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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. ➡

On This Day: Sep 21

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

There are 18 posts previously published on September 21st

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • 📚 33/2021: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Pros and cons of working from home in one sentence: When you’re sick, it doesn’t necessarily mean you fall behind on work. Yay? The biggest change is that while I usually work from home, today I’m working from my bed. With more naps. And an even more lax dress code than usual. ➡
  • 2017
  • 2016
    • I’m becoming one of “those people” — get up and do 30 minutes on either the stationary bike or the elliptical before my morning shower. This morning was the elliptical, and Prairie caught me boogieing to a good tune (a mashup of Baltimora’s “Tarzan Boy” and Katie Perry’s “California Girls”). (265/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Started today with a nice walk along the Yakima river. Pretty morning! ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
    • Star Trek Story Record #8 (BR 513) A treasure I found a long time ago, and recently reacquired from my brother. Star Trek Story Record #8, Power Records BR 513, _still in the shrink wrap_. This set includes the LP and a comic book with two stories: _A Mirror for Futility_ by Alan Dean Foster, and _The Time Stealer_ by Cary Bates and Neal Adams. ➡
  • 2006
  • 2004
    • The new me I don't think these pictures really do them justice, but I got my new glasses today, along with Star Wars on DVD. ➡
  • 2003
    • Finding my sea legs When Rick called me a couple weeks ago to let me know that he'd found a place to rent kayaks and asked if I wanted to go along, I was all for it. Yesterday around noon, he and his roommate Liza picked me up, and we headed off to find the Agua Verde Paddle Club. ➡
  • 2002
    • Goth isn’t dead…it just wishes it were. Goth will never die. Of course for fun we could take it out, bury it, and then dig it up later to see what it looks like. ➡
    • Reviewed! Last week I stumbled across Bloggy Opinions a blog review website. It seemed fairly entertaining, and the reviewers seemed to do a good even job of reviewing the sites they visited, so I went ahead and submitted 'The Long Letter' to them. ➡
    • Yikes I think I just heard gunshots. Eight, very quick, all together, no pauses. Creepy. ➡
  • 2001
    • Amusing quotes anyways, my GAY brother tom was watchin vh1, which is like suppose to be like mtv only for old people or something, and there was this thing called 25 years of punk! i was like, hell ya, i'm a punk! so of course i had to watch it! ➡

On This Day: Sep 20

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

There are 20 posts previously published on September 20th

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful Surge capacity is a collection of adaptive systems — mental and physical — that humans draw on for short-term survival in acutely stressful situations, such as natural disasters. But natural disasters occur over a short period, even if recovery is long. Pandemics are different ... Read more ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 20 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 20 ➡
  • 2018
    • “This last week has really made great strides to remind me that women’s pain doesn’t matter in America.” ➡
  • 2016
    • From this morning: catching up on Facebook while pedaling on the exercise bike. (264/366) ➡
    • Once again, a Snapchat filter as penance for forgetting my photo yesterday. (263/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Just a quiet Saturday evening at home. ➡
  • 2011
    • DADT is done On September 20, 2011, 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' will officially become past tense. ➡
  • 2010
  • 2006
    • Photofront I just found a really nice way to create a very slick gallery style presentation: Photofront. A few clicks create a simple Flash-based photo presentation that can either be hosted on the Photofront site or embedded into your own site as I've done. Nicely done! ➡
  • 2005
    • Cute. Cuddly. Delicious. Babies: Cute. Cuddly. Delicious. ➡
    • Yes! We Have No Bananas! This is fascinating, and -- amusing as it sounds -- actually pretty serious: we could be as little as five years away from a banana apocalypse...and that's not even the worst case scenario. ➡
  • 2003
    • Carver This little vehicle looks perfect for me — small, great for in-city driving, lots of fun to drive around in, and very eye-catching. Unfortunately, it looks like it's only available in Europe. Bleah. I can dream, though, can't I? ➡
  • 2002
    • The Turing Test is in no danger Just some fun wordplay, from this MeFi thread dealing with AI, language, and other such goodies. ➡
    • Nu Shortcuts in School R 2 Much 4 Teachers Melanie Weaver was stunned by some of the term papers she received from a 10th-grade class she recently taught.... 'They would be trying to make a point in a paper, they would put a smiley face in the end.... If they were presenting an argument and they needed to present an opposite view, they would put a frown.' ➡
    • Violence in the media People say, 'After Columbine, do you feel a responsibility about the way you portray violence?' And I'm like, 'No, I felt a responsibility about the way I portrayed violence the first time I picked up a pen.' ➡
    • Breakin’ the law! Breakin’ the law! The Onion does not support the use of its headlines without the express written consent of the publisher. You can put a link to The Onion on your site but may not use the headlines or content. More information on how to link to The Onion is available at our Link Page. ➡
    • Fat scrimping Rob's writing another story. ➡

On This Day: Sep 19

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

There are 27 posts previously published on September 19th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • A Long List of GOP Senators Who Promised Not to Confirm a Supreme Court Nominee During an Election Year Pointing out all the hypocrisy won’t get Democrats very far in what will be one of the most contentious nomination fights in the court’s history. But it should at least clarify who they’re dealing with. ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 19 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 19 ➡
  • 2019
    • Honest Academic Job Postings: The Chemistry department invites applicants for an assistant professor whose research requires the outdated and esoteric equipment we have sitting around in our labs. ➡
    • Book fifty-one of 2019: The Trouble With Tribbles, by David Gerrold. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A fun, breezy memoir about the creation of one of Star Trek’s most beloved episodes, this is an enjoyable peek into the creative process for television in the 1960s, and Star Trek in particular. ➡
  • 2018
    • How a prank to improve McDonald’s ad diversity turned into a marketing campaign: What an unexpectedly nice response from McDonalds to this prank. Nicely done all around! ➡
    • Remember When You Could Call the Time? I do: 844 was the local number in Anchorage, Alaska. This article is from 2016, but gives the U.S. Naval Observatory’s time service number as 202-762-1401, so I called it — and it’s still up and running! ➡
  • 2017
    • One of these days we need to have a game night… #munchkin #munchkinshakespeare ➡
  • 2015
    • Bug Flickers. Flickers. Right. #badfont #kerningfail ➡
  • 2008
  • 2006
    • International Vote Like an American Pirate Day If I didn't have to go to work this afternoon, I'd _so_ be spending the day down at the Seattle Center, wandering around, taking pictures, and hoping for the three events to collide in some spectacularly silly fashion. ➡
  • 2005
    • Best Viewed Large I have to admit to a certain curiosity about the tendency for so many people to add 'best viewed large' to the descriptions of a photo they've uploaded to Flickr. Two things are constantly popping into my head when I see 'best viewed large' added to a photo... ➡
    • Men In Kilts It's the freedom, they say. The freedom to move, to feel the breeze, to stay cool on a hot summer day. And all this freedom comes simply from banishing pants to the back of the closet, say the men who wear the Utilikilt, a rugged modern take on the Celtic kilt. ➡
  • 2004
    • Coalition of the Unwilling Costa Rica has requested that its name be stricken from the White House's 'Coalition of the Willing', saying their support was for the War on Terrorism, not the invasion of Iraq. ➡
    • Vote for Kerry, Lose Your Job And I thought I got fired for a bad reason — my story doesn't even begin to compare to this woman who lost her job because she is a John Kerry supporter. ➡
    • My Life (at age 11) My Life, by Mike Hanscom, age 11 ➡
    • Vacation pictures I've uploaded a selection of photos from my trip to Anchorage to two places: a few shots of friends and family to my flickr album, and more shots of Anchorage and the surrounding area to the family photo gallery. ➡
  • 2003
    • Out at the Vogue Just got back from the Vogue. I don't often go on Friday nights, as I'm generally a bit tired at the end of the work week, and I know more of the music on Saturdays, but getting out of the house just seemed to be the thing to do tonight. ➡
    • Surprise deportations It appears that immigrants in the process of becoming citizens are being sent letters asking them to report to the INS for paperwork reasons. When they go down to the office, expecting to fill out forms, process some paperwork, or pick up their green card, they are instead suddenly handcuffed, detained, and deported. ➡
    • French 'Engrish' One of the ladies here at work just came back from a week in Paris, and she brought back an inflatable Eiffel Tower for us. The greatest part, of course, is the instruction sheet — apparently, 'Engrish' is multilingual… ➡
    • Gay couple kept out of US A married gay couple on their way from Canada to a human rights conference in Georgia were not allowed to enter the United States today because the two men insisted on filling out a single Customs clearance form declaring themselves a family. ➡
    • Weblog Ethics Rebecca Blood has an excerpt from her book The Weblog Handbook posted dealing with weblog ethics that's well worth looking at. I do my best to abide by these rules — to me, most of them are pure common sense — but it's not a bad idea to occasionally refresh the concept in your mind. ➡
    • Avast, ye dogs! Aye, and here it be Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties! ➡
    • Graham, not Isabel There's a picture making the e-mail rounds right now that purports to be a shot of Hurricane Isabel over the ocean before it hit land. Apparently it's been mislabeled — it's actually Tropical Storm Graham — but it's still one hell of a gorgeous picture. ➡
  • 2002
    • Faster! Faster! Fas…aw, crap. I was playing with what I'd hoped would be a new feature for the site last night. Things were looking really promising for a while, too -- but it looks like it's not going to happen, or at the very least, not anytime soon. Bleah. ➡
    • No more popups (almost) Since I'm one of the many people out there who believe, to the very depths of my soul, that popups are evil, I've removed the popup window for posting comments. Now, clicking on the 'comment' link will take you to the page for the post itself, and scroll down to the comment form. Simple, but much easier. ➡
  • 2001
    • Slow times Of course, even when I claim that life is boring and I have nothing to do or say about it, I can still fill up eight-plus pages in this little notebook about my lack of anything to write about. Like that will come as a surprise to anyone who knows me. ➡

On This Day: Sep 18

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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 September 18th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
    • Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 : Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” I’m generally an optimistic sort. But my god, is 2020 making it ... Read more ➡
    • In a bit of pandemic-induced curiosity about just how far along my hair loss has gotten and how much grey might be mixed in, a few months ago I stopped doing my monthly head shave. Mid-June was the last time I shaved it all down, so I’m now at three months of growth. Verdict so ... Read more ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 18 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 18 ➡
  • 2018
  • 2016
    • Many thanks to my @norwescon friends who brought #Lego #minifigures to yesterday’s ConCom meeting to trade (and who were kind enough to let me snag a few more of their extras too…). Some nice new additions to our lineup! ➡
    • Book forty-two of 2016: Star Trek Corps of Engineers: Out of the Cocoon, by William Leisner, Kevin Killiany, Phaedra M. Weldon, and Robert T. Jeschonek. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (262/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • For #throwbackthursday: My untimely demise at the hands of Stefan (who was shortly dispatched by Kevin) somewhere in Germany during the summer of 1991. ➡
  • 2011
    • The Frog Prince 'It’s not that you got what you wanted; it’s that you settled for wanting what you got. And that is the precise opposite of a happy ending.' ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
    • Links for September 17th through September 18th Sometime between September 17th and September 18th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
    • Obama vs. Palin ...on the whole, it's an effective summary of some of the (many, _many_) reasons why people who think that McCain/Palin is a better choice for the White House than Obama/Biden drive me batty, and why there's no chance I'd give my vote to anyone other than the Democratic party this election. ➡
  • 2006
    • 21st Century Terrorism Don't worry about having to get your 'sleeper cells' set up with bombs or pilots licenses. Instead, figure out enough biology and chemistry to mix up an effective E. Coli solution, put together some simple form of distribution mechanism, then send your agents shopping. ➡
  • 2005
    • Appropriate Blame I don’t think the President should have taken responsibility…. I don’t blame the President. I blame the American people. Y’all knew the man was slow when you voted him in. You can’t blame the blind man for wrecking your car when you’re the one who gave him the keys. ➡
    • Presidential Potty Break President Bush wasn't checking to make sure he could wander out to the restroom without offending anyone. The real story is that he _wasn't sure_. ➡
  • 2003
    • Canon EOS Digital Rebel Now that my new computer is on the way (two weeks to go, at most…), I've started fixating on a new item for my techno-lust: the Canon EOS Digital Rebel. ➡
    • Driving sounds better all the time Southeast Airlines said it plans to install digital video cameras throughout the cabins of its planes to record the faces and activities of its passengers at all times, as a precaution against terrorism and other safety threats. ➡
    • 'tis a silly place… Monty Python's 'Quest for the Holy Grail' is going to be a Broadway musical. Ni! ➡
    • Ogni homo me guarda come fosse una testa de cazi A leading British museum has paid $387,000 for a Renaissance plate which shows a male head made up entirely of phalluses. ➡
    • More info on JetBlue Wired has released more info on JetBlue's release of 5 million passenger records. ➡
  • 2002
    • Stoopid. With two ‘O’s. It keeps amazing me just how many complaints and/or comments we're getting from customers that they wouldn't have if they would read the information on the page. I'm convinced that the lowest common denominator is sinking minute by minute. ➡
    • Testing EspressoBlog Just making sure that this is working. I'm trying out EspressoBlog, an OS X app for posting to MT or Blogger powered weblogs. ➡
    • Stuart Any celebrity who quotes the Dead Milkmen is cool by me. ➡
  • 2001
    • Too cool for words I just found a listing on the Corona Coming Attractions movie news/rumor site detailing a film that I will have my skinny lil' butt planted in the seat for come opening day -- HardWired. ➡
    • No more virus alerts Please do not blindly forward every 'alert', 'warning', or whatever else to everyone you know. I don't know about you, but I would much rather not receive anything twenty-five times. ➡

On This Day: Sep 17

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

There are 20 posts previously published on September 17th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • 📚 thirty-seven of 2020: Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids by Isaac Asimov ⭐️⭐️ Even for this series of ‘50s YA space adventures, a bit underwhelming. A key point basically depends on magic, and has a twist that is painfully obvious very early on. ➡
    • White House Killed USPS Plan to Distribute Masks The service specifically identified Orleans and Jefferson parishes in Louisiana as the first areas to receive face coverings, with deliveries shortly thereafter to King County, Wash.; Wayne County, Mich.; and New York. ➡
    • Trump on 200,000 COVID deaths: So we’re down in this territory. And that’s despite the fact that the blue states had tremendous death rates. If you take the blue states out, we’re at a level that I don’t think anybody in the world would be at. We’re really at a very low level. ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 17 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 17 ➡
  • 2018
    • Found on Tumblr: The Magic Wand Throughout Art History, an amusingly irreverent journey through art history, in which every painting has had a (ahem) personal massager added. ➡
    • My first MeMoji Just a little bit of silliness, playing with iOS 12's new "MeMoji" customizable character emojis. ➡
  • 2016
    • At our first @norwescon planning meeting for #nwc40! Lots of friendly geeks fiendishly scheming and dreaming up ideas for next year’s convention. Much fun! (261/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Whatever it was, I’m innocent. You can tell by the halo. ;) ➡
  • 2008
  • 2006
    • Amazing Race 10 Premiere Two quick thoughts on the season premiere of The Amazing Race (which I may not watch any more of, but we figured we should at least watch the first one since they started off here in Seattle)... ➡
  • 2005
    • Secession Found this via Chris Randall. Yes, I know it's over-simplified hyperbole, and I'm guessing that it dates from roundabout election time. So what. It gave me a grin. ➡
  • 2003
    • Moonshine Run This weekend Rick stopped by for a bit, bringing with him a CD of .mp3s that he'd made from the MiniDisc. I just got them copied over to my Mac, and now I'm sitting here listening to Kevin and his friends play some good old down-home bluegrass. It's great — every so often between songs I can hear Kevin laughing in the background. ➡
    • Comment spam for Dean? Well, this is a shame. It appears that 'Laura in DC' has recently started a new pro-Dean weblog, and is so excited about it that she feels that spamming weblog comments is the best way to get the word out. ➡
    • Beware: You might be next! WARNING: Do not forward this column through e-mail, make photocopies to send to a child in college, tape it to your dorm-room door or put it on a bulletin board in your office — or you may be receiving an unexpected knock on your door. ➡
    • How To… Every now and then, a new topic will be posted. It could be anything from 'How to eat peas.' to 'How to build an areoplane.' No answer is wrong and it's up to you, the player, to explain how to do it. ➡
  • 2002
    • fCon fCon is dedicated to creating and controlling the future we know you want. Even if you don't know it yet, don't worry. Because we do. And we are committed to making our dream a reality. ➡
  • 2001
    • I don’t even know what to say to this It may be the single most disgusting and infuriating response I've seen yet to last week's tragedy, and all the more so because of the people it comes from -- men who claim to be spreading God's word on earth. ➡

On This Day: Sep 16

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

There are 23 posts previously published on September 16th

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
    • Barbados will remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state (this is mostly symbolic at this point, as they’ve been independent since 1966). However, this doesn’t mean that the sun will finally set on the British Empire — that doesn’t happen until they lose the Pitcairn Islands. ➡
    • Scientific American Endorses Joe Biden Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its 175-year history. This year we are compelled to do so. We do not do this lightly. ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 16 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 16 ➡
  • 2017
    • Taking our nieces to the fair today! ➡
  • 2016
    • Got a fist bump of solidarity from a fellow kilted gent at lunch today (at Kiku-Chan, the little Japanese place near campus…because where else would you find kilted men in Ellensburg than at a Japanese restaurant?). :) (260/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • I seem to have been slacking on my photo a day project. Gotta get back in the swing of things. ➡
    • First-world problems: my new Apple Extreme router is tall enough that I had to move the gigabit Ethernet switch two spaces higher on the rack in my home’s networking closet. ➡
  • 2009
    • Pre-makes Three trailers for movies you didn't know were remakes (probably because they weren't really...). ➡
  • 2008
    • Say Cheese! Y'know, I probably shouldn't have posted anything about that textbook I popped up in the other day. After months of quiet, as soon as that goes up, the Washington Post includes me in a list of twelve photos that should never have been posted online. ➡
  • 2005
    • Yet More Tweaks A few more tweaks and oddments. ➡
    • …has a posse There's more and more posses out there these days. Andre the Giant had the first, Charles Darwin has one, Darth Vader, even Tony Danza...and I _know_ there's more. But there was only one problem. _I_ didn't have a posse. So I had to take care of that. ➡
  • 2003
    • JetBlue and CAPPS II I don't know anything about what area of the country they serve, as I've never heard of them before, but it seems like the JetBlue airline is going to be the testbed for the blatantly invasive CAPPS II program. ➡
    • PCs are Voodoo Well, that was entertaining. In roughly the same way that playing rugby against a team of rabid hyenas is entertaining, but entertaining none the less. ➡
    • Notable me And while it's really, really geeky, I love the fact that she complimented me on my source code (hey, like I said, it's really geeky). ➡
    • Cauliflower of love It doesn't get any more serious than a Rhinocerus about to charge your ass. ➡
  • 2002
  • 2001
    • A good weekend for movies In the midst of more and more news about the continuing aftermath of the WTC and Pentagon attacks, and in a world where it looks more and more like the U.S. may soon be declaring war, I decided it was a good time to take a bit of a vacation and head out to the movies. ➡

On This Day: Sep 15

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

There are 27 posts previously published on September 15th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Book fifty of 2019: Conjure Wife, by Fritz Leiber. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1944 Retro Hugo Best Novel I enjoyed this one more than I expected when I started it. There’s an entertaining story in here, you just have to deal with the very mid-40s gender stereotypes. ➡
    • Today, on my dad’s birthday, I’ll be seeing the 40th anniversary theatrical screening of Star Trek: TMP. Two-year-old me sat on his lap watching TOS, exclaiming “speesh!” and pointing somewhere over my shoulder as the Enterprise whooshed across the screen…. 🖖 ➡
  • 2018
    • E.T. phone home! E.T. phone home! If you ever get the chance to see E.T. in the theater, with a crowd full of kids who have never seen it before, I highly recommend it. I’ll admit that I got kinda choked up at the resurrection scene, and I think a large part of that wasn’t even the movie itself, but from ... Read more ➡
    • Book thirty-four of 2018: Flash Gordon: The Lion Men of Mongo, by Alex Raymond and Con Steffanson ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • I got a name tag today! I guess this means that after five years, I’m official now? ;) (All the COTS secretaries got them at this morning’s meeting.) (259/366) ➡
    • Book forty-one of 2016: Doom: Knee-Deep in the Dead, by Dafydd ab Hugh and Brad Linaweaver. ⭐️⭐️ (258/366) (Yesterday’s photo that I forgot to post.) ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
    • Do Bats Tweet? I found the Joker through a Wired article yesterday (I think). Today Rachel started following me, and I found most of the rest directly and indirectly through her, except for Edward, who added me while I was exploring. ➡
    • Links for September 12th through September 15th Sometime between September 12th and September 15th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
  • 2006
  • 2005
    • Happy Birthday Dad! Hi dad -- happy birthday! From your boy in Seattle. :) ➡
    • LiveJournal/OpenID Authenticated Commenting Thanks to Mark Paschal's OpenId Comments plugin, visitors can now authenticate themselves when leaving comments using a LiveJournal or OpenID account in addition to TypeKey authentication (or no authentication at all). ➡
  • 2003
    • New PowerBooks! Well, it finally happened — Apple has finally updated their PowerBook line. Since the keynote is still in progress, details are a bit sketchy, but here's some key points of what MacRumors has posted so far… ➡
    • Hurricane Isabel Seems like every time the human race starts to get a little egotistical, good ol' Mother Nature comes along to show us who's really in charge around here. Good for her. ➡
    • Just another day of lies The Powers That Be that run this country (into the ground, apparently) don't seem to be physically or psychologically capable of telling the truth anymore. The Nation's David Corn takes a look at 'The Latest Bush Gang Whoppers' today. ➡
    • A question for Windows experts Why can't I delete a partition from within the Windows 2000 setup utility? ➡
    • Updates, updates, updates Windows Update has just notified me that I have 33 'critical updates' to install to my copy of Windows 2000 SP 2. ➡
    • Pinocchio Something else to add to my ever-growing reading list, thanks to Cory Doctorow: a beautiful new edition of the original Pinocchio fairy tale. ➡
    • Dean Seattle flashmob Last week I mentioned the Doonesbury-inspired flashmob at the Space Needle. I didn't go (to be honest, I remembered it exactly when it was scheduled to happen), but pictures and a quick account have been posted by Harvey Wallbanger. ➡
    • Happy birthday Dad! Today's my dad's birthday! Feel free to stop by and wish him the best. :) ➡
    • Just needed a break Sometimes, a weekend staying away from the 'puter is just what one needs to keep one's sanity. ➡
  • 2002

On This Day: Sep 14

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

There are 15 posts previously published on September 14th

  • 2024
    • Murder Mystery 2 🎥: ⭐️⭐️⭐️: Adam Sandler always makes my skin crawl, but Jennifer Aniston makes up for it. ➡
    • The Fall Guy 🎥: ⭐️⭐️: An uninteresting, occasionally slightly amusing mess, with one great split-screen scene. ➡
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • Rise Up. Show Up. Unite! We believe one of the most important things we can do right now…is to get more people showing visible support for the candidates. We hope you’ll join us in spreading this message of unity and loudly proclaim your support for the Biden/Harris campaign! ➡
    • On This Day: Sep 14 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from September 14 ➡
  • 2018
    • “If you actually care about reducing or eliminating the number of abortions in our country, simply HOLD MEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS. ALL unwanted pregnancies are caused by the irresponsible ejaculations of men. Period. Don’t believe me? Let me walk you through it.” ➡
  • 2010
  • 2009
    • Geek Appreciation This is my first year getting involved with Norwescon beyond showing up and snapping pictures, and I think it's going to be a fun experience. ➡
  • 2005
    • Transitioned There are a _few_ benefits to being unemployed for a little bit. One of those is having more available hours in the day to spend tinkering around with some of my neverending PROJECTs. I've just (mostly) finished converting all of my pages over to the new template styles provided by Movable Type 3.2. ➡
    • Pussy Power! Story No. 1: 'A German inventor has angered animal rights activists with his answer to fighting the soaring cost of fuel -- dead cats.' Story No. 2: 'A German inventor said he has developed a method to produce crude oil products from waste that he believes can be an answer the soaring costs of fuel, but denied a German newspaper story implying he also used dead cats.' ➡
  • 2004
    • Mid-trip notes (updated) Just jotting some stuff down for the moment — while I'm technically not entirely cut off from the 'net while I'm visiting, I'm not spending a ton of time online. ➡
  • 2002
    • Bush Good Bush / Bad Bush ➡
    • …says God And it came to pass that God visited the earth, and He did behold a series of billboard ads attributing to Him utterances of such banality that they would never pass His lips in a billion years. ➡
    • iCal questions It's been out for a couple days now, but I just donwloaded iCal, Apple's new calendar/scheduling application. I haven't even got it installed yet, and I'm coming up with curiosities. ➡
    • I don’t ‘forward’! I get a lot of things sent to me by the people I know, and that have my e-mail address. Some (many) annoy me, but at times I get sent stuff that I actually like, or find amusing, or some such. ➡