TidBitz and HissyFitz

My first stop-motion video!

Maybe weighing body parts separately will make a difference. Rocky starts with his head.

quickie by John Lennon and Rocky Raccoon Kind of hard to tell with the balmy weather gently blowing the palm trees. But Rocky knows and sen...

Rocky Raccoon shares a brief morning-to-night holiday greeting, set to the piano version of "How I Disappear" by My Chemical Roman...

You could never tell by my increasingly infrequent posts, but 2007 was probably was one of the best years in recent memory. Briefly: October...

Interest rates have dropped, including those great online checking/savings accounts. But that doesn't mean you should pass them by. ING...

Phone brouhaha Since news of the iPhone price slash on Wednesday ($200 discount for the 8GB model in just two months!) people have been ask...

7:00AM - Hawaii 10:00AM - Pacific 11:00AM - Mountain 12:00PM - Central 1:00PM - Eastern 5:00PM - GMT 6:00PM - London 7:00PM - Paris 2:00AM -...

Today I viewed some of my cousin's pics she put on PhotoShow, so I figured since I had to create an account to view 'em, I might as ...

At my last chiro visit, the typical Hawaii sun-showers cleared and I mentioned how I'd been taking rainbow pics with my iPhone while dri...

Google now has flight simulators Google Earth is amazing, but now with Sky , it's..hmmyeah, out of this world! Great for educational a...

It's only taken 28 years ("Hell Freezes Over" doesn't count) Double CD with 20 tracks to debut October 30th. New tour sta...

Whole Foods to open in Hawaii As much as I was looking forward to Whole Foods finally coming to our little rocks ( four stores will eventua...

Isn't his what we're known for -- traffic and rainbows? Hawaii has too many cars on too few roadways, so gridlock isn't unusual....

Other than fiddling w/my iPhone Summer vacation ends (and school starts for teachers) in exactly two weeks. So you'd think I'd be m...

Apple iPhone I really didn't want to be in line for more than a few hours, but since I heard that people had lined up early Friday morni...

I finally decided that I'd take the plunge, stand in line with the masses, be one with the hype, and get my new iPhone tomorrow. I norma...

Not quite as cool as getting a free iPod Nano and cashing it in for over $150 at the Apple Store, but this latest toy is pretty nifty. Non...

Whew, when they said "late June", they really meant it. Initially it was supposed to go on sale June 11th, then sometime in late J...

Back in August I blogged about applying for a "Mac Specialist" position in the yet-to-be-built Apple Store at my nearby mall. Som...

Aside from the occasional postings about my cat, clothes, and concerts, I guess it's taken me this long to realize I really don't ha...

A few of my domain names were up for renewal, but I couldn't see paying full price. I crave discounts, and I refuse to participate in t...

Happy Friday the 13th I'm definitely not superstitious, but today was another opportunity to wear yet another one of my off-beat t-shirt...

So much for trying to save my pennies. I saw this Custo t-shirt yesterday and while it cost more than any other item of clothing I own, I h...

I wanted to look for a new deal, somewhere I could park some money and get a freebie in return (like I did w/the iPod nano in Oct.), with a ...

There could be worse things than this

My brother's moving back home, and I've been tossing stuff from my old bedroom in my parents' house so he can use that as his we...

Apple Store #2 Arrived a few hours early sporting my original iPod t-shirt and was among the first 20 in line for the opening of the new App...

Apple Store opens tomorrow The long-awaited/long-delayed (kind of like this blog, heh) Apple Store at Kahala Mall will finally open tomorrow...

starring Rocky Rocky's Christmas wish did come true: he got to roll around, eat grass, and hunt lizards in the yard, but it still seemed...

Rocky's card Ordered Christmas stamps online a week ago, but they haven't arrived yet, so I have no idea when I'll get those out...

End of Vertigo Tour another concert t-shirt to add to my collection closest I could get to the floor GA area filling up screen during 'O...

The long-awaited, once-postponed, last-show-of the Vertigo Tour takes place tonight!! I've been sick for most of the week, but am gettin...

MacWorld Expo 2006 The last (and only) MacWorld Expo SF I attended was in January 1999. I remember that when I wasn't freezing, I was l...

Rocky Raccoon's reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving and the many more in his 7 or so remaining lives: people who take in pitiful st...

It's been bugging me ever since I saw that beautiful green lizard with red spots that was indulging in Leona's chocolate candy (see ...

That's a piece of foil-covered chocolate candy that "Liz" is eating! Click image to view slideshow

...in Japan?? It was a gorgeous day. The tradewinds were back, making 85 degrees feel like 85 degrees instead of the 99 it's felt like ...

35 days from now At least U2 rescheduled their Honolulu concert, originally scheduled for April. The Rolling Stones flat-out cancelled the...

Thanks, Apple! • Open bank account • Get 2GB iPod nano as free gift • Exchange at the Apple Store for gift card (value: $149 + tax)

Night of the evil Maine Coon You can see fear in the little black cat's eyes! click to view slide show

6.7 and 6.0 magnitude My second floor bedroom wall is up against the corrugated-metal garage roof, and the incessant drumming from heavy rai...

I don't watch much TV and only discovered my cable was out and the actual wire need to be replaced when I tried to catch season pilots t...

SF & Anaheim concerts Butch Walker continues to tour, but I'm only able to catch him when he stops in California. Two of his best sh...

I've lamented before how the hardest part about returning from a trip is going through all the pictures and deciding which ones to use. ...

yeah, that's the title of a Butch Walker song I saw Butch Walker and his new band in SF and Anaheim last week, and took four planes goi...

Get your mind out of the gutter. It was officially announced that an Apple Store will be opening at the mall near my home, and Mac Specialis...

One of the hardest parts about returning from a trip is looking through the hundreds of pictures I've taken. I was in Portland and Los ...