As I wrote prior, our upcoming move was delayed by the existing tenant of our new apartment rescinding their 30 day notice. Although Sophie, General Manager of the South Market facility, said the existing tenants were personally sorry for the trouble they caused; come to find out from our sales rep it was actually a corporate rented apartment! Now, being in the business, I know it’s much easier to shift a business account than a personal account - though Archstone’s policy, regardless of tenant type, is to cater to the current tenant, I can’t help but feel walked over and misdirected.

Reluctantly, I accepted an additional apartment, and came down to their office with Sheryl for the paperwork. Sheryl, concerned about the situation, asked to see the location of the apartment again just in case (they don’t allow access to occupied apartments, which I think is as plus)… what we found out is that the previous rep, Wilson, showed me the wrong location! This apartment was in a ‘basement level’, with street view and minimal light. Distressed, we negotiated for a smaller place with a storage unit (even though that apartment is also corporate occupied), and signed the final paperwork July 19th to get the process moving.

The current tenant leaves July 30th, with our move in set for July 8th. The one we picked is in a higher, sunnier location with new fixtures that I hope will prove worthwhile. In the end, we’re more concerned than ever but our time is running short for options; if it happens a second time, it’ll be the last.

As an interesting side note, our Sales rep commented that 3 other potential tenants also lost their apartment that day (one moving out from Las Vegas). While that did little to calm my emotions, it is telling that many of the reviews I find regarding this location could be spot on, and I maybe walking into a time-bomb. Here’s to hope they just as much time marketing their corporate business, as they do taking care of their public tenants. After the 30th, I’ll be much more excited about my new place.

On the very day the tenants were to move out of #4301, they called the office administration to rescind their 30 day notice- effectively voting to stay on site. Although the building is not rent controlled, and it’s questionable if that’s legal, Archstone has agreed to keep their current tenants and avoid any potential issues that may ensue to enforce the 30 day notice. The result, of course, is that two weeks prior to us moving we’ve no place to go.

We’re sorry to inform you

The phone call was received by my girlfriend at her office, her to me, and me back to Archstone. The account rep, Wilson, was currently overwhelmed with requests and did not have any current information but the above, and offered me two other apartments in the building: one the same size, $100 more expensive, with upgraded utilities… but on the busy street corner and, due to the first floor location, without a balcony. The second 50 feet smaller all around, but with similar options to our original pick, and also $100 more expensive. I asked to stop by and take a peek at both to make a decision immediately.

I took the quick mile walk from my office, and met the busy Wilson (who called me Freddy). After showing me the options, I sat down with the Community Manager, Sophie, per my request. She apologized for the inconvenience, and noted that she could not offer any discounted cost on the new options or any offsets we may incur. She stated these fees are corporate mandated, and due to housing laws, it was not in her power. I thanked her for her time, and let her know I’d sleep on the decision tonight.

Resounding thoughts

As the Art & IT Director for a business that prides itself in Commercial and Residential Holdings, I found it a bit questionable that should could offer nothing in lieu of this amazing inconvenience. Not to mention that, although we paid a fee, our document was simply a ‘holding’ contract, not a Lease (in all manners, unreliable, invaluable, and flat made up specifically for their business needs); and the office lawyer confirms this, though agrees both sides carry so much potential issues due to the tenant wishing to stay, it is an irrelevant arguement.

Although I can understand things tend to happen, I find it ironic that this happened so close to our move in date. I’m reminded of a statement our initial sign-up representative, Melissa, made during the first walk through:

Wow, you got a good price! Must be because the apartment isn’t renovated yet - we typically try to renovate them prior to renting again so we can add improved features. Are you sure we can’t offer you one of our renovated options?

Those would be the same options I am offered now. The increased options are simply upgraded fixtures for an additional $200+ a month, not something I find valuable (my stove doesn’t need to be black, and my fridge doesn’t need to be chrome). I hope that twist is simply coincidence. Cheers to the mad rush of finding an apartment in under two weeks!

Building off the excellent, but extensively quiet plugin Clutter Free by Mark Jaquith and the globalized configuration by Achim Staebler (I can no longer find a link for him), I’ve branched off the code and renamed it ‘Cloak’ so I may gut and build as I see fit.

Download the Plugin

Installation

• Unzip the downloaded file
• Upload cloak.php to your wp-content/plugins folder
• (As an Administrator) Login to your Wordpress site
• Navigate to the Plugins page
• Select Activate on the plugin line for Cloak
• You’re done!

Management & Configuration

Unlike the previous version of Clutter-Free, I’m assuming my users will most likely not take the initiative to clean up their own screen… and most importantly, they maybe entry-level users. The configuration is therefore a global structure to all users:

• (As Administrator) navigate to the Settings Page
• Navigate to the Cloak sub-page
• Uncheck what you wish to hide, check what you wish to show.

Each list element is titled by either ‘Post’ and ‘Page’ to signify the write area that it controls. By default, all areas are visible for all users.

I look forward to future updates that can allow me to define either ‘global’ or ‘individual’ management; I’ll also inquire with the new editor of Role Manager if there’s any possibility for future integration, as that would be helpful for my current projects.

It’s Yours

Edit it, destroy it, and do with it what you wish. Feel no need to give me credit, but you’re welcome to give the original author credit, I simply upgraded. Wordpress, although a welcomed blogging system, limits me in regards to Content Management Systems, and as I lean towards other excellent engines, I may very well fade into Wordpress oblivion. Feel free to ask for more, though. Thank you!

Now in normal grep, this would be a bit easier than expected by applying a Regular Expression Counter to your replacement:

e%0>

Would sequentially add a number greater to zero. Brilliant! Unsupported in BBEdit!

Now, again, you could code in a different language and accomplish this much easier if you have that experience, but for me, the trick was to step around BBEdit’s limitation with line number.

The Sequential Numbering Trick

1. Under Text, Select the Add/Remove Line Numbers…
2. In my case, I’ve chosen to start at 0 and then add a space (the space is just to give me more grep characters to call). I’ve removed Justified so it doesn’t add any space before my number, skewing my search to come. When you’re ready, go ahead and Number:
3. Now we’ll start a find/replace of our information under Search > Find…
4. In this case, I’m going to edit:

   
   0 <li>Brady</li>
   1 <li>Brady</li>
   2 <li>Brady</li>
   3 <li>Brady</li>
   

   So that the line numbers are remove from the left, and the text ‘60′ is replaced by them using a specific grep pattern:
5. The final result is exactly what I needed:

   
   <li>Brady 0</li>
   <li>Brady 1</li>
   <li>Brady 2</li>
   <li>Brady 3</li>
   

What does that code mean?

As I noted before, Grep in BBEdit is limited, although there’s power to be had (and I recommend Cari D. Burstein’s overview). While I can’t call much in the replacement command, I can call data from the find portion and pass it along to the replacement area.

In the case of the find:

(\d*) <li>Brady</li>

I’ve used parenthesis to tell BBEdit these are ‘groups’ to be recognized later on; these groups are counted as group 1, then group 2, then group 3, and so on. Inside these parenthesis I use the \d command to mean ‘a numerical digit’ and the asterisk to mean ‘as many digits as I’d like’. I’ve now set myself up to search for the numerical line number as a group, and reuse it in my replace.

Now I’m ready to replace my content:

<li>Brady \1</li>

The \1 means ‘replace this area with content from the first group you called in the search’. The end result is that the search number is moved here, and since I didn’t add any command for the group to be repeated at the beginning of the line, the first line numbering is removed.

Using this in an advanced scenario

One of our entry, and rushed, business ventures under my scope is for my Boss’ beautiful new line of Jewelry, Amber Marie Bently Jewelry. She’s recently designed a new series of pieces, and I’d like those designs to be seated at the front of the web list. Since I’ve used a Javascript slider, I’ll have to put all the list content at the top, and then dynamically change the sequential order of each full size image and each Thumbnail… annoying by hand, less than a second with Grep replacement.

• Each line is out of order, and for example, is a long series of code: 0 <li><a href="#"><img id="thumb57" src="thumbnails/test1.jpg" width="60" height="42" alt="thumbnail 60"></a></li>
• I’m going to search for each line, making sure to call grep in areas where information is different so no line is left behind: (\d*) <li><a href="#"><img id="thumb(\d*)" src="(.*)" width="60" height="42" alt="thumbnail (\d*)"></a></li>
• Now, I’m going to call the first group into the thumb ID and into the alt thumbnail text, leaving the third group in the same spot so my URL isn’t altered: <li><a href="#"><img id="thumb\1" src="\3" width="60" height="42" alt="thumbnail \1"></a></li>

…and that’s it. 98 thumbnails and 98 full size images magically ordered on the fly in real time.

A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft’s electronic navigation and communications equipment.

Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter’s position. The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, and held up a handwritten sign that said “WHERE AM I?” in large letters.

People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said: YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER

The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely.

After they were on the ground, the copilot, still quite shaken by the experience, asked the pilot how he had done it.

The pilot said, “I knew it had to be the Microsoft Building, because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer.”

By May 23rd I had not heard a response from him, and sent him a text letting him know that I would be moving forward with my legal direction. He called late in the afternoon a few times while I was in a meeting, and I sent him a text notifying him that he can email or text me, or I will call him later.

At 4:29 pm, May 23rd, Randy called me and this time I picked up. He had heard about this website, and was extremely angry that I would make this information public. I noted I am attempting to document the factual information of the incident, and would be happy to take down any information he viewed as personal. He continued to press his distaste for this site, and I commented that he seemed more angry about this website than what he’s done to my family over the past few weeks; in fact, it was the first time he initiated a phone call to me without me first trying to contact him since May 13th. I reiterated that I am more than happy to work with him to mediate payment, but as I’ve said the past two weeks repeadetly, he needs to be in contact with me frequently that he is working on it and finalize some financial reimbursement plan in the near future. He finalized his conversation with the following quote:

“@$#% you, I’m threw with you, you don’t even know me, I don’t even know you. I wouldn’t make a threat and I don’t like to make threats or anything, but you should watch your back, you never know who you could be @$#% with and when you walk home, you could get @$#% hurt or something.”

I began to comment, when he hung up the phone.

By this time, Kattya and I spoke on the phone and agreed to meet this evening to settle our differences. Before we met, Randy Vo called back at 5:32 pm— this time I put it on speakerphone with an employee in earshot, and let Randy know he was on speakerphone. Randy expressed his financial status again, and I repeated the need for frequent communication to work out a plan, and expect him to plan a path in the near future. He noted that he can get emotional and that it “happens sometimes, I really shouldn’t have made a comment like that”. I told him I understood the emotional stress of the situation although it wasn’t appropriate at this time, and am happy to continue to mediate as much as possible and we should talk about it another time.

To document the incident, I’ve loaded up a personal page of Randy Vo and have submitted this story to Rip-off Report. If needed, I’ll be releasing a press note to editors and submitting documents to local retailers about this situation in the hopes no one else has to deal with it… and, of course, I’ll probably have to finalize my small claims later this evening.

Aside Apartment Ratings scathing review, one of the old tenants kept a detailed blog of his events at the location. This seems to be a large corporation, inflexible and unable to provide the home environment a quiet professional like myself would need… whoever wrote that blog, thank you for the log, you’ve cost them a potential renter.

Tracerhand in this forum post had a quick supported solution. Instead of calling the pseudo element on the class, call it on the subsequent tag while making sure to use first-child to isolate it as the first tag only:

and:

No longer paragraphs in the wrong places, no longer break tags wherever wordpress feels it needs one.

It was a long night with a spunky puppy; I’m slightly scared for my life with the next six months looking forward to staying at home babysitting and not being able to spend time with Sheryl… but he’s cute, and he’s here to stay.

So far, he’s been chipper and happily greeting anyone who comes our way. He doesn’t bark that much, and is quick to train: except for the cat, which he has an instant obsession with and she has no interest in him at all!

I continue to see a bit of mucous on his nose, but Kattya of CheekoB said that most puppies have a bit of this mucous when they’re babies. She noted that it’s a cold, but dogs don’t get colds, we’ll see how he holds up!

The evening will be spent at PetSmart picking up Puppy Supplies such as cleaning agents, food, toys, kennel, sleeping area, the works. CheekoB recommends the Pup Head, which he’s apparently been trained to use, so we’ll make a trip to her store tomorrow.

Photos courtesy of Russ Jang.

Once I saw it, I knew it was a puppy. I’ve been missing dog’s for quite some time, stuck with the typical apartment cat that is easily maintainable but not much for the social life of beaches and parks; though I don’t know how well I’ll do with a baby around the house. Kattya walked in with hello’s all around, and with a quick zipper escape, out pops a gentle 10 week old Brussels Griffon.

Kryptonite for Sheryl - the one dog she’s talked about wanting for years (more than just their association with ewoks). Sheryl picked up who they named ‘Hobo’ from Kattya’s arms, and she sat there cuddling it, staring at me the whole time. After some debate about the issue, I told her if she wanted it that she would have to take care of it and go ahead. We agreed to take the puppy for the evening, and pay them $1200 for the little guy with papers to come.

We packed him tight in the SleepyPod for the evening (we’ll return it in the morning) since he was shaking all over. I noticed a bit of mucous on the snout, but Kattya said most puppies have a little one and not to concern ourselves… and welcome to parenthood.

How about an award for the best of the Web, from a company that has a horrible website? A website with 58 validation errors, one that uses XHTML code sometimes but calls out HTML? Built in dreamweaver, broken in a few browsers, scrubbed together with code that hasn’t been in use since the late 90’s and dripping with empty table tags?

I know we’re in the generation of singular experts, built on 6 months of training and pronounced as soon as you can plop a blog on the internet, but it breaks the heart to see junk defining what is good and what is bad. I imagine all art takes this route over time, as trends move in and out of fashion, but have the merit to bury it; don’t flaunt it.

Case in point- Ever Broke an Aluminum Bat (which actually doesn’t show any breaking of an Aluminum Bat, sad to say) loads with a yellow divider icon on the time lapse bar:

As soon as your time hits that bar, an add will slide out from the bottom window ala slideshow pro style that has an x in the top right of the ad to close:

If you close the ad, it will leave an icon to expand the ad again:

Upon video completion, you’ll see options to view other YouTube videos of similar flavor, and the ad will return, without the option to close it this time:

Goodbye TV ads, hello YouTube and the next generation of marketing.

On April 19th, 2008, the pacific coastal winds burrowed through the avenues of San Francisco and up the hillsides peaked with houses. Very few people seemed out on the town, and the ones who braved the gusts held close to personal items darting abruptly against the 60mph bursts. Perfect day to be a moron.

Sheryl and I were in our Honda Element ZipCar, fresh out of Safeway, when she called out from the passenger seat a huge stairwell that zig-zagged up the hillside on the edge of the Sunset District. Merging abruptly, we drove around a few block till we hit 15th and Noriega, parked the car, and with a bit of obnoxious cheerleading dragged Sheryl from our warm confines up the paved street.

We chose the concrete stairwell over alternate paved loop (well, by chose I mean I just started walking there in determination), and ascended over tree limbs freshly thrown from the still bustling wind. My cheerleading continued, and I helped cold-Sheryl move further to the set of zig-zag stairs we saw from a distance prior- impressed that it was, indeed, as rickety as we originally assumed.

We pushed onward through six stairwells to the mound of the hilltop- our backs to the wind, holding onto the railing as the winds sometimes pushed us heavily to a side. The hilltop was lined with trees to the east and the west, but the north and south lay unexposed. The land was sunspot with grass and sand - dry, and exposed. On the east a graffiti tagged historical marker sited the history of Grand View Park, and the endangered vegitation it guards. The wind continued to fire rounds of sand in our face, but the open top felt eerily similar to the freefall of a skydive. After reading the marker, snapping photos (as best we can), and pausing for the amazing 360° view, we made a beeline for the exit.

Stairwell down was worse by far; the wind lifted more of the hill sand up the zig-zag into our faces as we stepped over branches and slowly inched blind down the rickety steps. We survived it and skipped the concrete stairs in favor of the split road (per Sheryl’s recommendation), back again in the safety of the warm Element.

Although Sheryl considered me nuts, I was rather pleased by my spontaneous adventure; certain I was the only moron who would scheme that on such a windy day.

We started the car, made the route home around the hill with our groceries and our hair full of sand. We stopped only briefly for a young couple exiting the back side of the hill from a second stairwell I hadn’t noticed- we probably missed each other at the top by barely a minute. I set home satisfied that there were others in this city dumb enough for the same small adventures.

After a bit of Googling, the Wordpress forum linked me to the new documentation, noting that random posts are a lot simpler now with the MySQL RAND() function. Previous code for MacCentric was:

…and became:

Something to keep in mind for the designers rebuilding their templates;)

I’ll go more in detail in posts soon about the technical installation and management I oversaw with a fantastic crew at the Bently Reserve, but one thing that posed a more unique problem was a means of guiding potential customers to Conference locations without the traditional confusion of location memorization and without the waste of material.

Each room was given a name of a sunken ship beneath the foundation of the Bently Reserve in the 19th century (idea courtesy of Mark Mayfield, Chief Engineer to the Bently Reserve), with the remaining rooms deck terminology. Although it’s fairly easy to find the name of each room on a map or asking one of our staff, it seemed redundant to have to force people to memorize a spot with all the other experiences of a hurried conference. I also didn’t want a digital ‘mall’ experience with an interactive or stationary map at the front entrances- to me, it’s just another thing to have to find.

I can remember quite a few events where I struggled to find ‘Room 220E, around the corner, past the bathroom, you’ll see a easel out front…’, and assumed, wouldn’t it be easier to put the name of the room as the occupied company or group? Well, for the non-tech, that would require production of signage, even if they’re cheap prints- waste of ink/toner, paper, board material, time to print and cut, time to manage- there had to be a way of managing event signage digitally in a way that’s productive, green, and cost effective.

I sat out searching for ‘photo signs’, but most came up short with the typical kodak home based sign: cheap frame, USB loaded or Wifi loaded on proprietary software. After a bit of a run, I found the RedPost offered a unique sign based system with customized, open source, software that would allow remote management. Perfect, I thought, I want six now, and emailed the company… but unfortunately in the summer of 2007, they weren’t in production yet.

Months went by, I had my Graphic Designers and IT leads contact the company without success, and finally I called straight to the owner over a month to the end of the project, let him know exactly what it was for, and we were off purchasing, installing, and demoing cutting edge signs for the world to enjoy.

The end result is a beautiful, high tech fixture of the Bently Reserve Conference Center: customized by Eric Kanagy and his RedPost team by installing it on the spot with our support staff. I designed an animated fixture for each room name that showcases a personalized scene of the beautiful sunset through night time fog of San Francisco (yes, that’s photoshop and fake)- it’s running the javascript engine mootools as a slideshow in real time of graphics that I’ve created. I’ve scripted an engine on my Mac so that future images will be easily adjusted and updated in realtime to our servers for loading, allowing prompt and user friendly name changes as requested (logo changes as well).

Thanks to RedPost and Eric Kanagy for showcasing my beautiful art, Chris and Amber’s beautiful building, and supporting our staff as we managed the final pieces of the brand new Bently Reserve Conference Center. More to come soon on this beautiful, high tech buildout…

San Francisco, like most major cities, is a town built on a melting pot of cuisine. No where else can you find fresh sushi next door to a bistro serving the in season best of the Sonoma valley- but they can’t make a pizza, and breakfast tastes like a salad. When I first landed in this town, I made it a personal vendetta that if I had to let my Chicagoan obsession with pizza hibernate, breakfast needed to take on more of a staring role- but San Francisco holds breakfast with polarizing extremes: you either eat a $10 meal heavily microwaved ala-McDonald’s, or a $40 meal in a one egg omelet forked with seafood.

I persevered. I refused to be saddled by Lori’s Diner, and knew there had to be a real Breakfast joint in this town… someone had to understand what a decent square meal needed to be blessed with, and someone had to know how to make a decent man’s omelet or a pancake that wasn’t swedish! It’s Tops, tucked in the heart of San Francisco, hit the spot.

Of all the relics of San Francisco’s history, only It’s Tops holds the title for required pilgrimage. When my Mom comes to visit, my Sister, my Niece, my Father and his wife, my friends, Sheryl’s Parents, Sheryl’s Brother and Wife, co-workers, social events- all find their way to It’s Tops at least once in our travels.

On the Outside

Nestled on the South corner of Octavia and Market, near the recently developed highway entrance, the throwback diner sits itself between the famous Al’s Comics and the always colorful Grooves. The intriguing exterior placement, coupled with the opulent 1950’s signage and a classic color scheme, are a unique take on a diner scene soured by the hollywood and corporate visions of push-button eats. Not only do you find a family owned restaurant passed down through the generations at It’s Tops, but one ran by those very same owners and catered with the same sincerity.

On the Inside

The interior boasts vinyl red seats draped by dark wood walls, armored with retro-propaganda and numerous articles and awards from the restaurants vintage opening all the way to the present day. If you’re riding solo or just don’t see an open booth, the counter has a stool with your name on it; muck it up with local fanfare, talk with co-owner Sheila about the morning, or marvel at the great food… and it is great. You’re teased with everything from the best waffles and pancakes in the Bay Area (I’d argue, in my travels, most of Northern California), packed with blueberries or walnuts, or smothered with peanut butter or bananas, to french toast and cooked-just-right-hashbrowns, maybe omelets stuff fat with the local fixings, burgers by exquisite locally ranched meats; even beer battered mushrooms with an Elvis special.

Catch yourself in a dinner mood? Maybe you’ll be lucky and stop by on a Friday night before the crowd hits: you’ll run into one of the owners, Bruce, and he can tell you about the original cast iron he cooked that massive burger on, flavored for generations, over house tap. You can order breakfast if you want, sure, but sift through four pages of menu filled with hot off the grill Lamb Chops or perfectly marinated Steaks. Follow up with a traditionally home-made milk shake, maybe a banana split or Bruce’s very own mud pie.

Whatever you’ve come for, come prepared it eat a great meal around people that are happy to make that great meal. You’ll find real people who love San Francisco and want to keep making this town the beacon of the west. You may just find out you come so often you don’t have to even ask for the best- Sheila knows you’re going to order that perfect Carmel Mocha without whip cream while you stare at the menu for 15 minutes debating which combination you’ll gamble this go-around. San Francisco may never figure out how to make a Pizza, but It’s Tops shows San Francisco what a real diner is all about.

Ultimately, I found the Photoshop template to be a great help, and I recommend it for anyone. I didn’t care much to toy with the HTML, so I exported a transparent ping and dropped it on a div on top of my work while I coded (modern browsers can take an absolutely positioned div with a 0px point for all corners). Regardless, highly recommended for those in the know.

1. Login to PHPmyAdmin
2. Select the database you want in the left frame, if you have multiple
3. Choose the ‘SQL’ tab in the right frame
4. Add the following code and update

Replace table with the name of your table, the tablefield with the title of the tablefield you want to search, the first value (your mom) will be replaced by the second (my mom). In my case, I zapped gremlins for emdash in a standard wordpress 2.5 upgrade:

Todd’s article digs up the company response:

“MSN is being promoted because it provides an important layer of programmed, editorially selected content that helps ensure our readers stay in the know. Windows Live is a complementary brand to MSN that helps users stay connected with each other.”

Aside from the confusion of two brands in one, there’s obviously some digging for a meaning in that interpretation. Me, I think it’s a reverse attempt at their branding pitch, because even Microsoft wouldn’t want to look dumb.

Long story short: apparently Randy Howe purchased the type in June, 2007 and sent the font to a design firm farming work for him, which violated his agreement with LHF. Said design firm has an employee who decided to bittorent the font to the world, violating just about every digital purchase agreement that isn’t CC (and some that are). LHF asked Randy to cough up the culprit, Randy refuses and LHF has chosen to publish this nice notation.

Rock and a hard place for me; I’m annoyed on a few biased fronts that I’ll embellish. Randy probably shouldn’t have sent the font - though I have done this for my own design team on occasion and have helped out clutch production teams when it’s needed - I go out of my way to pay my share. Each situation is different, a black and white opinion of this scenario isn’t justifiable, and although I’m sure we can debate it, as adults we can see both ends.

LHF wants to understandably know who was the culprit that uploaded the font: but I wouldn’t feel the need to snitch either, and that is equally as debatable in the gray opinions of the world.

I sure wouldn’t want to call BS on Randy in a long winded email complete with charts, but that’s because I’d think I’d look pompous and out of touch with the industry concern on both sides. Nevertheless, if it was my business, I’d probably take the same route of publication.

I don’t agree, but I don’t disagree, and that’s the fundamental confusion I’m sure for both sides: as a once rogue libertarian, the argument of property loss isn’t, well, lost on me. The question I have is the value of calling it out on my person versus the value of that font… maybe in the end, I just would have wrote that article in a tone less attacking the world and more attacking the problem.

Criminal to remove any peaceful attendant to an event, regardless of it’s pay status, and an obvious blow to any open minded debate on the subject. I’d be more interested to know if it was a police officer or a rental cop that took orders; I’m hoping the latter, or we have a much bigger issue on our hands. I’ll have to see the movie and gauge if it’s worth taking Stein serious anymore…

- find courtesy of Douglas Hahn