Metrojuice Porsche, Tesla

At Jamba Juice for breakfast, on Thursday, and noticed a woman and a man talking. They exited, and she departed in a Tesla, while he left in a Porsche. They both carried what seemed like lunch bags with the logo "Metrojuice" on them.

Apparently, this refers to Metro Juice Kitchen and Drinkery, which plans to open a new location on R Street.

Notable only due to the vehicles!

Radio Songs

Heard on KFOG 104.5 FM out of San Francisco, California:

• Honolulu, Hawaii-native Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's "Somewhere over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" from his 1990 album "Ka 'Ano'i" on the Discos Tropical, Mountain Apple, and Big Boy labels. Video.

Heard on FRSC (namely, "Free Radio Santa Cruz") 101.3 FM out of Santa Cruz, California:

• As mentioned previously, heard what sounded like ambient music, ala Hearts of Space, around 10:30 p.m.

Homey Cozy Lovey Dovey

So good!

Puuung
http://www.grafolio.com/illustration/detail.grfl?projectNo=31639

From the artist:

“Love” is something everybody can relate to.
And “Love” comes in ways we can easily overlook in our daily lives.
So, I try to find the meaning of love in our daily lives and make it into artworks. 

Red Knoll, LLC

In Sacramento, on S Street, between 15th and 16th Streets, the City of Sacramento has shuttered at least three homes:

The notices on the structures cites, in one case, a dangerous structure (the stairs), and, in the other case, junk left in the yard, poor upkeep, and so forth. City staff seem to have served the papers in the March-April time frame.

City staff have also shuttered the building on the corner of 15th Street and S Street. The building in-between all of these buildings also seems abandoned/empty.

However, the final two buildings, on that side of the block, an auto repair business and a private homeowner, seem OK. 

My first thought: someone plans to do development. My second thought: who is Red Knoll, LLC, out of Roseville, California, that owns and apparently has abandoned at least two of the properties?

Hrm. A mystery!

UPDATE: 10/2015: It seems this may represent a project in the works, to convert these properties into "76 residential units above 13,000 square feet of commercial space. Steve Whitesides of Roseville is the applicant." Via: http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2014/07/29/five-story-mixed-used-building-proposed-for.html

Guitarist - Beat It, by Michael Jackson

Question: The guitarist for the song "Beat It", by Michael Jackson.

Answer: Who was Eddie Van Halen?

Nice! : o )

Santa Cruz Wave Photography

Photography on display at Westside Coffee, Santa Cruz:

MATT DOLL (worldwaveimagery)

I think they have this one blown up to 5'x4' (approx) (?)

Photo: Matt Doll; used for illustrative purposes only

Radio Songs

Heard on KSJS 90.5 FM out of San Jose, California:

• Los Angeles-formed Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band's "Express Yourself" from their 1970 "Express Yourself" on the Warner Bros. Records label. Audio.

Heard on KPIG 107.5 FM out of Freedom, California:

• Canton, Ohio-native William Royce "Boz" Scaggs' "I'm Easy" from his 1969 album "Boz Scaggs" on the Atlantic label. Audio.

James Mickens - Zombie Preparation

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf

Via

Santa Cruz Japanese Cultural Fair

http://jcfsantacruz.org/

Santa Cruz poster

Java Junction, in Santa Cruz, near Petsmart, has this poster:

http://www.lanternpress.com/catalog/item/33335?from=

Houseboat living

http://www.sunset.com/home/architecture-design/houseboat

Radio songs

Heard on KISQ 98.1 FM out of San Francisco, California:

• ??? at 5/29 at 11:15 p.m.

Heard on KABX 97.5 FM out of Modesto, California:

• ??? Something with lyrics "I've got some news for you" from 6/1 at 11:55 a.m.

Heard on KRXQ 98.5 FM out of Sacramento, California:

• Worthing, England-based Royal Blood's "Little Monster" from their 2014 album "Royal Blood" on the Black Mammoth and Warner Bros. Records labels.

Dawn had this on her mind: 

"Camille Saint-Saëns Clarinet Sonata in E flat major, Op.167 - Allegretto" (audio)

Configuring HP LaserJet CP1525nw

Found myself configuring out network printer again, so recording for future reference:

• Connect printer to router via network cable
• Power on the printer
• Use menu "Reports" to discover the IP address of the printer
• Connect to that IP address via web browser
• Configure wireless settings
• Disconnect the network cable from the printer
• Reconfigure any printer settings on client devices

Copland clarinet concerto vs. Addams Family theme

In a continuation of classical themes re-use, a passage of Aaron Copland's Clarinet Conerto (1948) seems quite similar to the theme song from the television show The Addams Family (1964-66):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Addams_Family_Theme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarinet_Concerto_(Copland)

Previously, previously

"Parity is for farmers"

Seymour Cray, 1963.

Note: later, he stated, "I learned that a lot of farmers buy computers."

Note: this use of the term seems to stem from a part of the New Deal, which aimed to pay subsidies to farmers, in exchange for not bringing their products to market. The idea: limit supply of certain farm products, drive up prices, and allow farmers to earn "parity" pay for their efforts, in comparison to other professions.

"...[S]cience has taken a turn towards darkness"

Darkness!

Dr. Richard Horton and Dr. Marcia Angell, editors of Lancet and New England Medical Journal, respectively call bull-shittake on a lot of medical research published:

“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.”  

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/05/16/editor-in-chief-of-worlds-best-known-medical-journal-half-of-all-the-literature-is-false/

Reasons given?

• data is sculpted to fit a preferred theory
• important confirmations are often rejected
• little is done to correct bad practices
• omission of data: vaccine manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and health authorities have known about multiple dangers associated with vaccines but chose to withhold them from the public

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Place names: -chester, -caster, -cester, -shire, counties, parishes, and boroughs

 History!

When the Romans came to Great Britain, they built a bunch of forts called castra, which was Anglicized to chester. So, English cities whose names end in -chester, -caster and -cester were once Roman settlements, places like Manchester, Cirencester and Worcester. 

When the Anglo-Saxons arrived in England, they divided the land into shires, which is why so many English place names end in -shire. 

Finally, the Normans invaded England in 1066, and they subdivided the land into counties, from which we get the title of “Count”.

Of course, English settlers to North America brought the county system with them. And thus, every state in America is subdivided into counties, except for Louisiana (which is divided into parishes based on an old Spanish system) and Alaska (which is divided into boroughs).

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Japanese Film Festival - Sacramento, 2015

Films announced!

1. Like Father Like Son
2. I Was Born But...
3. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
4. Hafu, the Mixed Race Dxperience In Japan
5. Unforgiven
6. Pecoross’ Mother and Her Days
7. Under the Blood Red Sun

Erika Perloff

A painting of the Pacific coast, by Erika Perloff:

Morning Veils

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 2013 film

Saw a copy of the 2013 film, "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" on display and would like to view it, at some point.