SMUD, which rhymes with FUD but stands for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, wants you to bid to supply it with $300,000 worth of Toughbook CF-52 laptops and accessories.
You’ve got until the 14th of April to come in with your tender for a blanket purchase order or persuade them that you’ve something better to offer.
The details are in this devilish document, here. ♣
Here in Seattle, Paul Allen’s Vulcan is developing the South Lake Union area of town. It pushed hard, and finally got the city help pay for a trolley line running to the center of town from there. Note I said trolley. That was the spin to make it sound cuter than a streetcar. So just as it was finished, they noticed the acronym for “South Lake Union Trolley”. Now Vulcan calls it a streetcar. I don’t…