“What is it with guys and legos?” a colleague of mine asks. I don’t have an answer for that. Suffice to say this is only a recently discovered hobby of mine. I spent a good many years between my intermediate school days all the way through adulthood looking at Lego from afar. I appreciated it, but it was never something that justified the...
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Valentines day hasn’t always been a winner for me. When I was single I didn’t see the point. And now that I’m married, my attempts at finding perfect gifts for my wife hasn’t always been winners. This year I spend the last few weeks trying to be observant…a few weeks back she had been complaining about allergies from the lint...
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I’ve had a few friends make comments lately about their love and success about their own businesses. In my many years of networking I know quite a few business owners now. I think each of them shared stories about leaving high paid jobs and taking a leap a few years back to start their own business. Today they feel much happier that they made that...
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Finally after almost 3 decades of independent travel, I think I finally found the secret to having a real vacation such that I feel much more refreshed than I have been in a long while. You know how you can go off to a long vacation and feel even more tired than you left? You feel like you need a vacation from your vacation? I didn’t feel any of that...
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It was a “cold” 60 degrees this morning in Hawaii. I actually quite like it. The only odd thing was just less than 12 hours earlier I was sweating in my car blasting my A/C on full blast. It just doesn’t seem normal here in Hawaii where everything has been so even and temperate all year round. It got me thinking of all the other things...
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Happy New Year everyone! Let’s all wish for a better year this year huh? Grant us a new year with no more horrible school shootings, no violent gang rapes, & no messy dirty politics. For me personally 2012 wasn’t a bad year overall. Just extremely hectic…and not necessarily in a good way. Dealing with renovations for a good third of...
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LoweStudio Inc was founded by me, Raphael Lowe, a Honolulu based illustrator and web designer. I presently design and manage a few dozen commercial websites, but my main focus these days is acting as the head developer for Kapiolani Community College and teaching New Media Arts.