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keep in mind that the further in the past a post was published, the more likely it is that the information has become outdated or my beliefs have changed.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 22 posts previously published on January 23rd

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2020
    • Star Trek: Picard S01E01 Remembrance As wonderful as it is to see Jean-Luc on screen again, and as gorgeous as the episode was, I do have some slight reservations. But this is just episode one, and they had a lot of groundwork to get in place. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the start.
    • On This Day: Jan 23 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 23
  • 2019
    • Linkdump for January 11th through January 23rd An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between January 11th and January 23rd. • A meteor hit the moon during the lunar eclipse. Here’s what we know. • DuckDuckGo Taps Apple Maps to Power Private Search Results • To save the sound of a Stradivarius, a whole city must keep quiet • An Idea for Electoral College Reform That Both Parties Might Actually Like • he oral history of the Hampsterdance: The twisted true story of one of the world's first memes
  • 2018
    • A full set of 2018 #pkdickaward nominees to read before the award ceremony at #nwc41. Better get started!
  • 2016
    • Book four of 2016: Nexus, by Ramez Naam. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #rameznaam #PKDickAward pre-nominee. (23/366)
  • 2014
    • I wore my dinosaur socks today. Raaaaawwrrrrr!!!
    • Ahhh, the SeaTac DoubleTree – our home away from home!
  • 2007
    • Drama and Disappointment As I mentioned Xebeth and her situation a few times on this site, I've gotten a few inquiries as to her current situation, as it's been a while since I've mentioned her. This is why. She's not dying -- but, I'm sad to say, it appears that she's not well, either.
  • 2006
    • Attention Tomato Scouts! Not only is Jason gracing us with a free song every week (starting this week), but the old, mostly broken, overrun-by-spam guestbook has been replaced with a new, not at all broken forum. And there was much rejoicing.
  • 2005
    • Note: Contains Nudity This is one of the funniest things I've seen today: Netflix' summary for a movie titled 'Sexmission'...
    • Stop! The Windows Error Message Generator allowed me to recreate (to the best of my ability) the single funniest and most exasperating error messages I've ever seen on a Windows machine.
  • 2004
    • Read this. Any attempt at an introduction or pullquote wouldn't do this justice, so just go read it.
    • Most-blogged books of 2003 Another list post, this time, All Consuming's list of the most-blogged books of 2003. As before, books in bold and prefaced with » I've read.
    • The real State of the Union I found this link purporting to be a remix of this year's State of the Union address (much like one from last year), but given the content of the snippets used, I think that it's just another take on last year's speech. It's still bizarre and often laugh-out-loud funny, though.
    • AOL Presidential Match Lane pointed out the AOL presidential selector today, so I wandered over to take a look. It's quite similar to the Presidential Candidate Selector that I pointed out last July, though the results were a bit different (of course, the possible candidates are different now, and there has been more time for all of them to fine-tune their policies and messages).
    • iTMS RSS feeds For any of you RSS/Newsreader junkies out there: you can now create customized RSS feeds from the iTunes Music Store. New releases, just added, top sellers, just the categories and information you want. Quite nifty.
    • Lizette& album available I've mentioned the band Lizette& before. When I got up this morning, I found a comment from their drummer, Alex, letting me know that their album is (finally) now available for order through their website! I've been waiting for this one for a while.
    • Plot vs. Monster of the Week The more I watch of Buffy, I'm starting to notice one definite similarity between my enjoyment of that show and my enjoyment of the X-Files.
  • 2003
    • If it feels good, do it. I am committed to defeating, not only the good work of charities, but the values that will bring lasting peace. And we have a great opportunity during this time of war to lead the world towards suicide, and murder.
  • 1997
    • [From Usenet: 1.23.97 0000] I am curious as to how well it presents the principles of taoism. What I read I liked, and have kept with me since then, and I'm becoming more interested in exploring this further.