On this very historic day there is sad news out of Elk Grove, as the Bee reports that the Ben Underwood lost his battle with cancer yesterday. This was the young man who, after losing his eyes to cancer as a boy, taught himself echolocation — basically he could navigate the world by emitting sound waves. If you haven’t heard of this story it was the most amazing thing you’ll ever see. This is really tough news and I wish his family the best.
Author: CoolDMZ
"X-ray vision to see in between / Where's my kimono and my time machine?"
Good Day’s Job Center offers free video resumes
I spend a lot of time poking fun at the antics on Good Day Sacramento and on CBS13/CW31 in general. But I have to admit that Good Day’s new Job Center site contains a fabulous feature: video resumes. The feature, offered by CBS for its local affiliates, allows anybody to come on down to the station and record a short video “resume.” It sure seems like a winner of an idea to me: if a potential employer sees your face and hears you talk before ever bringing you in for an interview, it seems like you’ve got a definite leg up. By the time they meet you face to face, it’ll feel like a second interview.
Can’t wait to go back? Check out The Constants
If you’re eagerly awaiting the return of “Lost” on ABC next week, make sure to check out Sacramento’s premiere “Lost”-themed band The Constants. Their MySpace page boasts three songs and a video, and I suppose there must have been a long band meeting about whether or not to cover “You All Everybody,” and though I would love to hear it, I guess I probably would have also decided not to do it.
Sounds like: “We can’t really say that practicing is our… primary objective”
In the off chance that you have recently emerged from a time capsule and are currently burning through the “Lost” DVDs, the song “Who Will Go” will reveal lots of characters who die.
(Found this via Heckasac, of course)
SCUSD open enrollment slogan QUIZ
Quick, which of the following is the slogan of Sac City Unified School District’s Open Enrollment program?
A. “Success for Every Student by Name”
B. “Choosy moms choose SCUSD”
C. “Moving kids upward onto the future”
D. “Knowledge for all, free lunch for most”
E. “Enroll you’re kid today” (sic)
CBS13 on meth
From the intro to this CBS13 video about a large “Smurf” bust.
Seven people are under arrest in what investigators call an elaborate scheme to make meth.
They can MAKE meth??? Oh boy, now we’re really screwed. What will they think of next?!
I’ll leave it up to y’all to make Smurf jokes. Plus: you may use “smurf” in place of other words that might get you banned.
Library cash story brings out good comments on SacBee
I expend a lot of hot air trashing the Bee’s comment feature, but today I have to eat my words. (It appears I must also attend mixed metaphor college.) From today’s Bee story about two library branches no longer accepting cash after the branches have experienced thefts.
Commenter “kevinakin1950” smartly questions the legality of refusing to accept American currency, and goes on to point out that a no-cash policy would discriminate against the poor, who presumably don’t have credit cards. (Let’s not get started on all the people out there who are poor because of their credit cards…)
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Don’t worry, your ice cream is safe
You should have seen my face when I read the headline on CBS13.com, “Famous Crystal Company Goes Bust.” Don’t worry, it’s just about the Waterford company, based in London. I’m not accustomed to getting my U.K. financial news from the home page of my local news website.
Crystal milk products are of course now produced by Foster Farms, and you may continue to enjoy their delicious and affordable milk products at your local greengrocer.
DeFrancesco to return as Cats manager
The Biz Journal reports. I think that’s great news, though when is it ever bad news when it comes to the River Cats?
Berkeley woman fights off armed carjacker
from CBS13.com
With a small pair of scissors and the jacker’s own gun, threatening to “shoot his balls off” if he didn’t walk away.
“I grabbed [the scissors] and I started stabbing him in the shoulder, I started stabbing him in the neck,” Harmony said, unimpressed by his fighting ability. “I thought, ‘That’s all he has for a punch?'”
Right AWN, Harmony Bates!
Stayin’ classy in the New Year
KCRA’s report on a shooting death early in the New Year includes one of those “can’t be serious” quotes:
“I was just chillin’ at the party and then all of a sudden I hear that my friend’s been like shot down pretty much.”
“Pretty much” in this case being 100%. Every element of that sentence is classic! This guy reminds me of the Upright Citizens Brigade character “Bong Boy” who smokes so much pot he can’t tell reality from reality television–when he’s being arrested he thinks he is watching “COPS,” etc. It’s possible that’s what’s going on here…
The Sac Rag 