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On This Day: Mar 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 22 posts previously published on March 9th

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  • 2022
  • 2020
    • 📚 thirteen of 2020: Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O’Keefe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee Good grand scope space opera, with neat questions on consciousness and the psychology of AI as used in ships of war. Figured out many of the reveals quickly, but still quite good. ➡
    • On This Day: Mar 9 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 9 ➡
  • 2016
    • Just two weeks to vacation! (69/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Brunch at Dave’s after a lazy morning lounging around the hotel. ➡
  • 2009
    • Watching the Watchmen Since I can only spend so many hours a day tossing resumes out across the 'net before I start to go buggy, I decided to take a few hours out of the day and head out to catch the matinee of Watchmen. I got home a bit ago, and I'm going to see what I can do as far as getting my thoughts down. Perhaps a little jumbled, but so it goes. ➡
  • 2005
    • Boom! Wow. I so want to be able to actually _see_ this happen someday. Not from too close, you understand...but from a nice safe distance. Just incredible. ➡
    • Mashups Lately I've been getting more and more into Mashups -- songs created by taking two or more different songs and 'mashing' them together into one. While some aren't much more complex than the simple beatmatching I did while I was dj'ing, others I've found are jaw-droppingly cool, with layers of multiple tracks that really shouldn't work together as well as they do. ➡
  • 2004
    • Insignificant Microbe Jacqueline pointed out The Truth Laid Bear's Weblog Ecosystem, which ranks weblogs by how many links point to them. Similar to Technorati, really, as far as I can tell. Not that that's a bad thing, of course…just something I noticed. ➡
    • Beating Internet Explorer into the 21st Century I can hardly wait until this is finished enough for the 'download' link to be active: IE7, a hack to force IE into behaving like a modern browser. ➡
    • Even startup pranks are harder in Windows Once that was done, every time they started up their computer, as the system went through the Startup Items, it'd find that program, and shut right down again. Simple, and wonderfully annoying. ➡
    • Hanscom Family Gallery RSS feed For those of you (if there are any, of course) that use an RSS newsreader and occasionally check into the Hanscom Family Photo Gallery, there is now an RSS feed available to notify you of updates, courtesy of the Gallery RSS Generator. ➡
    • Romeo! Hey, doll! Where you at? This makes me cringe just thinking about it…Shakespeare re-written in modern prose, as kids can't seem to comprehend it as it was originally written. ➡
    • Tori Amos: Tales of a Librarian Tori Amos has a new 'greatest hits' collection available at the iTunes Music Store called 'A Tori Amos Collection — Tales of a Librarian'. Normally, this wouldn't be terribly interesting to me, as I already have a very large Tori collection, and therefore wouldn't have much need for a compilation album. However, this one caught my eye for two reasons. ➡
  • 2003
    • An honorary offer I once knew a woman who offered her honor, so I honored her offer and all night long I was on her and off her. ➡
    • Panda It's a link. Click on it. ➡
  • 2002
    • Plans always change Well, I was going to go see Daniel Ash at the Crocodile tonight, but unfortunately, due to a car crash, that's been postponed for a month and a half. Bummer. ➡
    • More archive tweaks Hopefully this will make digging through my archives a bit easier (in case there's anyone here quite crazy enough to bother). ➡
    • The Times regrets both incidents In yesterday's issue, The New York Times did not report on riots in Milan and the subsequent murder of the lay religious reformer Erlembald. These events took place in 1075, the year given in the dateline under the nameplate on Page 1. ➡
    • Boring sex? Is your sex life too boring? ➡

On This Day: Mar 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 28 posts previously published on March 8th

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 311 Making a few adjustments to some floor placements so that they can be used. ➡
  • 2021
  • 2020
    • Modern Political Sexism From Elizabeth Warren, 2020, and the Sexism Next Door – The Atlantic “Electability” claims to be a benign and objective concern. It is neither. It merely outsources biases, rationalizing them by appealing to the moral failings of imagined others. It talks about neighbors, and “other people,” and “what the country is ready for.” It throws ... Read more ➡
    • Don’t Panic: The comprehensive Ars Technica guide to the coronavirus: “You should be concerned and take this seriously. But you should not panic. This is the mantra public health experts have adopted since the epidemic mushroomed in January—and it’s about as comforting as it is easy to accomplish. But it’s important that we all try.” ➡
    • Wishing a good #InternationalWomensDay to all women: family, friends, acquaintances, and those not known to me; cis, trans, or enby, however you present, openly or closeted; whatever your history and however you choose to live your life. May you be healthy, safe, and valued. ➡
    • On This Day: Mar 8 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 8 ➡
  • 2019
    • Fond wishes on International Women’s Day to all the marvelous women in my life. Whether related by blood or by choice, whether near or far, whether AFAB or not, whether you feel like a woman every day or only some, and however you express yourself. I’m glad we know each other. ➡
  • 2017
    • Wearing red in support of #internationalwomensday, the #daywithoutawoman, all women who are not working today, and all women who for whatever reason are not able to not work today. ➡
  • 2016
    • Thanks to some dead bulbs, the bathroom at work has amusingly over-dramatic lighting. (Taken earlier today.) (68/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Prairie found bunches of socks for me today, including Superman and Batman socks! ➡
    • Waiting for the breakout sessions to end and the main #nwc37 meeting to get going again. ➡
  • 2011
    • New Design Initially I was just hoping to find a decent temporary placeholder theme until I had time to really dive into a full redesign, but as it turned out, I think I'm happy enough with this to simply declare it my new look (until I get bored again). ➡
  • 2007
    • Sigma 200-500mm f/2.8 (Said in your best Crocodile Dundee voice) 'You call that a zoom lens? Now, _that's_ a zoom lens!' ➡
    • International Women’s Day International Women's Day has been observed since in the early 1900's, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. ➡
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2004
    • Seattle recognizes gay marriages! Okay, so we're not performing the ceremonies yet, but it's a start. Mayor Greg Nickles issued an executive order today declaring that the City of Seattle will recognize gay marriages. ➡
    • The Pig War of San Juan Island How the death of a pig on San Juan Island nearly drove America and Britain to war in 1859. ➡
  • 2002
    • True patriots True patriots do not blindly accept all that comes from Washington D.C., Juneau, etc., regardless (nor, for that matter, rejects regardless). True patriots work toward the mending of flaws, putting self-control on our government, and making sure our laws are ones of liberty. ➡
    • Seattle snow Right now there's pictures on the morning news of the West Seattle bridge backed up after two Metro buses jackknifed, and people have been abandoning their cars along the sides of the highways and walking. ➡
    • ‘net radio in jeopardy A Call to Arson: more good information on the attempted shutdown of 'net radio. ➡
    • New iMac ad I about died when it stuck its 'tongue' out! ➡
    • Rubberband gatling gun! Rubberband Gatling Gun? COOL! I want one! ➡
    • Da plane! Da plane! Following up on one of yesterday's bits: after people started pointing out that there didn't seem to be an airplane in the released shots of the Pentagon 9/11 attack, some new photos have been released. ➡
  • 2001
    • The Scotsman Well a Scotsman clad in kilt left a bar one evening fair... ➡
    • It is way too early Amazing the differences that can appear when you've got a job that you actually enjoy, huh? ➡

On This Day: Mar 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 33 posts previously published on March 7th

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  • 2020
  • 2019
    • 🖖 #StarTrekDiscovery S02E08: For all I think DSC needs to do its own thing, a TOS-heavy episode was one of the best so far. Enjoyed the Cage recap, esp. the cut from TOS Pike to DSC Pike. Happily impressed by Peck’s Spock; he has the gravitas and delivery down. Good episode. ➡
    • Milestone: As of today, I’m 10.96% of my way through my Hugo Best Novel reading project. 📚 ➡
    • In today’s offering of “weirdly cute”: a snail playing with a carrot. At least, that’s sure what it looks like is going on, at the risk of being too quick to anthropomorphize snail behavior. ➡
    • Book twenty-two of 2019: Farmer in the Sky, by Robert Heinlein. ⭐️⭐️ 1951 Retro Hugo Best Novel 📚 A Boy Scout moves to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede to homestead and start a farm from scratch. Mildly interesting for the early ideas around terraforming and colonization. Meh. ➡
  • 2017
    • This was just the walk from office to car. I do not approve. ➡
  • 2016
    • Made it halfway through tonight’s workout and my toes cramped up. Painful and makes push-ups (which already suck) basically impossible. Guess I’ll try again tomorrow. (67/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Proof that I do occasionally get to be social! ➡
  • 2011
    • Back (Sorta) While I don't really think that very many people noticed, something went all pear-shaped over the weekend and this blog disappeared for a few days. Thanks to some assistance from Dreamhost support, I'm back up and running...mostly. ➡
  • 2008
    • 50 Gayest Songs of All Time I figured I'd run down the list and figure out just how many of these camp classics have made it into my music collection over the years. So, under the cut -- does my music collection make the grade? How's my collection of gay anthems? ➡
  • 2006
  • 2005
    • Hitchcock A few weeks ago, Prairie and I watched Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, and tonight I watched North by Northwest. Man I'm bummed I didn't discover Hitchcock earlier. ➡
  • 2004
    • San Juan Island: ducks and pigs The weekend was quite pleasant, though it ended up being a bit more adventurous and taking longer than we expected. I'll get to the details of the 'pig incident' in my next post. ;) Gotta keep y'all coming back somehow, after all! ➡
  • 2002
    • A.I. (Absolutely Incredible) Lots of good discussion about the movie AI is going on over at the Home Theater Forum, and I got lost in it for a few hours. ➡
    • Ashcroft sings? Why Attorney General John Ashcroft just might be insane. ➡
    • Googlewhack I think GoogleWhack could entertain me for hours. ➡
    • Where’s the plane? If a 737 slammed into the Pentagon, shouldn't we have seen more debris? Or just another crackpot conspiracy theory? ➡
    • Under God? Certainly, faith in God has often been linked to patriotism in the US through the pledge of allegiance. But God is, in fact, a relative newcomer to the pledge and was only included in it because of a right-wing religious lobby's efforts during the McCarthyite era. ➡
    • Terror Widows Another political cartoon is causing an uproar -- there's an excellent editorial examining the cartoon in question and the motivations behind it. ➡
    • A prayer for America A Prayer for America, by US Rep Dennis Kucinich. ➡
    • War riddles Apparently the US Military isn't too hot and bothered to find Osama. I'd be surprised if I weren't so damn cynical. ➡
    • What’s a ‘blog’? Dad's asked me in the past what a weblog is. Rebecca does a much better job explaining it than I ever could. ➡
    • Scientology vs. Google Scientologists are trying to manipulate Google results in their favor. The blogosphere fights back. ➡
    • Googlebombing bad? An interesting commentary on the flipside to Googlebombing. ➡
  • 2001
    • Gimme some sugar, baby! My single DVD purchase for the day -- The Evil Dead II! ➡
    • DJ alert I've been confirmed to be DJ'ing this Sat. night at the new Studio 99, in the Northway Mall above Ariel's Hair Salon. ➡

On This Day: Mar 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 20 posts previously published on March 6th

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  • 2021
    • 📚 12/2021: The Book of Koli by M.R. Carey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee 5/6 What started as fairly standard post-apocalyptic setting (small pseudo-medieval communities relying on poorly understood surviving tech) went in more interesting directions than I expected. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • If I see a link to a movie trailer that looks interesting, and I click through to YouTube or wherever to watch it, it drives me up the wall when the first 5-10 seconds is a mini-trailer for the trailer I’m trying to watch. Why has this become a thing? ➡
  • 2016
    • Book ten of 2016: Edge of Dark, by Brenda Cooper. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee. (66/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Me at about 2 1/2, doing my best mid-70s open-collar chest-revealing loud-print-shirt lounge against Dad’s records. #throwbackthursday ➡
  • 2008
    • I Am Legend Original Ending For some reason, the last ten minutes or so of the film completely diverge from everything that had been set up until that point, taking what had been an interesting apocalyptic zombie film and ruining it for us with an ending that didn't make any sense. ➡
  • 2007
  • 2006
    • Episcopalian and Anglican Superheroes A brief rundown of comic-book superheroes of either Episcopalian or Anglican beliefs, sourced from The Religious Affiliation of Comic Book Characters, and pointed out to me by dad. ➡
  • 2005
    • Marriage Equality rally Photos from today's protest march and rally in favor of equal marriage rights for homosexuals are now up in a Flickr photoset. ➡
    • Good night tonight No particular reason for that, just a good night. Evan (the DJ at the Vogue) was doing quite well, and the club was just crowded enough to be definitely crowded, without being so bad that I couldn't get on the floor and bounce around. ➡
  • 2003
    • Soundtrack for a Century Sony has dug into their vaults to compile an absolutley astounding collection of music — ranging from an 1890 recording on wax cylinder of John Philip Sousa conducting the United States Marine Band in 'The Washington Post March' up to Lauryn Hill's 1998 pop hit 'Doo Wop (That Thing)' — across all genres, and encompassing a ton of songs, both popular hits and little-known gems. ➡
    • Love me, love my country A question for Dave — you state that you can't like us and not like our government, and vice versa. Turning that around, does that mean that because you dislike the decisions of France, Germany, and Russia, that you now dislike the French, Germans, and Russians en masse? Or that because you dislike what Saddam is doing, that you dislike all Iraquis? I don't really think that that is the case, but it's the same attitude, and it's one that worries me. ➡
  • 2002

On This Day: Mar 5

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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 March 5th

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  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Critically Analyzing Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss is a prolific children’s book author and global icon. _And_ Dr. Seuss has a history of racial baggage that educators should understand when introducing his writing to their students. ➡
    • Book twenty-one of 2019: Second Foundation, by Isaac Asimov. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚 Asimov himself notes this in an introductory essay, but his ability to craft engaging SF of ideas and conversations over three books (eight stories) with little to no “on stage” action is remarkable. ➡
  • 2016
    • Book nine of 2016: Archangel, by Marguerite Reed. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee. (65/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Not coming up with a witty caption tonight. Just me. ➡
  • 2007
  • 2004
    • Run away! Run away! Prairie and I are off to the San Juan Islands for the weekend to visit her dad. Back sometime Sunday evening… ➡
    • Siouxsie in Seattle! Siouxsie's coming to Seattle — with the Creatures and the Banshees! I so need to get off work early that day… ➡
    • The Far Side + Photoshop = Some jaw-droppingly impressive Photoshop re-creations of Gary Larson's Far Side comic strips. ➡
  • 2003
    • iPod troubles Well, this bites. I'm having problems with my iPod. Normally I'm pretty good with getting things fixed, but I think this is beyond my abilities. Bleah. ➡
    • The story of my life PowerMac dreams and an Etch A Sketch budget. ➡
    • Rocky Horror Muppet Show What do you get when you cross a love of the Rocky Horror Picture Show with a love of the Muppets? ➡
  • 2002
    • Vocabulary lesson Each year the Washington Post's Style Invitational asks readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one leter and supply a new definition. Here are the 2001 winners. ➡
    • Fun with Google A pair of articles that I wanted to comment on, but don't have time to right now. Very interesting reading, though, especially if you read or write a weblog (such as this one), or if you use Google for your searches. ➡

On This Day: Mar 4

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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 38 posts previously published on March 4th

  • 2024
  • 2021
    • Strongsync: The most powerful Sync client for macOS Big Sur: On-demand sync for Google Drive, Box, OneDrive, and Sharepoint managed by APFS and Spotlight search inside every app on your Mac. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • R.I.P., Keith Flint and Luke Perry ➡
  • 2017
    • Chucks of the day (50/53): All black high tops, with a neat quilted pattern to the fabric. #converse #chucks ➡
    • Book eighteen of 2017: Alien Artifacts, edited by Joshua Palmatier & Patricia Bray. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • The week is over. I’m done. And Prairie pointed out that I’m very well coordinated with our couch. (64/366) ➡
    • Forgot my photo yesterday, so here’s a silly Snapchat filter as penance for posting late. Today’s picture will come later. (63/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Mmmmmmmm…fajitas! ➡
    • 49 degrees, and most of the snow has melted off. This is much nicer! ➡
  • 2010
    • American Gothique’s Sick-N-Twisted Last Saturday, American Gothique magazine hosted a fashion show at The Vogue, with Amazing Race contestants Kynt and Vyxsin as featured models. I was able to join the crowd of photographers crouched at the foot of the catwalk, and here are a few shots from the show. ➡
  • 2009
    • Resume Crowdsourcing Fueled somewhat equally by the frustration of trying to 'sell myself' with my resume and curiosity about all this ultra-modern networking and interconnectedness that the intarwebz give us all, I decided to try a little bit of an experiment yesterday. ➡
    • Links for February 27th through March 4th Sometime between February 27th and March 4th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Skittles.com: Interweb the Rainbow. Taste the Rainbow. • hat Were Arcades Like? • METAL MACHINE MUSIC: Nine Inch Nails and the Industrial Uprising • Thousands in Scramble for Free Books After Amazon Supplier Abandons Warehouse • It's 'Potter' vs. 'Twilight' at Great Literary Debate ➡
    • This is How I Feel These Days… Ambition! Thats what I need! ... Sounds hard though, doesnt it? ➡
  • 2008
    • The Last Galactica The fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica approaches, and even though they almost lost me during season three, that season rebounded well and ended so strongly that I'm really looking forward to BSGs return. ➡
  • 2007
    • Peephole Through the Monolith, Magnuson Park, Seattle, WA ➡
    • Marie Antoinette Last weekend, Prairie and I went down to the Blacklight, and they were playing Marie Antoinette on the projection screen. The costumes really caught Prairie's eye while she was watching it, and we figured it would be worth a rent to see the pretties. ➡
  • 2006
    • No Woman, No Fly Just added to the Jason Webley Bootlegs collection: No Woman, No Fly. The audio quality isn't the greatest (with Jason's penchant for going from soft to screaming in nanoseconds, the recording's a bit overdriven in places), but it's up. ➡
    • Jupiter Needs Oxy-10 Backyard astro-pharmacists, grab your acne medication. Jupiter is growing a new red zit. The official name of this zit is 'Oval BA,' but 'Red Jr.' might be better. It's about half the size of the famous Great Red Zit and almost exactly the same color. ➡
    • Ultraviolet is, apparently, Ultrastupid 'Ultraviolet' wants desperately to be a provocative, high-concept action thriller. It apparently is trying to say something about fear and terrorism, paranoia and racism. But it looks more like a shampoo commercial. ➡
  • 2005
    • Commonly Confused Words answer key Given the amount of interest that the Commonly Confused Words test prompted, and after prompting by Royce, I'm going to go back through and re-take it, recording my answers as I go through. Interestingly enough, I did _better_ on the test overall this time. So, now for the rest of you. Can you spot where I goofed? ➡
    • Enterprise Unconvinced but intrigued, I decided to see what I could find, and ended up downloading all of the episodes to date of Season Four of Enterprise and watching them over the past few days. While I wouldn't exactly say that I'm _impressed_, I do have to admit that I found this season to be far more bearable than what I had seen during the first season. ➡
    • Saw Rick brought over Saw last night for me to watch. It's a film that aspires to be a psychological/horror film along the lines of Seven...and fails miserably. ➡
    • Reconsidering I did something this morning that I've only done a couple times in the past, and have removed a post that had been published a few hours before. ➡
  • 2004
    • Devil Duckie USB Flashdrive! I tell you, if I didn't already have my iPod (and therefore no need for a flash drive), this would be so tempting! ➡
    • The latest from Mars Two LiveJournals have popped up to keep us informed of what's really going on on Mars, without being filtered through the publicists at NASA. ➡
    • FedEx making The Switch? According to one unconfirmed source, Federal Express may be looking to make a significant purchase of Macs to replace their current PCs. ➡
  • 2003
    • tw@ 4scr + 7a ugo r 4fthrs brt 4th on this cn10nt a nu nAshn cnCvd in lbRT + ddc8d 2 th prop tht (evRE1) r crE8d = ➡
    • Star Trek personality test Wil pointed to a Star Trek Personality Test based on the Myers-Briggs system. I wasn't sure what to expect for an answer, but apparently the author did a surprisingly good job of translating the Myers-Briggs questions to a Star Trek format, as I ended up scoring as an ISFP -- the same result as when I took an online version of the actual Myers-Briggs test! ➡
    • The Tide is Turning This is a song originally from Roger Waters' album 'Radio K.A.O.S.', though I first heard it as the finale to the 1991 live performance of The Wall in Berlin. Posted here as a message of hope — something that's all too rare these days. ➡
    • ILNY, it's a gr8 plc. My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 :-O kids FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc. ➡
    • Zeno's Paradox Zeno's Paradox may be rephrased as follows. Suppose I wish to cross the room. First, of course, I must cover half the distance. Then, I must cover half the remaining distance. Then, I must cover half the remaining distance. Then I must cover half the remaining distance...and so on forever. The consequence is that I can never get to the other side of the room. ➡
  • 2002
    • Ollie North If memory serves, Ollie North used to amuse himself by drawing up various scenarios for martial law -- and if the thought of that doesn't set off a screaming gibbering fit of paranoia in at least some small part of your brain... ➡
    • Sci-Fi themes, then and now Tonight I popped in the original version of Rollerball. Very cool flick, I'll post more thoughts on it later on. However, I did find a HTF thread about the recent remake, and one of the members made a really neat post concerning the differences between Sci-Fi themes of the 70's and today. ➡
  • 2001

On This Day: Mar 3

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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 March 3rd

  • 2024
  • 2021
    • Reading in Pandemicland Science fiction, dystopia’s similar but more optimistic counterpart, is also seeing an increase in popularity during the pandemic. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Chucks of the day (58): black and grey cushioned high tops with rear ankle cut-out. #chucks #converse ➡
    • Book twelve of 2018 (and sixth #pkdickaward nominee): Six Wakes, by Mur Lafferty. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2014
    • I really hope the forecasts are right, because this sure doesn’t look like we’ll be in the mid-50s in just a day or two. ➡
  • 2013
  • 2009
    • Gearing Up First off, thanks for all the commiseration and kind wishes I've received from everyone, whether it be via e-mail, blog/LiveJournal/Facebook comments, or Twitter. E-support is definitely still support, and it's nice to have so much! ➡
  • 2005
    • That’s it?!? John pointed out The Commonly Confused Words Test, so I gave it a shot. My results: Advanced -- You scored 100% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 61% Expert! ➡
    • TechNewsWorld commentary mention Romm pointed out a mention of me in a commentary piece on TechNewsWorld that was published a couple of weeks ago. It's a nice mention, too, as in addition to the standard 'another fired blogger' mention, the author also follows up with my reaction to the incident, and contrasts it to Ellen 'Queen of Sky' Simonetti's Bloggers' Bill of Rights campaign. ➡
    • Another interview I just got done with a lunchtime phone interview with a reporter for the AP. There's no telling where it might show up, but there's at least a chance that my name will start popping up again over the next day or so in the midst of another story about blogging and jobs. ➡
  • 2004
    • Coolio ‘Smokin’ Stix’ (DJ Wüdi Remix) For the past couple days, I've been fiddling around with GarageBand and Amadeus II, first snipping the song into lots of little pieces and attempting to isolate the vocals from the background music, then re-assembling everything with my own choices of drum beats, instruments, and electronic bleeps and bloops. ➡
    • Avi Rubin vs. Diebold Avi Rubin, one of the primary authors of a highly critical look at Diebold's electronic voting machines, decided to answer some of his critics, put his money where his mouth is, and spend a day as an election judge, working with the very machines about which he had expressed strong security concerns. ➡
    • Omoshiroi kedo, kankei ga nai Two Japanese phrases I need to remember (and possibly eventually learn to pronounce...). ➡
    • Training fun I think I can feel my brain dribbling out of my ears. ➡
  • 2003
    • Just Hang Up Hang up when I'm talking to you. Get off your cell phone. In fact, turn off your cell phone. Just turn it off, put it down somewhere out of reach, and pay attention to the conversation that you're already invovled in. ➡
  • 2001
    • DJ’ing tonight! I'm DJ'ing tonight at Studio 99, above Ariel's Hair Salon in the Northway Mall. This is an all-ages dance club -- 16 (?) and up before 1am, 18 and up until 3 am. ➡

On This Day: Mar 2

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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 March 2nd

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2020
    • Watched the last three episodes of season three of Enterprise this evening. The show definitely improved over the first two seasons, but went to some pretty dark places. Was not expecting the cliffhanger ending, though! One more season of the only Trek I haven’t watched. 🖖 ➡
    • On This Day: Mar 2 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 2 ➡
  • 2017
    • Got my Mercury hoodie! ➡
  • 2016
    • Tonight’s workout included 20 pull-ups (in four sets of five, with other exercises, not all together). Still rather pleasantly surprised I can do that (not cleanly, and with much complaining, and oh, the ow…but I did it). (62/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • You can’t prove I’m not naked in this photo. ➡
  • 2013
  • 2009
    • Back to the Breadline I suppose I should take a moment to expand a bit on today's happenings, though there's really not a whole lot more to say than what I tweeted earlier: the company needs to cut back, and as I was a temp employee, I was easily expendable. ➡
  • 2004
    • The movie alphabet quiz This is really, really evil — identify the movies whose logos were used to create this alphabet. ➡
    • I’m 100 percent British! I'm 100% British! Jolly good, wot! Anyone for tennis? That'll be ten ponies, guv. I'm the epitome of everything that is English. Yey :) Hoist that Union Jack! ➡
    • Getting closer! It's still not Seattle, but it's at least closer than San Francisco…the Multnomah County (Portland, Oregon) Clerk's office plans to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples starting tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. at their office located at 501 S.E. Hawthorne. ➡
    • A republican sent this to me… A republican friend sent me some anti-bush political humor… ➡
    • My new motto Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. ➡
    • Literary Macs Two books to add to my future reading list, both sound interesting, and both feature Mac computers in the plot. ➡
    • Toilet tourism Ever wanted to use a public toilet? Usually, they're items to be avoided, not sought out. Seattle looks to be trying to change that, though, with our new high-tech public lavatories… ➡
  • 2003
    • Gun control 2003 Federal authorities believe the list of convicted felons, drug dealers, suspected terrorists, spouse beaters, illegal immigrants and others should only be used to help gun dealers determine if someone is allowed to buy a gun, not police investigating other gun-control violations. ➡
    • Everything's broken Four months ago, workmen started on a two-month project to renovate the apartment building I live in. We're still waiting for them to finish. ➡
    • On battling stereotypes The current March/April issue has a rundown of six top Oscar contenders: Nicole Kidman, Jack Nicholson, Julianne Moore, Tom Hanks, Jennifer Anniston, and Robin Williams. In the article, there were two quotes from Nicholson and Hanks that really stood out to me in the differences between how the two actors confront the stereotypes they've been saddled with — and illustrates why I tend to think more of Nicholson than I do of Hanks. ➡
    • Sleep – from the painting by Salvadore Dali This is a piece I wrote in 11th grade, which would put it at around 1989 or 1990. We were given an assignment to write an essay exploring any painting we chose, and the teacher was kind enough to leave the exact nature of the requested essay very open for interpretation. Salvadore Dali has long been one of my favorite artists, so I chose his painting 'Sleep' to work with. ➡
    • Stonehenge porn? The design of Stonehenge, the 4,800-year-old monument in southwestern England, was based on female sexual anatomy, according to a paper in the current Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. ➡
    • Who gave them the loudspeakers? But if most people in the world are in fact normal, how have I been left with the distinctly opposite impression for most of my life? ➡
  • 2002
    • Hippies on Mars! Scientists estimated that at most, Deadheads account for just a small percentage of the hippies on the Martian surface, but are spread over vast stretches of the landscape, mixed with Phishheads and other sub-classifications of hippie. ➡
  • 2001
    • It’s official! As of 10:30am today, after cleaning all my personal material off of the machines, I turned in my resignation at TimeFrame. I start work at GCI's NOC as a Service Repair Coordinator Monday morning at 9am. ➡

On This Day: Mar 1

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

There are 26 posts previously published on March 1st

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 304 Somehow, Mariner's sarcastic back-handed Vulcan salute just seems appropriate when wearing my Swear Trek t-shirt. ➡
  • 2021
    • MailTrackerBlocker for Mail on macOS: An email tracker, read receipt and spy pixel blocker plugin for macOS Apple Mail. ➡
  • 2020
    • 📚 twelve of 2020: Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee Really enjoyed this collection. Hopeful themes, and music winds its way through nearly every story in neat ways. ➡
    • On This Day: Mar 1 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from March 1 ➡
  • 2019
    • Still in the very early stages, but in an effort to combat the website ennui I mentioned a few days ago, I’ve started playing with building a new personal site at a URL so clever I wish I’d picked it up years ago: michaelhans.com. Not much there, but a new playground is nice! ➡
    • Nice writeup of the Norwescon Book Club in today’s Seattle Times! 📚 If you’re a SF/F reader local to the Seattle (or general Pacific Northwest) area and haven’t checked out Norwescon yet, you really should! Four days of SF/F panels, book talk, costumes, and fun. Join us! ➡
  • 2016
    • We did get a really nice bright rainbow this evening, at least. ➡
    • Sun showers aren’t nearly as nice when accompanied by cold blustery wind gusts. We do not approve. (61/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Just a nice lazy Saturday afternoon at home. ➡
  • 2006
    • On Coining Euphemisms Just a quick word of advice. When deciding to coin a euphamism, one might want to find out if the phrase in question has already been appropriated for something else. ➡
    • Queen! (But who’s Paul Rodgers?) Queen (plus Paul Rodgers) is going to be performing in Seattle! On the one hand, I'm a _long_ time Queen fan...on the other hand...it's not Freddy. ➡
    • Name Five… 'Quick -- name all the members of the Simpsons.' 'Um...Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie.' 'Now -- what are the five rights given by the first amendment?' '...um. Oh. Heh...that's not good.' ➡
  • 2005
    • Anybody hungry? Every Tuesday night, I have about the same routine. I get home from work a little after 5pm, Prairie and I chat via iChat until about 7pm, and I browse through NetNewsWire while we're chatting. At 7pm, I close down NetNewsWire, order some pizza, and pop in a DVD. ➡
  • 2004
    • My brain hurts Wow...there's nothing quite like a Slashdot discussion of theoretical physics to make me feel _really_ unintelligent. ➡
    • Just feeling a little quiet There's a lot of stuff out there on that in-tar-web thing these days, but I just haven't felt terribly talkative as of late. It's not really writers block as such, more of a general feeling of not having anything to add. It happens every so often. ➡
    • Congratulations Peter (and everyone else)… …on setting a new record for the Oscars by winning every single one of the 11 Oscars that you were nominated for. ➡
  • 2003
    • It came from Outer Faith Though no one's yet written a book on how to convert aliens, some religions do accept the idea of extraterrestrial intelligence. Find out how much you know about the intersection of faith and sci-fi. ➡
    • Welcome to Earth, meet the leaders The world isn't run by a clever cabal. It's run by about 5,000 bickering, sometimes charming, usually arrogant, mostly male people who are accustomed to living in either phenomenal wealth, or great personal power. A few have both. ➡
    • tail -f access_log Too often we get this image of the Web as a vast well-oiled machine, with glossy browser screens in front and masses of gleaming software in back. Watching the access_log is like a window into the side lobby of the legislature, or a tour of the fermentation vats at the brewery.➡
    • Snowflake pictures My parents have often teased me about how long it would take me to walk the three blocks to school when I was a kid, usually assuming that I had to examine every snowflake I saw to see if they were really all different. In normal Alaskan winters, of course, there are a lot of snowflakes. Even in only three blocks. ➡
    • Credibility Gap The Bush Credibility Gap: The Photographic History of the Bush Administration Putting Its Mouth Where Its Money Isn't — it's nice to see something like this coming from the Democrats on Capitol Hill. Mayhaps we're starting to see a hint of Democratic backbone again? ➡
    • Letter of Resignation …until this Administration it had been possible to believe that by upholding the policies of my president I was also upholding the interests of the American people and the world. I believe it no longer. ➡
    • Pledge ruling upheld I have to admit, the mental picture of a man like Ashcroft — who's likely to equate Wiccanism with 'Satanism' — trying to cope with the concept of a 'patriotic Witch' makes me laugh. A lot. ➡
    • Yawn! It's 8:30 in the morning, and I'm at work. Ugh. ➡
  • 2001
    • Career changes It looks like tomorrow I'll give notice to TimeFrame that it's my last day, and come Monday I'll start working at GCI! ➡
    • Cam improvements I'm up a bit later than I should be, as I stumbled across some JavaScript code that's allowed me to improve the Wudicam page a bit. So, less unecessary data being thrown across the 'net, and a much faster refresh time on the cam picture. ➡

On This Day: Feb 29

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

No posts were previously published on March 1st