On This Day: Jul 15

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 30 posts previously published on July 15th

• 2023
  • Year 50 Day 74 Wandering around Capitol Hill as I wait for the Mercury to open its doors. ➡
• 2022
  • 🎥 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness An above-average entry in the MCU canon. ➡
• 2020
  • On This Day: Jul 15 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from July 15 ➡
• 2018
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on July 15, 2018). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.Book twenty-eight of 2018: Stories From the Twilight Zone, by Rod ... Read more ➡
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on July 15, 2018). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.How Vertigo foreshadowed ‘catfishing’, AI and #MeToo: “Sixty years since it ... Read more ➡
• 2016
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on July 15, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.Apparently it’s #nationalicecreamday – so we’re celebrating! ➡
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on July 15, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.Well, this is odd. Got back from lunch to find my ... Read more ➡
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on July 15, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.Chucks of the day (45/45): grey high tops with red, blue, ... Read more ➡
• 2014
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on July 15, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.Ever caption I try to come up with for this one ... Read more ➡
• 2010
  • Links for July 14th through July 15th Sometime between July 14th and July 15th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Colonoscopy: It’s Time to Check Your Colons • How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made • What, if Anything, Is Big Bird? • “Fleeting Expletive” Ban Lifted ➡
• 2009
  • A Goodbye Renda Horn brought a lot of joy into this world, both through her many years of music and work with the choir and just by the simple virtue of being herself. My heartfelt condolences go out to her family, many friends, and the many, many kids and parents whose lives she touched. She'll be missed. ➡
  • Back To the ’80s! Chances are you're either going to love me or hate me for posting this. Personally, I think this is great -- my tolerance for cheezy pop is really high -- but there will be no hard feelings if you blame me for wanting to brillo pad your brain clean after watching this. :) ➡
  • Links for July 14th through July 15th Sometime between July 14th and July 15th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Why America Is Flunking Science • Psychotic Letters From Men: Customer Disservice • How to Scan a Cat and Other Subjects • Pinboard - Antisocial Bookmarking • Spectacular Dream Yachts to Set Sail ➡
• 2005
  • Everything old is new again A random comment on a Flickr photo led me to do some digging, and after reading a summary of Seattle transportation efforts, all of a sudden it's no surprise that we've seen such ridiculous controversy over our light rail and monorail plans. ➡
  • Phrase Origins Mom forwarded this to me today. I can't personally vouch for the accuracy of everything in here, but it all sounds pretty reasonable to me, and there's some fun tidbits in here. ➡
  • Twelve hours to go… ...or a bit more than twelve hours, actually, for Prairie and me. Since we pre-ordered our copies (yup -- one for each of us) through Amazon, they'll show up sometime tomorrow. ➡
• 2004
  • Mac OS X Panther Hacks I just wanted to toss out a quick congratulations to Phil, who with the release of O'Reilly's Mac OS X Panther Hacks, is now officially a published (co-)author! ➡
  • In the not very distant future… One sunny day in 2005 an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Ave, where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the US Marine standing guard and said, 'I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.' ➡
  • I’m (almost) an uncle! Emily started labor last night, and so Kevin just called to let me know that he's flying back to Mississippi to be there for the birth of his baby! Apparently things are still early in the process — the hospital sent Em home last night after she went in — so chances are good that Kev will be able to be there for the birth. ➡
• 2003
  • Tablet PCs I just had someone ask me what I thought about TabletPCs. Honestly, I haven't given a whole lot of thought to them. I have, though, been a fairly regular reader of Robert Scoble's for a while now, and he's big into the TabletPC thing, so I just pointed them to his site. ➡
  • That's it, I'm moving The pseudo-porn attractions of hot pants and bared midriffs are simply grotesque compared to the unostentatious (but hardly demure) eroticism of the kimono. ➡
  • Pings? Why is it that when using a desktop blogging client (I've noticed this behavior in three so far: UserSpace, Kung-Log, and NetNewsWire), pings don't seem to be sent when a post is published? ➡
  • Too much going on… Well, it looks like the US is finally starting to wake up to the fact that the Bush administration hasn't exactly been entirely truthful with the American Public. About damn time. ➡
  • Move, you momos So why do none of you move enough to let me by? It doesn't do any good for me to move to one side or the other, I'm still faced with a wall of corporate momos that I can't get past. Would it kill you to leave a little space for people walking the other direction? ➡
  • News to nobody Something I just discovered, thanks to a comment at Etherfarm. If you're running Windows XP, on-screen text legibility can be drastically improved by switching on ClearType. ➡
  • Random is fun There's something wonderfully surreal about listening to my iPod on the way to work, and going directly from Coolio's 'Ugly Bitches' to 'American Wake (the Nova Scotia Set)' off of Bill Whelan's 'Riverdance' soundtrack. ➡
  • About that homework Marilyn Monroe's 'My Heart Belongs to Daddy' reminded me strongly of a Björk song, but I couldn't think of which one. I've tracked it down — have a listen, and compare and contrast. I'm quite curious as to whether Björk may have had this in mind when she recorded 'It's Oh So Quiet'. ➡
• 2002
  • More on TIPS Facism is a term thrown about too freely, and I don't believe we're at a point that its use is justified -- but an oppressive and intrusive government, however you want to label it, does not ride into town wearing the uniforms and waving the flags of recognizable evil. ➡
  • Wanna join the secret police? ...the Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. ➡
  • It just works I'd been with Microsoft for so long, who are complacent and hoard their customers, that I'd forgotten what it's like to use an operating system built by people who want it to cooperate with the rest of the world. ➡