Beware coqui frog singing going viral

The coqui frog feature is the high-profile addition to the city’s Honolulu 311 app, a program smartphone users can run to report a multitude of municipal ills to City Hall. Sending in a recording of a chirp suspected to come from the invasive frog species is one way experts can more easily weed out the false alarms.

Now that we’ve gone all high-tech with this, more possibilities come to mind. Once you make the recording, couldn’t that become your phone’s ringtone?

That could drive the ag inspectors crazy, of course. "Hello, there’s a coqui frog in my office! Oh, wait, it’s just my co-worker’s phone going off again … "

You know, Lamar!

The University of Hawaii Warriors play their first home game today against Lamar. You know, Lamar.

You don’t know? Don’t feel bad. Sometimes you never learn about another university until it faces up against the Warriors. A few past contenders come to mind, but for today, "Lamar" refers to Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. You know, Beaumont. You don’t know? Don’t feel bad. Sometimes …