Cyrus Farivar

Starving Student: The cultural significance of taco trucks: It is not a secret that the highest-income earners in Chico are white people. So let’s go ahead and stop trying to pretend I’m being racist. Everyone is racist. And every journalist is biased. If you do not agree with the previous two statements, you probably understand the world much differently than I do, and will find this column at least partially offensive. Therefore, people who stick their nose up at taco…

IM conversation with an Iraqi friend now living in New York: Friend: are u following spitzer’s resignation now Friend: ? Friend: crazy Cyrus Farivar: yeah Friend: cool Friend: his wife is so pissed Friend: man that’s so cool Friend: they just resign like that Friend: when they make awful mistakes Cyrus Farivar: why is that cool? Friend: in iraq Friend: that never happened Friend: no one resigned Friend: no matter what they did Friend: they outlived the people Friend: i’m…

It’s less than a year old, and if you buy it before March 20, you can extend the AppleCare on it. Specs are here. I’ll drop the price $40 if you’re a blog reader/friend. Update: It’s been sold, thanks!

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece about gadgets of “the future” will air on Morning Edition tomorrow (March 10)! It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams). New York – 5 am to 9 am Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 5 am to 10 am Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org Los Angeles – 2 am to 9 am Pacific – KPCC – 89.3…

Wired: By Cyrus Farivar To read the headlines, you’d think the dream of free, citywide wireless was dead coast to coast. One after another, big municipal Wi-Fi projects — San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta — have hit the skids. But check out the rest of the map: Dozens of lower-profile locales are launching government-sponsored networks. Most are smaller cities and counties, where bureaucracies are less onerous and costs are lower. (Philadelphia, the sixth-largest US city, is the biggest urban area to…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on overseas electronic voting systems will be airing today. It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams): New York – 3 pm Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 8 pm Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org Los Angeles – 12 pm Pacific – KPCC – 89.3 FM – www.kpcc.opg Boston – 4 pm Eastern – WGBH – 89.7 FM…

January 24 2008 Tacos Garcia Soscol St. at McKinstry Napa, CA Note: Advertised “Burrito Diablo de Camarón $8.50” Tacos Dos Hermanos Sonoma St at Soreno St. Vallejo, CA Tacos Jalisco Texas St. at Broadway Vallejo, CA Note: “Tacos de Birria” La Perla de Jalisco 1 block north of Kentucky St. at Alameda Vallejo, CA

I finally finished uploading photos from my two most recent solo crawls. March 1 2008 Tacos Panzon Campbell and Grand Ave. Oakland, CA Tacos Toñito Herman and Huntington Ave. (Under I-380 overpass) San Bruno, CA Tacos El Ranchito El Camino Real at Jenevin Ave. (Across from the Fire Station) San Bruno, CA Tacos El Ranchito #2 El Camino Real at Center St. (near McDonald’s) Millbrae, CA La Conchita El Camino Real and Hillcrest Ave. Millbrae, CA Note: Pastor was *really*…

[via Alan Wiig]

SacBee: The city of Sacramento appears ready to clamp down on a workday culinary staple – the food truck. More than 100 licensed food trucks roam Sacramento every day, serving up tacos, burritos, noodles and ice cream. The trucks are fixtures at construction sites and outside government offices, anywhere hurried folk want a bite on the cheap. But city officials say some vendors park for hours in quiet neighborhoods and attract loiterers, noise, litter and crime. The City Council is…