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On This Day: Aug 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 12 posts previously published on August 15th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • Scheduling conflicts meant I got to walk home today…in 95° heat. Ugh. This is the kind of experience that “builds character”, right? (228/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • It’s margarita time! ➡
    • Blatant false advertising. These are neither large enough nor strong enough to hold a pony. Don’t ask me how I know that. ➡
  • 2007
    • Aloha! Right now, I'm sitting in our room on the sixth floor of the Lagoon Tower, looking out over Waiulua Bay. Stepping out onto the deck, I can look nearly directly down into a pool where people are swimming with dolphins. Not long ago, I was snorkeling along through the resort's lagoon, sidling on up to pat a sea turtle's shell as it nosed through the spray of a waterfall. ➡
  • 2006
    • Queueing Up… On the verge of just canceling the Netflix account, we decided we'd take a little time to brainstorm a bit and put together a queue that we'd be more likely to enjoy going through. I completely nuked the queue I had built up, we found three basic ideas to start from, and got a new queue set up. ➡
  • 2005
    • Preparations Much of the weekend was spent running around, getting boxes, making plans, and generally starting to get things ready for the move. We've got a Hanscom family get together this coming weekend, and I managed to get a week off of work for the move and a bit of vacation, so our current game plan goes something like this: ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • Water shutoff – again Needless to say, if anyone happens to be apartment hunting in the lower First Hill/Downtown Seattle area, I can wholeheartedly recommend avoiding the Park Seneca (recently renamed Alfaretta) Apartments, and I'd be wary of any building controlled by Kauri Investments. ➡
    • 'I like New York' A couple things I've noticed about the recent power failure on the East Coast. Every so often, you run across something that makes you think that there might be hope for this world after all. ➡

On This Day: Aug 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 14 posts previously published on August 14th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 104 Sitting in our private sleeper cabin and watching the country roll by. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Interesting side effect to Facebook killing the ability to mirror content from outside and my mirroring not just my blog, but also (not all but) many random links and tweets to Tumblr: my Tumblr is probably my most comprehensive online presence right now. ➡
  • 2017
    • My boarding pass is on my watch. That’s just freaking cool. ➡
  • 2016
    • Highlighting my #tattoo (just the one…so far…). Yin/Yang made up of joined smiley faces. Good or bad, light or dark, there’s always something to smile about, some humor to be found, some way to get through. (227/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • For #throwbackthursday: In 2001, shortly before moving down to Seattle. Obviously, cleaning my room wasn’t a priority. :p ➡
  • 2009
    • Norwescon on Flickr Just a quick notice that Norwescon is expanding its presence on Flickr. First off, there is now an official Norwescon account. Additionally, we're working on making it easier for people to contribute and share their memories of cons past (and future). ➡
  • 2007
    • More Fun with Flossie Flossie continues to head for the Big Island, which is on hurricane watch, tropical storm warning, and flash flood watch, has closed its public schools, and is officially under a state of emergency. Oh, and there was an earthquake this morning, too. ➡
  • 2003
    • Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… Hey, even I can succumb to the occasional giggle at juvenile fart humor every so often. ➡
    • 'go to referrer' bookmarklet Ever opened up a link in a new tab or a new window, then left it alone for a while? Come back to it in a couple hours, figure it's interesting enough to blog about, then realize that you can't remember just whose site pointed you to the link? It's a minor annoyance, if you try to link back to your sources. ➡
    • Whiner Yeah, George, there's, like, a presidential race, in, like, fifteen months or so. This California thing is, like, right around the corner. Like, really, man. Do you really want us all to, like, spend all our time just, like, bashing you instead? Because we're certainly capable of it. Especially when your English usage is so, like, impeccable and everything. ➡
    • Fun with Pig Latin Evennay ownay, it'sway eallyray easyway orfay emay otay eakspay Igpay Atinlay ithoutway avinghay otay inkthay aboutway itway uchmay atway allway. Ypingtay itway isway away ittlelay oremay ifficutlday, utbay eakingspay itway? Easyway asway iepay. ➡
    • Who turned out the lights? Just bizarre, to know that that much of the eastern seaboard lost power today. There doesn't seem to be any real news to the news, but John Hoke has been keeping up with the news as best he can over at his Asylum. ➡
    • Army of One Excellent flash ad from Take Back the Media: 'Army of One'. They're collecting donations to see if they can get it put on national TV, too. ➡

On This Day: Aug 13

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

There are 21 posts previously published on August 13th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • Book thirty-seven of 2016: The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson. 🌟🌟🌟🌟 ➡
    • No shame in ordering delivery when it’s 99° outside. I certainly don’t want to be out there! (226/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Post-dinner dishes. For some reason, Prairie seems to think this is a particularly appealing activity. ;) ➡
  • 2010
  • 2009
    • Links for August 12th through August 13th Sometime between August 12th and August 13th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • I'm a Photographer, Not a Terrorist • Ten Things We Don't Understand About Humans • The 5 Best Films Made by John Hughes • Children's Hospital May Have to Leave Seattle • Meet the Generations • Shorty ➡
  • 2008
    • Links for August 12th through August 13th Sometime between August 12th and August 13th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • His own Olympic trial: 24 hours of viewing • Unsubstantiated but interesting info on what Return of the Jedi might have been • Young Guns: A new brand of gangster grows up in a killing culture • Maperture • The Anchorpoint Essays • Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products” ➡
    • Recommended: Jordan River Moving and Storage In the end, our entire move was done under the estimated time (and therefore under the estimated budget), and we were more than happy to give them a good-sized tip. While we don't expect to be moving anytime soon again, we'll definitely be giving Jordan River a call when the time comes. _Highly_ recommended. ➡
  • 2007
    • Dance Off 2007 About a week and a half ago, six teams of people with dance in their souls -- if not their soles -- gathered together for a battle royale at Dance Off 2007. Truly, such fleetfooted feats (feets?) shall never grace a stage again. Until next year, of course. ;) ➡
  • 2004
    • Hurricane Charlie My mom's parents, Harold and Arlene Ward, live in a nursing home in Fort Meyers, Florida — currently hurricane central. ➡
    • Iran planning to attack US forces The rhetoric coming out of the Bush administration has convinced Iran that military conflict is inevitable and rather than await an attack at a time and place of America's choosing, the Iranians will try to inflict significant damage to U.S. forces on Iraqi soil by means of the Mahdi Army and other Shi'a groups. ➡
  • 2003
    • The spectre of Spinal Tap Gravel Man was our signal that the revolving circular stage we were on was about to turn us briskly to face the audience and, we suspected, hurl our much ridiculed, old before his time guitarist into the front row like a ball off a dodgy roulette wheel. ➡
    • Cattle Call 2004 Having watched this for a while, I started to wonder just how the various candidates have fared over the months. So, with a little browsing through the Daily Kos archives and some tinkering in Excel, I can present a (fairly ugly) little graph of each candidate's potential to grab the Democratic nomination, as ranked by Kos. ➡
    • Tomorrow's news, today! There's a good interview with Tom Tomorrow in Salon today. ➡
  • 1995
    • [From Usenet 8.13.95 2300] Down here in Anchorage, about the best place to find anything is at Mammoth Music. They've got two locations for new cd's/tapes, one musical instrument store, and one used-cd store. ➡
    • [From Usenet: 8.13.95 2300] Pop Will Eat Itself, 'Ich bin ein Auslander,' off of Dos Deidos mi Amigos. Sweet album...lots of good stuff. ➡

On This Day: Aug 12

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

There are 30 posts previously published on August 12th

  • 2025
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • Biden/Harris 2020 Two posts from Facebook about the just-confirmed Biden/Harris ticket that I'm mirroring over here. ➡
    • On This Day: Aug 12 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from August 12 ➡
  • 2016
    • Some days things just seem a little sketchy. (225/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • I literally laughed out loud at this one. ➡
  • 2014
    • Prairie and @mindiedieu at the #pavethewaywa conference. ➡
    • We were encouraged to get a selfie with the #pavethewaywa keynote speaker, Dr. Vincent Tinto…so I did! Kinda. ;) ➡
    • Chatting with table mates from CWU, waiting for the #PavetheWayWA conference to get going. ➡
  • 2008
    • Links for August 11th through August 12th Sometime between August 11th and August 12th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Olympic opening uses girl's voice, not face • Deconstructing Dr. Horrible • Part of Olympic display altered in broadcast • Olympic Fail: Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird's Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting • Turn your change into apps (or music) ➡
  • 2004
    • Crackrats! Prairie: (okay, I shouldn't think this is funny, but it's cracking me up): Studies find rats can get hooked on drugs…they fed crack to rats ➡
    • California nullified 4,000 marriages Sad news today from California — their state Supreme Court has decided that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom overstepped his authority, and declared nearly 4,000 same-sex marriages null and void. ➡
    • Whoops – not that way! Today became a bit more adventuresome than I expected it to be, thanks to a slight change of schedule, and a few transportation-related goofs on my part. ➡
    • DVD driver acquitted This originally just went into my linklog, but considering my previous rant, I wanted to follow up on this one. The Alaskan driver accused of killing two people due to watching a DVD while driving has been acquitted. ➡
    • Truth in advertising I don't know for sure if this is a real ad or not, but if it is, whoever came up with it really needs a raise… ➡
    • New CDC anti-condom guidelines Somehow I'd missed hearing about this until just now (the article is a few weeks old), but new regulations from the CDC threaten to yank federal funding from any HIV-prevention organization that fail to limit their efforts to promoting abstinence and refraining from promoting the use of condoms. ➡
    • The mysterious H. John Heinz IV Of the various children and stepchildren of John Kerry and Teresa Heinz-Kerry, one has been conspicuously absent from all of the various political appearances and shenanigans: H. John Heinz IV, Teresa's oldest child. A few details do surface from time to time, and I've got to say that not only does John sounds like an incredibly accomplished and very interesting individual, he apparently also has impeccable fashion sense. ➡
  • 2003
    • Oh, this'll be fun I need to print, read, internalize, and (possibly hardest of all) understand the Apache mod_rewrite documentation. ➡
    • diveintocrappyteenagepoetry.org This drivel was written sometime in high school, while I was bored in my typing class, and it was (obviously) heavily inspired by Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'. ➡
    • Blaster When that little 'Windows Update' icon blinks at me on my PC, I pay attention to it, download, and install the updates. It's a pain in the butt, especially since there seems to be a new 'cricital update' every week, but sometimes those critical updates really are critical. ➡
    • Three hours later… Now, three hours later I can finally get to work doing what they pay me for — but that's only because I got sick of watching a stalled progress bar, force-quit the Windows Update program, and told it to sod off. My security updates were done anyway, it was just chewing on some less critical patches, so I'm not too worried. ➡
    • Texas ANG Bush Action Figure This figure probably stands 14 inches in height, and is exactly as the future Leader of the Western World(tm) appeared during his service defending our Nation's borders from Mexicans and Bahamians. ➡
    • Fair and balanced So, in order to honor this fine legal milestone, and in the company of many other weblogs, this weblog's tagline has now been changed to "Fair and Balanced". ➡
    • Brass knuckles in nursing homes? An aide in an Arkansas nursing home allegedly beat an 81-year-old woman with brass knuckles because she had been 'disrespectful,' police said Friday. ➡
    • Mouseketeers One of the A-Listers says he was a VeeJay on MTV. But this is pretty much the 21st Century equivalent of some one saying he or she was an original Mousekateer. It's been so long since any living soul has seen either one that, well.. who are we to say? ➡
    • Perception Management Propaganda is all-encompassing when it comes to war, of course. The trick is to try to recognize when you're being fed facts, and when you're being fed propaganda. The above article is excerpted and adapted from Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq, which looks to be very interesting, and worth picking up. ➡
    • To Mr. Brendan Steinhauser I don't care how you justify or rationalize your racism, it's still racism. It's still ugly, small-minded, and disgusting, and it has no place in a country filled with people who would like to be able to say the words 'land of the free, home of the brave' without bitter irony. ➡
    • Bush in Seattle The day before Dean's appearance here, our esteemed leader (*cough*) will be here. Information on planned protest rallys can be found at Action Alert and Stop Bush Seattle, but here's the pertinent information… ➡
    • Dean in Seattle Join thousands of Washingtonians in welcoming Howard Dean and his 'People-Powered Howard Sleepless Summer Tour' to Seattle for a PUBLIC RALLY on Sunday, August 24th, at 6:30 PM at Westlake Center, 4th and Pine, in Seattle. Doors open at 5:30 PM. ➡

On This Day: Aug 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 24 posts previously published on August 11th

  • 2024
  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 101 Another one of those days where we spent the day puttering around at home. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2017
    • Stopped by Mad Myrna’s and found out they have a Friday night drag show – been some great performances tonight! ➡
    • My senior portraits, all of which make me laugh now. Top left, Air Force cadet. Top right, Ivy League professor. Bottom left, the stripes on my shirt are aligned with the backdrop! And bottom right, Miami Vice. Aaahhh, the early ’90s! ➡
    • A cup from the 1893 world’s fair. The initials (HLW) are those of my mom’s grandfather’s sister (so, my…great-grand-aunt or something?), Harriet Wills (we think). ➡
  • 2016
    • A closer look at the grasshopper we found tonight. The closer you get, the creepier they look! ➡
    • Found a big ol’ grasshopper chilling on the lilac in our backyard (he’s down in the lower left). (224/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Flopping out on a hotel bed always feels good (but not as good as getting back to your own bed when the trip is done). ➡
    • The parking garage is not impressed. #pareidolia ➡
  • 2010
    • Links for August 3rd through August 11th Sometime between August 3rd and August 11th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Massive Censorship of Digg Uncovered • New Ball Prototype • Racer • How Star Trek Artists Imagined the iPad... 23 Years Ago • Clever overhead garage storage hack • F.B.I. Challenges Wikipedia Over Use of Its Seal ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for August 9th through August 11th Sometime between August 9th and August 11th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush • Deciphering Windows 7 Upgrades: The Official Chart • Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi, Revised Edition • Where I Write: Fantasy and Science Fiction Authors in Their Creative Spaces • We'll Know When We Get There: Sincerely, John Hughes ➡
  • 2008
    • Links for August 7th through August 11th Sometime between August 7th and August 11th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Famed Utah rock arch collapses • Internet Memes • Watch the Olympics Online • I made it longer because I have not had the opportunity to make it shorter • Bremerton baristas banned from wearing pasties ➡
  • 2006
    • Vegas: Friday Finally...another entry in the Vegas weekend! I just keep getting further behind... ➡
  • 2005
    • Got it! North Seattle, here we come! ➡
    • Seattle Car Theft Statistics On average, a car is stolen every 12 minutes in Washington state. That's an average of about 122 cars per day, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. ➡
  • 2004
    • Saft: Everything Safari should have, but doesn’t yet Thanks to a mention by Dori, I've just discovered Saft, a wonderful little add-on for Safari. While the headline on Saft's site promotes full-screen browsing as its main feature — something that really doesn't concern me all that much — there's so much more packed into this little piece of software. ➡
    • Comments from the Peanut Gallery I went into the e-mail folder where I dump all the comments that I receive on the site, sorted them all by sender, and started scrolling through. Anytime I saw an address with a good number of comments, I snagged any URL that was left with the comments, and added them to the new 'Peanut Gallery' blogroll in the sidebar. ➡
  • 2003
    • I was the height of fashion, I tell you CTY is a program for Jr. High '…students whose SAT I scores place them in the top one-half of one percent of their age mates.' I was accepted when I was in 7th grade after taking the SAT, through the recommendation of my PACT (Program for the Academically and Creatively Talented) teacher, and went to summer CTY sessions for three years running. ➡
    • Cameras in classrooms You know, I'm honestly not sure what I think of this. On the one hand, the 'Big Brother' aspect of constant video surveillance creeps me out, in a big way. On the other hand, when used effectively, I could see there being some really strong advantages to the technology. ➡
    • Escape Velocity Get ready to get sucked back in all over again... ➡
    • So subtle Operation Ivy Lightening, huh? Gee, I'm so glad that we keep getting assured that this war had nothing to do with oil. ➡
    • TypePad User Forums Raymond has created a bulletin-board style TypePad User Forum for tips, tricks, questions, and general discussion of TypePad. ➡
  • 2001

On This Day: Aug 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 22 posts previously published on August 10th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Even with the haze from all the fires, it’s still quite pretty up here. ➡
    • Ran up into the mountains for a wedding. ➡
  • 2017
    • Proof! Proof that Alaska is sometimes a bit of a time warp! #blockbuster #blockbustervideo #vhs ➡
    • Dad and me. Mom says this was at her parents’ house in Indianapolis in December of ’73, the day he came home from a tour stationed in Thailand during the Vietnam War. I’d be about eight months old. ➡
    • Me and Kev, August of 1992. Mom’s comment: “These are the children of parents who decided it wasn’t worth worrying about what they did with their hair.” 😂 ➡
    • Kevin and me, late ’90s sometime. I miss my “DIE YUPPIE SCUM” shirt (which was most frequently pronounced as if it was German: “dee yoopee skoom”)! ➡
    • My mom’s engagement announcement portrait. ➡
  • 2016
    • I’ve been seeing some people grousing about #StarTrekDiscovery being set pre-#TOS. While I can understand disappointment if one was hoping for a post-#Nemesis setting (though I’m fine with the announced setting), there seems to be this idea that there can’t be any real suspense because we know so much about #StarTrek universe in Discovery’s future. ... Read more ➡
    • Totally geeking out over today’s #StarTrekDiscovery announcements. Is it January yet? 🖖 (And yes, that’s the Kelvin Timeline Enterprise, but I don’t have a Prime Timeline ship model, so I work with what I have.) (223/366) #StarTrek #STD #DIS #DSC #cantremembertherightabbreviation #youknowwhatimean ➡
  • 2014
    • New sunglasses (and cap, though that was a couple weeks ago when we went to Leavenworth)! ➡
  • 2007
    • Flossie Would everyone on Hawaii please do us a favor? Go outside, face south, and blow as hard as you can. See, Prairie and I have tickets to fly out of Seattle on Tuesday to go to Hawaii. Unfortunately, Hurricane Flossie apparently _also_ has plans to be Hawaii on Tuesday. ➡
  • 2005
    • The application is in! Well, we've gone and done it -- we turned in the application for the apartment we looked at yesterday. If all goes well, we should hear back by midday tomorrow...and with luck, we'll get the go and have our new place! ➡
    • The Search Has Begun… Prairie and I looked at an apartment yesterday evening up in North Seattle (just off the 130th St. exit from I-5) that looks really good. We're keeping our fingers crossed, but at least judging by yesterday's showing, things are looking very promising. Yay! ➡
  • 2004
    • It’s me! Note: while this did happen to me tonight, this rant isn't particularly aimed at any one person, as I've had it happen to me off and on from many different people over the years. Don't take it personally — but if it sounds like I could be talking to you, than it might be worth taking to heart. ➡
    • When I die… Amusing tombstones. ➡
  • 2003
    • Coming out Huh. I may not be gay, but I think that in a sense, I just 'came out.' Interesting. ➡
    • Sufficient Reason The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reasons for remaining ashore. ➡
    • Welcome to Tim's Place! I wanted to pass on a friendly welcome to Tim, who has just joined our happy little family here at TypePad. ➡
    • Everybody cut Footloose! I lucked into free tickets to Broadway Bound's production of 'Footloose - The Musical' today, and it was an absolute blast! ➡
    • Starship and Kickshaw If you get a chance to see Starship perform, and it's cheap, and you don't have anything pressing going on, it's not a bad show. Now, if you get a chance to see Kickshaw perform, you should, with absolutely no qualifications whatsoever. ➡

On This Day: Aug 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 17 posts previously published on August 9th

  • 2025
  • 2024
    • Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman 📚: ⭐️⭐️⭐️: This is one of those that, while unquestionably good, was difficult for me to really get into and ultimately just didn’t resonate with me. ➡
  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Aquaman Aquaman: ⭐️⭐️ Completely ridiculous, and in the constant-eye-rolling sense, rather than the this-is-fun sense. Admittedly, it was nice to see a DC film that wasn’t as dark (thematically and literally) as most have been, there were occasional gorgeous images, and I did get an occasional laugh. But there were just so many things that didn’t ... Read more ➡
  • 2018
    • Gotta admit, seeing this near my bus stop was a little jarring at first, then just kinda funny/creepy. ➡
    • So Tired of the Greenies Great rant from The Root: Enough With the Shit, Green Party. The Coming Midterms Are Too Important for Your Shenanigans. ➡
  • 2017
    • Heading up to Alaska to help mom out for a few days. Unexpected adventures! ➡
  • 2016
    • I’m not a big veggie person, but even I can tell how good cucumber fresh picked from the garden is. Yum! (222/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Saturday afternoon snack time. ➡
  • 2007
  • 2006
    • Nikon D80 Revealed Just a few months after getting my D70s, Nikon's wrapped up their 20-day teaser campaign by introducing the Nikon D80. Overall, it looks _really_ good -- the only thing I see that doesn't really excite me is that the D80 uses SD rather than Compact Flash, but it makes sense given SD's dominance of the small camera market. ➡
  • 2004
    • Analogy Microsoft Windows : computer security :: George Bush : national security ➡
    • August 11th is National Underwear Day This is the day when underwear becomes not just the first thing you put on and the last thing you take off, but the most important thing you wear all day. Go on an underwear shopping spree to dress yourself. Dress from the inside out. ➡
    • Movie scenes that need to be made …when I'm at home it takes a conversation about brutally beating another woman with a blow-up doll to keep me up this late. ➡
  • 2003
    • Running away… Just a quick note right now — about to head out to the Taste of Edmonds food festival, about half an hour outside of Seattle, to see Starship and Kickshaw. ➡

On This Day: Aug 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 13 posts previously published on August 8th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • 📚 27/2021: The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • I love this remembrance of an old newspaper summary of Top Gun. ★★ TOP GUN (Drama, 1986) Trivializes war by turning it into a music video. Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer. (1 hr. 50 min.) ➡
  • 2016
    • My favorite kind of problem: having difficulty finding something to read because there are too many appealing choices. (221/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Warped DVD shelves make for a good background. ;) ➡
  • 2007
    • Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein A small town sits at the base of a craggy mountain. on which a narrow, craggy road winds its way up to the forbidding castle at the top, eerily illuminated by a full moon. The house lights go down, and the title card appears over the scene: Young Frankenstein! Overall: an _excellent_ show, and we got to see it _first_ (nyeah-nyeah)! ➡
  • 2006
    • Vegas: Thursday Okay. Pictures are starting to work their way up to my Flickr account and will eventually be all in a Vegas Vacation set. While those go, a rundown of the trip, starting with Thursday. ➡
  • 2005
    • Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright… A few weeks ago, Prairie had a Monday off and was able to come out to the Vogue's Sunday Fetish night with me. While we were there, we heard a very nice track that caught our ear, with a slow, driving tempo, pulsing drums, and using William Blake's The Tyger as its lyrics. ➡
    • The Worst One of All Scoble's looking for websites that install nasty crap onto your computer to see how Vista responds. I was going to suggest www.microsoft.com, but he's already been bit by that bug. ;) ➡
    • Pre-release bloopers While there's a certain amusement to all of this, what really struck me was that in this internet-centric age, fans are able to catch bloopers in movies _before_ the movies are even finished -- and in this case, possibly allowing the studio to correct the error before the final film is released. Pretty amazing. ➡
  • 2004
    • National Preparedness Month: September 2004 Coming this September, on the three-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: National Preparedness Month. Because the prior 35 months were all about slacking off and letting the terrorists win, apparently? ➡

On This Day: Aug 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 24 posts previously published on August 7th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • ‘Jaws’ mystery: Did long unknown ‘Lady of the Dunes’ Cape Cod murder victim appear in movie scene? Very cool theory — and even if it’s far-fetched, how neat would it be if this panned out? ➡
  • 2016
    • Rumor has it the weekend is over. I’m not entirely sure I’m convinced. (220/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • For #throwbackthursday: Dad teaching me how to do somersaults. Probably 1975 or so. ➡
    • Today’s #snagcanyon shot. From here, it looks like it’s split into several smaller hot spots. ➡
  • 2008
    • Links for August 6th through August 7th Sometime between August 6th and August 7th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Olympics | You can get Games fix on TV, Web • Wash. letter carrier going full kilt ahead • Greyhound pulls 'bus rage' ads • Beta beat: Pukka 1.7 • Best Seat in the House | Olympics: Planning, Packing, And Panicking ➡
  • 2005
    • Bad Math What all this adds up to is laundry taking an absolutely _ridiculous_ amount of time to do. I started my two loads at around five this afternoon. It's now eight in the evening, and I'm looking at, oh, at least another hour and a half if all goes well. ➡
    • Old Technology Does anyone out there have any need for an official Windows 2000 Professional install CD, complete with serial number? Update: Eight minutes later, it's spoken for. You people scare me. ;) ➡
    • Bridal Parties are Fun! At least, as long as your definition of 'fun' includes 20-some 20-something sorority girls drinking far too much alcohol, being incredibly loud, having no concept that there's anyone else on the dance floor, nearly starting a fight near the bar, and eventually having one of them carried out of the bathroom by two big beefy guys because there was no way she'd be able to walk. ➡
  • 2004
    • Kilt #2: Mocker The only problem I've had so far with owning a kilt is that I only owned one kilt. As much as I like wearing the kilt for general day-to-day use, wearing the same garment every day can get a little questionable, no matter how cool the garment is. Plus, laundry days pretty much necessitate going back to pants while the kilt is in the wash. ➡
    • Ebert’s obsession with Brittany Murphy Mike pointed to Ebert's review of 'Little Black Book' today, pointing out an entertaining anecdote about actress Brittany Murphy. ➡
    • Bizarre homophobic Fox News attack on Disney When Disney president Robert Iger went on Fox News to do a brief promotional spot for the Dream Desk (news or commercial…who can tell?), he was suddenly blindsided by host Stuart Varney's homophobic attack on the (not Disney-sponsored) 'Gay Days' at Disney World. ➡
  • 2003
    • iPhish In addition to performing, the band set up a tent where fans could make their own free custom mix CD of live Phish tracks with iTunes. The tent ran at full capacity, with lines outside until 4AM each night. ➡
    • California Gubernatorial circus Arnold Schwarzenegger: Finally, a public official who can explain the administration's social policies in the original German. ➡
    • George W. Bush action figure BBI proudly introduces the latest issue in its Elite Force series of authentic military 12- inch figures, President George W. Bush in naval aviator flight uniform. ➡
    • A Senegalese view of Bush's Africa trip Today I was forwarded this letter, originally by an anonymous Senegalese woman, giving her impression of our esteemed President's visit — and the impression of America and Americans it left behind. ➡
    • Good luck, Reed Best of luck, Reed. Come home safely. ➡
    • Almost there! I got my latest vacation check today. So, adding that to what I already had saved up in my PayPal account, I now have just over $2000 saved for my new computer! ➡
    • Flash Mobs…so what? Maybe it's just me, but this whole >flash mob meme is already getting old. In my mind, it jumped the shark when Scoble publicly organized one on his weblog (no offense, Robert!). ➡
    • Interpreting the Bible Nick pointed me to this post from Harold Paxton looking at the recent election of Bishop Robinson from the exact opposite point of view than mine. There's certainly nothing wrong with that — as Mark Twain (I believe) said, it's differences of opinion that make horse races. ➡
    • Using MT tags in TypePad templates Looks like Nick is starting a series of posts on using MovableType template tags to manipulate and customize your TypePad templates. ➡
  • 2001
  • 1995
    • [From Usenet 8.7.95 2300] So, what's the deal? Doing an alternative/industrial all-ages club up here in Anchorage, but it can be hard to get new stuff.... Thing is, some of the stuff you had mentioned in an earlier post wasn't all that new, wasn't sure if I should reply or not. ➡

On This Day: Aug 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 15 posts previously published on August 6th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Book forty-four of 2019: The Enterprise War, by John Jackson Miller. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Filling in the blanks of Pike’s Enterprise up to the start of season two of ST: DIS. Not a bad romp, and helps to flesh out some of the secondary characters we see in Pike’s crew. ➡
  • 2017
    • Book thirty-six of 2017: First Strike (Invasion! Book One), by Diane Carey. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • Turns out this was a laze around the house, watch Olympics, and do as little as possible kind of day. (219/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • A caricature self portrait. I was messing around with the #rollworld #tinyplanet app and started laughing when I got this. Showed Prairie, who got the giggles and said that this should be today’s photo. So it is. :) ➡
  • 2008
    • Links for July 31st through August 6th Sometime between July 31st and August 6th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Trading Places: The demographic inversion of the American city • The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products • Canada bus passenger stabs, decapitates seat mate • EW Previews Star Trek Comic Con Posters - With First Cast Photos • Ballantine Books to Publish Book Inspired by the Webcomic Garfield Minus Garfield ➡
  • 2007
    • I’m going to avoid the viaduct… The central portion of the Alaskan Way Viaduct was ranked on the same scale. Its score: Nine percent. And if that doesn’t make you want to stay away from the viaduct until they tear the damn thing down, perhaps knowing that the National Bridge Inventory considers it “basically intolerable” will. ➡
  • 2006
    • Back from Vegas We're back! It was a wonderful trip -- three days having a _lot_ of fun bouncing around Vegas with Xebeth. I'll get more ramblings up eventually...for the moment, though, it's just good to be back home. ➡
  • 2004
    • It’s not all bad, really! Last month, I mentioned that I'd been in contact with a magazine reporter who was working on a story about weblogs and some of the potential pitfalls that can come about when recording your life online for the world to see. It appears that Anil has also been contacted by a reporter working on a similar story, and he ended up having some of the same reservations that I did. ➡
    • Condolences Over the course of the past few days, Jessica Wilkinson, a regular member at the Vogue, went missing. Yesterday, her family officially filed a missing persons report with the police, and word started spreading around the various Seattle communities. Last night, the police contacted her family to let them know that she had passed away in her apartment. Nothing else is known at this point. ➡
  • 2003
    • Destinations Not much in the way of posting tonight. Instead, I concentrated on converting the 'Destinations' section of my sidebar so that all items now have comment and TrackBack ability, and there are archives for items that have scrolled off the page. ➡
    • 58 years ago today August 6th marks the 58th anniversary of the A-bomb being dropped on Hiroshima. ➡
    • It's a (rainbow) banner year I'm sure we've still got a long way to go before someone's sexuality matters as little in how we view them as does…oh, well, so we've got a long way to go no matter what. Still, these events give me hope. ➡
    • Not politically correct Would a woman being promoted to the highest level of military service be considered a 'broad Generalization'? ➡