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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. Here are my past posts for January 15…

There are 27 posts previously published on January 15th

• 2024
  • 🎥 My Fair Lady Henry Higgins is _such_ an ass, Eliza Doolittle is a joy, and the movie, as it always has been, is delightful. ➡
  • Year 50 Day 258 A friend gifted me an LED decorative schematic of the USS Enterprise. ➡
• 2023
  • 📚 Line of Fire by Peter David The weirdest part is that the primary Starfleet Academy instructor is a Professor Trump. ➡
• 2020
  • 📚 five of 2020: Return of the Jedi, by James Kahn ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A much better adaptation than Empire was. Most interesting moment: Wicket’s long speech convincing the Ewok leaders to assist the Rebels in their attack on the bunker. Those teddy bears are pretty eloquent! ➡
  • Here’s lookin’ at you, kid. ➡
  • 2020 Pre-Primary Candidate Rankings Ranked on a 'would I vote for them if they were the nominee?' scale, they'd _all_ be in the number one spot. ➡
  • On This Day: Jan 15 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 15 ➡
• 2018
  • An Open Letter: I’m a Liberal An open letter to those who don't know me yet, or have just met me recently enough that my not-at-all-closeted political leanings have not yet become blindingly obvious: I'm a liberal, and a pretty far left-leaning liberal that that. ➡
• 2017
  • Book six of 2017: March, Book 2, by John Lewis. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • Book five of 2017: March, Book 1, by John Lewis. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • Had to go back to the store anyway, so we tried again, and went 7/7, no dupes, and got Harley… so we’re calling this set of #Lego #batman minifigs done enough for us. ➡
  • Made our first run at #Lego #Batman minifig blind bags, and scored 8/10 (2 duplicates). Still hoping to find Harley, but don’t want too many more doubles, so we’ll see how it goes. ➡
• 2016
  • 5pm on Friday before a 3-day weekend. Doc Ock and Spider-Man say it’s time to go home. Sounds good to me! (15/366) ➡
  • This…phone…was found in my building with this note and turned in to me. I think someone is confused. #notaphone ➡
• 2015
  • It started snowing, so I took a short break for a quick walk outside. :) ➡
• 2014
  • The day is done! And that bright spot on the horizon isn’t a streetlight, but a big gorgeous winter moon. Nice evening! ➡
• 2009
  • Star Wars…? This has been everywhere across the 'net for the past day, so you've probably seen it...however, if you haven't, now's your chance. The Star Wars trilogy, as told by someone who hasn't _actually_ seen the movies. ➡
  • Links for January 14th through January 15th Sometime between January 14th and January 15th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • The Year in Pictures: Mystery Solved! • Klingon Language Keyboard • Am I on MySpace.com? • Mark your calendars: January 27th is Rabbit Hole Day • Twitter Author List! ➡
• 2007
  • Resurrected With some extra money I earned over Christmas season I was able to pick up Disk Warrior 4 and throw it at the drive. It had to run overnight, and wasn't able to repair the issues, but it _was_ able to temporarily mount the drive and allow access to most of the filesystem. ➡
• 2004
  • A little shakey Either we just had a small earthquake, or they're making NyQuil a lot stronger than they used to. ➡
  • Let’s kill him At the MoveOn.org awards presentation [for Bush in 30 Seconds], Al Franken made the sign-language interpreter crack up by saying solemnly, 'I heard Al Franken make fun of deaf people backstage. Let's kill him.' ➡
  • Carol Moseley Braun…sci-fi geek! The mundane buzz today about Carol Moseley Braun will be her dropping her own presidential campaign and supporting Dean. But the real news happened last night on her appearance on The Daily Show. Turns out that Carol's a total science fiction geek. ➡
  • Dean’s honesty You don't allocate civil rights by who makes you comfortable and who doesn't. I believe that civil unions was a masterful way of making sure that every gay and lesbian Vermonter was entitled to the same rights as everybody else -- without getting into the business about telling churches who they could marry and who they couldn't marry. I think what we did was the right thing. ➡
• 2003
  • More on Eldred vs. Ashcroft Lots of good links to excellent commentary on the Eldred vs. Ashcroft decision on Copyfight: The politics of IP. ➡
  • R.I.P. Public Domain Copyright was originally intended to give an author/creator a specific, finite amount of time to reap profits and rewards from a created work before it was released into the public domain. Originally set to 14 years, the active term has been extended bit by bit over the years. The primary mover behind the extension of copyright terms in recent years, including this most recent extention, has been Disney. Every time Mickey Mouse was in danger of entering the public domain, Disney challenged the copyright laws, and got the terms extended, allowing them to retain control over Mickey. ➡
• 2002
  • Tron END OF LINE ➡
• 2001
  • Antitrust (Hackers 2000) I went out to see Hackers 2000...er...sorry, make that Antitrust tonight. Not a bad little flick...nothing that's really going to tax your brain, but an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours. ➡

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. Here are my past posts for January 14…

There are 32 posts previously published on January 14th

• 2024
  • Year 50 Day 257 High on my list of reasons I don't like winter is how badly the cold and dry air wreaks havoc on my skin. ➡
  • 📚 Where Rivers Go to Die by Dilman Dila The second of this year’s Philip K. Dick Award nominees. ➡
• 2023
  • 📚 The Children of Kings by David Stern A somewhat out-of-left-field twist at the end that seemed a little too convenient for my tastes. ➡
  • 🎥 Mrs Harris Goes to Paris Delightful, funny, and sweet. ➡
• 2021
  • 📚 2/2021: The Dark Veil by James Swallow ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek A year after the attack on Mars and Picard’s retirement, Riker and the Titan (including Troi and Thad, their first child) face off with Romulans while assisting a mysterious alien ship. More good backstory building. ➡
• 2020
  • On This Day: Jan 14 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 14 ➡
• 2019
  • The 2019 P. K. Dick Award Nominees have been announced! I’ll be reading all six books before the awards ceremony at Norwescon 42 — can you do the same? Join the Reading Challenge in the Norwescon Goodreads Group and read along with the rest of us! 📚 ➡
• 2017
  • Third straight day of below zero temps in the morning. At least today we have things arranged such that we don’t have to leave the house! ➡
• 2016
  • Heading out on today’s #mlk #peacemarch. @cwupride ➡
  • Students and faculty gathering for a #mlk #peacemarch this afternoon. #CWUpride ➡
  • It’s this year’s #PKDickAward nominees! I have until March 25th (Friday at #nwc39) to get these read…and the first trend I’m noticing is that there are no small books this year! (Okay, Nexus and Crux aren’t nominees, but Apex is, and it’s the third book in that trilogy, so need to read the other two ... Read more ➡
• 2015
  • Anonymous Astronauts It’s a stunning achievement, and it’s completely ignored. ➡
• 2014
  • Mid-January, and it’s sunny and 51 degrees outside. Not complaining (and not as grumpy as I look in this shot), but it is odd. ➡
  • All but one of my P. K. Dick novels arrived today (one’s on back order). Yay MOAR BOOKS! Now, which to read first…? ➡
• 2010
  • I’m a Winner! A few weeks ago, I stumbled across the Forgotten Bookmarks weblog, and started following his (?) Twitter account as well. Every so often he runs a simple giveaway contest, and it seems that today, my number came out of the magic hat! ➡
• 2009
  • Clumsy Headlines Seattle Police Reportedly Kill Man With Knife -- as written, grammatically, that tells me that the police stabbed a man to death. But that can't be right, can it? ➡
  • Links for January 12th through January 14th Sometime between January 12th and January 14th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown • Found Footage: Good grief, NCIS, do you take us for fools? • Runnin' With The Songsmith • “The Recently Deflowered Girl” (1965) – Illustrated by Edward Gorey • Hardware that supports iPhoto '09's geotagging - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) • Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard ➡
• 2007
  • A Touch of Personality A little silly customization of my camera. ➡
• 2006
  • Stop me if you’ve heard this one… ...here it is: The Best. Blonde Joke. Ever. ➡
  • Drip Drip Drip Goes the Water 26 days of rain, and a state of emergency has been declared. Can't say I'm surprised, really. I think it was my next-door neighbor starting to build an ark that tipped me off. ➡
• 2005
  • Gallimaufry 4 Same deal: ten songs at random… ➡
  • Homeless Vet My mind misinterpreted a sign I saw while walking back to work from lunch, and I ended up spending the next few moments contemplating a world with destitute veterinatarians on the street corners, holding up their handmade cardboard signs as people walked by, begging for 'Spare Change or Sick Puppies?' ➡
• 2004
  • Green oblivion awaits Woke up this morning with a head cold, and it's just gotten worse as the day's gone by. I've been drinking OJ like it was water all day, and just popped two NyQuil tablets, so hopefully I'll be feeling a little more human by tomorrow. ➡
  • Wall St. Journal mocks Rachel Corrie’s death Right-wing weblog Little Green Footballs has awarded Rachel Corrie their 'idiotarian of the year' award, and the Wall Street Journal has seen fit to include this in a 'Best of the Web' roundup. ➡
  • uhrgh My node id stubbed up, my head hurds, my throad id raw…today's gonna suck. ➡
• 2003
  • Yahoo's getting pushy again Yahoo is now using something called 'Web Beacons' to track Yahoo Group users around the net and see what you're doing — similar to cookies. Take a look at their updated privacy statement. ➡
  • Switch to MySQL After struggling with things for a few hours tonight, I've managed to succesfully convert the database backend for MovableType to MySQL. ➡
• 2002
  • Ruminations on Star Wars It's funny, I just watched the whole trilogy last night for the first time in ages. People complained about EP1 being too cartoony and kid friendly. Have you ever watched these movies? Except for Empire, they're as kid-friendly as anything Nickelodeon puts out. Jar-Jar would have fit right in. ➡
  • Quotebook updates I believe Royce may end up with more links to his site from mine alone than from the rest of the 'net in totality. Never let it be said I never do a friend a favor -- no matter how completely goofball it may be. ➡
  • Kate and Leopold End result from both of us -- cute flick. Probably a matinee or renter rather than an evening show, but definitely fun to watch. ➡
• 2001
  • Wanna download a 70 MB .mp3 file? Well, I'd tried posting my .mp3 files to Napster, but was getting reports from a couple people that they couldn't find me online. So, I just added download links for each of my mixsessions to my dj'ing propaganda page -- feel free to check them out! ➡
• 1994
  • [From Usenet: 1.14.94 0535] Is the 'Burn Like Brilliant Trash' single easy to come by? Doubtful...since it's now out of print. ➡

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. Here are my past posts for January 13…

There are 33 posts previously published on January 13th

• 2024
  • 📚 Wild Spaces by S.L. Coney The first of this year's Philip K. Dick Award nominees. ➡
  • Year 50 Day 256 Today was our coldest Norwescon ConCom staff meeting yet! ➡
• 2022
  • 📚 A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab A recommendation from my 10-year-old niece, this was a fun fantasy adventure through multiple magical Londons. ➡
• 2021
  • Impeached (Again) CNN: House impeaches Trump for role in deadly Capitol riot ➡
• 2020
  • This year’s nominees for the Philip K. Dick Award have been announced! As I do every year, I’ll be reading these before attending the award ceremony on Friday night at Norwescon 43. All these authors are new to me; looking forward to another good slate! 📚 ➡
  • 📚 four of 2020: The Empire Strikes Back, by Donald F. Glut ⭐️⭐️ A clumsy and unimaginative adaptation. Most interesting for the handwritten notes contributed by a former owner of this copy, correcting all the Han/Leia romance to be screen-accurate. ➡
  • In Roald Dahl’s Car: “‘[My stories] can be pretty horrible. They don’t always end well; there’s often a twist in the tail. Actually, I think I’m writing funny stories, because they can be very comical. There’s such a narrow line between the macabre and laughter.’ I could sense him smiling as he said it.” ➡
  • On This Day: Jan 13 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 13 ➡
• 2017
  • Cold snap update: officially -7°, but reading -13° at our house. 😳 Just…no. Ugh. ➡
• 2016
  • The diploma is here! It was official before, but it feels official now. #CWUpride (13/366) ➡
• 2015
  • This year’s crop of Philip K. Dick nominees are here! Guessing I’ll be too busy with schoolwork to have them read by @norwescon #nwc38, but I’ll see how many I can get through! ➡
• 2014
  • Chatting about our days while Prairie makes cornbread to go with our chili dinner. She says that this is my “Yes, dear, I’m listening” face. ➡
• 2008
  • Sci-Fi Sounds This was an entertaining little quiz -- identifying classic sci-fi from short sound clips. Most were pretty obvious to me, but not all of 'em. ➡
• 2007
  • This isn’t right… Admittedly, things are looking up when you glance through the forecast through the next week. Still, there's just something _wrong_ about Seattle and Anchorage both getting snow...and Seattle being _colder_ than Anchorage. ➡
• 2006
  • iPhoto 6.0: Flickr Photocasts 'What would happen,' I wondered, 'if you tried to subscribe to a Flickr RSS feed as if it were a Photocast?' ➡
  • iLife ’06: First Impressions My iLife '06 package showed up today. I can't stay up incredibly late to play, so this is just going to be a cursory overview to begin with, but it's a start. ➡
• 2005
  • Maikeru This is what the name 'Michael' looks like in Japanese. It is pronounced 'MAIKERU'. ➡
• 2004
  • Kodak cameras no more How very interesting — Kodak, a company who's name has been synonymous with photography my entire life, will stop selling traditional film cameras in America and Western Europe. ➡
  • IMDB top 250 The Internet Movie Database top 250 films, as voted by IMDB members. Movies I've seen are in bold — exactly half, as it turns out. ➡
  • ‘cuddling’ I've been reading Something Positive for a while now, since Royce showed it to me, but yesterday's strip has two of the best quotes I've seen from it yet. ➡
  • Electronic Grassroots Much has been made over the past few months of how political campaigns are more and more turning to electronic means of communication and organization to connect and interact with voters, usually pointing to the Howard Dean campaign as the leader and trendsetter for this new approach to politicking. But how did Dean's online juggernaut get kicked into high gear? ➡
  • Changing my habits So, starting tonight, I'm going to try to vary my reading habits a bit to see what that does. I've deleted all the groups I was using before, and instead have all the feeds listed in more-or-less alphabetical order, top to bottom in a single group, ordered by date posted. ➡
  • Army War College blasts ‘War on Terror’ A scathing new report published by the Army War College broadly criticizes the Bush administration's handling of the war on terrorism, accusing it of taking a detour into an 'unnecessary' war in Iraq and pursuing an 'unrealistic' quest against terrorism that may lead to U.S. wars with states that pose no serious threat. ➡
  • Hey! Remember, we pay the salaries of the teachers and staff. We buy the computers. We pay for the buildings in which they are used. As long as public school is public, the Beverly Sweeneys of the world need to know that it is our right and duty to look over their shoulders and question what they do. ➡
  • Kevin and Emily, sitting in a tree… Of course, given that the wedding was announced after the baby was announced, and the ceremony is going to be in Tennessee…well, one has to wonder whether I'll come back with wedding pictures featuring a shotgun-wielding father in the background…;) ➡
• 2003
  • Happy Places My Happy Place was an animated movie. Script by William S. Burroughs. Score by trent reznor. Animation and art direction by H. R. Giger. Directed by Terry Gilliam and/or David Fincher and/or Darren Aronofsky and/or David Cronenberg (either joinly, or each taking a different section of the film, or possibly a series of films…whatever). ➡
  • BlogFodder Here's an interesting idea — BlogFodder, a daily e-mail with a short snippet of text intended to (hopefully) inspire musings, thoughts, and possibly future weblog posts. ➡
  • Ten-minute Two Towers GOLLUM: Mordor? Hobbitses having little Goth phase, maybe? Very angsssty, wanting to go to Mordor, yes yes. Can Smeagol offer black eyeliner to angsssty hobbitses? ➡
  • Installing MT on OS X While searching around for pointers on getting MovableType moved over to a MySQL backend rather than the DBD backend I'm currently using, I ran across a few good general resources for OS X MovableType installations. ➡
• 2002
  • AARRGGHH!! I had some problems with my webserver earlier this weekend, which necessitated having to reinstall the system. When I copied the essential files for my website off the box, I forgot one crucial little directory -- and managed to completely bork up my blog software. Dammit. ➡
• 2001
  • Mom?!?! Just picked up one new DVD to add to the collection today -- George Lucas in Love. If you've never seen the film, it's well worth it...it's a 9-minute long short film exploring the truth behind the story of Star Wars. ➡
  • Bowling Got picked up by my friend Airy, and we went out to La Mex for dinner and then headed out to Jewel Lake Bowl to meet Bill and Rich for midnight Neon Bowling. I got a 148 my first game, and went steadily downhill from there. ➡
  • Up and running Okay, I just got things up and running again. As of right now, everything on my site should be working correctly -- now off to bed, I've got to get some sleep tonight! ➡

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. Here are my past posts for January 12…

There are 30 posts previously published on January 12th

• 2024
  • Year 50 Day 255 It's currently just 18° F outside, which is not nearly enough degrees. ➡
• 2023
  • 📚 Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson You should read this. Memoir, societal and media criticism, and a lot of often-footnoted humor in this examination of persistent and pervasive ableism. ➡
• 2021
  • Do ‘elder Goths’ hold the secret to aging successfully? We bathe in the blood of virgins (consensually donated, of course…this _is_ the 21st century, after all). ➡
  • On the Singular They Whoever wrote this article definitely doesn't have my circle of online friends. ➡
• 2020
  • 📚 three of 2020: Dune, by Frank Herbert ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1966 Hugo Best Novel This one (mostly) holds up well; still an excellent book, with its mix of SF adventure, ecological messages, political maneuvering, and religious themes. Well worth the re-read after many years. ➡
  • On This Day: Jan 12 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 12 ➡
• 2019
  • Full Bookshelves Are Not Untidy Ms. Kondo may well be good at organizing and helping people find ways to de-clutter and tidy their lives. But she can keep her sparkling woo away from my bookshelves. ➡
• 2017
  • It’s -3° officially, -8° at our house this morning. This is not acceptable. ➡
• 2016
  • Book two of 2016: Vol. 1 of Clive Barker’s Books of Blood. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (12/366) #clivebarker ➡
• 2014
  • Almost forgot my picture for today! Just a little reading before I get to sleep. Gotta finish this one before I can start this year’s P. K. Dick nominees. ➡
• 2010
  • Links for January 11th through January 12th Sometime between January 11th and January 12th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Tobey Maguire, Sam Raimi Out of 'Spider-Man' • The C Programming Language: 4.10 Recursion (Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie & HP Lovecraft) • The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage • Avatar Hit by Claims of Racism • The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse ➡
• 2009
  • Links for January 12th from 10:14 to 15:44 Sometime between 10:14 and 15:44, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The Elements of Spam. • Stephen King fan publishes Shining's Jack Torrance's novel • W. and the damage done • Milky Way Transit Authority • How big Jurassic flying reptiles got off ground ➡
  • Old Fishing Hole Triptych The Old Fishing Hole in Kent, WA, in summer, winter, and flood. ➡
• 2008
  • How Many Have Died in a Blogging Accident? As of a few days ago...two. As of this moment...8,260. Geeks are fun! ➡
• 2005
  • BBC Interview on Blogging British blogger Tom Reynolds was recently interviewed by the BBC about his weblog. The interview is definitely worth a listen — they cover quite a few points, including some of the same topics regarding bloggers rights that I addressed recently. ➡
  • Moving to del.icio.us The old linklog has been removed from my sidebar, and has been replaced with a list of the most recent fifteen items added to my del.icio.us page. There's an RSS feed available too, though once I iron out some issues with FeedBurner, lniks will be spliced directly into my main RSS feeds. ➡
  • Search for WMDs Ends It's official: after two years, the search for WMDs in Iraq has been called to a halt. ➡
• 2004
  • Why I’ve missed IRC during the clinton administration, blowjobs were FREE ➡
  • Bandwidth Confidential to T-Mobile: NASA is downloading 36 MB TIFFs from Mars and I only get 2 bars of signal on my cell phone inside my house. Please look into upgrading. ➡
  • Who’s the pervert? ;) If it weren't for Anil so kindly keeping track of things like this, I'd never know just when the twins were due to turn 18. ➡
  • Apple gaining ground in enterprise markets It's so nice to live in a time when every news article about Apple doesn't involve some form of doom and gloom predictions. Not only have the 'Apple is doomed' proclamations died down, things just keep getting better — even in markets historically far outside of Apple's domain. ➡
  • Apple Computers? Pshaw…try Potato Processing! German police are investigating after an angry man returned a computer he had just bought saying it was packed with small potatoes instead of computer parts. ➡
  • Restaurant vs. Bar If you need reservations, it’s a restaurant. If you have reservations about admitting where you were till 2 a.m., it’s a bar. ➡
  • All I want to do is go back to bed. I'll likely not entirely cease hitting the Vogue on Saturday nights, as there are definitely times I like the busier, bustling atmosphere of a weekend night, and the slightly "pop"-ier music gets some songs in that I like dancing to that are less likey to show up on a Sunday night. However, if I had to choose just one night to hit the club on any given week, Sundays would definitely be my choice. ➡
• 2003
  • Comment preview upgrade A couple days ago, Phillip found my 'Live Comment Preview' and incorporated it into his blog. However, not satisfied with what I had, he improved the code so that it recognizes and inserts linebreaks correctly! ➡
  • GeoURL I've just signed on with GeoURL, a web service that ties a weblog to a location, so that you can find out who your blogging neighbors are in a true geographic sense. ➡
  • Pick-up lines Do you come here often? Or do you wait until you go home? ➡
  • Rollins! It's like the idea of us getting into a war with North Korea. I can't see it happening, but the way for me to internalize it is to envision these old guys running around the war room with hard-ons, looking for some payback for when they had to bail out of Pusan in the '50s. Or Donald Rumsfeld's thing: 'Yeah, we can handle two wars! Absolutely two wars! How 'bout fuckin' three? Come on, you motherfuckers, we'll start two half-wars over at your house, and we'll have another one on the White House lawn right now, bitch!' ➡
• 2002
  • Lord of the OS One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them, One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. ➡
• 2001
  • Downtime Sorry about the recent downtime (the last couple days or so) -- something went seriously glitchy on the machine, and I had to do a system repair on OS X, which nuked the web directory. ➡

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. Here are my past posts for January 11…

There are 23 posts previously published on January 11th

• 2024
  • Year 50 Day 254 Less of a Snowpocalypse, more of a Snowpoca-whoops. ➡
  • 📚 Child of Two Worlds by Greg Cox Good insight into Spock that meshes imperfectly, but surprisingly well with the current Strange New Worlds take on his journey. ➡
• 2020
  • Prepping For ‘Star Trek: Picard’ – A Procrastinators’ Guide: “To help you prep (or at this point, cram), TrekMovie presents a list of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes that showcase Jean-Luc Picard’s exploits with the Borg and Romulans, plus a few essential Captain Picard episodes that reveal his character. We also include a bonus ... Read more ➡
  • DJing on Twitch The first of a hopefully ongoing experiment with DJing live to Twitch. ➡
  • DJing on Twitch Kicking off an experiment with DJing live on Twitch. More to come! ➡
  • On This Day: Jan 11 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 11 ➡
• 2018
  • Book three of 2018: Software, by Rudy Rucker. 🌟🌟🌟 ➡
  • Current amusement: as I age, I’m getting a respectable start on “old man” eyebrows. But they’re much thinner on the outsides of my eyes than the insides, so the end result is occasionally a very Vulcan/Romulan upwards slant to my brows. I’m ever more saddened that I’ve never been able to lift just a single ... Read more ➡
  • Chucks of the day (57): Blue faux-leather high tops with black sidewall trim. #chucks #converse ➡
• 2016
  • I have got to start remembering to do this before the very end of the night. Because then I do weird stuff like this. (11/366) ➡
• 2014
  • We were going to Do Stuff today, until we decided the day was better spent relaxing in our jammies. ➡
• 2013
  • You’ve Got A Dirty Speech Synthesizer An amusing little anecdote about Watson, the IBM supercomputer that was featured on Jeopardy, that might seem a little familiar to those of my friends who are parents. ➡
• 2009
  • Links for January 9th through January 11th Sometime between January 9th and January 11th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Anchorage Wedding - Stephanie & Royce • Seattle P-I put up for sale • Knitting for Psychos • Computer geeks learn to flirt • UPDATE: MACWORLD THREATENED BY DEATH RAY ➡
• 2006
  • Help: .htaccess redirects Never having quite gotten the hang of .htaccess redirect requests, I'm hoping someone out there might be able to give me a hand with this. ➡
• 2005
  • Face Analyzer Jacqueline pointed out the Face Analyzer. This struck me as worth killing a few minutes playing with, so I grabbed a recent headshot of me from when I got my new glasses, and sent it in. The results were something of a surprise. ➡
  • Malicious Software Removal Malicious software removal? It's bad enough that so much of their software is fairly malicious in standard day to day operations, but now they're actively promoting a product that, judging by its name, will gleefully and with great gusto go rampaging through your computer, removing the most useful pieces of software it can find? ➡
  • Who are you? So. You're the head of a highly secretive company. You're known for being temperamental and very mysterious. The goods your company produces are highly popular, but they're developed in secret. When they're introduced, they're invariably accompanied by much anticipation, a media blitz, and fans the world over salivating over the newest products. Who are you? ➡
  • 6 year old webserver While talking with Prairie about how Macs generally tend to have long lifespans, I looked up the original introduction date for the 350Mhz Blue and White G3 that acts as the webserver for my site, and found out that it was originally introduced on January 5th, 1999. ➡
  • Mac mini (and more) Only the sketchiest details so far, ganked from MacRumors' live update page, but…the Mac Mini is here. ➡
  • Macworld 2005 Keynote The keynote for this year's Macworld starts in about an hour. I won't be able to 'liveblog' it as I have the past couple of years, as little things like work and Apple's decision not to stream the keynote are getting in the way. ➡
• 2004
  • The Death of a Foy Isaac Asimov had an absolutely wicked sense of humor and a great love for bad puns. ➡
  • JavaScript toggle code I'm just saving this for myself for future design possibilities… ➡
• 2003
  • A call for help! The 'hide/show smileys' links in my comment forms only work in IE — Gecko-based browsers ignore the javascript, and kHTML-based browsers don't even display them! Is there anyone out there who can help me with this? ➡

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. Here are my past posts for January 10…

There are 32 posts previously published on January 10th

• 2024
  • Year 50 Day 253 Anybody up for a spot of golf? ➡
• 2021
  • An Ursula K. Le Guin Short Story Inspired The Big Mystery For ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 3 – TrekMovie.com: ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’ is one of Ursula K. Le Guin’s most famous stories and often used in classrooms discussing ethics in literature. ➡
  • Difficult Listening Hour 2021.01.09 Unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants, let's-see-what-happens mixing. This week ended up being (nearly) all '80s alternative. ➡
• 2020
  • The One Remaining Use of the Word “Macintosh”: “Some weeks ago, I was struck by the thought that Apple had almost entirely managed to scrub its corporate communications of the word ‘Macintosh.’ It’s not surprising, of course, but I was curious if the company had slipped up anywhere.” ➡
  • On This Day: Jan 10 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 10 ➡
• 2019
  • OTC Contraceptives Now Covered By Insurance in Washington As of January 1, 2019, all Washingtonians with state-regulated insurance can now pick up over-the-counter contraceptives for free at their in-network pharmacies, according to the Office of the Insurance Commissioner. ➡
  • 21st century blogging problems: When a prominent blogger tweets a link to an old blog post of mine about Pixar’s lack of diversity in their characters that is showing raw Markdown instead of rendered HTML (now fixed, of course). How embarrassing! ➡
• 2017
  • When we got home yesterday, there was a good four or five inches of snow on the driveway, but we were too tired to deal with it. Then it snowed more today, so we had at least six inches to shovel after work. It sucked, but we did it! Can we be done with winter ... Read more ➡
• 2016
  • Approaching the end of season six of Voyager. Trying to decide what I think about the introduction of the Borg Babies to the show. (10/366) ➡
• 2015
  • I haven’t worn a watch in decades. Got an inexpensive one to start getting used to it again before the Apple Watch is released. Just in case, y’know. ➡
• 2014
  • Almost the weekend! ➡
• 2013
  • This Far, No Further I don't mind disagreeing with people, I don't mind people disagreeing with me, and in the right circumstances, calm, rational discussions of disagreements can be quite good. However, the line has to be drawn somewhere, and I've now found two places where I'm quite comfortable drawing that line. ➡
  • Give It A Crablouse Here's the second of my contributions to mashup culture: Give It A Crablouse (Lord of Acid vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers). ➡
• 2007
  • Mt. Ranier Closed Good thing we weren't planning on going camping anytime soon... ➡
• 2006
  • iTunes MiniStore Apparently, one of the changes made to iTunes was **more advertising**! _Yay!_ I was just lamenting the fact that I didn't see enough ads while deciding which song to play next, and here Apple's gone and taken care of that for me. ➡
  • Apple Intel Ad Music: Moby The music in Apple's clever Intel processor ad sounded _really_ familiar, and after running it around in my head for a bit, I figured it out. It's Moby's 'God Moving Over the Face of the Waters', which I have on the soundtrack to Heat. ➡
  • SeaBlogs Overrun by TrackBack Spam This is just sad -- sixteen of the twenty-five displayed TrackBack pings to Seablogs are TrackBack spam. Is anyone paying attention to moderating the site? ➡
  • Seattle Pillow Fight So here's the deal... **SEATTLE PILLOW FIGHT** is going to be a Guinness World Record breaking event held right here in Seattle **THIS SPRING IN 2006**! ➡
  • Macworld ’06: Dawn of the i(ntel)Mac Big news of the day, of course, is Steve Jobs' keynote address at Macworld 2006. I'm not exactly up-to-the-minute on this, but I just got home from school and I'm watching the video stream of the keynote now. ➡
• 2005
  • Bloggers’ Rights and Blogophobia With the news of another weblogger losing his job because of posts on his weblog the issues of what webloggers can and cannot expect to be able to post on their weblogs has started bubbling 'round the blogosphere again. Now there's a proposed Bloggers' Bill of Rights — but how useful is it? And which companies should really be singled out? ➡
  • Dominant Intelligence You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary. You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator. ➡
  • The Phantom in 15 Minutes While she's not posting much at the moment due to work on a book, Cleolinda Jones has graced us with another Movies in 15 Minutes parody: The Phantom of the Opera. ➡
• 2004
  • Occam’s Razor An investigation has begun after a couple found pornographic pictures on a new digital camera they had bought. ➡
  • I’m too sexy for my blog New tagline for the blog went up today. Inspiration should be blatantly obvious. ;) ➡
  • Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads… There's a (mostly) amusing article in the Seattle PI today about the 'War of the Fish' — that is, the 'Jesus Fish' and the many variations plastered over cars all over the place. ➡
• 2002
  • Free association, job possibilities, and haiku If I'd been kidnapped by alien space pirates and forced to endure hours upon hours of back to back Hardy Boys television episodes overdubbed in Tagalog in a devious attempt to brainwash me and force me to assassinate Sonny Bono with nothing but a Ronco Turnip Twaddler, three jars of Nutella hazelnut spread, and a 5-inch length of dental floss -- that would be worth writing about. ➡
• 1995
  • [From Usenet: 1.10.95 0448] I do suppose, while not being necessarily one of the 'big names' (with a gun? sorry...seemingly obligatory lyrics reference) on a.m.nin, I might as well pitch in... ➡
• 1994
  • [From Usenet: 1.10.94 0643] This is hardly official, but as far as I know... ➡
  • [From Usenet 1.10.94 0610] Was curious as to whether anyone knew of an ftp site with .gifs of the cover art to any or all of KMFDM's albums...I love Brute's artwork, and would love to get my hands on some. ➡
  • [From Usenet: 1.10.94 0552] Really? Bizarre...up here in Anchorage, it actually is fairly 'easy to find,' as both locations of Mammoth Music (the local 'alternative' music store) regularly have at least one copy on the shelves, and I even see it fairly regularly at Camelot... ➡
  • [From Usenet: 1.10.94 0539] You might want to try... ftp.uwp.edu/pub/music/pictures I've gotten some fun stuffs from there...but if anyone else has some good places to go, please clue me in also... ➡
  • [From Usenet 1.10.94 0539] First off, I'm insanely jealous whenever someone casually starts off a post about BlackHappy with 'some friends of mine....' `` Anway... ➡

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. Here are my past posts for January 9…

There are 37 posts previously published on January 9th

• 2024
  • Year 50 Day 252 It’s Philip K. Dick Award nominee announcement day! ➡
• 2023
  • Self-Hosted Image Gallery Recommendations? Everything I've found is either abandoned or looks like early-2000s software. ➡
  • 📚 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Fun to re-read this for the first time in at least two decades. ➡
• 2021
  • 📚1/2021: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1969 Hugo Best Novel This was excellent, and rather remarkably topical for being 50+ years old. Addressing gender and politics personal and national, and though many points are quite dark, with definite hope. ➡
  • Historians Contextualizing the Capitol Insurrection: A Roundup: A list of their publications is below, in alphabetical order by author’s last name. This is a dynamic document, and will change as historians publish more pieces. ➡
• 2020
  • I don’t really keep up with automotive news, but…um…Subaru? Everything okay over there? Bonus: As long as this model exists, any contest/competition that awards a car as a prize, but doesn’t offer this model, obviously gives no FUCKS. ➡
  • Short Treks E10: “Children of Mars”: A curious and moody prequel that sets up a bit of backstory, but mostly won’t really fall into place until Picard starts. Guessing that “synths” might be androids based on Romulan experiments with Borg technology? 🖖 ➡
  • We now know that cuttlefish have stereoscopic vision…: because scientists tested the theory by having the cuttlefish wear 3D glasses and showing them 3D movies of shrimp and watching where the cuttlefish tried to strike to eat the shrimp. Not only is it cool, but CUTTLEFISH WEARING 3D GLASSES! ➡
  • Hopepunk and Solarpunk: On Climate Narratives That Go Beyond the Apocalypse: “Hopepunk stories are not specifically climate-focused and, more importantly, do not necessitate hopeful worlds. In the age of Trump, this basic act of extending to another person kindness, rather than disdain or vitriol, becomes a political narrative….” ➡
  • On This Day: Jan 9 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 9 ➡
• 2019
  • Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep And doesn’t know where to find them She has one ring to bring them in And in the darkness bind them — @IceBergMama on Twitter ➡
  • TIL: Titivillus was the “patron demon of scribes”, blamed for causing typos. I am a poure dyuel, and my name ys Tytyvyllus … I muste eche day … brynge my master a thousande pokes full of faylynges, and of neglygences in syllables and wordes. ➡
• 2017
  • Book four of 2017: Hexomancy, by Michael R. Underwood. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
• 2016
  • A relaxing day at home. Helping Prairie make dinner (homemade pizza and buffalo chicken) by staying out of the way. This is often my best method of helping in the kitchen (until cleanup, which is usually my responsibility). (9/366) ➡
• 2015
  • Somebody has to pay for ‘free’ I think Obama's general idea is a good one, and I support it and the thinking behind it. I just wish I could be more optimistic that students in Washington would actually have a chance to take advantage of it. ➡
• 2014
  • Almost forgot to take a picture today (dunno if this is formally a shot-a-day project, but this’ll be nine in a row, and that’s a good trend), so you get me kicked back in my chair while watching TV. ➡
• 2013
  • Just Can’t Get Flexible in 1999 Now that I've run through all the long-form mixes I had laying around, here's the first of two mashups I've put together: Depeche Mode vs. Prince. ➡
• 2009
  • Link Journalism Even though I'm 'just' a consumer, not a journalist in any sense, and not involved with or affiliated with any of these organizations, I'm fascinated by the effects of the evolving connections that technology is making possible between the media and the public, and within and among the various media organizations themselves. ➡
• 2007
  • 4,000 Lattes…to go? From this morning's introduction of the iPhone, as Steve Jobs was demonstrating various features of the gadget (as reported by [MacRumors)... ➡
• 2006
  • 35.30572% Geek At least, according to the Original Geek Test, that's my final score. ➡
  • It’s Illegal to be Annoying No, I'm not kidding. Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime. ➡
  • Andy Rosen: Early punk photos I came across an article in today's Seattle Times about Andy Rosen, who'd taken a lot of photographs of the early punk scene in London -- and is just now starting to showcase a lot of never before seen photos on Flickr. ➡
  • Ego up, ego down Perfect scores can go two ways: perfectly good...or perfectly bad. ➡
• 2005
  • Hey…what’s all that white stuff? Well, it finally happened — after nearly a week of wild rumors and near-panic (I had no less than three of my customers at work plan 'snow days' last Thursday based on the weather reports), it's finally actually snowing in Seattle this morning. ➡
• 2004
  • blockquotes in TypePad and MovableType Over the past few days, a few people have been posting in a thread on the TypePad User Group, trying to figure out why every so often, using the blockquote tag would suddenly cause display issues in a finished post. ➡
  • Jobs/Mayer collaboration online The composition created by Steve Jobs and John Mayer during the Macworld keynote while demoing GarageBand has been posted online. ➡
  • Curls? I'm starting to wonder just how long I can go before I get sick of the curls and shave my head again. It could be just a few days — or it could be months. ➡
  • More on the iHPod Additionally, one (and only one) report — that at the moment, doesn't seem to be taken terribly seriously by most people — claims that HP 'will be working with Apple to add support for Microsoft's superior Windows Media Audio (WMA) format to the iPod by mid-year.' ➡
  • Kodak moments …the bottom line is simply anybody but Bush. And by 'anybody', I mean anybody who can realistically have a chance of defeating Bush — and by that, I mean the Democratic nominee. ➡
  • ecto beta available The creator of blogging client Kung-Log has rewritten, updated, and renamed it, and has just relased the first public beta of ecto, which I'm playing with now. ➡
• 2003
  • Why does [Pres. Bush] want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis? At the earlier briefing, Ari, you said that the President deplored the taking of innocent lives. Does that apply to all innocent lives in the world? And I have a follow-up. My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis? ➡
  • Lots of categories Categories are now listed in each individual post, and there's a lot more to choose from. Am I too anal yet? I've gotta be getting there. ➡
  • Ain't goin' down… Someday, I would dearly love to hear Garth Brooks' 'Ain't Goin' Down 'til the Sun Comes Up' as covered by Ministry. Possibly with Les Claypool doing the vocals. I can hear it in my head — I just wish I could hear it with my ears. ➡
  • Browser Daydreaming Respoding more seriously to Phil Ulrich's question of what I'd like to see in a web browser, I daydream for a while about perfect UIs and plug-in based rendering engines. ➡
• 2001
  • Words of Wisdom I normally nuke just about every piece of random e-mail I get, but I got one today that I actually thought was worth sharing: Things I wish I'd known before I went out in the real world. ➡
• 1996
  • [From the archives: 1.9.96 0314] Created a page to shamelessly promote myself, with the various (okay, two) clubs I'm dj'ing at currently. (grin) Hey, somebody's gotta do it, right? ➡
• 1995
  • [From Usenet 1.9.95 0231] I've seen it on two discs...the import version of the HLAH single (pink and blue cover, no halo number listed, only three tracks to it. ➡

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. Here are my past posts for January 8…

There are 41 posts previously published on January 8th

• 2024
  • Year 50 Day 251 Just a quiet Monday working from home. ➡
• 2023
  • 🎥 Ticket to Paradise Unimaginative and entirely predictable, but harmless, and more or less saved by Clooney and Roberts' undeniable easygoing chemistry. ➡
• 2022
  • 📚 Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson Weird to read something so new that it references both Covid and the Jan. 6th insurrection. ➡
• 2021
  • Twitter permanently suspends President Donald Trump: citing “the risk of further incitement of violence.” ➡
  • Suspended Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules ➡
  • 2019-2020 Tech company donations to Republicans who voted to overturn the election: Google Docs spreadsheet, found via Kottke. ➡
  • The 432-year-old manual on social distancing: “In this spookily prescient booklet, people are advised to keep six feet apart, avoid shaking hands and only send one person per household out to do the shopping.” ➡
  • 🖖 Discovery S03E12 and E13: Well, it ended well, at least for the last five minutes of wrap-up. And there were some good bits scattered through the rest of these final two episodes. But on the whole, this season started strong, lost its way midway, and kind of fizzled out. ➡
• 2020
  • The opening notes of the closing credits music for Enterprise are so similar to the Non Nobis, Domine from Henry V that I always get the latter running through my head after finishing an episode of Enterprise. 🖖 ➡
  • A Brief History of Convention Ribbons: “If you’ve gone to conventions like CONvergence, you may have seen the ribbons imprinted with catchphrases and clip art people stick to the bottom of the their badges—in some cases, collecting large trails of them. CONvergence does a great job of explaining how you can get your own ribbons ... Read more ➡
  • Best Star Trek Captain: How Captain Picard beat Captain Kirk: “For The Next Generation era, Picard somehow had the swaggering captain thing going for him, but, because he was a little bit stoic and detached, he also had the Spock thing going for him, too. He was the best of both worlds (those worlds being ... Read more ➡
  • Our Idols are Fallible …excusing Asimov by saying that some of his contemporaries were guilty of similar transgressions is like downplaying his productivity by pointing out that other authors were prolific. ➡
  • Domain Switch I've moved to michaelhans.com ➡
  • ‘Star Trek: Picard”: Patrick Stewart on Why He’s Returning: “The new show is different from its predecessor in nearly every respect — texture, tone, format, production value, even the likelihood of characters dropping an f-bomb. That’s all by design. Stewart’s design.” ➡
  • On This Day: Jan 8 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 8 ➡
• 2019
  • As the following conditions are true: There is yet another high wind warning for tomorrow, and, I have ordered a UPS for my computer, but it does not arrive until Friday, I would like to apologize in advance to the residents of Renton for tomorrow’s inevitable power outage. ➡
  • Book four of 2019: FTL, Y’all! Tales from the Age of the $200 Warp Drive, edited by C. Spike Trotman and Amanda LaFrenais. ⭐️⭐️⭐️  📚 ➡
  • I’ve had about 24 hours without power over three separate outages over the past two days. Yay for winter storms! Ordering a UPS for my office electronics, which means the power outages will stop now, right? ➡
  • Book three of 2019: The Stone Sky, by N. K. Jemisin. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 #hugowinner 📚 ➡
  • National Geographic: “Before we explored outer space, we tried to paint it: In 1939, artist Charles Bittinger imagined worlds we hadn’t traveled to yet—sometimes with impressive accuracy.” Gorgeous artwork, from a time when we knew far less than we do now. ➡
• 2018
  • Linkdump for December 27th through January 8th An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between December 27th and January 8th. • Why So Many Men Hate the Last Jedi But Can’t Agree on Why • My Hero, Luke Skywalker • Stop reading what Facebook tells you to read • List: Alternatives to Platonic Love • This is not going to go the way you think: The Last Jedi and the necessary disappointment of epilogues ➡
• 2016
  • The plows came through our circle yesterday, and the resulting snow pile is huge! (8/366) ➡
• 2015
  • Trust There is a better than 50% chance that I'll be ordering an Apple Watch on the day they're added to the Apple Store. ➡
• 2014
  • I’m about to eat twenty-seven peanut butter cups! ➡
• 2013
  • Unhappily Ever After Seven short tales, all based off of Disney tales, but far darker than what you're used to. ➡
  • Eclecticism The eight and last of my old mixes to go up. Hopefully I'll eventually start putting _new_ mixes up! ➡
• 2009
  • Links for December 28th through January 8th Sometime between December 28th and January 8th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • freezebubbles • xkcd: Converting to Metric • Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service: Seattle: Green River near Auburn • UiRemote: The Universal Infrared Remote for iPhone • 25 Years of Mac: From Boxy Beige to Silver Sleek • 6 New Web Technologies of 2008 You Need to Use Now • NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack • Weak cellphone law puts drivers off the hook • Whose Streets? • Chart Porn: The Unofficial Theory Of Sci-Fi Connectivity ➡
  • Stormpocalypse! First off, the good news: we're not being affected by the current weather craziness hitting the northwest. That said, this is nuts! This stormpocalypse hit us in two stages: first the snowpocalypse, and now the floodpocalypse. I've been watching #waflood on Twitter, and it's been fascinating watching all the updates appear. ➡
• 2008
  • Good Action is Geography If you build a fast engine, you don’t need fast cutting, because the story’s being told fluidly, and the pages are just turning very quickly. ➡
• 2006
  • Whoops…something slipped. And I think that pretty much brings us up to date. Plans for tonight are light: work 'til 6pm, do my reading for school tomorrow, have dinner, and watch tonight's Desperate Housewives. Non-stop excitement, I tell you! ➡
• 2005
  • Progress: Related Entries The keyword index will work, but I've got a lot of work to do on my keywords before I can bring it live. In the meantime, I've re-implemented Adam Kalsey's 'related entries' code, listing five similar entries in the sidebar of each individual entry page. ➡
  • This is Ponderous This is ponderous, man. Really ponderous. ➡
  • 12 Sentences From ctakahara: Take the first sentence of the first post of each month for the past year and make a paragraph from it. ➡
• 2004
  • About that iPod mini So, contrary to my initial opinion, count me fully in the camp of the iPod mini supporters. If my current iPod ever dies — which hopefully won't happen for quite a while yet — the iPod mini will do quite well for me. ➡
  • U.S. Treasury: Anonymous until we change our mind The U.S. Treasury Department plans to publish nearly 10,000 e-mail addresses on the Web, violating its privacy promise to Americans who used e-mail to comment on a government proceeding. ➡
  • Announcing the…iHPod? In an unexpected partnership, Apple and HP announced today that HP will be re-branding and selling Apple iPods and including iTunes pre-installed on HP branded desktop computers. ➡
  • Photoshop CS won’t do money Adobe Photoshop CS apparently has special image-recognition code built in that will detect someone attempting to work with scanned currency, and then refuse to work with the image. ➡
  • I’m going to be an uncle! My brother and his fiance just found out that Emily is pregnant! ➡
  • Your handwriting as a font Fontifier can make your handwriting into a font ➡
• 2003
  • Abuse my taste in music Take a peek at the last ten tracks that I've listened to on my computer, then leave a comment to tell me how much my taste in music rocks. Or sucks. Whichever. ➡
• 1996
  • [From the archives: 1.8.96 0212] Just a couple of quick changes at the moment. I've got a few more planned, but they'll have to wait, as I've just been invited out to coffee at VI (Village Inn), and we must have our priorities, mustn't we? ➡

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. Here are my past posts for January 7…

There are 34 posts previously published on January 7th

• 2024
  • Year 50 Day 250 Post-club days are now for lazing around. ➡
  • 🎥 65 Weirdest _Princess Bride_ remake ever. ➡
  • 📚 Clarkesworld Issue 208 edited by Neil Clarke Favorites this month from Chi Hui and Marie Vibbert. ➡
• 2023
  • Nic Cage is a Trekkie 'I'm not in the _Star Wars_ family, I'm in the _Star Trek_ family.' ➡
• 2021
  • ITV on the Trump Insurrection A good seven-minute overview of yesterday's events in Washington, D.C. ➡
  • 20 Macs for 2020: Now that this is done, I’m bookmarking it so I can come back and read through the full thing. Eventually. Someday. :) ➡
  • This shirt seemed particularly important today. ➡
• 2020
  • It’s Got a Great Beat, and You Can File a Lawsuit to It: “Originality is a con: Pop music history is the history of near overlap. Ideas rarely emerge in complete isolation. In studios around the world, performers, producers and songwriters are all trying to innovate just one step beyond where music currently is, working ... Read more ➡
  • Defining the decade: ten years of Apple on one page: “Apple had to graduate through the passing of its founder, juggle relationships with an ever-expanding list of consumer and professional market segments, and adapt to the public attention and scrunity that only comes along as a consequence of being the biggest company in the world.” ➡
  • On This Day: Jan 7 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 7 ➡
• 2018
  • Chucks of the day (56/56): bright all-pink waterproofed low-tops. These will be great for Jan. 20th! #chucks #converse ➡
• 2017
  • Selfie with moose! ➡
  • Time to start heading home. I’ll put up a fuller post later, but thanks to all of you who made it to my dad’s service today. It was very appreciated. ➡
  • Book three of 2017: Attack the Geek, by Michael R. Underwood. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • Pretty Alaskan sunrise over the Chugach range…at 10-o-freaking-clock in the morning! Gotta appreciate those five hours of sunlight we’ll get today! ➡
• 2016
  • Another workday done. Taken on my way to coax Prairie out of her office. It didn’t take much coaxing. :) (7/366) ➡
• 2015
  • Default Human Being We need to realize that our concept of the 'default human being' is highly dependent upon our own culture and ingrained biases. ➡
• 2014
  • Snow! ➡
  • These two just would not stop squabbling. Had to banish them to opposite sides of the desk. ➡
• 2013
  • Where Time Becomes A Loop Number seven from my old collection of mixes that I'm re-posting. We're moving back into longer sessions again, with this one coming in at just under an hour. ➡
• 2010
  • Links for January 5th through January 7th Sometime between January 5th and January 7th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • The Online 78 Rpm Discographical Project • Best Buy Optimization Is a Big Stupid Annoying Waste of Money • Word of the Year 2009: Distracted Driving • The Science of Success • The Darwin Awards ➡
• 2008
  • Pre-Seattle Days Those who follow me on Flickr will have noticed this already, but I've been spending some time digging through my old archive CDs and uploading a bunch of old photos from years (and digital cameras) past. At this point, I've made it through all my digital photos up to the last few days before I bailed out of Anchorage and migrated south to Seattle. ➡
• 2005
  • Gallimaufry 3 Third verse, same as the first… ➡
  • Netflix and Best Buy? Interesting — Netflix' header navigation tab graphics have changed (less rounded and all gold tones now), and there's a Best Buy logo next to the Netflix logo up top. There's nothing in their Press Releases section about partnering with Best Buy…is this something that's been announced at CES? ➡
• 2004
  • This GarageBand is a hit You look at an application like GarageBand -- you can't get that on another platform at any price. People will buy Macs on the basis of GarageBand. ➡
  • Firsts For how many of you was your first sexual experience consensual? For how many of you was your first penetrative sexual experience consensual? ➡
  • Zeugma Cool word of the day: zeugma. ➡
  • Even if it…what? This little $20 app is a must-have, even if it weren't made by Microsoft. ➡
  • Works for me! Republicans for Voldemort ➡
  • This town is a mess I won't be surprsied at all if today turns out to have more accidents, simply because since it's not snowing, people will think that they can drive normally. Conditions like this certainly don't make for safe driving, though, and it's my bet that quite a few people will be figuring that out over the course of the day. ➡
• 2003
  • Revamping the Archives My archives finally approach something resembling user-friendliness. What I did and why I did it. ➡
  • More on Safari In order to give it something of a workout, I went ahead and set Safari to be my default web browser. Mark Pilgrim has a good rundown of current CSS bugs that he's uncovered in Safari so far (thankfully, though, it renders djwudi.com just fine). Amusingly enough, I may have just found one more while I was reading his post. ➡
  • Thoughts on the keynote Just a couple quick thoughts I had regarding some of the news from Steve Jobs' keynote speech today at MacWorld. ➡
  • MacWorld Expo '03 Keynote Summary of Steve Jobs' keynote address at MacWorld San Francisco. Lots and lots of really cool stuff that I can't afford! ➡