On This Day: Oct 8

This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on October 8, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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 22 posts previously published on October 8th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on October 8, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.📚 forty-one of 2020: A Rock and a Hard Place by ... Read more
    • On This Day: Oct 8 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 8
  • 2018
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on October 8, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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. ⌚️ day! New Series 4 Apple Watch (on the right), ... Read more
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on October 8, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.Oh, wow — well, that’s it for Google+, folks. It was probably ... Read more
  • 2016
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on October 8, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.Prairie’s mom pulled out this big weird book that looked like ... Read more
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on October 8, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.Of course, being an uncle isn’t always about sitting and reading ... Read more
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on October 8, 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.Being a good uncle and reading a storybook to my niblings ... Read more
  • 2014
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on October 8, 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.I’m highly suspicious about…something.
  • 2008
    • Links for October 8th from 06:39 to 13:58 Sometime between 06:39 and 13:58, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!
    • An Ode to the Short Story Following up, in a way, to a quote from Stephen King that I posted a couple weeks ago, comes this essay by Steven Millhauser, The Ambition of the Short Story.
    • That One This goes beyond refusing to look at Obama in the first debate. With this slightly dehumanizing phrase, McCain may have just played into the emerging narrative of Obama-hate that has been sprouting at McCain-Palin rallies.
  • 2006
    • Not in our stars, but in ourselves. Every time I hear this monologue, it strikes me just how topical it is. How easy it would be to replace the references to Sen. McCarthy with references to President Bush and have it read just as accurately.
  • 2004
    • Presidential Debate #2 The Presidential debate starts in about ten minutes. As before, I'll be watching it on C-SPAN's internet feed. Rambling, incoherent, stream of consciousness commentary to be posted once the debate is over with.
    • The Global Test The President isn't passing this test.
  • 2003
    • It must've been the full moon A small but important project came through. Had to be finished tonight, as they were needed for a meeting with BillG and SteveB tomorrow morning. Which, of course, meant that Murphy's Law kicked in — with a vengeance.
    • iChat faxes? A minor but amusing goof on Apple's site right now: in the Top New Panther Features sidebar on many of the pages, iChat's one-line summary is 'Send and receive faxes.'
    • Panther Announced Mac OS X 10.3, a.k.a. Panther, has finally had its official release date announced — October 24th, just a little over two weeks from now.
  • 2002
    • Animatrix What is the Animatrix? Well, okay, so my first answer would probably involve something along the lines of Betty Page making a cameo in a Roger Rabbit cartoon. But that'd be wrong.
    • If the shoe fits… Khatami said the U.S. possesses the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, weapons 'that, when first developed, were used immediately to kill half a million innocent civilians just months after acquiring them. No nation that has committed nuclear genocide can be entrusted with weapons of mass destruction.'
  • 2001
    • Necrophilia? Having sex with a Goth does not count as necrophilia!
    • Ch ch ch ch ch changes After considering it for a few days, I finally figured I'd give it a shot this morning, and for the first time in about 8 years or so, I'm clean shaven.