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On This Day: Apr 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 April 17th

  • 2024
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Book sixteen of 2018: The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
    • Book fifteen of 2018: Into the Drowning Deep, by Mira Grant. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2017
    • That’s me in my T-Rex suit at the Saturday night #nwc40 dance! #Repost @shainahmaydela with @repostapp ・・・ Who says dinosaurs can’t dance? #trex #norwescon40 #youcandance ➡
  • 2016
    • I seem to have run out of weekend again. I’m not sure how this keeps happening. I must remember to order more next time. (108/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Official duties done, I’m off to socialize! #nwc37 ➡
    • Up, dressed, packed, and not long from hitting the road. #nwc37, I’m on my way! ➡
  • 2009
    • Norwescon 32 Wrapup It took roughly a week to get here, but really, I don't figure that's too bad, given my usual photowhoreish ways. Just a few minutes ago, the last of my shots from Norwescon made it up to Flickr. ➡
    • CSI Gets Geeky I don't often talk much about my TV watching, but one of the shows that Prairie's managed to get me into is CSI, and last night's episode, 'A Space Oddity,' was _so_ worth it. Bottom line: great episode, and worth watching if you're a fan of CSI, Trek, BSG, or any combination of the above. ➡
  • 2007
  • 2006
    • Norwescon 29 Photo Extravaganza Well, not only did I survive my first Norwescon, but I did it camera in hand. And, since I'm a complete and total photo whore, there's a few pictures to be seen. ➡
  • 2005
    • Neri di Bicci, ‘Virgin and Child With Six Saints’ As it turns out, we'd stumbled into the celebrations surrounding the return of a 15th century altar painting by Renaissance artist Neri di Bicci to St. James Cathedral after restoration work. This peaked our interest, so we followed along up to the cathedral to watch the pageant and blessing service. ➡
  • 2004
    • Emptying out the apartment Consider this advance notice for anyone in the Seattle area that reads this site: within the next week, I'm probably going to be putting up a lot of goodies for sale. I just need to do a little bit of research to figure out good asking prices before I put up a firm list. ➡
  • 2003
    • Long day Quick bits, because I'm too worn out to bother with anything more in-depth. ➡
  • 2002
    • Supreme court does good The radio at work was trained to The Buzz, a local talk-radio station, and I heard a good talk show tonight that carried with it some extremely good news -- apparently the Supreme Court today upheld a ruling declaring the 1996 Child Pornography Protection Act unconstitutional. ➡
    • That’s icky Rather than car, credit, or casino ads, I'm currently getting a banner that starts with a picture of the American flag. The next frame says, 'Own a piece of history...', and the third frame offers, 'Own a plaque made with the metal from the World Trade Center'. It then closes with, 'WE WILL NEVER FORGET'. ➡
  • 2001
    • Reunions…ugh In just about two weeks, I hit my 28th birthday, and just a couple months after that, the Bartlett High School Class of '91 has its 10-year anniversary here in town. I'm really not sure what I think of this. ➡
    • I can think of a few ‘small and cute’ things… If they're small and they're cute, you don't really notice that they're dead. ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 April 16th

  • 2024
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • If being an inflatable T-Rex isn’t your thing, perhaps you’d prefer being an inflatable velociraptor, triceratops, or pterodactyl? ➡
    • Aw, bummer. Harry Anderson — Night Court‘s Judge Harold T. “Harry” Stone — has died. Night Court was one of the formative sitcoms of my youth. ➡
  • 2017
    • I got an Easter present from Prairie! ➡
    • Shirt eight for #nwc40: social justice war boy! ➡
  • 2016
    • Trying out a new (to us) Mediterranean place. Looks cute and smells really good. Optimistic! (107/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • First day this spring both warm and dry enough to sit out in the sun at a local park for lunch. Very nice! ➡
  • 2014
    • Off work and officially on vacation! Still on campus, though, for another evening meeting. Long days are long! ➡
  • 2009
  • 2008
    • 2:42 Joshua Allen (aka Fireland) uses Science! to determine the perfect song length: two minutes and forty-two seconds. ➡
  • 2005
    • Acapella Nintendo It's not often I find something that appeals equally to two such disparate sides of my childhood, but this video of University of Wisconsin acapella group Redefined singing Nintendo theme songs manages to pull it off...and quite well, at that. ➡
    • Nine Inch Nails releases single for GarageBand Oh, _wow_ but this is cool. Trent Reznor has released NIN's new single, 'The Hand that Feeds', as a 70Mb GarageBand file. ➡
  • 2004
    • Alexa website reviews I didn't notice this last night when I was poking around with Amazon's A9 search engine, but Amazon has tied the search results into their Alexa website ranking tool with a little 'Site Info' button at the tail end of search result. ➡
  • 2003
    • A sci-fi museum? Cool! Paul Allen, the Microsoft Corp. co-founder and eclectic billionaire philanthropist, is expected to announce today his plans to build a Seattle facility to celebrate science-fiction literature in the same way his Experience Music Project honors popular music. ➡
    • We lost the war An excellent editorial from truthout that covers the same points (plus many more) that I brought up while responding to a recent comment. They do it far better and far more in depth than I do, though. ➡
    • Tim Robbins probably says good stuff According to the Daily Kos, Tim Robbins gave a good speech to the National Press Club. The excerpt they have is good. ➡
    • Syria's political brilliance So picture this — the US vetoing a resolution calling for the banning of all WMDs from the Middle East. In one fell swoop, Syria has negated the charges of WMDs against it, exposed the US's hypocrisy on WMDs (our allies can have them, everyone else can't), solidified its leadership of the Arab world, and forced the US to veto a seemingly common sense resolution, after blasting France and Russia for threatening vetoes on Iraq. ➡
    • Penis! This made me laugh — The Penis Blog Project. Needless to say, this is NSFW (Not Safe For Work), and an open mind and good sense of humor is encouraged. ➡
    • Memories of Meier Lake Summertime in Alaska. One of the few things that I miss about living up there. Not enough to move back — but I do miss it. ➡
    • No more 404's I just implemented a very nice little PHP script for my website that ties into my site search function — the end result being that my site no longer has a '404 File Not Found' error page! ➡
  • 2002
    • Hello from Microsoft! This is mostly just me being silly -- I wanted to grab a chance to make a post to my blog from within the Microsoft domain. ➡
  • 2001
    • Redesign in progress In case you hadn't already noticed by the dramatic change in the look of the site, I'm in the process of redesigning. No real reason, other than that I thought it was time for a change -- I do this every so often. ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 24 posts previously published on April 15th

  • 2024
  • 2020
    • LEGO Is Making 13,000 Visors a Day for Medical Workers, and say they could ramp up to 58,000 a day. Neat! ➡
    • On This Day: Apr 15 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from April 15 ➡
  • 2018
    • Excellent: Not only is Dick’s Sporting Goods no longer selling assault-style weapons, but rather than returning their unsold inventory, they’re destroying and recycling it. ➡
    • Linkdump for April 12th through April 15th An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between April 12th and April 15th. • GrayKey iPhone unlocker poses serious security concerns • While TOS is my home fandom, I'm of the belief that as a whole, DS9 is the best of the various Star Trek series • A short history ~700 years of "they" as an English gender-neutral singular pronoun • poor people deserve things they want, too • Charities/organisations to avoid (with links to reasons) ➡
  • 2017
    • Shirt seven for #nwc40: not really, but it’s always good for a laugh on Saturday night (and yes, Prairie knows, laughs, and thank goodness she gets my sense of humor)! ➡
    • Shirt six for #nwc40: gothtrolling. ;) ➡
  • 2016
    • Belly full of dinner, kicked back in a hotel bed rolling our eyes at the giant sinkhole in the first episode of season eight of Grey’s Anatomy. This show just keeps getting sillier. (106/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Well, crud. Forgot my daily photo yesterday; almost forgot tonight. That’s only the second day I’ve missed, though. Not that bad after three and a half months, really. ➡
    • Oh, dear. There appears to have been a noodle-related incident. We shall not speak of this again. Also, I should not be allowed in the kitchen. ➡
  • 2011
    • Almost Time for Norwescon! Once again, it's about time for my annual mini-vacation at Norwescon. This is my second year as part of the ConCom (Convention Committee -- those of us who are crazy enough to volunteer to assist with planning and running the con), and I've really been enjoying it. ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for April 8th through April 15th Sometime between April 8th and April 15th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Roger Ebert: Parrot asks, "What'd the frozen turkey want?" • Philnelson's Diggbarred • Jam Out With Your Clam Out • Uncomfortable Plot Summaries • How to Block the DiggBar • Truly Groundbreaking Marketing Research: Understanding Twitter • Penmachine: Yes, Master • Now on YouTube: First Moving Image Ever Made ➡
  • 2008
    • What’s your song? Go here, plug in your birthday, and it'll give you the #1 Billboard song for the day you were born. ➡
  • 2006
    • Off at Norwescon I'm spending the weekend at Norwescon, so I've _already_ missed my one-photo-a-day posting goal. Heh. No big surprise. Here's one from yesterday at the con, though... ➡
  • 2005
    • Friday cat Tribble blogging! 'Friday Cat Blogging' is a well-known, oft-derided, but much loved cliché in the weblogging community. I may not have a cat...but I do have a Tribble! ➡
  • 2004
    • Family coming closer Rock on — according to Dad, Kevin and Emily will be moving to Oregon in a bit, so that Emily can attend Oregon State University in Corvalis. My bro will be in fairly easy visiting distance again! ➡
    • Speak English, George! I'm so glad I didn't bother trying to watch Bush's national address the other night on television. I would have been so busy cringing at his first sentence — 'This has been tough weeks in that country.' — to even pay attention to the amazing hypnotic tie. ➡
    • Amazon’s A9 Interesting: Amazon just launched A9, a Google-based search engine, choosing to break the news via John Batelle's blog. ➡
    • Proof! Ryan found this using the LiveJournal Images script I linked to the other day…I think it's brilliant. ;) ➡
    • Ecto for Windows Earlier this week, Alex, Adrian Tjissling, and Joi Ito jointly announced that they have joined forces, and TypeWriter has now become Ecto for Windows. ➡
  • 2003
    • Pigface/My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult Just got back home from seeing Bile, Zeromancer, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and (last, but most definitely not least) Pigface at the Catwalk. Awesome show. ➡
    • US priorities in Iraq Iraqi buildings that have been looted, burned, and destroyed: the Ministry of Planning, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Irrigation, the Ministry of Trade, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Information, the Baghdad Archaeological Museum, the museum in the northern city of Mosul, and three hospitals. ➡
    • Philodemus Most of the scrolls uncovered so far have been written by first-century philosopher and poet Philodemus, leading to conjecture that the owner of the villa where the scrolls were found may have been trying to save Philodemus' work specifically — but there may be far more in the as-yet unearthed sections of the ruins. ➡
  • 2001
    • Mars and More Made it through Mission to Mars relatively unscathed, aside from the fact that it was a fairly amazingly hideous movie. I think if it had tried any harder to be 2001, it would have been truly laughable...as it is, it's just kinda sad. ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 24 posts previously published on April 14th

  • 2024
  • 2021
    • 📚 16/2021: The Ringworld Throne by Larry Niven ⭐️⭐️ After the excellent first Ringworld book and a good sequel, this third entry takes a sudden detour into drudge and mediocrity. Boring sludge—large portions are essentially people describing what they see on monitors. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • The Transformers version of this Valkyrie mech was one of the coolest toys I ever had. I will always be disappointed that it disappeared at some point and I don’t have it anymore. ➡
    • I’m in a Fred Meyer in Vancouver (WA), and they’re playing “Walk Away” by The Sisters of Mercy on the musak system. I’m simultaneously amused and appalled. ➡
    • Family visits mean we aren’t marching today, but we’re with the #marchforscience in spirit! ➡
  • 2017
    • Shirt five for #nwc40: Well, it’s true! ➡
    • Shirt four for #nwc40: @sweartrek #StarTrek blue shirt. ➡
    • Shirt three for #nwc40: Lego skull. ➡
  • 2016
    • Almost forgot my photo today. Goodnight, kids! (105/366) ➡
  • 2009
    • Who’s Defining ‘X-Rated’ Here? Sorry, AP, but there's more than a little bit of hyperbole there. Almost having a bit of accidental boobage is PG, maybe PG-13 if her top actually _had_ fallen off (and even _that_ used to be a good solid PG). 'Nearly X-rated' would be something very, very different. ➡
  • 2006
    • Googling a Dead Horse There's a certain irony in Google's new Google Calendar supporting the iCal standard for calendar sharing and distribution when -- as usual -- they don't yet support the standard Mac web browser. ➡
    • Pretty in Pink Slight soft-focus pink flowers. ➡
  • 2005
    • The next logical step First, the good news (and, for once, this _is_ good news): federal legislation is being introduced that will protect a woman's ability to get birth control. ➡
    • I hope I don’t regret this… If you're as much of a glutton for punishment as I obviously am, get your Star Wars Episode III tickets here. I'll be at the 10:30pm show at the Cinerama on Thursday, May 19th. ➡
    • Until death (or homophobia) do you part Well, I can't say I'm _surprised_, but I'm certainly disappointed that Oregon has nullified the same-sex marriages performed last year. It's frustrating enough to see it happen from the standpoint of someone's who's _very_ much in favor of _true_ equal rights for all -- but even more so when this decision affects a friend of mine. ➡
  • 2004
    • Camera! I've got a camera! Iit's a loaner, not my own, but what a loaner — an Olympus C-2500L 2.5 megapixel DSLR. ➡
    • Online crack Hey Alan -- you thought this game was bad? Wait 'til you start this one...;) ➡
    • Not again I really, really really hate the fact that electronic banking transactions can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few days to post to a bank account. ➡
  • 2003
    • All about love Yesterday I kissed a girl in a private place...we were behind a tree. ➡
    • From Berkeley to the Matrix Wired mentions that much of the inspiration and technology for the more eye-catching special effects in the Matrix films were drawn from a project called The Campanile Movie, which is fascinating in its own right. ➡
    • Nekkid Here's a really interesting Flash presentation about being naked — sixteen volunteers photographed in various states of undress, with audio clips of interviews discussing various views on nudity, comfort and discomfort, and similar things. ➡
    • No Safari timeout Annoyed by Safari constantly giving up on pages that won't completely load in less than a minute? SafariNoTimeout to the rescue. Now that I've posted this, maybe I'll remember to download it when I get home… ➡
    • Disgusted and depressed Every morning I get up, and every evening when I get home, I pop open my newsreader to browse through the day's news and headlines. And every time, I find more and more that disgusts me, outrages me, and quite simply, makes me want to go back to playing ostrich and pretending that the world outside my own private little bubble doesn't exist. ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 23 posts previously published on April 13th

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • Norwescan’t Wrap-Up Under normal circumstances, I would have spent this past weekend at Norwescon. Of course, these are not normal circumstances. Here's what happened instead. ➡
    • On This Day: Apr 13 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from April 13 ➡
  • 2018
    • I’ve joked about this for years, and am really excited that it will soon be a real thing: Contact Lenses That Darken in Sunlight Are Going to Give You Some Creepy Alien Eyes. ➡
  • 2017
    • Shirt two for #nwc40: a clever take on lowbrow humor. ➡
    • Got my #nwc40 tattoo! (Temporary.) I’m stupidly happy about this; it started with a silly offhand comment at a meeting and then I found a good source for us to use. My mad schemes came through! 😁 ➡
    • Shirt one for #nwc40: #StarTrek/#StarWars logo mashup. Here we go! ➡
  • 2016
    • Have I mentioned just how much I enjoy this daily exercise routine? (104/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Lazed around the house for most of the day and forgot my daily picture until now, so this oddity is what you get. I don’t really know…. ➡
  • 2009
    • This Will Disappoint Mom… I'm not _quite_ in to full-on 'DANGER skullet' territory, but I'm close, and with the added impetus of putting employment before vanity, it's probably only a matter of days or weeks (at the outside) before the curls go away. ➡
  • 2005
    • George Carlin: Airline Announcements By the way, that little George Carlin moment in my previous post comes from one of my favorite of his routines from his 'Jammin' in New York' album, where he skewers the convoluted and bizarre language used by the airline industry. ➡
    • Trains. Trains are good. One thing I have to say I _really_ like about living in Seattle -- it's part of the Lower 48. I've got fifty states I can get to within a few days without _ever_ having to set foot on an airplane (49, if I make the time to drive the Al-Can). ➡
    • Rush Job Because, apparently, no teenager ever hit upon the idea of getting or giving a blowjob until Clinton introduced the idea to the world. ➡
    • Google Video PC only (for now?) This really shouldn't surprise me, but Google's just-announced video hosting service has continued their tradition of being Mac-unfriendly at launch. (UPDATE: A Mac uploader is available as of 5/18/05.) ➡
    • Bloggers in my neighborhood Here's an interesting little web toy: feedmap.net. Give it your weblog address and (if necessary) physical address, and it returns a map of other weblogs close to you in the real world. ➡
  • 2004
    • National ID not a good idea One of the many ideas being bandied about in the post-9/11 era has been that of a single national ID card, to replace the various forms of ID we carry around now (state IDs or driver's licenses, military IDs, company ID badges, etc.). Bruce Schneier points out that this might not be a good idea… ➡
    • LiveJournal voyeurism Entirely random and surprisingly addicting: LiveJournal Images, a page which displays the last 40 images posted to LiveJournal weblogs. So many pictures get posted so quickly that you can get an entirely new set every few seconds. Lots of kittens, anonymous people, celebrities, random wierdness, and the occasional NSFW image (be warned, just in case). ➡
  • 2003
    • Which claims panned out? Anger Managment Course's rundown of claims made by the pro- and anti-war camps prior to hostilities, and how they seem to be panning out so far. ➡
    • President for life? House Joint Resolution 11: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. ➡
  • 2002
    • Blade II Candice and I went out to see Blade II this afternoon. Candice didn't think to highly of it, and while I can't really refute her impressions, I had a lot of fun with it. ➡
  • 2001

On This Day: Apr 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 27 posts previously published on April 12th

  • 2024
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Hey friends (and interested acquaintances)! Do you have a blog (or more than one)? Do you have an online presence outside of the Facebook/Twitter social media ecosystem? Tell me about it and where to find you! Help me rediscover the web outside of Facebook! ➡
    • Linkdump for February 27th through April 12th An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between February 27th and April 12th. • poor people deserve things they want, too. • Charities/organisations to avoid (with links to reasons) • 'The Simpsons' To 'The Problem With Apu': Drop Dead • Molly Ringwald Revisits “The Breakfast Club” in the Age of #MeToo • Gun injuries go down by 20% during NRA conventions • If You Want To Be An Effective Ally, Be Quiet And Know Your Place ➡
    • Another attempt at revitalizing my blogging I’m not leaving social media, but I am going to be making a concerted effort to try to come back to making my blog the primary canonical source of my content. These are the tools and services I’m using to keep an active social media presence. ➡
    • This is a brief test to make sure I didn’t just break things with my WordPress/micro.blog integration. ➡
    • I’d been considering it for a while, but comments are now disabled for my blog. Between my low post volume and the low signal to noise ratio, it just wasn’t worth it anymore. #f ➡
  • 2017
    • I have my #nwc40 badge! I’m officially here! ➡
  • 2016
    • Book sixteen of 2016: Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter, by Isaac Asimov. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (103/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Live music by the Ellensburg Big Band. Much fun! ➡
    • All set to be photographer for tonight’s CWU Library Gala fundraiser. ➡
    • More spring blossoms; this time, the cherry tree in our front yard. :) ➡
  • 2007
    • We’re so retro! Sean Flanagan, a graphic designer working on an ad campaign for the upcoming SIA08 (SnowSports Industries America) conference, contacted me ask permission to use an old family photo of ours for one of the ads. ➡
  • 2006
    • Misty Morning Shooting in the wetlands around NSCC that make up part of the Thornton Creek Watershed. ➡
  • 2005
    • Kirsten’s here! Over the past few days, I've had the pleasure of playing host to Kirsten, as she spends a couple days in Seattle in the midst of her vacation. Hooray for visits from friends. :) ➡
  • 2004
    • Solutions for MP3Concept Another thing I like about the Mac community — there are a lot of very intelligent and creative people in it. Scant days after the proof-of-concept MP3Concept 'trojan' caused such a brouhaha in the Mac community, various approaches to dealing with the potential vulnerability are appearing. MacFixIt highlighted two very interesting techniques today. ➡
    • Bunnyrabbits, satan, cheese and milk I've just stumbled across a wonderful little combination of technology, found audio, and music — Stark Effect's 'mic in track'. ➡
    • You break it, you buy it I just broke my store. ➡
    • Bush: ‘…the PDB was no indication of a terrorist threat.’ What? I challenge anyone to explain to me how this isn't just flat-out idiotic. From a press conference with President Bush yesterday: ➡
    • Good for you, Janet Given how incredibly silly all the controversy was, I think it's great that Janet is spoofing her 'wardrobe malfunction' — and doing it in character as Condi Rice, no less! ➡
  • 2003
    • Priceless historic treasures looted The world's first written words may have been lost forever. After surviving for more than 5,000 years, distinctive clay tablets that are recognised as the root of all mankind's written communication have either been destroyed or stolen in yesterday's looting of the Iraqi national museum. ➡
    • I hope that something better comes along SCENE: Evening in a bar. Our HERO walks into the the bar, pausing by the piano as the bar's PIANIST plays an opening riff. The PIANIST looks up and greets our HERO as he plays lightly on the keyboard. ➡
    • Ghosts, goblins, and Things That Go Bump in the Night There's something of a mini-meme regarding obsessions, superstitions, the occult, and all things that go bump in the night running around right now — see the links to the right to visit the three lovely ladies that got this whole thing started. ➡
  • 2002
    • The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien It really is as good as people say it is. Not that I ever really doubted that, however, it's far different to have so many people hold it up as a masterpiece of fantasy, and to be able to actually form that opinion for yourself. ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 20 posts previously published on April 11th

  • 2024
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • 🖖 #StarTrekDiscovery S02E13 So many questions; quite glad there’s still one more episode. Enjoying the Short Treks tie-ins (maybe even Calypso?). But…wow. The Enterprise bridge! That was an incredible modernization that still obviously respected the original. I was blown away. ➡
  • 2018
    • In an ideal universe, my personal aesthetic would be a blend of ‘80s goth (as can be seen in the photos posted to the NOWTHISISGOTHIC or Trad Goths blogs) and ‘70s sci-fi artwork (particularly the styles of John Berkey, Vincent di Fate, John Harris, and similar artists). #f ➡
    • Just about three weeks away from turning 45. Since my mental image of myself is still in my 20s, celebration plans include going out to a goth club and getting a new tattoo (not simultaneously). I’m getting older, but not old. #f ➡
    • More testing: Posting to Eclecticism on WordPress using the micro.blog iOS app. ➡
    • Another micro.blog test. Creating a title-less “aside” format post on eclecticism that should show up on my micro.blog and my Twitter. Also making sure that IFTTT will still pick up the #f hashtag for selective Facebook cross-posting. ➡
  • 2017
    • Book twenty-four of 2017: The Worst Werewolf, by Jacqueline Rohrbach. 🌟🌟🌟 ➡
  • 2016
    • Took this #StarTrekEMP shot with an old friend at the @empmuseum table at #nwc39, and totally forgot to post it then, so this is today’s shot. 🖖 #llap (102/366) ➡
    • What do I want to do when I grow up? I'm looking, and trying to figure out how to sell myself with the combination of degree and volunteer experience to get into a career very different from where my actual paid job experience sits. Not easy to do. ➡
  • 2014
    • Took a walk around the block earlier today. Gorgeous day, but crazy windy. Almost lost my hat a couple times! ➡
  • 2007
  • 2006
    • Mystery Flower Since I'm not babbling much at the moment, I figure I can at least (try to) post a picture a night before I go to bed. We'll see how long I manage to do this regularly. ;) ➡
  • 2005
    • But it’s funny because they’re gay! For the past three weeks, I've been using bittorrent to watch Grey's Anatomy. So far, it's struck me as fairly average-but-watchable television -- nothing groundbreaking or award winning, but not horrid. One thing about this week's episode really bothered me, though. ➡
    • It’s illegal to photograph Seattle bus stations? Looks like another Seattle-area shutterbug has run into more bogus 'no photography' harassment from heavy-handed officials. This time, Alex Williams had his digital film card confiscated after taking pictures at the Pioneer Square bus station. ➡
  • 2004
    • Happy Bunny Day (This is random…) You may just have to bear with me here. I'm at work today (boo — filling in for a co-worker who made plans for the day when we thought we'd be closed for Easter), stuck in a store with no customers and no work, looking out through the windows at the sun. ➡
  • 2003
    • The only way out is in In an effort to kick-start my brain back into gear, I think before I go to bed tonight, I'm going to have to watch something that actually has decent plot, interesting characters, and — most importantly — some semblance of scientific crediblity. ➡
    • Quote of the day If a vocal minority of colonists had protested the Revolution the way these disingenuous appeasers do today, we'd all be speaking English. ➡
  • 2002
    • Fire next door! Well, here's some early morning excitement. Apparently the apartment building next door to me is on fire. Sirens got my attention, and I just counted 6 fire engines, 2 Fire Dept. blazers, a FD van, and an ambulance all around here right now. ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 19 posts previously published on April 10th

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2017
    • Linkdump for April 8th through April 10th An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between April 8th and April 10th. • Weeping Angels and everything that sucks about Steven Moffat • Stylistic Differences in Traditional [Vulcan] Calligraphy • Hubble Contacts • IPA Phonetic Transcription of English Text • Y’all, You’uns, Yinz, Youse: How Regional Dialects Are Fixing Standard English ➡
  • 2016
    • Seems it was spa night at our house. Sparkly purple for Prairie, black for me. :) ➡
    • Weekends really need to be longer than two days. Let’s get that fixed, okay? (101/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • At Gig’s in ’97 or so. Probably around Halloween, as I didn’t do the full Goth whiteface and makeup very often. :) #throwbackthursday ➡
  • 2006
  • 2005
    • First Christian Church demolition I mentioned yesterday that the First Christian Church on Broadway was in the midst of being demolished. While wandering around today I stopped by the site, got some video of the work being done, and found out a little bit more about why the building's coming down. ➡
    • Interference When the lines on your screen / Make more lines in between / That's a moiré! ➡
    • Guess what? You’re not normal. Not a bad day at all today. Woke up at about 8am, looked outside, and realized that we were in for a gorgeous spring day -- mostly clear skies, bright sun, and just a hint of breeze. Perfect for going out wandering...so wander I did. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • What she said I can't say it better than Shelley did, so I won't try. Just go and read. ➡
    • To Tim Robbins, re: Bob Roberts The following letter was sent to Tim Robbins via his agent. I have no real idea if he will recieve it, or whether he will answer. No matter the outcome, I'm preserving the letter here. ➡
    • Stalker songs For no particular reason whatsoever, a list of 'stalker songs.' More when I can think of them. ➡
    • Questions regarding Saddam's statue Some questions regarding the widely publicised images of Saddam's statue getting toppled. This is more information that resides in that netherland of suspicion, rumor, and possible conspiracy theories, so keep that in mind. ➡
  • 2002
    • Site statistics are back It took a while, and I had to reset my server logs to do it, but the site statistics page is live again. Getting it running was a bit of an adventure, that's for sure. ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 30 posts previously published on April 9th

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 343 Hanging out at Green River College for most of the week for the spring DSSC and WAPED conferences. ➡
  • 2021
    • Quotebacks – Quote the web: “Quotebacks makes it easy to reference content and create dialogue with other sites by turning snippets of text into elegant, self-contained blockquote components.” ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Book thirty of 2019: Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues, by Diana Rowland. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚 Upping the stakes with conspiracies, some zombie virus science and military experiments, and a little undead romance. Definitely as enjoyable as the first in the series. ➡
  • 2017
    • Chucks of the day (53/53): grey with neon green lacing and inner lining, navy blue outside around the padded ankle, and a fold-down piece around the ankle with the Converse logo in green. These amused us, they’re almost Converse moon boots. :) #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2016
    • Took a nice walk this morning, and the Yakima River is running really high. That water behind us is normally part of the trail, but it’s currently flooded. (100/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Our apricot tree is starting to bloom! ➡
    • Another evening staying late on campus for a meeting. Always a joyful thing. ➡
  • 2009
    • Norwescon 32: My (Preliminary) Schedule While I'm not at all happy to be unemployed, I have to admit that it does make some things pretty convenient. This weekend, it means that for the first time, I'll be hitting _three_ days of Norwescon, adding a few hours today (Thursday) to my usual Friday/Saturday run. ➡
  • 2008
    • Lunchtime Flickr has video now! This is a silly little meme that's going around called Fridgets: short little videos with the camera inside the fridge. ➡
  • 2005
    • I need to follow up on this… Mostly, I'm tossing this up here to remind myself to do something about it, and _soon_... (Tracking down Poems for Laila albums from Germany). ➡
    • Voting at 16 in WA’s future? All stereotypes aside, not _all_ teenagers are solely interested in video games and bad music. Some of them are interested in video games, bad music -- and voting. Here in Washington, the local chapter of the NYRA is working on lowering the state's voting age to 16. ➡
    • Conventions…or the lack thereof I just found out about Cascadia Con, what looks to be a _major_ Science Fiction convention taking place here in Seattle later this year. The downside is that the convention is scheduled for the first four days in September, right when Prairie and I are planning to be busy moving into our new apartment. ➡
    • My most popular Flickr photos My most popular Flickr photos by number of views, number of favorites, and number of comments. ➡
  • 2004
    • Congratulations Dan Savage and Amy Jenniges! About a month ago, Dan Savage wrote a column for The Stranger explaining just how he, a gay man, was able to get a legal marriage license in the city of Seattle. It was pretty simple, actually. He applied for, and was granted, a license to marry his lesbian friend. ➡
    • Racism and broadband…what? There's a certain almost surreal incongruency in the combination of banner ads promoting wireless networking and DSL-based broadband and the blatant racism plastered across the top of Sonnet Networking's website. ➡
    • Very Good Friday I just wish I'd known about Very Good Friday earlier — I've only got two hours! ➡
    • Moving the library For someone who whines and complains every time I switch apartments, I'm fascinated by what it must take to move the Seattle Central Library to its new building. ➡
  • 2003
    • Could this be true? Is it possible? Well, of course it's possible. The question is whether it's an actual probability, or if it's just a well thought out conspiracy theory. Either way, we're not really likely to know unless someone high enough in the heirarchy turns whistleblower (not a very likely option). ➡
    • Pax Americana Sometimes I think the only thing really standing in the way of a truly Orwellian society is our ability to find other sources of news and information via the Internet and form our own opinions. If all I got was the official propaganda, I'd probably be fairly satisfied with the world right now. Heh. ➡
    • Water for the worthy A chaplain from Houston assigned to the Army V Corps support unit in Iraq is now the focus of an Army inquiry for his practice of offering soldiers a dip into his 500-gallon pool if they agree to be baptized. ➡
    • I've found religion! The Lord is my coder; I shall not crash. He maketh me to use Mac OS X; he leadeth me beside BSD and Linux. ➡
    • We're not done yet, folks Okay — so everyone on the 'net is linking to the pictures of Saddam's statue in the middle of Baghdad getting yanked down by Iraqi citizens, helped by U.S. Marines. Yes, it's wonderful. It's a high point for the campaign. Many Iraqis are thrilled. But this isn't the end. ➡
    • Springtime storms Spring has definitely hit Seattle. The past two days have been really warm, and today the clouds that we've been living under for the past few weeks finally broke, letting sunshine flood the world again. ➡
    • The fourth horseman A particularly ominous political cartoon. ➡
    • Theft is for the birds! The problem started when the new owner complained to Bill that he was losing significant amounts of money from his coin machines each week. He went as far as to accuse Bill's employees of having a key to the boxes and ripping him off. Bill just couldn't believe that his people would do that, so they set up a camera. ➡
  • 2002
    • Goth humor I was hanging out in the Yahoo! Chat Alaska room this morning, and ended up meeting Wytchmagick on there. After discovering we shared some interests, we started tossing some links at each other, which was quite entertaining. ➡
    • I’m employed again! Well, after a whole week and a half of being unemployed, I start work again tomorrow! I'll be working at the Xerox printshop on the Microsoft campus, the same place that I worked two days at last Friday and Saturday. I guess they liked me! ➡
  • 2001
  • 1995
    • [From Usenet: 4.9.95 2300] Thing is, this happens to me, too...and I'm on a IIvx. The 'main' voices work fine, but all the 'secondary' voices have the fan-stutter in them. Any other ideas? ➡

On This Day: Apr 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 23 posts previously published on April 8th

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 342 A word of thanks to those people I've seen sharing snarky comments and memes about Beyoncé's new album. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Happy Rex Manning Day! ➡
  • 2017
    • Chucks of the day (52/53): Navy blue high tops with orange accents; reflective grey heel stripe and thread woven into the laces. #converse #chucks ➡
  • 2016
    • Happy Friday, all. Have a good weekend! (99/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • On Being a Good Person In general, I think we need to move away from the premise that being a good person is a fixed immutable characteristic and shift towards seeing being good as a practice. And it is a practice that we carry out by engaging with our imperfections. We need to shift towards thinking that being a good person is like being a clean person. Being a clean person is something you maintain and work on every day. ➡
  • 2014
    • My appointment was at 3:20. Got here 10 minutes early. Was shown to the exam room 25 minutes late. That was almost 15 minutes ago. Uuuuggggghhhhh… ➡
  • 2009
    • DIY Bicycle Camera Mount Yes, there are already a ton of posts on the 'net telling people how to do this, and I'm indebted to them all, as I read most of them when planning out my approach. Still -- this is how _I_ did it, so I'm going to add to the chatter. :) ➡
  • 2007
    • Happy Easter Or, if you don't happen to be an Easter person, just enjoy a nice spring day. Whichever works best for you. ➡
  • 2006
    • New Toy: Nikon D70s Thanks to some very kind assistance in the mysterious and tricky realms of credit and financing by the best girl in the world, I've got a new toy to play with for my birthday. ➡
  • 2004
    • Eats shoots and leaves Another book I need to add to my collection: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. ➡
    • Facts about Canada Lane should get a kick out of this. ;) Questions and answers about Canada from a tourism website (I'm not sure which one, I found this on dad's website)… ➡
    • Kurt Am I the only person in Seattle who doesn't give a flying fig that Kurt Cobain is (still) dead? ➡
    • First OS X exploit: Concept One of the (many) nice things about being a Mac user is our general invulnerability to the multitudes of viruses, trojan horses, and other exploits that threaten the 'net on a regular basis. So it's no wonder that the Mac world is all a-tizzy over anti-virus company Intego releasing news of what appears to be the first Mac OS X trojan horse, wrapped inside an apparent .mp3 file. ➡
    • Condi under oath CLAIM: There was 'nothing about the threat of attack in the U.S.' in the Presidential Daily Briefing the President received on August 6th. [responding to Ben Veniste] FACT: Rice herself confirmed that 'the title [of the PDB] was, 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.'' [Source: Condoleezza Rice, 4/8/04] ➡
  • 2003
    • Protest music links Continuing in the protest music theme I've been trying to keep up with lately, today brings us a MetaFilter discussion started by a post opining that, well, to be honest — most modern protest songs suck. ➡
    • The importance of dissent However, protestors of any ilk are certainly doing a very important thing for the continuation of democracy. We are exercising muscles that, if left unused, could very possibly atrophy, leaving our democracy damaged and ineffective. ➡
    • Random thought Was the phrase 'another day, another dollar' coined (no pun intended) at a time when that was actually the average payscale? ➡
    • Bomb the World This was mentioned in the Rolling Stone article I just posted, so I went searching it out to add to the growing list of anti-war tracks released to the Internet: Spearhead's Bomb the World (original and 'Armageddon' mix). ➡
    • Things are changing these days The mother of one of the members of politically conscious band Spearhead was recently questioned by Army officers about her son's 'un-American' activities. During the interview they displayed photos of her son at peace rallys, records of his travels, a list of people he worked with at the band's management office, and revealed that her daughter — currently serving in the military, and deployed in the Gulf — had had her CD's confiscated. ➡
    • By the numbers Snippets from the Toronto Star's Iraq War Index. ➡