The USS Bowfin submarine was always within tossing distance of the Arizona Memorial entrance. I had seen it a half dozen times but never got the chance to visit. It was a neat experience. Walking through it was definitely sobering and awe inspiring because it was so claustrophobic. More of the complete visit in my Mighty Mo Gallery.
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We decided to take Kingston on his first trip to see some real WWII memorials today. He’s been showing some interest in planes and vehicles lately so we thought he’d get a kick out of the trip. More of the complete visit in my Mighty Mo Gallery.
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I really wanted to enjoy this Christmas season. Last year we spent most of our Holiday Season remodeling our kitchen and bathrooms so most of our time was spent living out of boxes. We didn’t even get our tree and lights out last year. I thought, “This year we’ll make up for it” But what happened? The flu happened. I spent the last...
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In my wife’s never-ending goal to rid our home of dust in every conceivable fashion, she went ahead and bought us a robot mopper. Dust be GONE! At the end of the day, it’s turned out to be a pretty neat little product. It crawls its way around our floors and does a job successful enough that my wife is happy. That’s nothing to dismiss...
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It’s been harder to post regularly here on my personal blog. I think it’s a reflection of my life right now where I’m multitasking so much across everything going on in my life, I simply can’t formulate a complete enough thought to post anything useful here. That’s kind of sad isn’t it? I DID find enough time between all...
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So here we are a couple days past Apple’s current season of upgrade announcements for this year. And as it stands, I’m within the cycle of upgrading just about everything I have. I’m still using an iPhone 4S, 2011 MBP, iPad 2…so really if I wanted to I could justify to myself the need to upgrade each and every one of these devices...
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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.