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July 2009

The Wienermobile in Kailua

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What would the Fourth of July holiday be without some wieners? Or how about one gigantic wiener? As in the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile that’s touring Hawaii for the next week.

Here are a few shots of the Wienermobile in Kailua.

The interior upholstery is yellow and red though not as shocking and irritating as the Windows hot dog stand theme. The interior roof is blue skies, but you can’t really stand up inside the Wienermobile. You gotta hunch over to get to the driver’s seat.

There was a small crowd visiting and everyone got a free Wiener Whistle. But sorry, no free wieners. You had to buy the hot dogs from an adjacent tent.

If you want to check out the Wienermobile for yourself, here’s their schedule. And you can get more wiener-licious news from the Hotdogger blog and their Twitter feed.

Kailua Fourth of July Parade

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This is the first year we went to the Fourth of July Parade in Kailua. I didn’t know this event was a politically rally. The Governor and Lieutenant Govenor, Linda Lingle and Duke Aiona, were there along with many more politicians. Grand Marshal Wally “Famous” Amos had his leg in a cast.

Pictures from the scorching hot parade.

Sexually Implicit Instructions

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Just what is being described in these instructions?

To ensure long lasting fun and to maximize the enjoyment… This will get (you) warmed up. Continue your… fun… which will have (you) begging for more. More noise, more excitement, and plenty of oohs and aahs! A great finale!

Would you guess these are for fireworks?

Big Thunder Directions

These sexually implicit instructions are from the TNT Big Thunder fireworks pack sold at Costco.

Big Thunder Fireworks

Are you ready for the Rain Dance and Golden Shower?

Adding su.pr to Pulpconnection

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I’m tweaking things a little by adding StumbleUpon’s new su.pr service to Pulpconnection. Su.pr is yet another URL shortening service (still under development) but has the appeal of tapping into the popular StumbleUpon “stumbles.”

Su.pr also has its own WordPress plugin which makes configuration much easier, and su.pr even supports shortening URLs using your own domain. For example, links I “shorten” can look like https://www.pulpconnection.net/asdf, though that’s not a very short URL. I’ll have to play with that a bit.

I also stopped my automatic Twitterfeed that publishes Pulpconnection updates to my secondary Twitter account of @pulpconnection. Instead, I’m leaving that duty to su.pr, but don’t worry, Pulpconnection updates are still Twitter fed to my primary Twitter account.

Let’s see what changes su.pr brings…

Gassing Up at Sam’s Club

The popular gas stations run by Costco have a new competitor in Hawaii with the opening of Sam’s Club’s own gas station. Though from the looks of things, I don’t know if this gas station will be around with business like this.

Sam's Club Gas Station Pearl City

I don’t mind the non-existent lines though, makes gassing up so much faster. 🙂

Thanks to The Counter!

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Just wanted to say thanks to The Counter for giving Hawaii its own Twitter special last night. If you bought two burgers on “Twitter Tuesday” then you’d get either free sweet fries or a dessert.

To beat the crowds, we got there a tad bit early but got the okay that the special would still apply. :)  We went with the traditional Counter Burger, my custom creation, a peanut butter shake, and some free sweet fries.

So ono!

And by the time we were leaving, the mass of Hawaii tweeters were congregating for their Counter dinner. And oh yeah,  congratulations to Ryan Kanno for being voted the most addicted to The Counter. In his honor, I call my custom made Counter burger “If Kanno Were a Carnivore.”

Did I Just Break the Law?

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The Hawaii “cell phone” ban kicked in today, so I did I break the law by changing tracks on my iPod?

iPod Nano in Car

And yes, my car engine was running.

Engine Running

I may be okay since the HPD FAQ about this ban mentions this caveat:

A violation occurs when the operator of the motor vehicle holds the device in his/her hand for whatever reason, i.e., changing playlists, adjusting the volume, changing photographs, and watching or shuffling a video

My iPod is “mounted” using a Belkin TuneBase so I don’t actually hold my iPod. Did I just break the law or what?