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On This Day: Apr 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 31 posts previously published on April 3rd

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • Book eighteen of 2020: Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sure, the miniaturization process is basically magic, and the only woman in the story is treated abysmally, even for Asimov. But if you can cope with those, the concept and adventure is still a lot of fun. ➡
    • Use Your Phone as a Webcam with EpocCam There's a non-zero probability that I may be using this setup as part of my weekly DJ livestreaming on Twitch on Saturday mornings. ➡
    • On This Day: Apr 3 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from April 3 ➡
  • 2019
  • 2017
    • Book twenty-three of 2017: The Fearful Summons, by Denny Martin Flinn. ⭐️ #startrek #tos ➡
  • 2016
    • From earlier today: Reading and munching on a home made cinnamon butterscotch cookie as big as my head. (94/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • May 1996, so I’d be 23 here, at the Pit (my apartment). The speakers were Casey’s, the rest of the stuff on the shelves (videotapes!) a jumble of all the roommates’ stuff. Sadly, the classic Pearl Jam shirt is long gone. #throwbackthursday ➡
  • 2011
    • My first computer: The Osborne 1 This Sunday marks the 20th anniversary of the introduction of one of the first 'portable' computers, which also happens to be the first home computer that my family had. This was the machine that first got me into much of the geekery I've been into for years. ➡
  • 2009
    • Ritz Cameras Closing 11 Washington Stores My former employer, Ritz Cameras, has just announced that they're closing more than 300 stores across the country. Of those, eleven are based here in Washington. I'd actually heard a little bit about this through a former coworker whose store is one of the eleven, but I had no idea it was going to be this widespread. ➡
  • 2007
    • BlueJ to Xcode translation? Might there be anyone out there with Java development under Xcode experience who has a few minutes to spare helping me figure out how to translate this page into something useable on my computer? I've gotten as far as getting Xcode installed, but...well, after that, I'm kind of stuck. ➡
    • Random Updates Quick updates: Last quarter's grades, spring break in Long Beach, Confessional, Utilikilts, this quarter at school, and Norwescon. ➡
  • 2006
    • 5,000 photos I just realized that I've recently passed the 5,000 photo mark in my Flickr account. If I'd thought about it ahead of time, I would probably have chosen something else for my five thousandth photo. ➡
    • Fresh Hare / All This and Rabbit Stew A couple of nights ago, we popped in a collection of Bugs Bunny cartoons and settled back for a fun evening of cartoon silliness. What we didn't expect to discover was that two of the cartoons on the disc are shorts that have been either edited or outright banned for many years due to racist content. ➡
    • Nullifidian Nullifidian: Of no faith; also, not trusting to faith for salvation; — opposed to solifidian. Feltham. ➡
  • 2005
    • Countdown… ...one month 'till my birthday. May 3rd, I hit 32. ➡
    • Cyperpunk update About a year and a half ago, I put up a post about Billy Idol's Cyberpunk album and included an OS X disc image of the floppy that came with the special edition package. Thanks to Kinko's keeping floppy drives attached to their rental Macs, there's now a new, freshly-created disc image available for download. ➡
    • Slut! Doesn’t sex just kick ass? You love it and your friends love it and your playmates love it. Sex is that overflowing bowl of ice cream you just have to share with the world. Because maybe, just maybe, if we can get more happy good sex out into the world, we can make it a happier place for everyone in it. You know how to communicate about what you want and how to listen to your partner’s desires. You even use your turn signals. You’re just an all around good person. You are one of the beautiful people. ➡
    • Snapshots from an evening A few short scenes from an evening out ➡
  • 2004
    • The chef’s special I know this is juvenile, and I know that it's a real food item…but I really have to think that classy restaurants should avoid naming a $22 dish 'The Captain's Pupu Tower.' ➡
    • Upcoming movies Every so often, Prairie and I will go through Apple's movie trailer page, checking out what's coming up in the next few months and seeing what interests us. Here's today's batch of possibilities (in no particular order)… ➡
    • Symphony #2 for Dot Matrix Printers Each of the printers plays from a different 'part' comprised of rhythms and pitches made up of letters of the alphabet, punctuation marks and other characters. ➡
    • iChat just went bye-bye When I switched iChat into text and names mode, everything in the chat window went blank. I could see what I was typing in the text input field, and hear when messages came through by the 'bloop' sound…but I couldn't see anything! ➡
    • Gmail and Safari So I got curious about Gmail, Google's new e-mail service, and thought I'd stop by to take a look. Somehow, I'm not very impressed so far. ➡
    • Kinja So all the buzz over the past few days (aside from whether or not Google's e-mail service is an April Fool's Joke or not) has been Kinja. Essentially, Kinja is yet another web-based news aggregator, this time with the stated goal of exposing more weblogs to people who aren't already sucked into the weblog world. ➡
    • The Heirophant’s Proselytizer Questionnaire Ellenoir pointed out a fascinating page that I'd not seen before: The Heirophant's Proselytizer Questionnaire, one person's response to being constantly harassed by missionaries of one faith or another trying to 'save' or 'convert' him. ➡
    • T minus one month and counting The first few days in May were usually busy days in my family. My birthday is May 3rd (I'll be 31 this year), my little brother Kevin's is the next day (we're three years and one day apart — he'll be 28), and my best friend from fourth grade on, Royce, has his birthday on the 5th (he'll be 31 also). ➡
  • 2003
    • Memo/Assemblage 23 Got back a bit ago from seeing Memo and Assemblage 23 at The Vogue. Good show, but I'm exhausted. Going to be kind of an early bedtime for me tonight. ➡
  • 2001
    • Renee…yum… It was, however, something of a Renee Zellweger day for me -- picked up two movies with her in it. Not really setting out to do that, just that they both got released today. ➡
  • 1996

On This Day: Apr 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 32 posts previously published on April 2nd

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  • 2024
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • A thought I’ve had on occasion, and has resurfaced thanks to India’s anti-satellite test threatening the ISS: What if the reason we’ve never heard from an alien race is that they all ended up with so much orbital junk that they can’t safely leave their planet anymore? ➡
    • Book twenty-eight of 2019: My Life as a White Trash Zombie, by Diana Rowland. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚 An enjoyable bit of modern zombie fun. Superficial similarities to I, Zombie (recently dead 20-something woman works in a morgue for easy access to brains), but goes its own way. ➡
  • 2017
    • Got another good long (windy) walk in today. Just over four miles this time! ➡
    • Chucks of the day (51/53): specked tan hightops with brown laces. #chucks #converse ➡
    • Linkdump for March 31st through April 2nd An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between March 31st and April 2nd. • Rosie’s Phenomenal Precision Insult Machine! • Joss Whedon's obsession is not feminism • Of dwarves and gender • On Wm. Golding's Lord of the Flies • What's Wrong With Using The Word 'Gypsy?' ➡
  • 2016
    • Book fourteen of 2016: The Liar, by Stephen Fry. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (93/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • I had to. At least once. :) #nwc38 ➡
  • 2014
    • I know what I’m reading next! 638 pages, all covering Season Two of TOS. I’m such a Star Trek nerd. :D ➡
    • Long day today; need to stay on campus for an evening meeting. We’ll get home…eventually…. ➡
  • 2011
    • Ellensburg Update So, the next few months are going to be a mix of some fun part-time work drawing on my geek tendencies and generally relaxing and exploring western Washington, with a jaunt over to Norwescon come Easter weekend. I think it's going to be a good spring and summer. ➡
  • 2009
    • Crazy Like A Fax Back in 1996, this fax came in at the job I was working. We saved it for a month, then were going to throw it away when I decided that it was too gloriously insane to lose. I laminated it for safekeeping, and have had it ever since then. Gotta love the crazy. ➡
    • Links for April 1st through April 2nd Sometime between April 1st and April 2nd, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Easy Auto-Download of TV Programs From Usenet • Check Username Availability at Multiple Social Networking Sites • Family Guy == Unfunny • Where Gadgets Go to Die: Facility Strips, Rips and Recycles • Wrong Tomorrow ➡
  • 2005
    • Spring Forward Don't forget to set your clocks forward an hour before you go to bed tonight, everyone! (And thanks to Prairie for reminding me, otherwise I would have...) ➡
    • The War Prayer O Lord God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with pale forms of their patriotic dead... ➡
    • Bye Pope Pope John Paul II is dead. ➡
    • It’s all in the name… From an IRC conversation in #flickr this morning: how I first caught Prairie's eye, and some very abnormal psychology. ➡
  • 2004
    • PDA stylesheet tester? Is there an online resource that will display a webpage as if it were being viewed on a handheld PDA device? ➡
    • Sick Well, I survived my three days of long hours helping out at one of the other stores in the area. Unfortunately, pushing myself that hard seems to have resulted in my picking up a really nasty little bug. ➡
  • 2003
    • Coalition Members and Human Rights Flipping through these two very sobering documents, I was reminded of the hypocrisy behind members of the coalition that are so blatantly careless in regards to human rights. So, I give you the following — an introduction to the members of Bush's coalition against Iraq, as presented by their records for human rights. ➡
    • 80 days (Where were you, part 2) Time Magazine has a special issue out now where to celebrate their 80th anniversary, they pick eighty days that changed the world — their choice for the 80 most important days of the past 80 years. ➡
    • Coalition member nations? Quick question (though I doubt I'll get a quick answer) — is there a list of which nations are members of the U.S. coalition in the war against Iraq anywhere? ➡
    • Stay out of Photoshop An L.A. Times photographer has just been fired after it was discovered that the photo he submitted and ended up getting placed on the front page had been digitally manipulated. ➡
    • The news in type Here's an interesting ongoing art/design project: The news in type. Each day, the designer is taking one headline and finding a way to render it typographically. ➡
    • Seamless City San Francisco photographer Michael Koller is working on a project he calls Seamless City — a continously stitched together photograph of a thirty mile walk around San Francisco. ➡
  • 2002
    • A little money trickles in Well, I got some good news today. Not a job yet, but at least a little extra funds coming my way. ➡
    • New toy This is too cool. Yesterday evening I was talking with Melvin (my landlord), and he gave me a new toy to play with! ➡
  • 2001
    • Been a busy weekend I'm rapidly discovering just how amazingly long Fridays are going to be for me for the foreseeable future -- in essence, I've got a gauranteed minimum of 22 hours up every Friday. ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 25 posts previously published on April 1st

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  • 2024
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • NIN Strobe Light is Out! Generally, I'm not much for April Fools on the internet, as much of what's out there is dumb, mean, or some combination of both. This one, though, I'm good with. ➡
  • 2018
    • A welcome home Easter drink, dinner, and dessert from Prairie. ➡
    • Sunday at #NWC41: Icky Mouse. ➡
    • Forgot to post last night, but this is my annual Saturday night at #NWC41 shirt. Always good for laughs when wandering the parties! ➡
  • 2017
    • 90 minutes and almost five miles on this morning’s walk (with a quick smooch break midway through). ➡
  • 2016
    • Spring is here, and my version of “casual Fridays” means breaking out the kilt. (92/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Lounging. Like one does at the end of the day, you know. ➡
  • 2009
    • Why I Wish NIN’s ‘Strobe Light’ Was Real As the day wore on, I started thinking about just why this particular joke appealed to me so much, and why -- as horrid as this may seem to some people -- yes, I wish this one wasn't a hoax. If this were a real album, I'd _gladly_ pay good money to pick it up. ➡
  • 2006
    • 2006 Emerald City Comicon I spent a few hours wandering around this years' Emerald City ComiCon today. Most of the pictures I've posted to Flickr are of the costume contest, but there's quite a few from my wanders through the showcase floor as well. ➡
    • Sounds good to me… Vote Adama for President in 2008 ➡
  • 2005
    • Best. April. Fools. Story. EVAR!!!1!!11! With Star Trek: Enterprise hanging by a veritable thread the last two years, a new direction for the show has recently been unveiled that is being hailed both as a triumph of corporate synergy for the Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures, and a way to keep the show on the air. ➡
    • Boring Area Guide Today Boing Boing pointed to the masterfully-done parody of their site, Boring Boring. Reading it in my newsreader, I was treated to the following automatically-generated ad after their post... ➡
    • Congratulations Marc and Laura! Assuming all went as planned, at some point earlier today, my friends Marc and Laura got married. Congratulations, you two! Sorry I can't be there, but my best wishes go out to both of you. ➡
    • Gothic…but not a Goth Ogre's been running a 'Kill Your Idols' week on his journal this week, asking people to take their favorite musician, filmmaker, author, and artist down a few notches. To wrap things up, today's topic was 'your scene', which prompted this brilliant post by chrisbynum that absolutely _nails_ much of why I've never self-identified as 'Goth'. ➡
    • April Fools Day I tried coming up with something amusing to post for April Fools Day, but couldn't come up with anything I really liked. So, failing that, I'll just remind everyone to have fun today, and try not to get too suckered. :) ➡
  • 2003
    • April Fools! Well, yeah, okay, so it's the 2nd now. In lieu of actually posting any sort of joke, a few fun April Fool's links… ➡
    • Bow down before the one you serve Well, I conquered the world tonight. Twice actually. ➡
    • The same way in any country …voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. ➡
  • 2002
    • Bye-bye Andersen Okay. How's this for an 'April Fools' day post -- I got fired. Unfortunately, this isn't a joke. ➡

On This Day: Mar 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 19 posts previously published on March 31st

  • 2024
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Since the next book in my Hugo reading project is an early Heinlein, and I’ve already disliked the last two of his that have come up in this project, it’s time for a fluff break. For which, the irresistible title My Life as a White Trash Zombie should do just fine. ➡
    • Book twenty-seven of 2019: The Forever Machine, by Mark Clifton & Frank Riley ⭐️⭐️ 1955 Hugo Best Novel 📚 Odd mix of early postulation about how AI might affect society and almost new-age “woo” of psychoanalysis rejuvenating the physical body to youth. Not very engaging. ➡
  • 2018
    • My Saturday morning #nwc41 shirt: geektrolling! #starwars #startrek 🖖 ➡
  • 2016
    • Made it through a full day of work, and it’s a very pleasant sunny and 74° afternoon. Improvements are being made. (91/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Feeling better today. Not 100%, but progress has definitely been made. ➡
  • 2009
    • Okay ladies, now do something silly! Unofficial Disney silliness -- the princesses mug for the camera. ➡
    • Links for March 30th through March 31st Sometime between March 30th and March 31st, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo’s New Penguin Exhibit Almost Ready • I Invented … the Apple Logo • Old Moon Images Get Modern Makeover • Marketing Genius, Episode II: The Camblr Strikes Back • Marketing Genius • Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, 2008 the Other Half of Famous Twins ➡
  • 2007
    • Quote of the Day There's a long standing theory that Hollywood action movies deliberately play up US urban gang violence...a part of a propaganda effort to persuade foreigners that America is _not to be [messed] with_. The British equivalent is Faulty Towers and Monty Python, which simply makes people want to stay the hell away in case it's contagious. ➡
  • 2005
    • It’s only domestic violence if you’re straight More news from Ohio regarding their ridiculous approach towards domestic violence. The law is being updated to close the loophole that limits domestic violence charges to married couples, which sounds good -- but all's not well yet. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • Where do we go from here? So pretend you are a presidential candidate. It is November of this year. Iowa is a few short months away and Iraq is the issue dominating the news. You are asked: 'What's your plan for Iraq?' How do you answer? ➡
    • Examining Dean's platform I found a nice point by point examination of Howard Dean's stated platform so far. ➡
    • More music Two more anti-war music links: Zach de la Rocha/DJ Spooky and Meshell Ndegeocello. ➡
    • On your knees, part II Thousands of marines have been given a pamphlet called 'A Christian's Duty,' a mini prayer book which includes a tear-out section to be mailed to the White House pledging the soldier who sends it in has been praying for Bush. ➡
    • Too…many…windows… I've been told I need to stop posting so much information on my site. Not wanting to cause any undue stress to any of my five loyal readers, I should probably resolve that henceforth, I shall no longer blog about anything other than my pets, what I ate for lunch each day, and the annoying things that my co-workers did today. ➡

On This Day: Mar 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 20 posts previously published on March 30th

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  • 2024
  • 2020
    • Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device: Australian Dr Daniel Reardon ended up in hospital after inserting magnets in his nostrils while building a necklace that warns you when you touch your face. ➡
    • Today I learned: In at least one appearance, the NCIS ambulance uses a Starfleet Medical logo (seen on the right rear door panel). Now there’s a crossover I didn’t expect! (Thanks to Ex Astris Scientia for this tidbit! 🖖) ➡
    • On This Day: Mar 30 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 30 ➡
  • 2018
    • My Friday evening shirt for #NWC41! ➡
    • My Friday morning #NWC41 shirt: gothtrolling! #depechemode #joydivision #thecure ➡
    • Forgot to post last night, but this was my Thursday evening shirt for #nwc41 (from @swear_trek)! ➡
  • 2017
    • Linkdump for March 30th from 13:25 to 16:32 An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between 13:25 and 16:32 on March 30th. • The Male Power Fantasy (and why Mad Max and Captain Kirk don't fit) • So many biological genders • Fight Club and toxic masculinity (with a side of Mad Max: Fury Road) • Geisha FAQ • Earth is dangerous • Of privilege and nostalgia • To everyone else in the galaxy, all humans are basically Doc Brown. • Snarky but amusing and thorough Romeo and Juliet analysis • The singular "they" ➡
    • Linkdumps are Back Resurrecting my old occasional digest posts of neat stuff I've seen recently, this time using Pinboard, the Pinner iOS app, and the Postalicious WordPress plugin. ➡
    • Linkdump for March 30th from 11:01 to 11:37 An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between 11:01 and 11:37 on March 30th. • A Tasting Menu of Female Representation • Everything is Chemicals • Humans Are Weird • Old Fandom-New Fandom Dictionary • Dear Fellow Guys....stop hitting on women at work.... ➡
  • 2016
    • Grump! Made it through a half-day of work, then it was back home and into bed. So done with this. (90/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Two days of lying around the house doing nothing. I am determined to be back to normal (or at least what passes as such for me) by tomorrow. ➡
  • 2010
  • 2005
    • Rise of the M-Pire! This is wonderful: An M&Ms tribute to Star Wars, promoting their new dark chocolate line of M&Ms debuting on April 1st. ➡
  • 2004
    • Exploring Hitchcock So far, the Hitchcock biography is fascinating, and I'm only about a third of the way through. I did, however, realize that while I've certainly enjoyed what I've seen of Hitchcock's films, I've actually seen very few: Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds are the only ones! ➡
    • This is boring? I, along with many (most?) people, have a tendency to lament about how boring my life is. After all, my general day-to-day routine is usually just that: routine. I get up, dink around on the 'net, go to work, come home, dink around on the 'net, and go to bed. ➡
    • Sosumi On the bright side, webloggers now have protection against libel suits. On the downside, though, the case that prompted this decision is truly bizarre, and I have to feel sorry for the woman whose case was just overturned by the ruling. ➡
  • 2003
    • US priorities in Iraq Here's a good visualization of just how much help the US is planning on giving the people of Iraq once the war is over. Hint — not much. ➡
  • 2001
    • Neil Gaiman’s ‘Goliath’ Neil Gaiman has in recent years become one of my favorite modern authors. With 'Goliath', he contributes his own take on the Matrix with a short story that I find to be one of the best contributions on the Matrix site. ➡

On This Day: Mar 29

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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 March 29th

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  • 2020
    • Difficult Listening Hour 2020.03.28 Week seven of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around; now on Saturday mornings. ➡
    • 📚 seventeen of 2020: The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A fun, quick read; amusingly thematically appropriate for the moment. Only this has the advantage of being fictional with a satisfactory resolution. If only COVID-19 could be dealt with in five days. ➡
    • On This Day: Mar 29 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 29 ➡
  • 2018
    • Forgot to do a #nwc41 con shirt photo yesterday. Here’s my first Thursday shirt before I nap! ➡
    • Up to 40 ribbons. Now time for lunch and nap! #nwc41 ➡
    • Thursday morning of #NWC41, the con doesn’t officially open for two more hours, 25 ribbons. Good start! ;) ➡
  • 2016
    • So tired of con crud. Made it through the day without a fever, though, so I’ll make a stab at going to work tomorrow. We’ll see how that goes…. (89/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • If I’m going to get sick, at least it happened on a weekend where we had nothing planned. One day of doing nothing down, one to go. Time to NyQuil myself into oblivion for the night. ➡
  • 2009
    • Norwescon Tweetup Barring any unforeseen complications, I'm tentatively choosing 3pm on Saturday afternoon as a good time, the location is still to be determined. ➡
  • 2006
    • pwned My weblog owns 43.75 % of me. Does your weblog own you? ➡
  • 2005
    • Camp Tomato! An afternoon of fun and games beginning at Woodland Park and ending with a concert in Ballard. The day begins with a potluck picnic at 1 pm. Various tomato activities will follow. After a dinner break, Jason will give a concert at the new Paradox Theater. Tomato, tomato, wheee! ➡
    • Search Engine Wars Statcounter has introduced a new section to the statistics they track titled 'Search Engine Wars' -- it's a graph of how much traffic your site gets from each search engine. Out of the last 1,100 hits to my site, here's what it shows me. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
  • 2002
    • Bye-bye ‘Enterprise!’ I've been watching the new Star Trek show, Enterprise, off and on for a while now. I haven't caught every new episode, but those I have, I posted my thoughts on. It doesn't look like I'll be doing this anymore, though. ➡
  • 2001
    • My new job OK, open yer...whatcha-call...hard drive, and find yer, uh...refragulation file...see it? Keep lookin'...not there? Ooooh, you got troubles! OK, try this...hit the 'c' key 187 times as fast as you can! ➡

On This Day: Mar 28

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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 March 28th

  • 2024
  • 2020
    • 📚 sixteen of 2020: This Immortal by Roger Zelazny ⭐️⭐️ 1966 Hugo Best Novel Meh. Maybe it’s a combination of mid-60s SF and the current pandemic stress, and I might have been more receptive at another time, but this was a slog. ➡
    • On This Day: Mar 28 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 28 ➡
  • 2019
    • Another ST:DIS Theory After watching tonight’s episode of Discovery (S02E11), Prairie and I came up with what we think is a very possible theory about where this season might go in the next few episodes, and it's one that impacts a fair amount of the future Trek universe. ➡
    • 🖖 #StarTrekDiscovery S02E11 Another solid episode. Glad they didn’t drag out the Burnham family reunion drama over multiple episodes, but the scenes with Michael and her mom were really good. Spock continues to evolve nicely. And we have theories about ties to future series…. ➡
    • The NRA is a Terrorist Organization As far as I’m concerned, at least (and I’m certainly not the only one). That there are still many people who support this group is positively disgusting. ➡
    • VOTE Everyone: When it's time to vote, GET OUT AND VOTE. ➡
    • A map of the entire internet from May 1973, the month I was born. Originally posted by David Newbury, who found it in old papers acquired from his dad. Kottke points out that those circles and squares “represent individual computers and routers, not universities or cities.” ➡
  • 2018
    • I have arrived at @norwescon #nwc41! Room’s not ready yet, so I’ll see what I can do to start helping set up. Time to get this geek vacation going! ➡
  • 2016
    • Book thirteen of 2016: Tron, by Brian Daley. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • Ugh…brought con crud home this year. Just slept for most of 13 hours, and will probably be right back in bed after having some breakfast. Harrumph. (88/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • I’m healthy the rest of the week. Fridays are burger days! ➡
  • 2010
    • Norwescon, Sakura-Con, and Easter Weekend I keep seeing questions about why Norwescon and Sakura-Con are both scheduled for Easter weekend this year. Here's my attempt at an answer, with the disclaimer that I'm not speaking officially for Norwescon or Sakura-Con. ➡
  • 2009
    • Geek and Other Holidays I've just resurrected an old project, using Wikipedia's list of unofficial observances to create a calendar file (in `.ics` format) suitable for download and direct import or subscription in iCal, Outlook, Google Calendar, or (as far as I know) any other reputable calendar program. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • Funeral Music Prairie just pointed out this list of the top ten favorite funeral songs in Europe... ➡
  • 2004
    • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Quite simply, a must-see, and I'll be very surprised if another film bests it this year. That may sound a little odd at not quite three full months into the year, but yes, the movie was that damn good. ➡
    • QuickSilver A piece of Mac freeware worth touting: Quicksilver. ➡
  • 2003
    • On your knees! Gee, it's a good thing that I live in a country that's filled to the brim with nothing but one hundred percent, across the board, no exceptions, God-fearing Christians. ➡
    • I 'Hart' blogging? Another political contender is dipping is toes into the blogging world — this time it's Gary Hart. ➡
    • More protest music links A couple more protest song links, courtesy of Doc Searls. ➡
    • Bada-bing! Celluloid factory burns down. No film at 11. ➡
  • 2002
    • Another CBDTPA Wired's reporting that in addition to the CBDTPA bill that's going through the Senate, a representative is planning on introducing a similar bill to the House. Double-plus-ungood. ➡
    • Osama’s been bloggin’ Here's a truly bizarre piece of work -- Osama bin Laden's Blog. ➡
    • Virtual LEGOs! Oh, man -- I could get so lost playing with virtual Legos that I'd forget all about work. That'd be a bad thing. ➡
    • Sex is funny So just why is it that so many 'good Christians' can't ever seem to joke around about sex? ➡
    • She’s not one of my favorites anyway More reasons copy-protected audio CD's are a Bad Thing: Celine Dion may be hazardous to your Mac. ➡
    • Going up…way up I am so stoked about the possibilities that could come of this. According to an article on Space.com, within 12 years we could have space elevators stretching 62,000 miles above the earth, capable of hauling payloads to the top every three days. Too freakin' cool. ➡
    • Ebert on copy protection The way to launch a new CD is to get it talked about -- not to insult potential fans by making it unplayable on their equipment even after they buy it legitimately. ➡
    • Eugenics wars I'm trying to figure out what surprises me more -- that someone in the UK is writing an article that appears to be seriously promoting eugenics in the near future, or that in the resulting MeFi discussion nobody thought to mention the Eugenics Wars. ➡
    • When Elephants Dance Michael Fraase's 'When Elephants Dance' is an excellent summation of the current flap over digital rights and the dangers in the entertainment industries current drive to control everything. ➡

On This Day: Mar 27

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 25 posts previously published on March 27th

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2021
    • Birds of Prey: If all of DC’s movies were more like this, I’d have a higher opinion of the franchise. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • The Moment The Matrix Changed Everything: I saw The Matrix in a theater, not the slapdash college presentation from this article, but the audience reactions weren’t all that dissimilar. Seeing that film in the theater early in its run really was a singular experience. ➡
  • 2018
    • Saw this on a whiteboard at work. Made me laugh. Can you interpret it? ➡
  • 2016
    • Sunday morning at #nwc39: time to get packed up and head back home. Another good con, but it’s going to be good to be back in my own bed. (87/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Quality’s not great, but it’s a crop of a scan of a photo taken in 1995. My first DJ gig, at City Lights in Anchorage. This was a top-40/hip-hop club that I talked into doing a weekly “alternative night”. Only ran for a few weeks before it fell apart, but it was enough to kick ... Read more ➡
  • 2008
    • Random Updates It's been a while since I've actually said anything on here, hasn't it? So it goes, sometimes. This past school quarter was a rather unpleasant one, and online babbling became a pretty low priority for me. So, some random updates on the world around me... ➡
  • 2006
    • Saturday Mourning I've mentioned before that The Stranger has been consistently doing the best reporting on the Capitol Hill shooting. They continue with this feature story on the events of the night. ➡
    • Weapons of Mass Destruction NRA members and 'right to bear arms' wingnuts, feel free to brand me as a gun-control nut. I'm fine with that. There is _NO good reason_ why this sort of weaponry needs to be openly available to the general public. ➡
  • 2005
    • Jello Über Alles This week's This American Life had a fascinating look at Michael Guarino, the prosecuting lawyer in the 1986 obscenity trial against Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedys over their Frankenchrist album and the H. R. Giger print included with it. ➡
    • How many times were you a minor? On a lighter note, while this news story isn't really something to laugh at, it has a wonderful example of bad writing that made me laugh... ➡
    • It’s only domestic violence if you’re married Here's a jaw-dropping, 'holy shit' item: in Ohio, beating someone you live with is only domestic violence if you're married, and the justification used for this is Ohio's constitutional ban on same-sex marriages. ➡
    • Marilyn Monroe Up until last week sometime, I'd never actually seen a Marilyn Monroe film. I knew who she was, of course, and had seen the occasional brief clip from one film or another here and there, but I had yet to actually watch any of her work. ➡
    • They used to be funny… When did Steve Martin stop being funny? It had to be sometime after 1991, when he wrote and starred in one of my personal favorite films, L.A. Story. ➡
    • Small Pets Allowed As Prairie and I are planning on getting a place together in a few months, we've started occasionally flipping through 'For Rent' listings to see what's available in our price range around town. Yesterday, one of the listings caught my eye. 'Hey -- 'small pets allowed, up to 20 pounds.' We could get forty hamsters!' ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • It all makes sense now Looks like some previously classified medical X-rays of Pres. Bush have been leaked. Somehow, the results aren't very surprising. ➡
    • Cpt. Obvious Getting shot at wasn't really that bad. It was the getting shot part that sucked. ➡
    • Unedited video from Basra Noted independent journalist Robert Fisk got to see some unedited videotape shot by Al-Djazaira of Basra, which is supposedly captured and held by British forces. ➡
    • Dean at Harvard Presidential candidate Howard Dean gave a talk at Harvard last night. He asked an interesting question. Next year, how will we feel when China invades Taiwan because they think they have weapons of mass destruction? Has the new Bush Doctrine, pre-emptive wars, unleashed a philosophy of world power that we may not be so comfortable with? ➡
    • Chad kicks much ass April 15th at the Catwalk Club: Pigface and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult (along with two bands I've not heard of, Zeromancer and Bile)! ➡
  • 2002
    • This CBDPTA bill is scary Just in case folks haven't figured out how sweeping the Hollings-Feinstein bill, aka CBDTPA is, well, keep reading. ➡
  • 2001
    • So, I’m curious… What's up with all these DJ-friendly themed songs hitting the radio lately? By 'DJ-friendly' I don't mean they've all got 32-beat drum-based intros, or anything like that, just that they're all thematically very similar. ➡

On This Day: Mar 26

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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 March 26th

  • 2025
    • Polostan by Neal Stephenson 📚 18/2025: Basically all setup, but it’s Stephenson’s usual captivating and engrossing setup with his usual digressions and fascinations. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • WA Virus Update None of this means we're out of the woods yet. But they're all good signs that we're doing the right things, however frustrating they may be. ➡
    • Got out of the habit of my weekly Star Trek: Picard mini-reviews, thanks to the coronavirus stress, but just watched the final episode of the season, and I’m satisfied. Quibbles here and there, sure, but overall, a very good first season, and I’m looking forward to more. 🖖 ➡
    • On This Day: Mar 26 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 26 ➡
  • 2017
    • Book twenty-two of 2017: Evolution’s Shore, by Ian McDonald. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • My #nwc39 Saturday morning shirt: Icky Mouse! ➡
  • 2014
    • All pensive and moody, apparently. ➡
  • 2006
    • Close to Home So...yeah. It appears that the Capitol Hill shooter was a neighbor of mine. The next building over, and I don't recognize him from the picture in the Times article, but still one of my neighbors. ➡
    • Capitol Hill Tragedy So sad and terrifying. ➡
  • 2004
    • I Love Cats I love cats. I love to pet their fur. I love to scratch their neck and chins and listen to them purr. ➡
    • New I, Robot trailer out There's a new trailer for the movie I, Robot, based on Isaac Asimov's writing. I've been looking forward to this for a while, but, as with all movie properties based on works that I'm a fan of, there was some definite trepidation. ➡
  • 2003
    • 'an historic' vs. 'a historic' Ever been unsure about the distinction between 'an historic' and 'a historic'? The question came up in a thread here recently and I did some investigating. ➡
    • The truth? We can't handle the truth! On February 14, a Florida Appeals court ruled there is absolutely nothing illegal about lying, concealing or distorting information by a major press organization. The ruling basically declares it is technically not against any law, rule, or regulation to deliberately lie or distort the news on a television broadcast. ➡
    • Because it's IMPORTANT CNN goes to font size 72 ➡
    • Al-Qaeda type? Gary Trudeau has been doing this for years and he can still make me laugh with his take on situations. ➡
  • 2002
  • 2001
    • Relaxation, upgrades – and furrets! I ended up spending most of the weekend working with my computers. I've been running this webserver off the Public Beta of Mac OS X since the beta was released, and Saturday was (finally) the official release date of the full retail version of OS X. ➡
  • 1995
    • [From Usenet: 3.26.95 1508] I'd suggest seeing if you have Eudora running when your computer tries to connect. Eudora can be set to check the mail at intervals, at which time it checks MacTCP to see if a connection is up. ➡

On This Day: Mar 25

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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 March 25th

  • 2024
  • 2021
    • 📚 15/2021: Quiet Pine Trees by T.R. Darling ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Over five hundred microfiction sci-fi/fantasy/horror/weird stories. Funny, creepy, thoughtful, occasionally demanding that you put it down and let them sit in your brain for a bit before the next one. Wonderful. ➡
  • 2020
    • Masked Memoji Me It's silly but serious, and was a pleasant distraction for ten minutes or so earlier today. ➡
    • On This Day: Mar 25 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 25 ➡
  • 2016
    • Friday morning at #nwc39, and I’m starting the day with my gothtrolling shirt. ;) Here we go! (85/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Geekdom ZOMG YOU LOVE WHAT I LOVE COME WITH ME AND LET US LOVE IT TOGETHER. ➡
  • 2014
    • I hear boys with large bananas are popular. Does this work? Or did I misunderstand something? ➡
  • 2006
    • Kleptones: 24hours For those interested in mashups: The Kleptones have just released their fourth full-length album, the _two-disc_ set 24hours. ➡
    • No Sakuracon for Me I'd mentioned before that I was planning on heading downtown today to wander around Sakuracon and get some shots of the various cosplay kids. As it turns out, I'd actually forgotten to ask for today off from work...so that won't be happening. Oops. ➡
  • 2004
    • Time for a little blatant self-promotion A few times in the past, I've come up with ideas that amuse me, and I've put a couple of them onto t-shirts (and other gear) through CafePress. Unfortunately, they only got a few days of exposure after they went up, as their announcement posts scrolled off the main page of my site and into my archives. ➡
    • The Need for Speed As fun as high speed can be, it's often no real contest against someone who knows how to drive and how to handle their car in various road conditions. (This was inspired by The wrath of the Evil Elle~Noir.) ➡
    • Mac OS X turns three Ars Technica has a nice rundown of the first three years of Mac OS X. I've been an OS X user for all three (plus the Public Beta period beforehand) — how time flies when you're having fun! ➡
    • Presidential compassion Y'know, if I were part of one of the hundreds of families who have lost a member to the war in Iraq, I wouldn't be very amused at all about Bush turning it into a joke… ➡
  • 2003
    • No substitute Well, here's something that shouldn't be a surprise to anyone with a modicum of intelligence — spell- and grammar-checking software doesn't always help, and can often hinder good writing. ➡
    • A brit's view of Seattle There's a very interesting article in this week's Seattle Weekly from Jonathan Raban, a british author who's been living in Seattle since 1990. In a letter back to Britain that was originally published in The Guardian, he does a really good job of outlining where Seattle sits politically and economically, especially in contrast to how the U.S. in general is presented to the world. Then, towards the end, he mentions a certain up and coming political candidate that is rapidly gaining notice, and suggests that this might be the man to watch in the upcoming months… ➡
    • More rumblings from Korea We really shouldn't forget that in the midst of bombing Iraq back to the stone age, we've also got a fairly dicey situation over in Korea at the moment. A situation that looks to be getting worse, too, since Korea just cut off contact with the U.N. due to U.S. arrogance. ➡
    • Take Back America I found this article today thanks to Dori Smith. I think it's one of those articles that really should be read by anyone concerned about the political state of our nation today, and since the author has been kind enough to grant reproduction rights, I'm reprinting it here. ➡
  • 2002
    • I’m all moved in This weekend kicked much butt. Rick came over both Saturday and Sunday to lend a hand, Candice let us use her truck, and between the two of us, we managed to get me completely moved this weekend. ➡