I almost missed the fact that it was father’s day today. Not a ton of news stories about it, and since my dad’s been dead for longer than some folks I know have been alive, it doesn’t seem like much of a holiday to me anymore. But for those of you who are dads, have a good day.
- This weekend is the Stone Arch Festival of the Arts. I probably should have pointed to it yesterday so you’d have more notice, but it’s going on today, as well. The cool classic cars are probably worth dealing with the crowds. Then again, I’m still feeling a little misanthropic, so I may just spend another day lurking around my fortress of solitude.
- A relatively new service called StubHub is providing That Invisible Hand Guides the Game of Ticket Hunting with a stock-market-like market for reselling tickets to events. It looks like a handy service, but it doesn’t look like I can sell Saints tickets through it just yet. [nyt]
- After updating my quotes file again yesterday (I mined Democracy.ru’s quotes page for some more material after that other Bill pointed to it yesterday), and now having the stuff I hooked up so finger pulls a random quote out of the file [Hmm. The phrasing of that makes me think
Pull my finger
… Perhaps I should reword it?], I decided it was time to update the scripts that maintain it, and then my page on Maintaining my quotes file. It’s probably interesting to about two people in the universe, but if I let something like that stop me, I wouldn’t write anything here at all. - Yesterday afternoon, I was still feeling grumpy about the treatment we’d received at Tuggs on Friday night. I called them up and spoke with Jim, the manager (and boss, perhaps? I seem to recall the boss’ name being Jim). He seemed geniunely upset that we’d been turned away, and was going to send a little something to me in the mail. I guess my faith is restored a little, but the real test will come next time I try to head down there on a busy evening again. Will they actually want to take my money? Only time will tell.
- There’s a mini-update to the story of Police Brutality in Minneapolis. A story in the Northeaster of June 17th, 2004, written by Gail Olson tells of a group of NE businesses that is putting together a special
patrol area
which includes where the first incident took place.
The new business association behind the special patrol area is being organized by Jeff Ormond, who owns Gabby’s. You can reach him at the bar and ask whether the new patrol will also protect citizens from attacks by armed thugs who happen to be off-duty officers.
The Pulse has a related article talking about Reaction to Police Overreaction, but I can’t find anything more on the Art-a-Whirl weekend. - Boingboing has links to all the Live audio coverage of SpaceShipOne on Monday morning if my link yesterday tickled your fancy. [boing boing]
