This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on May 12, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.
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 24 posts previously published on May 12th
- 2023
- Year 50 Day 10 One definite benefit to working in academia is a more permissive dress code than many corporate jobs allow. ➡
- 2021
- This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on May 12, 2021). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.📚 19/2021: _Patience & Esther_ by S.W. Searle ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A sweet ... Read more ➡
- 2020
- While there's never a good time to have an internet outage, in the midst of a pandemic when both people in the house work from home and depend on 'net access for both work and socializing is a really, _really_ bad time. ➡
- On This Day: May 12 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from May 12 ➡
- 2019
- The rust upon / the roof of tin / shall see your heart / and know your sin. ➡
- 2018
- 2016
- 2014
- Nothing like diving into a good book. ➡
- 2010
- Links for May 9th through May 12th Sometime between May 9th and May 12th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • The 7 Most Soul-Crushing Series Finales in TV History • The Blackboard Versus the Keyboard • 50th Anniversary of the Pill: Love, Sex, Freedom and Paradox • Why Roger Ebert Hates 3-D (And You Should Too) • The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook ➡
- 2006
- coComment Enabled coComment is a service that lets you track the comments you've made on other weblogs, keep track of when people have responded to them, and so on...basically, trying to make sure that those comments you leave don't just disappear into the great bit bucket of the 'net. ➡
- 2005
- Star Wars Tech Geeking It's no great surprise that I've just managed to loose three hours of my evening immersed in the Star Wars Technical Commentaries, a site devoted to extrapolating rather amazing amounts of data out of the Star Wars universe. ➡
- Flickr’s on a roll Okay, so maybe this whole brouhaha about Flickr being purchased by Yahoo wasn't such a bad thing after all. They've been on a pretty good roll recently, as evidenced by their news page... ➡
- 2004
- Mac OS X Word 2004 Demo Trojan For the second time in just over a month, panicky news stories are alerting us about a trojan horse attack against Mac OS X. Last time the exploit was disguised as an .mp3 file, this month it's disguised as a Microsoft Word beta installer. ➡
- Silly quiz time I've mentioned Something Positive a time or two in the past, but in case you've missed it, it's a great little web comic. Highly recommended. So when I stumbled across this quiz tonight, I had to take it… ➡
- Why bother buying ink? Why even bother buying ink anymore? Seems to me that it's practically more cost effective to just buy a printer and use it until the ink runs out, junk it, and buy a new one. Go for a cheaper printer, and I'd be willing to bet that it is cheaper to treat them as a 'disposable' item. ➡
- 2003
- Secretary A fascinating portrayal of two people breaking out of their respective self-imposed psychological prisons to find support and love through a light S&M, D/s relationship. ➡
- About a Boy Hugh Grant plays his 'charming slimeball' routine to a T, as the world's shallowest bachelor who finds acceptance, and hidden depths, after stumbling into becoming a surrogate father figure for the quirky son of a troubled single mom. Quite enjoyable, with a lot of cute lines. ➡
- Today's vocabulary Why is it that one can busta rhyme or busta move anywhere but you must bust a cap in someone's ass? Is 'ho' always feminine, and 'muthafucka' always masculine, while 'bitch' can be either? How many peeps in a posse, how much booty before baby got back, do you have to be all that to be all up in that, and do I need to be dope and phat to be da bomb or can I just be 'stupid'? ➡
- 2002
- Music, books and other real-world fun Back in the summer of 1991, right after I graduated high school, I took a trip to Germany with the Bartlett High School German Club. While there, I was browsing through a music store and stumbled across a band that sounded interesting -- Poems for Laila. ➡
- The Complete Chronicles of Narnia Well, I just finished all seven books of Narnia. I hadn't read these in many, many years, and at some point C.S. Lewis decided that he'd rather have the books presented in their chronological order rather than the order they were written in, so it was in many ways an almost entirely new experience for me. ➡