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20080812 Not in Service (via Tom Spaulding)
It’s too late to vote for the 2008 Sacramento News & Review Best Of edition but here’s my advice. Ignore the Best Of edition when it comes out and just use this list.
Get a load of all the information you can find for any property in Sacramento County. All you need is an address. This would be helpful for lots of things but espescially house shopping. I imagine many counties have something similar.
PROPERTY INFORMATION
Address
Assessor Parcel #
Jurisdiction
Thomas Brothers Coordinates
Assessor Land Use/Zoning Code
Approx. Parcel Square Footage
DISTRICT INFORMATION
Supervisor
District #
City Council
Drainage
Fire
Park
School
Special District
Water Supply
TRASH PICKUP
Service Day
Next Green Day
Next Recycle Day
Refuse
POLITICAL INFORMATION
State Assembly
State Senate
US House
US Senate
SEWER INFORMATION
There’s also a link to property tax information for that parcel.
Wonder why it seems so hot this week? We had it nice for a while.
(Inspired by the Sac Bee’s graphic Tuesday.)
Varifrank sums it up:
Whats it like in the central valley these days? Its 112 degrees, zero wind, and there are three thousand fires all over the state. The smoke literally blocks out the sun. If you want to simulate the experience, turn yur furnace on, close all the windows and start a campfire on the front room floor.
Nora puts it even more succinctly:
All I know is I’m having ice cream for dinner.
No wonder it’s been so smokey in Sacramento lately. This map is from the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services via kayakeverywhere. Here are the numbers.
“But weather forecasters were predicting more lightning storms, potentially similar to those that have ignited more than 1,000 blazes.” (LA Times)
I was trying to figure this out a week or two ago and now it’s come up again in a reference to Sacramento being a “top-20 media market”. Sacramento is the 26th largest Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) (see also CSAs and CBSAs). It’s also the 37th largest city in the US.
This “media market” or Designated Market Area (DMA), defined by Nielsen Media Research rather than the US Census Bureau, is yet another way to measure the Sacramento area’s influence. It’s defined as an area where everyone can receive common television and radio station programing. While it was once #18, it looks like it’s slipped to #20.
A recent Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast report predicts a 99.7 percent chance that a magnitude 6.7 quake or larger will strike somewhere in California in the next 30 years.
It’s nice to see Sacramento in the middle of the blue but I used to live just east of the (1)—right above the tip of the “l”, actually, about 300 yards from the crack itself.
Celebrating its 35th year, the Jubilee is not just a fun local event, it is the biggest jazz festival in the West, and one of the biggest traditional jazz festivals in the world. That’s right, the world. The Jubilee is, by far, the biggest tourist attraction in Sacramento, the biggest event in Old Sacramento, and, other than not being able to close out the Lakers in the 2002 Western Conference Finals, the event that Sacramento is most known for around the country.
Crest (by timchambers)
This is a cool pic from down the street from my office. I decided I need to post more pics.
Cool getting off the train shot.
For the People (by Jassy-50)
This is a good picture of something that is hard to capture.
This wall exhibits words selected from the State Constitution in relief and the lighting and shadows change constantly during the day. Also, various metals and minerals were included in the surface of the wall so the colors and shading change over time as the wall weathers.
Unfortunately, all of this is in a courtyard behind gates and doesn’t get the visibility I think it deserves.
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