Showing posts with label hawaii. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hawaii. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
RIP Richard Crowe
Professor Richard Crowe of the UHH Physics and Astronomy Department was fatally injured in Arizona this past weekend. You may have read about it in the paper if you are local to here or to the accident.
Richard wasn't a close friend but he was a friend alright. Our daughter and the older of his two have been friends since preschool. Not always close, but as our daughter put it to me today "if I don't see her ever again so be it, but I want her to always be happy" (names intentionally omitted). This is how I feel too, about all of the Crowe family. Richard was fatally injured in a horrible accident in Arizona in tour of the Canyon de Chelly. Another person/couple who were on this same tour is/are writing a blog and is/are doing a very good job of it. There are a few pictures - no blood - and a very good description of what happened.
You can find the first of the articles about this horrible accident here: https://otrwjam.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/the-accident-at-canyon-de-chelly/
My condolences to the family.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Etsy treasury: South Sea Island Magic!
Connie made a very pretty local Team Hilo Etsy treasury and included one of my sea glass pendants:
Has brought me the magic of you!A collection from Team Hilo Etsy!
'South Sea Island Magic!' by redemptionart
Has brought me the magic of you!A collection from Team Hilo Etsy!
 Glasses Chain in Sh... $30.00 |  Sea Beauties MERMAI... $24.95 |
 North Shore, Hawaii... $50.00 |  Lime Sherbet-NOW ON... $12.00 |
 HILO Rain Pendant H... $14.00 |  Glass, Lampwork, Be... $28.00 |
 Women's Mini Sk... $60.00 |  Green heart shaped ... $7.00 |
 PolynesianFASHIONIS... $12.80 |  Vintage 1980s Islan... $22.00 |
 leather hip bag wit... $39.00 |  Plumeria Candle Fra... $4.80 |
 Pink Mother of Pear... $40.00 |  Shell earrings ster... $30.00 |
 Children's Smal... $16.00 |  Hawaiian puka shell... $30.00 |
A walk around the Hawaii Islands - Artfire Collection
My brown Job's Tears were included in this beautiful Artfire collection:
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Seed beads in an Etsy Treasury: all local to Hawaii
'Straight From the 8-0-8, Big Island Style' by littlemaikoboutique
A collection of items created by talented artisans from the place I call home - the Big Island of Hawaii <3
 CARLY Triple Knobby... $16.00 |  Repurposed Kau Coff... $45.00 |  Hawaiian Petroglyph... $5.20 |
 MALAMA KE KAI ON ET... $49.00 |  PRIMO blue Stroller... $40.00 |  Girls A Line Peasan... $38.00 |
 Hapuna Beach in Win... $5.50 |  Natural Coral, Aqua... $36.00 |  Indigo Bell Flower ... $12.00 |
 Baby Wild Boar Rubb... $5.00 |  Czech Ornela seed b... $7.50 |  A Hawaiian wind chi... $60.00 |
 Mgambo /Mgambo Seed... $47.00 |  Green Sea Turtle 5X... $15.00 |  BLUE LAGOON $25.00 |
Treasury tool is sponsored by Lazzia.com A/B image testing.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
In memory of Walter Steiger - rest in peace
This one took me a day to even think about posting. Walter was so much more than most people realize. I know that without him a lot of us, me included (astronomers and support staff on Mauna Kea) wouldn't even be here.
Walter was my boss at some point, when I was working at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, and he sure was a good one. That was after he retired for the second time. Walter(who was almost a year older than my Dad is) was a very honest and humble person. He would never have given himself the credit I do. He wrote a History of Astronomy in Hawaii which you can find here.
My husband Norman knew Walter way longer than I did, he was a graduate student at UH Manoa when Walter was the chairman of the department and one of his stories still makes me chuckle. It describes both of them very well. They were basically making sure of the integrity of the other (actually, Walter was making sure of Norman's (after all, Walter was the boss) but the way that worked out it assured both of the integrity of the other).
Walter retired from UH Manoa, then headed the Bishop Museum Planetarium (and then some, as I read in the Trib), retired from there to become the site manager of the CSO (where he was one of my bosses, and a good one), retired from there to lecture at UHH, became interim director of the Imiloa and when he retired from there returned to the CSO (Caltech Submm Observatory) to do at least some of their PR/outreach work until he got killed in this traffic accident last Sunday.
Walter's eyesight wasn't very good anymore so he went around on a motor scooter. He went to the CSO office on it several days a week, he did the grocery shopping that way (I know his wife Betty gave up driving years earlier, he told me, and I saw him in the stores on occasion).
Now here are some of my own assumptions: The accident happened on Superbowl Sunday.
The Trib says Walter had picked up medications for his wife's (Betty's) arthritis. The only pharmacy open on Sundays in downtown Hilo is Longs. If he crossed Komohana Street he must have come up Kukuau Street. Just before that intersection Kukuau is rather steep. While Walter's moped may have gone on the order of 45 mph going down the Mohouli Extension (I saw him there on my way to work on occasion) it most certainly couldn't have gone up Kukuau at that speed (except for the last about 60 or so feet, but if would have had to speed up considerably), more likely about 15 mph.
Last night after work I was on my way to the downtown KTA and drove through that intersection (made me cry again) and saw the police markings. If Walter was in the middle of the intersection going about 15 mph, the SUV that hit him (I very much doubt he hit the SUV) either sped over the blind hill or could have avoided him if they had been paying attention.
What the Hawaii Tribune Herald (earlier attributed as Trib) published can be found here and here.
I will miss Walter. A lot.
And I hope they will name the new UHH science building after him.
There is a blog with contributions from many people here:
http://wsteiger.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/walter-steiger/
Walter was my boss at some point, when I was working at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, and he sure was a good one. That was after he retired for the second time. Walter(who was almost a year older than my Dad is) was a very honest and humble person. He would never have given himself the credit I do. He wrote a History of Astronomy in Hawaii which you can find here.
My husband Norman knew Walter way longer than I did, he was a graduate student at UH Manoa when Walter was the chairman of the department and one of his stories still makes me chuckle. It describes both of them very well. They were basically making sure of the integrity of the other (actually, Walter was making sure of Norman's (after all, Walter was the boss) but the way that worked out it assured both of the integrity of the other).
Walter retired from UH Manoa, then headed the Bishop Museum Planetarium (and then some, as I read in the Trib), retired from there to become the site manager of the CSO (where he was one of my bosses, and a good one), retired from there to lecture at UHH, became interim director of the Imiloa and when he retired from there returned to the CSO (Caltech Submm Observatory) to do at least some of their PR/outreach work until he got killed in this traffic accident last Sunday.
Walter's eyesight wasn't very good anymore so he went around on a motor scooter. He went to the CSO office on it several days a week, he did the grocery shopping that way (I know his wife Betty gave up driving years earlier, he told me, and I saw him in the stores on occasion).
Now here are some of my own assumptions: The accident happened on Superbowl Sunday.
The Trib says Walter had picked up medications for his wife's (Betty's) arthritis. The only pharmacy open on Sundays in downtown Hilo is Longs. If he crossed Komohana Street he must have come up Kukuau Street. Just before that intersection Kukuau is rather steep. While Walter's moped may have gone on the order of 45 mph going down the Mohouli Extension (I saw him there on my way to work on occasion) it most certainly couldn't have gone up Kukuau at that speed (except for the last about 60 or so feet, but if would have had to speed up considerably), more likely about 15 mph.
Last night after work I was on my way to the downtown KTA and drove through that intersection (made me cry again) and saw the police markings. If Walter was in the middle of the intersection going about 15 mph, the SUV that hit him (I very much doubt he hit the SUV) either sped over the blind hill or could have avoided him if they had been paying attention.
What the Hawaii Tribune Herald (earlier attributed as Trib) published can be found here and here.
I will miss Walter. A lot.
And I hope they will name the new UHH science building after him.
There is a blog with contributions from many people here:
http://wsteiger.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/walter-steiger/
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