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On This Day: Dec 10

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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 23 posts previously published on December 10th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • Friendly, foul-mouthed crow befriends entire Oregon elementary school before state police are called in: The bird could say, “What’s up?” and “I’m fine” and “a lot of swear words.” ➡
    • Fast-forward on the Future Really interesting list from Politico of seventeen pandemic innovations that are here to stay. ➡
  • 2020
    • 🖖 Discovery S03E09: Nice to see DIS remember that Trek gets a little weird every so often (Hi Carl!). Back to the mirror universe, but is this an actual trip back, or something else? Nice to see how the Prime universe has been affecting the former Emperor. And those costumes! ➡
    • One of my current ongoing projects is an in-universe chronological rewatch of Star Trek. To do this, I created a tracking spreadsheet based on the work of the Star Trek Chronology Project. I should hit the 20% point tonight, with This Side of Paradise and Devil in the Dark. 🖖🏻 ➡
    • On This Day: Dec 10 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 10 ➡
  • 2019
  • 2016
    • Back home after a good Seattle jaunt. Tired, but feeling good. (345/366) ➡
    • Me and my good friends Jack and Sally at the Merc’s Sandy Claws Ball. :) ➡
  • 2015
    • #StandingWithMuslims I am ‪#‎standingwithmuslims‬. I condemn Islamophobia and hate speech. And I'm greatly saddened that so many people who profess to love this country are so scared that they're so willing to abandon many of the core concepts that this country is built on. ➡
  • 2014
    • Inside Out’s Trailer Didn’t Impress Me So, the first full trailer for Pixar's next film showed up today. I'd been cautiously optimistic about this one, hoping for a change from the past, but after watching the trailer...I have concerns. ➡
  • 2008
    • Greed and Avarice In the spirit of the season, I've updated my Amazon profile and gone through to sort and reorganize my Amazon Wishlist into five categorized wishlists: Photography Bits, Print Media, Movies and Music, Electronic Gadgets and Gizmos and Random Nifty Bits. ➡
    • Traditional Marriage Since marriage is for life, neither this Constitution nor the constitution of any State, nor any state or federal law, shall be construed to permit divorce. ➡
  • 2007
    • 56 Geeks, 7 of Them Are Me Of the 56 geeks pictured here, I think I can lay claim to having elements of at least seven of them (obviously some are more overt than others)... ➡
  • 2004
    • New camera! Nine months ago (yikes!), I was an idiot and left my camera at a bus stop on my way to work. Ever since then, I've been using a camera that my friend Rick very kindly let me borrow until I could afford a new camera of my own. Well, it looks like that day may be coming pretty soon — I'm getting a new camera for free! ➡
  • 2003
    • You've got to be kidding me President Bush found himself in the awkward position on Wednesday of calling the leaders of France, Germany and Russia to ask them to forgive Iraq's debts, just a day after the Pentagon excluded those countries and others from $18 billion in American-financed Iraqi reconstruction projects. ➡
    • Panther bug: Dragging /System to the trash Apparently one can drag the Panther /System folder to the trash, which then freezes the computer. Upon reboot, since the System is now in the trash, the computer can't boot up. ➡
    • From 299,792,458 m/s to 0 Fun with science -- physicists have just managed to (very briefly) stop light in its tracks! ➡
    • A bus driver I can relate to Please pull forward and to the right. [PAUSE] ...and get off the phone. ➡
  • 2002
    • More on FOAF Today, Phil pointed out something I'd actually looked for the other day, but hadn't managed to find: a web-based FOAF explorer that loads and parses FOAF files. ➡
  • 2000
    • Quick update from Seattle I'm actually still in the midst of my vacation, but while sitting here at a friends house checking e-mail, I figured I might as well take the opportunity to get a little updating done here. If nothing else, just to get something changing on here to assure people that I am alive, and have survived my travels so far. ➡

On This Day: Dec 9

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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 24 posts previously published on December 9th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • So…Free Guy is basically The Truman Show, but starring Deadpool, right? ➡
    • Ghostbusters: Afterlife Trailer Still bummed that the reboot is being ignored, but also looking forward to the new film. ➡
  • 2016
    • “I am Drunk of Borg. Your ass will be laminated. Resistance is floor tile.” #startrek #borg #startrekemp 🖖 ➡
    • Quite happy to have made it to the @mopopseattle #startrek exhibit this afternoon. (344/366) 🖖 ➡
  • 2014
    • …and a lot of stickers that absolutely, positively should not be used in public. ➡
    • Got more @cah goodies today! Some comic pages… ➡
    • Battle Flag Lo-Fidelity All Stars' 'Battle Flag' is one of the few times when I've heard a group release a de-profanitized radio-friendly edit of a track that I actually prefer to the original uncensored version. ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
    • Comcast Clarification Looks like I've got my answer: our Limited Basic service shouldn't change. Here are the relevant tweets... ➡
    • Comcast Confusion Well, maybe this transition thing isn't as cleared up as I thought. An update to the earlier article about Comcast's transition to (nearly) all-digital broadcasting went online, and it seems to be contradicting what I was told earlier. ➡
    • UtiliTV As long as I'm babbling about the boob tube and whining about cable pricing, I might as well toss out my pie-in-the-sky, never-going-to-happen concept for what _I_ want as an option. I actually have two possible concepts, both of which seem like they'd be very doable in the present or soon-to-exist all-digital world. ➡
    • Maybe @comcastcares after all! I'm used to 'customer service' that actually _prevents_ me from even making an attempt. Being able to toss off a short, quick note and get a useful and polite response within a few hours is _wonderful_. ➡
  • 2006
    • Geeks and Film Top 20 Hackers in Film History, Servers in the Movies, and What Code DOESN'T Do in Real Life (That it Does in the Movies) ➡
  • 2005
    • iTunes Signature Maker iTSM selects a small number of your 'favorite' tracks based on some simple selection criteria, such as the number of times you have played them or the rating you have assigned them. Then it analyzes the audio content of these files, combining a small bit of each of them to create the signature. ➡
    • That school thing Well, it's official -- there will be no financial aid for me in the immediate future. Since aid for the current '05-'06 year is determined by how much was made in 2004, and as I was applying for winter quarter, I just don't qualify. Meh. ➡
  • 2003
    • Safari bug: Amazon Associates Build-A-Link I'm battling a Safari bug on the Amazon Associates Build-A-Link tool where code inside a textarea doesn't appear when the page is rendered. ➡
    • 3-Way Capitalism? Mom and Dad just got back to Anchorage after a trip to Florida and Indiana to visit Mom's parents and Dad's family, respectively, and Dad just posted his pictures with commentary. ➡
    • The Dominion War keeps distracting me… The war is at its peak now that the Breen have joined forces with the Dominion, the Founders appear to be dying, Gul Dukat (disguised as a Bajoran) is manipulating Kai Wynn's lust for power on Bajor to try to release the Pah Wraiths, and we just lost the Defiant in a major battle. ➡
    • Gore endorses Dean The news actually 'broke' yesterday, with a bunch of 'this is about to happen' articles, but now it's official: Al Gore has endorsed Howard Dean's presidential campaign. ➡
    • Stradivarius' secret While I've never had the opportunity to hear one in person, nearly anyone involved in the world of music is aware of the near-legendary quality of the instruments created by Italian violin maker Antonio Stradivari. ➡
    • LotR Research Project A team of researchers is going to be looking for our impressions of Peter Jackson's films, with the questionnaire going live the day that Return of the King opens. Could be interesting… ➡

On This Day: Dec 8

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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 19 posts previously published on December 8th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Of our two silly little window things, one seems notably more invested than the other. ➡
    • The Silent Coup The US is being run by a government that no longer represents the people: Today, representative democracy is on the brink as our government demonstrates an unprecedented disconnect from public opinion. For instance, 83% of the public supports background checks for gun owners, but that hasn’t come to fruition. Some 77% of Americans want Roe ... Read more ➡
  • 2016
    • Wandering downtown Seattle on a brisk winter evening. ➡
    • In Seattle! Around buildings more than three stories high! ;) (343/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Day three (I think) of @cah is here! Hopefully my day two envelope shows up soon! ➡
    • A Better Bond Skyfall was the first Bond film in years to hit the right balance between action and humor. Here's hoping that the upcoming SPECTRE keeps that trend going. ➡
  • 2008
    • Breadcrummy Would it be too much trouble to say 'I read about this _here_, and you can buy it or get more info _here_,' instead of forcing your readers to jump through multiple hoops? By the time I found my way to the source page, I'd pretty much lost interest in it. ➡
    • …that isn’t the question. After some reviewing of finances and priorities, Prairie and I decided to stay in Standard Definition for the time being, and save our purchase of a fancy-schmancy new HDTV set for some as-yet undetermined future date. ➡
    • Links for December 5th through December 8th Sometime between December 5th and December 8th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
  • 2005
    • Narnia followup A selection of quotes from reviews of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe... ➡
  • 2004
    • 100 Overlooked Films of the ’90s I stumbled across this list of the 100 most overlooked films of the 1990's yesterday, meant to do a meme-style 'seen it' list, and then spaced it. I was reminded today when DeAnna beat me to the punch — so here's mine. Bold title films I've seen… ➡
    • Konichiwa! First off, my apologies, as it's entirely likely that I managed to mangle the Americanized version of a Japanese greeting. Looks like the recent Wired article that I'm mentioned in just got picked up in Japan, which is sending another round of visitors my way. ➡
  • 2003
    • Get a cheap PC from AOL Okay — I'm no great fan of either AOL or Windows-based PCs, but I have to admit that if you're looking for a cheap computer and are willing to settle for Windows XP Home and use AOL for your 'net connection, this isn't a bad deal (though not quite as good as they lead you to believe on first blush). ➡
    • MiddleEarth mania, week one: The Fellowship of the Ring Saturday Prairie and I started our three-week string of Lord of the Rings movie watching with the Cinerama's showing of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition. ➡
  • 2002
    • ¡TchKunG! at the FUNC It's so difficult to convey in words the energy that is present during one of their shows, but they're by far one of my favorite bands to see live. The best word I can think of to describe any show by them is 'tribal', in the truest sense of the word -- the crowd gets so wrapped up in things, that it becomes something more than a collection of individuals, and something closer to a 'tribe', I suppose...oh, whatever. You get the point. Or you don't. ➡

On This Day: Dec 7

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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 21 posts previously published on December 7th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • A “behind the scenes” peek at how my setup for indulging my DJ Wüdi alter-ego is arranged. djay Pro AI on the top monitor, OBS and associated support apps on the iMac’s screen. The controller is a Pioneer DDJ-400. ➡
    • On This Day: Dec 7 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 7 ➡
  • 2019
    • 📚 fifty-eight of 2019: Sleeping Beauties, by Stephen and Owen King. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A King take on the fears that women have of men, of the men that generate those fears, and how they all react when mysteriously separated. King (and his son) still knows how to tell a good tale. ➡
  • 2018
    • Book fifty-three of 2018: Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon Book Three: Enemy Territory, by Keith. R.A. DeCandido. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
  • 2010
    • Doozy of a Dream I very rarely remember my dreams, and usually when I do, it's just a few very vague bits that fade almost immediately upon waking up. Last night, though, I had something of a doozy. ➡
  • 2006
    • Scary Mary I think this just became my favorite recut trailer. ➡
  • 2004
    • Mind Hacks Just added to my daily reads: Mind Hacks, the companion blog to Tom Stafford and Matt Webb's book Mind Hacks, recently released by O'Reilly. ➡
  • 2003
    • Our strategy in Iraq With a heavy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them. ➡
    • Oh, goodie! Well, whaddaya know — Britney Spears will be performing in Seattle! Um…yeah. I think I'll be staying away from Seattle Center that evening. ➡
    • TypePad gets PCMag Editor's Choice Congratulations to Six Apart for TypePad's getting an Editor's Choice nod from PC Mag in their roundup of blogging tools. ➡
    • Is it that obvious? You ought to turn on your G3 and launch iTunes and give it a totally different name and pretend you have a friend. ➡
    • The dangers of mayonnaise A Texas woman was sentenced to 10 years in jail for running over the manager of a McDonald's with her car because she wanted mayonnaise on her cheeseburger. ➡
    • NetFlix Freak (nee Fanatic) There used to be a handy little application for managing your NetFlix queue called Netflix Fanatic. However, now comes NetFlix Freak — all the goodness of NetFlix Fanatic, and then some. ➡
  • 2002
  • 1993
    • [From Usenet: 12.7.93 2238] Was curious if anyone else out there had discovered Blackhappy...incredibly good band. Two guitarists, two drummers, a bass, two trombones and a sax...lots of sound, powerful music. ➡
    • [From Usenet: 12.7.93 2217] Don't know the technical info (only that I got the 3-incher up here in Alaska), but the songs are 'Too Physica' by Adam Ant, and 'Suck' by Pigface. Suck is available on a couple different Pigface albums in a couple different versions. ➡
    • [From Usenet 12.7.93 2107] I'm not sure if I remember all of them from this book, but I remember seeing some in a book I picked up in England years ago...something about Mistaikes (sic). Don't know for sure, tho... ➡

On This Day: Dec 6

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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 26 posts previously published on December 6th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • 📚 51/2021: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1977 Hugo Best Novel ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2017
    • Day two! #cardsagainsthumanity #cah ➡
  • 2016
    • Dinner tonight was homemade chili and cornbread. Not pictured because I quite happily ate it all. (341/366) ➡
    • Resistance is Not Futile The day we accept ANY of this as normal, we have already lost. Fascism accumulates power by pushing people, by testing us, by testing boundaries. ➡
  • 2014
    • Yay! Day one of this year’s @cah silliness is here! ➡
  • 2010
    • 2010 Wish List I took a little time to go through my Amazon wishlists to see what was sitting in there. After a bit of editing (removed some, added one or two items), here's what I've ended up with, in rough order from most realistic (less expensive) to least realistic (most expensive). ➡
  • 2007
    • Best Xmas Commercials (So Far) It's only a top two, rather than a top ten or top three or any such thing (mostly because it's so rare that commercials are actually fun that it'd be nearly impossible to get a list longer than two). However, here for your amusement are the top two commercials of this Christmas season, as chosen by Prairie and me. ➡
    • One Hundred and Forty Peeps So far, I'm a little unimpressed with the leading contender for a collective noun for 'those people I follow/am following on Twitter,' which appears to be 'tweeple'. To my ears, it's rather silly, and a rather glaringly obvious portmanteau. ➡
  • 2005
    • Time to put my money where my mouth is? Ten months ago, I wrote that 'I’d gladly pay a few dollars per episode to download high-quality versions....' And now, wouldn't you know it -- Battlestar Galactica is available through the iTunes Music Store at $1.99 per episode! Very nice. ➡
    • Narnia and Christianity — does it matter? Sure, you can read all sorts of meaning into the stories and why they're being brought to the screen now -- religious indoctrination, right-wing propelled mass media conspiracy theories, whatever. You can also tell your inner Fox Mulder that every so often _it doesn't matter_ and go watch a movie. ➡
  • 2004
    • Blade Trinity I'd been iffy on whether I wanted to bother, but this pre-release review of Blade Trinity just put it on my 'must see' list. ➡
    • Howdy, Wired readers! Over a year after the incident, I'm getting another few seconds added to my fifteen minutes of fame: last week I was interviewed by phone by Wired, and their article hit the 'net today. ➡
    • A Book of Blogs Thanks to Alicia, I just found out about this book project of Tvindy's, and so I've pulled out a couple possible nominations for inclusion. ➡
  • 2003
    • Vote for me! (Or not…) Voting for the 2003 Weblog Awards is now open! My self-nomination for the Best Looking Blog category made it in, so feel free to bounce over there, check out all the contenders, and then vote for me! ;) ➡
  • 2002
    • Psychoptrometry The optometrist as psychotherapist, I thought to myself, what an intriguing character. ➡
    • It’s just snow, folks No, I'm not really annoyed. Quite amused, though. Admittedly, though, this is not a type of post I'm immune to, so I probably shouldn't talk. The trend in posts did catch my eye, though. ➡
  • 1993
    • [From Usenet: 12.6.93 0432] Don't know anything about Seal, but I've seen a few Tori Amos import singles at some local stores...not exactly a new release, but some of them have some songs not on her album... ➡
    • [From Usenet 12.6.93 0432] I've got two...not sure where they came from though. One's on RCA Victor (Swquentiae: Gregorian Chant/K. Ruhland [GD 71953]), the other on ProArte (Gregorian Chants * Ruhland [CDD 287]). Got 'em as presents a while ago. Oh, that first album should be Sequentiae. ➡
    • [From Usenet: 12.6.93 0432] Bingo...you've probably got a ton of answers to this already, but the song is "You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth" off of Meatloaf's first album, _Bat Out Of Hell_. Good, good album...awesome music. ➡
    • [From Usenet 12.6.93 0432] Also, picked up a single for Religion...good remixes, including a _really_ fast techno version remixed by the Prodigy...two mixes of Crapage by the Orb, and having the Orb remixing 242 is just bizarre...and one fun mix of Religion with lots of samples from Deep Throat. ➡

On This Day: Dec 5

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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 18 posts previously published on December 5th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 217 Not every day’s selfie can be the museum-worthy artwork that I’m sure you all expect. ➡
  • 2022
    • AI Art, Ethics, and Where I Stand I’m enjoying playing with the AI art generation tools. I’m also watching the discussions around the ethical questions around how they can and should be used. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2016
    • Baby, It’s Cold Outside If you’re not a fan, I totally understand — but for me, it will remain a staple of my winter playlists. ➡
    • First snow of the season! Can’t let you Seattleites have all the fun! (340/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Yesterday’s “F in Exams” calendar page. Can’t trust those dolphins! ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
    • Manufactured Controversy If the ID folks actually were to do the work involved in creating such a theory, doing the experimentation and observation necessary to back it up and get their work peer reviewed, it WOULD be accepted by science. Unfortunately, the main proponents of Intelligent Design Theory have no interest in doing that; they’d rather just fabricate controversy, pretending that the mean-old scientists just won’t let them play because scientists hate Christians. ➡
  • 2005
    • LibraryThing Redux Well, it took a few hours (spread over the past few days) of free-time puttering, but my entire book collection (that isn't loaned out, loaned out and not returned, lost, or still sitting somewhere at my folks' house in Anchorage) is now entered into my LibraryThing catalog. ➡
  • 2004
    • Cartoon Skeletons I decided to take a select few of these popular cartoon characters and render their skeletal systems as I imagine they might resemble if one truly had eye sockets half the size of its head, or fingerless-hands, or feet comprising 60% of its body mass. ➡
    • Cover Tunes I want to hear Britney Spears cover My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult's 'Days of Swine and Roses' (“Christian zombie vampires!”). N*SYNC or whatever boy band is around taking on The Sisters of Mercy's 'Dominion/Mother Russia'. Janet Jackson's version of the Violent Femme's 'Day After Day'. Eminem doing Concrete Blonde's 'Bloodletting'. ➡
    • Panoramic Experiments Yesterday afternoon I decided to go for a bit of a wander through the weekend downtown shoppers to work on an experiment I've had in mind for a bit. I've been curious at how panoramic shots would turn out if I took them in the evening, where the long exposures would blur any cars and passing shoppers. ➡
  • 2003
    • For sale: Pioneer CMX-5000 Twin CD Player Asking price: $600. As as I've hardly touched it in the two years since I've been in Seattle, it's time to see if someone who can get a little more use out of it is interested. I'd prefer if someone in or around Seattle who can swing by and pick it up from me bought it as I don't have a car and shipping would be a major pain. I can accept cash, checks, or PayPal. ➡
    • New TypePad features Three new features for TypePad weblogs have been announced today at Everything TypePad: TypeList Sort Options, Photo Album .zip Uploads, and More Privacy Options. ➡
  • 2002
    • iSfP It's kind of funny how one subject will lead to another, which then takes off and gets something of a life of its own. A throwaway comment by Mark Pilgrim in the midst of explaining a new data format giving his Myers-Briggs Type Indicator led to an interesting couple of posts by Jonathon Delacour relating MBTIs to the blogosphere. ➡
    • Religions are wacky While we're on this, a few years ago I made this claim in the off.ramp newsgroup that I used to hang out in: God is a Dumbass. I offered Nevada and the Moon as proof. Guess what? No one ever was able to prove me wrong. ➡
    • Not a bad way to go, really Rolf Eden, a Berlin property tycoon, former nightclub owner, and all-purpose celebrity, says he is offering $125,000 to any woman, from anywhere in the world, who can kill him with sex. ➡

On This Day: Dec 4

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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 22 posts previously published on December 4th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 216 The label design for these two very different things is entirely too similar. ➡
  • 2020
    • 📚 fifty of 2020: Smut Peddler Presents: Silver ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The latest in @ironcircuscomix’s always enjoyable series of erotic comic anthologies. This time, all about love and lust among older participants (though I was amused to note that I’m older than some of the subjects!). ➡
    • 🖖🏻 Discovery S03E08: Not a bad episode, but aside from a few moments, not a particularly stand-out episode. A little more background to Book, Detmer got a little hands-on flight therapy, and the moment with Stamets and Adira was nice, but the Georgiou mystery is dragging on. ➡
    • On This Day: Dec 4 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 4 ➡
  • 2019
    • Today’s geeky triumph: Figuring out how to use Automator to create a service that pipes selected text through pandoc to speed up converting old posts on my blog to proper markdown format from the current HTML/markdown hodepodge. ➡
    • Plex Offers Over a Thousand Ad-Supported Movies on Demand: The films are “free” as in “ad supported”, but it’s still an interesting move. While I’m a long-time Plex user, I’m not sure if I’ll take advantage of this (I have an extensive personal movie and TV collection as it is, plus some of the big-name ... Read more ➡
    • Downtown Seattle Barnes & Noble to close January 18th: “When the downtown Barnes & Noble closes, there will officially be no bookstores in the downtown retail core. While there are quite a few bookshops in surrounding neighborhoods like the Pike Place Market, Pioneer Square, Capitol Hill, and Queen Anne, this will be the first time ... Read more ➡
  • 2016
    • Wrapping Christmas presents! (339/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • “Justice!” #CWU #blacklivesmatter #ferguson #mikebrown #ericgarner #handsup #icantbreathe ➡
    • About ready to go… #CWU #blacklivesmatter #ferguson #mikebrown #ericgarner #icantbreathe #handsup ➡
    • More people joining. #blacklivesmatter #CWU #ferguson #mikebrown #ericgarner ➡
    • “I’m marching because I was taught to trust the police, but as I’ve gotten older, I’m scared of them.” #blacklivesmatter #ferguson #mikebrown #ericgarner #CWU ➡
    • “Ferguson is here” “I can’t breathe” #blacklivesmatter #handsup #icantbreathe #CWU ➡
    • CWU students gathering for a #blacklivesmatter protest walk. #CWU #ferguson #ericgarner #mikebrown ➡
    • Two Americas Two profoundly different experiences of life in our country that you should be aware of: #CrimingWhileWhite and #AliveWhileBlack. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Six Billion Gallons Outside of leaks taking out a few ceiling tiles at my store in the mall, neither Prairie nor I have personally seen any of the more dramatic effects of the storm. Apparently we got off fairly lucky -- the PI mentions a few people in our area of town that didn't fare so well. ➡
  • 2004
    • Netflix Friends After playing with Netflix Friends a bit last night and this morning, I'm really enjoying this. The more people listed as friends, the more choices there are on your friends page, of course, and it's been fun watching the recommendations change as more of the few people I invited in join in the fun. ➡
  • 2003
    • People sleep…cigarettes don't Wow — scary stuff. Apparently there was a fire at James and Stacy's apartment complex in Anchorage yesterday afternoon. Thankfully, according to Stacy, everyone is okay, including the cat. ➡
  • 2002
    • What he said OK, the joke's over. Will someone tell that chowderhead in the White House to stop playing his Fantasy President computer game and get serious? ➡
    • Ya win some, ya lose some A controversial government initiative to recruit Americans to spy on each other in an attempt to prevent terrorist attacks was quietly killed with the passage of the Homeland Security Act. ➡
    • Pentagon recruitment tactics High school students nationwide may be surprised to know that the Pentagon knows their name, address and phone number. ➡

On This Day: Dec 3

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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 23 posts previously published on December 3rd

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • 📚 50/2021: Chains of Command by Bill McCay and Eloise Flood ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻 ➡
  • 2020
    • 📚 forty-nine of 2020: Clash of the Titans by Alan Dean Foster ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Foster does his usual solidly enjoyable adaptation work. And I’m pretty sure that this movie was responsible for the majority of my knowledge of Greek mythology for much of my youth (and beyond…). ➡
    • Stop that nonsense at once, or you won’t be allowed to make any more planets. — Squire Trelane’s father, ST:TOS “The Squire of Gothos” 🖖 ➡
    • Just found out my trusty first-generation Retina 5K iMac (late 2014) is now on Apple’s ‘vintage products’ list. I’ll happily upgrade as soon as they announce an Apple Silicon replacement! But current rumors don’t have that until late ’21 or early ’22. :( Not soon enough! ➡
    • Nice to meet you, Elliot I'll happily spend a little time being mildly confused if it means that cultural progress is being made. ➡
    • On This Day: Dec 3 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 3 ➡
  • 2019
    • RIP D.C. Fontana Sad news — D.C. Fontana, one of the pillars of Star Trek, has died. ➡
    • Hopepunk Go forth. Be angry. Be optimistic. Be hopepunk. Make this world a better place, whether it likes it or not. ➡
  • 2018
    • Book fifty-two of 2018: Dinosaur Summer, by Greg Bear. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ And that makes my goal of fifty-two books for the year, with almost a full month to go! ➡
  • 2016
    • Book fifty-three of 2016: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (338/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Oh, @cardsagainsthumanity. Don’t ever change. Unless it’s for the better, of course. ➡
  • 2014
    • Now is the time @ShaunKing: 'LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME to find out. NOW. RIGHT NOW' ➡
  • 2010
    • That 100 Book List (That’s Not Actually From the BBC) The list has nothing to do with the BBC -- the closest the BBC gets is The Big Read, a 2003 list of Britain's 100 most popular books as determined by BBC viewer nominations -- and actually appears to be taken from a 2007 article in _The Guardian_, reporting on the results of a poll of 2,000 people by the World Book Day website. ➡
  • 2005
    • LibraryThing Neat new web toy I just found: LibraryThing -- catalog and tag your book collection. I just spent some time putting in a few shelves worth of my library.... Neat! ➡
  • 2004
    • ecto 2 So ecto 2 is updated, and one of the nifty new features is Amazon integration. It's pretty slick…I do have one concern about the link format, though. ➡
  • 2002
    • Pros and cons of newsreaders So — as a personal favor to me — would all of you nice people who keep me informed about the world, thinking about current events, and considering new ideas on how to tweak my website, kindly pipe down for a day or two so I can get caught up? You should be able to start babbling as normal round about Thursday, I think. ➡
    • Recommended reading? This could be interesting — Mark Pilgrim has set up a Recommended Reading script that analyses your web page, and then suggests other sites that you might find worth reading. ➡
    • Everything old is new again So, over the past few weeks, it's been announced that Henry Kissinger is heading up the 9/11 inquiry, and John Poindexter is the new head of the Total Information Awareness office. And we're supposed to accept these announcements as good decisions? ➡
    • I’m not surprised I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation. ➡
  • 2001
    • Yay Pigface! Pigface is going to be in Seattle at the Experience Music Project as part of their Preaching to the Perverted tour! I am so there. ➡

On This Day: Dec 2

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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 23 posts previously published on December 2nd

  • 2023
    • Not a Spotify Wrap-up Streaming only accounts for maybe 10% of my listening, but here's what Apple Music thinks I've been listening to this year. ➡
    • Year 50 Day 214 We needed more books. But then, we _always_ need more books. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Seattle QFC debuts first apple ever bred in Washington, despite the state being the highest grower: “The apple variety was developed by Washington State University. Washington growers, who paid for the research, will have the exclusive right to sell it for the first 10 years.” ➡
    • There are no humans in Star Wars. Watching the Original Trilogy, we assume that the ‘humans’ of the GFFA (Galaxy Far Far Away) are biologically and sociologically identical to Sol 3 humans. When obviously they’re not! ➡
  • 2017
    • Worst. Fudge. Evar! ➡
  • 2016
  • 2012
    • Christmas 2012 Wishlist Dad asked me to post my Christmas wish list, so here I go. As usual, what follows is links to four separate Amazon wish lists, as my occasional OCD tendencies mean I categorize my greed. Though I don't expect anyone other than my parents to get me anything...I've been surprised in the past, so feel free to indulge! ;) ➡
  • 2010
    • Close the Washington Monument ''Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make us fearful.... But when we refuse to be terrorized, when we're indomitable in the face of terror, the terrorists fail -- even if their attacks succeed.'' ➡
    • The Proverbial Sausage Factory This is a fascinating look at a trial from a juror's perspective: hearing the evidence, trying to balance all the factors and evidence in coming to a decision, and watching the legal system at work. Perhaps of particular interest to me as a Law and Justice student, but the kind of thing that I think would be interesting no matter what. ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2004
    • Raise the roof! Ain't no party like an Amish party, 'cause an Amish party don't stop! ➡
    • E=1/2CV^2 (Hanscom’s Law) E=1/2CV^2: any given job will only require half of what you know, but will require proportionately more experience than you have. ➡
    • 100 percent Abstinence is the only 100% sure method of avoiding STDs and unwanted pregnancy. ➡
    • Abstinence courses wildly off base Our tax dollars at work: the abstinence programs that Bush is so heavily in favor of (as opposed to real sex education) are distributing wildly inaccurate information to teens. ➡
  • 2003
    • Dead Milkmen tour diaries How very, very cool. Dean Clean, drummer for the Dead Milkmen, is posting his tour diaries from the band's first days of touring back in 1985. ➡
    • Amazon linking techniques According to onfocus, Amazon has changed the way they link to wishlists, breaking current wishlist links in the process…later in the comments, an interesting tidbit of information was posted…and all this reminded me of an important note from Jason Kottke regarding linking to items on Amazon with your Amazon Associates ID. ➡
    • 2003 Weblog Awards Wizbang has opened up nominations for the 2003 Weblog Awards. In an uncharacteristic fit of self-aggrandizement, I went ahead and nominated this site for Best Looking Blog. ➡
  • 2002
    • God is good And God said, 'You have hot water, and can take a bath.' ➡
    • I’m back I had an absolutely wonderful and very relaxing Thanksgiving weekend with Prairie and her family. Details and pictures will be up later on, probably this evening. ➡

On This Day: Dec 1

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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 27 posts previously published on December 1st

  • 2023
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Gordon van Gelder, administrator of the Philip K. Dick Award, is conducting an online auction to raise funds for the award. Lots of books donated by authors and publishers, many (most? all?) signed by the authors. Check it out! 📚 ➡
    • Found on Facebook, original creator unknown, but it sure made me laugh. Welcome to the holiday season! ➡
    • 📚 fifty-seven of 2019: Way Station, by Clifford D. Simak. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1964 Hugo Best Novel Excellent book, mostly quiet and contemplative, as one man struggles with both his and humanity’s place in the galaxy. An introspective and ultimately hopeful piece. ➡
    • First human composting site to open in 2021: This is really neat, but wow, look at that ‘70s sci-fi cult design! Honestly, I think that’s a selling point for me. ➡
    • Are good readers more likely to give up on maths?: “None of this means that we should stop efforts to counter stereotypes about girls’ aptitude for maths and science versus reading. But it does suggest that much of the impact of these stereotypes occurs not at the point at which girls choose a career, but ... Read more ➡
  • 2016
    • Waiting for my dental appointment. Everyone’s favorite way to start the day. (336/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people '…my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.' ➡
  • 2007
  • 2005
    • Snow! It's really coming down -- doesn't seem to be sticking yet, but the flakes are huge. Whee! ➡
    • Lost s02e09: What Kate Did Scribbled notes while watching last night's episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to... ➡
  • 2004
    • MSN Spaces reactions Robert Scoble is collecting reactions to MSN Spaces, including mine. ➡
    • Balloon Feather Boat Tomato Jason Webley has updated his site with information about his most recent show. He has links up to the photo galleries that Josh and I have posted (nifty!), plus a few other goodies. ➡
    • MSN Spaces launches Microsoft finally makes their long-rumored debut into the weblogging service arena with MSN Spaces. I got curious, and it's free, so I went ahead and signed up to try it out. ➡
    • Switch to VoIP? If I switched over to both OneLink and VoIP, my final cost would be about $6/month more than what I'm paying now, but the first three months would be cheaper, as you get a 'free three months' for signing up (some of which are offset by the setup costs, but that's expected). All in all, this sounds like a pretty damn good deal to me. ➡
    • World AIDS Day World AIDS Day, December 1, 2004 ➡
  • 2003
    • Well, hi there…Dick… According to Yahoo! News, this is a photo of Dick Gephardt's shadow… ➡
    • My G5 is an insomniac Issue 1: My G5 appears to be an insomniac. Issue 2: At some point, I lose the ability to choose some of the commands in the Apple menu: 'About This Mac', 'Force Quit...', 'Restart...', 'Shut Down...', and 'Log Out [username]...' are all non-responsive. ➡
    • Roy Disney resigns from Disney Roy Disney himself has left the Walt Disney company, and includes a call for Michael Eisner's resignation or retirement in his letter of resignation. ➡
    • Getting in Google's good graces I use a number of techniques on my weblog, both in the code and how I create entries, that help Google get the most useful information out of my pages. ➡
    • You're an ex-DJ? I don't think I've ever met an ex-DJ. They're always just 'between clubs' or something. ➡
  • 1993
    • [From Usenet: 12.1.93 0608] All I know is that the local Mucusland (Musicland) moved the date in their little book for his new album from October/November to January. Ergh...starting to get torqued at this! ➡
    • [From Usenet 12.1.93 0608] According to a DJ at the local college radio station, there was a sampler put out by Hollywood records a while back with a remix (not remake) of Queen's Stone Cold Crazy, remixed by Trent Reznor. ➡
    • [From Usenet 12.1.93 0542] Personally, I don't have a whole lot, but...Front by Front is good, best track (imho) being #10, Welcome to Paradise ('Hey poor! You don't have to be poor anymore! Jesus is here!') Good sampling. ➡
    • [From Usenet: 12.1.93 0534] Good stuff (imho). New album, while not produced by Reznor, definitely has some of his touch to it...probably picked up some hints while working on the remixes of BLBT(AJF). Nifty...I like it. ➡