On This Day: Dec 21

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 23 posts previously published on December 21st

• 2023
  • Year 50 Day 233 Pre-holiday-break week work shirt number three. ➡
• 2022
  • 🎥 Spirited This shouldn't have been a musical. ➡
• 2020
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on December 21, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.Shortest day of the year — but from here on, things ... Read more ➡
  • On This Day: Dec 21 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 21 ➡
• 2019
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on December 21, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.Out for the Seattle Symphony’s performance of Handel’s Messiah. The last ... Read more ➡
• 2018
  • Apple Product Launch This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on December 21, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.I’m ordering my tetra-fusion hole as soon as I can! ➡
• 2017
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on December 21, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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 forty-nine of 2017: Cloak, by S. D. Perry. 🌟🌟🌟 #startrek ... Read more ➡
• 2016
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on December 21, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.Book fifty-six of 2016: Faces of Fire, by Michael Jan Friedman. ... Read more ➡
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on December 21, 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 Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint).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.Books aren’t all that get collected at our house — the ... Read more ➡
  • Rogue One Mini-Review and Machete Order Thoughts A brief review of Rogue One, and some thoughts on why I don’t think it should be part of the Machete Order. ➡
• 2015
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on December 21, 2015). 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.Know what I never had to do last winter? Shovel. Know ... Read more ➡
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on December 21, 2015). 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.Snow, snow, and more snow. It’s a pain to deal with, ... Read more ➡
• 2014
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on December 21, 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.So Prairie decided to make some Christmas cookies…. :D ➡
• 2013
  • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on December 21, 2013). 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.All set for a pleasant afternoon with homemade Christmas tea time ... Read more ➡
• 2011
  • Trolling Middle Earth Where today, 'troll' is almost universally understood as the second of the above quoted definitions -- a person solely out to provoke annoyance -- I've always preferred the first definition. In _that_ sense, a properly constructed troll is something I've always respected. ➡
• 2006
  • Unhyphenated? My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Count-Palatine Michael the Unhyphenated of Fishbourne Sneething ➡
• 2005
  • …was blind, but now I see Back again, new and improved -- after swapping out my old, dead video card with a brand-spankin' new Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special Edition, my Mac is back up and running. ➡
• 2004
  • NNW missing images This is odd — sometime over the past day or so, NetNewsWire has suddenly stopped displaying images. Images on pages show up fine in Safari, but never load in NNW. ➡
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: July 16th, 2005 It's official, folks: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince will be released July 16th, 2005. ➡
• 2002
  • Brrrrrr Officially, it's 21 degrees here in Anchorage. Unfortunately, the side of town that my parents live on is always colder than the 'official' record — and their thermometer in the front yard is reading 8 degrees below zero at the moment. Yikes. ➡
  • Heading north In just about an hour, I'll be catching a bus to the airport, and heading up to Alaska to spend the next week with my family in Anchorage! ➡
• 2001
  • I’m shocked. Really. Excuse me? Your marketing scheme for your new high-end ultra-reliable ultra-secure server operating system is to freely admit that your previous high-end ultra-reliable ultra-secure server operating system shipped not just with bugs? ➡
  • New blog software – MovableType I switched my weblog software from NewsPro over to Movable Type. Took me a bit to get everything set up and configured right so that it didn't require re-coding this entire page, but everything seems to be up and working now. ➡