I got my very first mac nearly a year ago, but not quite…which is good, since it’s still covered by warranty until July 21st, and I’ve got an appointment for today with the guys at the Pasadena Apple Store to get my macbook serviced.

I have a case of bad fan, which grinds like a dying giraffe. I’ve got a short clip of it here. It starts grinding once the thing is warmed up, and the fan speed pegs out at about 4000-5000rpm. If given a peculiar tap, sometimes the grinding stops, and the fan pops up to 6100rpm.

UPDATE 2007-07-18:  Dropped it off on monday, got a call on tuesday night it was finished, picked it up today.  So far so good, no nasty fan noise.  Thanks Apple!

Okay, here’s the step-by-step for getting Galactic Bloodshed compiled and running on OSX.

NOTE: the latest code from CVS seems to not require some of these workarounds – http://www.galactic-bloodshed.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gbp/

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Tektite – LED Flashlights, LED Replacement Bulbs, Dive Lights, IR, Strobes, Marker Lights, UV, CSI, LZ kits, & Tekna Knives and lites

http://www.buck-184.com/ 

With the creative use of some epoxy, I once put two of these together and played Rambo-ninja with my high school buddies.  Ah, memories!

NPR Plugs N.Y. Times Reporter Who Compares U.S. Interventions to Child Abuse | NewsBusters.org

Interesting take on Kinzer, who apparently didn’t read the Morgan Report before making claims about the Hawaiian Revolution of 1893 in his book “Overthrow”.

The ReDistricting Game

You too can manipulate the political process!

Cameron’s first dance recital

Suit on Kamehameha admissions dropped – The Honolulu Advertiser – Hawaii’s Newspaper

So how much did it cost KSBE to buy off this court case? Were our collective civil rights worth 1 million? 2 million? A billion?

Sigh. KSBE has their press release on the confidential settlement here.  I guess at this point we’ll have to wait for the next person unconstitutionally denied admission to Kamehameha Schools on the basis of race to file a lawsuit…of course depending on just how much it cost KSBE to pay off John Doe, they could just start handing out checks to people.

YouTube – Heritage In Focus: Hawaii: Separate but Equal?

Speak truth to power.

Undisciplined LAUSD – Los Angeles Times

Spare the rod, spoil the child?

I started this blog on a very personal note, sharing the news of my wife and I expecting a child. Since then, on and off, I’ve mostly made very short comment on news stories of interest to me, and spent a little bit of time fighting the good fight for civil rights against racial separatists in Hawaii. But this entry is much different, and something difficult to share – but for the sake of my uncle Anthony Krischel, I feel that this story must be told.

This is the story of William Solomon, once William Joseph Krischel, my biological father who disappeared from me and my brother’s life when we were children. This sad man has spent the last six years of his life destroying his marriage, avoiding his children and grandchildren, frittering away his mother’s fortune, and since his mother passed away he has been stealing from his elder disabled brother Anthony Alonso Krischel, who was born with cerebral palsy and is legally blind. Allowed to continue unabated, my uncle will become yet another grim statistic of elder abuse, left homeless and lost.

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World History Blog: James Henderson Blount – American Rebel Separatist

Some rational discussion about a man who authored one of the most uncritically accepted  pieces of historical fiction championed by racial separatists in modern Hawaii.

Why Israel is after me – Los Angeles Times

A story of a real occupied nation.

HCR82 Bill Status

Despite being informed of the nature of the Joke Proclamation upon which HCR82 is based, only one member of the Hawaii Senate Committee apparently minded passing a bill commemorating a hoax.

Senator Kokubun was sent the following message before his vote in favor of commemorating the hoax:

Aloha Mr. Kokubun!

As a fellow Punahou alumnus, I thought I'd drop you a note regarding
HCR82, which has recently been referred to your committee.

Perhaps the legislators are not aware, but the proclamation of Grover
Cleveland mentioned in HCR 82 is being incorrectly cited.

The actual proclamation did not mention April 30th, but "the first day of
April next", i.e., April 1st.  The proclamation is not in any of
Cleveland's letters or papers, but was printed in the New York Sun on
February 27, 1894 on page 6.

For more details regarding this proclamation, including images of the
original newspaper printing of this proclamation, please see:
http://morganreport.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Joke_Proclamation

More detailed information regarding President Cleveland, and his changing
reactions to the Hawaiian Revolution can be found here:
http://morganreport.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Rest_of_The_Rest_of_The_Story

There are, of course, other major inaccuracies in HCR 82, but this one
seems the most egregious.  I can only assume that it would be fairly
embarrassing for the Hawaii legislature to pass a bill based on a hoax.

Thank you very much for your time and attention to this matter, and if you
have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Mahalo!

-jere krischel

Perhaps they’ll recommend passage of a bill establishing October 30th as Martian Welcoming Day, based upon the Martian landing in 1938 at Grover’s Mill.

kare11.com :: KARE 11 TV – A safe homecoming, a tragic end

Told to wait, a Marine dies (Boston Globe)

Jonathan Schulze was my brother’s friend, and will be missed. His situation underscores the need for proper and available psychiatric care for our returning soldiers – regardless of varying views on the war in Iraq, those who have put their lives in mortal danger under our flag deserve better support from all of us.

The Great Global Warming Swindle

For my dear friend James.