Things I've learned about Hawaii this week

I remembered the other annoying (and also surprising) thing. There is no Target here. Wal-Mart? Yes. K-Mart? Check. Sam's? Yep. Costco? Uh-huh. Alas, no Target. And I still have a gift card I need you use...

On a related note, I learned something interesting (this is not the only interesting thing I've learned, however, more HI tidbits to follow): some of the stores here, like Apple and Nike, are the highest grossing locations anywhere. At first, I was like, nah, how can that be? But it's all the insane-rich, mostly Japanese, tourists. Interesting. [note: I am taking this on the word of the person who told me, I have not actually confirmed this]

Other factoids:

The Hawaiian language only consists of twelve letters.

The Hawaiian word for "tiny fish" is: humuhumunukunukuapua'a. Big word for little fish.

Michelle Wie's (probably old) dentist's office is(was) in my building. She is also apparently very, very tall, which I never knew.

Meat Jun is, from my understanding, the Hawaiian/Korean version of steak fingers. I plan on trying it on Monday and will report back.


In other news, I got two spam emails today that I was really, really tempted to open. Their subject lines read:

John McCain eats a bug.

and

Children admit to being little shits - Video

I'm not sure which I wanted to see more. But I fought the urge after realizing infecting the company's computer after less than a week there in hopes of seeing a politician imbibe insects or kids denigrating themselves would not be the best decision. Probably.

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