Michael Hanscom

Enthusiastic ambivert. Geeky, liberal, friendly, curious, hopepunk; trying to be a good person. (he/him)
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📚 forty-six of 2020: The Eyes of the Beholders by A.C. Crispin ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tng 🖖

Nice to see an encounter with something so alien so to be literally incomprehensible. A bit heavy on references to TNG episodes to prove that the author watched the show; otherwise good.

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After weeks of trudging through the monotony of desolate wilderness, it was startlingly obvious when their journey was nearing its end. Not just a line on a map, the border was actually a glimmering line in the air, beyond which flowering plants and tall trees grew once more.

On This Day: Nov 22

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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 20 posts previously published on November 22nd

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • 📚 forty-six of 2020: The Eyes of the Beholders by A.C. Crispin ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tng 🖖 Nice to see an encounter with something so alien so to be literally incomprehensible. A bit heavy on references to TNG episodes to prove that the author watched the show; otherwise good. ➡
    • Difficult Listening Hour 2020.11.21 Week thirty-four of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. ➡
    • After weeks of trudging through the monotony of desolate wilderness, it was startlingly obvious when their journey was nearing its end. Not just a line on a map, the border was actually a glimmering line in the air, beyond which flowering plants and tall trees grew once more. ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 22 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 22 ➡
  • 2019
    • Her favorite place on the ship was at the end of a little-traveled corridor one deck above Engineering. There was a notch in the corridor wall she just fit into, where she could close her eyes and feel the hum of the ship’s engines vibrating through her. Microblogvember: hum ➡
  • 2018
    • Thanksgiving 2018 First off, and most importantly: Happy Thanksgiving to you if you celebrate; if you don't, I hope you have a pleasant day doing whatever you do. ➡
    • Book forty-nine of 2018: IKS Gorkon: Honor Bound, by Keith R. A. DeCandido. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
  • 2011
    • Essentially Commentary on reactions to the UC Davis pepper-spray incident, in four parts. ➡
  • 2007
  • 2005
    • Feeds are tagged too It's a good thing I subscribe to my own RSS feeds -- the 'full content' feed and the 'full content with comments' feed have both been updated to include the new tag support. Sorry about the mass-refresh in your RSS readers if you get hit with it. ➡
    • Cookies like Novocaine The _only_ Martha Stewart you'll ever need to watch is the one where her guest star...is Cookie Monster. ➡
  • 2004
    • 23rd Psalm (2004 version) Bush is my shepherd, I shall be in want. ➡
    • Versus It seems that we're living in a world where differences are all anybody sees anymore. Nobody's actually listening to what anyone else has to say -- we're all so sure that we're _right_ and everyone else is _wrong_, too busy banging our shoes on the table to really listen to anyone else. ➡
    • Genefilter Fun toy time: Genefilter. Choose a MeFi user and Genefilter will use that user's posts and comments to randomly generate a comment. Amusing results soon follow… ➡
  • 2003
  • 2002
    • NyQuil yay! NyQuil — the sneezing, sniffling, coughing, aching, 'How the hell did I wake up on the kitchen floor?' medicine! ➡
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All he wanted was to never have to deal with another winter in his life. Living in temperate climates wasn’t enough, because he might have to travel, or be invited somewhere. He wanted to make sure winter simply didn’t exist. Ever. Anywhere. And so he built his machine.

On This Day: Nov 21

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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 24 posts previously published on November 21st

  • 2023
  • 2022
    • Goodbye Twitter I'd been debating it for a while, but as of tonight, I'm stepping away from Twitter. ➡
  • 2021
    • 📚 46/2021: A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods edited by Jennifer Brozek ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2020
    • All he wanted was to never have to deal with another winter in his life. Living in temperate climates wasn’t enough, because he might have to travel, or be invited somewhere. He wanted to make sure winter simply didn’t exist. Ever. Anywhere. And so he built his machine. ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 21 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 21 ➡
  • 2019
    • Five Senators Join the Fight to Learn Just How Bad Ring Really Is: “…if police want to request footage from a person’s front door in reference to a car break-in on that street, there is no need for police to verify that footage would be helpful to solving that incident, or whether the footage would ... Read more ➡
    • Every scan they had run on the canister since they’d unearthed it had shown it to be hollow. It was only after they cracked the seal that they understood that hollow and empty were two very different things. Microblogvember: hollow ➡
  • 2017
    • First time playing with the portrait mode selfie camera. Not too shabby. Might have been better if I wasn’t so scruffy. Really need to shave. #iphonex ➡
    • Oooh…new toy! #iphonex ➡
  • 2016
    • The events immediately preceding the taking of this photo need not be publicly disclosed. (326/366) ➡
    • In Regards to Our Company’s New Phone Plan 'Now, some of you are complaining that you don’t feel safe working with a phone that could randomly explode on any given day.’ ➡
    • Word of the Day: Kakistocracy Kakistocracy: Government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power. ➡
    • Not alt-right, just neo-Nazi I’m far from the only person to be noting this, but I’m continually annoyed by the willingness of people to accept the term ‘alt-right’ rather than just calling these people out for what they are: neo-Nazis. ➡
  • 2015
    • You can tell it’s a theater night, because we’re getting FroYo when it’s 33° outside! ➡
  • 2014
    • Off to find lunch, stopped outside the Moscone Event Center. Probably the closest I’ll ever be to an Apple keynote. ;) ➡
  • 2009
    • No More Mercury for Me As a former smoker, I never wanted to be one of “those” self-righteous ex-smokers. However, sometimes, even the most high-minded of us can give into temptation… ➡
  • 2008
    • To Blu or Not To Blu? With the jump to an HDTV comes the jump to HD programming. Day-to-day entertainment will come courtesy of Comcast -- we're already getting our cable through them, so we'll just upgrade that to the minimum possible digital/HD package. For movies, though, we're doing a bit of back-and-forth. ➡
    • Links for November 20th through November 21st Sometime between November 20th and November 21st, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
  • 2007
    • Meh Happy Night Before Thanksgiving. I'm sure it's a holiday _somewhere_. ➡
  • 2006
    • Storm Season Wow -- in the past few minutes, there have been three thunderclaps loud enough to rattle the windows, and now we've got hail pelting down like crazy, plus the wind and rain that you can expect for a storm like this. ➡
    • Teen Repellent Here's a site that has a selection of a few different ultrasonic ring tones at various frequencies, from 8 kHz up to 22.4 kHz, so you can test your own hearing abilities and see if you'd be able to hear (or be annoyed by) the tones. ➡
  • 2005
    • Folksonomy tag support added One of the things I've wanted to add to my site for quite a while now has finally been added: tagging, along the lines of del.icio.us or Flickr. Admittedly, I still have a ways to go in getting all my old entries correctly tagged, but that will come with time. For now, they're showing up in a few places. ➡
  • 2004
    • A 10-acre tombstone An amazing and sad story in today's Seattle Times looks at the construction on the Hood Canal bridge, which has run into snags after uncovering what's possibly one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the Seattle area. ➡
  • 2001
    • ‘Twas the night before – Thanksgiving? Most of the past couple days have been distinguished by battles with my PC. Apparently it figured out that I'm about to gut it and give it a full transfusion -- and the fool thing is pissed at me. ➡
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It had started simply enough: Use music to determine the tuning frequencies fed into the dimensional portal generator. Hooking up a second and connecting them using a mixer was a lark. But when the DJ started to fade from one universe of song into another?

Best. Rave. Ever.

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From Daniel Jalkut:

“Thanksgrieving, the holiday on which Americans remember those whose lives were lost in reckless family gatherings, is observed on the second Thursday of December.”

On This Day: Nov 20

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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 25 posts previously published on November 20th

  • 2024
    • Wolfs 🎥: ⭐️⭐️⭐️: A thoroughly entertaining blend of Heat and Adventures in Babysitting. ➡
    • Living Memory by Christopher L. Bennett 📚: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Picks up the thread of how Uhura was affected by her loss of memory during the Nomad incident, something never (or very rarely) explored. ➡
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • It had started simply enough: Use music to determine the tuning frequencies fed into the dimensional portal generator. Hooking up a second and connecting them using a mixer was a lark. But when the DJ started to fade from one universe of song into another? Best. Rave. Ever. ➡
    • From Daniel Jalkut: “Thanksgrieving, the holiday on which Americans remember those whose lives were lost in reckless family gatherings, is observed on the second Thursday of December.” ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 20 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 20 ➡
  • 2019
    • She’d heard all the comments: Everyone only remembers the first person to do something. Once it’s done once, it’s not exciting. Who was the second person on the moon, after all? But really—being the second person on Mars was still pretty damn exciting. Microblogvember: second ➡
    • Apple sleuths hunt Northwest for varieties believed extinct: “E.J. Brandt and David Benscoter, who together form the nonprofit Lost Apple Project, log countless hours and hundreds of miles in trucks, on all-terrain vehicles and on foot to find orchards planted by settlers as they pushed west more than a century ago.” ➡
  • 2018
    • Transgender Day of Remembrance I know and count as friends a number of transgender (including genderqueer, genderfluid, etc.) people today, and I'm very glad to know each of them, and to know them as they are. As horrible as this world can be, I hope that through ever-increasing education, visibility, and acceptance, each of them can continue to be true to themselves, and to stay safe and healthy, and are people I know for a long time to come. ➡
  • 2016
    • Our house, all lit up for the holidays. ➡
    • Whole putting together the bouquet for the table, Prairie decided I needed to be pretty too. Lacking a boutonnière, my zipper pull did the trick. (325/366) ➡
    • Criticism is Patriotism To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. ➡
  • 2008
    • The Answer is Probably “Yes” I'm trying to decide if I'm a hypocrite for being unsure about how I feel about Kid Rock's new single 'All Summer Long' -- which, though catchy, is little more than new lyrics on top of the riff from Warren Zevon's 'Werewolves of London' -- when I'm sitting on a 10.79 GB collection of 1,462 mashups. ➡
    • Links for November 17th through November 20th Sometime between November 17th and November 20th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
  • 2007
    • Filler Post This post was intentionally left blank. If this were a real post, I'd actually say something with some actual content, rather than simply throwing a few random words up here to continue with the (mostly) one-a-day theme. ➡
  • 2006
    • Header Images I'd like to get further into customizing my site later on down the line, but for the moment, I think most of my tweaks will be pretty simple. I have had fun grabbing a selection of images to use for the randomized header image at the top of the page, however. ➡
    • Pop Culture Disconnect The professor spent a few minutes talking about the Mongol's invasion techniques, which were simple but could be fairly ruthless. After summarizing this, he commented, 'really, they were pretty close to the Borg.' ➡
  • 2005
  • 2004
    • Basketbrawl I'm not much of a sports fan --rother's many years of goalkeeping -- but even I am likely to sit up and take notice when reports start hitting the 'net of pro basketball players jumping into the stands and beating the fans. ➡
    • The Typical Briton The typical Briton is polite, witty and phlegmatic, but lacks a certain style and has a dental hygiene issue while having an occasional drinking problem. ➡
    • 2004 Weblog Awards Nominations are now open for the 2004 Weblog Awards. I'm not sayin'. I'm just sayin'. ;) ➡
    • It’s like a violin… Now, okay, admittedly, I have a somewhat stronger grounding in music than many people, but I am having real difficulties trying to envision how someone could make it to their mid-20's and have absolutely no idea what an upright bass is. ➡
  • 2003
    • Miss Digital World Here's a fun idea for a new-millennium beauty contest: Miss Digital World, a beauty contest complete with virtual contestants! ➡
    • Human Stupidity Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. ➡
  • 2001
    • Belinda rocks! Just a quick note to say that Belinda is all sorts of cool, and that I hereby bestow instant celebrity status upon her (at least among the five or so people that read my website). ➡
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🖖 Discovery S03E06: A rather “meh” A plot (a bit much on Georgiou’s snark; the Running Man homage amused me but was too violent for my wife), but all the B plot bits on the Disco (geeking out over the upgrades, Tilly vs. Grudge, Stamets and Adira) were much more interesting.

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He looked over the valley in amazement. Instead of wooded slopes on either side of the small river, there was a town that looked as if had been there for decades, with ships docked at a pier, and though it didn’t seem possible, small, winged people flitting between buildings.