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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 29 posts previously published on March 2nd

• 2025
  • Weekly Notes: Feb 24–Mar 2, 2025 A week in the life of…. Thoughts, photos, links, and miscellany from the past week. ➡
  • My Norwescon 47 Schedule My tentative schedule for this year's Norwescon. ➡
  • A Very British Murder by Lucy Worsley 📚 13/2025: Fascinating and a lot of fun to read. We're big fans of Lucy Worsley. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
• 2024
  • Year 50 Day 305 We had a hankering for soft-serve today. ➡
  • 📚 Uncanny Issue 57 edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, and Monte Lin Favorites for me in this issue were Lavie Tidhar’s ‘The Robot’ and Annalee Newitz’s ‘The Best-Ever Cosplay of Whistle and Midnight’. ➡
• 2023
  • Still Doing This For Fun 'I was on the internet in the 1990s, and I remember when people just made stuff for fun...' ➡
• 2022
  • 📚 The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury Bradbury continues to be a lifelong favorite of mine. ➡
• 2020
  • Watched the last three episodes of season three of Enterprise this evening. The show definitely improved over the first two seasons, but went to some pretty dark places. Was not expecting the cliffhanger ending, though! One more season of the only Trek I haven’t watched. 🖖 ➡
  • On This Day: Mar 2 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 2 ➡
• 2017
  • Got my Mercury hoodie! ➡
• 2016
  • Tonight’s workout included 20 pull-ups (in four sets of five, with other exercises, not all together). Still rather pleasantly surprised I can do that (not cleanly, and with much complaining, and oh, the ow…but I did it). (62/366) ➡
• 2014
  • You can’t prove I’m not naked in this photo. ➡
• 2013
  • Difficult Listening Hour 07 (120BPM) This weekend's new practice mix. Every song in this mix is somewhere between 115 and 125 BPM. ➡
• 2009
  • Back to the Breadline I suppose I should take a moment to expand a bit on today's happenings, though there's really not a whole lot more to say than what I tweeted earlier: the company needs to cut back, and as I was a temp employee, I was easily expendable. ➡
• 2004
  • The movie alphabet quiz This is really, really evil — identify the movies whose logos were used to create this alphabet. ➡
  • I’m 100 percent British! I'm 100% British! Jolly good, wot! Anyone for tennis? That'll be ten ponies, guv. I'm the epitome of everything that is English. Yey :) Hoist that Union Jack! ➡
  • Getting closer! It's still not Seattle, but it's at least closer than San Francisco…the Multnomah County (Portland, Oregon) Clerk's office plans to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples starting tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. at their office located at 501 S.E. Hawthorne. ➡
  • A republican sent this to me… A republican friend sent me some anti-bush political humor… ➡
  • My new motto Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. ➡
  • Literary Macs Two books to add to my future reading list, both sound interesting, and both feature Mac computers in the plot. ➡
  • Toilet tourism Ever wanted to use a public toilet? Usually, they're items to be avoided, not sought out. Seattle looks to be trying to change that, though, with our new high-tech public lavatories… ➡
• 2003
  • Gun control 2003 Federal authorities believe the list of convicted felons, drug dealers, suspected terrorists, spouse beaters, illegal immigrants and others should only be used to help gun dealers determine if someone is allowed to buy a gun, not police investigating other gun-control violations. ➡
  • Everything's broken Four months ago, workmen started on a two-month project to renovate the apartment building I live in. We're still waiting for them to finish. ➡
  • On battling stereotypes The current March/April issue has a rundown of six top Oscar contenders: Nicole Kidman, Jack Nicholson, Julianne Moore, Tom Hanks, Jennifer Anniston, and Robin Williams. In the article, there were two quotes from Nicholson and Hanks that really stood out to me in the differences between how the two actors confront the stereotypes they've been saddled with — and illustrates why I tend to think more of Nicholson than I do of Hanks. ➡
  • Sleep – from the painting by Salvadore Dali This is a piece I wrote in 11th grade, which would put it at around 1989 or 1990. We were given an assignment to write an essay exploring any painting we chose, and the teacher was kind enough to leave the exact nature of the requested essay very open for interpretation. Salvadore Dali has long been one of my favorite artists, so I chose his painting 'Sleep' to work with. ➡
  • Stonehenge porn? The design of Stonehenge, the 4,800-year-old monument in southwestern England, was based on female sexual anatomy, according to a paper in the current Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. ➡
  • Who gave them the loudspeakers? But if most people in the world are in fact normal, how have I been left with the distinctly opposite impression for most of my life? ➡
• 2002
  • Hippies on Mars! Scientists estimated that at most, Deadheads account for just a small percentage of the hippies on the Martian surface, but are spread over vast stretches of the landscape, mixed with Phishheads and other sub-classifications of hippie. ➡
• 2001
  • It’s official! As of 10:30am today, after cleaning all my personal material off of the machines, I turned in my resignation at TimeFrame. I start work at GCI's NOC as a Service Repair Coordinator Monday morning at 9am. ➡

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 26 posts previously published on March 1st

• 2024
  • Year 50 Day 304 Somehow, Mariner's sarcastic back-handed Vulcan salute just seems appropriate when wearing my Swear Trek t-shirt. ➡
• 2021
  • MailTrackerBlocker for Mail on macOS: An email tracker, read receipt and spy pixel blocker plugin for macOS Apple Mail. ➡
• 2020
  • 📚 twelve of 2020: Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee Really enjoyed this collection. Hopeful themes, and music winds its way through nearly every story in neat ways. ➡
  • On This Day: Mar 1 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 1 ➡
• 2019
  • Still in the very early stages, but in an effort to combat the website ennui I mentioned a few days ago, I’ve started playing with building a new personal site at a URL so clever I wish I’d picked it up years ago: michaelhans.com. Not much there, but a new playground is nice! ➡
  • Nice writeup of the Norwescon Book Club in today’s Seattle Times! 📚 If you’re a SF/F reader local to the Seattle (or general Pacific Northwest) area and haven’t checked out Norwescon yet, you really should! Four days of SF/F panels, book talk, costumes, and fun. Join us! ➡
• 2016
  • We did get a really nice bright rainbow this evening, at least. ➡
  • Sun showers aren’t nearly as nice when accompanied by cold blustery wind gusts. We do not approve. (61/366) ➡
• 2014
  • Just a nice lazy Saturday afternoon at home. ➡
• 2006
  • On Coining Euphemisms Just a quick word of advice. When deciding to coin a euphamism, one might want to find out if the phrase in question has already been appropriated for something else. ➡
  • Queen! (But who’s Paul Rodgers?) Queen (plus Paul Rodgers) is going to be performing in Seattle! On the one hand, I'm a _long_ time Queen fan...on the other hand...it's not Freddy. ➡
  • Name Five… 'Quick -- name all the members of the Simpsons.' 'Um...Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie.' 'Now -- what are the five rights given by the first amendment?' '...um. Oh. Heh...that's not good.' ➡
• 2005
  • Anybody hungry? Every Tuesday night, I have about the same routine. I get home from work a little after 5pm, Prairie and I chat via iChat until about 7pm, and I browse through NetNewsWire while we're chatting. At 7pm, I close down NetNewsWire, order some pizza, and pop in a DVD. ➡
• 2004
  • My brain hurts Wow...there's nothing quite like a Slashdot discussion of theoretical physics to make me feel _really_ unintelligent. ➡
  • Just feeling a little quiet There's a lot of stuff out there on that in-tar-web thing these days, but I just haven't felt terribly talkative as of late. It's not really writers block as such, more of a general feeling of not having anything to add. It happens every so often. ➡
  • Congratulations Peter (and everyone else)… …on setting a new record for the Oscars by winning every single one of the 11 Oscars that you were nominated for. ➡
• 2003
  • It came from Outer Faith Though no one's yet written a book on how to convert aliens, some religions do accept the idea of extraterrestrial intelligence. Find out how much you know about the intersection of faith and sci-fi. ➡
  • Welcome to Earth, meet the leaders The world isn't run by a clever cabal. It's run by about 5,000 bickering, sometimes charming, usually arrogant, mostly male people who are accustomed to living in either phenomenal wealth, or great personal power. A few have both. ➡
  • tail -f access_log Too often we get this image of the Web as a vast well-oiled machine, with glossy browser screens in front and masses of gleaming software in back. Watching the access_log is like a window into the side lobby of the legislature, or a tour of the fermentation vats at the brewery.➡
  • Snowflake pictures My parents have often teased me about how long it would take me to walk the three blocks to school when I was a kid, usually assuming that I had to examine every snowflake I saw to see if they were really all different. In normal Alaskan winters, of course, there are a lot of snowflakes. Even in only three blocks. ➡
  • Credibility Gap The Bush Credibility Gap: The Photographic History of the Bush Administration Putting Its Mouth Where Its Money Isn't — it's nice to see something like this coming from the Democrats on Capitol Hill. Mayhaps we're starting to see a hint of Democratic backbone again? ➡
  • Letter of Resignation …until this Administration it had been possible to believe that by upholding the policies of my president I was also upholding the interests of the American people and the world. I believe it no longer. ➡
  • Pledge ruling upheld I have to admit, the mental picture of a man like Ashcroft — who's likely to equate Wiccanism with 'Satanism' — trying to cope with the concept of a 'patriotic Witch' makes me laugh. A lot. ➡
  • Yawn! It's 8:30 in the morning, and I'm at work. Ugh. ➡
• 2001
  • Career changes It looks like tomorrow I'll give notice to TimeFrame that it's my last day, and come Monday I'll start working at GCI! ➡
  • Cam improvements I'm up a bit later than I should be, as I stumbled across some JavaScript code that's allowed me to improve the Wudicam page a bit. So, less unecessary data being thrown across the 'net, and a much faster refresh time on the cam picture. ➡

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.

No posts were previously published on March 1st

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 30 posts previously published on February 28th

• 2024
  • Year 50 Day 302 Every office should have a T-rex somewhere in it. ➡
  • My New Osborne 1 Though our full-size Osbornes were disposed of years ago, I'm ridiculously pleased to have this lil' guy on my desk now. ➡
• 2023
  • 📚 The High Country by John Jackson Miller A fun, light romp of an adventure, rather perfect for the first Strange New Worlds book. ➡
• 2021
  • Difficult Listening Hour 2021.02.27 Unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants, let's-see-what-happens mixing. You never know what might fall into one of these! ➡
  • 📚 11/2011: Dance on Saturday by Elwin Cotman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee 4/6 A really strong collection of short stories and one novella. I really enjoyed the way these slipped between the real and the fantastic, and between mundanity and surreal horror and humor. ➡
• 2020
  • The Body Shop is adopting “open hiring”: No interviews, no background checks, no drug tests. When there is a job available, just answer three yes-or-no questions and the job is yours. It’s a new philosophy called “open hiring”—and it works. ➡
  • Bookshop: A centralized shopping website for independent bookstores. Start here instead of at Amazon! Discovered through this Forbes article. ➡
  • This moment from Deadline’s Picard podcast made me laugh: in a discussion of how the various Trek governments mapped to real-world governments, Jonathan Frakes ends with, “And now we have a Pakled as a President.” ➡
  • Ranking the Democratic Candidates on Black Issues There you have it. Elizabeth Warren’s 'black agenda' is the blackest of them all. ➡
  • A “live laugh love”-style sign, but using text from the Long-Time Nuclear Waste Warning Messages. I love this. ➡
  • On This Day: Feb 28 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 28 ➡
• 2019
  • 🖖 #StarTrekDiscovery S02E07: Yay! No more Spock-teasing! Space squid are fun, and Tilly gets flustered around causality violations. Glad Pike at least mentioned Ash killing Culber. Still really unsure about Section 31, all the Spock stuff, and now time travel, but holding on. ➡
  • Well, now I know who to blame for my dreary fashion sense: Beau Brummell (well, and discovering the goth community in my youth….). I break out of the drab-ness occasionally (my Pride kilt from Verillas, for example), but…yeah. Maybe I could do more. Need to ruminate on this. ➡
• 2016
  • Weekends should be longer than two days. (59/366) ➡
• 2014
  • Once again, frozen yogurt for dessert before heading out to a show. :) ➡
• 2009
  • Dollhouse As evidenced by my recent tweet, I've now given Joss two chances to win me over to Dollhouse, and he's 0 for 2. It just doesn't work for me, and there's a number of smaller reasons that add up to one big fail. ➡
• 2008
  • Eek! A Mouse! Silly little video made during a boring day at work. ➡
• 2007
  • The root of the problem… It’s nothing really, but the grammatically preferable version of this phrase is 'for whom I’m supposed to root,' which is the most hilarious collection of words I’ve encountered since 'Academy Award-winning screenwriter Ben Affleck.' ➡
  • Numbers I don't get it: why is the latest Enterprise the NCC-4 8 15 16 23 42? ➡
• 2006
  • Tuesday Ten (In My Pants) A variation on the 'ten random tracks' music meme, adding in the fortune-cookie game of adding '...in my pants' to the end of the fortune...or in this case, song title. ➡
  • I’m 6.29% Slut Just a cute little bit of web silliness: using the Slut-o-Meter to compute your promiscuity according to Google. According to the Slut-o-meter, I'm 6.29% slut. ➡
• 2005
  • Keeping New Readers Problogger has a short series of posts with tips on how to keep readers who have stumbled across your site via a search engine hit or some other method. Interesting stuff, though nothing groundbreaking, and as it turns out, I do most of what he recommends already. ➡
• 2004
  • XBox2, G5…and Virtual PC? Musings on Microsoft, XBoxes, and PowerPC Processors. ➡
• 2003
  • Search improvements While MovableType does include its own search function, I've chosen not to use it for djwudi.com because I have a number of pages that live outside of my weblog, which MT would not be able to search. However, I'd run into a bit of a problem with the search engine I am using, and I think I've finally got it solved. ➡
• 2002
  • Where were you? I found an interesting discussion today, and thought it was well worth cribbing to use here on my site. One of the members of the HTF started a thread asking where people were and what they remember about significant dates in history. ➡
  • They fight crime! He's a hate-fuelled misogynist stage actor from the Mississippi delta. She's a transdimensional red-headed nun who hides her beauty behind a pair of thick-framed spectacles. They fight crime! ➡
  • Moving soon I talked to Melvin last night, and got the go-ahead to move into the new apartment, probably starting next week sometime, so that I can be in by the 15th. ➡
• 2001
  • Shake, rattle and roll I just found out when I got to work that Seattle got quite a bit of a shaker yesterday -- current estimates put the quake that just hit them at 6.8. ➡
  • Radio – and future gigs? My personal moment of triumph was when one person called to tell Nick to quit playing a compilation CD, at which point Nick let him know that it was actually me mixing live. I guess my mixes were going pretty smoothly! ➡
  • Back online Sorry 'bout the recent downtime over the past couple of days...problems with the cable modem. In any case, everything's resolved now, and things are looking good. ➡

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 26 posts previously published on February 27th

• 2024
  • 📚 Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson Fascinating from start to end; very much looking forward to continuing through the trilogy. ➡
  • Year 50 Day 301 I actually went to work today! ➡
• 2020
  • Star Trek: Picard S01E06: Much better than last week. Borg cube action that isn’t just squicky siblings, Soji hits a point of no return, and Picard comes face to face with parts of his past, good and bad. But who gave the Romulans a Lament Configuration? ;) ➡
  • Was the Democratic Nomination Rigged? A Reexamination of the Clinton-Sanders Presidential Race by Anthony J. Gaughan: “This article makes three central points. First, it contends that the overwhelming weight of evidence makes clear the 2016 Democratic nomination process was not rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton. Second, this article argues that the Democratic Party rules ... Read more ➡
  • On Bernie Bros Perfect, superhuman leaders do not exist in life. ➡
  • Running A Con, Conference Or Festival In The Age Of A Burgeoning Pandemic!: “Get ahead of this now. Do not make us e-mail you to ask you what’s up. This isn’t about causing panic — it’s about undercutting it. It’s about reassuring us that you have this in your mind, with plans forming.” ➡
  • Coronavirus: Don’t Panic! Liberally adapted from a Washington Post article, a list of best practices for dealing with the coronavirus. ➡
  • On This Day: Feb 27 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 27 ➡
• 2019
  • Website (not blogging) Ennui In the end, this isn't much more than a bit of whinging and trying to figure out what exactly I'm looking for. ➡
• 2018
  • So this bust of Mad Magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman is something I brought home from Alaska after Dad died. He had it on his desk for years, and now I have it near mine. I got curious (after watching a little Antiques Roadshow) and did some Googling to see what I could find out about ... Read more ➡
• 2016
  • I’m sportsing! With the sports and the running and the I have no idea what’s going on! We’re out cheering on one of Prairie’s students at today’s #CWU vs. #OSU rugby match. Go Wildcats! Sports that ball! Woo! #CWUpride (58/366) ➡
• 2015
  • Live long and prosper. _\// ➡
• 2014
  • I guess I can jump on the #throwbackthursday bandwagon too! Here’s me at around two, looking at a Playboy centerfold with my mom. One of my favorite childhood pictures. :) ➡
• 2009
  • Links for February 25th through February 27th Sometime between February 25th and February 27th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • The Whedonite's Dilemma • New Frontiers Sweepstakes • Young 'Slumdog' Stars Back in Mumbai Slums • Yoda Is a Muppet • Mermaid Dream Comes True Thanks to Weta ➡
• 2007
  • Greg Pattillo: Inspector Gadget + Axel F on Flute with Beatboxing Incredible beatbox/flute performance from YouTube. ➡
• 2006
  • BSG on the iTMS followup Just a quick followup to my post comparing Battlestar Galactica downloads via Bittorrent and via the iTMS: according to MacRumors, recent BSG episodes are appearing in an uncropped widescreen ratio. ➡
• 2005
  • Battlestar Galactica Season 1…done! Up until this week, I never got the whole thing with people downloading and watching shows on their computer. I've got such a low opinion of the majority of TV shows that I just couldn't see spending the time and resources on such a project. Then I got bit by the Battlestar bug. ➡
  • Halle Berry wins Razzie…and respect Halle Berry staged an Oscar-worthy parody of her Academy Awards meltdown at last night's 25th annual Razzie awards in Los Angeles. Breaking with tradition, the Catwoman star showed up in person to collect her award as the worst actress of 2004. ➡
  • Just stop talking Many years ago, I went to a summer camp in which one of the activities was horseback riding. This ended up being a less-than-successful experience for me, though, as as soon as I got up in the saddle the horse reared up, dumping me rather unceremoniously on the ground as I slid off the saddle and over the horse's rear end. ➡
  • MT-Blogroll I've just updated and revised my blogroll over to the right. Instead of relying on an external service to manage my blogroll, I'm now using a new plugin from Arvind Satyanarayan called MT-Blogroll that implements blogroll management directly into the MT interface. ➡
• 2004
  • Nickels, Sims: Quit yappin’ and start doin’! When I wrote out the list of cities supporting equal marriage rights, it was a little disappointing to not have Seattle in that list, too. Living in the area of Seattle I do, it always seemed to me that Seattle would be a natural for supporting this kind of movement. ➡
• 2003
  • Dive! Dive! Dive! NASA has had its day. It's given us technological marvels from cell phones to SETI screensavers. But we're not mining the moon. We're not terraforming Mars. And we're certainly not finding any aliens. ➡
• 2002
  • Enterprise: Fusion Finally...after 16 episodes of interesting but non-typical behavior (as far as we know) from the Vulcans shown on Enterprise, we finally get a show exploring a bit more about Vulcan culture...albeit in an unusual fashion. ➡
  • No more splash page I just nuked the splash page for my site, so now this page should be the first thing you see. I'd been tossing it over in my head for a while, as it really didn't serve a purpose other than making it just a little harder to get to the actual content of my site. ➡
  • Cross-platform 3.0 Just wanted to let you know that you should revise your opinion about OmniWeb. The latest sneaky peek versions have much improved CSS support. The attached screenshot shows your page using the latest sneaky peek version 49 released today. While it's not perfect, you'll surely agree that it's a huge step forward. ➡
  • Enterprise parody season THE TROUBLE WITH TROUSERS: The Enterprise discovers the planet of the Geramines, descendants of radical feminists who fled Earth after the Phallus Wars. As the inhabitants will only speak to women, T'Pol beams down to make First Contact. Disaster ensues when the Geramines take offence to her trousers, a symbol of male patriarchy. ➡