April Buchheit

The Grand Hyatt is great. kauai.hyatt.com - Seth

My wife and I split our trip between Poipu and Princeville. We stayed at the Sheraton in Poipu and the Hanalei Bay Resort (http://www.summitpacificinc.com/hanalei...). Hanalei Bay Resort is just down the hill from The St. Regis Princeville Resort. Not nearly as upscale but a lot cheaper. Like others have said, the northern part of the island is more remote but it's also much more scenic. We did about 5 miles on the Kalalau Trail and also did a great boat ride along the Napali Coast. - Mike Doeff

"Sarah Palin's resignation as Governor of Alaska is a brilliant liberating move for her career, and a potential turning point for the national conservative movement. The biggest problem with her responsibility as Governor of Alaska is that the state is so far away from the rest of America. No one hears of the good work she has been doing there, and the left is free to paint their own false caricature of her. And because of the long distance and her family, as well as governing, responsibilities, she can't get down to the lower-48 enough to build her national political presence. I am hoping she spends two weeks of every month now touring the states doing fundraisers for a the sweeping Republican revival in 2010 that is now developing. I hope she establishes a new national grassroots organization to fight for conservative causes. And I hope she starts a new national think tank in Washington. She could pick up the mantle for social conservatism for the late Paul Weyrich in Washington,... more... - April Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Didn't you know, Gabe? That's one of the years the GOP got stuck in a time-loop. It's not that they are out of touch, uninformed, and using obsolete methods...it's just that they keep getting stuck in temporal anomalies. There is also the portion that is stuck in Sept. 2001 and think that simply shouting "terrorism" and "9-11" loud enough is going to motivate people. Then there is... more... - Neal Jansons

Hilarious! I <3 Jim Carrey! - April Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Second to the last pic slightly NSFW - April Buchheit via Bookmarklet

and one pic slightly disturbing. - Tudor Bosman

Anybody remember this? - April Buchheit via Bookmarklet

"During last week’s discussion of whether couples choose to learn the sex of their baby before he or she is born, a number of you said you wanted to keep the secret as long as possible, because the moment people hear “boy” or “girl” they begin to make assumptions about a child. One couple in Sweden decided to take that logic a few steps further, and are refusing to tell anyone whether their toddler is a boy or a girl. The child — called Pop in Swedish papers to protect his or her identity — is now two-and-a-half-years-old, and only a handful of close relatives (those who have changed the child’s diaper) know the sex. Pop’s parents, who are both 24, say they made this decision in the hope of freeing their child from the artificial construct of gender." - April Buchheit via Bookmarklet

I'm trying to imagine what this will do to "Pop" at age 18 - Bogdan Costea

"When Martin Jones met his wife four years ago, he never imagined that one day he would get to see what she looked like. The 42-year-old builder was left blind after an accident at work more than a decade ago. But a remarkable operation - which implants part of his tooth in his eye - has now pierced his world of darkness. The procedure, performed fewer than 50 times before in Britain, uses the segment of tooth as a holder for a new lens grafted from his skin. 'The doctors took the bandages off and it was like looking through water and then I saw this figure and it was her,' he said today." - April Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Weird - Maggie

Silly kitty! - Anne Bouey

She is now old enough to run for President - April Buchheit via iPhone

was there fire spitting? - bob

Sadly no. - April Buchheit

Trying out the video function on my new iPhone :) - April Buchheit

Brock 'Bama rocks! - Felicia Yue

Paul got to drive it on the freeway though, which to me, means more fun. I only got to drive down Middlefield Road through Palo Alto. I did have the idea of going over to the Tesla dealership in Menlo Park and doing donuts around the parking lot. :) - April Buchheit

Today, during a friend's bridal shower, the urge to design has been rekindled when we did the toilet paper bride game (we were broken up into groups and we had to design our own wedding gown using only toilet paper and a team member as our mannequin). I guess my point to this post is, if I were serious about pursuing this, where do I begin? Should I sign up for design classes? - April Buchheit

But now, I feel like I've missed some sort of a more artistic calling... - April Buchheit

"In the face of a growing number of deaths and cases of HIV linked to drug abuse, the Portuguese government in 2001 tried a new tack to get a handle on the problem—it decriminalized the use and possession of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, LSD and other illicit street drugs. The theory: focusing on treatment and prevention instead of jailing users would decrease the number of deaths and infections. Five years later, the number of deaths from street drug overdoses dropped from around 400 to 290 annually, and the number of new HIV cases caused by using dirty needles to inject heroin, cocaine and other illegal substances plummeted from nearly 1,400 in 2000 to about 400 in 2006, according to a report released recently by the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C, libertarian think tank." - April Buchheit via Bookmarklet

YES! This is an awesome case study. Let's legalize pot in CA - they need the tax revenue and I want my tax dollars going toward something better than jailing ppl who smoke weed. - Felicia Yue

1. donorschoose.org: having been a teacher for a low-income area myself, I can identify with a lot of the teachers who sign up requesting for donations to fund lessons and classroom materials. - April Buchheit

Paul, even crowd sourcing isn't going to really give you a picture of what these organizations do with the money. If you are involved with the organization you get a better idea, but everyone is generally looking for fulfilling their own needs and not at the back end. You only end up with part of the picture. Foundations have processes set up that often include site visits, interviewing... more... - Rachel Lea Fox

Looks delicious. On the other hand... when is caprese salad not delicious? Mmmmm. - Ross Miller

I like this one better. What did you use to make the video? - Paul Buchheit

The new version is almost twice as fast as the old one. - Clare Dibble

I liked seeing his metamorphosis from alien to human. - Gabe

American Graphity. - Richard Chen

Kate, that was AWESOME. Thank you. - Michael R. Bernstein

This is version 2, by the way. The first version was playing a song that was not appropriate for a baby video (in case you're wondering what it was, it was "When the Angels Fall" by Sting - it had too somber of a tone) - April Buchheit

"One of our favorite Kevin Smith stories is the one about how when Dogma was released and Catholics were busy protesting the film, Smith himself went out to a local Jersey theater and protested the movie - figuring that none of the protesters would recognize him. Ironically, he wound up being interviewed for a local news piece as a "protester" and apparently the original video of that news report has now surfaced online. Praise Jesus." - April Buchheit via Bookmarklet

People (possibly including Moore) just don't realize that the movies are actually mockumentaries, like This is Spinal Tap. - Gabe

"By golly, he's right...they ARE whiter!" - April Buchheit via Bookmarklet

zOMG! =D - Susan Beebe

Since Yahtzee still hasn't put permalinks on his blog, I'm going to link to my FF quote instead: http://friendfeed.com/jessica... - Andrew C

"It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette. Another notable feature that the iPod has and the Walkman doesn't is "shuffle", where the player selects random tracks to play. Its a function that, on the face of it, the Walkman lacks. But I managed to create an impromptu shuffle feature simply by holding down "rewind" and releasing it randomly - effective, if a little laboured." - April Buchheit via Bookmarklet

fascinating read - Dobromir Hadzhiev

From 'Heart of Darkness' - April Buchheit

I'd surmise your account has been in jeopardy for a long time, but it sharpens one as a writer, doesn't it :) - Micah Wittman

Reference: http://ff.im/4wmKI - April Buchheit