Top Referrers

September 8, 2007

Naturally, I am always interested to look at my website stats to see who came here, from what search engine, etc. This time, I was most interested to look at my website stats to find my top referrers. Among some of them were Australia, Sweden, Netherlands, Singapore, China, Japan, Norway, Brazil, Switzerland, Italy, UK, Czech Republic, Seychelles, and others - I wish those people would post as it would make for a most interesting discussion.

I also found some somewhat disturbing stats. Here are a couple of other visitors: US Military (16 visits this month) & US Government (1 visit this month) and ARPANET (15 times this month). Last month, the US Military visited 2 times. Am I becoming a threat? (lol) Am I on some list of potential terrorists? It is certainly not a secret that the US Government tracks the movements of environmental and animal activists. However, I do not belong to any organized groups - so it is curious. Perhaps, because of the current administration they are tracking all known vegetarians. Ha.

At any rate, I invite the US Military and US Government visitors to post and let everyone know why they had DU on the Big Island and lied about it, why so many feral cats on Mauna Kea have leukemia from DU, why the people living in Waiakea have been breathing in DU and have had problems [respiratory, cancer, etc], why they say DU is safe but have training videos that speak to the contrary, and what they are going to do about it? Feel free to post.

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Myriad of updates…

August 5, 2007

Brian’s parents just visited and we had a grand time.  We went snorkeling in Hilo several times and had a great time seeing the variety of fish out and about.  I saw my first snake eel and later snake eel babies.  On Brian’s birthday he and his father went hiking in North Kohala and had a lot of fun exploring Polulu Valley and the neighboring valley.  We also went to the Lava Tree State Park down near Pahoa.  We also visited the astronomy center at UHH (Imiloa) and did star gazing on Mauna Kea.  The evening on Mauna Kea was less than enjoyable for me though - I was car sick on the hour long ride to Mauna Kea which was further exacerbated by taking a 1 mile walk at 9000 feet mostly uphill on the way back at sunset when it was about 50 degrees.  I felt horrible the whole night but fortunately I woke up feeling better the next day.  We also visited the Kaumana Caves but I did not walk very far as my shoes proved to be inadequate for the task.  I think everyone had a good time…

Brian and I also went to an rough water  race while his parents were visiting.  We checked it out and I am currently thinking about doing the 2 mile Kealakekua Bay rough water race.  I surely will not win but I think it would be a lot of fun.  Brian is now using this as yet another excuse to talk me into doing qualifying races for the Ironman.  I think I will pass as I am not interested in dying before I turn thirty, thank you very much.

I was also able to bodyboard at Hapuna and was able to ride one absolutely perfect wave and a bunch of not so perfect waves.  I did get a nasty burn.  While in the water I was trying to remember why I had made such a big deal about wearing my board shorts but I could not recall why - it became obvious to me later when my derrière burned.

While at Kona Bay Books, Brian spotted Da Jesus Book - the Pidgin Bible.  Seriously, I am speechless.

In other news, the Big Island is getting Target, Circuit City, PetSmart (I think), PF Changs, and Office Max all on the Kona side.  I am not exactly excited.  I like Target and would gladly trade in Walmart and Kmart for it but seriously we don’t need all of those stores.

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Mauna Kea and other news

July 17, 2007

On Sunday, Brian and I spent the day hiking on Mauna Kea at about 10,000 feet.  It was also misting, foggy, and about 55 degrees.  We had a great time but were completely exhausted after we finished hiking.  Altitude hiking really takes it out of you…

Brian’s parents are coming to visit next week and we should all have a lot of fun hiking, doing water activities, etc.

Also, Brian has decided to go to China for a year to work at a university there.  That should be interesting.

More later - I’m too sleepy to function properly at the moment.

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February 17, 2004

A to the point article about The Passion of Christ. While the article is brief, it gets to the point of the The Passion of Christ: it is nothing new.

Pretty cool story from space This story is about a giant diamond that exists in space. I just thought the story was interesting.

Chinese plans show up for building Libyan nuclear plansts. First the Libyans want to kill us. Then the Libyans want to be our friends. Now the Libyans want to build nuclear plants. Sounds kosher to me. ;)

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A to the point article about The Passion of Christ. While the article is brief, it gets to the point of the The Passion of Christ: it is nothing new.

Pretty cool story from space This story is about a giant diamond that exists in space. I just thought the story was interesting.

Chinese plans show up for building Libyan nuclear plansts. First the Libyans want to kill us. Then the Libyans want to be our friends. Now the Libyans want to build nuclear plants. Sounds kosher to me. ;)

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March 29, 2003

It seems as though the War on the Ba’ath party in Iraq is all over the news. I actually learned that I own a TV because of this war. I have become very interested in the live feeds and coverage. What does everyone think about the war? I am actually in favor of this war because of human rights and the fact that the UN failed to do its job. I have been watching and reading news from many different countries. While I always read news from various countries, it is funny to see the spin that becomes obvious when you read a story about the same thing from 15 or 20 countries. I think by far China has the most hilarious coverage. They change around everything that is said. Either they have some REALLY horrible translators or they want to sabotage the truth all together. I am guessing it is the latter.

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It seems as though the War on the Ba’ath party in Iraq is all over the news. I actually learned that I own a TV because of this war. I have become very interested in the live feeds and coverage. What does everyone think about the war? I am actually in favor of this war because of human rights and the fact that the UN failed to do its job. I have been watching and reading news from many different countries. While I always read news from various countries, it is funny to see the spin that becomes obvious when you read a story about the same thing from 15 or 20 countries. I think by far China has the most hilarious coverage. They change around everything that is said. Either they have some REALLY horrible translators or they want to sabotage the truth all together. I am guessing it is the latter.

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