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Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I'm an artist. View and purchase my work at http://kgillart.blogspot.com/ and http://www.etsy.com/shop... I'm married to Harold :)
Finally found a golden kiwi. It's in Maui. A little sweeter than green kiwi, and a little apple-like with a lemony tang. - http://kamilah.posterous.com/finally...
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*sings "I've Got a Golden Kiwi"*
- Laura B.
Old Lahaina Book Emporium. This place is awesome. I bought a couple of species identification books. It's stuffed with used books. - http://www.oldlahainabookemporium.com/
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The older lady working there today was very friendly and chatted with us. She suggested Ono Gelato Company to us. That looked incredible and we'll be coming back there later to have the gelato. I could kiss her for that tip.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
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Maui 5:50am: A riotous chorus of birds outside the window at Aston Kaanapali Shores hotel. I'm just up already. Can't really sleep. This is what the guidebooks said would happen... Harold is still snoozing. But it's almost noon back home. Even though we stayed up for over 24 hours straight getting here.
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A cacaphony!
- TB, Dudelsackpfeifer
I don't mind being awakened by a bunch of birds if I wake up in Maui!!
- Michael Hocter
They didn't wake me up. I got up before them, then it was like tweet, tweettweet, tweettweettweettweettweettweet. (But it's just died down suddenly. Must be the Maui alarm clock.) The sun is starting to rise now. Pics in a few minutes.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I think I hear someone singing outside, but it's a little far away. The voice is echoing slightly. Sounds female. Seems to be in Hawaiian.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Be grateful it's not the chickens on Kauai... They're a little more jarring when you're not used to them.
- Lisa L. Seifert
from Android
Now that I have the bird ID book, I'll bet the noise was from mynah birds. They're all over the place.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Aloha Mixed Plate in Maui. Very good chicken, beef, mahimahi, 2 scoops rice & macaroni. - http://kamilah.posterous.com/aloha-m...
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6:30am Maui: View from Aston Kaanapali Shores. Birds quiet now. - http://kamilah.posterous.com/630am-m...
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There's a lovely garden in back with a pond that has koi so big, we can see them from the 5th floor. If just the backyard of the hotel is this awesome, I can't wait to see the rest of the island. We drove here in darkness, so all we could see were shadowy acacias along the way from the airport. We were on an unlit road cut through the rock. We've seen several birds already that I don't recognize. We'll definitely need to get a species identification book.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Welcome!
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Yay for Maui vacations!
- Georgia Diehl
from iPhone
Stephen, Georgia, we'll probably try to get in touch with you tomorrow. We're probably closer to you than I originally thought, since we're a little north of Lahaina proper.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
E Komo Mai :) I'm also in Lahaina now.. with the sailboats doing the race back to Oahu tomorrow .. Have fun driving around and try to visit Hana and Haleakala!
- agirlnamedxine
from BuddyFeed
The best thing we did was sailing on the America II from Lahaina. It holds about 34 on a 2 hour sail, but we only had 4 people on board. You will get soaking wet.
- Greg (Incidental Texan)
Hello, xine. Welcome to FriendFeed. Are you about to leave Maui?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Art by K. Gill: 09-04-10. On our way to Maui. Almost there! - http://kgillart.blogspot.com/2010...
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Hello, Seattle! Impressions: Rain (duh) and many conifers. Pretty (volcanic?) mountains. - http://kamilah.posterous.com/hello-s...
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Sorry for the horrible pic. I'm terrified of taking a photo here at the airport. Is there some special Seattle item that we ought to look for in the gift shops?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
from Posterous
It actually doesn't normally rain much this time of year.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sorry if I offended, Akiva. Just messing around. The gift shops didn't have lots of options, of course. Plenty of fugly Made in China crap. So I settled on some local candies (though perhaps the company is a bit large now), Fran's Chocolates. Chocolate-covered salt caramels. Mmm. And now we have a couple more hours to kill out here. We've already checked out all the shops. At least this corner of the airport is nice and quiet now.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Wasn't offended; just remarking that Labor Day weekend's usually bright, sunny, breezy, and warm. Also, Fran's is the best.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Art by K. Gill: 09-03-10. Going to Maui! - http://kgillart.blogspot.com/2010...
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Luna!!!
- Katy S
So cute! Have a wonderful trip :)
- Tamara
I love this SO much! Have a great time!
- Aden
bon voyage & happy honeymoon! <3
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from BuddyFeed
Thanks, everyone! Trying to tear myself away from FF & finish packing. We leave at 6 in the morning tomorrow (Saturday)! We'll be in Seattle for a few hours along the way, so we'll wave at the Seattleite FFers (& long-distance wave at Oregonians).
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Have fun! Great pic!
- Laura B.
See you here!
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
How is it so far? Nice weather? Got big plans for tomorrow?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Luna!
- Kevin Fox
Great weather ( a bit windy today) and as few plans as possible!
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
My 2nd most favourite place to be!
- Ken Morley
Death is Near | Flickr - This is one of the better images I've seen on Flickr in a while. It's from 2006. Powerful storytelling and composition. Such a serious situation. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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<3
- Jenny R- OCP
The grebe is so desperate on the bottom there, pushing against the falcon with its feet. And the falcon is very businesslike. Not at all proud or passionate about what he has to do. He just has to eat. The photographer says that the falcon met its own end just 2 months later.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
It's both amazing and scary.
- Orion Rising
I wonder how the falcon died, there doesn't seem to be an explanation.
- Halil
Perhaps of old age. The photographer had followed it for years.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Maybe the grebe had an older brother?
- Eivind
The Friend Feeders (Friends + Enemies). I'm sorry, but these are not FriendFeeders. Ick. It's yet another lame proposal for some conceptual art. I found the title a bit amusing. I'll bet she's completely oblivious of the actual FriendFeed. Otherwise she wouldn't have picked this title. - http://eyebeam.org/project...
"The Friend Feeders is an animated diptych, and part of a suite of projects for the UK entitled Friends + Enemies. Larger-than-life, each panel depicts a person who appears to be supporting a host of animals: the man on the left supports native species in Northern England; the woman on the right, an ethnic version of Mother Nature, is fodder for invasive species. The animation cycles through four seasons in Northern England, including summer and nocturnal visitors and year-round denizens. The work makes our favoritism literal, giving our own bodies up as food to support the species in question."
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
from Bookmarklet
"ethnic version of mother nature" WTF is that?? *eyeroll*
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Art by K. Gill: 09-02-10. Chris Martin of Coldplay singing "Yellow" @ yesterday's Apple thing. - http://kgillart.blogspot.com/2010...
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Apple revealed something or other yesterday. Here's Chris Martin of Coldplay singing at the event. (That one boring "& it was all yellow..." song.) But he's rich, so I'll just shut up now.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
from Bookmarklet
8.4 Million New Yorkers Suddenly Realize New York City A Horrible Place To Live | This is pretty hilarious. I guess NYC isn't as great as I think it is. - http://www.theonion.com/article...
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"Other incidents that prompted citizens to pick up and leave included the sight of garbage bags stacked 5 feet high on the sidewalk; the realization that being alone among millions of anonymous people is actually quite horrifying; a blaring siren that droned on and fucking on; muddy, refuse-filled puddles that have inexplicably not dried in three years; the thought of growing into a person whose meanness and cynicism is cloaked in a kind of holier-than-thou brand of sarcasm that the rest of the world finds nauseating; and all the goddamn people."
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
from Bookmarklet
Anyone else not seeing FF posts show up on Twitter? That is, if you have your FF and Twitter linked, of course.
yep.
- Kevin Pedraja
Hope it gets fixed soon....
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
dump.fm. Well... I'll never look at *those* Pokemon in quite the same way... So *that's* what's goin' on under there... - http://dump.fm/p...
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People have some busy, busy imaginations...
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
from Bookmarklet
o_O
- WorldofHiglet
Oh...my....
- Orion Rising
Well, at least it's not this...(NSFW) http://dump.fm/p...
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
This has to be the most imaginative Pokemon piece ever. http://ff.im/q7dyg
- Jimminy
Venombyte.com - Venomous Spiders of the US by State - http://www.venombyte.com/venom...
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Here's the list. It basically says the same thing that I repeat every time someone starts freaking out about spiders. If you're in the US, black widows and brown recluses are the only ones you need to worry about (apart from occasional exotics in some areas). This is true even in Hawaii.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
from Bookmarklet
Most "spider bites" are really Staph infections.
- Victor Ganata
Art by K. Gill: 09-01-10. - http://kgillart.blogspot.com/2010...
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I really like this picture.
- Reggie Levine
Thanks. It's based on a snapshot I found via Twitcaps.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Crazy! Georgia Diehl, Stephen Mack, and Harold and I are all going to be in Hawaii at the *same time*! Any other FFers going to Hawaii next week (or living there)? We could nearly have an FF meetup! - http://danandkeely.com/...
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Turns out the idea of having a FriendFeed meetup in Hawaii might not have been too crazy. If only we'd all known in advance. Perhaps the Australians and other FFers across the Pacific could have made plans :)
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
from Bookmarklet
YAY for Hawaii!! Hopefully we'll get to meet up Kamilah!
- Georgia Diehl
Are you going to Maui, too? Or a different island? Oh, never mind, I see the other message now :)
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
(http://friendfeed.com/georgia... is the "other message") Anyone else gonna be in Maui this week or next week? Ryan? Arlan?
- Stephen Mack
Hey Stephen. I'm there with ya in spirit; can't fly out to Maui.
- Arlan Koizumi
"THE ROYAL WAY—André Malraux— Smith & Haas ($2.50)." $2.50. That's the price of a *novel* in 1935. That just cracks me up a little. 75 years later, the average hardcover novel costs 10 times as much. - http://www.time.com/time...
Which, according to the first inflation calculator I checked, means that today's novel is a bargain: "What cost $2.50 in 1935 would cost $38.67 in 2009. "
- Walt Crawford
Interesting. A penny was worth a lot back then...
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Yep. That's why I've learned to use an inflation calculator whenever I see a good-old-days price. Similarly, watching an old movie where a sure-fire way to steal $250,000 meant the thief would be set for life, even if they admitted the theft and went to jail for several years: Maybe then, that might have been true.
- Walt Crawford
I'm confused. According to stuff I'm reading online, sunset is at about 6:40pm in Hawaii right now. Meanwhile, sunset is at about 8:15pm in Indiana, and at 7:15pm in (southern) California. How is this possible? Is Daylight Saving screwing stuff up?
I think Indiana doesn't go on Daylight Savings Time. Don't know about Hawaii.
- Jandy at 24x a second
Times of celestial events depend not only on time zone (and DST), but also on latitude and on relative position within the time zone.
- LogEx
Nope. First of all, Hawaii doesn't have DST, so the sun rises and sets earlier anyhoo. Additionally, sunset time depends on where you are in the time zone. Someone at the eastern end is going to have an earlier sunset than someone on the western end. Hope that helps... :)
- FF's Original Bubba
Sunrise and sunset times are also dependent on your geographical position with the time zone. Further west or east, etc. (Err, like everyone else said. :)
- Ha3rvey (100 PERCENT!!!)
Yes, we do have Daylight Saving time in Indiana now. We didn't when I was younger.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
It depends entirely on precisely where, geographically you are referring in relation to the border of the time zone. The farther west, the later the sunset.
- MV3B Incorrigible of FF
from iPod
Oh, okay. Last time I saw through there they didn't. To make matters worse, I was in the southern tip that was in the Central Time Zone - did they change that, too?
- Jandy at 24x a second
No, parts of Indiana are in Central. I'm in Northwest IN and we're CDT.
- Sarah G. in Exile
Sunrise/sunset times are affected by nearness to the equator aren't they?
- Brian Sullivan
We have Daylight Saving in Indianapolis now. I know that some portion of Indiana was different. Unless you mean Indiana is not Daylight Saving *right now*, but will be when we change our clocks. (All of this is terribly confusing to me since I didn't grow up doing it.) I do understand the different sunset times based on latitude. When I was in Brittany in France, sunset was super late, like almost 10:30 in the summer. Checking map for Hawaii's latitude now... I thought the day would be longer.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Yeah, Indiana is messed up with times: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Indiana also once attempted to legislate the value of pi https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped... :P (I kid... I shouldn't make fun of IN, I have relatives there)
- LogEx
The closer you are to the equator, the less the length of the day varies. So I imagine Hawaii's summer days aren't much longer than their winter days.
- Victor Ganata
Oh, okay, so the days aren't longer, they just stay very equal. I should have figured that out... I'm getting rusty on this stuff. I see now that Hawaii is just south of the Tropic of Cancer, which puts it just south of Florida's latitude. This is making a little more sense now. Thanks, everyone. Such a hot topic!
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
My California time there was for San Diego. I just checked Sacramento, and that's 7:35pm. A full 20 minutes of difference!
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Makes sense. Sacramento is farther north and farther west than San Diego is.
- Victor Ganata
Yes, longitude also makes a huge difference.
- MV3B Incorrigible of FF
from Android
Gives Arizona the #sideeye for it's (occasional) 4:30 sunrises.
- Ha3rvey (100 PERCENT!!!)
LOL 4:30?? WTF?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Yep, 4:30 sunrises suck. But we want that sun to go down as early as possible to relieve some of the heat...so no DST for us desert dwellers.
- FF's Original Bubba
Heh, at least the sun still goes down in Arizona. I've always wanted to see just how much living in Alaska during the summertime would screw me up just because of the perpetual sunlight.
- Victor Ganata
Kamilah, the first time I worked in AZ, I left the curtains open a little in my hotel room. At 4:45 or so, I woke up with the sun shining right in my face. I thought I was late for work and didn't set my cell phone alarm correctly!
- Ha3rvey (100 PERCENT!!!)
I think perpetual night would be worse :( Harvey, yeah, that would suck. I like late mornings and long days before nightfall. I see that all these quirks in sunrise and sunset times originate from a combination of natural and human circumstances. Nature has us in different positions on a tilted near-sphere that orbits the sun. Humans decide when the times are, so we can have shorter or longer days as desired.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
For our honeymoon we went to Dublin, Ireland. Average sunrise during our trip: 4:55am. Average sunset: 9:52pm. Keeping in mind that you can see light -1 hr to sunrise and +1 hr after sunset...let's just say streetlights didn't come on until after 10pm. Weird.
- FF's Original Bubba
The last time I was in Edmonton in June the sun didn't set until well after 9:30. Weird.
- MV3B Incorrigible of FF
from Android
Panama would really be confusing then...because it *appears* that the sun rises AND sets in the west, and it's never truly dark.
- prosepetals sez meh
The Universal Packing List. Very handy, very basic. Since 1993 (!) - http://upl.codeq.info/
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Art by K. Gill: 08-31-10. Sad shark is sad 2 be washed up on the sand. - http://kgillart.blogspot.com/2010...
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*sigh* Guess I'm too late for Shark Week. Maybe next year.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Censored Rap Video t-shirt. Oh, all right. That's clever. I LOLed. - http://twitpic.com/2k1n4r
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Art by K. Gill: "024 @ sunny_chiba #bermuda E" $50.00 - http://kgillart.blogspot.com/2010...
Oil on canvas, 12x12in. (30.5x30.5 cm)
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
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Art by K. Gill: 08-30-10. Charcuterie platter @ Goose Enoteca. - http://kgillart.blogspot.com/2010...
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Goose has t-shirts that say "I like pork butts and I cannot lie". The song kind of annoys me, but that slogan makes me giggle.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
That's a funny tee.
- Spidra Webster
That sounds like an awesome tee!
- Katy S
I've been going insane from my left wisdom teeth biting my cheek all weekend. (The teeth just suddenly erupted a little further out.) I just stopped the madness with a bit of dental wax <3 Just sharing this in case anyone else gets into this predicament.
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Oh, I remember being at that point. I suddenly realized that I knew how babies felt during teething.
- Katy S
Art by K. Gill: x is for xavier: Xavier Veilhan - http://kgillart.blogspot.com/2010...
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Today, visual art meets music. The (surprisingly) small sculptures on the cover of Air's Pocket Symphony were made by Xavier Veilhan. I'm going to run out of art Xs soon... x-ray, xylophone, xavier.... What else? I guess I'll just have to recycle somehow. (Though it was hard to find the ones I found before. Quick, people, make more art about x-rays and xylophones! I'll post it here! Maybe I'll just try to make my own. There isn't enough art about things that start with X in the world.)
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
from Bookmarklet
Art by K. Gill: 08-29-10. - http://kgillart.blogspot.com/2010...
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Catan night (during Jackie's game night). Jordan won. Harold did well, though, and I was coming close... - http://picasaweb.google.com/hreedjr...
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Art by K. Gill: 08-28-10. Micro grapes @ Mom's house. - http://kgillart.blogspot.com/2010...
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Micro grapes at my Mom's house. - http://kamilah.posterous.com/micro-g...
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We got some champagne grapes in our co-op basket this morning. Have no idea what I'm going to do with them.
- FF's Original Bubba
Them's good eatin'!
- Spidra Webster
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