(A Very Tardy) Props and Slops: March 23-29

HAWAII

• Props:  KITV for running a series of stories following up with former Aloha Airlines employees as we approached the one year anniversary of its demise.
  
• Slops: Mesa Air Group’s go! Airlines. Why?  Well, why not?  I’m sure they’ve done something or messed up somewhere that would warrant this.  For starters, their role in helping to drive Aloha out of business in the first place.  Not that they were entirely to blame, but it did help to put the final nail in the coffin.

GEEK/TECH/BLOG

• Props:  The Honolulu Advertiser for hosting this month’s Manoa Geeks.  Special Props to John Garcia (@johngarcia) and Scott Morifuji (@scottmorifuji) for making sure we had a projector that worked this time (inside joke) and for having ample pizza and drinks (the non-alcoholic kind).
  • Honorable Mention:  John Mayer (@johncmayer) for apparently having a Twitter addiction that makes my meager efforts pale in comparison.
• Slops:  Google for not taking better precautions at preventing embarrassing photos like this from appearing in their ever-useful Street View feature in Google Maps. Don’t get me wrong, I love Google, and much of the blame goes to the, um, “subject” in the photo.

POLITICS/GOVERNMENT

• Props:  The Hawaii Legislative Reference Bureau Library for getting the latest version of the 2009 Directory of State, County and Federal Officials.  It contains department and agency directory listings, including office, title, phone & fax numbers, and mail and email addresses.  If you’re trying to contact anyone in government in Hawaii, this is the resource for you.
  • Honorable Mention:  The U.S. Mint for issuing our first Braille silver dollar. With so many people with visual impairments, it makes me wonder why we didn’t do it earlier.
• Slops:  Gov. Linda Lingle for trying to cut state worker pay to balance the budget.  As one of my co-workers has said, making public employees shoulder the burden of closing the deficit is “business as usual” is coming true.  Interestingly, there are many other solutions that Gov. Lingle is not considering; is it just that she’s using this as a union-busting attempt?  If only AQ McElrath were here with us to help stand up against this.

PROP AND SLOP OF THE WEEK

• Prop of the Week:  State Sen. (and Lt. Governor candidate) Gary Hooser for attempting to bring Civil Union legislation to the floor of the Hawaii State Senate.
• Slop of the Week:   My co-worker, MJ, for not knowing the name of my Props and Slops feature (my favorite part of Capsun’s Corner). She called it “Logs and Bogs” and “Blogs and Logs” – you know, anything but the correct name.  I shouldn’t be too hard on her, because it does mean she reads my blog, but I couldn’t resist.

That’s it for this week.  Be sure to visit next week for another edition of Props and Slops, my favorite feature on Capsun’s Corner.

Mahalo!

Please note:  The views expressed here are mine and mine alone.  While I am employed by and affiliated with organizations and individuals, permission has neither been asked nor granted to write on the topics discussed here.

Tagged as: aq mcelrath, gary hooser, go! airlines, Honolulu Advertiser, hooser, john garcia, john mayer, kitv, linda lingle, lingle, lrb library, mcelrath, mesa air group, props, props and slops, slops, u.s. mint