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On This Day: Mar 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 17 posts previously published on March 3rd

  • 2024
  • 2021
    • Reading in Pandemicland Science fiction, dystopia’s similar but more optimistic counterpart, is also seeing an increase in popularity during the pandemic. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Chucks of the day (58): black and grey cushioned high tops with rear ankle cut-out. #chucks #converse ➡
    • Book twelve of 2018 (and sixth #pkdickaward nominee): Six Wakes, by Mur Lafferty. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2014
    • I really hope the forecasts are right, because this sure doesn’t look like we’ll be in the mid-50s in just a day or two. ➡
  • 2013
  • 2009
    • Gearing Up First off, thanks for all the commiseration and kind wishes I've received from everyone, whether it be via e-mail, blog/LiveJournal/Facebook comments, or Twitter. E-support is definitely still support, and it's nice to have so much! ➡
  • 2005
    • That’s it?!? John pointed out The Commonly Confused Words Test, so I gave it a shot. My results: Advanced -- You scored 100% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 61% Expert! ➡
    • TechNewsWorld commentary mention Romm pointed out a mention of me in a commentary piece on TechNewsWorld that was published a couple of weeks ago. It's a nice mention, too, as in addition to the standard 'another fired blogger' mention, the author also follows up with my reaction to the incident, and contrasts it to Ellen 'Queen of Sky' Simonetti's Bloggers' Bill of Rights campaign. ➡
    • Another interview I just got done with a lunchtime phone interview with a reporter for the AP. There's no telling where it might show up, but there's at least a chance that my name will start popping up again over the next day or so in the midst of another story about blogging and jobs. ➡
  • 2004
    • Coolio ‘Smokin’ Stix’ (DJ Wüdi Remix) For the past couple days, I've been fiddling around with GarageBand and Amadeus II, first snipping the song into lots of little pieces and attempting to isolate the vocals from the background music, then re-assembling everything with my own choices of drum beats, instruments, and electronic bleeps and bloops. ➡
    • Avi Rubin vs. Diebold Avi Rubin, one of the primary authors of a highly critical look at Diebold's electronic voting machines, decided to answer some of his critics, put his money where his mouth is, and spend a day as an election judge, working with the very machines about which he had expressed strong security concerns. ➡
    • Omoshiroi kedo, kankei ga nai Two Japanese phrases I need to remember (and possibly eventually learn to pronounce...). ➡
    • Training fun I think I can feel my brain dribbling out of my ears. ➡
  • 2003
    • Just Hang Up Hang up when I'm talking to you. Get off your cell phone. In fact, turn off your cell phone. Just turn it off, put it down somewhere out of reach, and pay attention to the conversation that you're already invovled in. ➡
  • 2001
    • DJ’ing tonight! I'm DJ'ing tonight at Studio 99, above Ariel's Hair Salon in the Northway Mall. This is an all-ages dance club -- 16 (?) and up before 1am, 18 and up until 3 am. ➡

On This Day: Mar 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 26 posts previously published on March 2nd

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

On This Day: Mar 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 26 posts previously published on March 1st

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

On This Day: Feb 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.

No posts were previously published on March 1st

On This Day: Feb 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 30 posts previously published on February 28th

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

On This Day: Feb 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 26 posts previously published on February 27th

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

On This Day: Feb 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 26 posts previously published on February 26th

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 300 I had to go out and stand in the snail. ➡
    • These Are Facts 'I want to present a list of items which are very well documented facts, but would’ve been absolutely, patently insane 10 years ago.' ➡
  • 2020
    • RIP Clive Cussler His books weren't exactly great, but I'll admit, they can be fun. And whatever you think of his books, the work he did in the real world is pretty impressive. ➡
    • On This Day: Feb 26 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 26 ➡
  • 2019
    • Unsolicited Mac app recommendation: I don’t have to use the command line very often, but when I do, I really enjoy using Cathode, a vintage terminal emulator. Scan lines! Green/amber (or whatever) screens! Curved CRTs! Fading scroll artifacts! It’s ridiculous and a lot of fun. ➡
    • I’ve been thinking about moving away from WordPress for a while now, and I think I may have found my replacement backend: Grav. I’ve got a base install running. Next: play with settings and design, look for WordPress importers, external editor/microblog support options, etc. ➡
    • Book twenty of 2019: Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1946 Retro Hugo Best Novel (for The Mule, part two of this book) 📚 Very much enjoying finally reading these (and surprised that it seems I never had, or had done so so long ago that I’d forgotten). ➡
  • 2018
    • Linkdump for February 26th from 08:00 to 08:06 An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between 08:00 and 08:06 on February 26th. • The Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery • Gun Rights, ‘Positive Good’ and the Evolution of Mutually Assured Massacre • The AR-15 Is Different: What I Learned Treating Parkland Victims • Inside The Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns • Why the Second Amendment does not stymie gun control • Slavery, the Second Amendment, and the Origins of Public-Carry Jurisprudence ➡
    • Linkdump for January 17th through February 26th An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between January 17th and February 26th. • 4 Laws That Could Stem the Rising Threat of Mass Shootings • How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment • A Gun Ban Is Inevitable. Not just high-capacity assault rifles. ALL the guns. • One Teacher’s Brilliant Strategy to Stop Future School Shootings • How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment • The Problem with Panic ➡
  • 2016
    • 57° at the end of the workday. I was comfortable without my coat! :) (57/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • A somewhat better view of my one (so far) tattoo than in last night’s shot. Got this a few years before I left Alaska, so…oh, at least 15 years ago now. Someday I’ll get another – I know what and where, I just haven’t done it yet. ➡
  • 2009
    • On the Neverending Story Yes, there's a chance that they're taking a film that's loved by many who were kids when it came out and 'updating' it to be bigger, louder, and _stupider_. However, if we're lucky, this could turn out to be one of those cases where they just might improve on the original. ➡
  • 2005
    • …ask what you can do for your country. One night, George W. Bush is tossing restlessly in his White House bed.  He awakens to see George Washington standing by him.  Bush asks him, 'George, what's the best thing I can do to help the country?' ➡
    • My Movable Type tweaks I got an e-mail from a friend who's in the process of switching over to Movable Type, and he asked if I had any recommendations for plugins or tweaks to the core system. Here's a look at what I'm currently using. ➡
    • C-List Blogging According to Dave Pollard's breakdown, I'm a 'C-List Blogger'. ➡
    • Theatre Plans The Seattle Times has announced the 5th Ave. Theatre's 2005-2006 season. Lots of good stuff coming up, including The King and I, but the one that's really catching my eye is Sweeny Todd. ➡
  • 2004
    • Violence is ( bad | good ) ! Group One blames violence in video games and movies for the behavior of today's youth. Group Two buys out entire theaters for church groups, youth groups and families to see Mel Gibson's 'The Passion'. Any bets on just how separate those two groups really are? ➡
    • An insider’s view of MS Word 6.0 Microsoft Word for the Mac versions 4 and 5 were my introductions to Word, and in the opinion of myself and many other people, were the pinnacle of Microsoft's Mac programming. Then came Word 6. ➡
  • 2003
    • By the infinite dick of God I first found this on the 'net ages ago, and used to have a copy somewhere on my hard drive. I'd forgotten about it for a long time, then the phrase "by the infinite dick of God" popped into my head tonight, and I decided to search this out and... ➡
    • We'll bomb who we want! The Propaganda Remix Project has a book of posters being released in March, complete with forward by Kurt Vonnegut, introduction by Howard Zinn, and commentary by the Center for Constitutional Rights. Looks worth picking up — my copy is on order. ➡
    • New WTC plan chosen Well, it looks like the winning plan for the replacement complex for the WTC has been revealed. While it's not the one I favored, maybe it'll translate better into the real world than the pictures of it I've seen so far. ➡
    • This isn't helping A few days ago, Robert Scoble asked what we think Microsoft should do in the future, both with technology and to improve their public persona. I haven't done much for coming up with a list of what they should do, but here's a hint to Micosoft: this is something you really shouldn't do. ➡
    • Caring for your Introvert The worst of it is that extroverts have no idea of the torment they put us through. Sometimes, as we gasp for air amid the fog of their 98-percent-content-free talk, we wonder if extroverts even bother to listen to themselves. We can only dream that someday…it will not be impolite to say "I'm an introvert. You are a wonderful person and I like you. But now please shush." ➡
  • 2002
  • 1995
    • [From Usenet: 2.26.95 0238] Somewhere around a year or more ago, there was an ftp site that had a remix of 'last' by Butch Vig that had been nixed from the 'fixed' ep. As far as I've been able to tell, it's not available anywhere else, and has never been released. ➡

On This Day: Feb 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 37 posts previously published on February 25th

  • 2024
  • 2023
    • Induction Ranges are Magic Cooking with an induction range is really neat, and IKEA gave us really good service. ➡
    • 📚 Ymir by Rich Larson No review, as this book is a Philip K. Dick Award nominee, and I am the coordinator for the award ceremony at Norwescon. While I have no input into the selection of nominees or judging, I want to be sure to avoid any appearance of influence. ➡
  • 2021
    • TT2020: TT2020 is an advanced, open source, hyperrealistic, multilingual typewriter font for a new decade! ➡
  • 2020
    • We know what. But what about how? End the filibuster, flip the Senate: the debate Democrats almost had We’re deep into the primary now. There have been 10 Democratic debates (12 if you count the debates broken into two nights), and even more forums, town halls, and so on. We know, at this point, what the candidates want to do. It’s time ... Read more ➡
    • You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus: Most cases are not life-threatening, which is also what makes the virus a historic challenge to contain.: “Certain containment measures will be appropriate, but widely banning travel, closing down cities, and hoarding resources are not realistic solutions for an outbreak that lasts years.” ➡
    • On This Day: Feb 25 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 25 ➡
    • How to win Monopoly in the shortest possible time: “Refuse to let bank fail. Rushing one million Monopoly dollars to you by airmail – carry on.” ➡
  • 2018
    • Time for the next film in our Hitchcock collection. As with many of these (all of them so far, actually), my first time seeing this one. ➡
    • Book eleven of 2018 (and fifth #pkdickaward nominee): The Wrong Stars, by Tim Pratt. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2017
    • Prairie decided to bring out two settings worth of the antique Noritake china she inherited from her grandparents. It’s actually the first time I’ve seen it; it’s a really pretty set. ➡
    • This makes me laugh every time I see it. Some of you will do the same, others may not understand. But it’s funny to me. ➡
  • 2016
    • Good: One month from today, I’ll be geeking out at #nwc39 with many geeky friends. Bad: The rest of today. At least tomorrow’s Friday. (56/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Done…and got the t-shirt to prove it! ➡
    • All hooked up. Just hope they remember to unhook me in time. ;) “Always give 100%…unless you’re donating blood.” ➡
    • Waiting to give blood. The chairs look…somewhat intimidating. At least there aren’t any straps. :) ➡
  • 2014
    • End of the day, time to get ready for bed. ➡
  • 2009
    • Pixar and Gender Long-time readers will recognize this particular soapbox, but it's good to know I'm not the only one standing on it: Pixar's gender problem. ➡
    • Links for February 24th through February 25th Sometime between February 24th and February 25th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • 'Trek' Cast to Reunite on 'Family Guy' • "Dear President Obama": The President Reads 10 Letters a Day From the Public, With Policy Ramifications • FIRST PHOTOS: Weird Fish With Transparent Head • EMI Music Debuts First iTunes Pass With Depeche Mode • doubleTwist ➡
    • Nacelles Monthly J.J. Abrams: 'The key is to appreciate that there are purists and fans of 'Star Trek' who are going to be very vocal if they see things that aren’t what what they want. But I can’t make this movie for readers of Nacelles Monthly...' ➡
  • 2005
    • Flickr being bought by…everybody? For the past few days, rumors have been flying around that Yahoo is buying Flickr. Whatever the truth of the matter, never let it be said that Flickr isn't handling the rumors with good grace and a sense of humor. ➡
    • Critical Mass While I don't currently own a bike, so I couldn't join in the ride, I did wander down to Westlake Plaza today to catch the gathering of riders for this month's Critical Mass ride. ➡
    • Brad! Janet! Professor Snape! This week, at Frank N. Furter's School of Wizardry and Witchcraft... ➡
    • Etch-A-Sketch Tech Support Thank you for calling Etch-A-Sketch Support! ➡
  • 2004
    • The Passion The more I read about Mel Gibson's 'The Passion', the less interested I am in seeing two hours of one man being brutally tortured to death. ➡
    • Irony, copyright, and site design First, read what this gentleman has to say about the appropriation of content from other weblogs…then, head on over and check out his site design ➡
    • I’ve got a fan! Last week, almost a year since he left his original comment, Deakster came back. I now have 75 bogus trackback pings from Deakster — why, I do believe I'm being harassed, ladies and gentlemen. ➡
    • Biosphere There's an interesting article from the Philadelphia Inquirer looking at the early-90's Biosphere experiment. I remember being fascinated by this at the time it was going on. Apparently the experiment did last the full two years planned, though not without problems. ➡
    • Grey Tuesday followup Downhill Battle has posted a followup to yesterday's 'Grey Tuesday' event. ➡
  • 2002
    • BtSOD (Blue t-Shirt of Death) Once I know I've got the funds settled for both the move and my June trip to Alaska for James and Stacy's wedding, I'm getting at least one of these. Probably one of the BSOD-t's and the Mac Bomb-t. ➡
    • Copy-proof CD’s not so copy-proof? I found a thread on the HTF today (which has since been deleted) -- apparently the new 'copy proof' CD's can be copied with some old software. The copies may actually be better than the original CD's, too! ➡
    • I knew it wouldn’t all be good news Because I'll be starting the connection process over, my website could be down for as much as close to 2 months. Speakeasy asks to allow up to two weeks for the connection to take place (from placing the order to the signal coming up and online), and they can't start the process until after you've had a working phone at the address for a month. ➡
    • Hedwig – first impressions I just got done watching Hedwig and the Angry Inch and...well...to be honest, I'm not really sure right off the bat just what I thought of this film. I'm going to let it percolate in my brain for a bit -- I've got to get to bed right now and post more thoughts on it later. ➡
  • 2001
    • Free DVDs Every year during the holiday season the Suncoast company has a sales competition for its member stores, and this year our store won -- from what I'm told, not a rare thing. ➡
    • Back from UAA, possibly on the radio This Tuesday, I'll be spinning on 88.1 FM KRUA sometime between 7pm and 10pm! Should be fun…looking forward to trying my hand at a radio gig. And, as an added bonus, if anyone feels like it, you can listen in over the web (as long as you have Real Player G2 installed) through KRUA's website! ➡

On This Day: Feb 24

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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 February 24th

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 298 Prepping my music library for DJing the Thursday night dance at Norwescon. ➡
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • 📚 10/2021: Road Out of Winter by Alison Stine ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee 3/6 Another apocalyptic trudge through wastelands (Appalachia during the long winter of an ecological collapse), finding other travelers, & trying to avoid predatory groups. Well written; not my thing. ➡
    • New glasses! Similar to the old pair, just half frames instead of frameless. They’ll do just fine. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • I don’t think I’ve seen any of Billy Porter’s work, don’t really know who he is, but that is one hell of an outfit, and I really like what he has to say about it. ➡
    • Book nineteen of 2019: Foundation, by Isaac Asimov. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚 Though I’m a big fan of Asimov’s short fiction, I don’t think I’d actually read this series, and I’m happy to see that (for the most part) Asimov’s writing doesn’t suffer as much as other works from this era do. ➡
  • 2018
    • Out to enjoy a chilly, drizzly, Seattle winter day at the zoo! ➡
  • 2016
    • Really liking these sunny and 50° afternoons. Spring’s closer! (55/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Without women, the story doesn’t even begin But what the story really says, this story men made up to hold women down, is that women have the power to change the world. Women have the power to throw the world into chaos and they do it because the world as it is isn’t good enough. ➡
    • Yesterday’s calendar page. This is about the only sports poll I could have an opinion on. ➡
  • 2014
    • Playing with filters; I think I made an album cover. ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for February 23rd through February 24th Sometime between February 23rd and February 24th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Safari 4 Hidden Preferences • And the Circle Is Complete • UserFriendly comic plagiarized multiple punchlines from Metafilter comments • Last.fm – the Blog · "Techcrunch Are Full of Shit" • Roger Ebert: The Oscars are Outsourced ➡
  • 2007
    • It’s Academic, Really… The sea squirt has a very simple brain which is used only to find a suitable spot to root itself for life. Once it's settled into a spot, it no longer needs the brain, so it eats it. This has been compared by at least one Researcher to a professor receiving tenure at a university. ➡
  • 2006
    • Schrodinger’s Mac This is the kind of geeky science stuff that I love: quantum computers that give results when they're turned off. ➡
    • Quote of the Day 15,000 atheists in London rioted after a blank sheet of paper was found on a cartoonist's desk. ➡
  • 2005
    • You Ashcroft! Well, it turns out that some airline passengers watching the Oscar-nominated film 'Sideways' on foreign flights are, in fact, hearing 'Ashcroft' as a substitute for a certain seven-letter epithet commonly used to denote a human orifice. ➡
    • Yeah, I’m clueless about these things… Now, in theory, it's supposed to be possible for me to go out onto the 'net somewhere to find digitized copies of tv shows that I could download and then watch on my computer. How in the world would I go about this? ➡
    • Battlestar Galactica Episode 1 This is incredibly cool: The Sci-Fi Channel has posted the first episode of Battlestar Galactica season one on their website, free, uncut, and without commercials. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • Catching up, part four: political bits Yeah, well, I had to jump back into this side of things eventually. On the bright side, much as this stuff might worry and/or scare me, at least I'm paying attention to it now, which I wasn't for far too many years. ➡
    • Catching up, part three Again, in no particular order, bits and pieces from my 'technology' grouping in NetNewsWire… ➡
    • Catching up, part two This time, the focus is on Macintosh goodies. All you PC-using heathens can read on in wistful fantasyland, or just find something else to do — like reinstall Windows again. ;) ➡
    • Playing catchup I'm skimming over a lot of stuff in my newsreader (758 new items after being out of touch for a week!), but in no particular order, here's some of the stuff that caught my eye… ➡
    • Need some free shoes? Enough soggy Nike basketball shoes to outfit every high school team in the state are drifting through the Pacific Ocean toward Alaska after spilling from a container ship off Northern California. ➡
    • He's got a point If anyone in [My Fair Lady] was gay, it had to be Higgins and Pickering -- you're telling me two single men in their late fifties who live together and enjoy speaking properly and dressing Audrey Hepburn in fabulous outfits aren't? ➡
    • Back online We're back! Sorry about the downtime. In the end, I have to admit that it all boils down to one simple thing — money matters aren't my strong point. ➡
  • 2002
    • Infocom presents Tetris You are looking at the shaft. A large red block, four units by one unit, is above your head, dropping slowly. It has its long edge horizontally aligned. ➡
    • A splash of color A bit of visual design tweaking on the website, which, of course, messes something else up. ➡
    • Lots of moves, and Casey turns 30 I don't think I remember quite all of it, but I think it was crumb cake and white cake crumbled into pieces and mixed with pudding, put into a litterbox, with a litter scooper for a cutting/serving tool, and complete with Tootsie Rolls melted and formed into the right shapes to serve as kitty poop! ➡

On This Day: Feb 23

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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 February 23rd

  • 2024
  • 2022
    • Hey, friends? I love you! I hope you are doing well, and for those of you who have the privilege, time, energy, and ability, that you do what you can to give your friends and loved ones the support they need. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • It seems my recent photos may have been overly moody. So here’s a post-workout grin with minimal processing. (54/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • I never left the house today, so I figured I’d see if these guys had any ideas for an interesting photo. ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for February 18th through February 23rd Sometime between February 18th and February 23rd, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Reality TV Helps Break Down Racial Barriers • Can You Really Just Waltz Into SAM, Say You Have No Money to Pay the Suggested Donation, and Be Let In? • Re: The P-I's Online Plan • The Mystery of Ireland's Worst Driver • Wil Wheaton: Spoiler Alert: WATCHMEN is fucking awesome. • Writing Star Trek Novels, Or, Why Don’t You Get a Morally Acceptable Job? ➡
  • 2007
    • The Clothesline Project The Clothesline Project is a program started on Cape Cod, MA, in 1990 to address the issue of violence against women. It is a vehicle for women affected by violence to express their emotions by decorating a shirt. ➡
  • 2006
    • Option 30 I have no idea where this came from or who dug it up, but it gave me a good laugh: Trent Reznor, _long_ before Nine Inch Nails, covering Billy Idol's 'Eyes Without A Face' with Reznor's early-80's band Option 30. ➡
    • Alaskan Barbies A new (to me) variation of an old joke. This particular version will likely only be amusing to those who've lived in Anchorage at some point. Others may find it a handy guide to Anchorage's neighborhoods. ;) ➡
  • 2005
    • Now with Markdown I've just added John Gruber's excellent text-processing plugin Markdown to the site, and enabled it for comments as well as for my own use when writing posts. ➡
    • Hunter S. Thompson Seeing all the many varied reports of Hunter S. Thompson's unfortunate demise reminds me that I've actually never read any of his work. So, then, a question for those more familiar with Thompson's work than I am: any recommendations? ➡
  • 2004
    • Grey Tuesday It's time for music fans to stand up and demand change from the music industry's copyright cartel. Tuesday, February 24 will be a day of coordinated civil disobedience: websites will post Danger Mouse's Grey Album on their site for 24 hours in protest of EMI's attempts to censor this work. ➡
    • Mardi Gras I'll be making one of my few mid-week appearances at the Vogue tonight… ➡
    • Welcome to the neighborhood After watching Phil struggle with his hosting provider for a couple weeks over system resources, he and I got to talking, and in the name of good geek-karma, I offered him a spot on my personal webserver. ➡
    • Introductions Got to introduce Jonas, Jon, and Jeannie to Fetish Night at the Vogue last night. Much fun was had by all, as far as I know, even if Jonas did give me crap for going out to dance to Depeche Mode's 'Strangelove'. ;) ➡