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keep in mind that the further in the past a post was published, the more likely it is that the information has become outdated or my beliefs have changed.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 20 posts previously published on December 19th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
    • Book fifty-seven of 2018: Night of Masks, by Andre Norton. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • 2017
  • 2016
    • Bonus picture: I am also now a card-carrying member of the #EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)!
    • I was greeted at the door with an after work cocktail (pumpkin spice rum eggnog) and bread about to come out of the oven. Prairie enjoys playing 1950s housewife when she’s off work (as long as she gets to choose which parts of the 1950s to emulate). (354/366)
  • 2008
    • My Movie Rating System For no particular reason that I can come up with, I was thinking over how I rate movies, and attempting to quantify the basic reasoning for each star of a five-star rating system. I think I've pretty much nailed it down.
  • 2007
    • An Early Christmas As I briefly hinted at earlier today, Christmas came a little early for us this year. Prairie has all of the details over on Domesticism, but in her own words...
  • 2005
    • I’ve got the blues… I've been wanting to move away from the stock template included with Movable Type 3.2 for some time now, but just haven't been able to find the time and energy to tackle the project. Today I actually managed to find both at once, and here's the result.
    • Meanwhile, back in Anchorage… I'm torn as to which got a bigger grin -- the snowman itself, or the Mystery of the Missing Corncob Pipe.
  • 2004
    • Stupid Practical Jokes This reminded me of a couple stories I was told by a teacher I knew in high school. The man had a somewhat odd sense of humor and a fondness for pranks, which landed him in trouble from time to time -- and to be honest, I'm somewhat surprised he never got himself fired.
  • 2003
  • 2002
    • Options Scripting languages have more options than bisexuals….
    • The Two Towers While…LotR:TTT admittedly cannot stand entirely on its own as a single entity (and I would hate to be someone in the unenviable position of attempting to watch LotR:TTT without having first watched LotR:FotR), as the second chapter in an epic saga, it is far and away an absolutely incredible achievement.
    • Own yourself Own your name. Buy the domain name, get yourself linked to, and put up a page. Make it a blank page, if you want. Fill it with disinformation or gibberish. Or, just reveal the parts of your life that you feel represent you most effectively on the web. But if you care about your privacy, and you care about your identity, take the steps to control it now.
  • 2001
    • Argh… Well, I was experimenting a bit with the layout of the site, and managed to more or less hose things fairly well. I'll try to get them straightened out as soon as I can, but not sure when that'll be.
  • 2000
    • [From Usenet: 12.19.00 0228] Just a quick note that I'm working on starting a new website tracking local Anchorage musicians, who's playing where, things like that.