On This Day: Aug 6

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This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on August 6, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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 15 posts previously published on August 6th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on August 6, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.Book forty-four of 2019: The Enterprise War, by John Jackson Miller. ... Read more ➡
  • 2017
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on August 6, 2017). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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 thirty-six of 2017: First Strike (Invasion! Book One), by Diane ... Read more ➡
  • 2016
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on August 6, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.Turns out this was a laze around the house, watch Olympics, ... Read more ➡
  • 2014
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on August 6, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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 caricature self portrait. I was messing around with the #rollworld ... Read more ➡
  • 2008
    • Links for July 31st through August 6th Sometime between July 31st and August 6th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Trading Places: The demographic inversion of the American city • The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products • Canada bus passenger stabs, decapitates seat mate • EW Previews Star Trek Comic Con Posters - With First Cast Photos • Ballantine Books to Publish Book Inspired by the Webcomic Garfield Minus Garfield ➡
  • 2007
    • I’m going to avoid the viaduct… The central portion of the Alaskan Way Viaduct was ranked on the same scale. Its score: Nine percent. And if that doesn’t make you want to stay away from the viaduct until they tear the damn thing down, perhaps knowing that the National Bridge Inventory considers it “basically intolerable” will. ➡
  • 2006
    • Back from Vegas We're back! It was a wonderful trip -- three days having a _lot_ of fun bouncing around Vegas with Xebeth. I'll get more ramblings up eventually...for the moment, though, it's just good to be back home. ➡
  • 2004
    • It’s not all bad, really! Last month, I mentioned that I'd been in contact with a magazine reporter who was working on a story about weblogs and some of the potential pitfalls that can come about when recording your life online for the world to see. It appears that Anil has also been contacted by a reporter working on a similar story, and he ended up having some of the same reservations that I did. ➡
    • Condolences Over the course of the past few days, Jessica Wilkinson, a regular member at the Vogue, went missing. Yesterday, her family officially filed a missing persons report with the police, and word started spreading around the various Seattle communities. Last night, the police contacted her family to let them know that she had passed away in her apartment. Nothing else is known at this point. ➡
  • 2003
    • Destinations Not much in the way of posting tonight. Instead, I concentrated on converting the 'Destinations' section of my sidebar so that all items now have comment and TrackBack ability, and there are archives for items that have scrolled off the page. ➡
    • 58 years ago today August 6th marks the 58th anniversary of the A-bomb being dropped on Hiroshima. ➡
    • It's a (rainbow) banner year I'm sure we've still got a long way to go before someone's sexuality matters as little in how we view them as does…oh, well, so we've got a long way to go no matter what. Still, these events give me hope. ➡
    • Not politically correct Would a woman being promoted to the highest level of military service be considered a 'broad Generalization'? ➡