On This Day

Should you dig back through my archives, please keep in mind that the further in the past a post was published, the more likely it is that the information has become outdated or my beliefs have changed. I sincerely believe that learning, growing, examining, and often changing beliefs is an integral part of being a responsible human being. My personal journey socially and politically has been ever leftwards, and there are many posts in the archives that I would not write the same way today, if at all. Thanks for understanding!

There are 27 posts previously published on April 6th

  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2022
    • Star Trek Craptinuum I mean, sure, if that was a cheap plastic knockoff toy that I saw at a random roadside stop in the midst of an ill-conceived _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_-style roadtrip, yeah, I'd be amused and drop $5 or $10 on it to laugh at with my friends. ➡
  • 2021
    • Markdown Service Tools: “The Markdown Service Tools are a collection of OS X Services designed to make writing Markdown text that much easier.” ➡
  • 2020
    • 📚 award announcement: This year’s Philip K. Dick Award ceremony is moving online! Join us this Friday, April 10, at 7 p.m. to hear readings from the nominated works and find out who wins this year’s award and special citation for best original paperback SF publication. ➡
    • On This Day: Apr 6 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from April 6 ➡
  • 2016
    • Book fifteen of 2016: Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury, by Isaac Asimov. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (97/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Winding down at the end of the weekend. ➡
    • So…I spent part of this afternoon polishing my balls. What about you? ➡
  • 2011
  • 2010
    • Norwescon 33 Wrapup I'm home! Home, and recovering from another fun Norwescon. In something of a break from previous Norwescon wrapup posts, this one is going to be picture free. However, this is by no means due to a shortage of photos...in fact, just the opposite! ➡
    • Links for March 18th through April 6th Sometime between March 18th and April 6th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Flickr: Teabonics • FINALLY: The Difference Between Nerd, Dork, and Geek Explained by a Venn Diagram • An Open Letter to Conservatives • Waterloo • How today’s college students use Wikipedia for course–related research ➡
    • Happy Birthday, Mom! It's my mom's birthday today -- happy birthday, mum! ➡
  • 2007
  • 2006
    • Boot Camp Boot Camp, on the off chance it hasn't crossed your radar yet (not likely, but possible), is Apple's just-released official methodology for setting your new Intel-based Mac up as a dual-boot Mac OS X/Windows XP system. ➡
    • Happy Birthday Mum! What a cute birthday girl! ➡
  • 2005
    • Just a hint, really So Assemblage 23 is playing at the Vogue tonight, and I've been tossing around whether or not I want to go -- balancing the desire to see a decent band with the fact that it's on a Wednesday night. So what's the first track that iTunes chooses at random when I turn it on after getting home from work? ➡
    • Happy Birthday, Mom! Today's my mum's birthday! And, of course, I'm _sure_ that she's 29. Again. ;) That's just the way it works, right? Happy b-day, mom! ➡
  • 2004
    • TRON 2.0 for OS X While I'm still bummed that the TRON 2.0 project ended up being a game instead of a new feature film, at least the game is being released for OS X next month. ➡
    • Happy birthday, mom! Today's mom's birthday! ➡
  • 2003
    • A nation of sheep A growing majority of Americans believe the war in Iraq is justified even if the United States does not find weapons of mass destruction. At the same time, public optimism about the progress of the fighting has surged as recent gains on the battlefield have eased fears that the allies will become bogged down in a long and costly war, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. ➡
  • 2002
    • I’m back online That was fast! Speakeasy gets lots of gold stars for this one -- a whopping one-week switchover time! ➡