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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

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  • 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. ➡

On This Day: Nov 3

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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 November 3rd

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    • “They never fail to astonish me,” he thought, peering through the viewpiece at the subjects of his study. “Whatever new variable we introduce, they invariably find some way to involve it in their sexual practices. At least Earthlings are consistent, if somewhat disturbing.” ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 3 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 3 ➡
  • 2019
    • Fashion had reached such heights over the years, with everyone doing their very best to upstage everyone else at every event, that perhaps it shouldn’t have been a surprise when the prize for best fancy dress went to a janitor in plain unadorned overalls. Microblogvember: fancy ➡
  • 2016
    • Adding walking to work and back definitely adds up after a few days…I’m tired and glad there’s just one workday left. (308/366) ➡
  • 2010
    • George Takei Says You’re A Douchebag Hello, I'm George Takei. You are...a douchebag. That's right! A douchebag. You are always going to be a total douchebag. I can only suspect that you have some...shall I say...'issues' to work out? ➡
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Happy Birthday to my girl! It's Prairie's birthday today! Tentative plans for the rest of the day include some family shopping for presents, a good dinner somewhere, and probably some Shakespeare in the evening. ➡
  • 2005
  • 2004
    • Red vs. Blue The problem with the typical “red vs. blue” map of how states voted is that while it accurately represents the final casting of each state's electoral votes, it doesn't accurately represent how each state actually voted on the individual level. Here's a map created by Jeff Culver that colors each state according to the proportion of votes each candidate got. ➡
    • Editorial commentary I don't know how long this will last — probably not very long, but as of right now if you go to this page, right click on the image of George and Laura Bush and save it to your desktop, you'll get an amusing suprise… ➡
    • Guest post from Prairie To surrender, to blindly support someone just because he is the president, is the equivalent of saying we don't care about the future. ➡
    • Looking forward The same division in the country remains, the same stalemate. The other side just got the the ball a yard or two into our side of the field rather than the reverse. And we have to deal with the serious consequences of that. Tomorrow's the day to start. ➡
    • I pledge… Apparently, Jeff Jarvis is proposing a 'Post Election Peace Pledge'. I don't doubt that Jarvis means well with his pledge. But this is one pledge I won't be signing on to. ➡
  • 2003
    • LISTBlog My friend D has just gone live with her newest project: LISTBlog. ➡
    • Alien I just got back from seeing the Director's Cut of Alien — one of my all-time favorite Sci-Fi/Horror films — at the Seattle Cinerama. ➡
    • This just hasn't been my best week In my experiences with Microsoft, I made a mistake, and was immediately given the most extreme punishment possible. I then turned around and essentially did the same to you. For that, I most certainly owe you an apology as well. ➡

On This Day: Nov 2

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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 2nd

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  • 2023
  • 2020
    • Masks Work. Really. We’ll Show You How: “With coronavirus cases still rising, wearing a mask is more important than ever. In this animation, you will see just how effective a swath of fabric can be at fighting the pandemic.” ➡
    • “Did you get the concentrate?” “No problem.” He held up the vial full of coarse orange granules. “Finally!” Moving quickly, she snatched the vial, uncorked it, and poured the contents into a glass of water. “TANG is so hard to find since Kraft seceded from the corporatocracy.” ➡
    • On This Day: Nov 2 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from November 2 ➡
  • 2019
    • Nobody knew if people left the town on their own, or were taken against their will. All anyone knew for sure was that one day, they were there, and the next, they were gone — and there was one more mark carefully inscribed on the wall surrounding the town. Microblogvember: mark ➡
  • 2016
    • Took a different route home tonight along the canal. Slightly longer, but pretty, and saw a heron fly overhead. (307/366) ➡
    • There were just a couple minutes of gorgeous sunrise on an otherwise grey morning, and I happened to be in the right spot to grab a shot on my way in to work. #nofilter #sunrise ➡
  • 2015
  • 2009
  • 2007
    • NaBloPoMo This year, I think it's worth trying for something a little more possible: NaBloPoMo, or National Blog Posting Month. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, it presents a much more feasible goal for most people. ➡
  • 2004
    • Monorail is a go (again) On the bright side, though, Seattle voters have (for the fourth time) given the local monorail a go-ahead. ➡
    • 254 – 252 Right now, things stand at 254 to 252 Electoral Votes, with Bush in the lead. New Mexico, Iowa, and (most critically) Ohio are still too close to call. Much as I'd like to believe that we could pull a rabbit out of our hat and pick up Ohio's twenty Electoral Votes, it really isn't looking terribly likely. ➡
    • Election overload Gotta get away from the computer for a bit — refreshing CNN.com faster doesn't make the results come in any faster. ;) ➡
    • First exit polls Some of the very first early exit polls have been released. As such, take these with a large grain of salt — we've got a long way to go today. ➡
    • Humidermy: So very, very disturbing Taking a break from election news, Julie pointed out one of the most seriously disturbing articles I've read in a long time. At the moment, I'm pretty sure that this is a Halloween hoax. Admittedly, a rather sucessfully creepy hoax… ➡
  • 2003
    • Congratulations, Bishop Robinson After far too much controversy — which is, unfortunately, far from finished — Gene Robinson was consecrated as Bishop on Sunday. ➡
    • Jason Webley Deathday 2003 Last night was Jason Webley's Deathday concert. Incredible, beautiful, fun, funny, and moving — everything I've come to expect from Webley's shows. ➡
  • 2001
    • Okay, so I guess it’s a real warning The WTC/Pentagon attacks killed around 5,000 people. The paranoia after those attacks is killing everything the U.S. has puportedly stood for over the past 200 years. ➡

On This Day: Nov 1

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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 November 1st

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  • 2020
  • 2019
    • The key didn’t look particularly important. Just one of many on the keychain. Weathered metal, obviously long-used, but nobody could remember when it was last turned. The mystery wasn’t what lock it would open, but what would be released when it was used. Microblogvember: key ➡
  • 2016
    • Not only did Prairie run away to conferences, leaving me without adult supervision until Sunday, but she took the car, so I’ve got a week of brisk early morning walks to work (and afternoon walks home)! Guess I’m making my step goals pretty easily this week. :) (306/366) ➡
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • Jason Webley this Saturday! Hello tomatoes! Halloween has passed, but don't put away your disguises, your devilish laughs, or that glimmer of mischief in your eyes. Bring them to the Catwalk in Pioneer Square this Saturday night! ➡
  • 2004
    • VOTE Vote. ➡
    • Priorities $3 million: Amount the White House was willing to grant the 9/11 Commission to investigate the 11 September attacks. $50 million: Amount granted to the commission that looked into the Columbia space shuttle crash. ➡
    • Puppy playtime Sunday afternoon, Prairie and I went over to visit Prairie's sister and her boyfriend to visit, celebrate Prairie's birthday, and visit their new puppy, Loodie. ➡
  • 2001
    • West Coast targeted? Reportedly, unspecified groups are targeting suspension bridges on the West Coast. Six incidents are to take place curing rush hour beginning Friday, November 2 and continuing through November 7, 2001. ➡
    • Enterprise: The Andorian Incident We are also being treated to a much more interesting view of the Vulcans. We're now seeing some of the Vulcans weaknesses and less-than-idealistic tendencies, and I for one find the new look at the history of the race fascinating (to coin a phrase). ➡

On This Day: Oct 31

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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 October 31st

  • 2025
    • Initial Thoughts on Affinity by Canva We'll see how things go over time, but all in all, if not cautiously optimistic, I'm at least cautiously hopeful about the just-announced changes to Affinity. Seeing more improvements in their PDF accessibility tagging is encouraging! ➡
  • 2023
  • 2021
    • Happy Halloween, all! Trek or Treat! 🖖 ➡
  • 2020
  • 2017
    • Vampires do not say “blah, blah, blah”! #lego #halloween #vampire #bat ➡
    • Spooky #lego #halloween graveyard! ➡
    • Eating candy, building #legos, and watching #strangerthings season two. Happy #Halloween! 🎃💀👻 ➡
  • 2016
    • Happy Halloween! #Lego #goth at work today. #cwupride 🎃🕸👻💀 (305/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • A Halloween Lego treat: a cute little bat with a pumpkin to snack on. :) #halloween #lego #bat #pumpkin ➡
  • 2014
    • The Red Skull says Happy Halloween! #Halloween #papercraft #wintercroft #wintercroftmasks @wintercroft ➡
  • 2008
    • Happy Halloween! A silly, simple one-day-only design change to celebrate Halloween. Have fun today, and watch out for ghoulies, ghosties, and things that go **bump** in the night! ➡
  • 2006
  • 2005
    • Happy Halloween! Happy Halloween, folks! A couple more pictures of decorations 'round our apartment after the jump. ➡
  • 2004
    • Jason Webley Halloween Show 2004 Prairie and I went to Jason Webley's Halloween/Deathday show last night. The show, of course (and as always), was incredible, and I'll try to get a better writeup later on today. For now, though, I've uploaded a photoset from last night to Flickr. ➡
  • 2003
    • One last interview I think that this should be the last of my posts regarding my recent notoriety. Tech news site BetaNews interviewed me about the entire affair yesterday, and the interview has just been posted on their site. ➡
    • Hey Mr. DJ! An 80's pop music online quiz. ➡
    • And I thought the politicians were scary Here's a fun little Halloween story that I'd not heard before. Apparently, the U.S. Capitol Building is haunted! ➡
  • 2002
    • T minus 2 hours and counting Instead, I'll be turning off my PC, closing down my web browsers and newsreaders, leaving my instant messaging programs off, and focusing on diving into the wierd and wonderful world of becoming… ➡
    • Kung-Tunes upgrade Just upgraded to Kung-Tunes 1.9.0. There's now a bit less information displayed for the currently playing track, but it displays a history of the last few tracks I've listened to. Cool stuff! ➡
  • 2001
    • A ghost closing his mouth after a long summer’s yawn One of the few slight bummers about this past weekend was that I missed Jason's Halloween show. Having only seen him perform a couple times at Bumbershoot, I'm really hoping to be able to catch one of his shows sometime, but just had too much going on this weekend to be able to do it. Hopefully it won't be too much longer before I get a chance I can take. ➡

On This Day: Oct 30

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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 October 30th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 181 Trying to figure out a photo when my wife decided that she could help. ➡
    • 🧪 Test Post 21 of Several Test twenty-one of several as I try to troubleshoot blog issues. Will probably be deleted later. Sorry for flooding your feeds. ➡
    • 🧪 Test Post 20 of Several Test twenty of several as I try to troubleshoot blog issues. Will probably be deleted later. Sorry for flooding your feeds. ➡
    • Test Post 19 of Several Test nineteen of several as I try to troubleshoot blog issues. Will probably be deleted later. Sorry for flooding your feeds. ➡
    • Test Post 18 of Several Test eighteen of several as I try to troubleshoot blog issues. Will probably be deleted later. Sorry for flooding your feeds. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Linkdump for January 27th through October 30th An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between January 27th and October 30th. ➡
    • Old mashup from DJ Wüdi: Just Can’t Get Flexible in 1999 (Depeche Mode “Flexible” and “Just Can’t Get Enough” vs. Prince “1999”). The only inspiration I can remember for these is that I like the source songs and I had the acapella for “1999”. I do like the way it came out. 🎵 ➡
    • Old mashup from DJ Wüdi: Give It A Crablouse (Red Hot Chili Peppers “Give It Away Now” vs. Lords of Acid “Crablouse”). I realized a few years ago that the verses for “Crablouse” had the same rhythm as those for “Give It Away Now”, so…this was the result. 🎵 ➡
    • New mashup from DJ Wüdi: Closer to Virginity (nine inch nails “Closer” vs. Madonna “Like a Virgin”). Originally did this “live” when DJing back in the late ’90s by quick-fading between the tracks; this version is my first attempt at using Logic Pro X. 🎵 ➡
  • 2016
    • Being clean shaven is weird. My face feels funny, and colder than it should be where I’m used to having fuzz. (304/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Thor is back on campus for Halloween! ;) #halloween #thor #mjolnir #mewmew #cwu ➡
  • 2010
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Spamalot (And Some Etiquette Grumbling) So, wrapping things up: people suck, can't (or won't) behave properly in public, and most of them really shouldn't be let out of the house. The show, while suffering from some very notable rough spots, was generally very enjoyable, though in the end, not quite the experience we were hoping for. ➡
  • 2005
    • He wrote some pretty creepy stuff… He has a terrific imagination, he's going to be the next Ray Bradbury. ➡
    • Halloween Weekend Erk. Forgot that daylight savings time kicked in (out?) today, and got up an hour early. Meh. Could've had that extra hour in bed! Fun night out at the Vogue for Halloween, though. ➡
  • 2003
    • Look out! Pornography! Duck! I can't tell you how much safer and more secure I feel about the world around me to know that our dearly beloved President declared the week of October 26th to November 1st, 2003, to be Protection From Pornography Week. ➡
    • People must like my design There is a potential downside to a good site design that I hadn't foreseen — that being people ripping it off. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. ➡
    • 'Big Mac' details Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan, the head of Virginia Tech's recent construction of a 1,100-node Power Mac G5-based supercomputer (currently tentatively ranked as the 3rd fastest supercomputer in the word) gave a talk at the O'Reilly Mac OS X conference this week. ➡
    • My inner fanboy just had an orgasm Whoever wins…we lose. ➡
    • Is Boing Boing broken? While the current page is certainly friendly and cheerful, it's not quite the Boing Boing I'm familiar with. ➡
  • 2002
    • It’s tricky Jam Master Jay, DJ for Run-DMC., was shot and killed in the studio. ➡
    • Bloggertypes I seem to be a mix of 'Techie Blogger (Togger)' and 'Link Blogger (Blinker)' with a touch of 'Goth Blogger (Glogger)' tossed in every so often. ➡
  • 2001
    • Mullet haiku Short like your schooling / Long like your prison sentence / The penal haircut ➡

On This Day: Oct 29

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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 29th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • Achievement Unlocked: New job acquired! After five years in the corporate tech world, I'm coming back to higher education — as of December 1, I will be the Program Manager for Accessible Technology at Highline College! ➡
  • 2020
    • 🖖 Discovery S03E03: The ship travels to a planet only to find itself caught between two warring factions, and they must try to convince both sides to stand down and find a resolution. This may be one of the most “Star Trek”-y Discovery episodes yet, and it pulled it off. Plus lots of good character ... Read more ➡
    • Maybe not the most exciting way to spend an afternoon, but at least the weather is nice so I can wait outside comfortably. ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 29 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 29 ➡
  • 2019
  • 2017
    • The misty fog makes for perfect Halloween spiderwebs this morning. ➡
  • 2016
    • Me and my inspiration for my costume. :) #lego #goth #emo #spooky #halloween #halloweencostume ➡
    • Happy Halloween from a sad little Lego goth boy! 👻💀🎃🕸 (303/366) #halloween #costume #halloweencostume #lego #goth #emo #spooky ➡
    • While getting ready for bed, I noticed I’d gotten a souvenir from Frank N. Furter, who sat on my lap during part of “I’m Going Home” and kissed my cheek as he moved on. 💋 #rhps #rockyhorrorpictureshow #lettherebelips ➡
  • 2013
    • Death of a Furby I've always felt a weird sort of guilty glee at my role in the (temporary) psychological torture and murder of a poor, innocent Furby. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2004
    • I’ve voted! Thanks to the joy and convenience of voting by mail, I've just filled out my ballot, and will be dropping it in the mail momentarily. For the record, my votes on two of the most important issues that I've been watching over the past few months: Kerry/Edwards for President and No on I-83. ➡
    • Time to Vote Want to vote on Tuesday, but don't think you'll have the time? Think again — thirty states have laws giving workers the right to take time off to vote. ➡
  • 2003
    • Are you on the blacklist? The NRA has a 19-page 'blacklist' of groups, associations, companies and individuals known to support gun control legislation posted on their website. Feeling left out 'cause you're not on it? Sign up to be added! ➡
    • More E-voting issues The security breaches and known vulnerabilities of the current E-voting systems make it clear that in their present state, they cannot be trusted — and I, for one, would greatly prefer it if I could be sure that my vote in 2004 goes to the candidate I intend it to. ➡
    • Automatic defrag in Panther Everytime an application opens a file for reading, HFS+ checks if the file is fragmented and is less than 20MB in size. If so, it copies the file's contents to a continuous region on the disk and frees up the previously allocated blocks. ➡
    • I always knew she was evil! New from Mattel, just in time for Halloween — Secret Spells Barbie! ➡
    • Two days to Halloween… …and I still don't have a costume. Maybe I should go as Bill Gates? ;) ➡
    • Fifteen minutes of fame Another major followup post, answering questions about my experiences over the past couple days -- Slashdotting and all! ➡
    • Yikes! Oh my lord -- I've been slashdotted. ➡
  • 2002
    • Remember the 80’s? I just took the 80's Purity Test. It's weighted a bit more towards 'girl stuff' (lots of questions about wearing scrunchies and jelly shoes and the like), but I still didn't do too badly. ➡
    • Renovation is fun! Oh, now this could get interesting. Our building just started undergoing renovation — new carpets and paint in the hallways, a few new units being put in, upgrades to the heating system (I think), things like that. A minor pain, but nothing too bad, right? ➡
  • 2001
    • Quotes: OS X, iPod The iPod certainly got a lot of attention when I showed it to people, including a Windows guy named Bill Gates. He spun the wheel, checked out the menus on the display screen and seemed to get it immediately. 'It looks like a great product,' he said. And then he added, incredulous, 'It's only for Macintosh?' ➡
    • One very cool weekend Apparently I have a second cousin who had a meeting scheduled in the World Trade Center on September 11th. He had to duck a fair amount of falling masonry and other debris, but he managed to get out of the area, and is apparently doing well. ➡

On This Day: Oct 28

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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 October 28th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • 📚 40/2021: Boogeymen by Mel Gilden ⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻 ➡
  • 2020
    • Have a couple hours to kill this Saturday before the evening revelries? Join my DJ alter-ego for Spüki Tünes with DJ Wüdi on Halloween Afternün! 1 p.m. (Pacific time) on my Twitch channel. Old classics, newer goofiness, and some stuff I just thought would fit in. ➡
    • Difficult Listening Hour 2020.10.27 Week thirty-one of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 28 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 28 ➡
  • 2016
    • Don’t dream it…be it! #rhps #rockyhorrorpictureshow ➡
    • Rather pleasantly surprised that my insurance company offers AD&D insurance. That’ll be handy if I decide to do a dungeon crawl! 😄 #adnd #advanceddungeonsanddragons #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #idontknowwhatthatactuallymeans ➡
    • Happy to see these #culturenotcostume posters by @cwudiversity get put up on campus. A little bummed they just showed up today, Oct. 28th, when many costumes will have been made/purchased already, and on a Friday, when my building is nearly deserted. Much better than nothing at all, though! ➡
    • Tumblr encouraged me to “take a spooky selfie” today, and this was the overlay it provided. I guess I’m spooky now? This is silly. (302/366) ➡
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • OpinionOutpost Apology Last June, I got a comment on my site that as far as I could tell was comment spam advertising a site called Opinion Outpost. Not being a fan of that style of advertising, I posted about it. Yesterday, I actually got an apology from the person who originally left the comment that started it all. ➡
    • More family photos A couple of months ago, Prairie and I drove down to join my parents at my brother's house in Corvallis, OR for a weekend. Dad's just uploaded his pictures of the trip, and two in particular caught my eye. ➡
  • 2004
    • Prognostication You know, back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. ➡
    • 2004’s Scariest Halloween Costumes On my way back to work from lunch I passed one of The Stranger's distribution boxes, paused a moment to check out this week's cover — and probably startled a couple of the people around me when I burst out laughing at the cover photo. ➡
    • Wishlist: Bank transaction RSS feed Just something that popped into my head. I want a daily update from my bank via authenticated RSS feed. Are there any banks (especially in the Seattle area) that offer this as part of their online banking? ➡
  • 2003
    • Thank you! Many thanks to all of you who've passed on words of encouragement. Here's some answers to a few of the questions that have been brought up over all this. ➡
  • 2002
    • George Whatever the cause, the effect was an animal more purely and innately demonic than any other that I've ever run across, or would care to run across in the future. ➡

On This Day: Oct 27

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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 October 27th

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • 📚 forty-three (yes, again; this book was a two-in-one) of 2020: Collision Course by Robert Silverberg ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shaky first half, but the latter half actually reminded me of TOS Star Trek’s “Errand of Mercy” (two warring races forced into detente by a third more powerful race). ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 27 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 27 ➡
  • 2016
    • In the lobby of CWU’s music building before tonight’s Halloween concert (which was very good and a lot of fun). (301/366) ➡
    • Hey, CMK: You’re not cool or a rebel, just a childish jerk. #cwu #ellensburg ➡
  • 2011
    • Occupy the Vote. Make a Difference. #occupythevote Yes, protests are important. Yes, we need to make our voices heard. But we also need to remember that shouting in the streets _isn't_ the only way to make our voices heard. Fill out your ballot. Put it in the mail. Put it in a drop box. If you don't live somewhere where you can vote by mail, then take the hour out of your day to go to the polls. #occupythevote ➡
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • America’s Next Muppet I'm not sure what I got more excited about -- the fact that there's a Muppet-centric weblog that I just discovered, or that the Muppets may be coming back to TV! ➡
    • Frappr I've created a Frappr group for Eclecticism readers...feel free to drop by and add yourself to the map. I'd love to get an idea of just how widespread my readers are! ➡
  • 2004
    • Happy Anniversary One year ago today, I lost my job because of a photo I took, and began my fifteen minutes of fame. My, how time flies. ➡
    • Lunar eclipse, Seattle, WA After finding out about tonight's eclipse earlier today, I started wondering if I could get any halfway decent shots of it. Since the camera I'm using allows longer exposures (up to eight seconds), I figured it'd be worth a shot. ➡
    • Lunar Eclipse tonight John reminded me that there's a lunar eclipse tonight. If the skies stay as clear as they are right now, I may climb up to the roof of my apartment building and see if I can get any decent pictures. In the meantime, I present this handy-dandy guide to eclipse terminology. ➡
  • 2003
    • Of blogging and unemployment And that simply, as of about 2pm today, I once again joined the ranks of the unemployed. ➡
    • Nothing to see here…move along… The White House is excluding Google and other search engines from indexing any whitehouse.gov page with 'iraq' in the address. Can't go making real information easy to find, now can we? ➡
    • Gene Robinson under FBI guard The lengths that people will go to in their homophobia in the name of religion is really scary. Bishop-elect Gene Robinson is currently under 24-hour FBI protection due to death threats. ➡
  • 2002
    • Small updates Finally grabbed some time to do some small updates to the site I'd been meaning to do for a while now. ➡

On This Day: Oct 26

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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 26th

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  • 2021
    • The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS: The Oscar winning screenwriter of ‘Dune’ writes in an MS-DOS program that can only hold 40 pages in memory. ➡
  • 2020
    • Even though they’re parked on the moon, Kent-built Apollo Lunar Rovers are now Historic State Landmarks These high-tech electric buggies were used in Apollo Missions 15, 16 and 17 in 1971 and 1972, and helped astronauts explore more of the Moon’s surface. ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 26 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 26 ➡
  • 2016
    • Love the streets here in the fall. Also glad I don’t have to clean up those leaves. (300/366) ➡
    • Forgot yesterday’s photo, so here’s my Snapchat filter as penance! ;) (299/366) ➡
  • 2006
    • Time to Move For the past couple years, this weblog has been hosted through the kindness and generosity of Michael at Rain City Story. However, he's decided it's time for him to move on to other projects in his life, so it's time for me to start investigating other hosting options. ➡
  • 2004
    • Eminem: Mosh I've never been a fan of Eminem. I tend to find his music boring, and his lyrics violent, misogynistic, homophobic, and offensive. That said…hot damn this video is a powerful piece of work. ➡
    • iPod Photo It's time to upgrade my iPod. Too bad I'm broke. (sigh) ➡
    • You’ve gotta be kidding me Who comes up with these headlines? Damn near made me spew my drink all over the computer screen. ➡
  • 2003
    • Ash to ash, dust to dust The stories posted of people coming out to find ash covering everything do sound very familiar, though — only for me, it was due to volcanoes. ➡
    • Bush's plans to expand the Patriot Act President Bush doesn't think the current Patriot Act is good enough. In an attempt to 'close loopholes' in the original legislation, he's proposed three very frightning changes. ➡
    • Panther goodies Lots of interesting tips and tricks for Panther are showing up on the web now that it's been out a few days. Some of the niftier ones I've run across so far: ➡
    • Bush in Oz While it's certainly no surprise, apparently Bush's visit was heavily stage managed to make sure he got the most possible accolades, and the fewest possible questions… ➡
    • Kill Bill, Vol. 1 I'm going to keep my comments here fairly brief, as this is only the first part of a two-part story. So, briefly, first impressions of the first half of Kill Bill… ➡
    • Ooooh…spooky! Seeing as how we've found our way into Halloween week, I thought I'd find some appropriate colors for the week. Enjoy! ➡
  • 2001