With Don Ho on my mind today, I began pondering he Hawaiian term “hapa haole”, which literally translates to “half foreigner”, or “half white”. According to the urban dictionary’s definition, it seems the phrase — often shortened to just “hapa” — has expanded past the literal translation of “half”. The term now encompasses anybody of mixed race (50/50 or otherwise), and specifically refers to a combination of Asian or Pacific Island blood with something else, which is usually, but not excluded to, Caucasian. (What a mouthful.)
A quick Google search on the term landed me in a gallery of hapa celebrities. Among them are: [click to continue…]
The epitome of all that represents the spirit of Hawaii died of heart failure a couple weeks ago. Yesterday at sunset, 25,000 fans gathered at Waikiki beach in memorial to bid farewell.
Aloha oe, brah.
“I’ve had too much fun all these years. I feel real guilty about it.”
— Don Ho
e·mail bank·rupt·cy [ee-meyl bangk-ruhpt-see, ruh p-see]
–noun
- choosing to delete, archive, or ignore a very large number of email messages without ever reading them, replying to each with a unique response, or otherwise acting individually on them.
Example: I’m in a constant state of email bankruptcy.
And other questions about The Great Color Legends.
The ever-resourceful Andreas threw me the following email just now that I found notable, especially as a Gmail fan. Bless him and all the dudes who do these types of seemingly pointless yet ultimately informative tests for us.
I just went back through my gmail archive to train it on some spam that leaked through. I do pretty well in the email fight:
since march 26, 1000 messages have been delivered to my desktop (ie made it through the spam filter). of those messages, all but 14 were legitimate.
additionally, I receive on average 25-50 msgs/day that are caught by the gmail filter. that’s roughly 1000+ pieces of spam over the same time period. (so 50% of the email sent to me is spam! and I bet that’s below average.)
so 14 out of about 1000+ total spams got through. that’s almost a 99% success rate for the gmail spam filter. that seems pretty good to me. and outlook’s junk filter catches the rest, so really 0 spams make it to my inbox.
on the flipside, I do still get about 1 to 2 false positives per month that I have to rescue from the gmail spam folder. but I bet if I had my addresses uploaded to gmail and/or used their smtp server to send out, it would learn better who’s on my whitelist and those false positives would disappear.
Take a close look at this dynamic timeline done in Flash.
1st line = second
2nd line = minute
3rd line = hour
4th line = day
5th line = month
6th line = year
