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On This Day: Jun 12

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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 19 posts previously published on June 12th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 41 Shepard Fairey's 'We the People' posters line the staircase down to our basement. ➡
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Neat long look at how Netflix is doing what it’s doing in The Netflix Binge Factory: “Netflix is hiring everybody in and out of Hollywood to make more TV shows than any network ever has, and it already knows which ones you’ll like.” ➡
  • 2016
    • Thanks everyone for your notes (comments, likes, hearts, etc.) on my hooding ceremony picture and yesterday’s with Mom and Dad. It’s been a very nice weekend. For tonight, I’m being amused at our little exercise trampoline acting as a silly halo. (164/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Since this is graduation weekend (here, at least), I changed my mind on my #throwbackthursday shot. Here’s @jenadzima, Charles, and me at our high school graduation in 1991! ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for June 8th through June 12th Sometime between June 8th and June 12th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • The grand strategy of Al-Qa’ida can be thought of as auto-immune warfare • Clove Cigarettes to be illegal • 30 ROCK Is a Rip-Off of the MUPPET SHOW! • Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames • _Yub Jub_ Means "Devour the Weak": An Authoritative Study of Ewoks, From the Field Notes of Davo Atten-Boru and Pladdo Cardigun, Exo-Naturalists. • Sprinkle When You Tinkle ➡
    • EMPSFM and Muppets I think my puppet looks the best -- not only did I know the lyrics, but I have that version of 'Rainbow Connection' in my collection, so I was able to keep 'Kurt' pretty synced up with the music. Fun! ➡
  • 2003
    • If this country fails I think that what drives me to keep going is the knowledge that if this country fails, then a beacon for the world is lost. And this country is headed for failure under this president. ➡
    • Habits Certain events must be described as 'fuckin' awesome.' ➡
    • But what about the kittens? Logic, of course, can be skewed terribly when your premise is a theory based on the Lord being a female kitten. ➡
    • Speakeasy needs a laxative! we are awaiting the new upgrade switch to be thrown deep within the bowels of speakeasy. once this bowel movement is finished please credit the customer a month of service. they have agreed to recontract if we do this favor for them. it's like a new order, only it's an old order with a funny hat on. ➡
    • Fundamentalism Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life. ➡
  • 2002
    • ClearChannel sucks ClearChannel owns a ridiculous amount of the radio stations in this country, and seems intent on driving them all down into blandness and mediocrity. ➡
    • Switch Apple's got one word for you. ➡
    • Welcome back WaSP After a short hiatus to regroup, the Web Standards Project is back up and running. ➡
    • Emperor of the US I first read about Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America in one of the Sandman graphic novels by Neil Gaiman. ➡
    • Music industry wakes up According to a story in the LA Times, Universal and Sony will be offering low-cost, unencrypted music downloads over the 'net. ➡

On This Day: Jun 11

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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 19 posts previously published on June 11th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 40 A night out dancing at the club has done wonders to loosen up those tight muscles. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • Mom, me, and Dad, after a pleasant evening’s visit. (163/366) ➡
    • Chucks of the day (12/?): grey slip-ons. #chucks #converse ➡
    • Book twenty-five of 2016: Streets of Shadows, edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (163/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • 156 pages. One half of a centimeter thick. $50. I love textbooks. (At least that’s for a new copy.) ➡
    • Yay dilation! Can’t actually focus on anything closer than an arm’s length away. Whee! ➡
    • I am Oculus of Borg. Refocusing is futile. You will be astigmatized. ➡
  • 2014
    • Feeling a little glitchy. Working on putting the pieces together. ➡
  • 2007
    • Inappropriate Thoughts I once knew someone who told me that, upon meeting the new husband of an ex-girlfriend of his, had to suppress the urge to say, 'I took your wife's virginity.' ➡
  • 2006
    • X-Men: The Last Stand We went out to see X-Men III today. Overall not _bad_, but not _nearly_ as good as the first two were. ➡
  • 2003
    • Who's who in the blogging world A simple guide to the A-list bloggers is a wonderful tongue-in-cheek introduction to the "big names" of weblogging. ➡
    • More impeachment talk It seems to me that impeachment isn't unrealistic to at least consider, at this point. As has been quoted here before: Bush lied. People died. ➡
    • Slipping through the cracks With all those reporters covering politics and government in Washington and around the country, you would think that the press would be watching the powerful on behalf of the people pretty persistently. But you would be wrong. ➡
    • Like I think, like, I want to, like, ban the word, like, 'like,' from the English, like, language. ➡
    • Alexandar Diego Soli And so to assert the existence of the self is therefore a sin, the worst of sins; therefore it is better to cut out one's tongue than to speak the word 'I.' ➡
    • Still here? Been kind of quiet around here lately. No major reasons for that, really, but a few minor ones. ➡
  • 2002
    • Gambit Look out and lock up your daughters, everyone, we're in the presence of Remy LeBeau. That's right, you're that smooth-talkin' Cajun boy with a flare for making women swoon and a great love for all things shiny and steal-able. Sure, you're forever on the run from your past, but there's no reason why you can't run from it in style, oui? ➡
  • 2001
    • God of Ecstasy! Your open-mindedness and irrepressible energy allow your sexual energy to keep going and going and going. And when the day is through, you've left a trail of satisfied mortals in your wake. ➡

On This Day: Jun 10

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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 June 10th

  • 2025
  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 39 This has always been my preferred way to hit the clubs; fashionably late has never been my style. ➡
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Meet the guys who tape Trump’s papers back together: “Solomon Lartey spent the first five months of the Trump administration working in the Old Executive Office Building, standing over a desk with scraps of paper spread out in front of him.” ➡
  • 2017
    • The great things you find while cleaning out drawers for a move… #djwoody #djwüdi #thelostabby #gigsmusictheatre #anchorage #alaska #1990s #goth #industrial ➡
  • 2016
    • Across the stage and hooded! (162/366) #cwu #cwuwildcats #cwupride #ms #itam #graduation ➡
    • Chucks of the day (11/?): Grey with red laces, Superman logo on rear, tongue, and inside lining. These seemed appropriate for the day I receive my masters degree hood at tonights’s Graduate School graduation ceremony. #chucks #converse #superman ➡
  • 2014
    • Crazy windy today (25-35 MPH, with gusts up to 45 MPH). Used a long exposure app to try to capture the trees blowing around. Interesting final effect! ➡
    • We are the visually impaired Borg. Your visual and optical distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is…fuzzy; focusing is futile. We need to work on our script. ➡
  • 2008
    • Graduating on Friday While this has been mentioned briefly here and there, I figured I might as well take a moment to make it explicit. I'm graduating! :) ➡
  • 2006
    • My Father’s Eyes The more I see of my dad's photography, the more it becomes clear to me where my eye for photography came from. Few exact matches, but _lots_ of similarities in the compositions and subjects that we like. ➡
    • Missing: One Pink Monkey At some point over the past few days, it appears that someone ducked into our car after we'd forgotten to lock the doors. Thankfully, they didn't take much -- what they _did_ take was this cute little monkey. ➡
  • 2005
    • Prices keep going up The clerk scanned the soda, then the water...and then we both started laughing when the register displayed a total of $520,007.00. That's some _expensive_ groceries. ➡
    • A blast from the past… It's kind of fun to be able to pinpoint the very day that I realized there was this 'weblogging' thing going on...and to know that I'd been doing it for a good while before that. ➡
  • 2004
    • Art is terrorism Steve Kurtz's wife, Hope Kurtz, died in her sleep of cardiac arrest in the early morning hours of May 11. Police arrived, became suspicious of Kurtz's art supplies and called the FBI. ➡
    • Ducks in the city What happens when a family of ducks takes a walk through the city? In this case, an unfortunate (but amusing) tragedy. ➡
    • Saved! The Seattle PI has an interesting (if short) Q-and-A session with director Brian Dannely, the man behind one movie that's been high on my radar for a few weeks now — Saved! ➡
    • Ink or champagne? Following up (in a way) on my printer ink woes, MetaFilter today points out that by volume, printer ink is six times more expensive than Dom Perignon champagne. ➡
  • 2003
    • Foolishness Who is more foolish — the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light? ➡
  • 2002
    • Boxing Boxing is an interesting sport. You start with someone who's dumb enough to get the snot beat out of him on a regular basis, and then punch him 5,000 times in the head. ➡

On This Day: Jun 9

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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 June 9th

  • 2024
    • Retro News: Gigs Music Theater Closes A blast from the past — two news reports on the closing of Anchorage's all-ages music venue Gigs Music Theater, in August of 1998. Includes a quick shot of me DJing! ➡
  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • The book After Man: A Zoology of the Future imagines what animals might look like if humans went extinct, and absolutely captivated me when I was a kid. Neat to see a new edition is being released. Recommended! ➡
  • 2017
    • Cleaning up Prairie’s old G4 #iMac to be given away. These were such adorably cute machines! And it’s fun to be using MacOS 10.4.11 again, with its stylish brushed chrome UI. Kind of sad to be letting this go, really, but we haven’t used it in six years, so it’s better to let it go ... Read more ➡
  • 2016
    • I’ve decided that my #tinydinosaur is named Toby, in honor of The West Wing’s Toby Ziegler, who is cranky and snarling at everyone all the time. (161/366) ➡
    • Chucks of the day (10/?): black and tan low tops with tessellated flaming (or horned) skull design. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2014
    • Dammit, Monday. I already knew this was a Monday without your having to go and make it a seriously Monday-ish Monday. Can I get a do-over? ➡
  • 2010
    • Links for June 7th through June 9th Sometime between June 7th and June 9th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • The Story Behind the Recycled Newspaper Prop • Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club • Study: Secondhand Smoke May Affect Mental Health • How to Send Your Face to Space • Kids of Lesbians Have Fewer Behavioral Problems, Study Suggests ➡
  • 2008
    • Bonehead As I waited for the bus to roll to a stop, I peeked out the windows and scanned our parking lot for the car to see if Prairie was back from her morning jaunt with Hope. The car wasn't in the lot... ➡
    • Trifecta Point one: A news story about a Darwin Award contender. Point two: _great_ headline. Point three: horrid choice of ad banner (probably automatically generated). ➡
  • 2005
    • Seattle Polite As I stood there, the car coming down the hill slowed, stopped, and the driver nodded for me to cross. I pointed at the light -- 'You've got the green, buddy...' -- and he just waved me across. ➡
  • 2004
    • Little details Former Microsoftie Will Parker has an interesting post about the Microsoft Mac Business Unit's work on a generally under-appreciated aspect of software publishing: the packaging. ➡
    • VisitorVille Apache log file analysis plus SimCity equals VisitorVille, a program that displays your website as a city, with traffic represented by people moving from building to building (page to page), and arriving via bus (referrers and search engines). ➡
    • Enough already Yes, yes, we know. Reagan died. Can we get back to reporting about more important things now, please? ➡
    • No longer the top of the heap Well, it lasted longer than I thought it would, given how fast technology advances, but my dual 2.0 Ghz Power Mac G5 is no longer the top-of-the-line machine from Apple. ➡
  • 2003
    • That'll stop them! Our Attorney General wants to make terrorist attacks against military bases or nuclear plants a capital offense. ➡
  • 2002
    • Needles and bottles and junkies, oh my! Apparently, some of the tenants next door feel that using garbage cans is more trouble than it's worth, and prefer to toss a fair amount of their garbage out the window and into the alleyway -- everything from smashed TVs to used syringes, all mixed in with a generous helping of broken glass bottles. ➡

On This Day: Jun 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 16 posts previously published on June 8th

  • 2025
  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • To my friends old and new, family born into or chosen, and loved ones however defined: you’re valid, valued, and loved, and my world is a better place because you’re in it. I hope you can remember that even when it’s tough, and that you’re around for a long time to come. ➡
  • 2016
    • Playing with another graphic creation app. Rather amazing what we can do with our phones these days. (160/366) ➡
    • Chucks of the day (9/?): dark blue low tops with tri-tone light blue stitching and sidewall stripes. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2014
    • Out to see Maleficent! ➡
  • 2011
    • Hey Look… Squirrel! That's pretty much the level of discourse we've been having over education funding in Washington state, the kind that's designed to keep our eyes off the ball by assuming that voters have an attention span shorter than that of the average dog. ➡
  • 2007
  • 2005
  • 2004
    • Time for a touch-up Photo post: painting a church at 7th and Seneca. ➡
    • iTunes supports AC3 and DTS? I was just reading this Macworld article on how AirTunes works (the new audio streaming technology built into Airport Express), when I noticed this paragraph… ➡
  • 2003
    • The Purity Test The test itself is a series of yes or no questions designed to determine how morally, ethically, and sexually pure you are. As you go through the test, you mark off each thing you've done. At the end of the test, you count up your answers, and figure out your percentage — the more you've done, the lower your final score, and the less 'pure' you are. ➡
  • 2002
    • Something worth saving do you realize you just sumed up your teen years and mid 20's all in one paragraph ➡
    • Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy While not quite as good as Illuminatus, it was still much of the same style -- bizarre, confusing, and entertaining, with a wonderfully twisted sense of humor throughout. ➡
    • Faster than a speeding bullet So, at this point, I'd like to give major thanks to Karim, who graciously let me use some space on dragonshed.org to host my .mp3 files. As dragonshed sits on top of an OC3 connection, anyone who wants my .mp3s will now be able to download them at the maximum possible speed of what ever line they are using to connect to the 'net with. ➡

On This Day: Jun 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 19 posts previously published on June 7th

  • 2025
  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 36 The building behind me here is a lecture hall, often nicknamed the 'turtle'. ➡
  • 2021
    • Map of the Internet — Halcyon Maps Inspired by design of historical maps, this project aims to concisely, but still comprehensively visualize the current state of the World Wide Web, and document the largest and most popular websites over the period of 2020-2021, along with their countless aspects and features. ➡
  • 2020
    • Difficult Listening Hour 2020.06.06 Week sixteen of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. ➡
    • 📚 twenty-seven of 2020: Star Trek S.C.E.: Have Tech, Will Travel by Keith R.A. DeCandido, Kevin Dillmore, Christie Golden, Dean Wesley Smith, and Dayton Ward ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A collection of four novellas following the S.C.E. characters. More of Trek’s expanded universe. ➡
    • On This Day: Jun 7 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from June 7 ➡
  • 2016
    • Book twenty-four of 2016: Demons, by J.M. Dillard. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (159/366) #startrek #tos #startrektos ➡
    • Seems this #tinydinosaur enjoys watching #WestWing while using his exercise ball. ➡
    • Chucks of the day (8/?): dark grey monotone low tops with black sidewalls. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2014
    • Bad bout of insomnia last night means tired me and early bed tonight. Ugh. ➡
  • 2005
    • Flip der Svitch!!! If you're seeing this entry, then the switch has been thrown, and Eclecticism has successfully transferred over to its new server! ➡
  • 2004
    • First look inside the new Sci-Fi museum I'm jealous — while the public isn't allowed in just yet, there was a 'family and friends' night at the EMP's new Science-Fiction museum last night, and Thumbmonkey has the details… ➡
    • Airport Express feat. AirTunes This looks very cool: Airport Express featuring AirTunes, a small wireless basestation that will connect to a stereo to allow music streaming, for only $129. ➡
    • I’m a music whore 879 albums, 2,927 artists, 44.13GB, 33.5 days, 10,282 tracks in my music collection…so far. ➡
    • Spring Cleaning With a lot of very appreciated help from Prairie, my apartment is now cleaner than it has been in…oh, probably in about a year, since the last time I went on a mad spring cleaning rampage. ➡
  • 2003
  • 2001
    • Moulin Rouge The entire movie is a lush, sumptious feast for the eyes and ears. Wonderful, wonderful film. ➡
    • Homophobic idiots There was a display put up at the Loussac library dealing with gay pride issues on Monday evening. Before the library opened on Tuesday morning, though, Mayor Weurch had ordered the library to pull the exhibit. ➡

On This Day: Jun 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 22 posts previously published on June 6th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • It was already 75° when we left for work at 7:30 this morning. It peaked at 96°, and has come all the way down to 94° now. Could someone please turn the sun down a few notches? (158/366) ➡
    • Chucks of the day (7/?): Black and tan low tops with black laces. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2015
    • Even at 90 degrees, it’s actually quite nice out here in the shade with a bit of a breeze. ➡
    • Ugh. Thank goodness for A/C! ➡
  • 2014
    • Mmm…pre-show FroYo, then off to a selection of opera pieces! ➡
    • For #funfeetfriday: Almost illegible (which is probably why they were at Ross) “Jedi Master” socks, paired with graffiti design Converse. ➡
  • 2010
    • Links for May 29th through June 6th Sometime between May 29th and June 6th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • After 10 Years, Experience Music Project Is Still Perplexing • How You Can Live Like a Vulcan Without Bleeding Green • Google Ditches Windows on Security Concerns • Facebook: Privacy Problems and PR Nightmare • Presidential Proclamation--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month ➡
  • 2006
    • 6:66 6/6/06 You've seen it everywhere else already, of course, but it does bear mentioning that today is 6/6/6 (at least, it is as long as you drop the leading zero on the year notation). ➡
    • 11 Saints Release Concert Okay...it's finally time to take a few minutes break from math and play catch-up on this weekend. Friday night was the concert for the release of Eleven Saints, Jason Webley's latest release, written collaboratively with Jay Thompson. ➡
  • 2005
    • 100+ Things Meme 153 things (minus three, as 5, 13, and 14 have gone mysteriously missing), some of which I've done, some I haven't. Meme fun! ➡
    • Initial thoughts Some brief initial thoughts on today's news... ➡
    • Slashdot Slashdotted Here's an amusing little something that I'd never seen before. I tried to take a look at a Slashdot story about the Apple/Intel switch, when... ➡
    • Mac moving to Intel Short on details at the moment, as the keynote is still going on, and I'm just watching the MacRumors updates, but...Apple is moving to Intel for their processors. ➡
  • 2004
    • Part Three Through no real reason other than happenstance, this became a weekend of 'Part Three's — Scary Movie 3, American Wedding (the third American Pie movie), and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban were all part of the weekend entertainment. ➡
  • 2003
    • TypePad and web standards There's an excellent article up at A List Apart that provides far more information about TypePad's features and capabilities than has been released so far. ➡
    • Apple woos indie labels for iTMS Yesterday Apple hosted a special invitation only event for independent and smaller music labels, giving them information on how they could join with the iTMS. A representative from CDBaby was at the event, and has posted an extremely interesting rundown of Apple's offer to indy labels, mixed in with a lot of information about the iTMS system. ➡
    • That explains it I'm the commander. See, I don't need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation. ➡
    • Related entries I'm experimenting with Adam Kalsey's Related Entried Revisited MovableType modification. ➡
  • 2002
    • Ship of Fools A good, though not excellent, sci-fi novel following a group of people on a deep-space ship wandering the universe looking for a home. Their travels bring them to a planet where they discover a staggeringly disturbing massacre, the investigation of which leads them to an alien ship — and even more problems. ➡

On This Day: Jun 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 24 posts previously published on June 5th

  • 2024
  • 2023
    • 2023 WWDC Thoughts Autocorrect is due for updates, but a Transformer language model? Hopefully I get the Autobot release and not the Decepticon release. ➡
    • Year 50 Day 34 We'll see how many of the WWDC hardware and software rumors pan out! ➡
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • 📚 22/2021: Foul Deeds Will Rise by Greg Cox ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek 🖖 Aside from Cox’s tendency to get a little too cute with references, this was one of the better moments of picking up a dropped thread; in this case, Leonore Karidian, now released from psychiatric treatment. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Fellow cis/straight/allosexual/alloromantic people: The “A” in LGBTQIA+ isn’t for us. Allyship is an action, not an identity; by claiming the “A”, we center ourselves rather than those we say we support and erase (or, at minimum, risk erasing) asexual and aromantic people. ➡
  • 2018
    • Got my Women of NASA Lego set! ➡
    • Today’s bit of awesomeness: the THX “Deep Note” sound…acapella! ➡
  • 2016
    • Dug down to one of my older t-shirts today. I don’t get out to many concerts; I’m glad that #mlwttkk was one that I made it to. (157/366) ➡
    • Chucks of the day (6/?): Black and white mid tops, with diagonal white accent stripes, of the newer more cushioned style. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2015
    • Ducklings! ➡
  • 2014
    • It’s a martini kind of day. ➡
    • For #throwbackthursday, posing in my first Utilikilt…10 years ago, in mid-May 2004. A full decade of kilting! ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for June 1st through June 5th Sometime between June 1st and June 5th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Goths in Hot Weather • Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen • Creating New Documents • Geotracking Your Photos With the AGL 3080 • What Plagiarism Looks Like ➡
  • 2008
    • The Threat of Photography Given that real terrorists, and even wannabe terrorists, don't seem to photograph anything, why is it such pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets? Why are our fears so great that we have no choice but to be suspicious of any photographer? ➡
  • 2007
  • 2003
    • Quiet time At a loss for words / Nothing much to write about / Entertain yourselves ➡
    • Justifying the space program It costs NASA less to send a probe to Mars than it would cost Hollywood to make a movie about it. ➡
    • Fear Fear is the darkroom where negatives develop. ➡
    • Tarot Time Tarot decks for everyone! ➡
    • Could be? Look — give me a few gallons of bleach and a few gallons of ammonia, and my bathtub could be used to produce chemical weapons. ➡
  • 2002
    • New mixes online It took a while, but I finally got two new mixes encoded and available from download. I actually made these a few months ago, before I moved out of my old apartment, but just now found them and got around to posting them. ➡
  • 2001
    • Catching up with old friends So, here I am again, doing my usual late-night post before crashing out. Funny how these keep getting later and later — I knew that as soon as I wasn't working, I'd start slipping back into my nocturnal ways. Good or bad, I'm not sure, but I'm quite definitely a night owl…. ➡

On This Day: Jun 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 19 posts previously published on June 4th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • After taking a year off for job switch, move, settling in to life back in the Seattle area, etc., I finally decided to re-start my exercise routine this morning. My legs are so, so, very not happy with me right now. Ow. /whimper/ ➡
  • 2016
    • The fashion show was good, as expected. We had dinner, then dessert, and in a bit, will be off to this evening’s dance program, always one of our favorites. Not a bad Saturday! (156/366) ➡
    • Chucks of the day (5/?): Black on black high tops with flower-garland bedecked skull design. I’ve never been sure if this is a design for some specific thing, entity, or organization, or if it’s just a fun design. #chucks #converse ➡
    • Chucks of the day (4/?): low top slip-ons, originally brown and orange…until the day I forgot to change shoes before heading out to mow the lawn. These are now my yard work shoes. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2015
    • Odd observation of the day: I don’t really know how the sensors on this building’s urinals’ auto-flushers work, but this shirt sure seems to confuse the heck out of them. FLUSH! FLUSH AGAIN! KEEP FLUSHING!!! ➡
  • 2014
    • Some days one of me just isn’t enough. ➡
  • 2008
    • Photographing the Police ...is perfectly legal. Not that this should be a big surprise, but after the City of Seattle settled a lawsuit with a photographer last year to the tune of $8,000, the Seattle Police Department has clarified its policies. ➡
    • Fire Tornadoes While I've never been around one (something I'm not at all disappointed about), I've certainly heard of tornadoes, waterspouts, and I've seen many of their smaller cousin, the dust devil. However, I'd never thought about what the wind patterns around a wildfire might do. ➡
    • Deficit Attention Disorder From the Christian Science Monitor, a funny editorial advertising Restraint®, a cure for Deficit Attention Disorder (DAD)! ➡
  • 2004
    • Puzzle time How many petals around the rose? I figured it out in under a minute (my first guess was half right, three subsequent rolls allowed me to fine tune and confirm the answer). ➡
    • Dress Code Yesterday I needed to grab something to drink about an hour after I started my shift, so I ducked over to the Starbucks Coffee next door. The barrista gave me a quick look up and down, then asked, 'Hey! Where's the Utilikilt?' ➡
    • Almost famous A couple of months ago, I was interviewed by a prominent news/entertainment magazine for an article they were preparing on webloggers who had lost their jobs or faced some other form of catastrophe due to their weblogging. Unfortunately, the article's since been shelved. ➡
  • 2003
    • Well, hey there, sailor! In an unusual act of patriotism, a Nevada brothel is offering free sex to troops returning from the U.S.-Iraq war. ➡
  • 2002
    • Back in the day I'm about to head to bed, but I just found this article, and as far as I'm concerned, it should be required reading for anyone who's been online for more than just the past few years: When 300 baud was the bomb, from Salon. ➡
  • 1998
    • [From Usenet: 6.4.98 2300] I'm wondering if anyone has any pointers or tips as far as getting on any label promotional mailing lists. It's hard enough weeding through what new music we get up here to find the stuff worth spending the money on...freebies could be a major benefit. ➡

On This Day: Jun 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 24 posts previously published on June 3rd

  • 2023
  • 2021
  • 2020
    • The Police Must Be Better All the progress that has been made has happened not in spite of the protests, but _because of_ the protests. And for that very reason, the protests will continue as long as the police as a whole act the way they do. ➡
    • Martin Luther King on Violent Protests [Black people] could not prosper in a game where they were the only ones expected to play by the rules. ➡
    • On This Day: Jun 3 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from June 3 ➡
  • 2019
    • Book thirty-six of 2019: How the White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back, by Diana Rowland. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ These continue to be fun, as the world and the conspiracies grow in scope. Some things have improved, but some continue to go downhill…. ➡
  • 2016
    • Today’s the last day of #pride week at #cwu. Remembered to pick up this year’s shirt, too! (155/366) #cwupride #prideweek #pride2016 ➡
    • Chucks of the day (3/?): white high tops with black accents, red flecks/speckles along the sidewalks. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2014
    • I dunno…this character looks pretty shady to me. You sure he can be trusted? ➡
  • 2007
    • Snorkel Practice So now we've got flippers. Apparently, this makes Prairie a mermaid...and me a frog. I don't know, I just report what I'm told.... ;) ➡
  • 2005
    • In Search of a Sugar Daddy Y'know, all I need right now is for some kind wealthy benefactor to drop about six grand in my bank account. Of course, that's not exactly likely. Possible sure...but improbable enough that as I don't have easy access to the Heart of Gold, I don't expect it'll happen. ➡
    • The IRS is more thorough than I thought… Amusing bits from IRS Publication 525, Taxable and Nontaxable Income, Other Income: Bribes, Found Property, Illegal Income, Kickbacks, and Stolen Property. ➡
    • DJ Humor Two DJs were talking. One of them says 'Hey, you should see this movie I saw the other day! It's GREAT!' The other one replies, 'Oh, I don't know...Who's the projectionist?' ➡
  • 2004
    • One down… On a not entirely unrelated note, though, I had one thought when I saw Tenet's picture in this Time article: George Tenet and Bill Murray…separated at birth? ➡
    • Folklife reports I only made it out to one day of this year's Folklife festival, but Chas made it through all four days. He's got a good writeup of his time there, contrasting it to a similar event in DC and pointing out quite a few links to local bands worth investigating. ➡
    • Withdrawal symptoms Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on. ➡
  • 2003
    • Don't talk and drive I've never felt that talking and driving at the same time was a good idea, even to the point of ticking off some of my friends by refusing to talk with them if they were driving. If it were up to me, there'd just be a non-conditional ban on using cell phones while driving, period. ➡
    • 26 Things on tuesday july 1st 2003, 26 things to hunt for will be posted on this website and you are free to complete the project on or before thursday july 31st 2003. come back friday august 1st to submit your 26 things website. ➡
    • Caption Contest What's the best caption you can come up with for this sign? ➡
  • 2002
    • I used to have fingerprints Saturday was a fun day. At least, it was if you consider that I'm using 'fun' in the most bitterly sarcastic way humanly possible. ➡
    • Americans are never this nice An African Masai tribesman who was visiting New York at the time of the 9/11 attacks went back to his tribe and explained to them what had happened and how it had affected life here in America. The tribe took donations and are donating 14 head of cattle to the United States of America! ➡
    • Kidney Thieves/16 Volt/KMFDM/Pig Well, it took a few days for me to get off my lazy butt and actually put anything up on my page — but the concert I went to on Friday night kicked much ass! ➡
  • 2001
    • DVDs: Closets, aliens, and dinos I was only planning on one purchase for the week, but ended up with three, as I got a $25 gift certificate from Suncoast the other day. The Celluloid Closet, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Allosaurus. ➡
    • Unemployed weekends Well, it's official. As of 5pm today, I am officially unemployed. Now I've got no solid pans for the next two weeks other than getting everything I own sorted, packed, and ready to ship to Seattle. Kinda cool -- kinda scary. I haven't been without a job in about ten years...this is a new thing for me. ➡