Who Knew? #1

Zen Habits Fail with Lawmakers
Zen Habits is brilliant, and Amy Brown seemed to be using them for her road repair bill:

"[Amy] Brown, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Hawai'i Manoa, had gotten lawmakers to introduce a bill that would require the state Department of Transportation to set aside a percentage of the state highway fund each year for road repairs and maintenance. The department would also have to identify the 10 most critical highway repairs each year and then commit to do the work, and do the same with 10 critical repair projects in resort areas." Derrick DePledge in Honolulu Advertiser

But Hawaiian lawmakers found lots of (silly) reasons why it just won't work here -- "too restrictive" and "mixing state/county responsibility" -- so it's back to life-with-potholes.

The Devil Does Honolulu
A New Yorker cartoon is here.

A DASH of Aloha, the Cookbook
"Healthy Hawai'i Cuisine and Lifestyle," being autographed all over Honolulu for the next month!

Swim Suit Doubles as HeavyHands
Jantzen's TrimSwim suits trim and tuck and hold and mold, and to do that they have 4-way-knit-with-tummy-panel lining that weighs half a ton and takes two days to dry! Anything for a fashionable silhouette, though, huh.

Fresh Tofu To Be Had
Fresh tofu in a Japanese shop, made Tues, Thurs, Sat. Got the curry tofu dip, too (out of garlic). The soft tofu, perfect with green onion and tofu soup (cost of tofu soup 10 cents--so good, and I could never make it with all 5 ingredients!). What a discovery -- I pass that store constantly in Manoa Marketplace since it is in front of Safeway. The woman there automatically speaks Japanese and all the customers were, too. The taste of the tofu = divine!