Blog

Site updates and anything else related to the technology of blogging and my site(s).

On This Day: Nov 17

by

Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 27 posts previously published on November 17th

  • 2024
    • Twisters 🎥: ⭐️⭐️: Not that I expected much, but I was hoping for more _enjoyably_ dumb instead of just...meh. ➡
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
    • Though no train had come through in ages, the ties were kept clear of growth, rails shined as if they’d just been laid down, and the whole town had come out for the ritual tying of the damsel across the tracks to be saved or sacrificed at the will of their diesel powered god. ➡
    • Happy birthday to the COVID-19 coronavirus! A 55-year-old individual from Hubei province in China may have been the first person to have contracted COVID-19…. That case dates back to Nov. 17, 2019, according to the South China Morning Post. ➡
    • It had started about a month ago. He’d been restless in the middle of the night, and had climbed out onto the fire escape when he heard the phantom train approaching. He knew that one of these nights he’d find the tracks. He just hoped it would stop for him when he did. ➡
    • This Means Nothing This is useless. ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 17 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 17 ➡
  • 2019
    • “Truly,” thought the commander, overlooking the fleet of ships before their eyes, “this is magnificent. Surely, no fleet as superb as this one had been seen since—“ “Alex!” “What, mom?” “Turn off the holoprojector and get in bed! Now!” They sighed. Microblogvember: superb ➡
  • 2018
    • Book forty-seven of 2018: Elevation, by Stephen King. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • Almost done with the week! (322/366) ➡
    • Silly Snapchat filter because I forgot yesterday’s photo. (321/366) ➡
    • So Amazon had a really good deal earlier this week ($35 for this stack)! The Alien quadrilogy is an upgrade from the DVDs, the AvPs and Prometheus are new to my collection. No regrets. #alien #aliens ➡
  • 2015
    • Sometime soon it’s going to be time for us to have a mega Hobbit-thon! #lotr #lordoftherings #hobbit #thehobbit ➡
  • 2010
    • Fly Commando! I’m almost disappointed I’m not flying soon. I’d wear my kilt. Commando. Grope away, sucker! ➡
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Missed One… Took a test in the morning before school (it was posted online at 6:30am), went to school, came home, had lunch with the girl, went to work, came home, had dinner with the girl, and went to bed. Somehow managed to completely forget about posting...and there goes the one-a-day streak. ➡
  • 2004
    • Weblogger’s Meetup Just got back a bit ago from this month's Seattle Weblogger's Meetup. Roundabout 20-something people in attendance, of whom I knew three or so beforehand. Now I'm tired, though, and will be heading to bed before too terribly long. ➡
  • 2003
    • Creators admit Unix, C hoax In an announcement that has stunned the computer industry, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan admitted that the Unix operating system and C programming language created by them is an elaborate April Fools prank kept alive for over 20 years. ➡
    • November Weblog Meetup For the first (and quite likely only) time, I'm going to be able to attend one of the local Weblogger's Meetup events, as my training schedule for this Wednesday has me off work at 6pm. ➡
    • Major referrer spam attack Looks like there's a major referrer spam attack going on at the moment. The sites in question look like real weblogs but aren't. ➡
    • The sound of silence Why can't we as a nation honor our four hundred and twenty two dead as touchingly and honestly as the Italians do their nineteen? ➡
    • Blog For Lease Blog for lease (in Bloomington, Indiana). ➡
    • Fight Link Rot! Calpundit has an excellent summary posted on how to link to New York Times articles without having the links succumb to link rot. This should be required reading for all bloggers, IMNSHO — citing sources is important, and it's best if the sources don't later disappear. ➡
    • GeoURL I've just added my GeoURL location identification to my main page — I had it on my old Long Letter blog, but hadn't thought to put it in here on Eclecticism yet. Silly me. ➡
    • Stuff I've Seen Every so often during my time working on the Microsoft campus, I'd see something that really caught my interest. However, I couldn't ever talk about it — NDAs and the like — so I've never mentioned any of them. However, the one that was always at the top of the 'I really wish I had this' list was just announced at Comdex. ➡

On This Day: Nov 16

by

Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 17 posts previously published on November 16th

  • 2024
    • Mad Max 2 🎥: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: This is where you can really see the world of the modern Mad Max movies taking shape in Miller's mind. ➡
  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 198 This is my 'getting off campus later than expected for the third day in a row' face. ➡
  • 2020
    • The first experiments in directly accessing and manipulating human memory raised more questions than gave answers. No matter what memories were implanted, after awakening all subjects recalled one event that hadn’t occurred: the appearance of an alien craft over Seattle in 2007. ➡
    • Bookshop over Amazon Most of the books we buy are second-hand, but we do occasionally buy/pre-order new books. We had two on order from Amazon, but I just canceled those orders in favor of ordering them from Bookshop instead. We’ll pay a little more and wait a couple more days for the books, but we can afford both ... Read more ➡
    • Lockdown has affected your memory – here’s why: “Many of us have found ourselves in an isolated routine during the pandemic – and it turns out, that’s not very good for your memories.” ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 16 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 16 ➡
  • 2019
    • One nice thing about the aliens being so selective about who they accepted, even if the reasons were unknown, was that anyone who wasn’t an economically privileged cis straight white male could just get on with their lives. Things improved quickly. Microblogvember: selective ➡
  • 2018
    • Book forty-six* of 2018: Deathday, by William C. Dietz. ⭐️⭐️ * Yes, the last one said 44, but according to Goodreads, this one is 46, so apparently I missed photoposting a book somewhere along the line this year. ➡
  • 2006
    • Back already! Well now, that didn't take long! As you can see, I'm back...mostly. ➡
  • 2005
  • 2004
    • Jason Webley Halloween Deathday 2004 Bootleg laurachandae was kind enough to send me a copy of her recording of Jason Webley's Halloween show, so I've converted it to .mp3 and have posted it on my webserver. It's only the first half of the show (apparently a mic cable got unplugged during intermission), but what there is is pretty good quality, and very listenable. ➡
  • 2003
    • World record pillow fight! 766 people showed up at Oregon State on Friday to take part in a jumbo pillow fight in hopes of topping the Guinness Book of Records mark. ➡
    • Bombs? Assassinations? Attacks? Place your bets! Remember the Policy Awareness Market? It was a DARPA-backed plan to establish a 'futures' market wagering on the likelihood of terrorist attacks, assassinations, and the like. Well, guess what? It's back! ➡
    • Bush denied 'license to kill' What's more disturbing? The fact that we have an administration with the unmitigated gall to make such requests in the first place? Or the fact that we have a President who is so mistrusted, disliked, and outright hated by so many people that they feel the need for that level of security? ➡
    • The Democratic parties According to The New Republic, it's looking more and more like we practically have two feuding Democratic parties now: Clinton's version and Dean's version. ➡
  • 2001
    • XP sucks! This is a truely genius piece of work -- someone actually managed to scale up to wherever the sign is and alter it. In other words, this isn't just some joker with Photoshop at work -- this is a real-world hack job. ➡
    • Enterprise: Civilization Random bit of trivia I stumbled across this past week -- Kim Darby, who played Jenny Myer in Better off Dead had, much earlier in her career, played Miri in the Star Trek Original Series episode 'Miri'. ➡

On This Day: Nov 15

by

Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 18 posts previously published on November 15th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • We had come so far in the years since we had left Earth. Not just in distance, but in guided evolution as well. After many generations of genetic manipulation to adapt to the low gravity environment, we had started to question whether we could still define ourselves as human. ➡
    • 📚 forty-five of 2020: Doomsday World by Carmen Carter, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, and Robert Greenberger ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tng 🖖 Almost two stars because of the really painfully obvious “twist” that none of the characters managed to see, but otherwise acceptable. ➡
    • Lockdown Again Yes, this sucks. But death is worse. ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 15 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 15 ➡
  • 2019
    • Only after she let her fingers slip over the side of the boat to drift through the water did she realize that the lake was more clear than she thought. Or at least, the murky substance wasn’t part of the water, as it flowed over her hand and up her arm. Microblogvember: murky ➡
  • 2016
    • Okay, it’s been a week. Anytime now we should get the reveal that this has all been one big, cruel hoax. Right? (320/366) ➡
  • 2008
    • Are We On? Tim Conway and Ernie Anderson A couple weeks ago, author, actor, and humorist John Hodgman was the guest on NPR's 'Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!' As I listened to John and host Peter Sagal, John's simple, polite, and deadpan delivery of often ludicrous responses to Peter's questions reminded me _very_ strongly of an old comedy album of my dad's that I listened to time and time again growing up, where ABC television announcer Ernie Anderson plays straight man to comedian Tim Conway in a series of interviews. ➡
  • 2007
    • Turtle Butt In lieu of actually posting anything truly interesting, I give you one of my favorite shots from our trip to Hawaii this summer. ➡
  • 2006
    • Lockdown Seeing as I haven't been writing a whole lot lately, this seems as good a time as any to declare this site on temporary hiatus while I transfer over to the new webhost. ➡
    • Vogue No More 1) The Vogue is closing at the end of the year. 2) The new club will be called Blacklight and will be in the upper level of the Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC) and opening in the second half of January. ➡
  • 2004
    • Exterminate all rational thought. Mike posted about joining up with NetFlix, and his list of upcoming movies included Brazil and Time Bandits, both wonderfully bizarre films directed by Terry Gilliam. I dropped him a quick note to recommend a few other flicks, which touched off a discovery of something that I've been waiting years for. ➡
    • So punny Last night, as I was standing in front of the Vogue getting some air, there was a guy walking across the street carrying a couple of floor lamps. It was all I could do to resist walking up to him and saying, 'Hey man…' ➡
    • Nov. Weblogger Meetup This month's Seattle Weblogger Meetup is this Wednesday, 7pm at Ralph's Grocery and Deli, kitty-corner from the Cinerama. I'm really hoping to make it to this one, since I missed last month's. ➡
  • 2003
    • Because I suck at remembering names Vogue regulars I met tonight that I should remember the names of: ➡
    • iPod Rocks! Looks like Apple's gearing up for the holiday season with a new teen-focused website at ipodrocks. ➡
    • Justice isn't always black and white Local weekly newspaper The Stranger has an excellent summary of Gary Ridgeway's day in court confessing to 48 counts of murder as the Green River Killer — and plea bargaining to avoid the death sentence in the process — in the form of a 24-panel black and white comic strip. ➡
  • 2001

On This Day: Nov 14

by

Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 20 posts previously published on November 14th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • 📚 45/2021: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1975 Hugo Best Novel ➡
  • 2020
    • He knew the children had asked for “an old-fashioned Halloween”, and he’d done his best, but even he was surprised by just how spooky the ships corridors were with the lighting low and the spare EVA suits like bodies, tethered near air vents to slowly drift in the low gravity. ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 14 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 14 ➡
  • 2019
    • “Ready for your upgrade?” “You know it! Even made sure to shave the back of my neck this morning for the port installation.” “Seriously? Do you have any idea what hacking into your spine like that would do to you? You’ve seen The Matrix too many times.” Microblogvember: neck ➡
    • Short Treks E07: “Ask Not”: A bit predictable — I figured out what was going on long before the reveal — but still enjoyable, and better than the last two. About those views of Engineering, though…how is there room for all that with all the empty space around the turbolifts? 🖖 ➡
  • 2018
  • 2016
    • Part of tonight’s #NotInOurKittCo peace march from #CWU to the #Ellensburg downtown. (#NiOKC is an offshoot of #NiOT/#NotInOurTown, an anti-hate/discrimination movement; the local initiative was formed after KKK flyers appeared around town.) (319/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Prairie found me an early Thanksgiving turkey! #Lego ➡
    • My thanks to whomever put out the table full of books at today’s #nwc39 meeting. Got some great additions to my collection. Particularly fond of the #StarTrek #TOS “choose your own adventure” (“Which Way Books”) book! ➡
  • 2014
    • The neighborhood kitty was quite determined that it was going to come inside with us. It kept coming into the garage and sitting by the inside door, and each time I picked it up, it would settle into my arms and purr quite contentedly. I felt really guilty putting it back out in the cold. ... Read more ➡
  • 2007
    • Ask Your Doctor For A Reason to Take It Apparently (and thankfully), Prairie and I aren't the only ones watching these ads with more than a little distaste. Consumer Reports is starting what's intended to be a series of video/weblog posts analyzing these DTC (direct-to-consumer) ads. ➡
  • 2004
    • The Incredibles Took Prairie out to see The Incredibles today — my second time, her first. As I said before, Pixar can do no wrong, and the movie was just as good the second time. Possibly better, as I caught a couple lines and gags that I'd missed the first time through. ➡
    • Coriolis Force Do goths swirl the other way below the equator? ➡
    • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory teaser poster There was a bit of discussion here a few months back about the upcoming Tim Burton/Johnny Depp/Danny Elfman version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. As a quick followup to that, the first poster for the film has just hit the 'net. ➡
  • 2003
    • Random encounters In some ways, I'm going to miss being able to wander up and down Broadway on my breaks. Some of the random encounters that go on can be fun. ➡
  • 2001
    • Please? Pretty please? With Muppets on top? I know it's a bit pricey. That's why I'm grovelling. Really grovelling. I'm actually on my knees right now. It's a little hard to type, but it's worth it. ➡
    • Pro-America Pro-America does not mean pro-war. Or pro-Bush. Or anti-Afghanistan. Or pro-little-flags-on-SUV-antennas. ➡

On This Day: Nov 13

by

Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 23 posts previously published on November 13th

  • 2024
    • Deadpool & Wolverine 🎥: ⭐️⭐️⭐️: This is not a _good_ film. Basically, it's a Marvel Cinematic Universe porno. It's also rather entertaining. ➡
  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 195 We continue to work our way through treats we brought back from London. ➡
  • 2022
  • 2020
    • “It’s up to you. We gave you the clues. Now choose.” “But the clues don’t make any sense!” He strained against the bindings holding him in place. “If you cannot choose, then guess. But guess now.” Trembling, he reached into one of the holes in the wall before him, and waited. ➡
    • The ‘djwudi’ at shapeWright.com: Enter a text string, get a generated spaceship. I tried my standard username and Norwescon. Both look pretty nifty. ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 13 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 13 ➡
  • 2019
    • “You know damn well it’s not a question of whether I’m able to do the job,” she snapped. “I have twice his experience, not to mention at least twice the number of limbs, depending on how you count the cybernetics. He still has to do his own damn work.” Microblogvember: able ➡
    • Editing Chapter Markers in .mkv files A brief rundown of how to edit chapter markers in .mkv files, using the just-released Monty Python's Flying Circus Norwegian Blu-Ray Edition box set as an example. ➡
  • 2016
    • Left my phone on the floor with the camera on. Saw it, laughed at the angle, and made a monster pose. Prairie decided that needed to be an actual picture…and who am I to argue? (318/366) ➡
  • 2010
    • Skyline Review by @hogbiker Last night, a friend of mine in Anchorage was getting together with some friends. The plan was to watch the new sci-fi movie Skyline, then have a boys' night out. When I got up this morning, I thought the results needed to be saved for posterity. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Best AP Retraction Ever In a Nov. 13 story, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that Paris Hilton was praised by conservationists for highlighting the problem of binge-drinking elephants in northeastern India. Lori Berk, a publicist for Hilton, said she never made any comments about helping drunken elephants in India. ➡
    • As brevity is the soul of wit… Competing with last May's 'Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo' for best headline of 2007: 'Hamlet Shaken by Murder Then Suicide'. ➡
    • I’m a Winner! My unlucky streak has ended! I'm now the (proud?) amused owner of a Canon Rebel ('Official Camera of the NFL') folding chair! ➡
  • 2005
    • Make it stop! The downstairs neighbor -- on the other side of the building -- has had "All I Want For Christmas is You" from the Love Actually soundtrack playing on repeat... For. Six. Hours. ➡
  • 2003
    • Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex One should not think of Superman as a Peeping Tom. A biological ability must be used. As a child Superman may never have known that things had surfaces, until he learned to suppress his X-ray vision. If millions of people tend shamelessly to wear clothing with no lead in the weave, that is hardly Superman's fault. ➡
    • I'm such a geek… Jason needs to close his <p> tags and drop the archaic <font> tags in favor of CSS. ➡
    • Top 10 scientific hoaxes A very interesting list, some of which I'd heard of, some of which I hadn't, and one that I'd never heard was a hoax. ➡
    • Gore Vidal interview The LA Weekly currently has an interview with Gore Vidal which is well worth reading, touching on everything from what our founding fathers might think of Bush and his cronies to electronic voting. ➡
    • 10.28 teraflops Virginia Tech's Power Mac G5-based supercomputer has reached 10.28 teraflops. ➡
    • Trailers: Harry Potter, Peter Pan Quick notice of a couple trailers worth checking out (at least, in my world they're worth checking out): Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Peter Pan. ➡
  • 2001
    • What’s with the black bars? While most of my friends have been around me long enough to understand my preference for watching films in widescreen or letterboxed format, occasionally I get questions about the 'black bars' at the top and bottom of the screen. ➡

On This Day: Nov 12

by

Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 21 posts previously published on November 12th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • 🖖 Discovery S03E05: Home is never quite the same when coming back after a long absence. Particularly after a 930 year absence. Loved the crew geeking out over the ships and structures they were seeing. Not too surprised the Federation’s a bit prickly. Still going strong! ➡
    • The conquest was complete. They were free to do as they wished with this planet and its insipid inhabitants. All that was left was to decide which skin suit to wear when revealing their true nature to the world. The potential donors eyed them in fear as they waited to be chosen. ➡
    • Beached Whale Blow-Up: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Florence Exploding Whale: The original 16mm footage of Oregon’s infamous exploding whale has been scanned at full 4K resolution and posted online! Plus, OR station KATU has used the new scan to re-edit their original report at 4K resolution. ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 12 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 12 ➡
  • 2019
    • “No, really,” he said. “We’d love to stay. In any other circumstance, we would. But….” He glanced over at his husband and took his hand, then turned back to their host, forcing himself to look into the wet, empty sockets where its eyes should have been. Microblogvember: stay ➡
  • 2018
    • While I enjoy the #Marvel Cinematic Universe, comics were never a huge thing for me growing up, so I don’t have the same connection to #StanLee that many of my friends do. But Lee’s influence was felt even in the #StarTrek universe. #LLAP, he most definitely did. ➡
  • 2017
    • Book forty-five of 2017: Femme Magnifique, edited by Shelly Bond. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • Undersea critters! ➡
    • An enjoyably windy morning at the Keystone ferry terminal before heading back across the water. (317/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • CWU Pres. Gaudino being confronted by #blacklivesmatter student protesters gathering in support of BLM and #mizzou students. ➡
  • 2010
    • More on Pulp’s ‘Common People’ I think it's the slide from amusement to condescension to all-out-rage as the song goes by that really does it for me. This is one song that I just will never get tired of. ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Dollhouse Question: What do you think of Joss Whedon’s new upcoming TV show “Dollhouse”? I know you’ve watched Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Serenity, liked all of them (as far I as can remember) and I thought it was “weird” that you didn’t mention the news. ➡
  • 2004
    • Googlebomb Spam Attack Looks like someone's come up with a new, not-really-all-that-clever use for comment spam: using it to attempt to Googlebomb someone that they're ticked off at. ➡
  • 2003
    • Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines I didn't think that there was any way that the Terminator series could continue without the key people behind the success of the first two and still be even remotely interesting. ➡
    • Bad headline award Those poor activists! Someone really needs to cheer them up — but first, get them away from that Girl Scout! ➡
  • 2001
    • How ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ really ended A furious lightsaber duel is under way. DARTH VADER is backing LUKE SKYWALKER towards the end of the gantry. A quick move by Vader chops off Luke's hand! It goes spinning off into the ventilation shaft. ➡
    • Gee, I’m real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky. Despite a less-than stellar presentation (including three false starts as the staff tried to figure out how to work a movie projector), the movie was as funny as ever, and having a chance to see it with a theater full of people was wonderful. After the movie, homeward bound for all of us. ➡
  • 1991
    • [From the IRN: 11.12.91 1735] A single rose / Shoved up your nose / You lick my toes / While in repose / My mother knows / Where Einstein goes / I'm in the throes / Of melanoma ➡

On This Day: Nov 11

by

Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 23 posts previously published on November 11th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
    • He’d spent hours staring at the paper on his desk. The longer this took, the more clear it was: the most difficult part wasn’t the tubes in his arms that pumped blood into the quill in his hand, but figuring out just what to say. The former was far less painful than the latter. ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 11 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 11 ➡
  • 2019
    • Floating above the planet, tethered to the shuttle as he worked, was one of his favorite places to be. At least it was until he felt the first tentative touch of something on his arm,  pulling him away from his station—and knew it was inside his suit. Microblogvember: touch ➡
  • 2017
  • 2016
    • We had a weekend in Spokane planned…but then the election happened, and we just couldn’t countenance spending pleasure time on the red side of the state. So here we are in Port Townsend, surrounded by green (trees) and literal (water) and metaphorical (voters) blue. Much more comfortable. (316/366) ➡
  • 2010
    • On Normality Being normal is probably the lamest thing you can try to be. ➡
    • Unpopular Questions So, folks, which is it? Do we decry the censorship of ideas that are unpopular, or do we celebrate the censorship of ideas that are unpopular? ➡
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • The Nerd Handbook While as with any broad overview of a particular genus or species, there is plenty of room for small or even large variations at the individual level, this field guide to understanding the common nerd should be required reading for many, many people, especially those involved with, living with, dating, or parenting nerds (also most varieties of dork or geek). ➡
  • 2005
    • Reconnecting Touched off by a couple of random Google searches, over the past couple of weeks, a post of mine has become an impromptu meeting point and simple message board for quite a few of the Anchorage scenesters of the '80's. ➡
  • 2004
    • Voltaire at the Vogue Just a few quick impressions, because it's way past my bedtime on a weeknight (and having to say that before it's even 1am is so depressing…). ➡
    • The United Cities of America Do not despair. You don't have to leave. You don't have to move to Canada. You may feel out of place in the United States today. You may feel like you're surrounded by fundamentalist-church-going, gun-hugging, gay-bashing, anti-choice Bush voters. But you're not. ➡
    • The Cannon I'd never heard of Sarah Vowell, the voice of Violet Parr in The Incredibles, before I started to read the various reviews of the film once it opened. Turns out she's a writer and radio personality, which is how her voice caught director Brad Bird's ear when he heard her story about her father's cannon on This American Life. ➡
  • 2003
    • The other night I…oh, hi mom! I already know that Mom reads my weblog, and by now, she should be quite aware that I occasionally imbibe alcohol, I experimented with drugs for a few years, and that I take every single one of my multitudes of daily sexual encounters with random strangers very seriously, and not casually at all. ➡
    • Two out of three ain't bad! In Singapore, prostitution is legal, the age of consent is 16 — but oral sex is illegal. ➡
    • Supreme Court looks at Guantánamo Setting the stage for a historic clash between presidential and judicial authority in a time of military conflict, the Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether prisoners at the United States naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are entitled to access to civilian courts to challenge their open-ended detention. ➡
    • Theodicy survey Well, just think about it this way. All power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely. ➡

On This Day: Nov 10

by

Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 17 posts previously published on November 10th

  • 2024
    • Mad Max 🎥: ⭐️⭐️: In today's franchises, it would be the origin story that no-one really asked for but the studio felt compelled to make. ➡
  • 2023
    • 🎥 Asteroid City I don’t always entirely _get_ Wes Anderson’s films, but I invariably enjoy watching them. ➡
    • Year 50 Day 192 Since we had the day off today, we decided to make it a movie day. ➡
  • 2020
    • The elderly woman was always at the same spot at the corner, sitting on a bench and watching people go by, and she always had a smile for him. She was so familiar that it was decades before he started to wonder that she hadn’t died—or even aged as far as he could tell. ➡
    • I Guess I Just Expected a Little More from This Country: “How could a people that had to be explicitly told not to eat Tide Pods be so short-sighted? Or are some things simply beyond explanation?” ➡
    • Toolkit for Supporting GA US Senate Races – Jan 2021 (FEEL FREE TO SHARE!): “This doc is a volunteer-generated effort by Ana Diaz-Hernandez. Follow her on Twitter at @anadzhz. Ana is originally from South GA and wants to help folks from out of state plug in to help.” ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 10 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 10 ➡
  • 2019
    • Perky and bubbly as ever, the real estate agent opened the door and ushered them in, exclaiming as he did that, “you’ll be amazed at the space in this one!” He watched them fall into the void until they were out of sight, then carefully locked the door. Microblogvember: space ➡
  • 2016
    • Not a good day. Nothing more. (315/366) ➡
  • 2010
  • 2008
    • 2008 Puyallup Fair It took a while, but I finally got my photos from the Puyallup Fair processed and uploaded. Prairie and I went on a whim late in the summer, and had a really good day wandering around the fairgrounds. We didn't go on any rides, but did play some of the carny games, got some cotton candy, looked at exhibits, and had a _blast_ watching the Mutton Bustin'! ➡
  • 2007
    • Tideland Tideland is one of the most bizarre and disturbing films I've seen in a long time. Terry Gilliam certainly isn't getting any more normal as the years go by. ➡
  • 2004
    • From the vaults I've been playing with HTML for quite a few years now. Every so often over the years, I've actually been bright enough to make a quick copy of my website and archive it. Tonight, in a mad burst of misplaced nostalgia, I pulled them all out of the digital dustbin and have put them back online. ➡
  • 2003
    • iTMS = IotY …for finally finding a middle ground between the foot-dragging record labels and the free-for-all digital pirates and for creating a bandwagon onto which its competitors immediately jumped, Apple's iTunes Music Store is Time's Coolest Invention of 2003. ➡
    • Traditional Christian marriage The consecration of Gene Robison as bishop of the New Hampshire Diocese of the Episcopal Church is an affront to Christians everywhere. I am just thankful that the church's founder, Henry VIII, and his wife Catherine of Aragon, and his wife Anne Boleyn, and his wife Jane Seymour, and his wife Anne of Cleves, and his wife Katherine Howard, and his wife Catherine Parr are no longer here to suffer through this assault on traditional Christian marriage. ➡
    • Klienfelters Syndrome While for most people these days, any discussion of men with breasts will immediately lead to quotes from Fight Club, it's a very real medical condition called Klienfelters Syndrome. ➡
  • 2001
    • Just dropping in My monitors are here! It's still going to be a few days before I'm online more regularly from the looks of it -- but at least they're here. ➡

On This Day: Nov 9

by

Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 27 posts previously published on November 9th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • The old house stood abandoned at the end of the street, slowly decaying as the years passed. The only signs of life were the sickly grayish weeds that would force their way up through cracks in the boards, covering and engulfing everything except the bodies seated at the table. ➡
    • U.S. election maps are wildly misleading, so this designer fixed them: A nice background piece on the viral “land doesn’t vote, people do” animation switching between a standard county-by-county electoral map and one with points sized by population. ➡
    • Black People Repudiated Trump Like He Was a Piece of Used Gum: It’s time for centrist Democrats to stop whining about Black Lives Matters protests and start recognizing that Black voters literally saved the election. ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 9 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 9 ➡
  • 2019
    • They had always hated the cold, growing up. Thick clothes and as many layers as possible defined the winter months. But now, as they felt the heat of the overworked reactor move through the ship, they actually looked forward to feeling the cold of space. Microblogvember: cold ➡
  • 2018
    • Book forty-four of 2018: The Romulan Stratagem, by Robert Greenberger. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • Linkdump for October 2nd through November 9th An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between October 2nd and November 9th. ➡
    • Bringing Optimism Back to Star Trek This quote from Michael Chabon, writer of the just-released Short Treks episode Calypso, about his work on the in-development Picard series, gives me a lot of hope for that series. ➡
    • The first Short Trek, focusing on Tilly, was cute and funny, but had too many plot holes to really stand up. But this month’s, Calypso, is much better. Plus, as its writer, Michael Chabon, is part of the team behind the in-development Picard series, I’m more optimistic about that one when it appears. ➡
  • 2017
    • Happy Thursnesday! :) ➡
  • 2016
    • Spent much of the day in a jumble of the various stages of grief, I think. Pretty sure I’ve settled on anger. Acceptance can kiss right off. (314/366) ➡
  • 2010
    • Drama-Free Facebook Leave it to the kids to figure out how to make Facebook as safe, secure, and drama-free as possible. ➡
  • 2007
    • $8,000 for Wrongful Detention of Photographer An amateur photographer who was taken into custody last year after shooting pictures of two Seattle police officers making an arrest on a public street received an $8,000 settlement this week. ➡
  • 2006
    • Jumping Ship? ...if, while moving over to my new digs, I were to take advantage of the one-click WordPress installation offered by Dreamhost and finally dip my toes in waters other than those of Movable Type, are there any pieces of advice I should know about? ➡
  • 2005
    • Lost s02e06: Abandoned Scribbled notes while watching tonight's episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to... ➡
    • Lots of Pictures I've spent much of the afternoon and evening continuing to work on scanning in old photos that I've had lying jumbled up in various boxes. Quite a few have been scanned in and uploaded to my Flickr account. ➡
    • Who’s going to die tonight? A few weeks ago, after the promo for tonight's episode of Lost promised that, 'one of these survivors will be lost forever,' I put a poll up (both here and on my LiveJournal) to see who people thought was going to be the unlucky party. Here's the results... ➡
  • 2004
    • Schrödinger’s Arafat I hinted at this in one of my linklog posts last week, but this whole situation with Arafat keeps reminding me of the Schrödinger's Cat quantum mechanics paradox. Maybe he's dead, maybe he's alive. Nobody seems to really know, and nobody wants to open the box to find out. ➡
    • Voltaire at the Vogue tomorrow Just a heads-up for anyone who might be in the area and interested: Voltaire will be playing at the Vogue tomorrow night, along with The Arid Sea. ➡
    • Delicious Library Ars Technica has a great review of Delicious Library, the new book/movie/music/game cataloguing software from Delicious Monster. I've downloaded the demo and have started to poke around with it…so far, quite enjoying what I see. ➡
    • P2P: Germany, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece In the summer of 1990, just after my junior year of high school, I was accepted into the People to People program as a 'student ambassador' and got to go on a six-week trip across Europe. Starting with a few days in Washington, D.C., we travelled through Germany, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy, and Greece. ➡
    • Brad Bird Like the Brothers Grimm, Dr. Seuss and Maurice Sendak, Brad Bird knows that kids can handle some tough concepts, and he never insults the intelligence of his audience. The greatest children's entertainment has always been challenging and sometimes difficult. But those are the books, films and shows that transcend pop culture to become timeless classics. ➡
  • 2003
    • Feed of the day Nifty — I have no idea what the selection criteria is (quality? frequency? content? entirely random?) but it seems that I'm being highlighted as 'Feed of the day' on Feedster. So…hello to all of you who wander my way! ➡
    • Employment is a good thing Oh, by the way...starting Tuesday, I'm working again. ➡
    • Taking cues from Reagan Much as I may dislike Rumsfeld (along with the rest of the Bush administration), I always figured he at least had some amount of intelligence. But this latest 'I didn't say that' spiel is nothing short of ludicrous… ➡
  • 2001

On This Day: Nov 8

by

Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 19 posts previously published on November 8th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • 📚 44/2021: My Brother’s Keeper: Enterprise by Michael Jan Friedman ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻 ➡
  • 2020
    • They had been trying for hours to get the hull plates to bind together properly as air slowly leaked out into the void of space. Something was preventing the solvents from working, and it was only a matter of time before their suit’s tanks would be their only breathable air. ➡
    • Difficult Listening Hour 2020.11.07: Biden/Harris Win Edition 90 minutes of upbeat, happy, celebratory songs. Congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris! It's been a long four years. ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 8 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 8 ➡
  • 2019
    • New addition to the library: Number 230 of 1,250 signed copies of #nwc37 Special Guest of Honor Seanan McGuire’s collection Laughter at the Academy, from #nwc42 Spotlight Publisher Subterranean Press! Supporting Norwescon and our GoH’s one book at a time. :) 📚 ➡
    • He had said he wanted to be a star his entire life. They didn’t understand until he started to glow, incandescent, heat pouring out of him, immolating everything around him as he grew ever larger, brighter, and hotter. He finally got his wish. Microblogvember: star ➡
  • 2016
    • Not going to lie…kinda freaking out a bit. Even if Clinton manages to carry it, I am so incredibly saddened and frightened by our country. And if she doesn’t…I just don’t know. #election2016 (313/366) ➡
    • Okay, folks: this is about as patriotic as I get. Flag #chucks and #CaptainAmerica undies. :) If you haven’t already, get out there and #vote, and lets make sure we move our country forward, and not succumb to fear and hate. #imwithher #election #election2016 #2016election ➡
  • 2015
    • An historic moment: The last moments before sending my final presentation for my master’s degree off to my committee chair. Unless something wonky happens, from here on out its just waiting for the paperwork to process. ➡
  • 2008
    • Secrets of the 2008 Campaign eBook Obviously, seeing as how the only thing keeping me from breaking copyright criminally (rather than simply fragrantly, which is were I stand now) is that I'm not charging for this, so should Newsweek decide to give me the smackdown, this will be disappearing faster than Sarah Palin leaving the stage after McCain's concession speech. ➡
  • 2007
    • Any Questions? As long as I'm trying to come up with things to babble about, I might as well haul this idea out: anyone out there have any questions? Toss 'em at me. I'll see what I can do to answer them. ➡
  • 2005
    • Wikipedia as Political Commentary It's not that this kind of thing doesn't happen often, it's just the first time that I've seen it before it got fixed. Currently, a Wikipedia search for Scott McClellan returns this... ➡
    • Before I was around Last time I went up to visit my folks in Anchorage, I snagged some old family photos. I'm (finally) starting to get some of them scanned in. ➡
    • Voting: Nov. 8th General Election My votes for today's ballot (yes, I'm just now filling it out...but at least I'm voting, even if it's on the deadline day). Thanks to Metroblogging Seattle's endorsement rundown, too. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • I'm such an underachiever Some days I think I'm doing okay in my life. I may not have a set career or a ton of money or anything along those lines, but I'm not doing too badly. Then, I find things like this… ➡
    • The Purity of the English Language The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. ➡
  • 2001
    • Enterprise: Breaking the Ice Just how much gravity does an 86km diameter snowball have? Apparently, it's pretty Earth-normal, so that psyllium they were mining must be some pretty amazingly dense stuff. ➡