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On This Day: Apr 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 26 posts previously published on April 27th

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  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Nice: Seattle officials file motion to vacate marijuana convictions. Since it’s legal, and as pot convictions disproportionately affect minorities, this is an excellent step. ➡
  • 2016
    • Just me, hanging out off the coast of my private island. …or standing in front of the screensaver on our TV. I don’t know where this place is, but I want to go to there. (I also kind of want a way to get the TV screensavers on my computer. They’re gorgeous.) (118/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Took this earlier today. The reason isn’t valid anymore, but I’m sticking with this shot anyway. Nyeah-nyeah, so there. ➡
  • 2010
    • Imagine if… Let’s play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called 'Imagine.' The way it’s played is simple: we’ll envision recent happenings in the news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white people as the main actors in the scenes we’ll conjure - the ones who are driving the action - we’ll envision black folks or other people of color instead. ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for April 23rd through April 27th Sometime between April 23rd and April 27th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Gallery: Flickr Users Make Accidental Maps • Skin Deep Usability • Locks of Love Helps Disadvantaged Children Suffering From Medical Hair Loss • Get Great Gadgets. and Keep Them. - Last Year's Model • I Can Read Movies ➡
    • Introducing my Photoblog As anyone who's been paying any amount of attention to my ramblings for long knows, I occasionally pick up a camera, snap off a few shots, and hope that I've got something worth showing off. I've finally decided to move forward on a project that's been rattling around in the back of my head for a while, and I'm going to see if I might actually be able to sell the occasional print. ➡
  • 2007
    • Edward Scissorhands When I posted about the discount on tickets to tonight's performance of _Edward Scissorhands_, I left out one small detail of the '_very_ kind offer' -- namely, that Prairie and I were offered (and accepted) tickets to see the show last night! ➡
  • 2006
    • Out for the Weekend Prairie has an educators' conference of some sort down in Corvallis this weekend, so we're going to be gone for the next few days. ➡
    • Winnie the Pooh and Syphilis Too 'Some things shouldn't be shared,' she explained. 'The Winnie the Pooh theme is one. It's a lot like syphilis.' ➡
    • A bit of a pickle… ...it was decided that, since these little tasty snacks are not only obviously phallic, but also can apparently be used as currency for the barter of sexual favors, Xebeth was going to start a new anti-pickle group. Parents Against Pickles. PAP. ➡
    • State of the Computer Well, the computer lives -- though we're definitely dealing with a near-total case of amnesia. ➡
  • 2005
    • Serenity Okay, okay, okay already. When no less than four people on my reading list mention the trailer for Serenity and I've barely started going through my feeds for the day, I figure I should probably check it out. ➡
    • There is hope… I refused to read any further than the first two sentences, but towards the end of his latest post, Kevin Smith has this to say about Revenge of the Sith... ➡
    • Rethinking In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. ➡
  • 2004
    • iTunes 4.5: Major iTunes Music Store update! The iTunes website hasn't been updated yet (as of 0:17 4/28/04), so I can't download it yet, but if you open up iTunes and go to the iTunes Music Store, you'll see a badge for iTunes 4.5. Update at 0:29: The iTunes website has been updated with iTunes 4.5. ➡
    • Whoops! Hopefully he gets back in his car without having to pay a cabbie to break in. In the meantime, my pizza has appeared, and it's dinnertime for me. ➡
    • Toyota Volta Italian design. Environmentally sound gas/electric hybrid. 408 horsepower. 0-62mph in 4.03 seconds, top speed of 155mph. Carbon-fibre chassis. Racing suspension. 31.7 miles per gallon. And it's only a show prototype, not likely to be built. Such a shame. ➡
    • Nightline on Friday Now I want to tell you about this Friday’s [Nightline] broadcast. We’re going to do something different, something that we think is important. Friday night, we will show you the pictures, and Ted will read the names, of the men and women from the armed forces who have been killed in combat in Iraq. That’s it. That will be the whole broadcast. ➡
    • Well, that’s one solution I love whatever algorithms Google uses for their AdSense program. Much of the time they're dead-on, but every so often, you get some wonderfully bizarre and hilarious combinations. For instance, upon reloading my page after adding my last post, I got the following set… ➡
    • Watch what you blog! It was bound to happen — and realistically, it probably has been happening, just now we're getting news stories about it — US intelligence agencies are starting to keep an eye out on weblogs. ➡
    • Well, it was convenient… Okay, so on the scale of stupid things Bush has done, this may not be right at the top, but it's still a rather sad look at how little respect the man can have for other people when he'll use someone else's shirt to clean his glasses while their back is turned. ➡
  • 2003
    • Ran away for a bit Had a very pleasant weekend visiting Prairie's friend Beth in Vancouver, WA, and Prairie's mom in Woodland. It rained a lot Saturday, but Sunday was an absolutely gorgeous early summer day, and I got a few decent pictures — one of which is the newest entry to WüdiVisions. ➡
  • 2001

On This Day: Apr 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 17 posts previously published on April 26th

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    • 🖖 #StarTrekDiscovery S02E14 (Late, because I was at Norwescon.) So many explosions! I’m not exactly opposed to getting a little Star Wars in my Star Trek, but this may have been a bit much. Ending on the Enterprise was pretty, but odd. Overall: imperfect, but satisfactory. ➡
  • 2018
    • “I have this thing I call the Two Rogers Rule of Manliness: Basically, if Steve or Fred wouldn’t do it, neither should I. It’s stupid, it’s simplistic, and it’s geeky, but it works.” —@ak404 on Twitter ➡
    • TrekMovie has an analysis of the #StarTrek #Discovery promo video posted today, including stills of DIS’s take on the TOS uniforms. I think I like the blend of TOS and DIS styles they came up with. Here’s hoping season two is a bit more to my liking than season one was. 🖖 ➡
    • “Iconic entertainer Bill Cosby was convicted on three counts of sexual assault, a decision that punctuates one of the most thundering falls from grace in American cultural history.” Wow. Good. ➡
    • This isn’t released until a couple weeks after my birthday, but this new LEGO rollercoaster would still make a great (late) birthday present, on the off chance one of you has a spare $380 to spend on me. ;) ➡
  • 2017
    • Linkdump for April 19th through April 26th An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between April 19th and April 26th. • I had a dream about a Star Trek series with a ferengi captain… • What ‘Snowflakes’ Get Right About Free Speech • NorWesCon • Fancyclopedia 3 • 5 Things That Don't Seem Like Mansplaining But Are, Because Playing Devil's Advocate Doesn't Enlighten Anyone ➡
  • 2016
    • Went to today’s career fair at CWU. Didn’t see Wellington (our mascot), but did talk to a few recruiters; hopefully those conversations will lead somewhere good! (117/366) ➡
    • This sticker gave me a laugh today. ➡
  • 2014
    • Nice dinner with friends after a quiet day at home. Now about time for bed. ➡
  • 2007
    • ImageKind I'm exploring ImageKind, which gives Flickr members a convenient way to sell prints of their artwork. It looks interesting so far, though I've just spent a few minutes poking around while I'm in between classes. ➡
  • 2006
    • Good days and bad days… So...Monday was great. Tuesday was pretty standard up 'til the end, but so far Wednesday just isn't looking very promising at all. ➡
  • 2005
    • Lost broach Walking up Pike St., the glint of the setting sun off of the stones in this broach caught my eye. It was wedged into a knothole in a tree by the side of the street, about a foot above eye level. Missing stones let the gold tones of the metal shine, surrounded by the purples and blues of the remaining gems. ➡
  • 2004
    • The greatest conspiracy theory ever A link to a somewhat sloppy article on 9-11 conspiracy theories on Metafilter led to a very worthwhile discussion today, including one of the best comments I've seen on there in a while. I'm reproducing it in full here — hopefully mokujin doesn't mind. :) ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 23 posts previously published on April 25th

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  • 2020
    • 📚 twenty of 2020: Starman by Alan Dean Foster ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A pleasant and easy adaptation of an 80s SF film that I remember enjoying when it came out. It’s another of the “benevolent alien meets paranoid humans” contact stories, but does it simply and well. ➡
    • On This Day: Apr 25 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from April 25 ➡
  • 2019
    • Book thirty-one of 2019: The Big Time, by Fritz Leiber. ⭐️⭐️ 1958 Hugo Best Novel For some reason, I couldn’t get invested in this one. I didn’t dislike it, and it being structured very much like a single-set play was interesting, but I had to work my way through it. ➡
  • 2018
  • 2017
    • Nice surprise birthday present from an old friend. Thanks for the new kilt, Rick! #royalkilt ➡
  • 2016
    • Made my hotel reservation for #nwc40. Less than a year to go! ;) (116/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • It’s been a cranky day, and the cold still has me in a bit of a fog, but I’m wrapping up with a pizza party with the CWU tutors that Prairie supervises, so at least the workday’s ending on a good note. ➡
  • 2005
    • Maybe I won’t end up in hell… A guy died and found himself waiting in the long line of judgment. As he stood there he noticed that some souls were allowed to march right through the pearly gates into heaven. Others, though, were led over to Satan who threw them into the burning pit. ➡
    • Nasty bug I've spent the majority of the last 31 hours or so either unconscious or in a very woozy half-conscious state, thanks to being hit with a _nasty_ cold bug. Loads of fun, let me tell you. Ugh. ➡
  • 2004
    • Goodbye, Floyd I just found out about some sad news for any Alaskans or expatriates: well-known panhandler Floyd died April 7, 2004. ➡
    • More megapixels isn’t necessarily better quality Something I need to keep in mind while continuing my search to replace my digital camera: 8 megapixels isn't always better than 5. ➡
    • One week notice: my b-day! Consider this one week notice for any of you that might be in the Seattle area: next Monday's my 31st birthday, so I'm making the yearly 'haul your ass to the Vogue and hang out for a while' call for Saturday night, May 1st. ➡
  • 2003
    • All about me! Prompted by Kasia (via Robert), I realized that I don't have any sort of 'about me' info here. Guess it's time to rectify that, huh? ➡
    • Remember when we had rights? Last weekend, when Miranda was visiting, she asked me, 'what's up with all the political stuff on your site lately?' Well, Amy sums it up quite well — when this is the situation, I find it reprehensible for people not to care. To shrug their shoulders and turn away. To deem it 'somebody else's problem.' It's in times like these that we must pay attention, and do what we can to prevent things from getting any worse, and to right the wrongs already in practice. ➡
    • ERA still in limbo So — Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia — what do you say we move into the 21st century and get the ERA passed? ➡
    • Warm fuzzies Midway through the day today, I got some very nice comments from Dyanna and Kirsten. It was too busy at work for me to respond at the time, it was exactly the pick-up I needed in the midst of a crazy day at work. You're both wonderful! ➡
    • …just a matter of emphasis So — what many have been saying for months is starting to be admitted. The U.S., recognized as the world's leading superpower, went to war to prove a point, and lied about emphasized the danger in order to get support that wouldn't have been there otherwise. ➡
  • 2001
    • I’m a furry dildo? The ultimate sexual contradiction. You're quite dirty, and very into carnal excavation, but you also have a soft romantic side. And, honestly, THAT side is itself conflicted -- you're needy and giving at the same time. It's like you need to need to give to need. What's that all about? ➡
    • More site work Work continues on the site redesign. I've completed the changeover of the Quotebook introduction and the first page of Amusing bits, and added some information over to the right hand side of this page. ➡
    • I’m a Mastermind Like just 9% of the population you are a MASTERMIND (SIAT). You can be silent and withdrawn, but behind your reserved exterior lies an active mind that allows you to analyze situations and come up with creative, unexpected solutions. Normal people call this 'scheming.' Don't learn German. ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 12 posts previously published on April 24th

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 358 Highline's Q Center (part of the college's LGBTQIA+ community) had their spring fashion event today ➡
  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Toronto van attack: The cop who didn’t shoot: “What held his finger? Bravery? Training? Compassion? Perhaps we will find out in the days ahead. But whatever it is, it deserves attention.” ➡
  • 2017
    • So I came home right as two loaves of homemade sourdough bread came out of the oven. It smells so good in here! ➡
  • 2016
    • I’m confused. From the point of view of a Democratic Party voter…what’s the point? Republicans will use it to allocate delegates, but we already had our caucuses to do that (for better or for worse); what is the purpose of the primary? ➡
    • Witness me! ;) The only downside to this shirt is that it wasn’t here in time for Norwescon. (115/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Since I still have #nwc37 on the brain, today’s #throwbackthursday #tbt shot is me and a U.S.S. Phoenix (Star Trek fan film) officer at #nwc32. ➡
  • 2007
    • Took me long enough… Of course, at this point, local movie aficionados will be giving me your basic (and well deserved), 'Well, _DUH!_' ;) I'd heard about Scarecrow for years, knew that it was supposed to be 'the' place to go locally for movies, but for some reason, just hadn't ever actually wandered in. ➡
  • 2004
    • Bottomless bathtubs I have no idea when or why, but at some point in my youth, my overactive imagination seized upon the idea that there was no actual support structure underneath the bathtub. I was terrified that at any point during a bath or shower, the caulking would give way, or the bottom of the tub would drop out, and I'd go plummeting into the depths of the earth. ➡
  • 2003

On This Day: Apr 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 23 posts previously published on April 23rd

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • Plague Puzzle Two We actually completed this one a couple weeks ago; I just forgot to post the photos until now. Friday Saturday Sunday Monday ➡
    • On This Day: Apr 23 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from April 23 ➡
  • 2018
    • Nice collection of renders of the DIS version of the Enterprise collected by TrekMovie. Gotta admit, I think this version of the ship is growing on me, and these artists’ work presenting it from different angles helps. ➡
    • As seen on Twitter via @TychoTithonus: #MyHandleExplained for djwudi. ➡
    • Experimenting with posting YouTube videos to micro.blog. Excellent show by Front 242 last night. So impressed that these guys are still going this strong, really glad I got a chance to see them. ➡
  • 2017
    • Book twenty-five of 2017: The Captain’s Daughter, by Peter David. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #StarTrek #tos ➡
  • 2016
    • The wind’s been ridiculous all day, so we decided to take a “do nothing” day. Prairie read and napped, I made progress on Norwescon photos. Now for a movie date night (watching Mr. Holmes). (114/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Failed my saving throw vs. con crud, and am actually taking a sick day, which I almost never do. Slept the morning away already. Ugh. Harrumph. Bleah. ➡
  • 2009
    • Dreamhost Does Good Ooooh. See those last few words? _That's_ nice to see. 'Unlimited disk and bandwidth, forever!' No worries about storing large files (not that I tend to do that), no worries about surcharges on the (very) off chance that I get Slashdotted or Dugg. Just keep paying my yearly bill, and I'm set. ➡
    • Archie vs. Pulp: Common People (Again) Apparently something has changed at UMG, and they've decided that graciously allowing fans to use bits of their artist's music in projects like this _isn't_ kosher, because this morning I got notice that my video was blocked worldwide. ➡
  • 2008
    • Dig  al T  evis on So, in the end, it's a mixed bag. It's great when it works, but when it doesn't work, it's a lot more frustrating than the 'old-n-busted' system ever was. ➡
  • 2007
    • Norwescon 30: Friday Finally -- all my shots from Friday of this year's Norwescon are processed and uploaded. There's a few random hall costumes to start off with, and shots from the Stardance towards the end. However, the majority of Friday's shots are from the Fannish Fetish Fashion Show. ➡
  • 2006
    • Potbellied Pig Monster While wandering around NSCC before class one morning last week, I took this picture of an interesting looking tree trunk. Once home, both Prairie and I saw a 'potbellied pig monster' in the contours of the trunk. ➡
  • 2004
    • TypePad IDs are TypeKey IDs! Apparently, anyone who uses TypePad to run their weblog auto-magically has a TypeKey login. Has this information been made public yet? ➡
  • 2003
    • Redesigning This is a starting point, not an end point. Some things may look goofy at the moment — my most humble apologies. Comments, as always, are welcome. ➡
    • Its / It's / Its' I think someday I want to start a software company called Its ➡
    • They're running out of excuses As Iraqi Shiite demands for a dominant role in Iraq's future mount, Bush administration officials say they underestimated the Shiites' organizational strength and are unprepared to prevent the rise of an anti-American, Islamic fundamentalist government in the country. ➡
    • The Trotts take over the world Now, my only question -- which Trott is Pinky, and which Trott is Brain? ➡
  • 2001
    • Fairbanks bound Well, I went and got a wild hair up my butt and decided to head up to Fairbanks for a weekend to goof off, visit my brother, and meet up with some friends. Should be fun...so, in about a month, I'll be heading north for some playtime...woohoo! ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 25 posts previously published on April 22nd

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    • Year 50 Day 356 It was a work from home day, and nothing of particular interest happened. ➡
  • 2023
    • 🎥 Cocaine Bear Exactly what it says it will be, exactly what you think it’s going to be, and exactly what we wanted for a lazy Saturday afternoon. ➡
  • 2020
    • On This Day: Apr 22 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from April 22 ➡
    • 📚 nineteen of 2020: The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1967 Hugo Best Novel Once again, Heinlein has strong and interesting SF (the moon declaring independence) coupled with politics I don’t entirely go for and serious issues with women and sexism. ➡
  • 2018
    • Unexpected sightings: an oil lamp sitting atop a gas pump. ➡
  • 2017
    • At the #marchforscience with a message from your friendly neighborhood t-rex. ➡
    • Before the Yakima #marchforscience in our matching Rogue NASA shirts! ➡
    • Prairie and I are prepping for this afternoon’s #marchforscience satellite march in Yakima. ➡
  • 2016
    • Springtime looked pretty nice on campus today. (113/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Oh dear. It seems con crud is trying to kick my butt. Drinking lots of cranberry juice and heading to bed early to try and knock it out quickly. ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for April 18th through April 22nd Sometime between April 18th and April 22nd, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Sports fans are _weird_! • When Worlds Collide: Spock Confronts the Ultimate Challenge • Talk Like Shakespeare Day • Doe v. Fortuny: Seattle's Jason Fortuny (aka RFJason) ordered to pay nearly $75,000 for Craigslist sex ad prank • It Was a Dark and Silly Night: Gahan Wilson Meets Neil Gaiman ➡
    • The Narcissism Epidemic Last I checked, most of our lives don't require all that attitude. Treating the whole world as if it works for you doesn't suggest you're special, it means you're an ass. ➡
    • Ranking the Star Trek Films After having spent much of the past few weeks working my way through the Star Trek film series, this is how I rank them, best to worst. Obviously, this is my personal ranking. Feel free to disagree. ➡
  • 2006
    • Political Protests in the Age of AOL OMG BUSH LRN 2 PREZ ➡
    • FBiPod? The government funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were the key ingredients for the development of the iPod. ➡
    • Storybook Forest What actually happened here was that I'd forgotten to switch my white balance away from a custom setting for indoors. However, I actually like the final effect -- the gold tones give this an old-timey, almost storybook look to my eye. ➡
  • 2005
    • Sex on Wheels Two funny photos I found on Flickr today. ➡
    • Friday Tribble Blogging It's such a nice day outside today that he decided to wander out to the fire escape to bask in the sunshine for a while. Sounds like a good idea to me -- I'd join, if I didn't have to head back to work after lunch! ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • Destinations It's not uncommon for me to stumble across something on the 'net that catches my eye, but that I don't create a full entry for. Sometimes I want to come back to it with a full entry later, other times it's just a 'ooh, neat!' moment. In order to track these, there is a new sidebar section called 'Destinations' — little one-line links. Sometimes I may come back to these for full posts, other times that may be all that appears. It's worth experimenting with for a bit, at least. ➡
    • Santorum If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. ➡
    • Mayday! Mayday! The other day at work, I was toying with the idea of doing a 'day in the life' series of photos. Taking my camera with me during the day, and snapping a shot every so often, then presenting them to the world. I hadn't decided quite how to do it — a picture an hour? Every half hour? — but I'd been letting it rumble around in the back of my brain since then. ➡
    • What did he say? I have never, that I can recall, heard the subject of a permanent base in Iraq, discussed in any meeting. The likelihood of it seems to me to be so low that it does not surprise me that it's never been discussed in my presence. To my knowledge. ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 17 posts previously published on April 21st

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 355 I’m afraid the print on this shirt is degrading to the point where soon it won’t be remotely legible. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
    • Seen (but not purchased) at the Kent Goodwill. Honestly, I considered them out of morbid curiosity, but then decided it really wouldn’t be worth it. #fumanchu #saxrohmer #racism #orientalism ➡
  • 2017
    • It’s a little sad to watch my #nwc40 tattoo wear away as the days go by. (Though I’ll admit to being impressed at its longevity. I haven’t been pointedly scrubbing at it, but I haven’t been avoiding it while in the shower, either. Not bad!) ➡
  • 2016
    • This week has had an unusually high amount of adulting in it. Just one day left! (112/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Got asked to help out at the book sale for an hour. Left with another stack. Imagine that! More SF, but also some nonfiction “history of SF”, one by Lester Del Rey, the other Frederik Pohl’s memoir. #moarbooks ➡
  • 2014
    • We got a new toy! Prairie and I have been concentrating more on our health since the beginning of the year. We’ve each been using our exercise bike daily, and after three months, decided to step things up a bit with a good elliptical machine. It’s a pretty nice early birthday present for me (us)! ➡
  • 2008
    • Britannica Webshare Sounds nice, and a welcome companion/competitor to Wikipedia. I've applied, now it's just a question of whether I've been regular enough as of late to get accepted. ;) ➡
  • 2005
    • Better Living Through Apathy As cynical as it may be, I think there just might be something to Davan's theory in today's Something Positive strip. ➡
    • MS backing down on gay rights? In a move that angered many of the company's gay employees, the Microsoft Corporation, publicly perceived as the vanguard institution of the new economy, has taken a major political stand in favor of age-old discrimination. ➡
    • April Seattle Weblogger’s Meetup I finally made it out to another Weblogger's meetup! It was long past time, as the last time I'd made it out was back in November. While I don't have much basis for comparison, it seemed to be a pretty good turnout again, 20-some people all told, I'd guess. ➡
  • 2004
    • Freedom! Only in Seattle would buying clothing involve standing in the middle of the store lobby, having a large bald man stand behind you and wrap his arms around your waist, and then assist you in dropping your trousers to your ankles. ➡
    • Neal Stephenson: Confusion I so need to get to the bookstore soon — Confusion, the second book in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle (which began with Quicksilver) is out. Salon has an interview with Stephenson and a review of Confusion up which both look good, though I don't have time to read them right now. Argh! :) ➡
  • 2003
  • 2002
    • Funniest man on the planet? I'm not entirely sure if Robin Williams is the funniest man on the planet or not, but after being able to see him live tonight -- it wouldn't surprise me! ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 24 posts previously published on April 20th

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  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Interesting: SmugMug has bought Flickr. Hopefully that means good things; I was a big fan of Flickr until Yahoo! bought it and let it stagnate, and SmugMug is where I ended up starting to set things up instead. Could be too little too late, but hopefully not. ➡
  • 2016
    • Selfies with a tiny world app are…entertainingly alien. Or, “does this app make my forehead look big?” (111/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Four old SF anthologies, a mid-70s printing of Clockwork Orange, a Star Trek novel, and a DVD collection of four Dracula films…all for $8. Gotta love campus book sales! ➡
    • 75 degrees, not a cloud in the sky, students stretched out under the willow trees by the Ganges. Gorgeous day! ➡
  • 2014
    • The Grammar Dalek and I are ready for the final day of #nwc37. :) ➡
  • 2006
    • Tulip Tulip cutout. ➡
    • Birthday Wishes Back in March of '03, I stumbled across a series of discs from Sony called the 'Soundtrack for a Century'. Over time I've collected eight out of the eleven pieces of the series, and any (or all) of these last three would be greatly appreciated. ➡
  • 2005
    • Heteroflexible One of the mailing lists I belong to (though I don't chime in terribly often) is that of the Utilikilts Yahoo! Group. For the past few days there's been an interesting discussion of sexuality. Over the course of the discussion, I just stumbled across a new term that I'd not heard before, but that I like a _lot_. ➡
    • Social Realist Some silly/fun astrology bits from #flickr tonight... ➡
  • 2004
    • Watch that apostrophe! There's a certain irony in a publication mis-using an apostrophe in an employment ad looking for an editor. ➡
    • Safer nuclear missiles Thank god for small favors — at least when Bush finally flips his lid and the nukes start flying, we won't be damaging our atmosphere… ➡
    • Donnie Darko coming back to Seattle! How incredibly cool — Donnie Darko, which disappeared from most theaters practically before it was released, has become such a cult favorite that its studio is going to be re-releasing it to theaters, starting right here in Seattle! ➡
    • Romeo + Juliet r0xx0Rz! Worth a few minutes of cheap amusement: Romeo and Juliet presented as 'L33T-speak'. Somewhat painful, but funny. ➡
  • 2003
    • TV Turnoff Week Apr. 21-27 I stopped watching TV roughly, oh, ten or twelve years or so, I think. Since then, the only times I've been around much TV has been when I've been over at someone elses house and they've happened to have it turned on. ➡
    • Blogchalking is back This is my blogchalk: United States, Washington, Seattle, English, Michael, Male, 26-30, Macintosh computers, movies, music, and other random bits. ➡
    • A visit from Miranda Had a very pleasant weekend — just staying at home and relaxing for most of it, but yesterday evening spent a good few hours visiting with Miranda, who had come out to visit. ➡
  • 2001
    • Stolen van! My parents had their van stolen Wednesday night. If anyone who sees this could keep their eyes open, and, if you're lucky enough to see it, give a call to the police, it would be greatly appreciated. ➡
    • In other words, I talk a lot My propensity for loquaciousness and paranthetical diatribes. ➡
    • About my tattoo This actually came about from an e-mail I was writing tonight, and I thought it was a bit too good to lose into the great bit bucket in the sky. ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 21 posts previously published on April 19th

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 353 Gave a presentation/workshop on basic document accessibility to the college's tutors today. ➡
  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • With Labyrinth getting mentioned a lot due to the upcoming theatrical event, I think it’s worth linking to this excellent fan theory about the story’s background. “…of course she’s Sarah. They were all Sarah.” ➡
    • I don’t knit, but I know I have knitters among my friends, and I think this would entertain them: SkyKnit: When knitters teamed up with a neural network. “This possibly marks one of the few times in history when a computer generated code to be executed by humans.” ➡
  • 2017
    • Linkdump for April 16th through April 19th An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between April 16th and April 19th. • The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black • Volunteers, Professionals, and Who Gets to Have Fun at Cons • Time to Fix the Missing Stair • seriously, the guy has a point • Westboro Wannabes Picket Norwescon ➡
  • 2016
    • We hit at least 85° today, and I still was good and exercised tonight. No energy left to do much except sit and stare at things. (110/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Up early again, and ready for day three of #nwc37! ➡
  • 2011
    • New Research Admittedly, this is just a bit of a fluff piece on a slow news day. But really. Since when is research almost two years old new? It may well be the most _current_ research on the subject, but new? That seems a bit of an overstatement. ➡
  • 2010
    • Links for April 14th through April 19th Sometime between April 14th and April 19th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • The Alot Is Better Than You at Everything • The 120 Minutes Archive - Playlists, Videos, and Interviews From MTV’S Classic Alternative Music Series • Christ, It Works for Everything • How Apple Designed the iPad Out in the Open • NOVA | The Pluto Files | Hate Mail From Third Graders ➡
  • 2008
  • 2006
    • Dandelion A dandelion and morning dew. ➡
    • 50 Best Book-to-Film Adaptations Working from the Guardian's list of the 50 best book-to-film adaptations, I'm tagging each line with a B if I've read the book, and an M if I've seen the movie. ➡
    • Me and My Shadow: The story of Jason Mewes I've been watching the pieces of this show up bit by bit, and since the last section went live today, here's a list of links to all the pieces so I can read straight through, beginning to end. ➡
    • Back in 1973… The Movie Timeline is the history of everything, taken from one simple premise: that everything you see in the movies is true - the real mixes with the fictitious, so long as it's reported in a movie somewhere... ➡
  • 2005
    • Pope Benedict XVI I've been browsing articles about the new Pope off and on all day...have to say, I'm a bit disappointed. They seem to have picked the most staunchly conservative of the candidates. ➡
  • 2004
    • Garage Sale: DVDs Okay, here's part two of my online garage sale: the majority of my DVD collection is going up for grabs. ➡
    • Garage Sale: Electronics Okay, so here's what's up for grabs. I'll keep this current for, oh, two weeks or so to see what I can get rid of this way, then hit the pawn shops with whatever's left over. ➡
  • 2003
    • Gay history The World History of Male Love is a fascinating look at male homosexuality through the ages and all over the world, looking at artwork, literature, regional history, and much more. Fascinating stuff. ➡
  • 2001
    • I wasn’t really down… Occasionally, however, my IP will change -- which is what happened today. I'm not sure why my IP suddenly reset today, there was no actual downtime that I'm aware of, and I would have expected it to change when my cable modem was actually disconnected a week ago, but it didn't. ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 25 posts previously published on April 18th

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 352 Got to spend some time tabling for the Access Services department today. ➡
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Linkdump for April 15th through April 18th An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between April 15th and April 18th. • Freshly Remember'd: Kirk Drift • Discovery Needs to Put Section 31 Down and Back Away Slowly • ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ USS Enterprise Design Change Clarified As Creative Decision, Not A Legal One • Woman Who Shared Philadelphia Starbucks Arrest Video Tells Her Story • Star Trek: Discovery's Version of the Enterprise Had to Be Modified for Legal Reasons ➡
    • This video is technologically fascinating, and sociologically terrifying. “It may sound basic, but how we move forward in an age of information is going to be the difference between whether we survive or we become some kind of fucked-up dystopia.” ➡
  • 2017
    • Norwescon 40 Wrap-Up So, that's a brief overview of my weekend. To all of you I got to see, I'm glad we crossed paths, however briefly, and I hope we get to do so again before too long (but if not, then at least next year at Norwescon 41). ➡
  • 2016
    • Today was a good day for reading in the park during lunch. (109/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Napped and ready for Friday night at #nwc37! ➡
    • Got my #emplannister Awkward Family Photo taken at #nwc37! @empmuseum ➡
    • Good morning #nwc37! Awake (mostly), showered (entirely), and ready to go! ➡
  • 2009
    • The End of Empathy What's the point of all this? Well, aside from the obvious conclusion of Jason's piece -- 'In summary, how we treat each other does matter. It matters because, without empathy, our lives are shallow, self-centered and meaningless.' -- I'm really not sure. I do believe, though, that this is a real problem. ➡
  • 2008
    • Music IQ You are a music evangelist: the person in your network of friends who always has the coolest new song, the one whose iPod gets picked to DJ every party. ➡
  • 2007
    • Edward Scissorhands in Seattle Anyone want a deal on tickets to the touring production of _Edward Scissorhands_, the 'magical new stage adaption of the classic Tim Burton film' presented as a 'musical 'play without words'' (which I must admit, sounds a _lot_ like something called 'ballet' to me, but who am I to question these things)? ➡
  • 2006
    • Northgate Carnival There's a little carnival in the parking lot south of the Northgate Mall right now. Not sure why it's there, but we went down to wander around for a few minutes a couple days ago. ➡
  • 2005
    • Pop! There's a sound effect in the song I'm listening to right now that sounds nearly _exactly_ like the 'pop' noise iChat makes when I get a new message from someone I'm not currently in a conversation with and a new window pops on screen. ➡
    • Flickr Goodies Back when it was formally announced that Flickr was being bought by Yahoo!, they mentioned that those of us who'd already paid for Pro accounts would be getting super mega bonuses as a reward. Word finally came out today on just what those bonuses are... ➡
  • 2004
    • Photos: Arboretum, International Fountain I've just uploaded two small photo albums to my section of the family photo gallery with some of the better shots from my first weekend playing with the camera that Rick lent me: eleven shots of children playing in the Seattle Center's International Fountain, and thirteen shots from wandering around the Seattle Arboretum. Enjoy! ➡
  • 2003
    • Honda Accord ad This new ad for the Honda Accord (QuickTime required) is a definite must-see. It's just grabbed a spot as my third-favorite commercial of all time. ➡
    • Meme proposal: YAAMR A proposal for the 'net community at large, and for Microsoft, in an effort to make complaints about/criticisms of Microsoft and its software easier to collect and analyze, with the intent of letting any concerned party at Microsoft sift through them at will for subjects relevant to their area of expertise. ➡
    • But what about the little guy? The fundamental problem itself is still unsolved — Windows is often a royal pain in the ass to deal with. Most of us have to deal with it on our own, though, and common experiences like Scott's are going to keep happening, and Microsoft is going to continue to be perceived by many people as a lumbering, unstoppable behemoth of a company that can't actually write decent software, but doesn't seem to care because they've got such a lockhold on the industry. ➡
    • Propaganda at its finest How heroic is it, really, when US forces storm into an unguarded hospital, terrorize the staff and patients, and handcuff four doctors and two patients — one of whom was paralyzed and on an IV drip — before leaving with Private Lynch? ➡
  • 2002
    • I wanna go! This may surprise some of my friends, as I'm not generally known as much of a country listener (you can thank/blame [depeding on your preference] many of the women in my life for that little quirk), but there's a show at the Gorge that I really wish I could afford. ➡
  • 2001
    • By the way… But then, this is Alaska, and the music scene up here is really easy to compartmentalize. For grins and giggles, I'll do just that. ➡
  • 1996
    • [From the archives: 4.18.96 1419] Last night (well, actually a week or two ago, but I just investigated it last night) one of the Woodys told me about the Made with Macintosh campaign promoting websights using Macintosh compters in their design, so I joined the campaign and added the logo to the bottom of my main page. ➡
    • [From the archives: 4.18.96 0249] Okay. Back into the swing of things. My apologies to any Woody's who have send me stuff and nothing came of it...I'm finally up to date on every entry for the Web Wide Woodys page. Nothing else changed yet...but I'll get there. ➡