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On This Day: Oct 22

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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 26 posts previously published on October 22nd

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • 🖖 Discovery S03E02: Overall not quite as strong as the last episode, but certainly works well to bring the full cast together again. Getting a space western saloon was very Trek, but the bad guy took things a bit too dark for a few minutes. Still, much more good than bad. ➡
    • The best line from The ‘Great British Baking Show’ Is Broken. Here’s a Five-Point Plan to Fix It.: Noel Fielding comes across as the strangely heartwarming result of a thought experiment that asked “What if A.A. Milne wrote The Vampire Lestat?” ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 22 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 22 ➡
  • 2017
    • Book forty-three of 2017: 2023, by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (furthermore known as The JAMs, a.k.a. The KLF, a.k.a. Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond). ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • Me and my nephews: Noah (12), Wren (5), and Paul (8), who resist posing for group photos. :) ➡
    • Woody (me) and Stiffy (Mark Stiffler) — high school friends catching up for the first time in over two decades. Nice way to spend an afternoon! ➡
    • At the first of two soccer games with my brother and nephews. ⚽️ (295/366) ➡
  • 2008
    • Human Cannonball Another multi-image collage to tide things over while I try to get caught up with photos. I've never seen a human cannonball before, and actually didn't even know this was still done. Pretty cool to see! ➡
    • Links for October 21st through October 22nd Sometime between October 21st and October 22nd, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
  • 2005
    • My blog is worth… But the real question is...would I actually sell it if offered the money? Heh. On the one hand, that's a lot of money -- on the other hand, that's _my name_. Of course, it's not going to happen, so I don't think I really need to worry about it. ➡
    • Why Target’s target is red Target's policy is that the customer can go to hell if their pharmacist thinks you're a sinner. Target will let their pharmacist turn you away so that YOU have to go find another pharmacy, rather than their pharmacist getting another frigging job. ➡
  • 2004
    • The Gamesters of Triskelion Sure, today they're flying a flight simulator. Tomorrow, they'll be betting Quatloos on how well we fight. Don't say I didn't warn you... ➡
    • Because it matters. The story has changed. It is not about the candidates anymore.... The story now IS the election. The election process.... The real story is the engagement of the people. ➡
    • You’re never too old to die for your country Though, I certainly hope this gentleman doesn't end up dying for his country — he's a 70-year old retired doctor who's been called into service. ➡
    • Comments working again It appears that last night when I was adding the latest batch of spam URLs to MT-Blacklist's blacklist, I inadvertently added one entry that was just the string 'tp:'. This has been corrected, and comments now appear to be functioning correctly again. ➡
    • Tight Jeans Flight and motorcade uneventful. Bush was accompanied on AF1 by his daughter Barbara, in tight jeans, and by Dan Bartlett and Karl Rove, who were not wearing tight jeans. ➡
  • 2003
    • Free association I hopped onto iChat tonight, and found a message from Phil waiting for me that he'd sent while I was off at work. I responded, and then we stumbled into a couple hours of free association. ➡
    • The Stovepipe Lies, falsehoods, ignored warnings, emphasized inconsequentials, fabricated documents, and a fair amount of blind incompetence all contributed to moving us into the mess we're in now. ➡
    • Electronic civil disobedience A group of students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania has launched an 'electronic civil disobedience' campaign against voting machine maker Diebold Election Systems. ➡
    • Deer gee-füür ist der BØRK BØRK BØRK! All I can picture in my head now is the Swedish Chef onstage, introducing the new machines. ➡
    • G4 iBooks!?! Wow. Apparently without any kind of fanfare whatsoever, Apple just updated their iBook line across the board — to use the G4 chip! ➡
  • 2002
    • Two theories Just tossing these in really quickly — I may come back and revisit them later on tonight. ➡
    • Everything, everything… Imagining yourself at the centre of a circle, how far do you have to expand the radius of that circle until you've encompassed all of human experience? ➡
    • Valid RSS Admittedly, I can't honestly say I really know or understand the difference between RSS 1.0 and 2.0. But hey. They're both there. ➡
  • 2001
    • Another week begins Been a busy morning so far, but I figured I'd grab a couple minutes to babble away for a bit. I ended up having a pretty nice weekend -- a good balance of getting out and doing stuff, and kicking back and killing time at home. ➡

On This Day: Oct 21

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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 16 posts previously published on October 21st

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • Tagging along as the group explores the OSU campus. They seem determined to visit every floor of the library! :) ➡
    • Ahh…hotel bed! In Corvallis for the weekend for a short little jaunt away from home. (294/366) ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • Lost s02e05: …and Found Scribbled notes while watching Wednesday night's episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to... ➡
    • Voltaire at the Vogue In addition to the [photos I took][3] over the course of the night, I also took a few minutes of video a few times during the night, and have put together a nine-minute sampler of bits and pieces of the show. Be warned -- not everything in the video is exactly "family friendly", though it is quite funny. ➡
  • 2004
    • Rocky Horror-A-Thon This is a bit too far away for me to show up, but if anyone who stops by here is in the Boston area, you can help set a world record and raise money for the AIDS Action Committee tomorrow night! ➡
    • Mad World Calling Donnie Darko — we found the plane to go with your engine. ➡
    • Repercussions You may remember that a couple weeks ago, Bush's hometown paper The Iconoclast endorsed John Kerry for President. Reaction to their endorsement has been strong — to the point where they wrote a second editorial, detaling some of that reaction. It's not a pretty picture. ➡
    • Well, bummer Last night was the monthly Seattle Webloggers Meetup, which I'd been planning on going to. Unfortunately, I got roped into covering at one of my work's stores while the staff went to an employee meeting. ➡
  • 2003
    • There goes that fantasy ...erections in space are difficult to achieve because in zero gravity, blood tends to collect in the head and feet. ➡
    • Ack! After a full week's work, I did manage to get my webserver up and running again, complete with upgrades, so djwudi.com, hanscomfamily.com, and geekmuffin.com are all active again, and starting to regain content. ➡
  • 2002
    • Yawn (sigh) Mornings just aren't my best time. Bleary-eyed, brain dead, wishing I was still stretched out in bed. Bleah. ➡
    • A common misconception Entertaining little Doonesbury strip today where they introduce a new character — a blogger. ➡

On This Day: Oct 20

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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 October 20th

  • 2024
  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 171 This building is in such poor shape it could spontaneously collapse at any moment. ➡
  • 2020
    • My ballot arrived on the 16th, and was filled out and placed in a drop box that same day. As of today, it has been counted! King County voters can check their ballot status here, all Washington state voters can check their ballot status here. Get out and vote! ➡
    • 📚 forty-three of 2020: The Nemesis from Terra (originally Shadow Over Mars) by Leigh Brackett ⭐️⭐️ 1945 Retro Hugo Best Novel Rather amazing to think that this is just a year before Asimov’s Foundation win. If this was the best of ‘45, that was a bad year for SF. ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 20 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 20 ➡
  • 2018
    • Book forty-one of 2018: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, by Alvin Schwartz. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • Book forty of 2018: Star Trek: A Singular Destiny, by Keith R.A. DeCandido. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • Ballot all filled out! All that’s left is to drop it in the drop box outside of the courthouse. #vote #imwithher #irigged #iriggedit ➡
    • We have ballots! #vote #imwithher 🇺🇸 ➡
    • Okay, so technically they’re not entirely blocking our driveway…just making it really awkward for us to get in (and I have my doubts about the legality of this bit of street parking. Not terribly fond of our neighbors right now. ➡
    • A little squinty, but I liked the nice bright light and hard shadows from the afternoon sun. (293/366) ➡
    • Purple #chucks for #spiritday! 🏳️‍🌈 (I don’t have much in the way of work-appropriate purple clothing, so these will have to do.) #converse ➡
  • 2009
    • New iMac On the Way… I've been planning on upgrading my desktop for a while now, and almost ordered an iMac a few months ago. I'm _so_ glad I waited for the next generation of iMacs to be released, though! They were released this morning, and mine is ordered and on its way! ➡
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • Playing the race card Prairie and I got a sudden hankering for ice cream and stopped into the Baskin Robbins just down the street from our apartment. A couple of teenagers were hanging out in the store, chatting with their friends behind the counter. Sitting at one of the tables, a skinny black kid, decked out in street-standard clothes said, 'I don't think I could live with you people.' ➡
  • 2004
    • Give us a sign, Lord! Many of the signs and billboards in the Orlando area were no match for Hurricane Charley. However, one billboard resisted the 100-mile per hour winds of the eye wall of the storm. ➡
    • Protesters, police clash in Jacksonville, OR President Bush stopped by the small town of Jacksonville, OR last week while campaigning. As tends to happen, this brought out both pro- and anti-Bush sentiment…and as also tends to happen these days, it was the anti-Bush side that got the worst treatment. ➡
  • 2003
    • Now on LiveJournal – me! I only found this out a short time ago, but it appears that the online journaling site LiveJournal has limited support for picking up RSS feeds. As it turns out, someone added Eclecticism to their list of available feeds — so if there are any LiveJournal users who stop by here at any time, you can add me to your 'friends' list by adding woody_eclectic. ➡
    • Male or Female? Tonight at The Vogue: E-Craft, TerrorFakt, and Male or Female? (Front 242 without Jean-Luc deMeyer)! ➡
    • Make it rain… Well, okay, so I knew that it was raining pretty hard as I went to work today. It had been raining when I woke up, and I hadn't heard it let up at all, and it's always kind of fun to see the streams running down the hills in the downtown Seattle area. ➡
  • 2001
    • Not exactly unexpected You know, it's kind of bizarre to see a prediction come true. About the time I was leaving TimeFrame, Rick and Tim and I all were pretty sure that the way the business was heading, it would be closing down in about six months. ➡

On This Day: Oct 19

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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 13 posts previously published on October 19th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • 📚 38/2021: Cooties Shot Required: There are Things You Must Know edited by Scott Gable and Caroline Dombrowski ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Even If Turnout Among Young People Is Higher, It’ll Probably Still Be Low. Why are we so bad at educating the youth on why voting (in general, and particularly in midterms and local elections) is so important? ➡
  • 2016
    • Halfway through the week, trying to decide if I’m going three for three with this year’s debates. (292/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Gorgeous foggy morning today. #fog #foggy #fall #cwu ➡
  • 2010
    • Back to the Boys Club We hear that Brenda Chapman, the first woman director at Pixar, has left the studio and is no longer directing _Brave_. We hear that she was pushed aside from full directing a while back, and that story artist Mark Andrews has taken over directorial duties. ➡
  • 2008
    • I’ve Voted Hooray for voting by mail. I'm all voted, and just need to drop the ballot in tomorrow's mail. ➡
  • 2004
    • Gonna need a really big mop… From a conversation with Kirsten this evening. It started with global warming, and then went seriously off course… ➡
    • TV-B-Gone Number one with a bullet on my Christmas wish list this year: TV-B-Gone, a universal remote control with one button, and one function — to turn off any television. ➡
    • Please, think of the kittens. Every time you vote Republican, God kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens. ➡
  • 2002
    • Required Reading I believe that the American Republic died in the U.S. Senate last Thursday morning and was buried yesterday morning in the East Room of the White House. ➡
    • We are the Blog We are the blog. Open your markup and surrender your feed. We will add your informational diversity and style distinctiveness to our own. Your templates will adapt to serve our content. Resistance is futile. ➡

On This Day: Oct 17

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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 20 posts previously published on October 17th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Recommended reading for the day: Stet, a brilliant short-form SF piece by Sarah Gailey. One paragraph, plus footnotes and annotations. ➡
  • 2016
    • Got photobombed with a kiss while taking today’s shot. :) (290/366) ➡
  • 2010
  • 2008
    • Links for October 17th from 09:54 to 16:37 Sometime between 09:54 and 16:37, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
    • Six Seconds of Cute This was one of the best things we saw at the Puyallup fair. Put a kid no older than six (the youngest we saw was three) and no heavier than sixty pounds on a sheep and let them try to hang on for six seconds. Really cute, and really funny! ➡
  • 2005
  • 2004
    • Top GOP pollster says Bush is in trouble Frank Luntz, one of the country's top Republican pollsters, is saying that Bush is in serious trouble. ➡
    • LotR:TRotKEE The Official Lord of the Rings website has posted a trailer for the upcoming Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Extended Edition DVD, to be released on Dec. 14th! ➡
    • Constitutional rights trump terror fears Finally, some good news — for once, a court has upheld our Constitutional rights over the current wave of paranoia over terrorism. ➡
  • 2003
    • Bayesian spam filtering for MT There's another option in the fight against weblog comment spam now that looks on first blush to be an incredibly effective solution — implementing Bayesian spam filtering on MovableType. ➡
    • testy.littleville.com I've been having an odd problem that I've noticed in the past, but am just now starting to attempt to track down, in that my server keeps insisting that its domain name is 'testy.littleville.com' rather than 'www.djwudi.com'. ➡
    • Slight IMAP issues Work keeps progressing on re-creating the djwudi.com webserver. Last night's project was setting it up as a working mailserver using sendmail and IMAP. Much progress was made, and I'm just facing one last issue that I can't resolve, and if there's anyone out there who might understand a bit more of this end of things than I do, assistance would be greatly appreciated. ➡
  • 2002
    • An American tired of American lies …in wartime people lose their senses. There are flags and yellow ribbons and posters and every media outlet is beating the war drum and even sensible people can hear nothing else. In the US, God forbid you should suggest the war is unjust or that dropping cluster bombs from 30,000ft on a city is a cowardly act. In a country that lauds its freedom of speech, a word of dissent can cost you your job. ➡
    • I’m going to hell, aren’t I? I do have to admit to a certain level of amusement at picturing the entire DC population zigzagging along the city sidewalks like a bunch of drunks. ➡
    • Brrrrrrrrrrr Okay, so skydiving has never been too high on my list of things to do. In fact, I don't think you could pay me enough to do it voluntarily. However, skydiving naked just seems even crazier. ➡
    • Best. Mefi. Thread. Ever. Few grade-school kids could successfully define the word 'schadenfreude' if asked, but you had better believe they know what it means. Furthermore, they have even less interest in disguising their glee at another's misfortune than most grown-ups. Taunting another kid she knows she can outrun, cackling as another kid gets in trouble — nothing pleases the average child more. ➡
  • 2001
    • If I ever go postal… I swear, if I ever completely lose it, flip out, and go postal, I'm going to end up doing it with a staple gun. ➡
  • 1991
    • [From the IRN: 10.17.91 1218] Being me...I blindly stumble through an undending maze of color, shape, and sound. Some of it makes sense, some of it doesn't, all of it is amusing. ➡

On This Day: Oct 16

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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 20 posts previously published on October 16th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 167 I really don’t mind the IKEA aesthetic, but the bookshelves could hold much more. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • I, for one, welcome our new robotic Dance Dance Revolution overlords. ➡
  • 2016
    • Xander: “Is it hard to play guitar?” Oz: “Not the way I play.” #btvs (289/366) ➡
    • Dear @jackinthebox: We understand there’s a difference between menu glamour shots and reality, but this Southwest Scrambler Plate was so unappealing and disappointing that it went uneaten. Not pictured, the lukewarm and stale decaf coffee. We won’t be trying that again. ➡
  • 2015
    • Seen on a sidewalk near CWU. #drwho #time #wibblywobblytimeywimey ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
    • Links for October 16th from 06:40 to 16:05 Sometime between 06:40 and 16:05, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
    • Single-Image Debate Wrapup Given that you couldn't pay me to vote for McCain, and that I thought he came across as a condescending ass for the majority of the debate last night, I can't entirely claim that images like this don't give me a good, _very_ partisian laugh. ➡
  • 2007
  • 2005
    • Wal-Mart Sics Secret Service on Student Need _another_ reason to stay far, far away from Wal-Mart? Or maybe another reason to be disgusted with the culture of fear and repression of political dissent in the country? Be glad you're not this high school student. ➡
  • 2004
    • The Presidential Horror Show No, it's not the best piece of political humor I've seen, but the Rocky Horror fan in me just can't help but be at least a little amused by The Presidential Horror Show. ➡
    • Government Benefits Interesting — according to this questionnaire, I am or may be eligible for the following government programs. ➡
    • Jon Stewart on Crossfire I was going to put up a lot of links to discussion about Jon Stewart's recent appearance on Crossfire — but then Safari crashed (it's rare, but not unheard of) and I lost all the tabs I had open. ➡
  • 2003
    • Sources said… News of Bush's order leaked almost immediately. ➡
    • iTunes and iTMS for Windows Well, the rumors were true — and then some! Here's some quick highlights of today's Apple Event. ➡
    • That Guy Bad enough that the guy might have to wonder whether the ball would have been caught if he hadn't reached for it -- but now he has to worry about his privacy and, quite possibly, personal safety. The handling of the event by the media and various websites has been absolutely horrible. ➡
    • Public / Private / Secret Danny O'Brien ended up touching on a subject that I found fascinating: the difference between our 'real world' conversations and the conversations we have through our websites, and some of the key differences between them. ➡
  • 2001
    • Thirteen Days In one of the historical background pieces, there were some 'man on the street' interviews with people at the time this all was going on -- and just about anything that they said could easily have been said at any point within the past month. ➡
    • I’m still alive Funny thing about running the copyroom at a financial firm -- October 15th is the deadline for the six-month extention from April 15th. Made things pretty crazy around here. ➡

On This Day: Oct 15

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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 20 posts previously published on October 15th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • 📚 37/2021: Whether Change: The Revolution Will Be Weird edited by Scott Gable and Caroline Dombrowski ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2020
    • 🖖 Discovery S03E01: A strong start to the season. Lots of cool tech, a number of intriguing clues and hints about the state of the galaxy, and a strong underlying theme of hope throughout the episode. And Grudge, of course, who I suspect has more to her than we’ve seen so far. ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 15 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 15 ➡
  • 2018
    • Book thirty-eight of 2018: Star Trek: Destiny: Mere Mortals, by David Mack. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • Wow — impressive and powerful work by March For Our Lives: The Most Vicious Cycle. ➡
  • 2016
    • A closer view of the #pacifictreefrog that we found visiting us tonight. #frog #pacificchorusfrog 🐸 #ribbit ➡
    • Found a cute little frog hanging out by our front door today! (288/366) ➡
  • 2008
  • 2004
    • Seattle Storm victory rally As I walked out of the building for lunch today, I heard some sort of big ruckus going on down towards Westlake Center. Being fond of ruckuses (ruckusi?) in general, I made a quick run back to the apartment to grab my camera, and then went back towards Westlake. ➡
    • Green Glass Turtles While I was catching up on Julie's posts, I found out that she's set up a photoblog for her daughters, and it became a sweet way to start my day, looking at the world through their eyes for a few minutes. As I'm still getting used to this whole getting up at 6am routine, I don't often start my mornings off with a smile, but chipmunks, unicorns, and purple snakes sure did it for me today. ➡
  • 2003
    • Big Mac might get #2 spot The brand new 'Big Mac' supercomputer at Virginia Tech could be the second most powerful supercomputer on the planet, according to preliminary numbers. ➡
    • Rebuilding djwudi.com This is going to be my repository for keeping track of what I do to install and configure the djwudi.com server. As such, it's likely to be filled with all sorts of geeky bits of no interest to anyone except me. Feel free to ignore it. :) ➡
    • Put It In the Microphone Just got Kickshaw's latest CD, 'Put It In the Microphone' in the mail today. ➡
    • Mayday! Mayday! The worst thing about all this is that it's not just my own site. If it were only my own personal playground, than while it would certainly be frustrating and aggravating, at least that way I would only be causing issues for me. However, since I have been hosting the sites for both my family and a friend, I've now managed to knock them offline too. Bleah. Not a good situation. ➡
  • 2002
    • No wonder I’m a wimp! People with natural red hair need about 20 percent more anesthesia than people with other hair colors, they told a meeting of anesthesiologists. The unexpected finding not only suggests that redheads are more sensitive to pain, but offers insights into how anesthesia works in people. ➡
    • Adminspotting Choose no life. Choose no career. Choose no family. Choose a a fucking big computer, choose disk arrays the size of washing machines, modem racks, CD-ROM writers, and electrical cofee makers. Choose your future. Choose to sysadmin. ➡
    • Royce and me I thought I'd share this rare, candid snapshot of Royce and I outside my old apartment in Anchorage. ➡
    • Ascii-me! Royce sent me an ASCII rendering of my face. Rock on. ➡

On This Day: Oct 14

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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 October 14th

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2021
    • I’ve updated my Star Trek chronological checklist to include season two of Lower Decks. Further updates for Prodigy, Discovery, Picard, and Strange New Worlds will be added when their upcoming seasons wrap up. 🖖 ➡
  • 2020
    • 📚 forty-two of 2020: Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A pretty straightforward translation of the story from screen to page, but as it’s a classic of 80s optimistic sci-fi, that’s not a bad thing. Really has me wanting to rewatch the film now. ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 14 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 14 ➡
  • 2016
    • Good luck with the storm, westsiders! Hope you see blue skies soon. (287/366) ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2005
  • 2004
    • Different companies, different standards I just spent a few minutes chatting with a gentleman sporting a denim Utilikilt, one of seven that he owns (one for every day of the week). Unfortunately, while the company I'm working at obviously has no problem with kilts in the workplace, the company I work for is far more strict with their dress code. ➡
    • Analysis saying Kerry won? I'm not entirely caught up with the post-debate threads that made it into my newsreader last night and this morning, but according to a couple posts from Kos last night, I may have been too pessimistic in my debate wrap-up — people seem to be giving Kerry a definite win. ➡
  • 2003
    • Dammit Well, I managed to break my server. Attempting to log in to MovableType results in long strings of errors — apparently perl is completely hosed. ➡
  • 2002
    • Who’s gonna swerve first? It's not 'conspiracy theory,' as some of my readers have accused me, to suggest that Bush may not actually want to spend the lives of Americans to invade Iraq. It is quite possible -- no matter how evil or misguided you believe Bush to be -- that he would rather not waste a few hundred or thousand American lives, or a few hundred thousand Iraqi lives, on pipelines and additional security against nuclear/chemical/germ threat. ➡
    • Microsoft switchers – oops! Unfortunately, since Microsoft (apparently) couldn't find any customers that had actually made the switch from the Mac to Windows, and were happy about it, and willing to talk about it — they had to combine a hired freelance writer's story with stock photography. ➡

On This Day: Oct 13

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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 20 posts previously published on October 13th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • Book forty-five of 2016: Spock Must Die!, by James Blish. The very first #StarTrek novel that wasn’t a broadcast episode novelization. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • We get to have a classic Universal horror movie monster marathon this Halloween! (Amazon had this on sale for $40 a couple days ago.) Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Phantom of the Opera, and Creature From the Black Lagoon! (286/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Time to head home! ➡
    • Dollar store skull plus chocolate eyeball candy equals silly seasonal desk friend! ➡
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2005
    • The Rhythm of Life My strongest memory of a trip to England revolves around a single song. Our show-stopper piece that year was a song called 'The Rhythm of Life' -- fun lyrics, an upbeat tempo, and a gorgeous arrangement that made every part fun to sing had quickly made it a favorite, and we'd all become quite fond of ending our concerts with this number. ➡
  • 2004
    • Shots of Gig’s Music Theatre Continuing in my little bout of nostalgia for my days running around at Gig's, tonight I get to present a set of shots from the club, taken roughly between 1997 and 1998 or so. ➡
    • Presidential Debate #3 Almost time for tonight's Presidential debate, the last of this election season's round. Will Bush actually look like a President? Or, more likely, will we get to see him stumble and fall yet again? As before, I'll be watching on C-SPAN, and will update this post with my usual random babbling after the debate's done with. ➡
    • Kill Switch…Click Y'know what I'd like to see in tonight's debate? I'd love it if the moderator had a 'kill switch' for the candidate's microphones, so if Bush tried to railroad a statement through, the moderator could just turn him off. ➡
    • Registered to vote? Are you sure? Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash. ➡
    • On smoke alarms For some reason, I was pondering smoke alarms this morning, trying to figure out why they need batteries. Why not just wire them directly into the house electrical current? No more having to put up with obnoxious beeping when the batteries get low, no more worries about a dead smoke alarm causing someone's death in a house fire because they couldn't get out in time. ➡
  • 2003
    • Not a good evening End result — it's past my bedtime, I'm tired, more than a little frustrated, and ready to go to bed. Hopefully things will look better when I get back to poking around tomorrow evening. ➡
    • Not even subtle This AP photo of President Bush has me alternating between disgust and slack-jawed amazement, and I'm not sure whether to pass on kudos to the photographer or have them drawn and quartered. ➡
    • Rebecca, ecce! tantae clunes isti sunt! mehercle! Rebecca, ecce! tantae clunes isti sunt! ➡
    • Welcome to America — now go home. But when Hughes' fiancee, a German national, tried to visit him on a six-month tourist visa Monday, she was detained in Atlanta, handcuffed, jailed--even stripped of her diamond engagement ring. ➡
    • Apologies …please exuse my formality- I am drunk and you are a stranger. ➡
    • Apple poised for big music push More and more, Apple is making a huge push into the music industry — and if the rumor mills are right, this week just may be their biggest foray yet. ➡

On This Day: Oct 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 14 posts previously published on October 12th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • DON’T PANIC The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was first published on October 12, 1979. 42 years ago today. Hope y’all know where your towels are, you hoopy froods. ➡
  • 2020
    • My local indigenous history I live on Duwamish tribal land, part of the Puget Sound Coast Salish tribal group. The Duwamish Tribe is still not recognized as an indigenous nation. ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 12 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 12 ➡
  • 2016
    • From earlier today – temps dropped last night, and it was a brisk walk this morning! Pretty, but definitely not summer anymore. (285/366) ➡
  • 2009
  • 2006
    • Dangerous Feet and Good Diction It wasn't until I was working on deconstructing a girl's paper who had written about people who were being murdered by their feet that I really thought about how nonsensical the phrase 'my feet are killing me' really is. ➡
    • ENG102: Summary My first paper for my ENG102 class, a short summary of the second half of the first chapter in our textbook. I ended up with a 3.8/4.0, and a comment that I have 'a wonderful, lucid prose style.' I can cope with that. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • I used to believe… When we were little, my mother had bought us a book titled, 'How You Were Born'. In this book, there was an illustration of a sperm under a magnifying glass. For years, I thought the magnifying glass was a frying pan and was totally mystified by where and how the frying pan fit into the reproductive process. ➡
    • 'ello again Weekend's done, time to start poking my head up again. ➡
  • 2002
    • Small update to RSS feed Experiments with my RSS feed, which I continually seem to break. ➡
    • Trackback changes and Category links Well, for the moment, I've had to give up on my goal of staying pop-up free. Grrr. I thought I had it for a while, but as it turns out, TrackBack pings won't automatically rebuild the page that they reference, so they weren't showing up at all unless I forced the page to regenerate. ➡