Tech

Tech-focused ramblings. Computers, blogs, and whatever else fits.

On This Day: Feb 18

by

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 February 18th

  • 2024
  • 2021
    • This is the entirety of an email I got this morning. I’m used to the occasional weird spam getting through, but this was a standout. A no0b spammer just getting their software set up? I got caught in an initial test run, perhaps? ➡
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Found these at Ross today, and they were so wonderful/horrible I had to have them. “I put the ‘naughty’ in ‘Illuminati’!” 😆 ➡
  • 2017
    • Book fourteen (and fourth #PKDickAward nominee) of 2017: Hwarhath Stories, by Eleanor Arnason ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2016
    • With a slightly better background, this would be a good indie album cover. (49/366) ➡
  • 2014
  • 2009
    • Links for February 18th from 07:00 to 13:31 Sometime between 07:00 and 13:31, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Non-Hierarchical Management • Irony for Me: The Trilogy Tomatometer • No Photo Ban in Subways, Yet an Arrest • Facebook Backs Down on Privacy Terms • YouTube - the Simpsons - NEW Main Title ➡
  • 2006
  • 2005
    • Run away! Run away! Prairie and I are running away for the weekend, down to a beach house that her dad has access in Greyland, somewhere south of Aberdeen on the Washington coast. Rest, relax, and so forth. Be back sometime Sunday-ish! ➡
    • More on Harvard and Women I haven't had as much time to really dive into this as I'd like, but that happens sometimes. A transcript of Harvard President Lawrence Summers' controversial remarks has been released — and it does appear that the man was being a bit of a goob. ➡
  • 2004
    • Brain Drain As other nations become more attractive to mobile immigrant talent, America is becoming less so. A recent study by the National Science Board found that the U.S. government issued 74,000 visas for immigrants to work in science and technology in 2002, down from 166,000 in 2001--an astonishing drop of 55 percent. ➡
    • Why gay marriage should not be legalized Obviously, gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children. ➡
    • Duck! The food’s shooting back! Capt. Craig Kohlbeck of the Brown County Sheriff's Department said the husband had put the ammunition and three handguns in the oven before the couple left on a vacation. ➡
    • iPhotoToGallery iPhotoToGallery is a beautifully handy plugin for iPhoto that adds the ability to export directly to Gallery installations. Very nice. ➡
    • Heaven and Hell …the damned Windows users are forever bombarded with boiling projectile vomit from the thousand-foot high screaming thing that used to be Bill Gates. ➡
  • 2003
    • Movie Quiz A movie quiz from Dave Hyatt. I didn't want to open up his comments to make my stab at the answers, since I'd probably see other people's answers, so I'm doing it via Trackback. I'll start with the quiz, and put my answers in the rest of this post. You can use the comments if you want to play along, too! ➡
  • 2002
    • Unamerican Blasphemy means ignoring your dreams. ➡
    • Britney Spears [Britney Spears] is progressively wearing less and less at an alarming rate. It won't be long until she's dancing around bare ass nude at Arena football halftime shows while dousing her naked gyrating body in Pepsi. ➡
    • Air Force gets ray guns The AC-130 gets a laser gun. Cool! ➡
    • You suck. I put your post into Babelfish's Elitist-to-English translator, and all I came back with was: 'You suck.' ➡
  • 1999
    • [From Usenet: 2.18.99 0000] Has anyone ever thought much of the possiblity that the planet that transformed the Voyager probe into V'ger was the Borg home planet, before they got to the point of striking out on their own and assimilating everything that sneezed twice in their general direction? ➡

On This Day: Feb 17

by

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 February 17th

  • 2024
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • In the midst of a power outage, so I grabbed sandwiches on the way home, Prairie got her USB drive with Jurassic Park (she uses it for her classes), and it’s dinner and a movie by candlelight for us! ➡
  • 2016
    • All the snow melted away during our long weekend in Olympia! Obviously, we should have taken that trip weeks ago. (48/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • I’m not thrilled that the three-day weekend is over, but at least the long weekend means this will be a short work week. ➡
  • 2013
    • Me at Norwescon 36 In just a few weeks, I will once again be indulging in four days of glorious geekery at Norwescon 36. I'm wearing more hats than ever before this year, so here's a rough rundown of what I'll be doing and where you'll be able to find me... ➡
  • 2010
  • 2009
    • Links for February 17th from 14:54 to 17:12 Sometime between 14:54 and 17:12, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Magenta Ain't a Colour • A Young Mad Scientist's First Alphabet Blocks • CBS & Paramount Announce First Star Trek Blu-Ray Sets • Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify Your Canonical • Joss Whedon Goes Where No TV Man Has Gone Before ➡
  • 2007
    • As You Wish I'd be hard pressed to come up with a Top Five (or even Top Ten or Twenty) list of favorite movies, but if I did, The Princess Bride would definitely be on there. ➡
  • 2006
    • The Last Trip I Took Paper number three for ENG101. A 'personal narrative' essay about the last time I did any sort of illegal narcotics. ➡
  • 2005
    • Another Music Meme: Cover Me Another music meme, this one being started by Terrance: Cover Me. ➡
    • Not Gallimaufry Since I've kind of slacked off on my 'Gallimaufry' meme posts over the past few weeks, here's a music meme from Don to play with. ➡
  • 2004
    • Barry Manilow listens to Underworld?!? I was poking around on the iTunes Music Store, and started looking at some of the Celebrity Playlists — essentially 'mix tapes' (only there's no tape involved) assembled by famous people. I saw Barry Manilow listed, and had to know. ➡
    • Free music is good I got my first free song from the iTMS today, thanks to the current promotion with Pepsi! ➡
    • Soundtrack to a wedding During the wedding reception, Kevin and Emily passed out CDs they had made with a selection of songs special to the two of them. Here are the songs that they chose to represent them at this point in their life. ➡
    • Genealogy software wishlist Okay, so here's what I wish I had available in a genealogy software package. Any mad coders out there feel like putting it together? ;) ➡
    • Back home with lots of pictures I've managed to get my photos of the trip uploaded. Feel free to take a look, just realize that many of the shots are out of sequence. ➡
  • 2003
    • Flirt vodka Something tells me that this isn't an ad we'd see here in America. Not sure why? It's kind of subtle. Look at his legs. Sure makes me wish I knew Russian, just so I knew what the ad copy was. ➡
    • Apple bloggers? There's been much discussion recently regarding Microsoft bloggers. Got me thinking — what about 'Apple bloggers'? The only one I know of off the top of my head is Dave Hyatt, who works on the rendering engine for Safari. Any others out there I should know about? ➡
    • Scoblemania Yikes. After going through my 'Technology' grouping in NetNewsWire, which includes RSS feeds for 34 different weblogs and news sites, every link that I called up as 'probably worth babbling about' was from Robert Scoble. ➡
    • Riot in Anchorage A Fur Rondy teen dance erupted late Saturday into what officials are calling a riot of 300 youths spitting, kicking and throwing rocks and bottles at police in downtown Anchorage. Nearly every on-duty Anchorage police officer, about 70 in all, converged around the Egan Center. What happened remained muddled Sunday. Police and the Egan Center manager gave different versions of how the situation got out of control. ➡
    • No jive talkin' Unfortunately, at this point, the plugin mangles URL's (see the comments to the previous post) so I can't use it to post and link anywhere. With any luck that will be corrected at some later point, though… ➡
    • Jive talkin' This is a test, and this is only a test. Hopefully it will at least be an amusing test — I'm playing with the MovableJive text formatting plugin for MovableType 2.6. I probably won't use this very often, but it could be fun from time to time. Included filters are Jive, Texas Drawl, Cockney, Swedish Chef, Valley Girl, German Accent, and Hunting Wabbits. ➡
  • 2001
    • Completing the set So, I've now got a collection of all 19 official Bond movies to feed my testosterone fix when I need it...woohoo! ➡
    • Great Napster discussions I understood Metallica's plight at first. There music was being hijacked, goddamn it! But their waning CD sales weren't from Napster, but from the fact that they were like a tough version of Poison; they should have become extinct when the meteor of alternative hit. ➡
    • Karaokemon! Hell is going to be me strapped into a chair at a lounge where there are a bunch of different Pokemon all singing Karaoke. ➡

On This Day: Feb 16

by

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 February 16th

  • 2024
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • Another “Right, I haven’t done that yet today” picture. (47/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Grumpy face because my RLS is acting up tonight. Grrrr! ➡
  • 2013
    • Do You Know Anything About Techno? A mid-90s-techno-and-rave mix inspired by a YouTube clip of a bad (well, presumably, I haven't actually watched it...yet...) mid-90s movie called Vibrations. ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for February 12th through February 16th Sometime between February 12th and February 16th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Mindfuck Movies • Firefighters Get Eyeful When Called to Hotel • Legal Guide for Bloggers • 13 Facts About Friday the 13th • Star Trek Inspired Corset ➡
    • Non-Alcoholic Hangover Ugh. Unpleasant. I'm just hoping that it wears through by this afternoon so I can flake out for a nap at some point. Failing that...well, I can be _damn_ sure that I'm going to pass right out tonight. ➡
  • 2008
    • Twice an Uncle Paul Fain Hanscom was born at 5:58PM AST (6:58PM in Oregon). Emily and Paul are doing fine. They had not recorded height and weight when Kevin called. ➡
    • Another Valentine’s Day Present Valentine's Day morning, as I was puttering about the house and getting ready for the day while Prairie slept in, there was a knock at the door. When I answered, I was handed a package from Amazon by one of our landlords. This was a little confusing, as I didn't remember ordering anything, but it was definitely addressed to me ➡
  • 2007
    • Just move it to the streets Nice rant on Metroblogging Seattle yesterday regarding the ongoing, neverending mess of a fight between Greg 'Big Dig Seattle' Nickels, Christine 'Viaduct? Vhy _not_ a duck?' Gregoire, and the people of Seattle who just want this all over with... ➡
  • 2006
    • First Confirmed OS X Malware Key points: this is _not_ a virus, rather, it's a trojan horse; it's buggy (doesn't perform all the intended actions); and for most people, activating the payload involves entering their password, which should tip most people off that something's not right. ➡
  • 2005
    • Comment Spam Update This is so nice to see. Since Feb. 8th (the last time I reset the logfile), the only entries in MT-Blacklist's log for Eclecticism are automatic updates of the master blacklist. ➡
    • Newsflash: Psychics as accurate as ever I'm running behind in my online reading, between concentrating on my server and then feeling ill last weekend — I'm currently reading items from Feb. 13th in NetNewsWire, and I've got 2000 unread items to go — but sometimes there are advantages to being a bit behind the times. ➡
    • Too many movies! Apparently the most movies you can have in your Netflix queue is 500. I had no idea. Of course, I'm not sure I expected to end up with a queue this big when I started this whole Netflix thing, either. ➡
    • Hitchiker’s Trailer Amazon has the full trailer for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on their home page right now. It's Flash-based and kind of small, but at least it's there. So far, things look promising. ➡
    • Cuff ’em on! Eat ’em off! Oh, so you think the fuzzy handcuffs your sweetie gave you for Valentine's Day are cool, huh? Kind of funny, maybe something to add a little 'spice' to your sex life if you get the nerve? That's nothin'. Check out what I got from Prairie for Valentine's Day this year… ➡
  • 2004
    • Congratulations! One last post before I stop monopolizing Em's family's computer…a wedding picture of Kevin and Emily! ➡
    • Wanted: advice concerning Wikis I've got a project running around in my head that I believe a Wiki would be a good solution for, but I've not done much to play with/experiment with Wikis in the past. I'd like to start playing around with this project soon after I get home, so if there's anyone out there who might be able to give some advice or recommendations, I'd appreciate some 'expert assistance'… ➡
    • Preparing to head home Well, the deed is done — there are now three sets of 'Mr. and Mrs. Hanscom' in our branch of the Hanscom family. ➡
  • 2001
    • Just a quick test of Lynx Kind of amusing how a Mac-junkie like me still loves being able to do things through a command line and a text-based terminal from time to time…guess I'm showing my age as a 'net old-timer or something. ➡

On This Day: Feb 15

by

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 February 15th

  • 2024
  • 2023
    • 📚 The Extractionist by Kimberly Unger No review, as this book is a Philip K. Dick Award nominee, and I am the coordinator for the award ceremony at Norwescon. While I have no input into the selection of nominees or judging, I want to be sure to avoid any appearance of influence. ➡
    • Bandwagon Time: Jock-Nerd/Prep-Goth Test Someone who combines the geeky knowledge of nerds with the non-conformity of Goths to engage in gaming, fantasy-worlds and the like. ➡
  • 2021
    • Difficult Listening Hour 2021.02.13: Snow Day! The Seattle area was getting inundated with snow, so every song in this mix was pulled from a playlist of tracks with wintery themes. ➡
    • 📚 9/2021: Rule of Capture by Christopher Brown ⭐️⭐️⭐️ It is not easy to read near-future dystopian SF set in an America waiting for the outcome of a contested election after the fascist incumbent loses but the Texas Gov. invalidates the electoral votes and it goes to SCOTUS. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Opening night! #blackpanther ➡
  • 2016
    • Out for a stroll at Priest Point Park with Finn, Hope, and Nalah. (46/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • And here’s the last of the kids here today, nephew Leo! ➡
    • My newest niece, Sadie Opal! ➡
    • And here’s Nalah’s little sister, almost-three-year-old Finn! ➡
    • Me and my just-turned-five niece Nalah! ➡
  • 2009
    • Meeting N Last weekend, Prairie became the proud aunt of little Nalah Sophia Graham. After giving her some time to get used to being with her parents (and vice versa), we went over on Friday night to meet her. She's definitely a cutie! ➡
  • 2007
    • Are ‘diggers’ the internet’s neocons? It's that same all-or-nothing, no-quarter-given, us-or-them, black-and-white viewpoint that our culture is rapidly sinking into. No matter whether the arena is politics or the net, online or off, there seems to be no room left for people who actually want to _talk_ to each other, _even if they don't agree_. ➡
  • 2006
    • iTunes Essentials: Goth The iTunes Music Store's Essentials series has weighed in on the 'essentials' of goth. It's an interesting collection of tracks. Not a bad selection, either -- I'm mostly just impressed that they have this many non-pop artists available now. ➡
    • I got shot by Dick Cheney! Okay, so sure, I've never been much for hunting, and I knew it could be a bad idea. Still -- how many times do you get a chance to go kumquat hunting with the veep? Too bad it turned out like this. ➡
  • 2005
    • Thanks, Six Apart What it boils down to is that over the years, time and time again, I've gotten incredibly friendly and personal service from the crew at Six Apart. I can't think of a better way to build and maintain customer loyalty than that. ➡
    • Final comment tweaks Some few final tweaks to the comments tonight, and I think I'm finally done tinkering. For now, at least. There's always more projects coming down the line somewhere. :) ➡
    • Let’s try this again, shall we? Allrighty then. I've done some restructuring and work on the server, and it's time to bite the bullet and see how things go: comments are turned on again. Or, at least, they're turned on for this entry and any going forward. ➡
    • Another article in CNNMoney My Uncle Doug pointed this one out to me: Blogging is all fun and games, until the boss finds out. The article doesn't cover any new ground, and I just get a single-sentence mention, but it's another one for the list. ➡
  • 2002
    • Cross-platform compatibility…ugh Testing my website in every browser available to me to see how they handle the CSS code I'm using. ➡
    • Just testing something This post is more of an excuse to post this link (assuming it works) so that I can do some work double-checking how my site renders in different browsers at a set window size. Feel free to ignore it. ➡
    • Geek Love I gotta say, this is really cool. ➡
  • 2001
    • But will I remember it? When your mind forgets who you can trust and who is your enemy, how can you ever hope to solve a mystery? ➡
    • Sugar and Spice While most definitely a 'fluff' film, it was a lot of fun, and one of these days I'm going to have to sit down with my friends and see just how many shots were parodies of/tributes to famous crime/drama flicks. ➡

On This Day: Feb 14

by

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 February 14th

  • 2024
  • 2021
    • Would you be my meatheart? Happy Valentine’s Day! ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • 🖖 #StarTrekDiscovery S02E05: Mostly continues the stronger season. I’m really enjoying Pike, the adventures in the Upside Down, and the “sinking ship” effects were really fun. But I’m not sold on the non-secret Section 31, and the continuing Spock teases are ever more annoying. ➡
    • This image, visible for just a second or two in this trailer for LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS, an upcoming animated SF anthology show on Netflix (content warning: strobing/flashing images, glimpses of possibly NSFW content) made me laugh. ➡
    • Happy Valentine’s Day (or not, if you prefer)! A happy Valentine’s Day to all of you who are celebrating with spouses, partners, significant others, metamours, paramours, lovers, friends with benefits, playmates, platonic loves, or any other applicable person, persons, or combinations of the above. And for those of you who for whatever reason don’t celebrate this day, I hope you have a good ... Read more ➡
    • Book sixteen of 2019: Slan, by A.E. van Vogt. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1941 Retro Hugo Best Novel 📚 Definitely dated, esp. regarding views of women, odd extrapolation of tech (a very 40s world, but with ray guns & antigravity ships), but I’ve read far worse from this era. Fans are slans! 😏 ➡
  • 2018
    • Valentine’s Day may not be one of the High Holy Days in our household, but it doesn’t go entirely unrecognized, either. Chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast! ➡
  • 2017
    • Prairie got me a cute lil’ puppy for Valentine’s Day! #lego ➡
    • Quick tip for iPhone users: Say “Hey, ‘puter” to Siri! #lego #legobatman #batman ➡
  • 2016
    • Book eight of 2016: Apex, by Ramez Naam. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee. #rameznaam ➡
    • Found a nice path for a morning walk, with real trees! And moss! And a light drizzle! Gee, I think we miss the west side. (45/366) ➡
    • Breakfast of bread and fruit, taken in bed. Good start to this Valentine’s Day! ➡
  • 2014
    • Whether you see this as Valentine’s Day, S.A.D. (Single’s Awareness Day), or just another day on the calendar, I hope you have a good one! ➡
  • 2011
  • 2009
    • Meat My Valentine Happy Valentine's Day, everyone -- or Happy S.A.D. (Singles Awareness Day), depending on your situation. Whichever it is, I hope you have a good one. ➡
  • 2008
    • De M’amour Soiez Sure Our Valentine's Day presents to each other: poesy rings inscribed with 'Of my love be sure' in French. ➡
  • 2007
    • Happy Valentine’s Day Hope everyone's V-Day (or anti-V-Day, depending on how you look at this particular holiday) was a good one! ➡
    • Hatred Fatigue Hatred Fatigue: being so wearily sick of the Bush Administration pushing forth an agenda which is on every point the precise opposite of what you think and believe that you can’t bear to pay attention anymore. ➡
  • 2006
    • Frequently Secretly Willie Nelson has a new song out. Normally, this wouldn't be something that I'd take much notice of -- while I don't have anything against country music (and even have a little in my collection), it's not my main forte. This one, however...isn't your typical country song. ➡
  • 2005
    • Back when I was cute… A post by Terrance prompted me to pull out an old picture of me from when I was about two years old. :) ➡
    • Reason interview with Neal Stephenson There's a great interview with Neal Stephenson at Reason right now. Every time I read something by Neal, whether a book or an interview, it amazes me how unassumingly intelligent this man is. ➡
    • On Valentine’s Day Valentine's Day is like the opposite of Christmas. On Christmas we go to bed looking forward to exchanging gifts with the people we love. On Valentine's Day we exchange gifts hoping to go to bed with the people we love. ➡
    • Happy Valentine’s Day Happy Valentine's Day everyone! The weekend actually didn't end up being too bad, given that I was feeling fairly miserable when it got started. Visits, movies, and a bit of website tweaking. ➡
  • 2004
    • Too many people! Besides — my little brother's going to be married in another fourteen hours. I owe him a drink. :) ➡
    • The day before I'm sitting at the house that Kevin and Emily have been staying at, taking advantage of a momentary lull in the activities of the day to check in for a few minutes. ➡
  • 2001
    • A little too obvious? This is so sad. They're just lamely trying to copy Steve Jobs' Apple presentation -- right down to the guy having a black shirt and black pants.... It's almost like Windows ME 2. Or as Apple might call it, Windows Me Too. ➡
    • A tribute album worth listening to Tribute albums have a tendency to be one of the most overdone and under-worthy genres in the music business. Take a bunch of songs by a worthy artist, farm them out to a bunch of bands that aren't nearly as well known, and issue a 'tribute' album that usually tends to be an excercise in mediocrity. ➡

On This Day: Feb 13

by

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 February 13th

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • The world’s most misunderstood novel: “The Great Gatsby is synonymous with parties, glitz and glamour – but this is just one of many misunderstandings about the book that began from its first publication.” ➡
  • 2020
    • Star Trek: Picard S01E04 Absolute Candor 'He can't even go on a guilt trip without a starship.' ➡
    • Spaceballs-Inspired Robot Mask Likely won’t be easily identified as the inspiration, but I think it still comes across as decently robotic. I’m happy with it, at least. ➡
    • On This Day: Feb 13 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 13 ➡
    • 📚 ten of 2020: All Worlds are Real, by Susan Palwick ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee Good collection of bittersweet and thoughtful short stories. Particular favorites are “Cucumber Gravy”, “Lucite”, “Homecoming”, “Remote Presence”, and “Recoveries”. ➡
  • 2016
    • Prairie and me with nieces Nalah and Finn at Nalah’s 7th birthday party. (44/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Today’s page in my “Stupid Quotes” calendar. #50ShadesofGrey #FiftyShadesofGrey #peopleacutuallyenjoyreadingthisjunk ➡
  • 2014
    • Watching more downloaded Olympics while I exercise, but this event was recorded off of Swedish TV. Can’t understand the commentary, but they still sound like sports commentators. Sadly, not a single “börk börk börk!” ➡
  • 2010
    • No Olympics For Us While it's not quite to the point of being what I'd call a 'boycott,' it's looking like the chances are extremely slim that we're going to be watching much of this year's Olympic coverage. We'd like to, but NBC has done a marvelous job of ensuring that we either _can't_ watch, or when we can, we don't want to. ➡
  • 2009
    • 1234567890 As of now -- Feb. 13th 2009, at 3:31 (and 30 seconds) PM (PST), the Unix Time is **1234567890**. ➡
  • 2006
  • 2005
    • Alive and Well Or, at least, as well as I ever get. ;) More to come as I continue to play catch-up. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • Seems simple to me Here I am, working at the single biggest software company in the world, packed to the brim with some of the brightest people in the tech industry — and yet they need signs posted outlining a four-step process to get a free soda out of the vending machines. ➡
    • Upgrades galore Two important (in my world) software upgrades hit the 'net today: Mac OS X was upgraded to version 10.2.4, and MovableType was upgraded to version 2.6. Both are installed, and both are working like a charm. ➡
    • Weather wierdness It looks like Dave Winer and John Teggatz have all the cold weather that Dad is complaining he's missing in Anchorage. And on an entirely unrelated note: I really wish that Dave's RSS feed had individual posts linked to their permalinks. ➡
    • Your e-mail is safe from scrutiny More good news as I catch up on my newsreading — the Total Information Awareness program is facing heavy opposition, and is likely to be barred from collecting information on American citizens. ➡
  • 2002
    • Enterprise: Shuttlepod One But -- and there's always a but -- those had to be some _horrid_ mashed potatoes if they could patch a hull breach with them, no matter how temporarily! I'd say I'd never tease my mom about her mashed potatoes after that...but, then, that'd be no fun. ;) ➡
    • Looks like I might be moving I'd noticed as we were wandering around that directly beside every door to an apartment was a small door, about a foot and a half wide and two and a half feet tall that also looked like it led into the apartment, but had been painted over and was obviously no longer used. I couldn't figure out what they were for. ➡
  • 2001
    • The collection grows again… ...like that's really a surprise to anyone who either knows me or is actually bored enough to read this babble on a regular basis. ➡

On This Day: Feb 12

by

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 February 12th

  • 2024
  • 2021
    • 📚 7/2021: Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee 1/6 A satisfying end to the Revenger trilogy. Not all questions answered, but those most central to the main adventure are. If the “high seas adventure in space” conceit works for you, it’s a good series. ➡
  • 2020
    • Picard Theory (Probably Wrong) 🖖 Spoilers for episodes two and three of _Picard_ follow, but probably not for anything beyond that, because I'm usually wrong about these things. :) ➡
    • Someone Built a Distraction-Free Cellphone With a Working Old-School Rotary Dial: “Haupt’s creation seems like it was brought to Earth from a parallel dimension where mobile phones took an entirely different evolutionary route, and where technologies like touchscreens never came to fruition.” ➡
    • On This Day: Feb 12 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 12 ➡
  • 2019
    • Bed used in hotel honeymoon suite for 15 years then discarded in a parking lot, rescued by an antiques dealer, and initially believed to be Victorian, turns out to be Henry VII’s marriage bed. ➡
    • Book fifteen of 2019: The Book of Merlyn, by T.H. White. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚 A curious coda to TOaFK, mostly serving as an argument against humankind’s warlike tendencies. Not critical to finish Arthur’s story, IMHO. ➡
  • 2016
    • Kicking off this long weekend with the latest Bond flick. Doo doo, doo dooooooo… (43/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Turned into a gorgeous day, 48 degrees and snow melting off everywhere, and the sun is even above the hills at 5PM! Are we sure it’s not spring yet? ➡
  • 2010
    • Links for February 3rd through February 12th Sometime between February 3rd and February 12th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Now You Can Facebook Chat Through iChat • How to Create a Google Buzz Desktop App • Deckle Edge in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction • Pepsi Skips Super Bowl TV Advertising for Social Media • Confused by the 'Lost' Premiere? Never Fear! Damon and Carlton Explain a Few Things About the Start of Season 6 (SPOILERS AHEAD) ➡
  • 2009
    • Good Twitter Marketing is Communication The single most important aspect to marketing successfully on Twitter is having a real person behind the account. Many companies seem to see Twitter as little more than an RSS reader for people who don't grok RSS readers, and that's a rather sad outlook. ➡
    • Links for February 11th through February 12th Sometime between February 11th and February 12th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Darwin Survives as the Fittest • Evolution and Facebook's "25 Random Things About Me" Craze. • Czar Struck: Obama’s Brilliant Pick for Drug Czar • 15 Companies That Might Not Survive 2009 • Surprising Stories Behind 20 Muppet Characters ➡
  • 2007
    • Which Super Villain am I? Which super villain am I? 'You fear the persecution of those that are different or underprivileged so much that you are willing to fight and hurt others for your cause.' ➡
    • Wanted: One Apology from the Seattle PI The PI's public vilification of the crane operator was a slimy, sleazy way to grab eyeballs and sell papers at the expense of his reputation. Trial and conviction should be handled in the courts, not in the headlines. ➡
  • 2004
    • Atom feed now available Seeing as how an Atom-enabled beta of NetNewsWire just hit the 'net, I took a few moments to get an Atom newsfeed up and running for Eclecticism. ➡
    • Biggest breakup of the year I'm talking a breakup of real importance here — one that will be inspiring headlines in all the rags, sending the talk-show hosts into a flurry, and prompting a whole slew of rabid fan sites lamenting the passing of such a long-adored perfect couple. ➡
    • The Grey Album Vocal tracks from Jay-Z's 'The Black Album' + samples from The Beatle's 'The White Album' = Danger Mouse's 'The Grey Album'. ➡
    • Good advice Kids, this is all the shit I had to learn the hard way. Now that I’m retired it’s time to pass it on, so you won’t have to suffer the same indignities I did. ➡
  • 2003
    • Patriot II raising ire Finally, some good movement happening on the polictical front — a very welcome change from last week's ranting and raving. It seems that the recently-leaked 'Patriot II' draft, in addition to getting attention in the blogging world, is also raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill. ➡
    • Recommend me? Actually, I'm not out to be a boyfriend right now — pretty happy staying single for the foreseeable future — but I can think of plenty of times when I wouldn't have minded getting a recommendation on greatboyfriends.com! ➡
    • Awww – how sweet! Just a little 'Wüdi love' from me to my readers, in honor of the coming Valentine's Day. Yeah, even I can get a little mushy from time to time. Who knew? ➡
  • 2002
  • 2001
    • If? What is this if? If I were a lesbian, she would make me go straight! ➡
    • Hannibal I just don't think the script gave much to work with, and I can say that I definitely agree with both Jonathan Demme and Jodi Foster's decisions to pass up on returning to this film. ➡
  • 1994
    • [From Usenet: 2.12.94 0400] I got a shirt a while back only because I thought it was great (person with bird's head mask holding a naked woman upside down by a knife through the foot, says 'Some have to dance, some have to kill' on the back), and someone recently told me it was a Psychic TV shirt. ➡

On This Day: Feb 11

by

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 February 11th

  • 2024
  • 2022
    • 🎥 Eternals Really long. Lots of things happened that involved a lot of fancy glowy effects. ➡
  • 2020
    • Recommeowndations Movies for Cats - Forest Songbirds ➡
    • Got my copy of the new #StarTrekPicard novel today…but can’t (well, won’t) read it until I’m finished with this year’s #PKDickAward nominees. So many books, and only so much time to read! 📚🖖 ➡
    • On This Day: Feb 11 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 11 ➡
  • 2017
    • Chucks of the day (49/53): #pride edition black hightops with rainbow specks, soles, and heel plate. Was quite thrilled to find a pair of these today! #converse #chucks ➡
  • 2016
    • Mmmm…ending the day with a warm drink is nice. (42/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • I will have my chocolate tonight! (Not the whole thing, though.) ➡
    • She’s nekkid! I’m shocked; shocked, I tell you! ➡
  • 2010
    • Seattle Metro Tunnel Beating This is one of the most disturbing local stories I've seen in a long time. A 15-year old girl was beaten on the platform of the Seattle Metro Bus Tunnel, while security guards and witnesses stood around and watched. ➡
  • 2009
  • 2005
    • Ugh. Ick. Bleah. On the bright side, one thing I love about working five blocks from home is that I've got time on my one-hour lunch break to leave work, hit Subway, grab a sandwich, come home, eat, hop into the shower and soak under hot water for about 20 minutes, then get back dressed and head back into work. That's probably about the only thing that made the latter half of the day bearable. ➡
    • Captain’s Blog, Stardate 47751.2 Today's comic from Joy of Tech is a must-see. ➡
    • Washington Post article on Blogging and Jobs About two weeks ago, I spent some time being interviewed by Amy Joyce of the Washington Post about my expulsion from the Microsoft campus for an article she was working on about the potential pitfalls of blogging about one's job. The article went live today: Free Expression Can Be Costly When Bloggers Bad-Mouth Jobs. ➡
  • 2004
    • Relationships One of the things that's always bothered me (and many other people) about social networking sites such as Orkut, Friendster, or any other *ster meme-of-the-moment is the binary nature of their setups — either someone is your friend, or they aren't. That's it. Those are your only choices. ➡
    • Own 1/1100th of a supercomputer! Now that Virginia Tech is upgrading 'Big Mac' to the new G5-based XServes, some of the original 1,100 dual 2Ghz G5 Power Macs that were part of the cluster are being sold through MacMall for $2799. ➡
    • Help the CIA find those pesky WMDs! How wonderfully thoughtful — the CIA has posted a handy little online form so that people can submit tips on WMD locations (and other Iraq-related intel). ➡
    • Like, I guess I’ll just have to, like, get used to it now 'It really is a wonderful, useful word,' says Muffy E.A. Siegel, an associate professor of English at Temple University in Philadelphia, who has studied the use of 'like.' ➡
    • Brother for sale …the words 'sewing machine' were accidentally dropped, leaving a 'BROTHER' for sale ad. ➡
    • Sponsorship I'm experimenting with something that I found via Snowman on the TPUG — sponsored weblog entries. Three posts on my site now have small, fairly unobtrusive text ads at the bottom of the post, for which I get some small amount of compensation. ➡
  • 2003
    • Still tempin' My boss got back to me with Xerox's employment offer. What did they use to try to entice me into the Xerox family? A whole lotta nuttin'. ➡
  • 2002
    • Hold on, please. Whenever a phone solicitor calls in the middle of dinner, don't get sore. Don't slam down the receiver. Don't hang up. Just say, 'Hold on, please.' Then gently set the receiver on the table and go about your business. ➡
    • Possibilities of moving? If I can come up with the money to make the move, I think it could be a good deal -- a larger, newer place for the same price, more varied experience on my resume, and being able to stay with a landlord that I know I'm on good terms with. ➡
    • You couldn’t pay me enough Ever since I started working here, I've been able to watch day by day as a new skyscraper is built about two blocks away from my building. When I started last August it wasn't much more than a hole in the ground as they worked on the foundation; now there is a steel framework stretching up about 25 floors, with a central concrete core that's going up what looks to be at least another ten floors or so. ➡
  • 2001
    • The un-what? It's our job...we have to be nice to the unfuckables. ➡
    • Quicker archiving, twins, frustration Seeing as how I'm actually starting to update this thing on a more regular basis, I figured I'd drop the archiving settings down to weekly so that this page didn't just keep scrolling on and on and on and on and on.... ➡

On This Day: Feb 10

by

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 February 10th

  • 2024
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Book fourteen of 2019: Assignment: Eternity, by Greg Cox. ⭐️⭐️ 📚 An average Trek romp, marred by the author trying too hard to drop “clever” references to other Trek and pop culture events, and (worse) using a PNW indigenous people’s name for the name of a planet (Duwamish). ➡
    • A Theory About Saru (ST:DSC) 🖖 I’ve come to a theory about Saru on Star Trek: Discovery. Obviously, spoilers ahead (at least, if you haven’t seen all of ST:DSC to this point, and if I’m correct). ➡
    • 2019 Seattle Snowpocalypse, Sunday Update Ventured out from the homestead to make the trek over ice and snow to the local mercantile for provisions. Though the skies were clear, ‘twas still bitterly cold, as the winter sun brought no warmth. The footing was treacherous, but no spills were taken; scavengers were seen, but we gave them a wide berth. Some ... Read more ➡
  • 2018
    • Book nine of 2018 (and third #pkdickaward nominee): Bannerless, by Carrie Vaughn. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2017
    • Book thirteen (and third #PKDickAward nominee) of 2017: Consider, by Kristy Acevedo. 🌟🌟🌟 ➡
  • 2016
    • Book seven of 2016: After the Saucers Landed, by Douglas Lain. ⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee. #douglaslain (41/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Best part of snow: living on a cul-de-sac after the plows come through. King of the hill! ➡
  • 2010
    • Managing Inbox Overload with Google Buzz From now on, rather than getting flooded with inbox messages every time a new Buzz response pops up, you'll have a little 'Buzzes' filter sitting to the left of your screen. If it's bold, you've got a response waiting for you. And that's it! ➡
  • 2006
    • Olympics Opening Ceremony Good and bad points regarding the first 2/3 of the Opening Ceremonies for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy. ➡
    • Humor in Tragedy All I could see in my head was a Toon Town riot, and I couldn't help laughing. Wrong, and I'm going to hell...but funny. ➡
    • Bruce the Wonder Yak I think it's a hilarious little random screed -- and my guess is that they just took every little 'in-joke' from the FCP programming team and tossed them all semi-randomly into a single text file. ➡
    • Bush’s hit list These are the proposed cuts in Bush's 2007 budget. A lot of things in here make me wince, but it's the education sections that really make me made. I want my 24.6 seconds back. ➡
    • Unfortunately Michael More fun with Google: Unfortunately Michael... ➡
  • 2005
    • That’s a lot of text Fun fact for today regarding this weblog: a full export from MovableType of every post and every comment results in a 12.7 Mb text file containing 3,117 posts and 8,178 comments and trackback pings. Wow. ➡
  • 2004
    • Wartime President There is a dark joke in Courthouses about a man who killed both his parents, then asked the judge to go easy on him as he is an orphan. ➡
    • Star Wars Parts IV-VI on DVD Sept. 21st! The good news: the 'first' three movies in the Star Wars trilogy (parts VI [A New Hope], V [The Empire Strikes Back], and VI [The Return of the Jedi]) will be released on DVD on September 21st. ➡
  • 2003
    • Impeach Bush? Could it be time to start thinking about impeaching Bush? Realistically, we're probably not at a point where it's going to happen, but that hasn't stopped some people from considering the idea — including Johnson Administration US Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Mr. Clark has drafted articles of impeachment, outlining the crimes and misdemeanors that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft should answer for, and the Vote to Impeach website is collecting 'signatures' to move the process forward. ➡
    • Cookies finally fixed! Thanks to a comment answering a question of Jonathon's, I'm about 95% sure that the cookies for djwudi.com are finally being set correctly, so that the comment forms will actually remember your information, instead of just teasing you with the possibility that they might remember one day if they feel like it. ➡
  • 2001
    • First steps… First steps into a field I haven't investigated in years: job searching. ➡
  • 1994
    • [From Usenet: 2.10.94 0308] Personally, I wouldn't mind a little more info on these guys...I've got what I can find by them, including the BLBT single (is this really out of print?), but am wondering if there are any singles from the new album...especially Butterfly Wings or Trigger For Happiness. Any info? ➡
    • [From Usenet: 2.10.94 0256] Have to agree here...in the midst of all the Enigma-bashing that's popped up, I like the new disc a lot...especially track three, Return to Innocence. Don't really mind the male vocals on other tracks that much, either... ➡

On This Day: Feb 9

by

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 February 9th

  • 2024
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • Look, it’s simple. That lawyer was legally required to inform the judge that, contrary to appearance, he was not actually a cat. Otherwise, he could have been charged with purrjury. ➡
  • 2020
    • Me, not long ago: “Okay, my ‘to-read’ shelves are full. No more books for me until I read more of these and open up some space.” Me, today: “Well, I guess these can go on top of these, and these go behind these, and that gets today’s additions on the shelf….” 📚🤷🏼‍♂️ ➡
    • On This Day: Feb 9 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 9 ➡
  • 2019
    • 2019 Philip K. Dick Award Rankings As I've done for the past few years, I've read all of the nominated works for this year’s Philip K. Dick Award. Following is my ranking, from least favorite to my favorite and pick for the award. ➡
    • Book thirteen of 2019: 84K, by Claire North. #PKDickAward nominee. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Set in a distressingly plausible near-future dystopic Britain, the unrelenting dreariness was difficult for me. As with post-apocalyptic fiction, I’m not a big fan; I prefer more hope in my futurism. ➡
    • Seattle Snowpocalypse 2019 Saturday morning update: Went out for a short walk to enjoy the scenery and scoff at the people driving too fast for conditions. That’s enough outside for us for a while! ➡
    • Seattle-Tacoma International Airport had 6.4 inches of snow Friday, according to the National Weather Service. It’s the second most snow recorded in the area in a day for the past 20 years, and nearly beat our yearly average (6.8 inches) in a single day. ➡
  • 2017
    • We only got a little rain today, but it was enough to give everything an icy gloss coat. The world looks plastic. ➡
  • 2016
    • From earlier today. Dentist’s offices are the height of ’90s cyberpunk fashion. (40/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Approaching the end of the weekend. Not entirely convinced that going back to work tomorrow is really the best idea, but I don’t think I have a choice. ➡
  • 2009
  • 2005
    • Grandma’s Memorial Mom and dad just got back from their trip to Florida for Grandma's funeral, and dad posted this photo (with more to come, he says). ➡
    • Another day, another Doocing Another one bites the dust, as they say — this time Mark Jen, formerly of Google. TDavid has a good wrapup of information on this latest 'blogger gets fired' story. ➡
  • 2004
    • Examining Bush’s military record More and more, people are getting to the bottom of Bush's military record — the real one, that is, not the glossed-over propagand-ized version he'd like us to believe. ➡
    • Ilium Oooohhh &dmash; a new book by Dan Simmons! Being a big fan of his Hyperion series, this is very good news in my universe. ➡
    • GarageBand is evil I've poked around with GarageBand a bit since I got it, but haven't created anything major yet. However, it is way too much fun. ➡
    • Issue with my comments-only feed I have no idea if anyone other than myself is currently subscribing to my 'comments only' RSS feed, but I've noticed an odd issue with it that I haven't been able to troubleshoot yet: comments displaying with the date of the parent post, rather than the date of the comment. ➡
  • 2003
  • 2002
    • More political cartoon uproar The cartoon depicts President Bush's budget plan as an airplane veering towards two buildings labeled 'Social' and 'Security'. Not surprisingly, this has led to a fairly large uproar, to the point that White House spokesman Ari Fleischer issued his denouncement to reporters. ➡
  • 2001
    • Doing Trekkies (-ers?) proud It's been known for a while now that Paramount was going back and doing some work on Star Trek: The Motion Picture for its upcoming DVD release -- we just weren't entirely sure just what that meant. ➡
    • Ups and downs, and some possible changes Yesterday was not exactly the best day I've ever had -- not the worst overall, but certain moments may have some fairly large impact on days to come. ➡
  • 1994
    • [From Usenet: 2.9.94 0549] The only one I know of is _Solid Gold Hell_, available as an import from Cocomelos Records. Decent enough, although I wouldn't rave about it. ➡