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On This Day: Sep 8

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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 31 posts previously published on September 8th

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2021
    • Breakthrough infection odds: 1 in 5,000 or better. In Seattle on an average recent day, about one out of every one million vaccinated residents have been admitted to a hospital with Covid symptoms. That risk is so close to zero that the human mind can’t easily process it. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • It: Chapter Two: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Not bad, but not nearly as strong as the first. Good character building and creepy scares became too much CGI and too many jump scares. In the end, the creepyness of part one becomes just another collection of loud noises and CG monsters in part two. ➡
    • Book forty-nine of 2019: Star Trek: The Official Guide to the Animated Series, by Aaron Harvey and Rich Schepis. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ TAS finally gets its behind-the-scenes episode-by-episode review. Artwork, trivia, and memories from those involved make this a must for TAS fans. 🖖 ➡
  • 2018
    • Getting set up for the first @norwescon #NWC42 meeting of the year! ➡
  • 2016
    • Really, no other choice for the evening. #startrek #startrek50 #llap #llap50 #themantrap 🖖 ➡
    • Happy birthday #StarTrek! Today’s the #StarTrek50 anniversary — 50 years since The Man Trap, the first broadcasted episode hit the air — and while I wasn’t around for that, Star Trek has been part of my life for longer than I can remember. And that’s quite literally true; there are family stories of me at ... Read more ➡
  • 2015
    • I’m going to be a little sad when Prairie’s vacation is done. I could get used to coming home to cocktails on the patio! ➡
  • 2014
    • Yum! Sausages, ginger carrots, garlic Parmesan mashed potatoes, fresh corn, and homemade rosemary bread. I am so spoiled when Prairie’s on vacation and decides to spend a day cooking! (And the rest of the time too, really.) ➡
    • Definitely think I’ve hit maximum beard for me; thanks to my curls, the right side of my face is distinctly fluffier than the left. Time to trim! ➡
  • 2010
  • 2009
    • Thoughts on the Fall 2009 TV Lineup I just peeked at TV Guide's Fall 2009 TV lineup to see what Prairie and I might be interested in using to rot our brains with in the evenings. Most of the week looks doable, with only a few potential conflicts. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • More Katrina Incompetence On August 27th, President Bush declared a State of Emergency in Louisiana due to the then-incoming Hurricane Katrina. Sounds like a good thing, and possibly one of the few things done right in this whole mess, right? Well...not quite. ➡
  • 2004
    • New toys to play with Y'know, it's really hard to get anything useful done when I run across all these nifty new toys to play with. ➡
    • Flickr This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. ➡
    • Oh, this was just icky Last night, as part of my preparations for going on vacation for a week, I worked on straightening up the apartment a bit, primarily by utilizing the time-honored method of picking up stacks of old mail and papers, dumping them in garbage bags, and taking them out to the dumpster. This morning, while in the shower, I suddenly realized that I hadn't set my AdSense profit check from Google aside into a separate pile when I got it. ➡
    • So are all photographers terrorists now? Yet another 'photography is terrorism' incident. ➡
    • Votergasm! Finally, a campaign I can get behind. Um…so to speak. ➡
  • 2003
    • Fred Phelps needs help Somehow until now Fred Phelps had managed to slip completely under my radar, but from what I've seen this evening, this man needs some serious help. ➡
    • Updated iPods and iMacs Oh, and just in case you've been considering upgrading or switching, Apple announced bigger iPods and faster iMacs this morning. ➡
    • The Doctor is in! Real life imitates art. ➡
    • Working out the bugs Anyway, I'm quite gratified that the design seems to be fairly well received, and that any bugs that have been mentioned so far are actually fairly minor. It's about time I started exploring different ideas, and you all are helping me iron things out a lot. I'll buy you a drink next time you're in town. :) ➡
    • Two girls in my bed! You will notice, however, that I am not in my bed. ;) ➡
    • New Patriotism Newsweek asks this week if it may be time for a New Patriotism. I'd say yes. ➡
    • Feedster IM Searching Feedster is currently my favorite search engine for finding topical, up-to-the-minute information, and they just released a really nifty new feature today — the Feedbot. ➡
    • Fifteen In 15 minutes, he attempted to make up for 15 months of misleading the American people and 15 weeks of mismanaging the reconstruction. ➡

On This Day: Sep 7

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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 23 posts previously published on September 7th

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  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Book forty-eight of 2019: How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, by Randall Munroe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Smart people over-thinking things to the point of absurdity” has been many of my favorite conversations with friends, and this is that, in book form. ➡
  • 2018
    • “Proposal: If you take any piece of footage of Trump in a White House meeting, and replaced Trump with a penguin, the expressions on the faces of everyone else in the room would still work.” ➡
    • Book thirty-three of 2018: Doctor to the Stars, by Murray Leinster. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • The Propaganda of Resistance This is NOT the administration falling apart. It’s A+, live action storytelling with a controlled demolition, and it’s actually really dangerous. ➡
  • 2016
    • I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way. (251/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • And dessert! Apple crisp, right out of the oven, ice cream, and warm drinks (coffee for Prairie, cider for me). ➡
    • Dinner time…pulled pork, baked potatoes, corn, and cucumbers and tomatoes fresh picked from Prairie’s garden. Eaten on the patio, of course, with a rose also from Prairie’s garden. ➡
    • Cocktails and appetizers on the back patio on a nice late summer afternoon. ➡
  • 2014
    • Under the heading of things I probably should be embarrassed about but aren’t: I was amused enough to actually pick up a dorky souvenir Alaska shirt. :) Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Batmoose! ➡
  • 2008
    • Old Money While we were in Woodland with Prairie's dad and grandpa, Prairie took a few minutes to poke around the house and collect some old glassware to bring home. While she was exploring, she found some fun old currency, some of which we recognized, some of which we didn't. I've scanned them in and done a little Wikipedia research, and here's what we came up with. ➡
  • 2005
    • Olbermann blasts Bush Well, not so much Bush specifically, as the entire botched crisis management in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. ➡
    • White Foragers Report Threat Of Black Looters They're somewhat on-again/off-again, but when the Onion is on, they're _dead on_. ➡
    • A little ray of sunshine While it's never a _happy_ thing to see one of Seattle's many homeless inhabitants laboring to push a shopping cart filled to overflowing with what few items they've been able to claim for themselves up one of our many hills, I have to admit it's hard not to grin when... ➡
  • 2004
    • Personality bits and pieces I've often semi-seriously joked that one of the things I'm proudest of in my life is narrowly avoiding becoming the über-sterotypical basement-dwelling pathologically introverted 'geek' by discovering at one point that not only did I actually have a personality, but that it was apparently a rather pleasant one. This ended up putting me in the rather rare position of being a geek who can generally actually cope fairly effectively with the real world. ➡
    • Guantanamo on the Hudson A first-hand account of being jailed for protesting (even though she wasn't really protesting, and just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time) in New York during the RNC. ➡
  • 2003
    • 100 most challenged books 1990-2000 The American Library Association's list of the 100 most challenged books of the last decade. Titles in bold I've read. ➡
    • Define 'gay', Arnie I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman. ➡
    • Ecstacy or meth? A greatly publicized study detailing the harmful effects of popular drug Ecstasy has been retracted after the scientist realized that instead of Ecstasy, methamphetamine had been used in the experiments. ➡
    • Validation favelets The ampersand character — & — should be coded in valid HTML as &&, and failure to do so will result in broken validation. ➡
    • You idiots can't drive We expats get to hear a lot about the Second Amendment and its application back home. 'They give guns to everyone?', my friends ask. 'Don't mind it,' I usually reply, 'they do much worse. They give cars to everyone.' ➡
  • 2001
    • Funny or frightening? Both? Amazon.com customers comment on the American Film Institute's top 20 films of the 20th century. Kind of explains why such tripe becomes so popular these days, and the movies worth seeing are so hard to find (if they even get made). ➡

On This Day: Sep 6

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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 18 posts previously published on September 6th

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Looks like BBQ Betty showed up at DragonCon… 😉😆 ➡
  • 2016
    • This wasn’t my original plan, but Prairie giggled when she saw this after I flopped and before I got more aesthetically arranged…so here we are. (250/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Back home after an enjoyable evening at the theatre. A bit tired; bedtime soon. ➡
    • The sausagefest was quite good (notwithstanding the distinct lack of reindeer). ➡
    • In pseudo-Germany (Leavenworth) for dinner and Shakespeare. Dinner, of course, is something of a sausagefest. Wait, what? ➡
  • 2012
    • Man’s Natural State Men should be offended when someone claims that women should prevent rape by not wearing certain things or not going certain places or not acting in a certain way. ➡
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2004
    • Bumbershoot 2004: Monday And so today wraps up another Labor Day weekend at Bumbershoot. Being able to go at all was actually a rather nice surprise. The company I work for didn't close today, so I'd long since resolved myself to only being able to hit two days this year— but one of the other people at work offered to take my shift so that I'd be able to have today off. ➡
    • Bumbershoot 2004: Sunday Yesterday (since I didn't get around to posting this last night) was another fun day of crowds and music, made even better by the sudden appearance of actual sunshine, something we had been sorely missing on Saturday. ➡
  • 2003
    • Well, would'ja look at that? And here we go, folks — step one of the new design. It's not completely finished yet, as all I've got active at the moment is the primary content, but the rest will follow soon enough. ➡
    • Emily and Amy Emily and Amy in Pioneer Square, Seattle. ➡
  • 2001
    • More about this cruise thing Basically, it sounds like a dream job. Get paid to take a 6-month (at least) cruise, spinning in a top-flight dance club every night. ➡

On This Day: Sep 5

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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 30 posts previously published on September 5th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • 📚 thirty-five of 2020: Masks by John Vornholt ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tng 🖖 Given current events, it’s kind of amusing to be reading a Trek adventure in a society where everyone wears masks at all times, and their status is determined by the type and quality of their mask. ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 5 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 5 ➡
  • 2018
    • Constitutional Crisis “Impeachment is a constitutional mechanism. The Twenty-Fifth Amendment is a constitutional mechanism. Mass resignations followed by voluntary testimony to congressional committees are a constitutional mechanism. Overt defiance of presidential authority by the president’s own appointees—now that’s a constitutional crisis. “If the president’s closest advisers believe that he is morally and intellectually unfit for his high ... Read more ➡
    • 2018 Summer Vacation, Part 2 Here's my photo gallery from the second part of this year's summer vacation, when we spent a week on Lake Coeur d'Alene with friends, rented a lake house and a boat, and pretended we were living a life several tax brackets above what we actually do! ➡
  • 2016
    • A better photo of the cute lil’ #goth #lego minifig we got today. He’s just so gloomy! ➡
    • Yum…Italian Prunes picked from our backyard and turned into a dessert crisp! ➡
    • Today our @fredmeyerstores came through, and we added four more #Lego minifigs…including the little #goth boy I wanted, plus the #Sikh, #banana, and #devil. ➡
    • Two hours twenty minutes, almost seven and a half miles…and seven unleashed dogs. Ah, well. (249/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • And Smokey the Bear! ➡
    • Wow – I can’t remember the last time I saw this! Gotta love small town America parades. #McDonalds #ronaldmcdonald #grimace #thehamburglar ➡
    • Waiting for the parade and peoplewatching. Bundled up against the freaking Ellensburg wind that simply will. not. stop. It’s cold out here! ➡
  • 2014
    • Watching a neat Nova show on Netflix about space jellyfish! Well, okay, “sprites” of high-altitude lightening. But they look like giant space jellyfish to me. ➡
  • 2013
    • On Dickwolves Since I've commented a time or two on my problems with Penny Arcade (primarily including, but not limited to, the 'dickwolves' incident), it's only fair to recognize that Mike has posted a clarification expanding on his comments at this year's PAX. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • CascadiaCon Thursday evening Prairie and I went out for dinner with some friends from the Vogue, and found out that Erin had been asked to showcase some of her clothing in a fashion show at CascadiaCon. Over the course of the conversation, I ended up getting asked to photograph the show, and Prairie was asked to be one of Erin's models! ➡
    • First Steps As of approximately 10:15 this morning, I've officially applied for admission to North Seattle Community College, intending to start in January with the Winter 2006 quarter. ➡
  • 2004
    • Third time’s the charm? This is getting insane. Hurricane Frances is still working its way across Florida, and in the last paragraph of one article about the storm comes word that a third hurricane may be on the way. ➡
  • 2003
    • Another idea Work continues on reworking the design of this place. I think I've finally come up with something that I like, too — miracles never cease! ➡
    • Pshaw. Rank amateur. I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie. ➡
    • Company on the way! And yeah — for the next week, I'm living in a studio apartment with two or three girls. Gee, ain't life tough? ;) ➡
    • In the beginning… And God created Day and Night. And God saw there were 0 errors. And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Sunday, March 1. ➡
  • 2002
    • What kind of God…? The last gasps of isolationism will be snuffed out by more humiliation, until we get the truth, we aren't above the rest of the world, but we are part of it. ➡
    • Don’t hold back! Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. ➡
    • Yahoo! editorializing It may have been just an editorial mistake, as pointed out in the MeFi thread...even so, it's certainly an interesting editorial gaffe. ➡
    • Ascii-pr0n! Okay, sure, so I'll freely admit that i've been curious about seeing Deep Throat for a long time. Somehow, I never thought that my first chance would be through the magic of ASCII animation! Curiously engrossing, I've got to admit. ➡
    • Rights we used to have Some of the fundamental changes to Americans' legal rights by the Bush administration and the USA Patriot Act following the terror attacks. ➡

On This Day: Sep 4

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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 21 posts previously published on September 4th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Book forty-seven of 2019: Starfleet Academy, by Diane Carey ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A quick and simple bit of fluff, based on an early CD-ROM game. As such, not exactly the most complex or demanding of novels, even among Trek books, but that’s about what I expected, so no disappointment. ➡
  • 2018
    • Thanks to @brentsmmons for pointing out the URL for an RSS feed of your micro.blog timeline: https://micro.blog/feeds/USERNAME.json. (Also, hooray for resurrecting NetNewsWire!) ➡
    • These shots of the fire at the National Museum of Brazil are amazing. What a horrifying loss. ➡
    • The first planning meeting for Norwescon 42 is this Saturday! If you’re in the Seattle (or surrounding) area and want to help put on a great literary-focused SF/F con, come down and join us. If you haven’t been to Norwescon before, much more info is on our website. ➡
  • 2016
    • It’s cupcake time! Nice to have friends who give us treats. (248/366) ➡
    • Finally found some of the current #Lego minifigs (our local @fredmeyerstores has been letting us down and not stocking these, so we went down and found some at the Yakima @target)! Got one of the three I really wanted (the arctic #explorer with #penguin; I also really want the one wearing a penguin suit and ... Read more ➡
  • 2014
    • What with post-vacation recovery, I’ve missed a few days of my photo-a-day project (though as I posted multiples some days on the trip, I think my average is still on track ), so this shot of me at VI(NL) from just before I moved out of Anchorage seems appropriate for today’s #throwbackthursday shot. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2004
    • Bumbershoot 2004: Saturday Another year of Bumbershoot is off to a rousing start for Prairie and I. Lots of good music and peoplewatching today, and more to come. This rundown will be a bit abbreviated, as I'm pretty tired, but I wanted to get as much as I could out of my head while it was still fresh. ➡
    • Off to Bumbershoot Prairie and I are heading off to Bumbershoot today. Possibilities for places we might end up… ➡
    • Olympic Commentary Sometimes, the best part about the Olympics isn't the events or the athletes themselves, but the commentary... ➡
  • 2003
    • Just an idea Someday I'm actually going to come up with a good, clean, attractive design. Until then (and that day may be a long, long time coming), I'll keep poking, prodding, and stumbling around. ➡
    • I'm bored That is all. ➡
    • Debate wrapups From the gist of what I've read so far, it seems that while Dean wasn't at his best, he did hold his spot at the top of the pack, while Lieberman came off like a complete ass. ➡
    • Meetings are the mind killer I must not attend meetings. Meetings are the mind killer. Meetings re the little-death that brings total obliteration. ➡
    • Universal dropping CD prices Under the new pricing scheme, Universal would lower its wholesale price on a CD to $9.09 from $12.02. The company said it expected retail stores to lower CD prices to $12.98, from the $16.98 to $18.98 they now charge, and perhaps to as low as $10. ➡
    • The blackboard jungle It's a rather sad commentary on the state of many inner-city summer schools, and the challenges teachers face in trying to teach those students at the bottom end of the curve. However, at the same time, it is absolutely beautifully written, and gave me quite a few laughs while reading it. ➡
  • 2001
    • More cruiseship daydreaming Every time I had to place another call to Xerox to see if I could get a tech to fix my machine today, the idea of spending six months getting paid to spin for a club on a cruise ship sounded better and better. ➡

On This Day: Sep 3

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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 September 3rd

  • 2024
    • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 🎥: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Not quite the mind-blowing heights of Fury Road, mostly just because Fury Road would be so difficult to follow up. ➡
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Just returned from an Alaskan cruise. Enjoy this sequence of a humpback whale breaching in the distance. I sure enjoyed seeing it. ➡
  • 2018
    • Book thirty-three of 2018: Star Trek: The Classic Episodes Vol. 2, by James Blish. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • Book thirty-two of 2018: Moving Mars, by Greg Bear. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Actually finished a couple weeks ago, but was vacationing and not posting photos.) ➡
    • A small selection from last week’s vacation trip to Lake Coeur d’Alene. ➡
    • Linkdump for September 1st through September 3rd An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between September 1st and September 3rd. ➡
  • 2016
    • Three laps around the lake and over five and a half miles for our morning walk today. (247/366) ➡
  • 2006
  • 2004
    • I’m an iTunes Affilliate Earlier this week, I tossed a link to my linklog to Apple's new iTunes Affiliate program, but didn't write up anything more about it, as at that point, I didn't really know much at all. While I was there, though, I went ahead and tossed in an application…and what do you know, last night I got my e-mail telling me that I was accepted into the program . ➡
  • 2003
    • Democratic debate tomorrow night New Mexico is going to host a 'conversation' style debate among the nine contenders for the Democratic nomination tomorrow night, at the University of New Mexico, Albequerqe. ➡
    • The world's oldest profession Who are some of your favorite historical whores? How about slutty eras? Eras you wish were a little less prudish? ➡
    • Diplomacy based on petulance The Bush Administration continues to amaze me -- they have an amazing ability to firmly put both feet in their mouth with their head up their ass. ➡
  • 2002
    • My new desktop I just found this image (along with a ton of other [often barcode-based] very cool desktop images) at some site that I can't read because it's all in Cryllic. ➡
    • Validation fixed (kinda) One of the stumbling blocks I discovered today about enabling Trackback is that it breaks the W3C Validator -- even though I make sure to use valid XHTML 1.0 in my pages, the validator chokes on the RDF code needed for Trackback to work correctly. ➡
    • Cybersodomy? There's a page for everything on the 'net these days -- even gay robots. ➡
    • Bumbershoot ’02 It's taken me a couple days to get to this, and it's not going to be nearly as long as last year's opus — but I did get to spend last Saturday out at this year's Bumbershoot. Unfortunately, I could only hit one day this year, so I decided to go Saturday, as it seemed to have the best lineup of artists I knew I wanted to see. ➡
  • 2001
    • Bumbershoot ’01: Monday, Sep. 3rd NW Connection Community Choir, Kevin Kent, Bill Dana, Kiki & Herb, Tiger Lillies, WOFA, C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band, Nikol Collars, and Nina Hynes. ➡

On This Day: Sep 2

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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 21 posts previously published on September 2nd

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  • 2021
    • If you have a love of classic musicals (and an Apple TV+ account), Schmigadoon! is absolutely wonderful. Highly recommended. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Book forty-six of 2019: Dead Wake, by Erik Larson. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fascinating account of the sinking of the Lusitania, and the many factors that led to the tradgedy. Larson’s historical non-fiction work is great — perfect reading while taking a pleasure cruise vacation! ➡
    • Book forty-five of 2019: Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1962 Hugo Best Novel Good story, and this was very likely one of my earliest introductions to any sort of consensual non-monogamy ideas, but gender role and sexuality issues bother me. ➡
  • 2017
    • Yummy treats between movies! ➡
    • Oh, yum. Indian wraps for lunch. So good! ➡
    • Shiny shoe day! I have gold, Prairie has silver. We’re heading to the Cinerama’s 70mm Film Festival today, so we decided to bling it up Hollywood style (on our feet, at least). #chucks #converse ➡
    • Chucks of the day (55/55): shiny gold (lamé-ish) high tops. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2016
    • Friday of a three day weekend! While many of my friends are at either #dragoncon or #pax, I’ll be spending the weekend at home hiding from the #ellensburgrodeo. Have fun with whatever you’re doing! (246/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Gorgeous! #rainbow #ellensburg ➡
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • The New Apartment Finally -- pictures of the new apartment! Each of the following shots has notes added if you click through to the Flickr page, pointing out some of the bits and pieces you see in the rooms. And now...tour time! ➡
  • 2004
    • Frances: the satellite view Thanks to a program called OSXplanet that puts a map of the globe on my desktop, complete with current cloud patterns, I can watch Hurricane Frances approach the Florida coastline from the comfort of my apartment. Freaky and cool, all at the same time. ➡
    • First Charley, now Frances When Hurricane Charley hit Florida, my grandparents had to be evacuated to a shelter for the duration of the storm. During their time there, Grandpa suffered a fall, ended up in their retirement home's hospital after they returned from the shelter, and was just able to come home to Grandma on Friday. Now, however, with Hurricane Frances bearing down on Florida, word has come that it's highly likely that they will have to evacuate again. ➡
  • 2003
    • Rule #1: Validate Bottom line: valid markup is a Good Thing™. Sure, it's a bit of a pain, and it can take a little time to get used to the conventions involved in writing valid code. The amount of time, effort, and anguish involved in solving niggling little browser issues that valid code saves, though, is more than worth it. ➡
    • esoterically.net: Psych Eval The Guardian has a fascinating and disturbing article posted where psychologist Oliver James analyzes George W. Bush. ➡
  • 2002
  • 2001

On This Day: Sep 1

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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 18 posts previously published on September 1st

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 122 Today's post-travel Lego build: A classic yellow New York City taxicab. ➡
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • 📚 30/2021: The Fire and the Rose by David R. George III ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻 ➡
    • Neutral Good Insistence on either lawfulness or rebellion is seen as detriments to or distractions from the greater goal of promoting true kindness in the world. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2018
  • 2016
    • Rice Krispy treats made with coconut and peanut butter. Yum! (245/366) ➡
  • 2010
  • 2007
    • Offline Time ...it's pretty much safe to assume that we probably won't be reachable via e-mail or phone for the next two weeks, and _certainly_ won't be responding to messages in a timely manner. Not ideal, but that's what it is. ➡
  • 2005
    • Sometimes predictions come true The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City. Even the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in the city, claiming the risk to its workers is too great. ➡
  • 2004
    • Bumbershoot tips A re-post from last year — some rambling from me on how best to approach this upcoming weekend's Bumbershoot festival (which, unfortunately, I'll only be hitting two days of this year, due to my workplace not closing down for Labor Day). ➡
    • Kids’ ideas about sex Sex columnist Dan Savage recently asked his readers to submit letters detailing their childhood misconceptions about sex. The resulting two columns are hilarious… ➡
    • Another one bites the dust Yet another in the ongoing saga of webloggers canned for really stupid reasons. This time, it's Troutgirl, who until recently worked for Friendster. Ontario Empoblog has a good rundown of the situation. ➡
    • What a deal! Y'know, it's really a shame I don't go to Florida State University. Turns out that they're working on setting up a special deal with Apple that would provide free iTunes software to students and allow them to download music for 99 cents per song. ➡
    • Two digits, thousands of votes Issue: Manipulation technique found in the Diebold central tabulator -- 1,000 of these systems are in place, and they count up to two million votes at a time. By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. ➡
  • 2003
    • Bumbershoot '03: Mon, Sep 1 Finally, we made it to the end — day four of Bumbershoot is over and done with. After this post, no more Bumbershoot babbling until sometime next year! ➡
  • 2001

On This Day: Aug 31

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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 15 posts previously published on August 31st

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • Book forty of 2016: We’ll Always Have Parrots, by Donna Andrews. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • Yeah…I’m that guy who goes to the local brewery storefront and orders a ginger ale. :) (244/366) ➡
  • 2007
    • Upheaval The move is in progress -- tons of boxes filled with crap floating from one apartment to the other, and all sorts of unfun disarray and nastiness. Ugh. Moving's stressful enough when it's anticipated and planned, but having to suddenly dive full-force into it with no advance notice is _horrendous_. ➡
  • 2005
    • No Cameras at Bumbershoot? According to the Bumbershoot website, 'Cameras are not allowed at Bumbershoot—please leave them at home.' Anyone out there have any more info? What's the deal here? And how are they going to be enforcing it? ➡
  • 2004
    • Kevin and Noah My little brother and my one-month old nephew. ➡
    • I’m everywhere! With the addition of the new Mac OS X release of Skype, there are now a veritable plethora of ways to get ahold of me online, should anyone be so inclined. ➡
    • G5 iMac The new G5-based iMac is up on Apple's site. Haven't spent a ton of time on the site, yet, but first impressions are that it's a damn impressive piece of engineering, packing all that into such a tiny little space. ➡
  • 2003
  • 2002
    • Yet another trick in place Alrighty then -- more goodies are in place! To go with the (re-)addition of the smiley hack, I've combined a couple other ideas to really enhance the comment postings here. ➡
  • 2001
    • Temptation! Seeing as how I just landed this position with Xerox/Andersen, and that I know they'd like me to commit to at least a year, do I stay with the safe bet with good future opportunities? Or do I chase a dream to see if I can get a spot on the cruise ships? ➡

On This Day: Aug 30

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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 22 posts previously published on August 30th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 120 It's always a little jarring to see the hotel this empty and undecorated. ➡
  • 2020
    • 📚 thirty-four of 2020: Power Hungry by Howard Weinstein ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tng 🖖 Much better than the last one. While the environmental themes are pretty heavy-handed, it’s nice to find a Trek novel where everything isn’t wrapped up neatly with a bow by the end. ➡
    • On This Day: Aug 30 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from August 30 ➡
  • 2018
    • And Summer vacation part two (four nights with friends at a lake house on Lake Coeur d’Alene in Idaho) is done! Had to make it a working vacation, but when not being responsible, I drove a boat, rode a rainbow floaty unicorn, swam in a lake, and had a grand time! ➡
  • 2017
    • Book forty-one of 2017: The Final Fury (Invasion! Book four), by Dafydd ab Hugh. 🌟🌟 ➡
  • 2016
    • I was amused by this #chalk #graffiti by the park. That’s #dope. (243/366) ➡
    • (Since I’m the social media guy for @norwescon, I can post this myself as well. Bonus!) Have you registered for #nwc40 yet? This is the time to do it! A full four-day membership is only $50 today and tomorrow…and goes up to $60 on Thursday, September 1st! Get the best deal for a full weekend ... Read more ➡
  • 2014
    • Ahhh, yes. Now that looks like home. ➡
    • Batman enjoyed Alaska, but he’s looking forward to being back home, too. ➡
    • Batman enjoyed his Alaska trip, too. Here he is with Sleeping Lady/Mt. Susitna in the background. ➡
    • This morning’s final Alaska selfie. Theoretically, Denali is in the background, but the sun was in our eyes and I didn’t get my phone aimed right. ➡
    • One last local indulgence. Mmmmmm…Rudolph! ➡
    • Realized we were right by the Farmer’s Market. Fresh made cinnamon rolls are a great morning treat. :) ➡
  • 2004
    • New glasses are on the way So I've got new eyeglasses on the way. Rimless, fairly small and rectangular, with very thin silver bows, and they come with a set of clip-on shades that match the shape of the lenses exactly. Prairie assures me that they look incredibly good and nearly disappear from my face, not nearly as dominating as my current pair. ➡
    • Rent As mentioned briefly last week, Saturday's evening entertainment was wandering down a couple blocks to the Paramount Theatre to see Rent. ➡
  • 2003
    • Feelin' hot! Hot! Hot! 'I see,' I said, and studied her for a moment. 'We'll just have to leave that to mystery then, won't we?' ➡
    • Bumbershoot tips Kellan asked if I had any tips for the rest of the Bumbershoot weekend. My response kept getting longer and longer, so I figured I might as well toss it up as a post of its own, rather than hiding it in the comment thread. ➡
  • 2002
    • No, really, it’s innocent! When my 12 year old daughter asked for this for her birthday, I kind of wondered if she was too old for it, but she seems to LOVE it. Her friends love it too! They play for hours in her bedroom with this great toy. They really seem to like the special effects it offers (the sound effects and vibrating). My oldest daughter (17) really likes it too! I reccomend this for all children. ➡
    • Smileys are back! I had this hack installed a while ago, and had managed to kill it -- well, it's back! Now, when I or anyone posting a comment types in a 'smiley' code (for instance, ':)') it will be replaced by the corresponding 'smiley' (in this case, ':)'). ➡
    • Suddenly cab drivers seem sane As the city bus drove down the street, two men in the back got into a fight. Concerned for the safety of himself and his other passengers, the driver pulled over to the side of the road and had everyone -- including the two men in the altercation -- evacuate the bus. Everyone did, save one person. ➡
  • 2001
    • Suicide isn’t painless This event has been garnering national media attention not because of the suicide attempt itself, but because of the depressingly horrendous way that people here reacted to it. ➡
    • Kev, drama queens, and Bumbershoot First things first -- my bro was in town! On his way north he stopped off in Seattle for a couple days, and we got to hang out and visit Saturday and Sunday evenings. ➡