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On This Day: Nov 12

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ➡

On This Day: Nov 7

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

There are 28 posts previously published on November 7th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • 📚 43/2021: My Brother’s Keeper: Constitution by Michael Jan Friedman ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻 ➡
  • 2020
    • The idea first proposed for early unmanned missions to Mars eventually (and somewhat surprisingly) became a standard part of manned landings. As he watched the landing pod inflate, he looked forward to another wild ride careening across a planet’s surface in a giant hamster ball. ➡
    • Three cheers: Cheers – to Kamala Harris Cheers – to Joe Biden Cheers – to an administration looking towards hope instead of hate ➡
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    • On This Day: Nov 7 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 7 ➡
  • 2019
    • “I thought you said this haunted house was supposed to be frightening,” he complained. “No,” she said calmly as she led him onward. “I merely promised you’d be frightened. I didn’t tell you when. Or why.” Microblogvember: frightening ➡
  • 2016
    • Book forty-six of 2016: Cabal, by Clive Barker. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (312/366) ➡
  • 2010
    • RockMelt I'm not entirely sure how often I'll use it (do I really need a specialized social media browser?), but I'm at least interested in the idea. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Uninspired I'm really trying to give this daily posting thing a good shot...but there are just some days when nothing seems particularly postworthy. Hopefully there won't be too terribly many blatant 'filler' posts like this one over the course of the month. ➡
  • 2006
    • Probable Downtime It's entirely possible that at some point in the upcoming weeks, there may be a few days (hopefully not much more than that) where this website isn't accessible. I hope that this won't last very long, if at all, but it's a distinct possibility. Consider yourselves warned. ➡
  • 2005
    • Where I’ve Been Where I've been in the world and within the USA. ➡
    • Jason Webley Fall 2005 Show So last night was Jason Webley's fall concert for the year. This makes the fourth consecutive fall concert that Prairie and I have been able to attend together, and all in all, it was a good show -- not the best that Prairie and I have been to, but overall still quite enjoyable. ➡
  • 2004
    • First Timer I always have fun introducing someone to the Vogue for the first time, as I always end up stepping back a bit mentally and trying to look at the club from an 'outsider's' point of view. ➡
    • The Incredibles Pixar can do no wrong. ➡
    • Four More Years of… Last night, while I was standing outside the front door of the Vogue to cool off and get some air, there were a couple guy standing around and chatting with Ogre (the doorman). Ogre looked around at everyone, leaned back against the wall of the club, and said, 'You know what I'm not looking forward to?' ➡
  • 2003
    • What the hell's on my doorknob? The entire doorplate on my door has been covered in some sort of slick goo that I can't identify, enough so that the goo has dripped down the front of my door. There's a slightly sweet smell that I can't identify to the goo, and it appears to be eating through the paint on the door. ➡
    • It'll never happen, but… Well, word just broke on the 'net this past week that Microsoft is moving to the IBM PowerPC processor (the same family of processors used in Apple's PowerMac G5) for their next generation of XBox game systems. ➡
    • Political Compass (redux) According to the Political Compass, I lean even more left and libertarian than I did a year and a half ago. ➡
    • Belkin routers hijacking websurfing Belkin's routers hijack one http request every eight hours and redirect the user's browser to an advertising page. Not good. ➡
    • Openly Episcopal Man Joins Village People For the first time in their three decades of existence, the disco band The Village People have inducted an openly Episcopal man, igniting a controversy that threatens to tear the fabled group asunder. ➡
    • Pvt. Lynch refutes military rescue claims Private Jessica Lynch, in her first public statements since her heavily reported capture and rescue, has expressed her discomfort with the military using her for propaganda purposes. ➡
    • Iraq Casualties A graph of military casualties in Iraq. 389 total as of 11/7/03. 250 since combat operations were declared over. An average of 1.3 casualties per day since the beginning of the conflict. ➡
    • Questions? We don' need no steenkin' questions! The director of the White House Office of Administration, Timothy A. Campen, has decreed that any questions to the White House must be filtered through Republican committee chairmen, effectively cutting off any questioning from Democratic representatives. ➡
    • The allegations are untrue According to CNN, Prince Charles has come out to publicly announce that the allegations are 'totally untrue and without a shred of substance.' ➡
  • 2002
    • Goodbye forever, once again Suffice to say, the show was incredible. Jason's bigger shows are generally somewhere between performance and performance art, and involve a lot of crowd participation, sometimes blurring the line between performer and audience. ➡
  • 2001
    • The human adventure is just beginning The effects shots are doubly impressive, in part because they're so seamlessly integrated into the body of the film, that I didn't even notice many of them until they were pointed out in a documentary! ➡

On This Day: Nov 6

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

There are 21 posts previously published on November 6th

  • 2024
    • Fuck Well, that happened. This country is well and truly fucked. ➡
  • 2023
  • 2021
    • 📚 42/2021: My Brother’s Keeper: Republic by Michael Jan Friedman ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻 ➡
  • 2020
    • 📚 forty-four of 2020: Gulliver’s Fugitives by Keith Sharee #startrek #tng This was a weird one. Fahrenheit 451 plus technobabble plus mythology plus pieces that felt tacked on. Felt like the author had several ideas, couldn’t pick one, and tried to get ‘em all in. ➡
    • The signals were clear, and after much checking, it was agreed that they were likely not natural and of probable alien origin, but the source was puzzling: an apparently empty point exactly 758 feet above the geometric center of Tilly Anderson’s house in Atkins, Arkansas. ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 6 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 6 ➡
  • 2019
    • Modern Problems With the Staircase Grading Method One of Prairie’s classes turns in papers tomorrow, and as she’s dealing with a cold, she said she wasn’t looking forward to having to grade while her head is all foggy. So I suggested using the “staircase method” (for those who aren’t teachers, this involves tossing the papers down the staircase: the further down the ... Read more ➡
    • It’s not the scarecrow itself that’s bothersome. Okay, we don’t know who put it up, and it’s a bit disquieting that it’s dressed in our child’s old clothes. But it’s the slowly oozing goo that constantly drips off of the stick fingers that really gets me. Microblogvember: stick ➡
    • Good news: My Norwegian Blu-ray Edition Monty Python box set from Network arrived! Bad news: As gorgeous as the box is, the internal structure didn’t hold up through international shipping. Still, it’s the content that counts, and I’m looking forward to watching these! ➡
  • 2016
    • Closing out the weekend watching Netflix with Prairie, who is finally back home! (311/366) ➡
  • 2010
  • 2009
    • Windows 7 + Digital River = Headaches Microsoft's partnership with Digital River for electronic distribution of Windows 7 is a customer service nightmare. For the record: as of November 6th, 2009, **Digital River's customer service phone number is (952) 253-1234**. ➡
  • 2008
    • Principles in Campaigning John McCain's concession speech was by far his best of the campaign. He was, convincing, generous, and passionate. It brought to mind Hillary Clinton's concession speech last summer, which was also widely heralded as her best. What is it with these politicians that [they] can only give a good speech after they have lost? ➡
  • 2007
    • Overspecialization? With all the different specialized blogging, pseudo-blogging, or linking websites and services available these days, I'm starting to lose track of how I'm 'supposed' to do this one-to-many online communication thing. ➡
  • 2006
    • Bowed but not Broken So, there we are. Some small amount of actual content. It had to happen at _some_ point, right? ;) ➡
  • 2005
  • 2003
    • Alien Quadrilogy Just in case any Alien/Aliens/Alien3/Alien Resurrection fans happen to stop by here who haven't heard about this yet… ➡
    • More on the unintended consequences of blogging It seems I'm not the only person in the blogosphere who's recently faced surprising consequences due to the content of their weblog. Shelley Powers, aka Burningbird, had a rather interesting conversation with the IRS this morning… ➡
    • Twenty thousand percent? Alexa lists me as showing a 20,000% jump in site traffic. ➡
    • Fun with piercings He then unwrapped the straw, brought it up to his face, and slid the straw into the hole in his tongue until his tongue was halfway along the length of the straw. ➡
  • 2002
    • Bipolar Your mother is so bipolar, she can circumnavigate the earth without leaving her wheelchair! ➡

On This Day: Nov 5

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

There are 22 posts previously published on November 5th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • 🖖 Discovery S03E04: Really enjoying the more relaxed and comfortable feel for this season. No major action set pieces, no overwrought drama, instead learning more about Adria and how the Trill are doing while the DIS crew start to work towards healing. Very welcome. ➡
    • 2020 Should Be the Last Time We Vote Like This: “For decades, limiting who gets to vote has been a key strategy of the Republican Party — though usually people on the right have not been quite so proud of this fact. This year, as has happened often with Donald Trump, subtext became text.” ➡
    • “What was that?” He stopped to stoop down to the child who had spoken to him as he walked along the path. Suddenly the child reached out and grabbed him, pulling him off-balance before scrambling on top of him as he landed in the dirt. He only got a glimpse of sharpened teeth. ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 5 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 5 ➡
  • 2019
    • She was used to seeing the street disappear into the distance in fog, or in the dark. Seeing it fade away into nothingness in the bright light of mid-day, however, was a new experience. As she started walking, she wondered if she would fade away as well. Microblogvember: street ➡
  • 2018
    • Book forty-three of 2018: Galactic Patrol, by E. E. “Doc” Smith. ⭐️ ➡
  • 2017
    • Book forty-four of 2017: A Wrinkle In Time: The Graphic Novel, by Madeline L’Engle, adapted by Hope Larson. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • Did some experimenting with self portraits today. Got a few I liked; here’s one. (310/366) ➡
    • Good morning! #nofilter #sunrise ➡
  • 2010
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Ancient Technology My anthropology teacher had shown the class directly before ours a movie using an actual 16mm film projector, and the look of confusion, wonder, and near-horror on the face of one girl in our class was absolutely hilarious. ➡
  • 2005
    • Toccata and Fugue in D Minor…not Bach? Here's something interesting I hadn't run across before -- apparently there are strong arguments that Bach's famous organ piece 'Toccata and Fugue in D Minor' not only wasn't originally written for organ...but likely wasn't even written by Bach at all. ➡
  • 2003
    • Oops! I found the following anecdote in a Home Theater Forum review of the Finding Nemo DVD, and thought it was wonderful… ➡
    • Matrix: Revolutions first impressions One benefit to being unemployed. If, while bouncing around the 'net, you happen to stumble across a reminder that today is the opening day for Matrix: Revolutions, the third and final chapter in the Matrix saga, you can immediately buy a ticket online for a show that starts in 20 minutes, walk to the theater, and see the film without having to think twice about it. ➡
    • Lizette&: This Is Lizette&, an excellent band from Sweden whom I've mentioned in the past, has finally finished their debut album! ➡
  • 2002
    • Voting Day You all are going to get out and vote in your local elections, right? ➡
  • 2001
    • Why is this not a surprise? Looks like everyone's (least) favorite monopoly is up to its usual bag of tricks combined with lackluster security again. Good thing I'm naturally cynical, otherwise I'd be surprised at all this. Instead, I'm just disgusted and resigned. ➡
    • Another weekend survived Sure, it's entirely possible that the combination of increased security and lack of surprise may have deterred any attack, but how long before we get into a situation where it seems like every time we turn around someone else is crying wolf? ➡
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On This Day: Nov 4

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

There are 25 posts previously published on November 4th

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2021
    • 📚 41/2021: Perchance to Dream by Howard Weinstein ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻 ➡
  • 2020
    • Historians now note that what’s particularly noteworthy about the 20th and 21st centuries in the geopolitical region then known as the United States is how long it managed to exist so near the point of collapse before the final dissolution into several independent nation-states. ➡
    • @help Just noticed that in the micro.blog macOS client (v 2.0.2 on macOS 10.15.7), timestamps are off by an hour (apparently not aware of the time change). Screenshot comparing the client vs. the web interface (which shows the correct timestamp) attached. ➡
    • Post-Election Day Blues I simply do not understand why so many are so willing to actively support harming themselves and others. ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 4 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 4 ➡
  • 2019
    • They had been observing the planet for close to seven orbits around its star, and yet they were still avoiding making contact. Never before had they found an advanced species where every identified language had the concept of “being mean”. Microblogvember: mean ➡
  • 2016
    • Happy that my face fuzz is coming back. Even just stubble has me feeling more like I look like myself again. (309/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Fun fact: The first time I saw the original Evil Dead was at a slumber party for my church’s youth group. I expect the parents upstairs would have been both horrified and amused if they’d known (and that’s assuming they didn’t…but since adults frequently know more than they let on, who knows?). :) ➡
  • 2008
    • Obama’s Victory Speech If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. ➡
    • Links for November 3rd through November 4th Sometime between November 3rd and November 4th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
    • Vote! Hopefully, you're one of the many people who've taken advantage of the option to vote early in one form or another. If not, then _please_ take the time out of your day today to go by your local polling place and cast your vote. ➡
  • 2007
    • Just a quickie A couple brief bits -- I'm actually trying to do this one-a-day posting thing, but I'm also just home from work and ready to get some food in my system. ➡
  • 2005
    • Prairie’s birthday We had a very pleasant evening last night celebrating Prairie's birthday. Since I worked 'til 9pm, she'd gone out to dinner with her sister Hope and Hope's boyfriend Peter, and they all met me back at home after they were done. Prairie had baked herself a cake, so we all sat back and enjoyed birthday cake after she opened her presents. ➡
    • They made a sequel? While I was not exactly overly enamored with Underworld -- 'disappointing and frustrating' were my actual words after seeing it, in fact -- I just took a look at the trailer for the sequel, Underworld: Evolution. I may end up wandering out to catch a matinee to see how it fares...the original _was_ quite pretty and nice eye candy, and perhaps they'll actually have invested in some slightly more competent screenwriters this time around. ➡
  • 2004
    • Star Wars Episode 3 Trailer oooh - you're _so_ not going to care about this -- and I really shouldn't, either -- but the first trailer for Star Wars Ep. 3 came out today ➡
    • IQ redux A little curious about what was causing a traffic spike, I checked out my referrers and search terms. Turns out that the majority of the spike is caused by people searching for information on how states voted combined with the state's average IQ, which first started going around the 'net back in May regarding the 2000 elections. ➡
    • Works for me… Just once I'd like to see the psycho killer show up, hand the girl an entire Sara Lee cheesecake and say, 'Eat up. I'll go take care of the asshole for you.' ➡
  • 2003
    • Fun with bandwidth Each of the posts that have been getting the most traffic have picked up so many comments that they were up to ~300kb each! ➡
    • Too bad I don't speak Japanese It appears that there is a new Ghost in the Shell movie coming out in 2004: Innocence. Since everything's in Japanese, I don't have much of a clue what anyone is saying, but my lord does it ever look pretty! ➡
    • Puts me to sleep every time In order to relax and calm down, he decided the best thing to do would be to watch a nice, calm, relaxing movie. Like Aliens. ➡
    • Mine! Mine? Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! ➡
    • So close… Much as I need to find another job, that commute is a bit much, so I had to call back and let them know that, much to my chagrin, I had to turn down the assignment. Bummer. ➡