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Pacific Islander
http://pacific-islander.blogspot.com
Life and culture on Pacific islands. My personal experiences and thoughts from living in Hawaii, Japan, Fiji, and other islands. I look at how the ocean shapes these cultures and gives them many traits in common. I share art, food, music, philosophy, history and travel experiences.
Recent Posts
New Wheels
K and I have a pair of matching six speed bicycles. I bought mine first in 2005 and some months later, got a second one so we could take rides together. They worked well until February 2007, when the spokes started breaking. As the problem progres...
Catch of the Day
Spectacular photos from National Geographic -Sperm Whales Feeding On Giant SquidFive adults and one calf feeding on giant squid photographed by Tony Wu. He said, "It seemed as if the adult whales were trying to teach the baby to dive and also to ea...
These Are The Times That Dry Men\'s Soles
Where were we last? Ah, yes. I was dissing the meteorologists at the Japan Meteorological Agency.In the morning, the weather presenters on tee-vee were still predicting thundershowers, but looking out our window we saw a gray sky over a still lake....
Viking Invades Hinuma
At the beginning of October, our friend Martin became our first guest aboard Bluesette. Martin is from Sweden and has lived in Japan for a long time. We met through blogging a few years back when my only blog was Pacific Islander. Martin writes K...
Panda Poop Earns An "Ig Nobel" Prize
From CNET News:"A team at the Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in Sagamihara won the [Ig Nobel] biology prize for "demonstrating that kitchen refuse can be reduced more than 90 percent in mass by using bacteria extracted from t...
Pandas Don't Hibernate
So what's up with the lack of posts here?K and I have been doing a lot of sailing this summer, that's what, and blogging about it on Sweet-Bluesette. This weekend, rain or no (hey if we were afraid of getting wet, we wouldn't go sailing at all), we...
