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On This Day: Dec 16

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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 16th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • Jean and Jorts As Metaphor For Disability Accommodations. ➡
  • 2020
    • 📚 fifty-one of 2020: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sure, Asimov’s gender politics don’t age particularly well. But he was always a brilliant and breezy writer, and for all his faults, he’ll always be a favorite. This collection of robotic puzzlers is always enjoyable. ➡
    • On This Day: Dec 16 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 16 ➡
  • 2019
    • An Alarmingly Deep Dive Into the Science of Baby Yoda: “But whether the Yoda is Baby Yoda’s true daddy isn’t what fascinates us every time we tune into The Mandalorian. What keeps us coming back for more is trying to figure out what in the actual hell Baby Yoda is supposed to be. […] We ... Read more ➡
  • 2018
    • Book fifty-six of 2018: Gigantic Worlds, edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • I made dinner! Well, I helped. We had French dip sandwiches, I made the au jus. From a powdered mix. Okay, I stirred hot flavored water. (351/366) ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2004
    • 32.4 Days After adding as many of the 100 overlooked films to my Netflix queue as I could, my queue is now 389 discs long. Assuming an average of two hours per movie, that's 32.4 days of movies lined up. Something tells me that that's going to take a while to get through. ;) ➡
  • 2003
    • MiddleEarth mania, week two: The Two Towers And speaking of LotR, I just realized that I'd completely forgotten to say anything about seeing LotR:TTTEE at the Cinerama on Saturday. ➡
    • It's almost time… I'm whining. ➡
    • Another star for Clark Just not another star on his collar. Rather, the four-star General's newest star is none other than Madonna, who expressed her support for Clark's campaign in a CNN interview. ➡
    • The cost of Longhorn [Longhorn], according to Microsoft chief architect Bill Gates, will cost more to develop than it did the US government to put a man on the moon. ➡
  • 2002
    • Blogs: 1, Lott: 0 It's been really fascinating over the past week or so to see Senator Lott's comments create such a stir (and rightly so, I'd say) — primarily because it's entirely possible that his comment just may have gotten swept under the rug had the 'blogosphere' not started voicing their outrage. ➡
    • Giant sea sparrows? No giant sea sparrow is known to be endangered by the eating habits of goats. ➡
    • You’re owed $20 If enough people file claims that the disbursement would end up less than $5 per claimant, then the entirety of the settlement fee would be donated to not-for-profit, charitable, governmental or public entities to be used for music-related purposes or programs for the benefit of consumers who purchased Music Products. ➡
  • 2001
  • 1994
    • [From Usenet 12.16.94 0626] As far as I can tell, after being a fan of both Queen and nin for quite a while, I'd be willing to bet that all that 'sample' is, is holding down the fast forward button on a cd player and panning it back and forth during the goofball experimental middle section of GDML. ➡

On This Day: Dec 15

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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 15th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • US Finally Giving Boot to Official Foot Measurement: “The change started in 1959, when the federal government mandated that everyone use the international foot but allowed surveyors to keep to the old U.S. survey foot for a while. That temporary reprieve has lasted 60 years, but it will finally end in 2022.” ➡
  • 2016
    • I am now an official card-carrying member of the #ACLU. (350/366) cc: @aclu_nationwide ➡
    • That’s two days this week I spaced on my photo. At least Snapchat had an Edward Scissorhands filter to play with! (349/366) ➡
  • 2013
    • On our way back to the burg. Prairie’s driving, so I get to take silly selfies. #roadtrip ➡
    • Saw this on a wall as we were walking around yesterday. Remnants of climbing plants that had been removed, the paths of the vines can still be seen. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Done with Hawaii I was beginning to doubt that I'd ever find the time to finish this project, but I'm _finally_ done with the pictures from our trip to Hawaii last summer! ➡
  • 2006
    • Congratulations H and P! Prairie’s sister and her boyfriend just got engaged -- to each other, even! ;) ➡
    • Post-Storm Report All in all, nothing major to report, as far as we're concerned. Elsewhere in Seattle, though, it's far different. Flooding, mudslides, downed trees, three people dead (one a woman who drowned in her basement apartment) and one million people without power. ➡
  • 2004
    • He had a piercing stare… This is hands-down one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time — eyeglasses without rims, bows, or even a bridge. They're attached via a bridge piercing. ➡
    • Well, it sounded good… That camera I won? Nevermind. Turns out that that was the prize for the account manager. I, as the valued employee who interacts with the customers on a daily basis and provide the customer service that gets such high praise, get the hearty thanks of the company for a job well done. ➡
    • Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika Very cool: an early 1950's pictoral map of the United States of America, apparently issued by the US Government to introduce our country to the people of Germany, most of whom knew little of us outside of what they'd picked up from GIs in their country during World War II. ➡
    • Popular Public Potties According to the PI, our new space-age public restrooms are a success. I've still not used one of these things — but then, I'm still convinced that they're eating people. ➡
  • 2003
    • Spider-Man 2 Teaser A disappointingly low-rez but very cool teaser trailer for Spider-Man 2 just hit the net. ➡
    • Billy Idol’s ‘Cyberpunk’ The future has imploded into the present. With no nuclear war, the new battlefields are people's minds and souls. Megacorporations are the new government. The computer generated info-domains are the new frontiers. Though there is better living through science and chemistry, we are all becoming cyborgs. ➡
    • 0 is also a number Does anyone know how to access and rip the hidden tracks on the X-Files Songs in the Key of X soundtrack CD on a Mac? ➡
  • 2000
    • Back again Got in (late…damn airlines) from my vacation last night, and am currently enjoying my last actual unscheduled day, as far as I know. I may not be on the schedule at my weekend job this weekend, but this being the Christmas shopping season, I'm not betting on that, and just working on the assumption that this is my last "day of rest." ➡

On This Day: Dec 14

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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 31 posts previously published on December 14th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • I am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us. ➡
    • Preparing for My New Office NCC-1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D. ➡
    • The Micropedia of Microaggressions – the first encyclopedia of microaggressions.: The Micropedia aims to collect everyday microaggressions and highlight their harmful impact through source-based definitions and real-world examples. ➡
  • 2020
    • AI Weirdness • 2020 headlines: “Midway through 2020, people started suggesting that I train a neural net on 2020 headlines, and I was skeptical that there would be enough weird ones to make a decent project. Then 2020 continued to be 2020.” ➡
    • ‘Plaguecore’ and the Rise of Tumblr’s Dress-Up Culture: “Young people are weathering the pandemic by posting photos of themselves in 17th-century plague-doctor outfits.” Discussed here (with lots of links to Tumblr posts): plaguecore, cottagecore, and dark academia. ➡
    • On This Day: Dec 14 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 14 ➡
  • 2019
    • Meeting’s done, time for the Norwescon holiday party! For which, of course, I brought out my most seasonally appropriate suit coat. ➡
    • Gathering the troops for this month’s Norwescon planning meeting. Just four months to go until this year’s con! ➡
  • 2014
    • Christmas cookies! #nomnomnom ➡
  • 2013
    • Stuffed full of tasty tasty Ethiopian food. #QueenofSheba ➡
    • Me: “Don’t jump, Santa!” Prairie: “Why don’t you care about the snowman?” #morbidxmasjokes ➡
    • The chase is on… #looff #carousel ➡
    • Carousel! ➡
    • Love the ice patterns on the rocks. Taken from the SkyRide tram. #spokanefalls ➡
    • The Spokane falls are gorgeous! ➡
    • Debating playing with Instagram again. Took this on Friday back in Eburg. ➡
  • 2007
  • 2006
    • Stormpocalypse ’06 Looks like the strongest storm in 13 years is going to be hitting Seattle tonight. Yesterday hit hard enough to knock out power at our apartment for a few hours in the morning, with other outages reported across town. Tonight, though, is predicted to make yesterday look positively balmy. ➡
  • 2005
    • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe So. Very. Good. Some small quibbles here and there, to be sure, but on the whole a marvelously successful job of translating the book to the screen. Hurrah! ➡
    • iTMS Affiliation is a pain in the butt While I love the idea of iTMS affiliation -- and if I got more traffic, it might even bring me more than a few pennies here and there -- I've got to agree with Scot Hacker that the whole shebang is really a pain to deal with. ➡
    • Poseidon In my version of the movie, the survivors of the capsized ship would make it to the surface, find a life raft, and make it to shore only to discover that the wave had been generated by a huge meteor or asteroid crashing into the ocean not far from their ship. ➡
    • My favorite random facts about… There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Vin Diesel allows to live. Superman owns a pair of Chuck Norris pajamas. The last man who made eye contact with Mr. T was Ray Charles. ➡
  • 2004
    • Found slides from 1979 Most of what I find is general office and printing stuff, some of which I can use for my job, some of which I can't. Yesterday, however, I found an old box of slides. I can't be sure when they were taken, but the date stamp on the slides from when they were developed is April of 1979. Most of the slides were horribly overexposed and unuseable, but seven of them were good. ➡
    • LotR:TYEBEE update A reminder e-mail with directions and details has been sent out to those of you who expressed interest in attending my little Lord of the Rings: Till Your Eyes Bleed Extended Edition deal on Saturday. ➡
  • 2003
    • CSS geek humor Last week, CSS guru Eric Meyer and his wife Kat had their first child, Carolyn, which resulted in a large number of congratulatory posts using css-ish puns. ➡
    • Profile of a Spammer Ever wonder about the people responsible for cramming your inboxes full of offers that you neither want or need? ➡
    • US Political Regions Commonwealth Magazine, unsatisfied with the standard blue (Democrat) vs. Red (Republican) political reporting of elections past, has proposed an interesting division of the country into ten seperate political regions. ➡
    • Emperor Norton You are Joshua Abraham Norton, first and only Emperor of the United States of America! ➡
    • Security: Mac OS X vs. Windows Last week, a minor firestorm erupted when PC Magazine columnist Lance Ulanoff wrote a ridiculously inflammatory article gleefully declaring that, 'the Mac OS is just as vulnerable as Microsoft Windows.' ➡
    • Saddam captured – what now? Of course, me being me, I have to wonder where things are going to go from here. Two things immediately stick out in my mind. ➡

On This Day: Dec 13

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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 13th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • Good update to a classic track: It’s Raining Them (hallelujah!). ➡
    • When one of the most effective and frightening villains of 1980s-era Trek is a collective without individuals, it’s not surprising that an inability to look beyond the individual to act in the interests of the common good is our biggest real-world barrier to dealing with Covid. ➡
    • We’ve Lost the Ideal of the Common Good From the New York Times: Vaccine Hesitancy Is About Trust and Class: …people who reject vaccines are not necessarily less scientifically literate or less well-informed than those who don’t. Instead, hesitancy reflects a transformation of our core beliefs about what we owe one another. Over the past four decades, governments have slashed budgets and privatized ... Read more ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Amused to realize that at the moment, thanks to my posts about books and Short Trek episodes, I’m kind of dominating micro.blog’s 🖖 Star Trek “discover” feed. Maybe once Picard starts broadcasting more micro.blog Trekkies/ers will show up? ➡
    • From what I understand of the U.K. election, comparing British politics to American politics is now like the tag line to Alien vs. Predator: Whoever wins, we lose. I’m tired of feeling like we’re in a race to the bottom. Can we get back to trying to set a good example, please? ➡
  • 2018
    • Book fifty-five of 2018: Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • Ever pause the TV at the perfect moment? 😜 (348/366) #izombie ➡
    • Was being cranky and forgot yesterday’s photo. Snapchat filter penance time. (347/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Got our lights put up this afternoon. We’re all twinkly now! ➡
    • Yay…more behind-the-scenes Trek geekiness! Only 1,000 printed, and mine is one of only the first 100 to come autographed. #startrek #trekkie #trekker #geek More info: http://creaturefeatures.com/shop/books/returntotomorrow/ ➡
  • 2007
    • Finally, More Photos! I actually had a day off today. No school, no work, nothing. So, I spent the day working on getting caught up on some of my photographic backlog. I started by processing a set of shots of Club V that I'd been asked to take, then dove back into the vacation photos from this summer. Lots of photos of the Pana'ewa Rainforest Zoo just outside of Hilo (one of which ended up being my 11,000th photo uploaded to Flickr!), plus some more snorkeling. ➡
  • 2006
    • Happy Holidays from Me, Prairie…and Flickr A bit of silliness on Flickr these days: if you add a note that says simply 'ho ho ho hat' to a photo, Flickr will add a Santa hat to the photo where the note is placed. ➡
    • Other Life Updates It was pointed out to me by Casey when I ran into him, Jen, and their daughter on the bus yesterday as I was heading home from school that, with the dearth of posts here lately, I've been letting down those (poor, sad) souls who depend on my rambling here to live vicariously through me. Sorry 'bout that! ➡
    • Another Quarter Done No final in English (just a final paper that was turned in last week), my History final was yesterday, and my Intro to Programming final was today. ➡
  • 2005
    • Marie Antoinette How very odd this is -- odd, though, in a way that gives me a grin. The first trailer for Marie Antoinette, a new film by Sofia Coppola. It's a period piece starting Kirsten Dunst as the ill-fated queen...and the trailer is all set to New Order's 'Age of Consent'. ➡
  • 2004
    • Quick Review: Dawn of the Dead Last night's fun was the modern remake of Dawn of the Dead. I've not seen the original, so I can't compare the two in any way, but this one was exactly what I expected it would be &dmash; a fun, sometimes silly, and very gory horror flick. ➡
    • Quick Review: Timeline I just finished watching Timeline, based on the book by Michael Crichton. I don't know anything about the book it's based on — I haven't read a Crichton novel in years — but the movie? Oooh, ouch. Bad movie. No biscuit. ➡

On This Day: Dec 12

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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 12th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 224 I've been feeling a little spacey today.... ;) ➡
    • Apple Music Grumbling That's both 'the Apple Music service' and 'using Apple devices to listen to music', to be clear. Apple changed something with iOS 17 and made Apple Music less useful for me, and I'm ranting about it. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • The Newest Short Treks Offer a Bright Hope for Star Trek’s Animated Future: “These two tales, on their own, may not be the grandest Star Trek stories ever told—but they don’t have to be. They prove there is space for Star Trek, on the precipice on an unprecedented level of saturation, to tell tales which ... Read more ➡
    • Trying an experiment which I hope I won’t end up regretting: Re-enabling comments on blog posts on my site (but leaving them set to auto-close after two weeks). Don’t know how often they’ll get used, or whether it’ll just be spammers and trolls, but it’s worth an attempt. ➡
    • Short Treks E09: “The Girl Who Made the Stars”: A sweet fable told to a young Michael Burnham (with an adorable tardigrade stuffie) by her dad. Gorgeous animation—and the being the girl in the story meets sure looks like it came right out of The Abyss! Maybe a crossover? 😉 🖖 ➡
    • Short Treks E08: “Ephriam and Dot”: Extremely cute, and definitely a love letter to TOS Trek—though perhaps so much so that more casual or newer watchers might be confused by some of the images that flash by. It worked for me, though. Plus, the narrator is Kirk Thatcher! 🖖 ➡
    • Continuing my Instagram Lurker Status After (almost) a year away, I toyed with resuming uploading to Instagram. But in the end, nope — I'll lurk, but I won't contribute. ➡
  • 2018
    • Book fifty-four of 2018: Star Trek: Klingon Empire: A Burning House, by Keith R. A. DeCandido. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2017
    • Day three! #cah #cardsagainsthumanity ➡
  • 2016
    • We picked this one up a while ago, but decided to save building it until there was a day crappy enough to warrant a #Lego sanitation truck and portapotty. Guess how my day was. (At least the Lego set is really cute.) #💩 ➡
  • 2015
    • Thank you Pike Place Market for supplying the fixings for breakfast in bed! Various croissants, a couple donuts, and fresh dates and Turkish figs for Prairie. ➡
  • 2007
    • Pet Dreams These people need to get together with these people so that Prairie and I can get a hypoallergenic glow in the dark kitten. ➡
  • 2004
    • New Styles I've done very little posting or reading over the weekend, and I'm up way too late tonight (tomorrow morning is really going to suck), but it's all for a good cause as there are now two new stylesheets available in the switcher over to the right. ➡
  • 2003
    • I'm a dork It's a phone. Nothing else. No call waiting, no caller ID, no voice mail, no fancy goodies of any sort. Just a phone. If someone calls when I'm home, I pick it up and answer it. If they call when I'm out, then they'll just have to call back later. ➡
    • Ooga-chaka! Ooga-chaka! Presented for your amusement: one of the most bizarre, funny, and somewhat disturbing music videos I've ever seen. ➡
    • Resume of George W. Bush I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record. ➡
  • 2001

On This Day: Dec 11

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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 20 posts previously published on December 11th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 223 The longer this ‘photo-a-day’ project goes on, the more difficult it gets. ➡
  • 2022
  • 2020
    • The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans: “Moviemakers have perfected the art of rendering skin and hair—but only for white people.” ➡
    • On This Day: Dec 11 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from December 11 ➡
  • 2019
    • 2019 Mac Pro isn’t the most expensive Mac ever. Not even close.: “There has been much handwaving over the $5,999 price tag on the 2019 Mac Pro. It’s often been criticized for being Apple’s expensive computer ever. But it’s not. And it’s not even close, if you factor in inflation. Many of the early Macs ... Read more ➡
    • 📚 fifty-nine of 2019: Gods Above, by Peter David. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A little odd, because I didn’t know beforehand that the New Frontier books were quite so serialized, and I was coming in mid-story. Still an enjoyable follow up to TOS’s “Who Mourns for Adonais?”. 🖖 ➡
    • On This Day Looking back on 20 years of blogging ➡
  • 2016
    • Book fifty-four of 2016: Hollow City, by Ransom Riggs. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • Piles of presents under the tree! We’re all Christmassed up and ready to go! (346/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • I’m Concerned About I-1351’s Effects on Higher Education Filed under 'yes, even I can have unpopular opinions': I'm _very_ concerned about where the money to fund I-1351's directives is going to come from. We live in a state where voters refuse to put money into the system, and it's really not even clear that smaller class sizes will make that much of a difference. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Expressiveness I think a short passage in a Reuters Photographers blog may have nailed one of the reasons why my interest in sports is limited to football (_real_ football, that is -- most of you know this as 'soccer'). ➡
    • A Vogue New Year’s Eve I don't guess that I'll be going -- Prairie and I, over the past few years, have found that New Years Eve out and about is often just a bit too much -- but it's nice to see one of my photos in use on the flyer for Monsignior and Roxy's New Years Eve' bash! ➡
  • 2005
    • Let it snow! Heh -- cool web toy of the moment (if you have a web cam -- without a cam you can read about it and see the sample images, but the effect just won't quite be the same): Webcam Snowstorm. ➡
    • Going Going Gone (And I Did Nothing Wrong) Amusing moment of the evening: now that the club is non-smoking, it made the one guy who forgot about the smoking ban really, _really_ obvious as he sat in the corner having a cigarette. ➡
  • 2003
    • What you leave behind Well, it's done. Last night I finished the last episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The Dominion War is done. ➡
  • 2002
    • Interesting Apple rumors Some unusually interesting (to me, at least, as both an Apple fan and a music fan) rumors surfacing over at /. today. ➡
    • Message from our sponsor Written and performed back in 1992, I was listening to this spoken word piece by Jello Biafra tonight and it struck me how little has changed since it was written. Aside from the reference to Al Haig, this little pice of satire is just as relevant today as it was ten years ago. Kind of funny and sad at the same time, I think. ➡

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 23 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
  • 2013
    • Sounds From the Lost Abbey 08 Back in February, I took up a challenge from one of my friends to create a mix based around songs that I'd have played at the Lost Abbey, during the mid- to late-1990s. Here's the eighth of quite a few to come! ➡
    • Sounds From the Lost Abbey 07 Back in February, I took up a challenge from one of my friends to create a mix based around songs that I'd have played at the Lost Abbey, during the mid- to late-1990s. Here's the seventh of quite a few to come! ➡
  • 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... ➡