Fortune telling with coffee?

There should be a way to tell one's fortune by their coffee. I don't mean looking at the grind in the bottom of their Turkish coffee, which has been done, and is in some ways like staring at tea leaves. Rather, I mean this:

The fortune teller would pour a cup of coffee into a clear cup, and ask the client to put in cream. The manner and amount of cream added would have meaning, of course. Rather than stirring the cream into the coffee, watch the patterns -- how fast the swirls dance, what direction they go. It's even more dramatic if you've got large flat pieces of ice in the coffee, and can watch the swirling through the ice. I'm sure there's predictive meaning in there somewhere!

MDRF Photo Contest winners 2006

The MDRF official web site photo gallery has posted the winner for the 2006 season. Very very nice, really captures much of the spirit of the faire.

MDRF photo gallery

I've been trying to find the title of this movie...

For a few years now, I've been trying to find the title of a movie that I saw in the mid-80s. Well I found it!

All I could really remember about the movie was that it was Gene Hackman as the boring dad of an angst-ridden teenage son, the two were in a cafe, when gunfire breaks out. The two get out of the cafe, and to the car, where the son says something like, let me drive, Dad, this is too much for you. Turns out, though, that the father had been playing the meek role for years, that he was really ex-CIA, and very action oriented, much to the son's surprise! Car chase ensues. I think the car they were in was a Mini Cooper. I also thought it was an older movie when I saw it (on videotape).

People would suggest French Connection (1971, Gene Hackman) or Italian Job (little car, 1969), but they didn't really seem right. Turns out the movie was new in the 80s, a 1985 flick called "Target" with Gene Hackman as the father, and Matt Damon as the son.

Now if I can just remember the name of that movie from the 70s -- all I remember is a large globular space station and swords made out of lasers. But that can't be right, can it?