On This Day: Dec 5

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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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

Since I 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 18 posts previously published on December 5th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 217 Not every day’s selfie can be the museum-worthy artwork that I’m sure you all expect. ➡
  • 2022
    • AI Art, Ethics, and Where I Stand I’m enjoying playing with the AI art generation tools. I’m also watching the discussions around the ethical questions around how they can and should be used. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2016
    • Baby, It’s Cold Outside If you’re not a fan, I totally understand — but for me, it will remain a staple of my winter playlists. ➡
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on December 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.First snow of the season! Can’t let you Seattleites have all ... Read more ➡
  • 2014
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on December 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.Yesterday’s “F in Exams” calendar page. Can’t trust those dolphins! ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
    • Manufactured Controversy If the ID folks actually were to do the work involved in creating such a theory, doing the experimentation and observation necessary to back it up and get their work peer reviewed, it WOULD be accepted by science. Unfortunately, the main proponents of Intelligent Design Theory have no interest in doing that; they’d rather just fabricate controversy, pretending that the mean-old scientists just won’t let them play because scientists hate Christians. ➡
  • 2005
    • LibraryThing Redux Well, it took a few hours (spread over the past few days) of free-time puttering, but my entire book collection (that isn't loaned out, loaned out and not returned, lost, or still sitting somewhere at my folks' house in Anchorage) is now entered into my LibraryThing catalog. ➡
  • 2004
    • Cartoon Skeletons I decided to take a select few of these popular cartoon characters and render their skeletal systems as I imagine they might resemble if one truly had eye sockets half the size of its head, or fingerless-hands, or feet comprising 60% of its body mass. ➡
    • Cover Tunes I want to hear Britney Spears cover My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult's 'Days of Swine and Roses' (“Christian zombie vampires!”). N*SYNC or whatever boy band is around taking on The Sisters of Mercy's 'Dominion/Mother Russia'. Janet Jackson's version of the Violent Femme's 'Day After Day'. Eminem doing Concrete Blonde's 'Bloodletting'. ➡
    • Panoramic Experiments Yesterday afternoon I decided to go for a bit of a wander through the weekend downtown shoppers to work on an experiment I've had in mind for a bit. I've been curious at how panoramic shots would turn out if I took them in the evening, where the long exposures would blur any cars and passing shoppers. ➡
  • 2003
    • For sale: Pioneer CMX-5000 Twin CD Player Asking price: $600. As as I've hardly touched it in the two years since I've been in Seattle, it's time to see if someone who can get a little more use out of it is interested. I'd prefer if someone in or around Seattle who can swing by and pick it up from me bought it as I don't have a car and shipping would be a major pain. I can accept cash, checks, or PayPal. ➡
    • New TypePad features Three new features for TypePad weblogs have been announced today at Everything TypePad: TypeList Sort Options, Photo Album .zip Uploads, and More Privacy Options. ➡
  • 2002
    • iSfP It's kind of funny how one subject will lead to another, which then takes off and gets something of a life of its own. A throwaway comment by Mark Pilgrim in the midst of explaining a new data format giving his Myers-Briggs Type Indicator led to an interesting couple of posts by Jonathon Delacour relating MBTIs to the blogosphere. ➡
    • Religions are wacky While we're on this, a few years ago I made this claim in the off.ramp newsgroup that I used to hang out in: God is a Dumbass. I offered Nevada and the Moon as proof. Guess what? No one ever was able to prove me wrong. ➡
    • Not a bad way to go, really Rolf Eden, a Berlin property tycoon, former nightclub owner, and all-purpose celebrity, says he is offering $125,000 to any woman, from anywhere in the world, who can kill him with sex. ➡