On This Day: Feb 5

Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 22 posts previously published on February 5th

• 2023
  • 📚 January Fifteenth by Rachel Swirsky No review, as this book is a Philip K. Dick Award nominee, and I am the coordinator for the award ceremony at Norwescon. While I have no input into the selection of nominees or judging, I want to be sure to avoid any appearance of influence. ➡
• 2020
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on February 5, 2020). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you ... Read more ➡
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on February 5, 2020). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.Why You May Never Learn the Truth About ICE: “The National ... Read more ➡
  • On This Day: Feb 5 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 5 ➡
• 2019
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on February 5, 2019). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.I’m as much of a fan of Rent as any other ... Read more ➡
• 2016
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on February 5, 2016). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.Now this is a good way to wrap up a long ... Read more ➡
• 2014
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on February 5, 2014). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.A hat and two hoods (hoodie and jacket) makes for good ... Read more ➡
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on February 5, 2014). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.Huh. Well, would’ja look at that. Somebody snuck a bootleg @norwescon ... Read more ➡
• 2007
  • Initiative 957 If passed by Washington voters, the Defense of Marriage Initiative would require heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or else have their marriages annulled. ➡
• 2006
  • Steelers take the Superbowl Neither Prairie nor I really know much about football, and we don't really _care_ to know much. However, that didn't stop us from kicking back and having a fun time watching the game and doing our own form of silly armchair quarterbacking. ➡
• 2005
  • Pigface, Sheep on Drugs, and MY BIRTHDAY The Pigface Free For All Tour is going to be coming through Seattle. Pigface and Sheep on Drugs (and Nocturne, and possibly The Damage Manual and The Countdown) in concert -- and they're performing at the Fenix Underground on Tuesday, May 3rd. ➡
  • Emerald City ComiCon 'I'm not funny — I'm freakishly obsessed!' I burst out laughing when I heard this (thoroughly embarrassing the girl who'd said it, I think), but it seemed as oddly appropriate as it was amusing while I wandered around the Emerald City ComiCon this morning. ➡
  • Naked robbery warning! WARNING: A scam is being pulled, mainly on older men. What happens is that when you stop for a red light, a young nude woman comes up and pretends to be washing your windshield. While she is doing this, another person opens your back door and steals anything in the car. ➡
  • Are we about to be without a Governor? This mess just keeps getting worse and worse. A local judge declared yesterday that the Republican suit to overturn the election will proceed, and might end up voiding the election — but he wouldn't order a new election. Would that leave Washington without a Governor? ➡
• 2003
  • What Al said, in tiny bits. I've seen this all over the 'net, but had yet to make a link to it. As it's far past time I did so, here it is: Why Al says that 'E' is the same as 'MC²', as told so that each word has four jots or less. ➡
  • Networking sex he average amount of information per ejaculation is 1.560*109 * 2 bits * 2.00*108, which comes out to be 6.24*1017 bits. That's about 78,000 terabytes of data! As a basis of comparison, were the entire text content of the Library of Congress to be scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20 terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts five seconds, you get a transmission rate of 15,600 tb/s. In comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up much of the backbone of the internet) can move .005 tb/s. Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1/5000th of that. ➡
  • Work, work, work I finally got a chance to talk with my boss about my possible future with Xerox, a conversation that I'd been itching for for a while now. When working for Xerox, a temp such as myself can be used for a maximum of 18 months before the situation needs to be re-evaluated. I've known that the tail end of my 18 months was coming up fairly quickly, but wasn't at all sure about what I'd be looking at when it it. Some of my questions finally got answered today. ➡
  • The case for war Gen. Powell made his presentation to the UN today, giving America's (ahem…Bush's…) case for going to war with Iraq. I haven't had time to look over the full thing yet, but the US Department of State has the entire presentation available on the web. ➡
  • Bush sets new record Well, Bush has gone and set a new record by plunging the U.S. into a $304,000,000,000 deficit, which is only likely to get worse and worse (I've seen some estimates eventually putting us at the trillion level) should we start turning Iraq into a molten slagheap. Can we just get to the next round of elections please? My single vote might not be enough to get Bush out of office on its own, but I'm sure itching to do my part to try. ➡
  • More on Animatrix Back in October, I mentioned an upcoming DVD release called 'Animatrix' — a series of short animated films set in the universe of The Matrix. It turns out that of the nine shorts that will be on the disc, four are going to be released to the web, and the first has just been posted. ➡
• 2001
  • 1941 toepick cannibal line Now -- the newest additions to my movie library. Big surprise, huh? ➡
  • Occasional downtime I'm working on my CD collection again, which often necessitates switching my 'puter over to Mac OS 9. As my webserver only operates when I'm running Mac OS X...well, no webserver when I'm working. ➡