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Rosalea Barker: Hurricane Lane Misses Hawai'i
Wednesday, 29 August 2018, 11:30 am | Rosalea Barker
T he past week has been mind-torture here in Kaunakakai on the South Central coast of Moloka‘i, with the past three days (Wednesday to Friday) being equivalent to the proverbial month of Sundays as facilities and stores closed in anticipation of ... More >>
Rosalea Barker - Keep Out: Madam Pele At Work
Thursday, 12 July 2018, 10:24 am | Rosalea Barker
Dateline May 20, 2018 : One of my favorite Twitter moments over the past fortnight was when volcanologists blew their top, and hurled refrigerator-sized scientific refutations at a Harvard law professor’s Tweet. He had said that a Krakatoa-like ... More >>
When texts go rogue
Monday, 15 January 2018, 10:37 am | Rosalea Barker
On Friday, on a whim, I surprised myself by walking into a local fish and dive excursion business and asking when their next whale watch trip was, and paid over my money to go out the next morning. I’d never been at all interested in whale watching—I ... More >>
The Maverick on Moloka’i - Tulsi Gabbard
Monday, 24 April 2017, 11:16 am | Rosalea Barker
The Maverick from Moloka’i Hawai’i’s pro-Bernie, Assad-dealing Congresswoman meets her public by Rosalea Barker First published on Werewolf More >>
Rosalea Barker : Health And Taxes
Wednesday, 11 February 2015, 1:14 pm | Rosalea Barker
When I was in New Zealand in late 2013, I was shocked to see an ad on TV that brazenly encouraged a “use it or lose it” attitude towards health insurance coverage. Shocked because I had no idea NZ was heading down the path towards health insurance ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: Thoughts upon reading The Luminaries
Tuesday, 22 October 2013, 10:09 am | Rosalea Barker
Here’s an idea. Instead of cracking the spine of this weighty tome, hit yourself on the head with it three times. That should produce the same bewildered state of mind that reading its 832 pages does, and save you about 1,000 hours of confusion ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: 20 Feet from Reality: An eyewitness account
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 12:25 pm | Rosalea Barker
On Friday, July 12, the movie Fruitvale Station will open in Oakland and other “select” cities in the United States. If you follow their Twitter feed @fruitvalemovie you’ll get some idea of the buzz surrounding the film, which is based on the true story ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea : Quid
Sunday, 24 February 2013, 12:16 am | Rosalea Barker
Tucked away behind a park on the edge of San Francisco’s Financial District is a low-rise brick building that is home to the offices of Quid. If you haven’t heard of Quid before, 2013 might be the year to change all that when it rolls out the web ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea : Quid
Sunday, 24 February 2013, 12:16 am | Rosalea Barker
Tucked away behind a park on the edge of San Francisco’s Financial District is a low-rise brick building that is home to the offices of Quid. If you haven’t heard of Quid before, 2013 might be the year to change all that when it rolls out the web ... More >>
Assignment San Francisco Quid.com | Scoop Techlab
Saturday, 23 February 2013, 11:59 pm | Rosalea Barker
Truth be told, I use my Galaxy Note II as a tablette rather than as a phablet. It’s more like a pocket computer to me than a communication device. And although its camera is excellent, I’ve never been very adept at photography and I tend to shy away ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea : Trippin’ in San Francisco
Saturday, 23 February 2013, 10:08 pm | Rosalea Barker
I’d already nicknamed my phablet Gigi, aka Galaxy Girl, before I realized she could talk back to me a la S iri on iPhones. (Just saying, in case you think I’m a closet iWannabe.) More >>
Waiting For A Samsung In A City That Never Sleeps - Techlab
Friday, 28 December 2012, 12:18 pm | Rosalea Barker
The pic above is of one of the many bus shelters in the university town where I work that has been emblazoned with Samsung Galaxy Note II ads since the phone was first released here in the States a couple of months ago. The golden glow in the ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: The Fonzie Factor
Monday, 17 December 2012, 5:41 pm | Rosalea Barker
Amidst all the advice being given out in national media about how parents should discuss the Newtown killings with their children, there is one group of people who are left out: the parents, siblings, and extended families of those who suffer from ... More >>
The Fonzie Factor
Monday, 17 December 2012, 1:46 pm | Rosalea Barker
The Fonzie Factor Amidst all the advice being given out in national media about how parents should discuss the Newtown killings with their children, there is one group of people who are left out: the parents, siblings, and extended families of ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: Nascar on outriggers?
Tuesday, 4 September 2012, 4:10 pm | Rosalea Barker
Glad I’m not at the RNC in Dampa, Florida. While they’re having ill winds and blowing no good, over here in San Francisco, the wind is welcome. This week has been a taster for the big America’s Cup hoopla coming up in September, 2013 in the City ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: To me, all guns are pink.
Monday, 23 July 2012, 2:14 pm | Rosalea Barker
If I were the President of the United States, I would issue an Executive Order that all firearms must be painted pink. Perhaps you laughed when you read that, or thought that I was joking. Good, because such a reaction is just exactly why the Pink Gun ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea Barker: Hacked off
Tuesday, 17 July 2012, 4:11 pm | Rosalea Barker
If you wonder why I haven’t been writing much lately, it’s because I can’t decide between a surfeit of things to write about, not because of a lack of them. Even trying to list some of the topics makes my brain weary, so I won’t. Instead ... More >>
Rosalea's 2012 Staycation Part 2: By the Lake in Oakland, CA
Monday, 11 June 2012, 4:01 pm | Rosalea Barker
The first wildlife refuge created in North America (in 1870) is not in some wilderness; it is in the heart of Oakland, California. A local luminary, Dr Merritt, dammed up an outlet to an estuary on the Bay of San Francisco, creating a brackish lake out ... More >>
Rosalea’s Staycation Pt 1: A Day in the Park at Richmond, CA
Tuesday, 29 May 2012, 3:53 pm | Rosalea Barker
I read a great vacation planning tip in an Amtrak tweet recently: Decide how you want to feel on your vacation then go to the place that makes you feel that way. Figuring that “oblivious to all that’s wrong with the world” and “bed” ... More >>
Don’t bank on it, or the Case of the Deceitful Receipt
Sunday, 1 April 2012, 7:07 pm | Rosalea Barker
Here’s a weird thing. On Wednesday afternoon, I withdrew some cash from an ATM at a branch of the big bank my account was flipped to during the Great Banking Shakedown of 2008. Earlier in the day, I had checked my balance online, so when the ATM receipt ... More >>
