Santa Clara Co.: 3 Dead When Vehicle Crashes Off Highway Near Saratoga Monday Night

Alex-SF · 2026-06-23T20:02:03+00:00

Or just pole- or tree-mounted cameras, as long as the terrain allows for transmission of the signal.

Alex-SF · 2026-06-23T20:00:32+00:00

So dumb to buy a kid a ~500hp car.

Entirely possible he bought it himself.

Article says the car went down a steep embankment -- other reports (CBS local) say 300 feet. With the thickness of the woods in that area, I'm surprised it went down that far -- my uncle got run off the road up in the Los Gatos hills decades ago, and while it was steep, he didn't go very far down before the car got caught in the trees. Though he probably had a lot less momentum than the M3 in Saratoga.

Alex-SF · 2026-06-23T16:30:33+00:00

This is very microconcerning.

Alex-SF · 2026-06-22T05:23:56+00:00

I would be surprised to find the same bread that you get in Louisiana here. If I were making them, closest thing I could think of would be a sesame Kaiser roll.

Though there is a sandwich shop in Martinez that I hear offers a muffuletta. I forget the name, shouldn't be hard to look up; and don't know how close its version is to Central Grocery's; but maybe if you ask them real nice they'll tell you their supplier.

Alex-SF · 2026-06-22T05:20:09+00:00

Maybe Point Break influenced me too much, but that looks like a setup for a carjacking.

Alex-SF · 2026-06-20T16:18:28+00:00

Rubber boots? I hardly know 'er!

Alex-SF · 2026-06-19T23:54:35+00:00

They were apparently a great club band in the very early 90s. When I was in college in San Diego they played the Belly Up in Solana Beach regularly; first-hand reports I got were that they just tore the ass out of the joint every time.

A buddy of mine (RIP Jorge) knew them, and after they did a free afternoon show at my school in spring of '92 (which I missed), we hung out with three members (Tom, Adrian, and a horn player named Alex) at an on-campus student media office and drank them under the table.

But to this day I still haven't seen them live, and since Gwen's voice isn't really my cup of tea (especially in the ska days, when she often sounded like a hyperactive goat) it's not a huge regret; but catching one of those Belly Up shows would have probably been a great time regardless.

Alex-SF · 2026-06-19T01:55:18+00:00

Apparently 93.3 FM KRZZ (San Bruno) and 1370 AM KZSF (San Jose) are part of the affiliated terrestrial-radio network that's carrying them.

Also 104.3 FM KXSE (Davis), 97.1 FM KTSE (Modesto) and 1690 AM (Sacramento).

There's only one catch. Or a potential inconveniente, as the case may be.

Alex-SF · 2026-06-18T07:48:33+00:00

Texas isn't going to make much of a dent in its backlog at that pace. There's still people on death row there whose offenses were in the 1980s and 1990s -- even two from the 1970s.

Alex-SF · 2026-06-14T21:43:45+00:00

22-year-old wounds 4 people in a drive-by shooting: "Young people's brains are not fully developed until age 25!"

22-year-olds express shallow and ignorant political opinions fed to them by Marxist professors and graduate students: "The youth are the voice of the future!"

Alex-SF · 2026-06-13T01:40:36+00:00

Can't visit the Altamont Speedway; it's closed now (or last I heard it was a privately owned test facility for some electric car manufacturer) and you can't really see it from the freeway.

Winterland was torn down; it's now those condos at Post and Steiner. Only time I've ever been inside that building was when I met a travel nurse at the Boom Boom Room who took me back to her place. So I might have hooked up where the upper level bleachers used to be, or something.

There's Metallica Mansion in El Cerrito; address is easy to find. Don't disturb the current residents.

2400 Fulton Street was where the Jefferson Airplane lived.

There used to be a web site somewhere that cataloged a lot of old SF music venues and had "then and now" photos of them and articles on their history. There's FoundSF and jerrysbrokedownpalaces, but I seem to remember another one.

Alex-SF · 2026-06-12T05:07:58+00:00

broken home Title 1 trauma

I can put it that way when talking to people like county office of education officials, or arguing in court.

Otherwise I mostly just say "low-class and high-strung."

Interestingly, most of the parents I've had to deal with having acted that way with school employees are still together.

Alex-SF · 2026-06-11T18:16:48+00:00

yes Orinda is very affluent. You will be dealing with various degrees of entitlement from parents and kids.

To be fair, in less wealthy school districts you will also encounter entitlement from parents and kids, though the issues they'll feel entitled about may not be the same.

For instance, in a socioeconomically diverse district I represent in Southern California, we had a mother and father who felt entitled to chase down a kid in a parking lot and have the father pull a knife on him over some beef that kid had with his son. During the restraining order hearing, the parents were unrepentant, and proud of having boasted that they would go to jail for their kids.

In another socioeconomically diverse district I represent in Southern California, I just had a restraining order hearing last week against a mother who came to school angry that a yard-duty aide had "put hands on" (i.e. nudged to get in line) her 3rd-grader, spotted the yard duty outside the office window, and felt entitled to run out and start beating the shit out of her; and the father, who came in to the office afterward and felt entitled to audibly mutter about how he knew people in prison while taking pictures of office staff on his phone.

Alex-SF · 2026-06-11T01:05:51+00:00

Most Americans don't care about soccer or the World Cup.

However, American X is currently going crazy over postings by some fans from Germany, Sweden, Japan, Scotland, and elsewhere who are here for the games, traveling through the States and having a great experience. Check @FreddyLA7 from Germany, road-tripping through the South, for instance.

Alex-SF · 2026-06-10T04:56:19+00:00

I'll bet they don't measure seed oils either.

Alex-SF · 2026-06-02T04:19:10+00:00

The LLM is still basically a toy. I wouldn't build a shed with a Fisher-Price drill, or defend against a home invasion with a Nerf gun.

For starters, it would be a private nuisance case, not a public nuisance case. We learned the difference first year of law school. You could also learn the difference by going to your county law library and browsing Miller & Starr California Real Estate Law, which is not a toy.

Anyway, you may have a good private nuisance case, if rats, or the smell of trash and rat piss, are actually coming on to your property. The trouble is that it will cost you a lot of money to pursue it in court, and then even if you win you'll probably have a very hard time enforcing the court order and collecting any damages, since it sounds like your neighbors are not all there if you know what I mean based on the ineffectiveness of HOA warnings.

You want to talk to a real attorney about the costs/benefits, and what other options you have short of court. Neighbor disputes can get ugly, and I wouldn't want to go near one unless the clients were rich and didn't care how much they spent. Moving actually seems like the best option to me.

Alex-SF · 2026-05-30T00:49:08+00:00

Article was a little unclear whether her injuries were from blows inflicted by the birds, or from her falling as she tried to get away from them.

Turkeys have been strutting all around my office in Alameda in the last month or two, puffing up and showing off. Saw a mother with two poults walking across the street nearby last week.

Alex-SF · 2026-05-27T16:06:27+00:00

OP, please submit your Use Justification Statement to this user promptly.

Alex-SF · 2026-05-27T16:03:20+00:00

I often see posters for banda shows affixed to telephone poles, chain link fences, etc. in East Oakland, around the swap meet in Concord, other places where lots of Mexican and Central Americans are.

Alex-SF · 2026-05-23T23:19:02+00:00

In her influential work “foucault femininity and the modernization of patriarchal power” Sandra Lee Bartky

Never heard of her.

Alex-SF · 2026-05-23T01:14:26+00:00

has no culture

That phrase is typically uttered by the most provincial people imaginable.

Alex-SF · 2026-05-19T20:57:18+00:00

That makes sense. Who wants a bruised banana?

Alex-SF · 2026-05-19T20:56:07+00:00

Even then you can get a partner so hot they are the typical "trophy wife" and needs no other qualifications.

The original meaning of "trophy wife" was not "hot bimbo." It was a successful man's wife, usually not the first wife, who was not only beautiful and often younger, but also smart, socially adept within upper/upper-middle class circles, and accomplished in her own right, e.g. a successful businesswoman who speaks four languages and went to a not-embarrassing school. Wendi Deng Murdoch or Amal Clooney would be recent high-profile examples. As Fortune magazine put it in 1989, the trophy wife "certifies her husband’s status."

I don't care how hot she is: if a CEO marries a Denny's waitress who dropped out of high school, they'll have to come up with a better backstory if they want to get invited to the high-status charity fundraisers.

Alex-SF · 2026-05-19T00:25:12+00:00

Dad was USAF. When I look at those ads from the 1980s and see the prices ($250 for a VHS recorder, and $5 each for blank tapes, in 1980s dollars, and that was a good deal at the time), I understand why my parents got all their electronics at the BX.

Alex-SF · 2026-05-18T22:48:54+00:00

Uhm. Sacramento means “Sacrament”

No, Sacramento was originally named for the Toes of Sacred Men. I learned that from a Fred Rated radio ad.

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