Uneasy Rhetoric

Once upon a time, there was a venerable comic book store on K Street Mall in Sacramento (I’m talking about the pedestrian mall, not the Westfield nightmare) called “Comics and Comics.” They had everything a budding geek could need to fulfill his wildest superheros in full color needs. It always smelled just slightly musty and [...]

The Sac News and Review’s Best of Sacramento is out. I could rant about the fact that Sacramento News and Review readers voted Starbucks the best local coffee shop, but I won’t. Maybe a little. I like Starbucks as much as anyone. The folks at 26th and J and at 9th & I know me [...]

Sac-eats posts over at The Sac Rag about Apple Hill. I admit, I’ve only been to the Hill twice, both times while I was in high school, so my memory of where I went is more than a little cloudy. Still, I can remember friends in school from probably kindergarten on talking about going to [...]

Lifehacker posts about a Windows utility called PureText that sits in your Windows tray and lets you define a keystroke combination to paste unformatted text. Currently, such an action must be done via the Edit menu in most programs. This is a cool function, and kudos to the programmer. But I need yet another widgety [...]

In checking Carl’s blog today (because I’ve been sloppy with Bloglines and was afraid I might have missed something), I came across an old post of his advocating for a Sacramento streetcar line similar to the urban streetcar (really, an Eastern-European style streetcar) in Portland. This week, RT has been running the PG&E old-style rail-based [...]