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On This Day: Oct 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 22 posts previously published on October 11th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • 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. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • To all those I know who have come out, have not come out, aren’t sure if they need to, want to, or are safely able to come out: Whoever you are, your identity is valid, and I hope you can live your life however you see fit, comfortably and loved. #NationalComingOutDay ➡
  • 2018
    • Excellent news: Washington’s state Supreme Court outlaws death penalty ➡
    • Book thirty-seven of 2018: Star Trek: Destiny: Gods of Night, by David Mack. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • Safety lights are for dudes. (284/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Grabbed two of the current set of mystery Lego figures this morning. Got the zombie cheerleader and Bigfoot! #Lego #zombie #cheerleader #bigfoot #sasquatch #halloween ➡
  • 2014
    • In line at Voodoo Doughnuts. Half an hour in, almost in sight of the door. This is a little nuts! ➡
  • 2006
    • Desperation Someone just came to my site via a Google search for 'oh god give me a job i need a fucking job just give me a job i want a job okay'. ➡
    • Fall ’06 TV Plans So that's the TV plan for the next few months. A lot more than I used to do, and all subject to being preempted by school, work, or other major life events...but it's nice to have some downtime every so often. ➡
  • 2005
    • A few general updates on life I haven't really done one of these in a while, so I figured it was about time. Work goes well as I get used to being a salesperson, and fun with scheduling effects everything from planned trips to Alaska to how much 'puter time I'm getting. ➡
  • 2004
    • Okay, okay…85-90% straight I've believed for a long time that the three major classifications of sexuality — straight, gay, and bisexual — are inherently limiting, and fairly unrealistic. Rather than lumping everyone into one of three categories, I've always figured it's more of a sliding scale…or possibly something along the lines of an inverse bell curve, with same-sex attraction on one side and opposite-sex attraction on the other. ➡
    • Of nuance and nuisances We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance. ➡
    • National Coming Out Day Terrance reminded me that today is National Coming Out day. My best wishes to any of you choosing to come out today, and of course, to all of you who already have. ➡
    • Dreams So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ➡
    • The Death of Superman 'Superman' actor Christopher Reeve, who turned personal tragedy into a public crusade and from his wheelchair became the nation's most recognizable spokesman for spinal cord research, has died. He was 52. ➡
    • Bush’s Dred Scott reference Remember when Bush made the odd reference to the Dred Scott case during his answer to what kind of Supreme Court justice he'd appoint in the second debate? It didn't seem to make a lot of sense, and had a lot of people confused. Looks like one of the diarists on Daily Kos may have stumbled upon the answer — it's right-wing code for abortion. ➡
  • 2002
    • Kinda freaky – voices from the past …the legitimate government of Kuwait will be restored to its rightful place, and Kuwait will once again be free. Iraq will eventually comply with all relevant United Nations resolutions, and then, when peace is restored, it is our hope that Iraq will live as a peaceful and cooperative member of the family of nations, thus enhancing the security and stability of the Gulf. ➡
    • Wired goes CSS As is typical for movements like this, it's the 'little people' that start the ball rolling (in this case, primarily weblogs and personal sites), then the 'big boys' follow. Today, one of the first major, heavy-traffic sites has unveiled their new standards-compliant design — Wired. ➡
    • iMac caught with PC in illicit love nest In a surprise development that has rocked the computing world today, paparazzi have made public a photograph of Apple's popular iMac computer cavorting poolside with what appears to be a Microsoft Windows-based PC. ➡

On This Day: Oct 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 16 posts previously published on October 10th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 161 I'm going to have to keep track of which shirts I wear for presentations. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Short Treks E06: “The Trouble with Edward” Okay…yes, it’s funny (and be sure to watch all of it). I laughed quite a few times. But wow, are they playing fast and loose with canon and biology. Hard to say much more without spoilers, but…I’m very torn on what to think. 🖖 ➡
  • 2016
    • Thanks to the construction fencing, leaving work felt a bit like getting herded through some sort of cattle chute. (283/366) ➡
  • 2008
    • Links for October 10th from 10:52 to 17:27 Sometime between 10:52 and 17:27, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
    • Over-Distributed Identity What I need is some form of comment aggregator service that would track when a particular post (of any form) is made, monitor its status on each of the various services, then either collect any comments at a central location or even simply alert me when a comment is made. ➡
    • Links for October 8th through October 10th Sometime between October 8th and October 10th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
  • 2007
    • Why We Had to Move After returning home from Hawaii (no, those pictures aren't done yet, I'm just busy with work and school), Prairie and I found out we had to move. This shot is of what used to be our cute little apartment. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
  • 2002
    • What Bush wants us to forget Things that Bush wants us to forget. ➡
    • A proposal If/when we catch the Maryland sniper, howabout we just airlift him into Iraq and set him loose on Saddam? ➡
    • Journalistic Integrity at its finest The story 'Filipino-American history recognized' stated that the 'Nuestra Senora de Buena Esperanza,' the galleon on which the first Filipinos landed at Morro, Bay, Calif., loosely translates to 'The Big Ass Spanish Boat.' It actually translates to 'Our Lady of Good Hope.' ➡
    • Test post Test post to see if regex is working correctly. ➡

On This Day: Oct 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 13 posts previously published on October 9th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • I feel like Republicans get together in dark, secret back rooms, stare nervously at a mirror on the wall, and giggle as they dare each other to say “Hillary Clinton” three times. ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 9 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 9 ➡
  • 2018
    • 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. ➡
  • 2016
    • Almost time for the second #2016debate. Just how much of a train wreck will it be? (282/366) ➡
  • 2006
    • About to be published… ...the freakin’ New Yorker just purchased one of my photos to use in an ‘advertorial’ for the MGM Grand casino for $250! ➡
  • 2005
    • The Ten Commandments of Clubbing All of it seems pretty obvious to me, but I can't count the number of times when I've wished that more people had these in their head. Bunch o' savages in this town.... ➡
    • Birthdays Yay! Much fun -- birthday parties, friends old and new, and bouncing and flirting at the Vogue. All told, not a bad night in the least. ➡
  • 2003
    • Help Bush flush out the leak! Our dear Pres. Bush is apparently having some difficulties with the task of narrowing down just who in his staff would have been so underhanded as to leak Valerie Plame's name and CIA affiliation to the press. However, we can help! ➡
    • New $20 bills The US's new twenty-dollar bills should start hitting banks today, soon to start circulating around to everyone else. ➡
    • Sigh As of right now — 10am on the day that tickets were available to be purchased — the Lord of the Rings Marathon at the Cinerama is sold out. ➡
  • 2002
    • MovableType upgrade I've just upgraded to MovableType 2.5. This will probably break a few of the features (off the top of my head, the smileys will need to be fixed, and possibly the 'recent comments' section), but I'll get those re-enabled as quickly as I can. ➡

On This Day: Oct 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 22 posts previously published on October 8th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • 📚 forty-one of 2020: A Rock and a Hard Place by Peter David ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tng 🖖 Riker’s sent off on a B-plot, so a troublesome first officer is temporarily assigned to the Enterprise in the hopes that Picard can corral this loose cannon. He’s an ass, but is he unstable? ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 8 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 8 ➡
  • 2018
    • ⌚️ day! New Series 4 Apple Watch (on the right), along with an original “Series 0” watch on the left. Wearing both was just for the photo, the older model is going to a new home. ➡
    • Oh, wow — well, that’s it for Google+, folks. It was probably only a matter of time, but going out on a customer-data exposing bug is a bad way to go. ➡
  • 2016
    • Prairie’s mom pulled out this big weird book that looked like Google Maps, but was on paper and didn’t change, or scroll, or have traffic updates, or anything! ;) ➡
    • Of course, being an uncle isn’t always about sitting and reading storybooks. Sometimes we make excellent jungle gyms. ➡
    • Being a good uncle and reading a storybook to my niblings at a birthday party for two of them. (281/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • I’m highly suspicious about…something. ➡
  • 2008
    • Links for October 8th from 06:39 to 13:58 Sometime between 06:39 and 13:58, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
    • An Ode to the Short Story Following up, in a way, to a quote from Stephen King that I posted a couple weeks ago, comes this essay by Steven Millhauser, The Ambition of the Short Story. ➡
    • That One This goes beyond refusing to look at Obama in the first debate. With this slightly dehumanizing phrase, McCain may have just played into the emerging narrative of Obama-hate that has been sprouting at McCain-Palin rallies. ➡
  • 2006
    • Not in our stars, but in ourselves. Every time I hear this monologue, it strikes me just how topical it is. How easy it would be to replace the references to Sen. McCarthy with references to President Bush and have it read just as accurately. ➡
  • 2004
    • Presidential Debate #2 The Presidential debate starts in about ten minutes. As before, I'll be watching it on C-SPAN's internet feed. Rambling, incoherent, stream of consciousness commentary to be posted once the debate is over with. ➡
    • The Global Test The President isn't passing this test. ➡
  • 2003
    • It must've been the full moon A small but important project came through. Had to be finished tonight, as they were needed for a meeting with BillG and SteveB tomorrow morning. Which, of course, meant that Murphy's Law kicked in — with a vengeance. ➡
    • iChat faxes? A minor but amusing goof on Apple's site right now: in the Top New Panther Features sidebar on many of the pages, iChat's one-line summary is 'Send and receive faxes.' ➡
    • Panther Announced Mac OS X 10.3, a.k.a. Panther, has finally had its official release date announced — October 24th, just a little over two weeks from now. ➡
  • 2002
    • Animatrix What is the Animatrix? Well, okay, so my first answer would probably involve something along the lines of Betty Page making a cameo in a Roger Rabbit cartoon. But that'd be wrong. ➡
    • If the shoe fits… Khatami said the U.S. possesses the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, weapons 'that, when first developed, were used immediately to kill half a million innocent civilians just months after acquiring them. No nation that has committed nuclear genocide can be entrusted with weapons of mass destruction.' ➡
  • 2001
    • Necrophilia? Having sex with a Goth does not count as necrophilia! ➡
    • Ch ch ch ch ch changes After considering it for a few days, I finally figured I'd give it a shot this morning, and for the first time in about 8 years or so, I'm clean shaven. ➡

On This Day: Oct 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 October 7th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • Harris v. Pence Watched the first hour of the VP debate (which means I turned it off before the fly landed, which I’m a little disappointed about). On the whole, I thought Harris did well. She had actual answers for the questions, presented them solidly (even when they were answers I didn’t like, such as the repeated emphasis ... Read more ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 7 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 7 ➡
  • 2017
    • Just a few hours until #LordsofAcid! ➡
  • 2016
    • The #tinydinosaur was quite entertained by the laser #pinkfloyd show (as was I…it had been decades since I’d been to one of these)! ➡
    • The #tinydinosaur is quite excited to be taking the #tinyelephant out on a date to Burgerville – and the sweet potato fries and pumpkin milkshakes are in season! ➡
    • Turns out the #tinydinosaur is a fan of, well…whatever kind of architecture this is. He’s not quite educated enough to know the terminology, just that he likes it. ➡
    • Ellensburg just doesn’t get fall colors like this. Quite impressive to the #tinydinosaur! ➡
    • There is at least one old-school #Apple #Mac fan on this campus! #clarus #clarusthedogcow #moof ➡
    • Exploring the Reed College campus with the #tinydinosaur while we wait for Prairie’s conference to end. This is a really pretty campus! ➡
    • Indian food makes a great lunch for a #tinydinosaur! ➡
    • Shelves and shelves of #startrek! The #tinydinosaur is going to have a hard time choosing. ➡
    • The #tinydinosaur is debating what to do on a grey, drizzly day in Portland. ➡
    • First time ever taking advantage of a hotel’s exercise room. Got the morning workout in! (280/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • I’m very disturbed by this flavor of goldfish snacks. ➡
    • Just got another neat Kickstarter project – a collection of comics by Native American creators. Looking forward to reading it! #moonshot ➡
  • 2014
    • This really is a gorgeous campus. Glad I had a reason to get out of the office for a bit! ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • IN’s Reproduction Bill Yoinked A controversial proposed bill to prohibit gays, lesbians and single people from using medical procedures to become pregnant has been dropped by its legislative sponsor. ➡
  • 2004
    • About the server switch Okay, so what's up with switching servers? Those of you who are regulars have probably seen me mention that I was considering doing this a time or two in the past, and now I've just gone and done it. Well, really, the primary motivation is very simple… ➡
    • Server Switch If you're seeing this entry, it means that the transfer to my new server has gone through. Expect images to be broken for a while as I get them transferred over — all the actual information should be here, though. ➡
    • Ex-cellent… Parody image of Edwards and his opponet at the VP debates. ➡
  • 2003
    • 42 minutes Not having a digital video camera to play with video bits, and hot having any multi-megabyte Photoshop files to play with, I have to admit that I haven't exactly been taxing my G5 since I got it. I'm loving the speed, to be sure — but I also know I haven't even begun to push the limits of what this machine can do. ➡
    • No kidding Microsoft Digital Image Pro 9: Sorry, this file can't be opened. ➡
  • 2002
    • Shameless greed Seeing as how Christmas is slightly less than three months away, I figured I'd indulge my lust for new-'n'-shiny-things and add a link to my Amazon Wishlist to my site (it's towards the bottom of the sidebar, just above the shameless plea for money — gotta keep my greed centralized!). ➡
    • The argument for war So it seems that Bush will be making his case for war against Iraq tonight on television. Unfortunately, I'll be at work, and won't be able to listen in. Bummer. ➡
    • Not In Our Name rally Today was the day for NION rallies across the country. Something of a new experience for me — I'm fairly vocal with my friends and occasionally here on my site about my beliefs, but I'd yet to ever actually participate in anything like this. I figured it was time to 'put my money where my mouth is', so to speak, and so about 12:30pm we started walking up to Volunteer Park for the rally, in time to get there right about 1pm when it was scheduled to start. ➡

On This Day: Oct 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 18 posts previously published on October 6th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Short Treks E05 “Q&A”: Cute, and nice to see Spock and Una playing against each other. Really dislike the Discovery-style “exterior” views of turbolifts, though; it makes no sense, and is as visually jarring as the Budweiser version of engineering from the Abramsverse. 🖖 ➡
  • 2016
    • Sometimes, the evening calls for a martini. (279/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Sunny and 88, with a nice breeze. I know it’s summer’s last gasp, but it sure is nice. ➡
  • 2011
  • 2008
    • Links for October 6th from 09:07 to 18:54 Sometime between 09:07 and 18:54, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
    • The Phantom of the Opera Yesterday afternoon, Prairie and I got a call from her sister Hope offering us tickets to the closing night show of _The Phantom of the Opera_ at the Paramount. We, of course, were happy to take them, and headed out for an unexpected but not unwelcome night out at the theater. ➡
  • 2005
    • Lost s02e03: Orientation Scribbled notes while watching last night's episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to... ➡
  • 2004
    • .com, .org, what’s the difference? Last night during the VP debates, I noted that Dick Cheney mentioned factcheck.com when responding to some of Edwards' claims about Haliburton. I didn't actually check out the site immediately post-debate, so I'm just now picking up on this funny little tidbit: ➡
    • Next track! Next track! It always screws with my head when a radio station is playing a song from a CD that skips. ➡
    • World on Fire If you haven't watched it yet, watch Sarah McLachlan's video for 'World on Fire' (iTunes required). Just do it. ➡
  • 2003
    • Don't ignore the youth It's always incredible when people can stop and take the time to recognize that if you can talk to today's youth rather than at them, if you can take them seriously, and if you can tap that enthusiasm, energy, and initiative, that you can muster a force that is truly one to be reckoned with. The PB knew that at EYE, and it looks like Dean and the people at Generation Dean know it and are doing everything they can to put that boundless energy to good use, and to knock Bush on his elitist little keister in 2004. ➡
    • TypePad discount codes Today TypePad moved out of 'Preview Release' status, making them officially open for business. I still have fifteen discount codes available that will get anyone who uses one a 20% discount for as long as they stay with the TypePad service. ➡
    • 32 cents At first I thought the guy at the register had goofed up my order, but nope. A manager came over and said that over the weekend, they'd raised the price of their small drinks. Okay, prices fluctuate from time to time, usually upwards, but a 32 cent jump for a 12oz (if that) soda? Yikes! ➡
    • Words, words, words So if my posts are a little less frequent than they sometimes are for a bit…at least you know why. ;) ➡
    • Male contraceptive on the way? With a few more years of testing and study, it appears that may finally be an effective male contraceptive. ➡
  • 2001
    • A sunny Saturday afternoon The movie 2001 has been cleaned up, restored, and is hitting theaters again, and yesterday was the opening night of its run here in Seattle -- at the Cinerama, no less. ➡

On This Day: Oct 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 21 posts previously published on October 5th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • 📚 forty of 2020: A Call to Darkness by Michael Jan Friedman ⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tng 🖖 Almost a standard 3-star “stranded in primitive conditions/‘Bread and Circuses’ variant” adventure, but had some really weird oversights that knocked a star off. ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 5 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 5 ➡
  • 2018
    • I can’t remember the last time I had to do this, but it’s nice to know that changing a tire is still a life skill I can handle. Yay? ➡
    • Book thirty-six of 2018: Flash Gordon: The Witch Queen of Mongo, by Alex Raymond and Carson Bingham. ⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • Book forty-four of 2016: Death’s Angel, by Kathleen Sky. ⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • It’s foggy outside, and the house’s heat kicked on for the first time this morning. It’s definitely feeling like fall! (278/366) ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
    • Links for October 3rd through October 5th Sometime between October 3rd and October 5th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
    • My Nephews A few weekends ago, Prairie and I went down to visit family south of us: her mom and sister in Vancouver, WA; my brother and his family in Corvallis, OR; then Prairie's dad and grandpa in Woodland, WA on our way back up to Seattle. ➡
  • 2005
    • On that whole TV thing… Most people who've known me for a while are aware that I'm not much of a fan of television -- and actually haven't really _watched_ television in a long, long time. Seeing as how a couple people commented on my watching Lost, I thought it might be worth addressing this. :) ➡
    • Want a child? Better get married… If this passes, I may want to _stop_ admitting that, though I grew up in Alaska, I was _born_ in Indiana...and most of my extended family on my dad's side is still there. Indiana Republicans are working on a bill that will make it so that only legally married women will be allowed to reproduce. ➡
    • The Sesame Street Theme…in Klingon A day of the daytime star. / The clouds are compelled to commence fleeing, and are filled with dread. / I have a destination; / and there, because of the atmosphere, I am pleased. / Describe to me **immediately** / how to go to Sesame Street. ➡
  • 2004
    • Looking for a little assistance Okay, I'm hoping someone out there might be able to give me a hand here. I'm working on moving Eclecticism from TypePad over to my own server. I've got 95% of the site framework finished, but I've got one little thing that's causing me issues. ➡
    • Vice Presidential Debate The Vice Presidential debate starts in about ten minutes. I'll be watching the live feed via C-SPAN, and will update this post with ramblings once the debate is done. ➡
    • Placeholder Entry Number Two And again with the testing of things to make sure they're working right. Exciting, isn't it? ➡
  • 2003
    • Poet Laureate…George Bush? Did you know that our President is a poet? Neither did I — thankfully, CNN gives us a taste of his lyrical genius. ➡
    • Would you buy this shirt? I'm just here to get laid. ➡
    • Dean 'meat-ups' Hmmm — seems like I need to get out of the house and go to some of the local Dean meet-ups at some point. Apparently, they're the newest hot place to meet singles! ➡
    • Advice for clubbers and bouncers Having DJ'd for around eight years in Anchorage, and having been a clubgoer for many years both before and after my DJ years, I've worked with and seen a lot of both really good, and really bad people. Ogre, the doorman at the Vogue, is definitely one of the good ones. ➡

On This Day: Oct 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 18 posts previously published on October 4th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • 📚 36/2021: Contamination by John Vornholt ⭐️ 🖖🏻 ➡
  • 2020
  • 2017
  • 2016
    • Didn’t even bother with the VP debate. Star Trek Voyager and Buffy the Vampire Slayer instead. No regrets. (278/366) ➡
  • 2011
  • 2009
  • 2005
    • Another Cheaper by the Dozen? Would someone please just forcibly retire Steve Martin and put us all out of our misery? ➡
    • Quote of the Day: Guess? I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with "Guess" on it. So I said "Implants?" She hit me. ➡
    • Seattle’s Seasons in Software As a Macintosh user interface designer I like to simplify whenever possible. Four seasons is two too many. Seattle has two seasons, rainy and dry — anything more is too complex for new users. ;) ➡
  • 2004
    • Placeholder Entry This is just a placeholder to give me some content while I work on moving things over to my own server. Nothing to see here, move along. ➡
    • Dr. Hanscom’s Health Clinic Very interesting report from some researchers in the UK claiming that massaging breasts helps avoid breast cancer. I figure it's the least I can do to offer my services! Just e-mail me to set up an appointment. ;) ➡
  • 2003
  • 2002
    • Civil Disobedience Lots of Not In Our Name rallies this Sunday, including one here in Seattle, one in Anchorage, and many other cities. ➡
    • so whut r u wearing If you've ever used IM systems such as AIM or Yahoo! Messenger, this is too funny… ➡

On This Day: Oct 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 October 3rd

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Not-So Idle Hands The section of the house within reach of the phone cord was often the neatest part of our house. ➡
  • 2016
    • Always my favorite room in the house. (277/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Saw a raccoon running around the CWU campus yesterday when dropping Prairie off by the library. ➡
  • 2014
    • There seem to be some issues with the transporter, Scotty. ➡
    • Pretty sure I know a few discrete random variables. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Misogyn•E This looks to be the third time running (following Cars and Ratatouille) that I'll wait to rent Pixar's latest, rather than sending any of my money their way via the theater. ➡
  • 2004
    • My family, circa 1977 or so This is one of my favorite old family photos. Probably just a proof that was passed on during the selection process, it always makes me laugh when I see it. ➡
    • Has flickr been hijacked? Flickr hasn't been loading for me at all today — all morning long it was giving me a DNS error saying that the server couldn't be found. ➡
    • I so need this toy! I came so close to blowing some money just a few minutes ago — if this wasn't rent week, I probably would have. There's a plush Alien Facehugger available now (I saw it at Suncoast). ➡
    • The DJ tried to kill me Last night at The Vogue was really good — Ogre was DJing, standing in for Evan, and he kept making it damn near impossible for me to get off the dance floor. Always a good thing, of course, since it means that the music is consistently good — but then he topped it all off by playing Pop Will Eat Itself's 'Can U Dig It?', off of This is the Day…This is the Hour…This is This! I'm a big PWEI fan, and would never have expected to hear that at a club. Too cool. ➡
    • Fox news really is Faux News While their rather strong obvious bias has earned Fox News the nickname of 'Faux News' for a while now, this past few days they seem to be doing an incredibly good job of living up to their nickname. ➡
  • 2003
    • Buffy! I have to admit, this is really tempting: all of the first four seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for only $120. ➡
    • Nicknames Tiny Sugar Packets of Evil is asking about nicknames today. Since she asked… ➡
    • You will never lose betting on human stupidity Every so often I mention to people that I haven't watched television, for the most part, in somewhere around a decade or more. I've got a whole host of reasons why I don't bother with television — and today, I just got one more. ➡
    • Dec. 16: LOTR Marathon It's official: the Lord of the Rings Marathon will be at the Seattle Cinerama on Dec. 16th. ➡
    • Search the web? A question for Windows UI gurus — why in the world is there a 'Search the web' button right next to the 'Up one level' button in open/save dialog boxes in Windows XP? ➡
  • 2002
    • NaNoWriMo I'm not entirely sure yet, but I've just run across something that I'm really tempted to make a shot at — National Novel Writing Month, in which all participants have one month, from Nov. 1st to Nov. 30th, to write a 50,000 word novel (approximately 175 pages). ➡

On This Day: Oct 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 29 posts previously published on October 2nd

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
    • A wish for a Best-Case Scenario We’ve had a year of worst-case scenarios, of course, so the odds are against this. But I can hope. ➡
    • From Q&A to The Cage I may not agree with every choice the current stewards of Trek are making, but I think it’s clear that they have a lot of love and respect for the universe. ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 2 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 2 ➡
  • 2019
    • Alligator House Dance Party Nothing terribly fancy here — just an hour's worth of playing around, entertaining my nieces (ages 10 and 7) during a visit. ➡
  • 2018
    • “Yakko’s World” — the Animaniacs song with all the countries of the world — just got a brand new verse with all the countries added since the song was written! ➡
    • Book thirty-five of 3018: Flash Gordon: The Time Trap of Ming XIII, by Alex Raymond and Con Steffanson. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • Siri shortcut for “xyzzy” Old-school geeks will (well, maybe) be amused by this: a very simple, very stupid, tiny iOS 12 Siri shortcut. Tap it in Shortcuts and Siri will reply with, 'Nothing happens.' ➡
  • 2016
    • Tried two new kinds of apple we hadn’t seen before: Koru and Aurora. Both were good, but the Aurora was our favorite. Quite good. ➡
    • Before and after my end of the month shave-and-a-haircut (two bits!). I’m much more presentable now. (276/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • The first rule of thermodynamics is… ➡
  • 2007
    • Soylent Cheese Of course milk comes from cows, but we know that cheese comes from people... ➡
  • 2005
    • Bad Books Reading List Via Terrance: How many of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990-2000 have you read? The ones I've read are in **bold**... ➡
    • Shining Okay, so I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but if you haven't seen it yet, you've _really_ got to check out the trailer for a little heartwarming family comedy called Shining (9.5Mb QT .mov). A definite must-see! ➡
    • Dilbert on Doocing Everyone's favorite geeky office shlub takes a look at job-related weblogging today. ➡
    • Bouncing and flirting Much fun out at the_vogue tonight. Flirting with friends I hadn't seen in a while (Tej, Suzanne, Noreen) and friends I just made tonight (Margarite, Amanda, Sarah). All in all, definitely worth going. ➡
  • 2004
    • Disney turning Bloom County 3-D You know, much as I'd like to get excited about the prospect of a Bloom County feature film, given Disney's track record over the past few years, the news that their first foray into 3-D animation without Pixar's involvement will be a Bloom County film doesn't thrill me. ➡
  • 2003
    • And this is a surpise to…who? Remember all those weapons of mass destruction that Bush et al assured us were all over Iraq, just waiting to be found? Funny thing, that — apparently, they don't exist after all. ➡
    • Graham out? It's a little unclear, but it looks like Bob Graham is abandoning the Democratic nomination race. ➡
    • Silliness reigns supreme Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more. ➡
    • Get your DJ name! According to Quiz Me's Get Your DJ Name page, I'm either DJ Broken Box, DJ Master Storm, or DJ Hell-Bent Storm, depending on whether I start with Michael, Woody, or Wudi. ➡
    • A marriage made in heaven If Ivana Trump married, in succession, Orson Bean (actor), King Oscar (of Norway), Louis B. Mayer (of MGM), and Norbert Wiener (mathematician), she would then be Ivana Bean Oscar Mayer Wiener ➡
    • Genetic Engineering Aside from the obvious (and brilliant) attention-getting shock tactics of the image, there's some interesting questions being raised here. Unfortunately, it's time for me to head out the door to get to work. Discuss amongst yourselves. ➡
    • ACME catalog How wonderful: the ACME catalog, a collection of every ACME product ever seen in the classic Warner Brothers cartoons! Me, I think I'm going for the Instant Girl ➡
    • Democrat fundraising outdoing Bush Based on the preliminary estimates for the third quarter, the 10-person Democratic field collectively will have outraised the Bush campaign, an indication of how fired up Democratic donors are. ➡