[Occupy Honolulu, or DeOccupy Honolulu, as it is officially designated, began its encampment on November 5, 2011. Eight protesters were immediately arrested. Their trial will continue in early April. The existing encampment, although much smaller than its Zuccotti Park counterpart, has endu… Read full post »

[Cross-posted from the DougNote blog.]

The corner of Ward and Beretania fronting Thomas Square in the early morning of December 30, 2011, right after Honolulu Police cleared the encampment from the park area arresting two, and destroying what remained of the encampment. 

I am happy to say that I was finally persuaded to watch this movie by all the good reviews on the internet.  I was not disappointed.  Among many other things, I found the initially puzzling use of language and the featured thespians mastery of the acting arts more than… Read full post »

I spent the last few months with Richard Hamasaki recording and mixing an album of amplified poetry by Craig Santos Perez and Nalani Brandy McDougall. The first online store to have it up was Apple's iTunes Store which took all of a day from my sending it to them putting it up… Read full post »

Yoshio Matsuoka 1918 - 1978 

Neuroscientists now tell us that memory is a creative and plastic artifact subject to our own willful and inadvertent influence, the most powerful of which, I think, is the compulsion to understand things as coherent narratives.  But judging from what I… Read full post »

I’m looking forward to heading out to Cape Canaveral in a couple of days to participate in the NASA Tweetup for the last launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour.  Yes, it uses the Brit spelling because it’s named after the HMS Endeavor, the ship commanded by Captain Cook on… Read full post »

One day you will fall asleep in your quarters high in the imperial tower of the capital of Now. You will awaken in a ditch in some cornfield out in the sticks.

Uh oh.  You fell asleep here.  Where the future was. 

Actually not. You will awaken in the… Read full post »

OK, the iPad 2, I got it figured out.  [Oh, and I was going to post a thing saying where I've been and why I've been away etc. but later okay?]  This post will lack links to sources and support for my speculation because there really isn't any.  This is indeed… Read full post »

I just saw Inside Job and I'd have to say that although it repeats a lot of information printed and seen elsewhere, it's worth seeing.  However, if you don't have the time, click here for the 20 second audio version.  (Yes, you have to hit the little arrow thingie.)

H. Doug Matsuoka… Read full post »

I'm not saying the movie The Social Network was "about" scale and scalability -- I don't think movies have to be "about" anything at all.  If a movie will take me up and down a bunch of peaks and valleys then deposit me right back where I started/… Read full post »

Casio and Microsoft have teamed up to produce a digital reader with adjustable, flowing text and images, highlighting, notating, and even a built in dictionary.  As you can see, it features a backlit color screen that is larger than the iPhone's.  The font technology uses su/… Read full post »

I'm filing this under "learning."  I guess, generally speaking, one shouldn't post their failed experiments, but this one is only 42 seconds long and kinda cool.

So I've been here at Open Salon for a little while.  It's a cool place to hang out and there is some great writing here.  I think this is a place for writing, no?  So I'm wondering if I should post silly things like my time-lapse experiment here.  Well, why not… Read full post »

With all the smartphone internet traffic these days, Blogger would for sure have a mobile format available, right?  And Google owning Blogger means that your posts get googled quickly, no?  And Google is so huge (through high-tech efficiency) and so many people use Blogger that the support… Read full post »

Sometimes, all you have is a few square feet of concrete and something to say.  Surrounding you, stifling you, the multi-billion dollar froth of corporate media and mediocrity.  What is a reasonable man to do?  

Traditionally, we take up the pen and press.… Read full post »

Let's see... I came here from googling something hit a signup button and here I am.  If things work out, I'll hang out and may stick around a while.  Kinda like dating during the Disco era if you recall.  Sorry, I forget your name... Read full post »