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On This Day: Oct 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 22 posts previously published on October 1st

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • Möbius Trek Worf: 'There is the theory of the Möbius—a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop.' ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 1 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 1 ➡
  • 2018
  • 2016
    • Today was a well deserved day of rest. Tomorrow, back to being a responsible adult. (275/366) ➡
    • Seems today is National Mulled Cider Day. Hope you all got to celebrate too! ➡
  • 2014
    • And this would be me “wearing” a tiny fez painted by @aaron_morgan_art in 1994. ➡
  • 2010
  • 2009
    • Links for September 30th through October 1st Sometime between September 30th and October 1st, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
    • October Awareness Month Two important things to keep in mind: this is both Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Both of those are bad. Feel Your Boobies, and don't smack around your significant other. Okay? ➡
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • LJ-style links for Ecto This is actually fairly simple, but you never know. For ecto users who want to post LiveJournal-style links to LJ user accounts into a weblog entry on a non-LJ system... ➡
    • Serenity Saw Serenity last night. Much fun with friends in line. The movie...I'm still letting it percolate. And I've gotta get in gear to go to work. More later. ➡
  • 2003
    • Fire up the shredders The White house asked for and got permission earlier this week to wait a day before issuing a directive to preserve all documents and logs which led one seasoned federal prosecutor to wonder why they wanted to wait a day, and who at the justice department told them they could do that, and why? ➡
    • Wacom Photography Contest Wacom is currently having a 'Go Platinum / Go Pro' photo/design contest. ➡
    • Meme 2: iTunes How you organize your music can be as important to someone as what music they listen to. For me, with a personal CD collection currently somewhere around 1,200 discs, organization becomes extremely important. ➡
    • Meme 1: The Dock So, not being one to let a silly pointless meme pass by, I give you my current dock! I'm sure you're all thrilled. ➡
    • Longhorn gets Scoblelized Robert Scoble has started a Longhorn blog. Information might be light until the upcoming PDC, but it could be a good source of info on Microsofts next OS. ➡
    • Five million in ten days Wow. It looks like I owe the Dean campaign something of an apology. ➡
  • 2002
    • Theologian of the Year We need someone who can not only deconstruct the problem of evil, but kick it's hiney; someone with a preternatural sense of comic timing and an eye for fashion. We need Buffy. ➡
  • 2001

On This Day: Sep 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 29 posts previously published on September 30th

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2021
    • 📚 35/2021: Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2020
    • 📚 thirty-nine of 2020: Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1969 Hugo Best Novel While it was good, it was so tough right now to read a cynical dystopian novel about overpopulation, eugenics, and colonialism, featuring endemic racism and sexism, that it was a real slog. ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 30 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 30 ➡
  • 2019
    • Ken Burns’ “Country Music” Prairie and I just finished the Ken Burns Country Music documentary, and really enjoyed it. If you have any interest in American culture and music, even if this isn’t a style you generally pay much attention to, the film is well worth the time it takes to watch. ➡
  • 2016
    • Painting detailing on a prop for a Halloween costume. I don’t really know what I’m doing, but experimenting is sure fun! (274/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • No more noisy jangly keychain for me. Going Swiss Army knife style with the #KeySmart instead. @keysmart ➡
  • 2010
    • 21st Century Television (Part Two) As promised, here's a bit more information on the geeky details of how I've set up our cable-free TV system. ➡
    • 21st Century Television (Part One) Cable and broadcast TV are no more for us. Instead, we have our personal DVD library, DVDs we order from Netflix, the entire Netflix on-demand library, and, for the current-run TV shows we want to keep up with, I simply download them and toss them into the Roksbox library for us to watch commerical-free at our leisure. ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
    • Sarah Six-Pack I was curious as to whether Palin might be any more coherent when she was a little more in her element and "among friends," so to speak, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all -- at least, not from where I stand. A few bits stood out to me... ➡
    • Links for September 29th through September 30th Sometime between September 29th and September 30th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
  • 2004
    • Federal Marriage Amendment rejected Excellent news: the proposed Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage has been shot down. ➡
    • Where it all began… In case there was any curiosity where my tendency for innuendo-laced humor, flirting, and the occasional blatantly sexual comment come from, I present you with the following evidence… ➡
    • Once More, With Feeling Season four of Buffy had what is so far my all-time favorite episode — 'Hush' — but last night I watched what's now a very close second: 'Once More, With Feeling'. ➡
    • First Presidential ‘debate’ (The following are my hastily-scribbled thoughts while watching tonight's presidential debate — unpolished, written on the fly. Be warned. [grin]) ➡
    • WSJ’s Farnaz Fassihi on life in Iraq Recently, a letter from Wall Street Journal reporter Farnaz Fassihi started getting passed around the 'net, detailing just what day-to-day life in Iraq is like at the moment. That letter has now been confirmed as genuine. ➡
    • Future past tense? Past future? There's sure a lot of past tense in this article about the presidential debates — which don't happen for another five hours or so. ➡
    • Debate rules You'll be happy to know that the podiums are lucite, clear. So there won't be anybody scratching their balls during this debate. ➡
    • Debates on the web? Does anyone know if tonight's Kerry-Bush debate is going to be webcast anywhere? ➡
    • Sounds good… I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged. ➡
  • 2003
  • 2002
    • Laughter is good However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than perhaps you think for. ➡
    • Oooh – he’s cute! Marco the Magnificent Magician isn't going to swoop down on you, black cape a-flappin', tap you on the dick with his magic wand, and -- *poof!* presto, homo! -- you're a homosexual! ➡

On This Day: Sep 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 11 posts previously published on September 29th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • It’s a little sad — we’re going to be finishing off Penny Dreadful tonight. It had to happen sometime, after all. (273/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Reading about leadership styles for one of my classes and trying to think about what mine might be. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • Cage Match: Gaiman vs. Whedon ...in America, it almost seems like family has become a code word for something that you can put a five-year-old in front of, go out for two hours, and come back secure in the knowledge that your child will not have been exposed to any ideas. I didn't want to do that. ➡
    • Lost s02e02: Adrift Scribbled notes while watching last night’s episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to… ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • Underworld I found it very disappointing and frustrating. There was a lot of promise and potential in the film, which unfortunately was entirely wasted. I'd almost prefer that a film be flat-out bad, but when you can see the seeds of a worthwhile effort in the midst of the crap, it makes it just that much harder to deal with. ➡
  • 2002
    • The hunt is on: MT, MySQL, and PHP While I've done my best to track any changes I've made to MovableType in my 'Sitebits' archive category, I'll freely admit it's not organized quite as well as it could be. ➡

On This Day: Sep 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 17 posts previously published on September 28th

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • We decided late September was close enough to October to put up our Halloween goodies. ➡
    • Fred Perry kills its yellow-tipped black polo shirt, denounces fascist appropriators: The company announced today it discontinued U.S. production of the black/yellow/yellow shirt some time ago, and posted an unusually unequivocal and forceful denunciation. ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 28 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 28 ➡
  • 2016
    • Hard to get an angle where the bandaid is visible, but I got my flu shot today. If any of you grubbers get sick, it won’t be my fault! 😷 (272/366) ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
    • Obama, Meet Bartlet The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it. ➡
  • 2005
    • Help: CSS2 selectors I'm working on setting up a print stylesheet for the site. I've got it about, oh, 98% done -- done enough that I _could_ leave it as-is, except that there's one little thing that's bothering me that so far, I'm not able to fix. Also, a possible bug with Safari and print stylesheets. ➡
    • Cal Anderson Park Another excursion for me yesterday, as I went down to Capitol Hill to explore the newly re-opened Cal Anderson Park. While some might be a tad skeptical about just what uses the park will be put to, I was quite impressed with it during my walkthrough. ➡
  • 2004
    • Yet another set of library photos While the new Seattle Central Library has been the subject of so many photosets across the Seattle blogosphere that it's likely well on its way to becoming passé, I had to have my day. ➡
    • 200 Things Meme time: 200 things. Those I've done are in bold. ➡
    • Bush’s hometown paper endorses Kerry Ouch. That's gotta sting — the newspaper for Bush's adopted hometown of Crawford, TX has expressed its discontent with Bush's presidency and endorsed John Kerry for President. ➡
    • A Day in the Life of Joe Republican Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and that they work as advertised. ➡
  • 2003
    • Excluding OS X? Anybody want to take a stab at explaining to me just what operating system Microsoft thinks I'm running on my Mac that has a version number equal to or greater than 10.0, and yet excludes OS X? ➡
  • 2002
    • Goodbye Dez! I just got back from a nice goodbye dinner for Dez, who's leaving on Tuesday to move to Toronto to live with her finacee. ➡
  • 2001
    • Kudos to The Onion Upon completing His outburst, God fell silent, standing quietly at the podium for several moments. Then, witnesses reported, God's shoulders began to shake, and He wept. ➡

On This Day: Sep 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 21 posts previously published on September 27th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • 📚 34/2021: Rogue Elements by John Jackson Miller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻 ➡
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • No great insights or funny captions tonight. Just another Tuesday. (271/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Another neat set of dice from Kickstarter. These are “Doublesix” dice: twelve-sided, with 1-6 appearing twice. Amusingly, as with the other dice project I backed, I don’t actually use dice all that much, so these may spend most of their life on a shelf. But they were inexpensive and caught my eye, so here they ... Read more ➡
  • 2014
    • The kids’ play clothes bin includes a couple lucha libre masks. Obviously, my niece and nephew are being raised well. :D ➡
    • Hanging out with my niece for her first birthday! ➡
    • It’s supposed to be a vampire and a witch, but I’m pretty sure I see this couple every time I make it out to the Merc. ;) #goth #halloween ➡
  • 2005
    • Think of the Children! It's an only in New York story. A woman was given a ticket for sitting on a park bench because she doesn't have children. ➡
  • 2004
    • One million plus, baby! I haven't been checking often enough to know exactly when this happened, but at some point in the past few days (sometime on Friday, I think), my hit counter passed one million. ➡
    • Interrobang‽ If I ever decide to move away from 'eclecticism' as a site name (which I'm not likely to do anytime soon), I think 'interrobang‽' would be a great replacement. ➡
    • Rules for the Kerry/Bush debates Not far removed from a total farce, unfortunately — still, I'd like to be able to see them. Unfortunately, as I don't bother with television, I'm not sure what options I have. Does anyone happen to know if there are any plans to webcast any or all of the debates? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. ➡
    • Zero! More than a week after returning from my vacation, I've finally reduced the number of unread items in NetNewsWire to zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. I'm caught up! ➡
    • Muldoon Road, Anchorage, Alaska Another 360° panoramic photograph from my recent vacation. This time, I'm standing on one end of a pedestrian overpass on Muldoon road, just beyond the curve where Muldoon becomes Tudor (the curve can be seen on the extreme left and right of the image). ➡
  • 2003
    • My new toy! So today was the big day — new computers for both Prarie and me! Prairie got a new iMac (which came with all sorts of other goodies), and I got my G5. ➡
    • It's here! I've got a big black box sitting on my bed right now, just begging to be opened. More later. I've got to go play… ➡
  • 2002
    • A link for dad Each weekday, the Word Spy presents a new word, its definition, and a citation (usually from a major newspaper or magazine) that shows how people are using the word. You also get extra goodies such as background on the word's formation, a list of related words from the Word Spy database, quotations on words and language, and more. ➡
    • Erk – how did I manage this one? Okay, this is interesting. It appears that I've managed to mung up the code for my pages somewhere so that someone using Internet Explorer 5.2 under Mac OS X cannot leave a comment. Other browsers can, however. I'll use the comments for this post as a testing ground to try to narrow things down. ➡
  • 2001
    • Wow… There's a distinct possibility that I just might be able to get out of debt within the next month. ➡
    • To boldly go… Okay, what was the point to the decontamination scene? Or, rather, _was_ there a point beyond titillation? ➡

On This Day: Sep 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 23 posts previously published on September 26th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
    • Hey, young people — don’t vote. ➡
    • Austistic boy hates being in photos, mom lets him wear T-Rex suit for family pics. This is adorable! ➡
  • 2016
    • Pretty sure my face is frozen like this. #debates #debates2016 Absolutely baffled that anyone can think that Trump is even remotely qualified to be President, let alone the nearly 50% of the country that current polls show. It’s just so very sad, depressing, and honestly frightening. (270/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Fred Meyer’s “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” knockoff is quite amusingly named. ➡
  • 2010
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Facebook: MySpace Without the Pain Sure, it's not perfect -- though at the moment, the only annoyances I've run into have been with some of the third-party application plugins, rather than with Facebook itself -- but as far as social networking goes, this is the first I've seen that I'm actually fairly impressed by. ➡
  • 2005
    • I’m Employed Again! In other news, I've got a job! ➡
    • Northgate Theatre and Medical Office Building Word came out this week that Seattle's Northgate Mall was finally going to be getting an upgrade, part of which is going to involve demolishing the Medical Office Building and the Northgate Theatre that have long stood empty and unused. Since I had some time to kill yesterday, I wandered down to the Northgate Mall and spent some time wandering around the old buildings. ➡
  • 2004
    • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow In the midst of watching all of the recently-released Star Wars films (okay, sure, they're not quite what they were when I first saw them, but they're still a lot of fun), Prairie and I took a break on Saturday to wander down the hill to see Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. ➡
  • 2003
    • Apology accepted I just checked back to Laura's site, and realized that she issued an apology on the 19th — just a case of a 'newbie' getting a little over-excited. In the long run, not that big of a deal. ➡
    • Dean/Clark? Essentially, as I look at it all together, Clark worries me. At least to me, he's coming off as wishy-washy. He strikes me as someone who'd make a very good cabinet member or advisor to the President on military matters, but not someone I'd be terribly thrilled to be voting into office. ➡
  • 2002
    • Thoughts on EspressoBlog I've mentioned a couple times that I've been using EspressoBlog to make posts. In the process, I've come up with a few issues and ideas, and figured a post here (and TrackBack ping to Phil, since it works in EB now!) would work. ➡
    • Who says the Mac doesn’t have any software? One of the constant things I get from Wintel people is that there isn't any software for the Mac -- in fact, I heard this just the other day, talking with someone at work. ➡
    • Death penalty unconstitutional If the death penalty is to be part of our system of justice, due process of law and the fair trial guarantees of the Sixth Amendment require that standards and safeguards governing the kinds of evidence juries may consider must be rigorous, and constitutional rights and liberties scrupulously protected. ➡
  • 2001
    • Enterprise Tonight's the premiere episode of Enterprise, the new Star Trek series. I'm hoping to be able to catch it, Damon has said I can hang out over at his place tonight to see the show. Hopefully it'll be worthwhile -- I've gotta admit, I'm intrigued by what I've read so far. ➡
    • Bleah. Bleah, bleah, bleah. And a pfpptfptpfpt too. Unfortunately, falling asleep at one in the morning doesn't exactly help ensure a quick up-n-at-'em in the morning. I didn't miss my bus, but I sure didn't hop out of bed as quickly as I do when I crash out at 10pm. ➡

On This Day: Sep 25

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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 September 25th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 146 Here's what you'd see if you were hanging out in my home office watching me work. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2017
  • 2016
    • Uff. #StarTrek #VOY is so difficult to get through. We’ve made it to Season 7, so at least we’re almost done, but man, is this a slog. (269/366) ➡
    • Even the farmers are certified organic. At least Fred Meyers isn’t contributing to the robot uprising by purchasing from synthetic farmers. ➡
  • 2014
    • Since I’m starting school again, it seemed appropriate (if slightly embarrassing) to dig up my high school freshman photo for #throwbackthursday. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Fall Quarter ’07 Barring unexpected catastrophes, I'll be walking across a stage and receiving my AA degree this spring. There's a point to all this after all! ;) ➡
  • 2006
    • Eragon and Dragon Wings I've not read either of Chris Paolini's young-adult fantasy books, Eragon or Eldest, but I saw a trailer for a movie adaptation of the first book, to be released this Christmas season. ➡
    • White and Nerdy An instant Weird Al favorite. ➡
    • Aperture Consider this firmly on my wishlist come Christmastime: not only has Apple just upgraded Aperture to version 1.5, but Frasier Spiers has announced the first beta of an Aperture version of his excellent FlickrExport plugin ➡
  • 2005
    • On Dissent and Disloyalty If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of ratial equality (sic) then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status. Every act that denies or limits the freedom of the individual in this country costs us the ... confidence of men and women who aspire to that freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors fought. ➡
  • 2004
    • Spenard Lake, Anchorage, Alaska One of the panoramic shots I took while on vacation in Anchorage &dmash; Spenard Lake, which together with Lake Hood makes up the single busiest seaplane airport in the world (over 90,000 operations in 1994). ➡
  • 2003
    • White House edits to EPA Report on the Environment Here's a leaked internal memo from the EPA discussing changes that the White House made to the EPA's Report on the Environment, and what options they have while dealing with the White House. ➡
    • Wanna get the FBI's attention? The following is (theoretically) a list of (most of) the (suspected) keywords. So if I suddenly stop posting here…this post is probably why. ;) ➡
    • Easy MovableType to TypePad redirecting I'd been planning on diving into the arcana of the Apache mod_rewrite module to redirect all the hits to this new address, but then tonight I discovered a much, much easier solution. ➡
    • Here come the ads My 'Bookshelf' (books) and 'Noises' (CDs) lists are back on the site, now that TypePad has given us the necessary tags to work them into our templates. ➡
    • Bare your bum at Bush! Objective: To collectively voice our displeasure at the impending arrival of George W Bush in the UK and in doing so either sour the experience or prevent his arrival. ➡
    • Love, Natalie Saddam Hussein called and wants to know where his weapons of mass destruction are. Listen Saddam, I already told you, I don't know. You’re going to have to call the White House on that one. ➡
    • Geek porn! Cute girl + Dual 2.0 Ghz PowerMac G5 = Geek Porn! ➡
    • Dean breaks Clinton's fundraising record According to ABC News, Howard Dean is on-track to come close to the quarter-million mark in fundraising so far, and has already beat Clinton's fundraising record. ➡
    • Burning toast brightly, proudly, and with great beauty In the end, the school board voted unanimously to keep Brave New World and Stranger in a Strange Land, while giving parents more control over their students’ choices by requiring principals to automatically offer an alternative to a challenged book. ➡
  • 2002
    • ‘Don’t be so vain…’ Set a course for Earth...kill everything. ➡
    • I’m official I should have done this before, but finally, roughly nine months after installing it, I've finally paid for and registered MovableType, the software I use for my blogs. ➡
    • Linkage I just noticed that both Falling Awake and db link to me. Nice to know someone else out there finds me worth checking in on for one reason or another -- much appreciated! ➡

On This Day: Sep 24

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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 September 24th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • Most of the #StarWars #Lego sets are fun and cute, but don’t need to come home with me. The little #HanSolo encased in carbonite (plus #BobaFett!) was just too cute to pass up, though. ➡
    • Almost two hours, almost six miles. Gorgeous fall morning for a walk. Not a bad start to the weekend at all. (268/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Time to head home, have dinner…and do homework! Day one of my grad school career is here! ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2004
    • My parents were kiddos too! Now that dad has a scanner that can see slides, he's been going through and adding a lot of old photos to the family photo album. I love seeing these — it's so fun to go through shots of my folks when they were around my age (or younger — as in this photo, taken at age 20 at their wedding rehearsal dinner). ➡
    • What if…? What would America look like if it were in Iraq's current situation? The population of the US is over 11 times that of Iraq, so a lot of statistics would have to be multiplied by that number. ➡
    • Stupid humor: President Freezes Tourists’ Assets Inspired by a throwaway comment on /., I took a Sept. 24, 2001 Presidential address and replaced every instance of 'terrorism' with 'tourism'. Just think of it as an answer to the age-old question of, 'If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?' ➡
    • Politicizing Warfare The Washington Monthly is asking about the fantasyland that George Bush seems to be living in, when waging a war in which the strategy seems to be based not on any real situations, but on election-year political situations. ➡
    • A look at the 2000 election Many of you will have heard of and read the lengthy October 2004 Vanity Fair article by David Margolick et al. on the 2000 election litigation, with a focus on never-before-reported details about what happened inside the Supreme Court. The piece has received a great deal of attention inside the Court because, as the article details, '[a] surprising number of [law] clerks [from that term] talked to Vanity Fair.' ➡
    • Are you better off? Ontario Emperor pointed out a series of graphs from Buzzflash highlighting some of the numbers behind how our country is doing. Not that surprising if you've been paying attention, but certainly interesting to see. ➡
    • One week in I've made it to the end of my first week on 'banking hours', and you know…I think I just might be able to get used to this. All in all, while the mornings are still a little rough, I think this is definitely going to be a positive change. ➡
  • 2003
    • Good news! George W. Bush is in the worst political trouble of his presidency, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday night. Bush’s approval rating now stands at 49 percent, the lowest point of his tenure. ➡
    • Credit where credit is due I'm fairly obvious about having a strong anti-Microsoft bias. However, I do have to admit (and really don't mind doing so) that the Macintosh team at Microsoft does some truly kick-ass work. ➡
    • Diebold's voting machines There's a good article on Salon looking at the issues with Diebold's electronic voting machines, which are being used to replace troublesome punch-card voting machines after the 2000 voting debacle. It doesn't look like our votes are any safer under the new system. ➡
    • Other reactions to Bush's UN speech Has an American president ever delivered such a bafflingly impertinent speech before the General Assembly as the one George W. Bush gave this morning? ➡
    • Inappropriate sexual arousal for teens Would Ms. Wilde be so kind as to suggest some alternate reading that provides appropriate sexual arousal for young teens? ➡
  • 2002
    • A gun for words The problem with reading wonderful writing by truly great authors is that my own writing suffers, dramatically, in comparison. Everything I write lately just sits on the page, flat, dejected, and suffering. If there was such a thing as a gun for words, I would shoot each of mine and give them a quick and painfree end. ➡
    • Rearranging a bit I've done a bit of reorganizing to the sidebar, in an effort to group things together a bit more logically, and move sections that are more likely to be used closer to the top (above the 'fold', so to speak). ➡
    • 40.5 days Over the past few months, I've been working on converting every audio CD I own to .mp3 format on my computer. I just got done tonight -- and the results are kinda frightening, in a very cool sort of way. ➡
  • 2001
    • Just a quick word or two Just tossing a quick entry in before I send out the e-mail update to those few people who get it. It's Monday morning and I'm at work, so don't want to spend too long here, but I thought it would be good to get a little bit in here so I'm not completely out of date. ➡

On This Day: Sep 23

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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 September 23rd

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • The Typography of Star Trek Typeset in the Future: Star Trek: The Motion Picture If you’re a fan of Star Trek: The Original Series, you might be expecting to see the font from its opening titles in Star Trek: The Motion Picture too. This font was (perhaps unsurprisingly) called Star Trek…. The Star Trek font also appeared in a non-italic ... Read more ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 23 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 23 ➡
  • 2018
    • Report: Disney re-animating parts of Wreck-It-Ralph sequel after Princess and the Frog criticism. I’m impressed that Disney is doing this. Good for them for listening and actually taking action. ➡
    • Linkdump for September 3rd through September 23rd An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between September 3rd and September 23rd. ➡
  • 2017
    • Our local Fred Meyer has the (ahem) recently discovered Rhino Dragon in stock! 🦏🐲 😆 ➡
  • 2016
    • Book forty-three of 2016: Remake, by Connie Willis 🌟🌟🌟 (267/366) ➡
    • How embarrassing! That’s twice this week I’ve forgotten my daily photo. Here’s my Snapchat filter as penance! (266/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • At the CWU Grad School orientation, ready to be students again! #cwupride ➡
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2005
  • 2004
    • Derailing the Peace Train I saw this while flipping through the paper yesterday on lunch, and thought it was fairly ridiculous, and now the story is making it's way across the 'net: the United States is now safely protected from the evil Cat Stevens. ➡
  • 2003
    • More on Gibson's 'The Passion' Dad sent me a couple articles over the last few days looking at Mel Gibson's 'The Passion', lately seeming to be the most controversial religious film that almost no one's seen since Dogma was in pre-release. Anyway, if you're at all interested in the film or the controversy around it, both of these are worth a look. ➡
    • Shaolin Soccer needs to be released, dammit Among the top 10 movies downloaded on the Internet in August were the usual blockbusters: Pirates of the Caribbean, The Hulk, Matrix Reloaded ... and Shaolin Soccer. ➡
    • Matrix/Web Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain but you feel it, that there's something wrong with the web. You don't know what it is but it's there like a splinter in your mind driving you mad. ➡
    • Bush's U.N. address Bits and pieces from yesterday's address to the U.N. by President Bush. ➡
  • 2002
    • Why can’t Bush speak? He's made it clear repeatedly: George W. Bush is always right, George W. Bush can do no wrong. And now he's accidentally made the point again, by showing himself incapable -- psychologically, and therefore physically -- of saying 'Shame on me.' ➡
    • ‘Up-skirt’ photography ‘reprehensible’ but legal The state's voyeurism law protects people who are in a place where they 'would have a reasonable expectation of privacy'.... But the court found the law doesn't apply to filming people in a public place, even if it's underneath their clothes. ➡
    • More TrackBack mumbo-jumbo Phil makes a good case for not including TrackBack metadata in the HTML for the main site page. This works well for me, as I'd previously struggled with it causing problems with the HTML validation for my site. ➡

On This Day: Sep 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 18 posts previously published on September 22nd

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
    • 📚 thirty-eight of 2020: The Captains’ Honor by David and Daniel Dvorkin ⭐️⭐️ #startrek #tng Somehow the Roman gladiator planet from TOS has become a full member of the Federation, with a Starfleet ship crewed entirely by these neo-Romans. It does not go well. ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 22 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 22 ➡
  • 2019
    • As of today, I’ve completed my Goodreads Reading Challenge of 52 books (one for each week), with more than three months to spare. 18 of those books have been part of my Hugo reading project. Not a bad nine months’ work. Now to see where I end up at year’s end! ➡
    • Book fifty-two of 2019: Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ While the story didn’t entirely grab me, the artwork by #nwc43 Artist GOH Sana Takeda is quite gorgeous. I’m looking forward to seeing more of her work in person next spring. ➡
  • 2014
    • Monday is done. Running out of days when campus will be this empty! ➡
  • 2008
    • Say what, Sarah? Y'know, I think one of the things that really bugs me about Sarah Palin is simply that all too often, when I'm reading transcriptions of statements she's made, I have _no idea_ what she's saying. Well, okay, not _no_ idea -- generally it is possible to figure out what she's trying to say -- but her spoken grammar goes beyond the usual sloppiness one can expect in off-the-cuff spoken English into sheer gobbledygook. ➡
  • 2007
    • Alive Again… After twenty-two days, we're finally up and running in the new apartment -- internet and phone are both _finally_ working as they should. This took far, _far_ too long. ➡
  • 2006
    • Cydonia redux The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has obtained new, high resolution images of the ever-popular Cydonian 'face' on Mars, putting to rest (again) the myth that there's actually a constructed face on the surface of the red planet. ➡
  • 2005
  • 2004
    • Security issues driving PC users to the Mac It's certainly not much of a surprise, given the ever-increasing number of attacks against Windows of late, but more and more people are moving to the Mac platform after getting hit by one too many Windows security problems. ➡
    • 1000 millimeters in an inch Okay, I know that the US has, as a whole, been resisting switching over to the metric system (a real shame in my opinion). But still — you'd think that the Department of Homeland Security would be a little more informed than they appear to be… ➡
    • Too hot! Too cold! Augghh! One definite disadvantage to switching up to the 8am-5pm schedule I'm on now. Aaaahhhh, the joys of apartment living! ➡
  • 2003
    • Future plans Now, this is all fairly tentative at the moment, but I've been toying with the idea of getting back into school for some time now, and it just may be time to start finally working towards that. We'll see where things go from here. ➡
    • Bugfixes are good Well, that was a nice surprise. I just updated my Mac to OS X 10.2.8, and on restart, discovered a bug fix. ➡
    • My eyes! My eyes! Hasn't use of the 'blink' tag been outlawed by now? The worst part is, the rest of the design isn't shabby at all, which just makes the gratuitously annoying blinking stand out by comparison. Ugh. ➡
    • JetBlue class action lawsuit Did you fly JetBlue between February 2000 and September 2002? You may be eligible for a class action lawsuit against JetBlue being investigated. ➡