Month: May 2008

Quick Bites-Now with more Rocklin

Because some places aren’t worth a full writeup.

Blue Sky Chinese Restaurant-7323 Fair Oaks Blvd, Carmichael
One star

Cute, tiny, friendly, and not very tasty.

The sizzling rice soup was bland, the pot stickers were made with an off-puttingly sweet dough (think pork-filled snickerdoodles), the kung pao shrimp was decent enough, but the ultimate disappointment was the General’s chicken, which was basically sweet and sour chicken with a little extra garlic thrown in.

Sorry, Blue Sky. Cole Porter might think you’re charming, but I’ll take a pass.

Spicy Pickle– 1401 O St., Sacramento
Two stars

For a sandwich shop, it’s perfectly adequate.

For a porn shop (which, let’s face it, the name really lends itself to) it’s severely lacking. Continue reading “Quick Bites-Now with more Rocklin”

“Find at SPL” bookmarklet

All this talk of the liberry reminded me of a cool tool that I found on the Sac Public Library’s blog. It is a “Find it at the SPL” bookmarklet (those little “unsafe” bookmark links that run JavaScript in your browser, like “Translate this website into Shizzle-ese” or whathaveyou.) If you’re on a web page, any web page, that lists an ISBN number, this bookmarklet will search the SPL’s catalog for that book. It’s amazing to me that such a task could be so easy, for a site that is as impossible to use as the SPL’s.

Best results for the bookmarklet are found in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, version 6. 🙂 YMMV.