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 42 posts previously published on March 13th
- 2024
- Year 50 Day 316 While still not as warm as I’d like, the weather has improved some. ➡
- 2022
- Change is Good Thanks to the latest horrible thing to fall out of Bill Maher's mouth, I've just added a disclaimer to my On This Day page and to the top of every post that is more than two years old noting that the post may not reflect my current beliefs. ➡
- 2020
- Well, it’s official: Norwescon 43 is canceled. This is really disappointing. But we’ll regroup, get re-energized, and be back in 2021. But man. Spending the morning updating the website and sending out all the official notifications was really difficult to do. ➡
- On This Day: Mar 13 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 13 ➡
- 2019
- Torrey’s costumes are often some of my favorites at Norwescon, and it’s nice to see her featured in The Stranger! ➡
- 2018
- 2018 PK Dick Reviews Once again, I’ve read through all of the nominated works for this year’s Philip K. Dick Awards. Made it with two weeks to spare this time. Here are my thoughts on each of the nominated books, in order from my least favorite to my personal favorite and pick for the award. A strong slate this year, there wasn't a single one that I didn't enjoy at least a little bit. ➡
- Book thirteen (and seventh #pkdickaward nominee) of 2018: Revenger, by Alastair Reynolds. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
- 2017
- 2016
- 2014
- My brother Kevin and me at Pike Place Market in 2001. Man, I used to be kinda ripped! ;) #throwbackthursday ➡
- 2009
- Dear Abby and Utilikilts In yesterday's column, Dear Abby passes on lots of words of encouragement from others who've escaped the tyrrany of trousers, and specifically mentions a certain local menswear company. ➡
- 2008
- Headline Humor A wire story in Monday's Seattle PI: Man acquitted of murder in Othello. My first thought: 'Y'know, that's not how _I_ remember that play going....' ➡
- 2004
- Don’t ignore the real world Computers are wonderful things. A computer plus the Internet is even more so, with the ability to connect easily, quickly, and in many different ways with people around the world. But the real world is a very important thing, too — and it scares me when people will abandon their lives for the sake of online interactions. ➡
- Rove in Seattle Jackqueline got a chance to 'infiltrate' a College Republicans event with Karl Rove as the guest speaker last night. Some very interesting tidbits come out of her notes on the evening, not least that Washington is going to be a prime target for the Republicans in the upcoming elections. ➡
- I should probably be worried about this… Considered by most to be depraved and immoral, you are obsessed with sex. What really tantalizes you is that which deviates from societal standards in every way, though you admit that this probably isn't the best and you're not sure what causes this desire. Nonetheless, you've done some pretty nefarious things in your life, and probably gotten caught for them. The names have been changed, but the problems are real. Please stay away from children. ➡
- Nicole’s a popular girl This amused me: according to an Esquire poll, 45% of women would let their partner have sex with Nicole Kidman. I wonder what Nicole thinks of this? ➡
- 2003
- Caucasian Shashlik A collection of Weight Watchers Recipe cards from 1974. I've got tears in my eyes and my cheeks hurt from laughing. ➡
- News, not propaganda The 'net really is changing the way we as Americans see both the world and ourselves, and I'm quite glad to be around for the shift. Maybe, eventually, we'll be able to see ourselves as a global culture — I think things like this are the beginning step. ➡
- I want a Big Wheel! From a Yahoo! Messenger conversation with my friend Laura back up in Alaska… ➡
- No, really, it's not propaganda Whether or not you're old enough to remember seeing them in theaters (I'm not), you may very likely know about the old MovieTone newsreels that used to be shown in theaters before movies. Well, it looks like they're going to be back, in the form of short films created by soldiers currently overseas. ➡
- 150 SETI@home possibilities Of course, one has to wonder how much of a bill 150 intergalactic wrong numbers would be. ➡
- Beastie Boys: In a World Gone Mad The Beastie Boys have released an anti-war protest in the form of a rap track, freely avaible to download from their website, called 'In a World Gone Mad'. Not their best work, admittedly, but interesting nothenless. ➡
- Beginning blogging Eric Barzeski over at NSLog(); has an excellent list of tips for anyone just getting started in the weblogging world. I've discovered all of these at one point or another over the years, but things definitely might have been simpler if I'd had this available back when I started. Of course, back when I started (further back than my archives go, unfortunately), we didn't have things like MovableType to help us out… ➡
- Osama bin Captured? Is it true? Who knows — it could be a leak of real information, or it could just be crazy rumormongering. What I'm pretty damn sure of, though, is that whether or not it's true, there's no way that it would be officially announced until sometime after Bush has sent the first few missile barrages into Iraq. Bush has done too good of a job of moving the blame of 9/11 from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein, and bringing bin Laden back into the spotlight — especially as a captive — would likely do more harm than good to Bush's push for war. ➡
- Tom Tomorrow I've said it before, but it bears repeating: Tom Tomorow really should be on your reading list. He should be on everyone's reading list. I end up wanting to point people over to his site with nearly every post some days. So, failing either that, I'll just point you to his site (again). ➡
- 2002
- More geek humor This Foxtrot strip is hilarious... ➡
- I’m shocked – shocked and appalled! From the 'this is news?' department: Study shows teenage girls sexually harassed on the Internet. ➡
- More fun with Google The articles I linked to about Googlebombing on the 5th have inspired a third followup article worth reading: The Tripping Blog - How Weblogs can turn an idea into an epidemic. ➡
- Ravi who? On the Internet, nobody knows you're Ravi Desai. Or a dog. ➡
- Going, going, gone There's a very interesting article on Slate talking about Arthur Andersen's disappearing act, as the accounting firm enters negotiations investigating being absorbed by other major accounting firms. ➡
- Which flawed election? I don't know what he's talking about, but as I was just delivering something to another floor, Bush was on TV giving a press conference. I walked by just in time to hear him say something along the lines of '...we'll see what we can do about this flawed election.' ➡
- Fun with Π My birthday is within the first 100 million digits of Π. So is my current phone number, sans area code. My social security number isn't, though. Bummer. ➡
- Text Pong Just in case Infocom making Tetris wasn't weird enough, here's one weirder -- text-based Pong! ➡
- Let’s nuke Mecca!?!? Just in case things in the world weren't getting freaky enough, the editor of the National Review is pondering nuking Mecca. There is a column at The American Prospect looking at this from a slightly saner perspective. ➡
- Something for Casey Something for Casey -- how to hack a half-price Apple Airport base station. ➡
- The truth about Asimov Janet Asimov, in a biography of her late husband Isaac Asimov (It's Been A Good Life), has revealed that he actually died of AIDS contracted during bypass surgery, but the doctor at the time advised that the information not be disclosed to the public. Interesting.... ➡
- Sure, we checked their credentials <sarcasm> Why I trust my government to keep me safe: </sarcasm> On Monday, the INSapproved student visas for two of the 9/11 airplane hijackers. ➡
- Those eyes! If you've ever picked up a National Geographic magazine, you probably remember a cover from 1985 of a girl with stunning green eyes, from a story about war in Afghanistan. Somehow National Geographic found her again. ➡
- Our leaders at work Tony Blair and George Bush have received international recognition for their unswerving willingness to use force: a nomination for the 2002 Nobel peace prize. ➡
- 2001
- A steady gig! I just got back from a meeting with the owners of the new Studio 99, and I'm now officially their resident DJ for Friday nights! Now it's just time to get the word out. ➡