at the science fair, I snooped around the tech education area and snapped a few pix. Here’s some of what was on display …

Group A “Best of Show”

Group B “Best of Show”

CD Cover Designs

Tee Shirt Designs

Handmade Ukuleles

These are some talented kids, eh?

A Neck and Neck Race

Every election, I count the election signs along the roadway from my street to the Manoa Market Place where my post office, drug store and supermarket are.

Currently, there is a race on to temporarily fill one of the two Hawaii seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, because the incumbent resigned to run for Hawaii governor in November. It’s a winner-take-all election with the candidate having the greatest number of votes claiming the seat.

Registered voters in the First Congressional District (Oahu Island’s most densely populates areas) will vote by mail; ballots must be returned by May 22.

So far this year, it’s pretty much a toss-up between Republican Charles Djou and Democrat Ed Case. The signs indicate they are leaving Democrat Colleen Hanabusa in the dust. It appears to be a two-candidate toss-up because as of yesterday, I counted 5 fence/yard signs for Case, 4 for Djou, and 0 (none, nada) for Hanabusa.

This is totally unscientific, but I’ve found that the sign count along my two-mile (round trip) drive pretty much serves a predictor on who will win an election.

I’m just saying.

Yesterday was “420 Day”

Not only was it April 20 (4/20), yesterday, it was also “420 Day,” a day when potheads gather en masse to smoke, puff and otherwise consume cannabis – y’know, marijuana … pot … weed … Mary Jane.

The “420” actually refers to the alleged time (4:20 p.m.) when a group of high school potheads gathered at San Rafael High School (California) to puff.

This stupid counterculture holiday has spread to cities and universities across the U.S., Canada and New Zealand.

The above picture is a vid-cap taken yesterday at Redwood Park, Arcata, California. Check out that cloud of smoke, and notice how the picture is unfocused. Guess the photographer was celebrating too, huh?

Pity the fool bird that tried to fly through THAT cloud.