Since I 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 December 22nd
- 2024
- Milkshake Duck Status and Rationales A list of currently known milkshake ducks, how I'm treating their work in my own consumption habits ➡
- A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge 📚: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: First contact with aliens, schemes and plots spanning decades and centuries, mind control…an excellent read. ➡
- 2023
- Year 50 Day 234 Pre-holiday-break week work shirt number four. ➡
- 📚 Storm Front by Jim Butcher Entertaining enough that I’ll likely read at least another one or two in the series to see how it progresses. ➡
- 2022
- Don’t ever stop talking to each other This is a long rant by Cat Valente- and it’s really, really good. Though I’m quoting a particularly good bit from the end, it’s worth reading the whole thing. ➡
- 📚 Joy to the Worlds by Maia Chance, Janine A. Southard, Raven Oak, and G. Clemans G. Clemans’ ‘Bevel & Turn’ and Raven Oak’s ‘The Ringers’ were my particular favorites. ➡
- 2020
- Octopuses Observed Punching Fish, Perhaps Out of Spite, Scientists Say: “In new proof that 2020 has been a crappy year basically everywhere, scientists have captured video evidence of octopuses randomly punching at fish, possibly for no reason other than being spiteful.” ➡
- For a while I wasn’t sure I’d make it—concentrating on reading has been difficult this year—but with nine days to spare, I’ve completed my Goodreads challenge of 52 books this year. Sure, it’s lots of Star Trek, and I neglected my Hugo Best Novel project, but I hit my goal. 📚 ➡
- 📚 fifty-two of 2020: Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A fun YA fantasy monster fighting adventure based on Navajo mythology. Part of Rick Riordan’s project to use his clout to to highlight marginalized voices and cultures, which I very much respect. ➡
- On This Day: Dec 22 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 22 ➡
- 2019
- 📚 sixty of 2019: The Wanderer, by Fritz Leiber. ⭐️⭐️ 1965 Hugo Best Novel Veers wildly between interesting concepts (a planet the size of Earth appears in Earth’s orbit, affecting tectonics, tides, etc.), and incredibly dated plots that do not age well. ➡
- I’ve been avoiding Star Wars reviews, as I don’t get to see Ep. 9 until next weekend, but I took a chance on this one by John Scalzi (because he promised it would be spoiler-free, and I trust him to follow through on that), and thought it was an interesting viewpoint. ➡
- 2016
- Bedtime! Just one more day of work to get through, then holiday break! (357/366) ➡
- 2008
- Snowpocalypse Photos My (still in progress) set of photos from this winter's bizarre weather can be found right here. I've got another day's worth of shots to put in when I get a chance, but that may not happen for another few days or so. ➡
- 2005
- Program on the emergence of civilization. I have no idea what prompted someone to leave this comment on my site, or what relation (if any) they think it might have to the post that it was added to...but it's just long and bizarre enough that I think I'll keep it. ➡
- 2004
- Gallimaufry Terrance resurrects an old meme as a weekly thing. The rules are simple: put your entire music playlist on random, and post the first ten songs your music player comes up with. ➡
- Book of Blogs II Earlier this month, I linked to a blog anthology project by Tvindy. I liked the idea and nominated a few entries for inclusion, but as more is better: as readers, are there any posts that stand out in your mind as particularly noteworthy, for whatever reason? ➡
- Post-Melodramatic Stress Disorder Okay, okay, I'll admit it — I actually like The Phantom of the Opera. In my defense, though (if a defense can even be mounted), I couldn't help it. I've been brainwashed! ➡
- Our King’s older than yours. This was going to be a linklog post, but then I decided I wanted to give it a little more visibility. With all the current blathering about Christmas being 'stolen', I thought today's Something Positive strip was especially funny. ➡
- A Republican Christmas 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the land, not a critic was stirring, for stirring was banned. ➡
- 2003
- The gift that keeps on giving (…as long as you replace the batteries, of course.) ➡
- Got it, got it, need it, got it, not a chance, need it, got it… While I'm still partial to the 'Old School' purity tests, Kirsten pointed out a page that bills itself as the 'ultimate' purity test, and I had to give it a shot… ➡
- Famous Faces …wasn't everyone in Seattle in a band at some point? ➡
- TypePad User Group I've been hanging out on the TypePad User Group for a while now. It's a great little resource for TypePad users -- entirely unofficial, but a good place to go as a first resource for figuring out issues with coding and maintaining TypePad weblogs. ➡
- Tower ghost filmed Closed-circuit security cameras at Hampton Court Palace, the huge Tudor castle outside London, seem to have snagged an ethereal visitor. Could it be a ghost? ➡
- 2002
- Clubbing in Alaska Why I'm glad I don't have to rely on bars in Alaska to go clubbing: three words — The Electric Slide. ➡
- Belief, faith, and the church On top of it all, I count my beliefs as mine, and other people's beliefs as theirs. If they want to talk about it fine — but I'm not about to attempt to convince them that I'm 'right' and they're 'wrong', and I expect the same respect from them. ➡
- Don’t fly pregnant A husband and his pregnant wife were attempting to fly out of Portland to go to a friend's wedding when they were both pulled off for extra 'security screening'… ➡
- 2001
- Back in Anchorage I've got to say, that was the most all-out terrified I've ever been -- one drop I might have made it through with just being a little frightened, but when it kept happening over and over, I really started to freak out. ➡
- 2000
- Congratulations Kevin and Emily! I just got a visit from my dad, and it seems that my little brother proposed to his girlfriend Emily last night on Winter Solstice -- and she accepted! ➡
- 1995
- [From Usenet: 12.22.95 0000] Oh...sweet disc, too. `
` Sorry, I'm holding onto this one. Especially track 8, L'ange Moderne. ➡
- [From Usenet: 12.22.95 0000] Oh...sweet disc, too. `