Takin’ it to the streets

News10.net reports that Sacramento police will have zero tolerance for out-of-control street partying during Mardi Gras festivities in Old Sacramento this year.

Last year police in riot gear had to break up large street crowds in the historic section the weekend before the pseudo-holiday. Approximately 700 party-goers converged on the area for an event that never materialized. Instead, there were fights and vehicles were vandalized.

No wonder they were hostile, how embarrassing. If only the Sac Rag was around back then to warn the public.

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Bee takes on predators

I’m sure the Sacramento Bee’s three-part series this week on sexual violent predators is top-notch jouralism. I think it’s full of eye-opening details, in-depth reporting and Pulitzer Prize-worthy material. It seems like a momentous achievement, an invaluable look at a problem most of us try not to think about. Of course, since every third word is “rape” and every 4th paragraph is about child molestation, I’m trying hard but I can’t get through it.

Straight Man in a Lesbian World

Catchy title, eh? This is just a quick tip o’ th’ hat to our watier on Saturday night at Isabella’s. Apparently due to some internal miscommunication or massive lesbian influenza pandemic, one lone man was left to wait on every table at Isabella’s last night. Oh yeah, did I mention it was second Saturday too? So that only means that every single table was full. That man was one of the hardest working waiters I’ve ever seen and deserves some high praise as he was not only out of breath, but exceedingly polite and patient with each of the 50 or so patrons in the dining room. The food was absolutely fantastic, the service, despite it’s obviousness lack of personnel, was spectacular (drinks were on the house) and the evening memorable. So thank you, harried waiter. We appreciate your fine work and dedication. I hope you got to keep every cent of every tip you made last night. You earned it.

Isabella’s
21st St between L and K, Sacramento
Food**** Service**** Ambience**

iPod, Sacramento, etc.

There’s a lot going these days with the iPod. From lawsuits both good and bad to increases in crime, the portable digital media player has brought Apple the highest revenue and earnings in the company’s history. As a frustrated iPod owner myself (the battery life on the Mini? Come on, last likes 2 hours at best) I thought I’d drop a few “did you know” links for users in the Sacramento area.

There’s an Apple Store at Arden Fair Mall which offers free workshops on using Apple products. And if you sign up here you can reserve a time to meet with someone for a little one on one support (if you’ve ever been to this location you’ll know what a fuster cluck it is, so I’d go this route if I were you).

Apple Sacramento (Elk Grove, really) houses their Operations, Telesales, AppleCare, Service Dist Center groups. Is their outdoor basketball court REALLY that popular? You EG locals might help to shed some light on this.

The real point of this post, however, is to share this site with you…
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Attention tech geeks-slash-library patrons

If you’re an IT nerd like me (or you’re thinking of getting caught up in the Web 2.0 revolution) our own Sacramento Public Library has a great tool for you: a subscription to Safari, the technical book publishing online service. If you’ve got a library card (even one that currently has fines!) you can access full text tech books through the Web. Just bookmark this link and fill in your info. Then curl up with some hot ginger tea, an eye-friendly monitor, and an e-book on TCP/IP.

Hwy 99 road rage update

CHP may have a lead in the hunt for the highway 99 maniac driver from the other day.

CHP Valley Division Chief Stan Perez told CBS 13 that an anonymous caller told the CHP that they had also been harassed by someone on Highway 99 and gave the CHP a license plate number.

No word from CBS 13 on whether the anonymous caller was on the same Marysville to Bakersfield stretch of that highway.

Right Awn Friday!: California, the winter wonderland

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Damn, Gina! It’s Right Awn Friday! time!

As always, Sac has had an interesting week this week. From kids suing to graduate high school (um, you ever heard of studying?) to people getting stuck in hours of traffic to motivate themselves (don’t these last two items seem related?), there’ve been a few things to write about.

And let’s not forget the weather. How clearly can we see, now that the rain is gone? Sunny, warm and comfortable…exactly for what California is known, which is kind of ironic in a way.

Find out why, by strapping on your skis and making the jump…
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Motivate This.

The watercoolers across town are all abuzz with the fact that traffic was really pitiful yesterday due to a motivational seminar where Rudy Guilianni spoke or appeared by satellite or something. Am I alone in this sort of thing bringing out a huge chip on my shoulder? If you have 2 hours to sit in traffic followed by 8 hours to sit in a seminar where you’re told to get up and do something it seems you had the time and opportunity to get up and do that something in the first place. My favorite quote though was from this lady:
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I want a new drug

News10.net reports of a new psychedelic drug that’s invading our local high schools. It’s called 2C-I and drug enforcement agents say the drug is so new they are just now beginning to track them down.

“It takes 20 minutes to kick in,” the boy said. “You get energy, you want to do something. Things morph and you see colors. Everything seems weird and ironic.”

Sad, isn’t it? The poor youth of today…they still have no idea what the word “ironic” means.

It appears, however, that you need four things in order to obtain this drug. So parents, read closely, Gordon Taylor of the Drug Enforcement Administration provides us with a checklist:

“You need a computer with Internet access, you need a money order or credit card, you need a mail delivery location like a home or post office box, and fourth and most importantly, you need the desire to play Russian Roulette with your brain.”

Get all that? If you can prevent your child from having just ONE of those things you may thwart the onslaught of this horrible drug. Tall task I know. I mean, your kid has to have a computer to do his/her homework, right? And you can’t really get by these days without an address. So that just leaves us with a money order/credit card OR the desire to play Russian Roulette with your brain.
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